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See also:PHIGALIA, or PHIGALEIA ( tykXca or f'tyaXeia; mod. Pavlitsa)
, an See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:city in the See also:south-See also:west See also:angle of See also:Arcadia, situated on an elevated rocky site, among some of the highest mountains in the See also:Peloponnesus—the most conspicuous being Mt Cotylium and Mt Elasum; the See also:identification of the latter is uncertain
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In 6J9 B.C
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See also:Phigalia was taken by the Lacedaemonians, but soon after recovered its See also:independence by the help of the Orasthasians
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During the struggle between See also:Achaeans and Aetolians in 221 B.C. it was held by Dorimachus, who See also:left it on the approach of See also:
One very important See also:monument still exists in a fairly perfect See also:state; this is a See also:temple dedicated to See also:Apollo Epicurius (the Pre-server), built, not at Phigalia itself, but at Bassae, 5 or 6 m. away, on the slope of Mt Cotylium; it commemorates the aid rendered by Apollo in stopping a See also:plague which in the 5th See also:century B.C. was devastating Phigalia
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This temple is mentioned by Pausanias (viii
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41) as being (next to that of See also:Tegea) the finest in the Peloponnesus, " from the beauty of its See also: With the exception of one at the south end, which is Corinthian, the internal columns are of the Ionic order, and are engaged with the cellawall, forming a See also:series of recesses, which may have been designed to contain statues . Another peculiarity of this interior is that these columns reach to the See also:top of the cella in one order, not in two ranges of columns, one over the other, as was the usual Doric See also:fashion . These inner columns carried an Ionic entablature, of which the See also:frieze now in the See also:British Museum formed a part . The pediments and See also:external metopes of the peristyle appear to have contained no See also:sculpture, but the metopes within the peristyle on the exterior of the cella had sculptured subjects; only a few fragments of these were, however, discovered . The position occupied by the great statue of Apollo is a difficult problem . Cockerell, with much See also:probability, places it in the See also:southern portion of the cella, facing the eastern side See also:door, so that it would be lighted up by the rays of the rising See also:sun . The See also:main entrance is at the See also:northern end through the pronaos, once defended by a door in the end of the cella and a See also:metal See also:screen, of which traces were found on the two columns of the pronaos . There was no door between the posticum and the cella . The See also:general proportions of the fronts resemble those of the Theseum at Athens, except that the entablature is less massive, the columns thicker, and the diminution less—all proportionally speaking . In plan the temple is See also:long in proportion to its width—measuring, on the top of the stylobace, 125 ft . 7 in. by 48 ft . 2 in., while the Theseum (built probably See also:half a century earlier) is about 104 ft .
2 in. by 45 ft
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2 in
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The material of which the temple is built is a fine See also:grey See also:limestone (once covered with painted See also:stucco), except the roof-tiles, the capitals of the cella columns, the architraves, the lacunaria (ceilings) of the posticum and pronaos, and the sculpture, all of which are of See also:
The subjects are the See also:battle of the See also:Lapithae and the See also:Centaurs, and that between the See also:Amazons and the Greeks, the
Plan of the Temple at Bassae
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two favourite subjects in Greek plastic art of the best See also:period
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They was still farther behind both New See also:York and See also:Chicago
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In 'goo, of the See also:total See also:population, 998,357, or 77.18%, were native-See also:born, as against only 63% native-born in New York and 65'43% native-born in Chicago
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Of See also:Philadelphia's native-born white population, however, 414,093, or 44.24%, were of See also:foreign-born parentage
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The foreign-born population included 98,427 born in See also:Ireland, 71,319 born in See also:Germany, 36,752 born in See also:England, 28,951 born in See also:Russia (largely See also:Hebrews), 17,830 born in See also:Italy, 8479 born in See also:Scotland and 5154 born in See also:Austria; and the coloured consisted of 62,613 negroes, 1165 See also:Chinese, 234 See also:Indians and 12 See also:Japanese
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In 1910 the population was 1,549, 008
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Streets.—With the exception of a limited number of See also:diagonal thoroughfares and of streets laid out in outlying districts in conformity with the natural See also:contour of the ground the plan of the city is See also:regular
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See also:Market See also:Street—which See also:Penn called High Street—is the See also:principal thoroughfare east and west, Broad Street the principal thoroughfare north and south, and these streets intersect at right angles at City See also:
