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7 ‘The Landscape of the Gods: Ancient Greece With the architecture of ancient Greece we return to the mainstream European tradition, One of the mast aesthetically perfect bodies of workin the Western European tradition, it was also the foun ation of many subsequent styles in it. ferent parts of the worl. It therefore ‘occupies a unique place in our story, and we must look at it carefully and ask how it tock shape. Its growth and develop- ment forms one of the most entrancing {episodes in architectural history. It has 2 logic and inevitability about it, ke the drama that the same civilization was able to invent and perform, To the traveller approaching Attica by boat and seeing the white columns of the Temple of Possidon at Cape Sounion (fig. {961 forthe first time (not one of the eari- est buildings; it dates from about 44o ec) the immediate impact, withthe ruins

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