A SKCTION OF THE FRIEZE OE THE PARTHENON 



"The Greek government is keenly alive to its responsibility for the safeguarding of its 

 antiquities, and the Department of Archaeology is painstakingly organized and prudently 

 administered. Its income — derived for the most part from the revenues of the lottery, which 

 it shares with the fleet — is never diverted, no matter how dire the necessities of the Treasury, 

 and the zealous scholars who now direct its energies have many a good work of excavation 

 and restoration to their credit" (see text, page 304). 



changing centuries, which have made of 

 it in turn the shrine of the vestal, the 

 church of the Christian, the mosque of 

 the Moslem, and now and ever the ideal 

 of all lovers of the beautiful. 



SCULPTURES EROM THE GOLDEN AGE 



Near at hand stands the fairest of 

 those other structures which the age of 

 Pericles has given to the ages yet to 

 come ; on the one side the tiny gem of 

 the Temple of the Wingless Victory, so 

 chaste and delicate in its proportions and 

 outline, and on the other the Erechtheum, 

 with its unique Porch of the Caryatides, 

 and the whole now restored to its former 

 height largely as a result of the painstak- 



ing labor of the American School for 

 Classical Study. 



Almost within a stone's throw cluster 

 the chief remnants of the glory that was 

 Greece. Hard by the stairs of the im- 

 posing Propylaea — the height of which 

 has always made me think that the Pan- 

 Athenaic maidens were incredibly long 

 of limb — rises the sturdy rock of the Hill 

 of Mars, whence St. Paul declared the 

 Unknown God and incidentally took the 

 Athenian measure for all intervening 

 time. At a little distance stands the 

 rough-hewn Bema, where Demosthenes 

 and Ctesiphon strove in matchless 

 phrase, while just below rise the ivory- 

 tinted columns of the Temple of Theseus, 

 best preserved of all the classic remains. 



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