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WftBt Viow of the Acropolis restored. (From Wordsworth’s ‘ Athens.’!)

BOOK III.

CHAPTER I.

GREECE,

CONTBNTS.

Historical notice — Pelasgic art — Tomb of Atrens—Other remains — Hellenic
Greece — History of tlie orclers — Doric order —■ the Parthenon — Ionic order—
Corinthian order -— Caryatides — Forms of temples — Mode of lighting—
Municipal architecture — Theatres.

CHRON'OLOGICAL MEMORANDA.

1)ATES.

Atridte at Mycenfe, from . . b.c. 1207 to 1104

Return of the Heraclidfe to Peloponnese . . 1104

Olympiads commence.776

Cypselidfe at Corinth—Building of temple

at Corinth, from. 655 to 5S1

Selinus founded, and first temple com-

menced.626

Ascendency of iEgina—Building of temple

at ACgina, from.50S to 499

Battle of Marathon.490

DATES.

Battle of Salamis.b.c. 4S0

Theron at Agrigentum. Commences great

temple.4S0

Cimon at Athens. Temple of Theseus huilt 469
Pericles at Athens. Parthenon finished . . 438

Temple of Jupiter at Olympia finished . . 436

Propylsea at Athens huilt, from . . 437 to 432

Selinus destroyed hy Carthaginians . . . 410

Erechtheium at Athens finished .... 409

Monument of Lysicrates at Athpns . . . 335

Death of Alexander the Great.324

Till within a very recent periocl tlie histories of Greece ancl Rome
have been considered as the ancient histories of the world; and even
now, in our universities and public schools, it is scarcely acknowledged

1 Beule’s excaYations have proved tliat I not at the side, as here shown. ‘ Acropole
the outergateoftheAcropoliswas in front, | d’Athenes.’ Paris, vol. i. pl. i. and ii.