Category: Architecture
The irregular position of the door and the windows of the north-west wing of the Propylaea has long been remarked, though no explanations of the phenomenon have been offered. Bohn, _Die Propylaeen der Akropolis zu Athen_, p. 23, says of the south wall of this wing: "Die Wand w...
The new plan of the Erechtheum is interesting in the light of the Chandler inscription. If one feels that the magnificent north porch determines the front of the building, then...
3. Part 3In the inner room Pausanias saw the trident-mark, naturally near the [Greek: phrear]. The first produced the second, according to Apollodorus, III, 14, 2. Pausanias did not see...
2. Part 2The ceremony in the course of which the Arrephoroi carried the chest may have had to do with a cult of the heroized dead. Tradition has it that Erechtheus who was closely associ...
1. Part 1The irregular position of the door and the windows of the north-west wing of the Propylaea has long been remarked, though no explanations of the phenomenon have been offered. Bo...
5. Part 5Within the original Erechtheum at the east end marked off by a partition-wall was to be the shrine of Athena Polias. The western chamber of Poseidon-Erechtheus, the exact counte...