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and earthquakes have completed the work of destruction. Its largest tem- 
ple was that of Jupiter Olympius (pi. 12, fig. 10, elevation ; jig. 11, plan). 
It was a pseudodipteros of the Doric order, with g columns in front and 17 
at the sides, 48 feet, 7 inches high, by 10 feet in diameter. It was a hype- 
thral building, 311 feet long, by 158 feet in width, and stood on an isolated 
hill in the plain of Selinuntiz, upon a substructure on which two other 
Doric temples were also erected. The first of the latter (pl. 11, jig. 16, 
plan) is very much dilapidated. Its proportions were 216 feet, by 94, and 
its fluted columns were 32 feet high, by a diameter of 6 feet, 7 inches. The 
other (fig. 17, plan) was 174 long, and had columns of 5 feet, 6 inches in 
diameter. Both these temples had columns all round, the former being a 
pseudodipteros, with two rows of columns in the pronaos, separated by a 
double columnar distance. 
On the acropolis are three Doric penipterar temples, the smallest of which 
(pl. 16, jig. 21, plan) is the southernmost. Between it and the next towards 
the north there is a small Ionic temple of only 16 feet front, with a portico 
of four columns. It has the peculiarity of having its pure Ionic columns 
surmounted by a Doric entablature, whose architrave, instead of the three 
Ionic stripes, exhibits two painted ornamental stripes, the third being re- 
placed by the tenia with the drops. The triglyph capitals, as well as the 
panels and the cyma of the cornice, are painted. 
The rival city of Selinuntiz was Segeste, the ally of Athens by which 
she was assisted in her unfortunate expedition against Syracuse. According 
to Cicero, her founder was Aineas, to whom one of her temples was conse- 
crated. The only traces of the former splendor of this city are the ruins of 
a theatre, of the cisterns, and of a temple before the city attributed by some 
to Venus, by others to Diana. This temple, a view of which in its present 
condition is given on pl. 9, jig. 6, is in tolerably good preservation, except 
the roof. It has Doric mantled columns, 6 in front and rear, and 14 at the 
sides, placed on a substructure of three steps. Its proportions are 177 feet, 
by 74. The walls are executed in bound masonry of tufa. Each column 
consists of 12 or 13 stone rings, and is 31 feet high, by a diameter of 6 feet, 
7 inches. 
It is a remarkable fact that all the remains of ancient buildings i in Sicily 
are of Grecian origin. All the temples, except the smallest in Selinuntiz, 
are of the Doric order, and have capitals as bold and prominent as the oldest 
ruins in Greece. The most recent monuments date from 400 B.c., and the 
two temples of Jupiter at Agrigentum and Selinuntiz have columns of a 
greater diameter than any temple in Greece. 
In conclusion of this account of Grecian architecture we offer, from the 
illustrations given, and the short explanations of the same, the following 
general remarks : 
1. The order principally adopted in Grecian buildings was the Doric, 
which was brought to the highest perfection of noble simplicity and 
exquisite proportions by the Greeks. The fluted columns, which were 
introduced into Greece from Egypt, are of older date than the smooth or 
mantled column. 
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