PREFACEIN publishing this treatise on Greek Architecture Iwish to acknowledge my obligations to many writers.These al'e alll'ecol'ded in the List of Abbreviations at theend of the volume and in the reference/:) given in thetext. But a more special acknowlcdgment is due tothe scholars whose work has appeared in thc publicationsof the German Government on Olympia, Pergamon, Priene,and :Magnesia, and in that of the French Government onDelphi, which have furnished much material 1'01' bothtext and illustrations. The general trcatises of mostassistance have been those of Boetticher, Durm, andChoisy, while the more specialized works of Penrose,Haussoullier, Lechat, Krcll, Koldewey, l>uchstein, Viegand,and Doerpfeld, a.s well as many articles publishedin periodicals, have gl'cat.Iy facilitated my task. I amalso indebted to Professol' Ha.rold N. Fowle]' for a carcfulrevision of t.he manuscript, to Dr. Oliver S. Tonksfor much valuable assistance in rTable of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; UATERLLS A~lJ CO~STl!eCTJOX; 'Vood, clay, concrete anu stucco, stone and marble, metal; Foundations and pavements "'ails, doorways and windows; Columns and entablatlll'es, ceilings and roofs; CHArTER II; "nCHITECTURAL FOR:'IIS; Foundations 'Valls Antae Doors and windows Pillars,; columns and piers Entablatures Ceilings and; roofs; CILI'TER lIT; ::)ROPORTIOX ; Major ratios Minor ratios Modified ratios Symmetrical; ratios or proportion; CILl'TER IV; hCORATIOX; Greek methods of decoratioll Types of Ul'llalllellt Decoration; of foulldations, paYelllellts and walls ])OOI'S, ,yiudows,; pilasters COlUlllllS Entablatures Ceilings and; roofs; ix; PAGF; 1; 5