The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . building, Agrippa was an early friend of Augustus and a faithful assistantthrough his whole life. He was an able soldier and an ardent builder In hispatronage of art and architecture he filled a place like that of Maecenas inliterature (§ 571, note). Agrippas generalship won the battle of Actium. Hebecame the son-in-law of Augustus, and, except for his death shortly beforethat of the Emperor, he would probably have succeeded to his Read the picture in Byrons Chllde Harold, canto iv. §623] ARCHITECTURE 511 umental columns. The fines
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . building, Agrippa was an early friend of Augustus and a faithful assistantthrough his whole life. He was an able soldier and an ardent builder In hispatronage of art and architecture he filled a place like that of Maecenas inliterature (§ 571, note). Agrippas generalship won the battle of Actium. Hebecame the son-in-law of Augustus, and, except for his death shortly beforethat of the Emperor, he would probably have succeeded to his Read the picture in Byrons Chllde Harold, canto iv. §623] ARCHITECTURE 511 umental columns. The finest surviving example is Trajans Column, onehundred feet high, circled with spiral bands of sculpture containing twenty-. Aisle Nave Aisle General, Plan of a Basilica. five hundred human figures. It commemorated and illustrated Trajanst)acian Roman Basilicas and the Later Christian Architecture. — One other kind of building must have special mention. A little before
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