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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    Height of the whole 104 f. Reliefs on the frieze by Bryaxis, Leochares, Scopas, Timotheus (Praxiteles according to Vitruvius) of which there are still probably remains on the citadel of Budrun. (Of these reliefs, partly Amazonian battles, there is some account in R. Dalton's Antiq. and Views in Greece and Egypt, L. 1791. Appendix ; Ionian Antiq. ii. pi. 2 add. in the 2d ed. [Five pieces were brought to London in 1846. They contain 22 groups which are described by Ulrichs in Gerhard's Archaeol. Zeitung 1847, S. 169-176, and Gerhard ibid. 177-185 gives an account of the Mausoleum after Chas. Newton in the Classical Museum xvi. comp. W. R. Hamilton in the Trans, of the Royal Soc. of Literature 1847. ii. p. 251-257. 308.] On a beautiful Caryatid torso likewise from thence, Bullet, d. Inst. 1832. pi. 168). See Caylus, Mem. de I'Ac. xxvi. p. 321. Chois. Gouff. Voy. Pitt. i. pi. 98. Hirt, s. 70. Tf. 10, 14. Philo de septem orbis spectac. c. 4 and in Orelli's Ed. p. 127. Leonis AUatii diatr. and p. 133 Cuper. de nummo Mausoleum Artem. exhib. Quatremire de Quincy Rec. de Dis- sert. 1. A similar monument at Mylasa, R. Rochette in the Journ. des Sav. 1837. p. 202, This form of monument is to be found widely diflFused in Syria; similar to it was the tomb erected in Palestine about the 160th Olympiad, by the high priest Simon to his father and brothers,—a build- ing surrounded with columns and serving as a foundation to seven py- ramids. Joseph. Ant. xiii, 6. 2. The so-called Monument of Hephsestion was only a funeral pile (7ryg«, Diod. xvii, 115) ingeniously and fantastically constructed by Deino- crates in pyramidal terraces (for 12,000 talents ?). The pyre of the elder Dionysius (Athen. v. p. 206) described by Timaeus was probably similar, and the rogi of the Cesars on coins present the same fundamental form. Comp, §. 294, 7. Ste Croix, Examen p. 472. Caylus, Hist, de I'Ac. des Inscr. xxxi. p. 76. Q. de Quincy, Mi§m. de I'lnst. Royal iv. p. 395. Hon. Restitues ii. p. 105. 1 152. Mechanics, however, the favourite science ^ of the period, showed itself still more worthy of admiration, in large and curiously constructed chariots, in boldly devised warlike machines, and, above all, gigantic ships with which the princes 2 of Egypt and Sicily tried to outdo one another. Hydraulics was applied to manifold water-works with equal success. 1 On the state-chariot (<ig^«^«|«) for Alexander's body. Hist, de I'Acad. des Inscr. xxxi, p. 86. Ste Croix p. 511. Q. de Quincy, M6m. de rinst. Roy. iv. p. 315. Mon. Restitues ii. p. 1.—The beleaguermg ma- chine'of Demetrius Poliorcetes, Helepolis, built by Epimachus, frus- trated by Diognetus, 01.119,1. About the same time (Vitruv. vii. Praef.), perhaps however already under the administration of Lycurgus, Philo built for the Athenians the large ship-houses. The machines of Archi- medes at Syracuse, 01. 141, 3. The Tarentine machine-builder Hera- cHdes inventor of the Sambuca, contemporaneous. Polyb. xm, 4. Athen xiv p 634. Polysen, v, 17.—Enormous ship of Ptolemy the Fourth with 40 banks of oars. Hiero the Second's great ship with 3 decks and 20 banks of oars, built by Archias of Corinth, and launched by Archimedes.-There are a few details on the history of mechanics ainong the Greeks (there is a great deal unknown) in Kastncrs Qesch. der Mathematik ii. s. 98. Comp. Hirt, ii. s. 259.