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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 . In 6J9 B.C . See also:Phigalia was taken by the Lacedaemonians, but soon after recovered its See also:independence by the help of the Orasthasians . 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:Philip V. of Macedon . In See also:common with the other cities of Arcadia, it appears from See also:Strabo to have fallen into utter decay under the See also:Roman See also:rule . Several curious cults were preserved near Phigalia, including that of the See also:fish-tailed goddess Eurynome and the See also:Black See also:Demeter with a See also:horse's See also:head, whose See also:image was renewed by See also:Onatas . Notices of it in Greek See also:history are rare and scanty . Though its existing ruins and the description of See also:Pausanias show it to have been a See also:place of considerable strength and importance, no autonomous coins of Phigalia are known . Nothing remains above ground of the temples of See also:Artemis or See also:Dionysus and the numerous statues and other See also:works of See also:art which existed at the See also:time of Pausanias's visit, about A.D . 170 . A See also:great See also:part of the city See also:wall, built in See also:fine Hellenic See also:masonry, partly polygonal and partly isodomous, and a large square central fortress with a circular projecting See also:tower, are the only remains now traceable—at least without the aid of excavation . The walls, once nearly 2 m. in See also:circuit, are strongly placed on rocks, which slope down to the little See also:river Neda .

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 . This temple is mentioned by Pausanias (viii . 41) as being (next to that of See also:Tegea) the finest in the Peloponnesus, " from the beauty of its See also:stone and the symmetry of its proportions." It was designed by See also:Ictinus, who, with Callicrates, was See also:joint architect of the See also:Parthenon at See also:Athens . Though visited by See also:Chandler, See also:Dodwell, See also:Gell, and other See also:English travellers, the temple was neither explored nor measured till 1811-1812, when C . R . See also:Cockerell and some other archaeologists spent several months in making excavations there . After nearly fifty years' delay, See also:Professor Cockerell published the results of these labours, as well as of his previous See also:work at See also:Aegina, in Temples of Aegina and Bassae (186o), one of the most careful restored by the Greek authorities . The figure shows the See also:plan of the temple, which is of the Doric See also:order, but has an See also:internal arrangement of its See also:cella unlike that of any other known temple . It stands on an elevated and partly artificial See also:plateau, which commands an extensive view of the See also:oak-clad mountains of Arcadia, reaching away to the See also:blue See also:waters of the Messenian Gulf . Unlike other Doric temples, which usually stand See also:east and west, this is placed See also:north and south; but it has a See also:side entrance on the east . It is See also:hexastyle, with fifteen columns on its flanks; See also:thirty-four out of the thirty-eight columns of the See also:peristyle are still See also:standing, with the greater part of their See also:architrave, but the See also:rest of the See also:entablature and both pediments have fallen, together with the greater part of the internal columns of the cella . It will be seen from the plan that these are very strangely placed, apparently without symmetry, as regards the interior, though they are set regularly opposite the voids in the peristyle .

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 . 2 in . 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:white See also:marble . The roof-tiles, specially noticed by Pausanias, are remarkal>le for their See also:size, workmanship, and the beauty of the Parian•marble of which they are made . They measure 2 ft. r in. by 3 ft . 6 in., and are fitted together in the most careful and ingenious manner . Unlike those of the Parthenon and the temple of Aegina, the apµol or " joint-tiles " are worked out of the same piece of marble as the See also:flat ones, for the See also:sake of more perfect fitting and greater See also:security against wet . Traces of See also:painting on various architectural members were found by Cockerell, but they were too much faded for the See also:colours to be distinguished . The designs are the usual Greek patterns—the See also:fret, the See also:honeysuckle, and the See also:egg and dart . The sculpture is of the greatest See also:interest, as being designed to deco-See also:rate one of the finest buildings in the Peloponnesus in the latter half of the 5th century B.C.; see Brit . Illus . See also:Catalogue of Sculpture, vol. i The frieze, now in the British Museum, is See also:complete; it is nearly See also:lot ft. long by 2 ft. high, carved in See also:relief on twenty-three slabs of marble 41 to 5 in. thick .

Phoenix-squares

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 . two favourite subjects in Greek plastic art of the best See also:period . They was still farther behind both New See also:York and See also:Chicago . 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 . Of See also:Philadelphia's native-born white population, however, 414,093, or 44.24%, were of See also:foreign-born parentage . 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 . In 1910 the population was 1,549, 008 . 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 . 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:Hall Square in the business centre . The streets parallel with Broad are numbered from First or Front Street west from the See also:Delaware River to Sixty-Third Street, taking the prefix " North " north of Market Street and the prefix " South " south of it; the streets parallel with Market are named mostly from trees and from the See also:governors and 'counties of See also:Pennsylvania . The wholesale See also:district is centred at the east end of Market Street near the Delaware river . The best See also:retail shops are farther west on the south side of See also:Chestnut Street and on Market and See also:Arch streets .

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 . 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 . 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 . There are large See also:sugar refineries in the south-eastern part of the city . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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) . It rises 548 ft. to the top of a See also:colossal See also:bronze statue (37 ft. high) of See also:William Penn (by See also:Alexander See also:Calder) surmounting the tower . It accommodates the state and See also:county courts as well as the municipal and county offices . The See also:foundation stone was laid in See also:August 1872 . On its first See also:floor is See also:Joseph A .

See also:

Bailly's statue of See also:Washington, which was erected in front of Independence Hall in 1869 . 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 . The Pennsylvania See also:Academy of Fine Arts and the See also:Oddfellows' Temple are among other notable buildings in the vicinity . 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:John J . See also:Boyle . The See also:mint is at the corner of Sixteenth and See also:Spring See also:Garden streets . The See also:custom-See also:house, on Chestnut Street, was designed by William See also:Strickland (1787–1854), in his See also:day the leading See also:American architect . It was modelled after the Parthenon of Athens, was built for the Second See also:United States See also:Bank, was completed in 1824, and was put to its See also:present use in 1845 . Other prominent buildings of are designed with wonderful ertility of invention, and See also:life-like See also:realism and spirit; the See also:composition is arranged so as to See also:form a series of diagonal lines or zigzags m, thus forming a pleasing contrast to the unbroken See also:horizontal lines of the See also:cornice and architrave . The various See also:groups are skilfully united together by some dominant See also:line or See also:action, so that the whole subject forms one unbroken composition . The relief is very high, more than 31 in. in the most salient parts, [ and the whole treatment is quite opposite to that of the Parthenon frieze, which is a very See also:superior work of art to that at Bassae . Many of the limbs are quite detached from the ground; the See also:drill has been largely used to emphasize certain shadows, and in many places, for want of due calculation, the sculptor has had to cut into the flat background behind the figures .

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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