id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29759 Slater, John Architecture: Classic and Early Christian .txt text/plain 56291 3266 70 works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early The features, ornaments, and even forms of ancient buildings differed (2) walls, (3) roof, (4) openings, (5) columns, and (6) ornaments, and lofty central row of columns generally had capitals of the form shown the Egyptian buildings show many curious forms of columns (Fig. 28), planning of buildings, their height, and the details of the columns. buildings, besides forming their chief means of decorating small One other feature was employed in Greek temple-architecture. The most famous Greek building which was erected in the Ionic style much Roman as Greek, and is hardly found in any of the great temples lines of columns which form the main features of the building. forms of column and capital existing in Egypt, the Greeks, however, Greeks, formed the chief characteristic of Roman architecture. Roman buildings which includes such forms of temples as that at ./cache/29759.txt ./txt/29759.txt