Most of the leading See also:banks and See also:trust companies are on Chestnut Street and on Third Street between Chestnut and See also:Walnut streets
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Several of the larger See also:office buildings and the stations of the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & See also:Reading See also:railways are in the vicinity of the city hall; here too, are the See also:Baldwin See also:Locomotive Works
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The large textile See also:mills, the great See also:coal wharves and the See also:Cramp See also:Ship-Yards are to the north-east along the Delaware, and in districts west of these are the leading manufactories of See also:iron and See also:steel
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There are large See also:sugar refineries in the south-eastern part of the city
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See also:Rittenhouse Square, a See also:short distance south-west of the city hall, is the centre of the old aristocratic residential district, and the south side of Walnut Street between Fourteenth and Nineteenth streets is a fashion-able See also:parade
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There are fine residences on North Broad Street and on some of the streets See also:crossing it, and many beautiful villas in the picturesque suburbs of the north-west
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The most congested tenements, occupied largely by Italians, Hebrews and negroes, are along the alleys between the See also:rivers and south of Market Street, often in the See also:rear of some of the best of the older residences
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The principal structure is the city hall (or " Public Buildings ") one of the largest buildings in the See also:world in ground space (el acres)
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It rises 548 ft. to the top of a See also:colossal See also:bronze statue (37 ft. high) of See also:
See also:Bailly's statue of See also:Washington, which was erected in front of Independence Hall in 1869
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About the Public Buildings are statues of Generals McClellan and See also:Reynolds, See also:President See also:McKinley, and Joseph See also:Leidy and St Gaudens's " See also:Pilgrim." On all sides are great buildings: on the north the masonic temple (1868–1873); on the south the stately Betz See also:Building; on the west the enormous Broad Street station of the Pennsylvania railway
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The Pennsylvania See also:Academy of Fine Arts and the See also:Oddfellows' Temple are among other notable buildings in the vicinity
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The See also:post office, facing Ninth Street and extending from Market Street to Chestnut Street, was opened in 1884; in front is a seated statue of See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin, by See also: From this it would appear that no finished See also:clay-See also:model was prepared, but that the relief was sculptured with only the help of a See also:drawing . The point of sight, more than 20 ft. below the bottom of the frieze, and the direction in which the See also:light See also:fell on it have evidently been carefully considered . Many parts, invisible from below, are left comparatively rough . The workman-ship throughout is unequal, and the hands of several sculptors can be detected . On the whole, the See also:execution is not equal to the beauty of the See also:design, and the whole frieze is somewhat marred by an evident See also:desire to produce the maximum of effect with the least possible amount of labour—very different from the almost See also:gem-like finish of the Parthenon frieze . Even the design is inferior to the Athenian one; most of the figures are ungracefully short in their proportions, and there is a great want of refined beauty in many of the See also:female hands and faces . It is in the See also:fire of its varied action and its subtlety of expression that this sculpture most excels . The See also:noble movements of the heroic Greeks form a striking contrast to the feminine weakness of the wounded Amazons, or the struggles with See also:teeth and hoofs of the brutish Centaurs; the See also:group of Apollo and Artemis in their See also:chariot is full of See also:grace and dignified See also:power . The marble in which this frieze is sculptured is somewhat coarse and crystalline; the slabs appear not to have been built into their place but fixed afterwards, with the aid of two bronze bolts driven through the See also:face of each . Of the metopes, which were 2 ft . 8 in. square, only one exists nearly complete, with eleven fragments; the one almost perfect has a relief of a nude See also:warrior, with floating drapery, overcoming a long-haired bearded See also:man, who sinks vanquished at his feet . The relief of these is rather less than that of the frieze figures, and the work is nobler in See also:character and superior in execution . In addition to the works mentioned in the See also:text, see See also:Leake, Morea (i . 490 and ii . 319; See also:Curtius, Peloponnesos. i . 319; See also:Ross, Reisen in Peloponeesos; Stackelberg, Der Apollo-Tempel zu Bassae (1826); See also:Lenormant, Bas-reliefs du Parthenon et de Phigalie (1834) ; and Histories of Sculpture mentioned under GREEK ART . (J . H . M.; E . |
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