"THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE" 



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Photograph from Alexander Wilbourne Weddell 



ROWS OF CHAIRS IN THE THEATER OF DIONYSUS 



The theater accommodated about 16,000 spectators. In the foremost row were marble 

 chairs, the one in the center being reserved for the priest of Dionysus. Other chairs bear 

 inscriptions denoting their use by priests or other dignitaries. The two blocks of marble on the 

 third tier of seats probably supported the throne of the Emperor Hadrian. Throughout the 

 theater were statues of the tragic and comic poets, the most prominent being the bronze figures 

 of yEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. 



whose portico stands to-day in almost un- 

 tarnished beauty, are the walls built by 

 Themistocles after the destruction of the 

 first temple by the Persians in 480 B. C. 

 In it were used a number of the drums 

 of the ancient columns. 



WHERE ST. PAUL PREACHED OP 

 UNKNOWN GOD" 



THE 



Looking down from these walls, there 

 lay immediately below us a little hill 

 which was pointed out as the Areopagus, 

 or Hill of Mars. Physically, the place has 

 little of interest. There is a short flight 

 of steps cut in the rock, and at the top 

 are the sites of ancient altars (seep. 579). 



The ancient Court of the Areopagus, 

 consisting of venerable and eminent 

 Athenian citizens, held its sittings on this 

 hill, and it is usually assumed that it was 



from here that St. Paul, the future cap- 

 tive of Imperial Rome, in A. D. 54 spoke 

 to Athenian skeptics, with a reference to 

 an altar "To the Unknown God." 



"The flesh warreth against the spirit," 

 whispered my friend in my ear ; then, a 

 moment later, "I'm going to luncheon." 

 So we retraced our steps at a quickened 

 pace and in a few minutes were back into 

 the 20th century and French cooking. 



WHERE PERICLES DELIVERED HIS ORATION 

 ON THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER 



Our afternoon was given to the Ceme- 

 tery of the Cerameicus. The Cerameicus 

 was the name of a suburb lying to the 

 northwest of ancient Athens. This was 

 inhabited, as its name indicates, by the 

 potters (see illustration, page 578). 



Visitors to Rome and to Pompeii are 



