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PYTHIS, or PYTHIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 704 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PYTHIS, or PYTHIUS  , one of the most noted Greek architects of the later age . He cultivated the Ionic style, in which he constructed the temple of Athena at Priene . The dedicatory inscription, which is in the
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British Museum, records that the founder was Alexander the
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Great . Pythis also made a great marble
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quadriga which surmounted the
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Mausoleum .

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