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Temple of Zeus
Athens
174 B.C. to
132 A.D.
With a Roman architect, it was the
first major Greek temple to use the Corinthian order. When the king,
who ordered the building, died in 164 B.C., construction stopped.
Not until the emperor Hadrian visited Athens in 124 A.D., was it
completed with the original design in 132 A.D.. Ruined by the barbarian sack
of Athens in 274 A.D., it became a marble quarry.
| Compare this
capital to this inset of the acanthus in the Pantheon. This is Greek
Corinthian, always sculpted in stone, as opposed to Roman, which copied
in stone a design originally in bronze. The centuries have been kinder to the Greek
capitals, with fewer hanging and undercut pieces to break off. |
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