. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . Gate in Sir William CellsArgolis, pi. 11, copied in the Foreign Topograi)hy,p. 19, and Wood-cut here given, and a view of the simple style introduced after the Doricperiod. P Everything truly Cyclopean,(for the occurrence of well-joined poly-gons at the back of the Gate of theLions and elsewhere, seems to indicatea later period) is far less changed thanat any place in Greece. 1 It was de-stroyed by the Argives 46S The plan of the Acropolis, as givenby Col. Leake, resembles, to use ahomely allusion, a kid
. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . Gate in Sir William CellsArgolis, pi. 11, copied in the Foreign Topograi)hy,p. 19, and Wood-cut here given, and a view of the simple style introduced after the Doricperiod. P Everything truly Cyclopean,(for the occurrence of well-joined poly-gons at the back of the Gate of theLions and elsewhere, seems to indicatea later period) is far less changed thanat any place in Greece. 1 It was de-stroyed by the Argives 46S The plan of the Acropolis, as givenby Col. Leake, resembles, to use ahomely allusion, a kidney, with the ad-dition of a semicircular excrescenceseparated from the larger part by theGate of the Lions. Mr. Hamiltonsays, that these are the remains of twoterraces supported by the same speciesof masonry, on the slope of the hill,the summit of which formed the cita-del, so that it was defended by a quad-ruple enceinte. ^ Homer calls it only asmall city, s But Pausanias says, that Acropolis rather than apian in Gell, pi. 13. Hereit resembles a volcanic mountain with a 8 CYCLOPEAN MASONRY. the part by tlie ruined fountains andtlic subterraneous habitations of Atreusand his children, \vhere their treasviresof valuables were kept, was calledPerseia,* and distinguished from thelower Acropolis by a wall parallel tothe outer southern wall. Tlie commu-nication with the Perseia was at thefurther extremity from the Gate of the Aeiirerai be oficjs en /cat aXXct rov Trept-ftoXov Kot 77 TTvXr] \eo)T€S be^ ecpesrriKaiTiiavTj] * K^;A:\w7^w^ he kul ravra epya eircuXeyovcriy, Oi UpoLru to reixos eTTOirjaar etTipvidi.—p. 59. Col. Leakey says, that the dissimi-larity of this Gate of the Lions andthe columns before the Treasury, toany other Hellenic remains, shows theirremote antiquity. But the anatomicalforms of the Lions and their contempo-rary sera, have been disputed, and asymbolic character ascribed to them,(of which hereafter) not accordant withGrecian history. If the encl
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