Theseion

Theseion and the Parthenon, remains for all time the perfect expression of the soul of ancient Greece.

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The exaggeration in the entasis of the archaic column disappears, its tapering was diminished, its height increased, and the overhang of the capitals reduced, till in the Theseion (465 B. C.) and the Parthenon (450-438 B. C.) we reach the final inimitable type.

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In the temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) at Athens (fifth century B. C.) the cella occupies only a little more than half the total area, and in the

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She manifested her influence upon him subtly through the maidens of the Porch, through the almost neat perfection of the Theseion, through the detached grandeur of those columns in the waste place, that golden and carved Olympieion which acts as an outpost to Athens.

In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

The first great work with which the name of Phidias was connected was the building of the temple of Theseus, called also the Theseion.

A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

The Theseion -- which was "within five minutes 'walk" of Byron's lodgings (_Travels in Albania_, 1858, i. 259) -- contains the remains of the scholar, John Tweddell, died 1793, "over which a stone was placed, owing to the exertions of Lord Byron" (Clarke's _Travels_, Part II.sect. i.p. 534).

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Mitth. _, 1884, 338 ff.; for the date, DÖRPFELD, _ibid. _ p. 336.] [Note 15: The so-called Theseion.] [Note 16: ROSS, _Temple der Nike Apteros_, pls.

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[E. Dodwell (_Classical Tour_, 1819, i. 371) speaks of "a magnificent palm tree, which shoots among the ruins of the Ptolemaion," a short distance to the east of the Theseion.

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