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History of Ancient Art

Note G — HELLAS.

Joseph Thacher Clarke translation

The modern hypothetical distinction between agonal, or festal, temples and those used only for worship is now generally regarded as erroneous; while the existence of a so-called hypæthron—an opening supposed to have existed in the roof and ceiling of the naos for the admission of daylight—is inadmissible from the point of view both of design and of structure.

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