 | John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 590 pages
...they should be dedicated ; for as trees, birds, and other animals, were thought sacred to particular deities, so almost every god had a form of building peculiar to himself, and which they thought more acceptable to him than any other. For instance, the Doric pillars were... | |
 | John Potter - Greece - 1818 - 590 pages
...they should be dedicated ; for as trees, birds, and other animals, were thought sacred to particular deities, so almost every god had a form of building peculiar to himself, and which they thought more acceptable to him than any other. For instance, the Doric pillars were... | |
 | Robert Macoy - Freemasons - 1855 - 428 pages
...designed to be dedicated : for as trees, birds, and other animals were esteemed saored to particular deities, so almost every god had a form of building peculiar to himself, and which they imagined more acceptable to him than any other. For instance, the Dorick pillars were... | |
 | 1874 - 254 pages
...designed to be dedicated : for as trees, birds, and other animals were esteemed sacred to particular deities, so almost every god had a form of building peculiar to himself, and which they imagined more acceptable to him than any other. For instance, the Doric pillars were... | |
 | E. M. Berens - Mythology, Classical - 1894 - 402 pages
...sepulchre of Acrisius, and the Acropolis at Athens received the ashes of Cecrops, founder of the city. every description were held to be sacred to certain...architecture was sacred to Zeus, Ares, and Heracles; the lonic to Apollo, Artemis, and Dionysus; and the Corinthian to Hestia. In the porch of the temple stood... | |
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As to the form of these antient structures, they were built after that manner which was thought most agreeable to the gods to whom they were designed to be dedicated : for as trees, birds, and other animals were esteemed... 