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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    Gl feet thick, 63| high, more slender than those at Ephesus, Samos, and Sardis (§. 64, 80), with lighter entablature. Ionian Antiq. i. ch. 3. p. 27. Choiseul Gouffier, Voy.. pittor. i. pi. 113, 114. Hirt, Gesch. ii. p. 62. pi. 9, 11. 16. Temple of Pallas Polias at Pbiene, built by the learned architect Pytheus, about 01. 110. According to an inscription, Alexander had the glory of consecrating it. C. I. No. 2904. Peript. hexast. of beautiful Ionic order with propylaea which instead of Ionic columns have pilas- ters inside whose capitals are enriched with griffins in relief. Ionian Antiq. i. ch. 2. new ed, Choiseul Gouffier, pi. 116. 17. Temple of Dionysus at Teos by Hermogenes, probably built about the time of Alexander. Peript. hexast. and eustyle, according to Vitru- vius (who principally follows Hermogenes). Ionian Antiq. i. ch. 1. Choiseul Gouff. pi. 124. Comp. besides Hirt, Gesch. ii, 66. 18. Temple of Aetemis Leitoophetne at Magnesia on the Meander, built by Hermogenes, pseudodipteral, according to Vitruvius 198 X 106 f. Leake, Asia Minor, p. 349. To it belongs the elevation, Ionian Antiq. i. ch. 1. pi. 2. first ed. [R. Rochette after the labours of the architect €lerges in the Journ. des Sav. 1845. Oct. Nov.] 19. Ruins of a temple of Apollo at Delos in the Doric order (thfe height of the columns 12 mod.), Stuart iii. ch. 10. p, 57. [A friese tablet from the temple of Esculapius, the most important in Cos. See Ross in Gerhard's Ai-chaol. Zeit. 1846. Tf 42. S. 281. Temple of Dionysus at Aphrodisias, octast. peript. probably by Hermogenes; panther and crater alternately on the architrave. Ion. Antiq. iii. ch. 2. pi. 13 sqq. cf Fellows Lycia p. 33. and Texier. The beautiful Ionic temple of Azani in Phrygia in Fellows' Asia Minor p. 136. 141. and in Texier.] IV. SICILT. 20. 21. AcRAGAS. Comp. above §. 80. The great Doric temple of Zeus Olympius was incomplete when Acragas was conquered by the Car- thaginians 01. 93, 3, and also remained so after the renovation of the city. Diod. xiii, 82. Size according to Diod. 340 X 160 f. (369 X 182 English f. according to the latest measurements). Height 120, without the substruction (K^/jTr/SS^st). The cella has within pilasters 12 feet broad, and half-columns without, 20 feet in circumference, but porticoes at the ends according to Diodorus, according to CockereU however there were here also pilasters and half-columns. The columns under 10 mod. high. In the interior there stood on columns or pillars, gigantic figures in antique severe style as supporters of the roof [§. 279]. Nic. Maggiore, Opusc. Archeol. 1834. cf. Bull. 1836. p. 62. There are many things about this temple still in the dark. See Wilkins, Mag. Gr. ch. 3. pi. 14— 17. Hirt ii, 90. pi. 9, 12. Klenze, Tempel des Olymp. Jupiters 1821, and in the Kunstblatt 1824. N. 36 (comp. 28, 39). Cockerell. Antiq. of Athens, Suppl. p. 1. pi. 1—8. Not far from the above stands the so- called temple of Hercules. Cockerell, pi. 9. More recent excavations at the [so-called] temple of Hercules, Bull. 1836. p. 97. 129. Thcron's monument, the pyramid of a victor horse (Plin. viii, 42), according to Gettling in the Kunstbl. 1836. N. 7,