Waterhouse, Percy Leslie: The story of architecture throughout the ages: an introduction to the study of the oldest of the arts for students and general readers (London: B. T. Batsford, 1924)

CRETAN & GREEK ARCHITECTURE 55

Although the Doric and Ionic orders were
quite distinct in their respective proportions and
features, they were occasionally combined in the
same building, as in the Propylaea, the noble
gateway which gave access to the Acropolis at
Athens. In the temple of Apollo Epicurius at
Bassae in Arcadia, designed by Ictinus, one of
the architects of the Parthenon, the exterior

Fig. 21.
Corinthian Capital.

columns were Doric, but
a row of piers on each 5
side of the interior was 2M1
treated with Ionic capi-
tals and details.
The third order—the
Corinthian—was of little
importance in pure Greek
architecture ; it appears
to have been used, before
the time of the Roman
conquest, for compara-
tively small monuments.
As used by the Greeks,
the order resembled the


Ionic in all its features, with the exception of
the capital. The most graceful example is
the choragic monument erected at Athens
(335 B.C.), by Lysicrates, in commemoration
of his victory in the choral competitions ; a
capital from this monument is shown in the
illustration.

The Corinthian capital was the great creation
of the later period of Greek architecture.
Possibly the first suggestions of the form were