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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    i. 232. Deviations by the Editors of Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, V. i. p. 332 of the German translation. 2. Temple of Cybele at Sardis, a work of the Lydian dynasty, de- stroyed by the lonians 01. 69, 3, then renewed. Some remnants in the Ionic style. Octastyle, dipteral. Size 261 X 144 f. Cockerell in Leake, Asia Minor, p. 344. A. v. Prokesch, Erinnerungen aus ^gypten und Kleinasien iii. 143. [Didymseon at Miletus, destroyed 01. 71. §. 109, 15.] 3. Herseon in Samos, of which there are still some relics in the Ionic style, 346 X 189 f. (Bedford in Leake, Asia Minor, p. 348. Ionian Antiq. T. i. ch. 6). It must have come in the room of the elder Doric (§. 53), probably at the time of Polycrates. It was the largest temple that He- rodotus knew of, inasmuch as the Artemisium had not yet probably at- tained the size for which it was afterwards famous. Herod, ii, 148. iii, 60, 4. Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens, built by Antistates, Callaes- chrus, Antimachides, and Porinus, under Pisistratus and his sons, but not completed,—a colossal fabric in the Doric style. According to the ruins of the later altered building the size was 372 x 167 f. (Stuart), or 354 X 171 (Leake). 'OXti^OToi/ iifuriT^i; f^h, x,a.ra.'7rMb'> ^ 'ix^ ^^^ ''^f oUolofti'eti v'yroy^ce.(piiv, yivofJi^ivav t kv ^ikria-cov uici^ (rvviTs'hicr^. Dicaearch. p. B.Huds. Comp. the Hall. Encycl. Athens, p. 233. Hirt, Gesch. i. 225, The Pythion of the Pisistratidse. Perhaps also the elder Parthenon. 6. Temple of Delphi after the conflagration 01. 68, 1, built by Spin- tharus the Corinthian. (The Amphictyons gave the building out on contract; the Delphians contributed a fourth and collected everywhere for it; the Alcmseonid^ undertook it for 300 talents, but carried it on in a much more splendid style, Herod, ii, 180. v, 62, &c.; it was not, however, completed till after the 75th 01. ^schin. against Ctes. §. 116, Bekk.). Of poros stone, the pronaos of Parian marble. A pronaos, naoa with the hypaethron (Justin, xxiv, 8. Eurip. Ion 1568 allude to this) and adyton. A £x«To>7reBof i/adf according to Philostr. Apollon. Tyan. vi, 11, Fragments of old Doric columns (6 feet thick) at Castri, Dodwell i, p. 174. Gell, Itin. in Greece, p. 189. 6. The brazen house of Pallas in the Polls at Sparta, built about the 60th 01., adorned inside with brazen reliefs. Paus. iii, 17. x, 5. [The temple at Assos §. 255. R. 2.] II. BUILDINGS EXTANT. 1—4. PiESTUM (Poseidonia), the Trcezeno-Sybaritic colony. The Urge temple (Poseidon's) peripteral, pycnostyle, hypsethral, with a niche for the image, 195 X 79 EngUsh feet in size, the Doric columns 8 mo- duli, in the serene severity and simplicity of the ancient Doric style. TiJsmall and much later temple (that of Demeter, the statue stood in an inner thalamus) peript. hexast. 107 X 47 f. The little temple Mauch Supplem. zu Normand Taf. 1. The columns are not more slender, but swell out very much, have a contracted neck, and bases in the antecella ; here also there are even engaged columns. There is a half-metope placed at the corner of the entablature. A Stoa, whose circuit of columns has 9 at the ends, and 18 on the sides. In the interior a row of columns runs