riioto by Emma G. Cummings 

 PEASANTS AND FLOCK, NEAR EPIDAUKAS, GREECE 



the Acropolis — incomparable even in its 

 ruins — its cliffs and grottoes still the 

 home of legend and of fable. 



All the cycles of Athenian life are rep- 

 resented. The classic temple of Theseus, 

 best preserved of all the ancient monu- 

 ments, recalls the days of Pericles. The 

 Stoa of Hadrian speaks of that distant 

 day when a Roman conqueror ruled the 

 violet crowned city. 



While the early Christian era finds 

 its survival in the beautiful Byzantine 

 churches, the most striking of which is 

 that of St. Theodore set down in the 

 midst of one of the great business streets 

 of the city and scrupulously guarded 

 from encroachment. Of Turkish days 

 there remain few traces, though the ba- 

 zars, as typified by the Lane of the 

 Little Red Shoes or Hephaestos street, 

 the home of the coppersmiths, are more 

 oriental than Hellenic or European. 



In this land of changing allegiance the 



marks of \'enetian rule were set deep 

 and strong. Corfu today, in its externals 

 at least, is more Italian than Greek, while 

 Nauplia, Patras. and many of the island 

 seaports still find useful the battlemented 

 fortresses erected by the Latin rulers. 



"a grave n.vtional hemorrhage" 

 As of old. the Greeks swarm the seas. 

 The Piraeus is one of the busiest of 

 Mediterranean ports — indeed, it is the 

 center of transhi])ment for all the East — 

 while the Corinthian Canal, after many 

 financial vicissitudes, now seems to be in 

 the way of becoming each year a more 

 and more useful route between the Ion- 

 ian and the yEgean Seas. 



The Greeks are a town people. One- 

 tenth of the population is to be found in 

 Athens and the Piraeus. The drain of 

 emigration from the rural districts is 

 enormous. In the words of a Cabinet 

 Minister, it constitutes "a grave national 



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