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CHAPTER X.
OP THE TEMPLE AT CORINTH.
After we left Venice, the first place in Greece where we found any remains of ancient buildings
worth our notice, was at Corinth. Here are the remains of a Doric templea, apparently of great anti-
quity, and built before architecture had received the improvements it afterwards did in the time of
Periclesb.
The part where five columns are seen has the appearance of having been the '.western' front,
• for we always found the principal fronts of temples facing the east, where the situation would admit
of it'; probably the single column was in the ' posticum', with anta; at the extremities of each
wall; in which case this temple must have been undoubtedly peripteral, and therefore probably had
not more than six columns in front, and, in its general disposition, not unlike the temple of Theseus.
The columns have twenty flutings, which terminate under the listels of the capital, and are segments
of circles c. The guttffl are round, and detached from the architrave. The material is a rough porous
stone, the shafts of the columns are each of one block only, and the whole has been covered with
stucco ". The diminution of the shafts begins from the bottom. The architraves are of one stone c
each from centre to centre of the columns.
PLATE XLIL
' Fig. 1.' View of the ruins of the temple at Corinthf. ' The figures in the foreground
are, two Turks on horseback, two ladies with a child and black servant returning from the bath, and
a Antiquaries have not determined to what divinity this
temple was raised. Chandler supposed it might have been the
Sisypheium mentioned by Strabo, but as that temple was built
with marble, (htvx.2 x»'9w wwoiujuei/oi',) sueh an appropriation is in-
correct. Dr. E. D. Clarke more fallaciously hints that it may
have been the temple of Octavia, sister to Augustus, unto whom
the Corinthians were indebted for the restoration of their city,
a designation which the very archaic style of design at once dis-
proves. It may yet remain for some more fortunate explorer of
Corinthian antiquity to ascertain the appropriate name of this
impressive temple, which doubtless must have attracted the no-
tice of ancient topographical historians. CaD'3
b The subjects of this chapter were drawn from the original
figured sketches made by Messrs. Stuart and Revett, no finished
drawings having been made. The measures of this antiquity are
taken in inches and eighths instead of decimals, as in the other
examples; probably the roughness of the materials made less
accuracy necessary than in the ruins of Athens, which are of the
most correct workmanship in white marble. Ln-1
c The depths were so uncertainly figured as not to warrant
the insertion of them in the plate '. Cn0
d The stone of these columns is that termed by ancient authors
Poros, and no'f mof A/Oo;, which denote common and soft lime-stone.
The temples in Greece, Sicily, and Italy, built with it, are gene-
rally found to have been stuccoed with a fine cement, as if made
from marble, laid on in extreme thinness, and afterwards coloured
or painted. [>'"•]
e These architraves are in two thicknesses. CED0
f Mr. Stuart has not left any description of this view. It is
supplied by Mr. Revett. [>.]
1 The lines and figures introduced below shew the form and dimensions of from drawings now in the British Museum, made by Sebastian Ittar, an architect
the flutings, of the grooves and necking of the capitals, and of the gute, taken of Catania, employed in Greece by Lord Elgin. [E0.]
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OP THE TEMPLE AT CORINTH.
After we left Venice, the first place in Greece where we found any remains of ancient buildings
worth our notice, was at Corinth. Here are the remains of a Doric templea, apparently of great anti-
quity, and built before architecture had received the improvements it afterwards did in the time of
Periclesb.
The part where five columns are seen has the appearance of having been the '.western' front,
• for we always found the principal fronts of temples facing the east, where the situation would admit
of it'; probably the single column was in the ' posticum', with anta; at the extremities of each
wall; in which case this temple must have been undoubtedly peripteral, and therefore probably had
not more than six columns in front, and, in its general disposition, not unlike the temple of Theseus.
The columns have twenty flutings, which terminate under the listels of the capital, and are segments
of circles c. The guttffl are round, and detached from the architrave. The material is a rough porous
stone, the shafts of the columns are each of one block only, and the whole has been covered with
stucco ". The diminution of the shafts begins from the bottom. The architraves are of one stone c
each from centre to centre of the columns.
PLATE XLIL
' Fig. 1.' View of the ruins of the temple at Corinthf. ' The figures in the foreground
are, two Turks on horseback, two ladies with a child and black servant returning from the bath, and
a Antiquaries have not determined to what divinity this
temple was raised. Chandler supposed it might have been the
Sisypheium mentioned by Strabo, but as that temple was built
with marble, (htvx.2 x»'9w wwoiujuei/oi',) sueh an appropriation is in-
correct. Dr. E. D. Clarke more fallaciously hints that it may
have been the temple of Octavia, sister to Augustus, unto whom
the Corinthians were indebted for the restoration of their city,
a designation which the very archaic style of design at once dis-
proves. It may yet remain for some more fortunate explorer of
Corinthian antiquity to ascertain the appropriate name of this
impressive temple, which doubtless must have attracted the no-
tice of ancient topographical historians. CaD'3
b The subjects of this chapter were drawn from the original
figured sketches made by Messrs. Stuart and Revett, no finished
drawings having been made. The measures of this antiquity are
taken in inches and eighths instead of decimals, as in the other
examples; probably the roughness of the materials made less
accuracy necessary than in the ruins of Athens, which are of the
most correct workmanship in white marble. Ln-1
c The depths were so uncertainly figured as not to warrant
the insertion of them in the plate '. Cn0
d The stone of these columns is that termed by ancient authors
Poros, and no'f mof A/Oo;, which denote common and soft lime-stone.
The temples in Greece, Sicily, and Italy, built with it, are gene-
rally found to have been stuccoed with a fine cement, as if made
from marble, laid on in extreme thinness, and afterwards coloured
or painted. [>'"•]
e These architraves are in two thicknesses. CED0
f Mr. Stuart has not left any description of this view. It is
supplied by Mr. Revett. [>.]
1 The lines and figures introduced below shew the form and dimensions of from drawings now in the British Museum, made by Sebastian Ittar, an architect
the flutings, of the grooves and necking of the capitals, and of the gute, taken of Catania, employed in Greece by Lord Elgin. [E0.]
S
'li<'."o-J$