GREEK TEMPLES ANE THE DATES OP THEIR FOUNDATION. 
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work at some subsequent period. The orientation of this temple belongs to the 
summer solstice. 
1 Name of temple. 
1 
Orientation 
angle. 
Stellar 
elements. 
Solar 
elements. 
Name of 
star. 
Temple of Isis 
238° 39' 
A 
Amplitude of star 
+ 37° 18'N.E. 
+ 31° 2I'N.E. 
/i Genii no- 
or sun 
vnnij rising 
1 
B 
CoiTespouding alti- 
3 ° 
0 
0 
tude 
i 
C 
Declination 
+ 29° 33' 
+ 23° 48' 
1 
j 
D 
Hour angles . 
7h 37m 
8 '* SG"' 
E 
Depression of sun 
10 ° 
when star heliacal 
F 
R,A. 
4 I 1 56m 
5'' 56™ 
G 
Approximate date . 
7-5U B.C. 
June 19 
The examples from Greece proper, which formed the first series of these studies, 
in by far the greater number of instances, demanded the hypothesis that although 
there was nothing inconsistent with archaeological probability, yet that the date 
of foundation giv^en by the orientations was much earlier than could be assigned to 
the existing remains on the spot, and that the walls, &c., which we are enabled to see, 
are those of a restoration generally on the same parallels as the original building. 
This is very much less the case in the list now produced from the Greek colonies 
in Magna Grsecia and Sicily. In these, without the necessity of calling for a 
restoration, there are some very remarkable agreements between the deductions 
from the astronomic theory and ordinary historical data. In a few cases such as 
the Temple of Juno Lacinia, near Croton, the date, though still pre-historic, is 
nearly 900 years later than that which tlie same method of investigation assigns to 
the earliest example in Greece, and is by no means surprisingly early for a 
sanctuary of such celebrity. The most remarkable coincidences with the dates 
which might be derived from history are found in Sicily, where nearly two-thirds of 
the number of the examples which I have examined fall within periods of wliicli 
Thucydides has |)reserved the tradition. In his sixth book'^ the great historian 
gives a short summary of the Hellenic colonization of the island, from which 
historians have arrived at the following conclusions with respect to the colonizati 
of some of the principal cities, namely 
on 
Naxos . 
Syracuse 
Thapsus. 
Gela . 
Selinus . 
Agrigen turn 
735 B.G. 
734 „ 
728 „ 
690 „ 
628 „ 
582 ,, 
* Thucydides, vi., 2. 
