Pausanias mentions several of these more obscure architects. Agnaptus was one, who built a porch in the Altis, or wall at Olympia, called afterward by the Eleans the “porch of Agnaptus,” and Antiphilus, Pothæus and Megacles were three other waifs on our sea of oblivion. They were responsible for the Treasury of the Carthaginians also at Olympia. Pyrrhus, with his two sons, Lacrates and Hermon, built the Olympian Treasury of the Epidamnians. There were ten of these Treasuries, by the way, raised by different states, which were not only architecturally very beautiful, but which contained statues and other offerings of great value. Strabo mentions an architect and sculptor by the name of Hermocreon, who designed a gigantic and beautiful altar at Parium on the Propontis in Asia Minor; and Eurycles, a Spartan architect, who built the baths at Corinth, and “adorned them with beautiful marbles,” must not be overlooked, although he may have been of a much later date. FOOTNOTES: [2] The other three temples which Vitruvius praised thus highly were those to Diana at Ephesus, Jupiter Olympus at Athens, and Ceres at Eleusis. CHAPTER V. THE ARCHITECTURAL EPOCH OF PERICLES. The age of Pericles was so distinctively an era in the advancement of the arts, especially architecture, not alone in the city where Athene shed her divine intelligence and tutelary influence with generous favor, but throughout all the Hellenic states, and has left so many models and criterions for the architects of all time to follow, that a few words in reference to Pericles himself and the sculptor Phidias, into whose hands he entrusted the direction of his public buildings and the adornment of Athens, may be admissible, before we consider the architectural geniuses who sprung forward to meet the great requirements of the time. Pericles was a descendant of that noble and refined, if sometimes unfortunate, house of Alcmæonidæ, which did so much for the Delphic temple of Apollo, and a son of Xanthippus, the victor of Mycale, and Agariste, niece of Cleisthenes, founder of the later Athenian constitution. The date of his birth is not known, but that he early evinced a leaning toward the fine arts and philosophy is recorded. Under Pythocleides he studied music, under Damon political science, under Zeno philosophy; but it remained for the erudite Anaxagoras to give the final burnish to his character and thought. He was therefore, both by birth and disposition, as well as cultivation, possessed of a mind singularly comprehensive in its grasp of the advantages which the arts of peace could contribute to the progress of his people, and naturally turned his attention to their exploitation and development, when he became dominant in the year 444 B.C. His rule of peace lasted but thirteen years, or until the breaking out of the Peloponnesian war, but was crowded with numerous artistic and architectural triumphs.