There is here no division in the internal part, where it is presumed that the remains of Theseus were buried. This temple is 104 feet long, 45 feet wide, both dimensions; being taken on the upper step, and 25 feet 2 inches high ; the diameter of the columns is 3 feet 3 inches. The sculptures in the metopes were representations of the exploits of The seus, and of the labenrs of Hercules, who appears to have been honoured in this temple, as well as Theseus, his kins man and friend. The frieze of the wall behind the eastern portico was adorned with a representation of a battle and victory, in which six of the divinities are present ; three a whom are Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. Among the com batants is one of superior stature and dignity, hurling at his assailants a stone of prodigious size ; he is supposed to be Theseus, in the act of overthrowing the Persians at Mara thon. The battle between the Centaurs and Lapithie was sculptured on the wall behind the western portico. The sculptures (of which are casts in the British Museum) are, according to Pausanias, supposed to be the work of the famous Miehon.
" It has been discovered of late years, that the Parthenon, and nearly all the buildings at Athens, had colours applied to their different enrichments; but it dues not appear that the advocates of Greek polychromy have clearly made out that this practice belongs to the pure age of Pericles and Phidias. It is much more likely to have been intrudneed long after their time.
" The temple of Corinth is probably the most aneient speci meat of the Doric order in existence. It is built 01'a rough porous stone, and is supposed to have had porticos of six columns, five of which remain in the western front, and six are seen on one flank ; its arrangement, perhaps, was similar to that of the temple of Theseus ; the columns arc 5 feet 10 inches in diameter, and their shafts, 21 feet in height, are composed each of a single stone. There is no sculpture upon the temple, as all above the architrave has long since disap peared. Since Stuart's time, five of the columns which appear in the flank, in his work, have been blown into frag ments by gunpowder, to assist in building the house of a governor of Corinth. Lord Aberdeen observes, It has been said, that this temple was dedicated to Venus ; but. in fact, no information is to be obtained respecting its origin. Whatever may have been its destination, no one can doubt, from the appearance ()Nile ruins alone, that they formed part of a structure of the most remote antiquity.
" One of the noblest efforts of the genius of letinus is to be seen in the temple of Apollo Epieurius, in Arcadia. It offers many architectural peculiarities, and exhibits a greater variety of details than are usually met with in the Grecian temples.
Pausanias, speaking of this building, which is at Basspe, near Phigalia, states, that the temple of Apollo Epieurius (the deliverer), which, together with the roof, is of stone, surpasses all the temples which are in Peloponnesus (w ith the exception of that in Tegea) in the beauty of the stone, and harmony of the proportions.'
"The entrance to the temple was theing the north, contrary to the usual practice. The temple was 47 feet broad, 125 feet long, and ascended by three steps. There were six columns in each front, and fifteen on each flank, all 3 feet 7 inches in diameter, and 19 feet 6 inches high. In the interior of the cell were attached columns, of the Ionic order, of a very ancient character, (together with a single insulated column of the Corinthian order,) over which, on the four sides of the cell, ranged the sculptured frieze. The columns and walls are constructed of the bard and beautiful limestone of the country, but the sculpture and roof are of marble. It would not appear, from .1r. Donaldson's description, that any deco rations existed in the pediments, or metopes. "rhe arrange ment of the engaged columns of the cella is very peculiar. A similar disposition has never hitherto been found, though, perhaps, in the temple of Apollo Didynncus, at Branchile, near .1iletus, the projecting pilasters conveyed the same effect, less distinctly expressed. The spaces between the Ionic columns seem to afford admirable situations for statues, as they would be secured by the columns on each side, and by the soffits above, from the occasional inclemencies of even that mild atmosphere.' The Propyhea, it Doric structure, forms the only entrance to the Acropolis of Athens. Pausanias says, There is only one entrance to the Acropolis, it being in every remaining part of its circuit a precipice, fortified with strong walls. The entrance was 11.4nited by a magnificent building, called the Propyhea, covered with roofs of white marble, which sur passed, fior beauty, all that he had before seen. This was begun during the ministration of Pericles, B.C. 437, and was finished in five years (Al nesicles being the architect), at an expense, equivalent to .f.10-1,000. The front of the Propylaea consisted of six columns, and at the back of the building was a small portico ; between the two was the wall, in which were five gates. The centre reached from the platform to the height of the entablature ; it was 13 feet wide, and was used on solemn occasions for the chariots. The road-way was between two rows of Ionic columns ; a gate of 6 feet wide, and of less height than the centre, occupied each side, and beyond them were two smaller doorways, which were used for ordinary passage. On the right of the Pro py hua was a building called the temple of Victory-without wings. On the left, was an edifice adorned with paintings, the work of Polygnotus ; the subjects chiefly from homer; and it is supposed, that herein stood a group of the Graces, draped, the performance of the celebrated Socrates, who pur sued his ththcr's profession of a sculptor, until he devoted the energies of his wonderful mind to the study of philosophy.