Lexicographical Neighbors of Metopae
Literary usage of Metopae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece, During the Years 1801 by Edward Dodwell (1819)
"It is necessary to observe, that only eighteen metopae are sculptured out of ...
The sculptured metopae were evidently painted : and it would have had the ..."
2. Atheniensia: Or, Remarks on the Topography and Buildings of Athens by William Wilkins (1816)
"It adorns the metopae of the Parthenon, and the interior frize of the temple of
... A battle is sculptured on the frize of number of the metopae in the ..."
3. Ancient Athens: Its History, Topography, and Remains by Thomas Henry Dyer (1873)
"Each front of the peristyle had fourteen metopae, each side thirty-two; ...
The metopae were the the ends of the bi-an's. which were adorned square spaces ..."
4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1850)
"The Greeks always placed triglyphs at the angles of the frieze; this was probably
done, to present the subjects carved on the metopae in an uninterrupted ..."
5. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1869)
"The metopae of Selinus, mementoes of the most ancient style, form the transition
to the ... Among these may be mentioned the more recent metopae of Selinus, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... or -or) is the name given to one of the alternating members of the frieze of
the Doric order, the other being called metopae. The triglyph is divided by ..."
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