. Architecture, classic and early Christian . re structure as renders this primary division afccientitic though a very broad one. The contrast betweenthe trabeated style and tlie arched style maj be avcUunderstood by comparing the illustiation of the Partha-non which forms our frontispiece, or that of the greattemple of Zeus at Olympia (Fig. 4), with the exterior ofthe Colosseum at Rome (Fig. 5), introduced here for thel)urposes of this comparison. A division of buildings into such great series as thcsocannot, however, supersede tiie more obvious historicaland geographical divisions. The archi
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . re structure as renders this primary division afccientitic though a very broad one. The contrast betweenthe trabeated style and tlie arched style maj be avcUunderstood by comparing the illustiation of the Partha-non which forms our frontispiece, or that of the greattemple of Zeus at Olympia (Fig. 4), with the exterior ofthe Colosseum at Rome (Fig. 5), introduced here for thel)urposes of this comparison. A division of buildings into such great series as thcsocannot, however, supersede tiie more obvious historicaland geographical divisions. The architecture of everyancient country was partly the growth of the soil, adapted to the climate of the country, and thematerials found there, and partly the outcome of thenational character of its inhabitants, and of such influ-ences as race, colonisation, commerce, or conquest broughtto bear upon them. These influences produced strongdistinctions between the work of different peoples, espe-cially before the era of the Roman Empire. Since that. INTRODUCTIO-V. i) perioJ of universal dominion all buildings and styles havebeen inlluenced more or less by Roman art. We accord-ingly find the buildings of the most ancient nationsseparated from each other by strongly marked lines ofdemarcation, but those since the era of the Empire sliowinga considerable resemblance to one another. The circum-stance that the remains of those buildings only whichreceived the greatest possible attention from their buildershave conie down to us from any remote antiquity, hasperhaps served to accentuate the differences betweendifferent styles, for these foremost buildings were notintended to serve the same purpose in all but tombs and temples have survived in only have been rescued from the decay of Assyrianand Persian cities; and temples, theatres, and places ofpublic assembly are the chief, almost the only remains ofarchitecture in Greece. A strong contrast between the buil
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