Athens and Its Monuments, Volume 33Macmillan, 1913 - 412 pages |
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... wide . On three sides the plain is hemmed in by mountains , whose foothills extend far out into the central area . The range of Parnes is the highest ( 4631 feet ) and longest , extending westward into Mt. Cithaeron and eastward nearly ...
... wide . On three sides the plain is hemmed in by mountains , whose foothills extend far out into the central area . The range of Parnes is the highest ( 4631 feet ) and longest , extending westward into Mt. Cithaeron and eastward nearly ...
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... wide from north to south . The northern half is fairly level , the southern , hilly . Near the middle of the ellipse is the lofty rock of the Acropolis , whose west slopes blend with those of the Areopagus and the Pnyx . FIG . 11. Mt ...
... wide from north to south . The northern half is fairly level , the southern , hilly . Near the middle of the ellipse is the lofty rock of the Acropolis , whose west slopes blend with those of the Areopagus and the Pnyx . FIG . 11. Mt ...
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... wide avenues led from the principal gates in the city wall . The broadest was the street leading from the Dipylum to the Agora ( p . 79 ) , which was lined with colon- nades on both sides . At the eastern end of the Acropolis was the ...
... wide avenues led from the principal gates in the city wall . The broadest was the street leading from the Dipylum to the Agora ( p . 79 ) , which was lined with colon- nades on both sides . At the eastern end of the Acropolis was the ...
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... wide , and shut in closely on either side by blank walls of precincts and dwellings . The streets debouching on these main arteries were narrow , in great part like alleys . Few of the streets were paved , and side- walks were unknown ...
... wide , and shut in closely on either side by blank walls of precincts and dwellings . The streets debouching on these main arteries were narrow , in great part like alleys . Few of the streets were paved , and side- walks were unknown ...
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... wide promenade about the temple . The Propylaea , designed to extend quite across the west end of the hill , were begun in 437 B.C. , and were brought al- most to completion at a cost , so it is said , of 2012 talents , or about ...
... wide promenade about the temple . The Propylaea , designed to extend quite across the west end of the hill , were begun in 437 B.C. , and were brought al- most to completion at a cost , so it is said , of 2012 talents , or about ...
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Acropolis Acropolis Museum Agora Alcamenes altar ancient anta Aphrodite Apollo Areopagus Artemis Asclepieum Athena Victory Athenians Athens Attic base blocks bronze building built cella Cerameicus colonnade Colonus columns corner cross-wall dedicated deme Dionysus Dipylum Drawing by R. B. D. east end entrance Erechtheum excavations extant feet wide figures foundation fourth century B.C. frieze front Gate Greek Hadrian harbor Hephaesteum Hephaestus Hermes Hill Hygieia Ilissus inclosure inscription later Long Walls marble mentioned metopes middle Monument Munychia Museum northwest Odeum Old Temple Olympieum Parthenon Pausanias Pausanias's pediment Peiraeus Peisistratus Pelargicum Pericles Persian Pheidias Photograph of C. H. W. Plan Pnyx porch poros portico Poseidon Praxiteles precinct probably Propylaea Propylum Prytaneum restored rock Roman roof sacred sanctuary sculptures seats side slope southeast southwest statue of Athena steps Stoa of Attalus stone stood temple of Athena theater Themistoclean Wall Themistocles Theseus Thucydides tion vase painting Zeus
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Page 395 - ... to be left in the walls between the joints of the stones, the number and situation of these air-holes being left to the discretion of the architect. Such was, in outline, the great arsenal of the Piraeus. Thither on hot summer days, we may suppose, crowds were glad to escape from the dust and glare of the streets and to promenade in the cool, lofty, and dimly-lighted arcade, often stopping to gaze with idle curiosity or patriotic pride at the long array of well-ordered tackle which spoke of the...
Page 199 - Su-fang supwan, to be restored to 'supang or 'spang, 'sbang\ Caesalpinia sappan, furnishing the sappan wood) is first described as a product of Kiu-chen (Tong King) in the Nan fang ts'ao mi chrtang, written by Ki Han at the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century. J. de Loureiro (Flora cochinchinensis, p. 321) observes in regard to this tree, ' Habitat in altis montibus Cochinchinae : indeque a mercatoribus sinensibus abunde exportatur.
Page 313 - To return to the early colonists. Of their history previous to the end of the seventh or the beginning of the sixth century BC, nothing positive is known.
Page 297 - Athena stands 7 upright, clad in a garment that reaches to her feet : on her breast is the head of Medusa wrought in ivory. She holds a Victory about four cubits high, and in the other hand a spear. At her feet lies a shield, and near the spear is a serpent, which may be Erichthonius.
Page 338 - Having placed on their heads what the priestess of Athena gives them to carry — neither she who gives nor they who carry have...
Page 343 - ... One is a bronze image of Athena made from the spoils of the Medes who landed at Marathon. It is a work of Phidias. The <battle> of the Lapiths with the Centaurs on her shield, and all the other figures in relief, are said to have been wrought by Mys, but designed, like all the other works of Mys, by Parrhasius, son of Evenor. The head of the spear and the crest of the helmet of this Athena are visible to mariners sailing from Sunium to Athens. There is also a bronze chariot made out of a tithe...
Page 16 - E. long. The city within the walls is about a mile and a half long, from east to west, and about three-quarters of a mile broad, from north to south.
Page 29 - Mycenaean race, which, as we now know, reached a high stage of civilization in Greece, as well as the islands and coasts of the eastern Mediterranean, and was displaced before the beginning of the first millennium before Christ by an Achaean people, coming we know not whence. From the Achaeans the Athenians of history were sprung. A considerable admixture of Oriental influence may indicate that the tradition of an Egyptian Cecrops as the city's founder is something besides a myth.
Page vii - THIS book is designed to provide a brief and untechnical account of the topography and monuments of ancient Athens for the general reader and the traveler, as well as an introduction to the subject for the student of archaeology and history ; a few ideas that are new and worthy may perhaps be found by the specialist.
Page 366 - Before the entrance to the Academy is an altar of Love, with an inscription stating that Charmus was the first Athenian to dedicate an altar to Love. The altar in the city called the altar of Love Returned...