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| Mar 7, 2020 at 8:28 | comment | added | lly | Hmm... wish I could find that quote you thought of since I agree with it quite strongly. Instead, all I could find was almost the opposite idea: "The subtile Greek intellect was too often inclined to waste its strength on the useless distinctions of a hair-splitting philosophy or theology which has become to us intolerable and almost incomprehensible..." - Edwin Pears, mostly speaking of the Byzantines rather than the ancients. | |
| Feb 8, 2018 at 9:30 | history | edited | ichorallemande | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 20, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | RI Swamp Yankee | Excellent answer! From the perspective of a student of Vitruvius, Roarke is correct. However, from a larger perspective, Vitruvius is probably partially correct - all of the Iron age mediterranean civilizations built stone columns, and the Egyptians started building theirs as early as 23rdC BCE. The wood-on-stone columns discovered at Naxos were built just after the Greek Dark Age, where they were almost certainly echoes of the stone columns of the Mycenaeans and Minoans. Sooo... he's right except he's wrong except he's right. :) | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 18:32 | comment | added | RI Swamp Yankee | Excellent answer! I should point out that Roarke was relying on Vitruvius - but Vitruvius was not necessarily a reliable source. All iron age civilizations built stone columns long before the classical greeks - it | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 16:43 | comment | added | ichorallemande | Thank you. I wanted to add that regardless of whether the Parthenon examples are true, it has been the case that architects take time to learn the full potential and implications of new materials and construction techniques. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc might be a good example—writing during and after the Industrial Revolution, he advocated for material honesty and sounds positively modern, but the architectural applications of his theories are strangely married to old assumptions/programs/tastes. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 16:21 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | Welcome and thanks for an illuminating answer. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 16:17 | history | answered | ichorallemande | CC BY-SA 3.0 |