. Architecture, classic and early Christian . ^f-T- y ^ r-- ^ Fjc. 9.—Capitai of Ant^ from Miletus. Side View. A somewhat simpler Corinthian capital, and another ofvery rich design, are found in the Temple of Apollo Didy-mteus at Miletus, where also a very elegant capital for theantse—or pilasters—is employed (Figs. 79, 81). A moreornamental design for a capital could hardly be adoptedthan that of the Lysicrates example, but there was room formore elaboration in the entablature, and accordingly large. 1 2 IIG CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. riclily-sculptured brackets seem to have been introduced,and a
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . ^f-T- y ^ r-- ^ Fjc. 9.—Capitai of Ant^ from Miletus. Side View. A somewhat simpler Corinthian capital, and another ofvery rich design, are found in the Temple of Apollo Didy-mteus at Miletus, where also a very elegant capital for theantse—or pilasters—is employed (Figs. 79, 81). A moreornamental design for a capital could hardly be adoptedthan that of the Lysicrates example, but there was room formore elaboration in the entablature, and accordingly large. 1 2 IIG CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. riclily-sculptured brackets seem to have been introduced,and a profusion of ornament was employed. The examplesof this treatment which remain are, however, of Ilomanorigin rather than Greek. The Greek cities must have included structures ofgreat beauty and adapted to many purposes, of which inmost cases few traces, if any, have been preserved. Wehave no remains of a Greek palace, or of Greek dwelling-houses, although those at Pompeii were probably erectedand decorated hy Greek artificers, for Eoman agora of a Greek city, which was a place of publicassembly something like the Eoman Forum, is knowji tons only by descriptions in ancient writers, but Ave possesssome remains of Greek theatres; and from these, aided byEoman examples and written descriptions, can understandwhat these buildings were. The auditory was curvedin plan, occupying rather more than a semicircle; theseats rose in tiers one behind another; a circular spacewas reserved for t
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