Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ [Illustration: TROPHONIUS SLAYING AGAMEDES AT THE TREASURY OF HYRIEUS.] SOME OLD MASTERS OF GREEK ARCHITECTURE By HARRY DOUGLAS CURATOR OF [Illustration: Decoration] KELLOGG TERRACE [Illustration: Decoration] PUBLISHED AT THE QUARTER-OAK GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS., 1899 [Illustration: Decoration] _Copyright, 1899_, BY HARRY DOUGLAS. [Illustration: Decoration] TO EDWARD FRANCIS SEARLES WHOSE APPRECIATION OF THE HARMONIES OF ART, AND WHOSE HIGH IDEALS OF ARCHITECTURE HAVE FOUND EXPRESSION IN MANY ENDURING FORMS, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. [Illustration: Decoration] PREFACE The temptation to wander, with all the recklessness of an amateur, into the traditions of the best architecture, which necessarily could be found only in the history of early Hellenic art, awakened in the author a desire to ascertain who were the individual artists primarily responsible for those architectural standards, which have been accepted without rival since their creation. The search led to some surprise when it was found how little was known or recorded of them, and how great appeared to be the indifference in which they were held by nearly all the writers upon ancient art, as well as by their contemporary historians and biographers. The author therefore has gone into the field of history, tradition and fable, with a basket on his arm, as it were, to cull some of the rare and obscure flowers of this artistic family, dropping into the basket also such facts directly or indirectly associated with the architects of ancient Greece, or their art, as interested him personally. The basket is here set down, containing, if nothing more, at least a brief allusion to no less than eighty-two architects of antiquity. The fact is perfectly appreciated that many fine specimens may have been overlooked; that scant justice has been done those gathered, and that the basket is far too small to contain all that so rich a field could offer. This book, therefore, aims at nothing more than a superficial glance at the subject, and the author will be content if he has accomplished anything toward bringing those great geniuses of a noble art into a little modern light, who have been left very much to themselves in one of the gloomiest chambers of a deep obscurity. CONTENTS PAGE 1. POPULAR APPRECIATION OF ARCHITECTS, 1 2. MYTHICAL AND ARCHAIC ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, 24 3. ORIGINATORS OF THE “THREE ORDERS,” 49 4. EARLY GRECIAN ARCHITECTS, 63 5. ARCHITECTURAL EPOCH OF PERICLES, 90 6. ARCHITECTS OF THE AGE OF PERICLES, 103