ATHENS. 235 
It is with reluctance that the author omits a CHAP. 
description of the whole of the sculpture upon , - y ^ y 
the frieze beneath the ceiling of the Peripterus*. 
To an artist, the boldness and masterly execu- Splendid 
,/>,, . Represen- 
tion of the metopes may be more interesting ; but tation of 
a sight of the splendid solemnity of the whole 1^^' 
Panathenaic Festival, represented by the best 
artists of Antient Greece, in one continued pic- 
ture above three feet in height, and originally 
six hundred feet in length, of which a very con- 
siderable portion now remains, is alone worth 
a journey to Athens-, nor will any scholar deem 
the undertaking to be unprofitable, who should 
visit Greece for this alone. The whole popula- Descrip- 
tion of the antient city, animated by the bustle work. 
and business of the Panathen&a, seems to be 
exhibited by this admirable work ; persons of 
either sex and of every age, priests, charioteers, 
horsemen, cattle, victors, youths, maidens, 
victims, gods, and heroes, all enter into the 
procession ; every countenance expresses the 
earnestness and greatness of the occasion ; and 
every magnificence of costume, and varied dis- 
position of the subject, add to the effect of the 
representation. It is somewhere said of Phidias, 
(2) For a full account of it, see Stuart's Athens, vol. II. p. 12. 
Land. 1787. 
