wall-architecture

Updated: May 13, 2025

The Latins found in the rich stores of Greek art but very little that was congenial to their thoroughly realistic tastes; but what they did adopt they appropriated truly and heartily as their own, and in the development of the polygonal wall-architecture perhaps excelled their instructors.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

The Latins found in the rich stores of Greek art but very little that was congenial to their thoroughly realistic tastes; but what they did adopt they appropriated truly and heartily as their own, and in the development of the polygonal wall-architecture perhaps excelled their instructors.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy