The decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

[248]. See Vol. II, pp. 240 et seq.

[249]. Stilfragen, Grundlage zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik (1893). Spatrömische Kunstindustrie (1901).

[250]. Amida (1910). Die bildende Kunst des Ostens (1916), Altai-Iran (1917). Die Baukunst der Armenier und Europa (1918).

[251]. These contradictions of detail are not greater, after all, than those between Doric, Attic and Etruscan art, and certainly less than those which existed about 1450 between Florentine Renaissance, North French, Spanish and East-German (brick) Gothic.

[252]. See Vol. II, pp. 304 et seq.

[253]. For a brief description of the components of a Mithræum, the student may be referred to the Encyclopædia Britannica, XI Edition, art. Mithras (Section II).—Tr.

[254]. The oldest Christian designs in the Empire of Axum undoubtedly agree with the pagan work of the Sabæans.

[255]. See Vol. II, pp. 143 et seq.

[256]. See Vol. II, pp. 316 et seq.

[257]. Kohl & Watzinger, Antike Synagogen in Galilãa (1916). The Baal-shrines in Palmyra, Baalbek and many other localities are basilicas: some of them are older than Christianity and many of them were later taken over into Christian use.