Problems in Periclean Buildings

Problems in Periclean Buildings by G.W. Elderkin is about the problems and difficulties surrounding the architecture employed in Periclean buildings. Pericles was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon. Excerpt: «The irregular position of the door and the windows of the northwest wing of the Propylaea has long been remarked, though no explanations of the phenomenon have been offered. Bohn, Die Propylaeen der Akropolis zu Athen, p. 23, says of the south wall of this wing…»