Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . Kg. 4. 1 • ~S~S~T^«^#l !:p \i • ^• T * Eg- 5. GRECIAN ARCHITECTUEE—GREECE. their temples; that suggested by Mr Fergussonseems the most probable, as being smiilar to theT)lan used by the Eg5T)tians and Assyrians. Theinterior had generally a double row of columns, oneover the other, di^iding the ^^•idth into three arrangement still exists in the temple ofNeptime at°Pa;stum. ISIr Fergusson supposes thatthe light was introduced by counter-sinking a partof the roof, so as to admit the light betweenthe pillars of the upper ran
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . Kg. 4. 1 • ~S~S~T^«^#l !:p \i • ^• T * Eg- 5. GRECIAN ARCHITECTUEE—GREECE. their temples; that suggested by Mr Fergussonseems the most probable, as being smiilar to theT)lan used by the Eg5T)tians and Assyrians. Theinterior had generally a double row of columns, oneover the other, di^iding the ^^•idth into three arrangement still exists in the temple ofNeptime at°Pa;stum. ISIr Fergusson supposes thatthe light was introduced by counter-sinking a partof the roof, so as to admit the light betweenthe pillars of the upper range, thus forming a kindof clerestory, as shewn on the annexed section of. Fig. G. the Parthenon (fig. 6). Windows, however, werealso used, as in the temple at Agrigentum and inthe Erechtheum. The theatres of the Greeks formed another veryimportant class of works ; they consisted of semi-circidar rows of seats cut in the rock, or partlybuilt. Remains of these structures are found in allthe countries inhabited by the Greeks, and werefrequently of great size—that at Dramyssus being443 feet across. The proscenia were the parts onwhich architectural design was chiefly displayed;but these have imfortunately all perished. Xone of the palaces or domestic edifices ofthe Greeks remain to us; we are thus totallydeprived of a very interesting chapter in the historyof domestic architectiu-e, for it is highly probablethat the streets and houses of Greece, although notso splendid and enduring as the temples, were morevaried in style, and exhibited many picturesque andbeautiful forms, which are now entirely lost. The attempt has been made in modem times torevive Greek ar
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