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54 THE STORY OF ARCHITECTURE
was being used, as a powder magazine, to which
access could be obtained only through an open-
ing in the wall which had been built up between
the columns.
The first building to be completed of all
those now on the Acropolis was the small Ionic
temple of Nike Apteros—■“ Wingless Victory ”
—which was erected about 440 b.c. This
consists of a square cella with a front portico
of four columns. The building appears now
to be in a fair state of preservation ; at one
time, however, it had. been completely pulled
down, and its details built into a Turkish fortress
or powder magazine, some of the sculptures
being fixed upside down. It was rebuilt in
A.d. 1836 from the old materials.
Perhaps the most magnificent of all the
structures ever erected by the Greeks was the
Ionic temple at Ephesus, dedicated to the great
“ Diana of the Ephesians." This building was
almost totally destroyed, possibly by an earth-
quake, so that the very site of it was unknown
until it was discovered by an English architect,
Mr. Wood, in 1871. The British Museum
possesses the sculptured drum of one of the
“ columnce. celatce,” referred to by Pliny, from
whom we know that there were thirty-six of
these sculptured columns, and that one of them
was by a renowned artist named Scopas. The
beauty of the work seems to justify the high
opinion of the Greeks, who included the great
temple of Ephesus among the seven wonders of
the world.
was being used, as a powder magazine, to which
access could be obtained only through an open-
ing in the wall which had been built up between
the columns.
The first building to be completed of all
those now on the Acropolis was the small Ionic
temple of Nike Apteros—■“ Wingless Victory ”
—which was erected about 440 b.c. This
consists of a square cella with a front portico
of four columns. The building appears now
to be in a fair state of preservation ; at one
time, however, it had. been completely pulled
down, and its details built into a Turkish fortress
or powder magazine, some of the sculptures
being fixed upside down. It was rebuilt in
A.d. 1836 from the old materials.
Perhaps the most magnificent of all the
structures ever erected by the Greeks was the
Ionic temple at Ephesus, dedicated to the great
“ Diana of the Ephesians." This building was
almost totally destroyed, possibly by an earth-
quake, so that the very site of it was unknown
until it was discovered by an English architect,
Mr. Wood, in 1871. The British Museum
possesses the sculptured drum of one of the
“ columnce. celatce,” referred to by Pliny, from
whom we know that there were thirty-six of
these sculptured columns, and that one of them
was by a renowned artist named Scopas. The
beauty of the work seems to justify the high
opinion of the Greeks, who included the great
temple of Ephesus among the seven wonders of
the world.