Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

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THE GREEK TEMPLE.

The parts of the Greek temple, therefore, which sculpture was
invited to adorn, and to which our attention will be almost exclusively
confined, are the pediment, the metopes of the Doric frieze, and the
continuous Tonic frieze, which in the Parthenon ran round the top of
the outside of the cella. And it is important to remember that the
most precious works of art which have come down to us formed the
ornaments of these very fields.