The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1893, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1893, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) written by Arthur Lincoln Frothingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1893, Vol. 8 Dorpfeld (xv, p. 424) says that the Persians left the walls of the temple and the outer portico standing; that this is evident fi-cm the present condition of the architraves, triglyphs and cornices, which are built into the Acropolis wall. These architectural mem bers were taken from the building while it still stood, and built into the northern wall of the citadel. But, if the Athenians had wished to restore the temple as quickly as possible, they would have left these members where they were. It seems, at least, rather extravagant to take them carefully away and then restore the temple without a peristyle, for the restored building would probably need at least cornices if not triglyphs or archi traves; then why not repair the old ones? It appears by no means impossible that, as Lolling (p. 655) suggests, only a part of the temple was restored.'7 Still more natural is the assumption, that the Athenians carried off the whole temple while they were about' it. I do not, however, dare to proceed to this assumption, because I do not know where the Athenians would have kept their public monies if the entire building had been removed. Perhaps part of the peristyle was so badly injured by the Persians that it could not be repaired. At any rate, the Athenians intended (as Diirpfeld, XII, p. 202, also believes) to remove the whole build ing so soon as the great new temple should be completed. I think they carried out their intention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.