Word: parthenon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusually large audience assembled in the lecture room of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, yesterday afternoon, to hear Dr. Wheeler's third lecture on the Acropolis of Athens. Dr. Wheeler had reached that interesting portion of his subject where he was to take up the Parthenon, which probably accounts for the increased interest...
...spoken in his last lecture of the superstructure on which the Parthenoon stood, but which was evidently intended for a much larger building. The Parthenon as erected upon the foundation was two hundred and twenty-eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
...cellar is divided into four compartments-the Pronaos, the Hekatompedos, the Parthenon, and the Opisthodomos. The interior arrangements of each of these apartments were described with considerable care. We do not know much of their decorations. There is good reason to believe, however, that in the Hekatompedos draperies were extensively used in the decoration...
...Athenian Acropolis. "The Architecture of the Parthenon." Illustrated lecture. Dr. Wheeler. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m. Open to the public...
...fourth lecture on "The Athenian Acropolis" will be given this afternoon at four o'clock in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, as usual. Dr. Wheeler's subject will be "The Architecture of the Parthenon," and will be, as the previous lectures, illustrated...