Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . eece. ^gina (e-jina). The capital city of an island of the same name in the ^geanSea, containing a famous Greek Doric temple of Pallas Athene or Miner-va, the goddess of wisdom and war. Agrigentum (ng-ri-jentum). A city on the south coast of Sicily (the modernGirgenti), noted for its Doric temple of Zeus and many other Greekstructures dating from before the Carthaginian conquest in the 5th cen-tury B. C. Agrippa (a-grippa). A Roman general, born B. C. 63, the leading statesmanof the reign of Augustus. The present

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Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . eece. ^gina (e-jina). The capital city of an island of the same name in the ^geanSea, containing a famous Greek Doric temple of Pallas Athene or Miner-va, the goddess of wisdom and war. Agrigentum (ng-ri-jentum). A city on the south coast of Sicily (the modernGirgenti), noted for its Doric temple of Zeus and many other Greekstructures dating from before the Carthaginian conquest in the 5th cen-tury B. C. Agrippa (a-grippa). A Roman general, born B. C. 63, the leading statesmanof the reign of Augustus. The present Pantheon was erected on the siteand—in part—from the materials of an earlier temple built by him, dedi-cated in 27 B. C. Aizani (i-zani). A small town of Phrygia, Asia Minor, containing some earlyremains of Greek workmanship. (See Fig. 135.) Akroter (akro-ter). Same as Acroter. Albani (al-bani). A villa near Rome containing an unusual example of theRoman Doric Order. (See Fig. 117.) Alberti (al-berte), Leone Battista. A Renaissance architect and writer onarchitecture. 282. o S <: < ce be o a

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