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THOLOS (Bo11os)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 862 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOLOS (Bo11os) , the See also:term given in See also:Greek See also:architecture to a circular See also:building, with or without a See also:peristyle; the earliest examples are those of the beehive tombs at See also:Mycenae and in other parts of See also:Greece, which were covered by domes built in See also:horizontal courses of See also:masonry. The Tholos at See also:Epidaurus, built by Polycleitus (c. 400 B.C.), and the Tholos at See also:Olympia, known as the Philippeion, are the most remarkable examples, and in both cases were covered with a sloping roof and not with a See also:dome.

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