| Juno, at Samos | 346 feet long | 190 feet wide = 65,740 feet. |
| Jupiter, at Agrigentum | 360 feet long | 173 feet wide = 62,280 feet. |
| Apollo, at Branchidæ | 362 feet long | 168 feet wide = 60,816 feet. |
| Diana, at Ephesus | 348 feet long | 164 feet wide = 57,072 feet. |
| Jupiter, at Athens | 354 feet long | 135 feet wide = 47,790 feet. |
| Didymæus, at Miletus | 295 feet long | 156 feet wide = 45,020 feet. |
| Cybele, at Sardis | 261 feet long | 144 feet wide = 37,884 feet. |
| Parthenon, at Athens | 228 feet long | 101 feet wide = 23,028 feet. |
There may be some slight discrepancies in this table from the figures quoted elsewhere, and incorrectness arising from some of the temples being measured on the lowest step and others, as the Parthenon, on the highest; but it is sufficient for comparison, which is all that is attempted in its compilation.
Doric Order.
The Doric was the order which the Greeks especially loved and cultivated so as to make it most exclusively their own; and, as used in the Parthenon, it certainly is as complete and as perfect an architectural feature as any style can boast of. When first introduced from Egypt, it, as before stated, partook of even more than Egyptian solidity, but by degrees became attenuated to the weak and lean form of the Roman order of the same name. Woodcuts No. [136], [137], [138] illustrate the three stages of progress from the oldest example at Corinth to the order as used in the time of Philip at Delos, the intermediate being the culminating point in the age of Pericles: the first is 4·47 diameters in height, the next 6·025, the last 7·015; and if the table were filled up with all the other examples, the gradual attenuation of the shaft would very nearly give the relative date of the example. This fact is in itself sufficient to refute the idea of the pillar being copied from a wooden post, as in that case it would have been slenderer at first, and would gradually have departed from the wooden form as the style advanced.[[137]] This is the case in all carpentry styles. With the Doric order the contrary takes place. The earlier the example the more unlike it is to any wooden original. As the masons advanced in skill and power over their stone material, it came more and more to resemble posts or pillars of wood. The fact appears to be that, either in Egypt or in early Greece, the pillar was originally a pier of brickwork, or of rubble masonry, supporting a wooden roof, of which the architraves, the triglyphs, and the various parts of the cornice, all bore traces down to the latest period.
Even as ordinarily represented, or as copied in this country, there is a degree of solidity combined with elegance in this order, and an exquisite proportion of the parts to one another and to the work they have to perform, that command the admiration of every person of taste; but, as used in Greece, its beauty was very much enhanced by a number of refinements whose existence was not suspected till lately, and even now cannot be detected but by the most practised eye.
136. Temple at Delos.
137. Parthenon at Athens.
