Fergusson, James: The illustrated handbook of architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture preveiling in all ages and all countries (London, 1859)

194- West Yiew of the Acropolis restored. From Wordsworth’s Athens.

BOOK VI.

C H A P T E E L
GEEECE.

CONTENTS.

Historical notice — Pelasgic art — Tomb of Atreus — Other remains — Hellenic
G-reece — History of the orders — Doric order — The Parthenon — Ionic order —
Corinthian order — Caryatid.es ■— Forms of temples — Mode of lighting — Muni-
cipal arehitecture — Theatres.

CHRONOLOGY.

DATES.

Atridaj at Mycen®, from . . . b.c. 1207 to 1104

Return of the Heraclidaj to Peloponnese . 1104

Olympiads commence. 776

Cypselidse at Corinth —Building of temple

at Corinth, from. 655 to 581

Selinus founded, and first temple com-

menced. 626

Ascendancy of Jtgina—Building of temple

at JSgina, from. 508 to 499

Battle of Marathon. 490

DATES.

Battle of Salamis.b.c. 480

Theron at Agrigentum. Commences great

temple. 480

Cimon at Athens. Temple of Theseusbuilt 469
Pericles at Athens. Parthenon finished . 438

Temple of Jupiter at Olympia finished . 436

Propyleea at Athens huilt, from . . 437 to 432

Selinus destroyed by Carthaginians. . . 4io

Erechtheium at Athens finished . . . 409

Monument of Lysicrates at Athens. . . 335

Death of Alexander the Great .... 324

Till within a very recent periocl the histories of Greece and Eome have
heen considered as tlie ancient histories of the world; and even now,
in our nniversities and prfblic schools, it is scarcely acknowledged that