ld conclude that a certain amount of ethnocentrism is at work in the description of the transition from ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece. This is a point to which we shall return, not least because there is compelling evidence that Egyptian architects were every bit as ethnocentric on their own behalf as the British are in behalf of the Golden Age of Greece. Nevertheless, as Ayrton indirectly acknowledges, the Doric Order did not spring forth overnight; she says it can be traced "directly back to the primitive temple built of wood and mud-brick." She continues,
Many of the forms which were dictated by these materials
remained although the stone no longer required them. First,
because they became associated
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