Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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s. He encouraged, too, the institutions for philosophi-cal and rhetorical study in Athens. Probably at this time he foundedin the heart of Thrace, on the Hebrus, the great city of Hadrianopolis(Adrianople). In A.I). 129 Hadrian undertook a second journey to the easternprovinces, from which he did not return till A.D. 134. At Athens he 1 In Bithynia he became acquainted with Antinoiis of Claudlopolis, who henceforth,as a favorite, became his constant companion, and whose (graceful features have comedown to us in many likenesses as a type of youthful beauty. 150 THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EMPIRE. celebrated the completion of a mighty work, which fro-- ^ime imme-morial had awaited completion, and now was to ser . lor the worshipof Zeus and the glory of Athens, — the ülympieum, — a mammothtemple of Olympian Zeus (Plate X., Fig, 52), begun by the Pisis-tratids. It covered an area of 60,000 square feet. In this temple,consecrated in A.D. 129, the same priest directed the worship of Zeus and
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Fig. 52. — Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens, restored by Hadrian: the Acropolis inthe middle distance. (From a photograph.) the Philhellenic emperor. Toward the Ilissus, Hadrian built a quarterfor villas, erecting on the boundary of old Athens a splendid arch,which still stands. The Panhellenium, a temple of the PanhellenicZeus, was intended to be the central point of the new national festival,which he founded and first celebrated in A.D. 129, the Panhel-lenia, in which the Greeks of Hellas and of the colonies were equally i;i;;;iillllllll;;;llil!lfli;l;lll1illM;N;;;;B Xw h < a,

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