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lation particularly enforced at the temple of Ceres. They forma portico of 
six Doric columns of 5 feet and half an inch in diameter, which leads to 
the vestibule of six Ionic columns in two rows, which is followed by four 
pillars standing free, and inside by six Doric columns. The front gable 
field was decorated with a priest’s head surrounded by a ring. 
The temple of Diana Propylea (pl. 10, fig. 16, elevation; pl. 16, fig. 35, 
plan) is accessible by six steps, the uppermost of which is 69 feet, 8 inches 
long. The temple is of the Doric order, with corner pillars and two columns 
of 2 feet, 7 inches diameter. The stone blocks of the ceiling, like the rest 
of the building of white marble, are 83 feet long by 8 feet wide, and 2 feet, 
6 inches thick, each of them weighing about 11 tons. The cornice and 
gable tops had front tiles. The building is very much dilapidated. 
The Mystic Portico, where those about to be initiated in the Eleusinian 
mysteries had to undergo certain ceremonies, is of the Ionic order, and con- 
tains near the door two pilasters, with Corinthian capitals of uncommon 
beauty. This hall formed the vestibule of the temple of Ceres and Proser- 
pine, one of the most remarkable ancient buildings, which, however, was 
totally destroyed by Alaric. The temple had a portico of twelve Doric 
mantled columns of 63 feet in diameter. The fore hall is 38 feet deep, the 
corner pillars projecting so far as to indicate the existence of a second row 
of ten columns. The temple was a prostylos, and according to Vitruvius 
the fore hall only was added to the main building by Demetrius Phalereus, 
whilst the latter was built by Ictinus, 439 B. c. - 
All the monuments at Megara and Corinth, to which Pausanias even 
alludes as being much injured by time, are totally destroyed. On the isle 
of A’gina, which at an early period was considerably advanced in civiliza- 
tion, many once celebrated monuments had already disappeared at the time 
of Pausanias. The most splendid building on the island at that time was 
the temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, some of the ruins of which are still exist- 
ing. The ground-plan of this temple (pl. 18, fig. 12) shows that it had 
been a peripteros of six columns in front, and twelve at the sides. It was 
of the Doric order, hypeethral in construction, and with two rows of 
columns in the interior. The gable field was decorated with sculptures 
which have been carried to Munich. The proportions of this monument are 
excellent, and the mouldings of the capitals and the entablature of a bolder 
character than those of the temples of Minerva and Theseus at Athens. 
Two Doric columns of the temple of Venus, situated near the harbor, 
are all that remains of a number of other temples formerly known on 
Aigina. The Aigina theatre was considered to be of a very superior style, 
and was of larger dimensions than that at Epidaurus. 
Argos, a city in the district of Argolis, was the residence of the famous 
sculptors Polycletus, Praxiteles, and others, who by the master-pieces of 
their art ornamented its temples, among which were those of Jupiter Soter, 
Juno, Bacchus, Apollo Lycius, and Venus; and the temple of Minerva 
located upon the acropolis, which also contained a treasury of Atreus similar 
to that at Mycene. All these buildings, together with a large number of 
magnificent tombs, are entirely destroyed, a few columns of the Doric order 
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