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The Basilica of Peestum was also of the Doric order, with capitals like 
those in the temple of Ceres, but with considerably sailed shafts. The 
building (pl. 10, jig. 24, elevation; jig. 25, plan) was 160 feet in length, by 
75 in width, and had 9 anes in front and rear, and 18 on the sides. In 
the interior, opposite to the third columns of the front and sides, are two 
pillars, with three columns between them, and it is probable that there 
was a similar arrangement in the rear. The walls marked in the plan 
probably supported upper rows of columns. In the centre was another row. 
The whole was thus divided into four naves between five rows of columns, 
which were connected by beams resting on the outside entablature, and 
supporting the roof. The building was probably used as a market hall, like 
the Stoa at Athens. 
The Island of Sicily had at one time still more remarkable monuments of 
architecture than Greece itself, but in consequence of the wars of the Carthagi- 
nians and the Romans, during which many of them were entirely destroyed, 
only few and unimportant ruins have been preserved to the present time. 
At Syracuse are the ruins of the mausoleum of Archimedes, a few rock-cut 
stairs of a theatre, and twelve Doric columns of 64 feet in siaielgead which 
formed part of the magnificent temple of Minerva (pl. 15, fig. 19, plan), and 
are introduced in the new cathedral. The doors of the temple were of 
bronze, inlaid with gold and ivory. A number of excellent paintings be- 
longing to the temple were carried to Rome by Verres. 
The city of Agrigentum, the largest on the island next to Syracuse, con- 
tained a temple of Minerva, located on the plateau of the rock at the foot 
of which the city lay, of which no traces are left. There are considerable 
remains of a Doric temple of Juno Lucina, which was erected on a plinth 
10 feet high, and had 6 columns in front and rear, and 13 on each side. 
This temple contained one of the best works of Zeuxis, a picture of Juno. 
Another temple has been almost entirely preserved. It was consecrated 
to Concordia, situated on a hill covered with trees of the aloé family, built 
of a bright yellow limestone upon a substructure of six steps. It is one of 
the most beautiful Grecian monuments, exhibiting exquisite proportions ( pl. 
10, fig. 18, elevation; jig. 19 and pl. 11, fig. 14, plan). 
The ee of Adsculapius, Hercules, and Jupiter, have almost entirely 
disappeared. The latter temple, also called the Temple of the Giants, was 
340 feet in length, by 160 feet in width, and 120 feet in height. It was a 
pseudodipteros, and the columns were 66 feet high, by 9 feet in diameter. 
There were eight in front and rear, placed at distances of one diameter. 
The flutes were so wide and deep that a man could find room in their 
recess. Fragments of colossal statues have been found, which apparently 
supported some part of the building. They probably stood on half side- 
walls of the cella, with the architrave resting on them, thus forming openings 
to admit light into the interior. The temple, erected 420 B.c., was de- 
stroyed by an earthquake, and its materials were used for the fe of the 
harbor. 
. The colossal ruins at Selinuntize, the present Pillori, are very remarkable, 
and unmistakably of Grecian origin. The place was sacked by Hannibal, 
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