A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . been calledto them, similar phenomena have been discov-ered in Egyptian obelisks, columns, and archi-traves, and it has been shown that the practicewas can-ied into Christian architecture by Byzan-tine Greeks and Italian architects long beforethe The motive whicli guided theGreeks in their use of curved lines or surfaces isnot altogether obvious. It is difficult to provethat this was done either to correct an opticalillusion, as was held by Vitruvius, or for the sake298 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE of
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . been calledto them, similar phenomena have been discov-ered in Egyptian obelisks, columns, and archi-traves, and it has been shown that the practicewas can-ied into Christian architecture by Byzan-tine Greeks and Italian architects long beforethe The motive whicli guided theGreeks in their use of curved lines or surfaces isnot altogether obvious. It is difficult to provethat this was done either to correct an opticalillusion, as was held by Vitruvius, or for the sake298 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE of producing a perspective illusion, as suggestedby Professor Goodyear; it seems more likelythat the Greeks found in this device a meansof avoiding the mechanical impression likely tobe produced by straight lines and surfaces, and GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE divinity and for the deposit of votive offerings,lience the sunlight which streamed through theentrance doorway was sufficient for the therefore were unnecessary. There isno e\-idence that clearstory windows, which seem. Grecian Architecture : Angle of an Ionic Building ; One Corner Capital and Two Common Ionic broad band in each capital would be decorated by anthemions in a rich building. of giving to their buildings a more plastic exter-nal form. (See Refinements in Design.) Grecian temples were generally of moderateproportions. They were not haUs of worship,but shrines for the protection of the statue of a299 to have been employed in the IMycenrean palace,occurred in the Grecian temple; and it is mostimprobable that hy]««thral devices of any sortwere employed in the normal temple. A flat-roofed building, especially a large hall of columns300 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE like the Telesterion iit Elciisis, may beenlighted by an opaion in the roof, and jmssililysome of the Greek eolonies in the Alexandrianperiod may have had domical temples with opening like that of the Pantheon inRome. B
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