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Bk. III. Ch. II.
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columnfe C£elata3 ancl the noble architecture o£ the temple itself, must
have macle up a combination of technic, sesthetic, ancl phonetic art
such as hardly existed anywhere else, ancl which consequently the
ancients were quite justified in considering as one o£ the wonclers
of the world.
Municipal Arcliitecture.
Very little now remains of all the various classes of municipal and
domestic buildings which must once have covered the land of Greece,
ancl from what we know of the exqi}isite feelings for art that per-
vadecl that people, they were certainly not less beautiful, though more
ephemeral, than the sacred buildings whose ruins still remain to us.
There are, however, two buildings in Athens which, though small,
give us most exalted ideas of their taste
in such matters. The first, already alluded
to, usually known as the Tower of the
Wincls, is a plain octagonal builcling about
45 ft. in height by 24 in wiclth, orna-
mentecl by 2 small porches of 2 pillars each,
of the Corinthian order, the capitals of
which are represented in Wooclcut No. 141.
Its roof, like the rest of the building, is
of white marble, ancl of simple but very
elegant clesign, ancl below this is a frieze
of 8 large figures, symbolical of the 8
winds, from which the tower takes its
name, they in fact being the principal ob-
jects and ornaments of the building, the
most important use of which appears to
have been to contain a clepsydra or water-
clock.
The other building, though smaller, is
still more beautiful. It is known as the
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, ancl
consists of a square base 12 ft. high by
9 ft. wide, on which stands a circular
temple adorned by 6 Corinthian columns,
which, with their entablature and the roof
ancl pedestal they support, make up 22 ft..
more, so that the whole height of the monu- No scale-
ment is only 34 ft. ISTotwithstanding these insignificant dimensions,
the beauty of its columns (Woodcut No. 143) ancl of their entablature
-—above all, the beauty of the roof and of the finial ornament,
which crowns the whole and is unrivalled for elegance even in Greek
160. Ohoragio AJouumeut of Lysicrates.
MUNICIPAL ARCHITECTUKE.
279
columnfe C£elata3 ancl the noble architecture o£ the temple itself, must
have macle up a combination of technic, sesthetic, ancl phonetic art
such as hardly existed anywhere else, ancl which consequently the
ancients were quite justified in considering as one o£ the wonclers
of the world.
Municipal Arcliitecture.
Very little now remains of all the various classes of municipal and
domestic buildings which must once have covered the land of Greece,
ancl from what we know of the exqi}isite feelings for art that per-
vadecl that people, they were certainly not less beautiful, though more
ephemeral, than the sacred buildings whose ruins still remain to us.
There are, however, two buildings in Athens which, though small,
give us most exalted ideas of their taste
in such matters. The first, already alluded
to, usually known as the Tower of the
Wincls, is a plain octagonal builcling about
45 ft. in height by 24 in wiclth, orna-
mentecl by 2 small porches of 2 pillars each,
of the Corinthian order, the capitals of
which are represented in Wooclcut No. 141.
Its roof, like the rest of the building, is
of white marble, ancl of simple but very
elegant clesign, ancl below this is a frieze
of 8 large figures, symbolical of the 8
winds, from which the tower takes its
name, they in fact being the principal ob-
jects and ornaments of the building, the
most important use of which appears to
have been to contain a clepsydra or water-
clock.
The other building, though smaller, is
still more beautiful. It is known as the
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, ancl
consists of a square base 12 ft. high by
9 ft. wide, on which stands a circular
temple adorned by 6 Corinthian columns,
which, with their entablature and the roof
ancl pedestal they support, make up 22 ft..
more, so that the whole height of the monu- No scale-
ment is only 34 ft. ISTotwithstanding these insignificant dimensions,
the beauty of its columns (Woodcut No. 143) ancl of their entablature
-—above all, the beauty of the roof and of the finial ornament,
which crowns the whole and is unrivalled for elegance even in Greek
160. Ohoragio AJouumeut of Lysicrates.