Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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Credit: Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22—24. Sblinus. Comp. §. 80. Its large and rich temples are men- tioned in Thucyd. vi, 20, and in connection with its destruction by the Carthaginians (92, 4). The chief Doric temple was at that time still incomplete, as only the eight columns of the east front were fluted (with fillets), and some others begun. Dipteral according to Wilkins, pseudo- dipt. according to Hittorif and Serradifalco with large columnar pronaos and hypsethron, 331 X 161 feet according to Wilkins, 367 X 161 accord- ing to Gottling in the Hermes xxxiii. p. 248. The columns about 10 mod. high. South from this one in the same eastern portion of the city stand two other temples, all together called i piliere die Giganti, 186 X 76 and 232 X 83 £ large; both hexastyle peripteral, and on the whole they appear to belong to the same period. The middle and smallest temple is constructed almost in the same way as the middle temple of the acropolis, but at a later period however when more slender (about 10 mod.) and at the same time greatly tapering (about f mod.) columns made their ap- pearance in Sicily; somewhere about the 80th Olymp. Comp. on the sculptures §. 90 and 119. WUkins, ch. 4. pi. 1—11. Hittorflf and Zanth, Archit. de la Sicile. Livr. 5, pi. 30 sqq. 25. Egesta. Hexast. peript. 190 X 77 f. the columns not yet fluted. Wilkins, ch. 5. Gartner's Ansichten der Monumente Siciliens. HittorflT, pi. 2—6. [Syracuse. Hexast. peript. Serradifalco i. tav. 3—8. Canina in the Bullett. 1836. p. 91.] The cella 86,6. x, 47, 4. Pahn, entire length 218, 2. P. Cavallari in Serradifalco iv. tv. 5—8. p. 120. [Corfp. Not far from the city Hexast. peript. W. Railton, §. 253. R. l.j 110. Luxury in private buildings, houses, and monuments, did not begin at Athens especially till towards the end of this period (§. 104, 2). It began sooner with the rich and haughty Agrigentines who built, according to the well-known saying, as if they expected to live for ever. See the marvellous accounts in Diodor. xiii, 81 of Gellias' palace and colossal wine-cellar, of the public piscina, the monuments to victorious horses and favourite birds. The so-called sepulchre of Theron (WUkins ch. 3. pi. 19) is remarkable on account of its Ionic engaged columns with Doric entablature, and the cross-vault in the interior. A similar mix- ture has been observed in the so-caUed Hereon of Bmpedocles on the acropolis of Selinus. 1 111. The greatest problem likewise of the architect, the construction of entire cities, fell at this period principally to Hippodamus of Miletus who, by his improvements in the PeiriBus, which Themistocles had rather designed as a place of refuge in time of war, converted it into a splendid city. He laid out Thurii (01. 83, 3) with large streets at right angles, and likewise rebuilt Rhodes (Olymp. 93, 1) in a highly sym- metrical and regular manner, and m the form of a theatre. 2 Throufrh him as well as Meton the regular (Ionic) method ot buildiiig seems to have gained the ascendancy over the nar- row and angular construction of cities which prevailed m early Greece.