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GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Pabt b
art—make up a composition so perfect that nothing in any other
style or age can he said to surpass it.1 * If this is a fair index
the art that was lavished on the smaller objects, the temples hardly
give a just idea of all that have perished.
Theatres.
In extreme contrast with the buildings last described, which vrei’e
among the smallest, came the theatres, which were the largest, of tb0
monuments the Greeks seem ever to have attempted.
The annexed plan of one at Dramyssus, the ancient Dodona,
161. Rlan of Theatre af Dramyssus. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
give an idea of their forms and arrangements. Its dimensions ioay
be said to be gigantic, being 443 ft. across; but even this, thougb
perhaps the largest in Greece, is far surpassed by many in As111
Minor. What remains of it, however, is merely the auditorium, and
consists only of ranges of seats arranged in a semicircle, but withotd
architectural ornament. In all the examples in Europe, the pr0'
1 The finial ornament is triangular in I and various other objects have beea
plan, and there are three scrolls on the j suggested. My own conviction is tha
roof with mortices in them, showing that j they were winged genii, most probably
something must have stood on them to j in hronze, and gilt like the neckings 0
support the projecting angles. Dolphins i the capitals.
GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Pabt b
art—make up a composition so perfect that nothing in any other
style or age can he said to surpass it.1 * If this is a fair index
the art that was lavished on the smaller objects, the temples hardly
give a just idea of all that have perished.
Theatres.
In extreme contrast with the buildings last described, which vrei’e
among the smallest, came the theatres, which were the largest, of tb0
monuments the Greeks seem ever to have attempted.
The annexed plan of one at Dramyssus, the ancient Dodona,
161. Rlan of Theatre af Dramyssus. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
give an idea of their forms and arrangements. Its dimensions ioay
be said to be gigantic, being 443 ft. across; but even this, thougb
perhaps the largest in Greece, is far surpassed by many in As111
Minor. What remains of it, however, is merely the auditorium, and
consists only of ranges of seats arranged in a semicircle, but withotd
architectural ornament. In all the examples in Europe, the pr0'
1 The finial ornament is triangular in I and various other objects have beea
plan, and there are three scrolls on the j suggested. My own conviction is tha
roof with mortices in them, showing that j they were winged genii, most probably
something must have stood on them to j in hronze, and gilt like the neckings 0
support the projecting angles. Dolphins i the capitals.