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Greek and Revival
Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.
* The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Greek Orthodox Thought-by Daniel Paul Payne
The Peristyle is the concert hall in Greek Revival style in the East Wing of the Toledo Museum of Art ; it is the home of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and hosts many international orchestras as well.
The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally acclaimed museum located in a Greek Revival building.
In the first decades of the 19th century, Federal architecture and Greek Revival architecture were dominated by Philadelphia architects such as Benjamin Latrobe, William Strickland, John Haviland, John Notman, Thomas U. Walter, and Samuel Sloan.
The successive styles of Neoclassical architecture and Greek Revival architecture followed and adapted Ancient Greek styles closely.
Classical architecture has inspired many more recent architects and has led to revivals such as neoclassical architecture from the mid-18th century and the Greek Revival of the 19th century.
When Greek Revival architecture was introduced at the beginning of the 19th century, the Greek Doric order had not previously been widely used.
Latrobe and Strickland were both disciples of the Greek Revival style.
The hallmarks of the Greek Revival style can be seen immediately in the north and south façades, which use a large set of steps leading up to the main level platform, known as the stylobate.
The Greek Revival style used for the Second Bank contrasts with the earlier, Federal style in architecture used for the First Bank, whose building also still stands and is located nearby in Philadelphia.
In 1829 the Old Capitol, the third Capitol of Kentucky, was built in the Greek Revival style, designed by Gideon Shryock.
* Auburn ( Natchez, Mississippi ), an Antebellum Greek Revival mansion in Duncan Park and a U. S. National Historic Landmark
The style of American architecture used varies, with common styles including federal, Greek Revival, neoclassicist, and modern.
* Greek Revival architecture
A Greek Revival architecture | Greek Revival parlor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Hermione ( Tallulah, Louisiana ), a Greek Revival building built in 1855 in Tallulah, Louisiana
The 16th-century Renaissance architect and theorist Vincenzo Scamozzi designed a version of such a perfectly four-sided Ionic capital ; Scamozzi's version became so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later 18th century Greek Revival, it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality.

Greek and façade
Princeps, because of its republican connotation, was most commonly used to refer to the emperor in Latin ( although the emperor's actual constitutional position was essentially " pontifex maximus with tribunician power and imperium superseding all others ") as it was in keeping with the façade of the restored Republic ; the Greek word basileus (" king ") was modified to be synonymous with emperor ( and primarily came into favour after the reign of Heraclius ) as the Greeks had no republican sensibility and openly viewed the emperor as a monarch.
These four gilded horses, now called the Horses of Saint Mark, whose exact Greek or Roman ancestry has never been determined, were looted during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and installed on the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
The church's plan is a Greek cross ( a square centre and four equilateral arms ), symmetrical in each of the four cardinal directions, with each arm's façade featuring a colonnade and pediment.
The work had an overtly erotic subtext beneath its façade of Greek antiquity, ending with a scene of graphic sexual desire.
The hemispherical dome on a tall octagonal drum, first of its type in France, has four small cupolas in the angles of the Greek cross above the two Corinthian orders on the façade, of full columns below, flat pilasters above.
* Church of the Suffragio ( 18th century ) was built with a Greek cross-layout and an Ionic style façade.
The façade in the center, which leads to the porch, corresponds to a Greek temple portico.
The façade is in ashlar in Greek Revival style.

Greek and facing
East of this is a large iconostasis demarcating the Orthodox sanctuary before which is set the throne of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem on the south side facing the throne of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch on the north side.
* Euclid's Elements, with the original Greek and an English translation on facing pages ( includes PDF version for printing ).
He wrote, " There remains the New Testament translated by me, with the Greek facing, and notes on it by me.
On 5 November, Major Spyros Spyromilios led a revolt in the coastal area of Himarë and expelled the Ottoman garrison without facing significant resistance, while on 20 November Greek troops from western Macedonia entered Korçë.
( Massive 1018 pp. scholarly edition by a team of a dozen scholars that takes account of all known manuscripts, with facing Greek and German text, footnotes on manuscript variations, color maps, and a CD with the geographical data )
The locus classicus for Greek and Latin primary texts on rhetoric is the Loeb Classical Library of the Harvard University Press, published with an English translation on the facing page.
Ancient Greek male facing a female from a vase found in Apulia, c. 4th century BC
Temple of Hephaestus, a Doric order | Doric Greek temple in Athens with the original entrance facing east, 449 BC ( western face depicted ).
* Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by David A. Campbell ( June 1989 ) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-99158-3 ( Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.
A year after the import of the ritus cereris, patrician senators imported cult to the Greek goddess Cybele and established her as Magna Mater ( The Great Mother ) within Rome's sacred boundary, facing the Aventine Hill.
It differs from the Greek version in that while there are three heads, none of them is that of a goat, only a main human head, a lion's head facing forward and placed on the chest of the lion's body, and a snake's head placed at the end of the tail.
An older French translation ( facing the Greek text ), published in two volumes in 1813 and 1816 by Nicholas Halma, is available online.
Thus PIE ( traditional ) * anti " in front of and facing " > Greek antí " against "; Latin ante " in front of, before "; ( Sanskrit ánti " near ; in the presence of ").
He wrote, " There remains the New Testament translated by me, with the Greek facing, and notes on it by me.
3 / 8 of Lucian's works, with facing Greek text
* The Greek Anthology, books 1-6, translated by W. R. Paton, with facing Greek text ( Loeb Classical Library, 1916 )
* Richard Fitzpatrick a bilingual edition ( typset in PDF format, with the original Greek and an English translation on facing pages ; free in PDF form, available in print ) ISBN 978-0-615-17984-1
by Harold N. Fowler with facing Greek text ed.
Zygodactyly ( from Greek ζυγον, a yoke ) is an arrangement of digits in birds, with two toes facing forward ( digits 2 and 3 ) and two back ( digits 1 and 4 ).
On 5 November, Major Spyros Spyromilios led a revolt in the coastal area of Himarë and expelled the Ottoman garrison without facing significant resistance, while on 20 November Greek troops from western Macedonia entered Korçë.
At this time the Greek junta was imploding, and the British government was facing the constitutional uncertainty of a hung parliament ; moreover, according to the Greek diplomat Ange Vlachos, whilst in London Makarios lobbied for the British military not to intervene as a guarantor power.

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