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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    This relation brought about changes in the spirit of art which 3 will be seen at the close of this division, and more clearly in the following. 2. Demosthenes complains bitterly of the poverty of public and the magnificence of private buildings in his time. Comp. Bockh, Public Econ. 1, 205 sq. Lewis. As to the works promoted by Conon, Paus. i, 1, 3. i, 2, 2. Comp. De Phidia i, 3. n. d. and in corroboration of the statement that the temple of Zeus Soter was erected by Conon, also Isocr. Euagor. §. 57. Under Lycurgus former works chiefly were completed, but there was also something new. See the psephisma in Plutarch x. Orat. p. 279. H., where perhaps we should read: {]fik^yct Ta,^ct,'Kce.p>uv rovg rs vsagol>cQvs x,cci TYi'j (TKivo^'/iKYiv KXt TO SsctTgov TO Alov. s^si^yoicxro Ku.\ 'fnTsrihias, iccti ro rs (jrdihtov ro Uccv^Si. x,cti ro yv/ni/iaiou ro Avxnov x,ctric!x.svccai. Comp. p. 251. Paus. i, 29, 16. The noblest private outlay, however, still continued to be that on war-horses and statues, and it is a severe reproach to Dicseo- genes (Isseus on Dicseog. Inher. §. 44), that he allowed dedicatory pre- sents, purchased by the person whose property he inherited for three talents (J615), to lie scattered about unconsecrated in the studios of sculptors. 2. AECHITECTONICS. 105. The first requisite for the prosperity of architecture, the putting forth of every energy in order to accomplish something great, was already exemplified in the walls built at this period, especially those of the Peirasus, which, at the same time that they resembled Cyclopean walls in their colos- sal size, were distinguished by the utmost regularity of exe- cution. The circuit of the walls of the Peirzeus with Munychia measured 60 stadia; the height was 40 Greek cubits (Themistocles wanted the double); the breadth was such that during the erection two waggons laden with stones could pass each other, the stones were a,f^x^tcuoi, closely fitted to one another (iv rofiii iyyosuioi), and held together without any mortar, only with iron cramps soldered with lead. The walls of the Parthenon were built in the same way; the cylindrical blocks of the columns, on the other hand, were connected by wooden plugs (cypress wood in the tem- ple of Sunium, Bullet, d. Inst. 1832. p. 148). [One of these plugs with its sheath in Munich.] All the technical details are here found in the highest perfection. 106. Further, there was evinced in the construction of 1 theatres, odeia, and other buildings for festal amusements, a clearer and more penetrating understanding which conceived in the distinctest manner the aim of the building, and knew how to attain it in the most direct way. The theatron, like 2 the ancient chorus (§. 64, 1), was always still in the main an open space for dancing (orchestra), having entrances on both sides. Around it arose the seats, arranged so as to hold the