. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. nn. Chap. II. ROMAN. 7S fircunistance which, if its aiiticiuity he allowed to he only of a moderately remote period,would go far to disprove all Lanzis reasoning, for, as we have noticed in the preceding ar-ticle, the arch was unknown in Greece till after tlie time of Alexander. According to Goil{Museum Etruscum), vestiges of theatres have heen discovered among the ruins of some oftheir cities. That they were acquainted with the method of conducting
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. nn. Chap. II. ROMAN. 7S fircunistance which, if its aiiticiuity he allowed to he only of a moderately remote period,would go far to disprove all Lanzis reasoning, for, as we have noticed in the preceding ar-ticle, the arch was unknown in Greece till after tlie time of Alexander. According to Goil{Museum Etruscum), vestiges of theatres have heen discovered among the ruins of some oftheir cities. That they were acquainted with the method of conducting theatrical rei)resent-ations is evident from Livy, who mentions an occasion on which comedians were brought fromEtruria to Rome, whose inhabitants at the time in (piestion were only accustomed to thegames of the circus. The gladiatorial sports, which were afterwards so much the delight oithe Romans, were also borrowed from the same peo])le. They constructed their temple?peripterally ; the ))ediments of them were decorated with statues, cjuadriga, and bassirilievi, in terra cotta, many whereof were remaining in the time of Vitruvius and
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