. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. however,such that it soon became an object of temptation to the Carthaginians. Its temple ofRlinerva is evidently of very remote anticjuity. 149. The great Ilypathral temple at Tcxstum was probably constructed during theperiod that the city was under the jiower of the Sybarites, who dispossessed its originalinhal)itants, enjoying, for upwards of two hundred years, the fruits of their of Greek art are visible in it, and the antiquit
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. however,such that it soon became an object of temptation to the Carthaginians. Its temple ofRlinerva is evidently of very remote anticjuity. 149. The great Ilypathral temple at Tcxstum was probably constructed during theperiod that the city was under the jiower of the Sybarites, who dispossessed its originalinhal)itants, enjoying, for upwards of two hundred years, the fruits of their of Greek art are visible in it, and the antiquity of the Ilypnithral temple itself isconfirmed by the exam))le. The city fell into the hands of the Lucanians about 350 ; after which, in about 70 years, it was a municipal town of the Roman empire. Thefollowing is perhaps the chronological order of the principal buildings of Sicily and MagnaGracia, viz. Syracuse, Iajstum, Selinus, Segeste, and Agrigentum. 1/0. The dates of the edifices at Athens are, without ilifficulty, accurately fixed. ThePropyhcum (fi(/s. 97 and 98.) was commenced by IMnesicles about 437 , and, at a great. E 66 HISTORY OF AllCIIITKCTUUE. Hook 1 ViffirixB
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