Lexicographical Neighbors of Sekos
Literary usage of Sekos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The geography of Herodotus by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"naos, or the proper temple, and included the holy AFRICA. recess, which was called
the sekos,1 cella, or ady- CHAP- '"• turn, in which the image or emblem ..."
2. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"CHAPTER 14 THE sekos ... CHAPTER considers the sekos, or celia, wall up to the
wail crown. ... sekos."
3. Egypt and Mohammed Ali, Or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile: Or, Travels by James Augustus St. John (1834)
"The sekos, into which we now enter, falls very far short in grandeur of the idea
formed of it from the contemplation of the exterior; for we expect to find ..."
4. The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts by Archaeological Institute of America (1885)
"At about the middle of the sekos the bed-rock still rises 0.28 in. above the
level of the floor, pointing to the existence of some central construction ..."
5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1906)
"The space between the columns and the solid wall of the sekos was nearly 7 feet
wide in ... The sekos was very small, hardly 25 feet in outside diameter, ..."
6. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1906)
"The space between the'col- umns and the solid wall of the sekos was nearly 7 feet
wide in ... The sekos was very small, hardly 25 feet in outside diameter, ..."
7. A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture: In Italy, Greece, and the Levant edited by William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1895)
"The sekos. or sanctuary for the performance of the Eleusinian Mysteries was a
rectangular building, in its latest form 184 ft. by 221 ft. including the ..."
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