CHAPTER XXIII
THE TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHESUS
MANY white marble columns, twenty-eight in all, will be needed for Diana’s Temple, but the columns are so easy to make, that you will think it fun and wish more were required. Use stiff white paper, pretending it is marble, and cut all the columns according to [Fig. 348]. Keep strictly to the given dimensions, being careful to cut each column exact and true and perfectly even. Slash up the bottom and roll the entire column on a long pencil to make it curve, then take it off and spread strong glue or paste along the marked edge and wrap the column around a smooth, straight stick two inches in circumference, lapping the unmarked lengthwise edge over the glue-covered edge of the column. Press the edges together until they cling tight, then remove the column; bend out the slashed bottom and roll the two top extensions as in [Fig. 349]. Now
Look at Your Column;
see how gracefully the capital curves into a roll on each side, reminding one of a blossom on the end of a stem. The column you have made is called Ionic, and when you examine the columns or pillars of buildings, you will easily recognize those with Ionic capitals. It was principally because of the beautiful rolled capitals crowning its columns that the temple of Diana was known as one of the Wonders of the World, for it was the first structure that utilized this beautiful style of architecture.
| Fig. 348.—Cut all of the columns like this. | Fig. 349.—The finished column. | Fig. 350.—Ground plan of Diana’s temple. |
Find a piece of extra stiff white cardboard, nineteen by eleven inches, and on it draw
The Ground Plan