. The life of the Greeks and Romans. BRIDGE ACROSS THE EUROTAS.—THE DWELLING-HOUSE. 73 This is shown by the remaining old layers, to which, later, an archhas been added. The same form of covering is found in a bridge across theEurotas, near Sparta (see design, Fig. 86). In looking at Fig. 86. Fig. 87. 87 it ought to be remembered that the pointed arch of the vault isa later addition. (About a peculiar kind of waterworks, viz., thefountain-houses, see § 21, Figs. 90 and 91.) 21. After the buildings destined to protect man against man,we have to consider those which shelter him against the
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. BRIDGE ACROSS THE EUROTAS.—THE DWELLING-HOUSE. 73 This is shown by the remaining old layers, to which, later, an archhas been added. The same form of covering is found in a bridge across theEurotas, near Sparta (see design, Fig. 86). In looking at Fig. 86. Fig. 87. 87 it ought to be remembered that the pointed arch of the vault isa later addition. (About a peculiar kind of waterworks, viz., thefountain-houses, see § 21, Figs. 90 and 91.) 21. After the buildings destined to protect man against man,we have to consider those which shelter him against the influencesof nature, viz., the human habitation. The first human habita-tions, not to mention caves, were amongst the Greeks, as amongstother primitive nations, huts, constructed differently according tothe nature of the country. They were said to have been inventedby Pelasgos, the progenitor of the Pelasgic tribe in Arkadia. Ofsuch huts and similar more or less primitive dwellings wepossess neither descriptions nor actual specimens. The stages ofdevelopment from the hut to the regular dwelling-house, asdescribed in the Homeric poems, are likewise conjectural; thearrangements, however, of the dwellings of the old Greek royalfamilies, which evidently are described as actually seen
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