Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ples had perished in the Temples. successive onslaughts of the Persians, and it was a dutyas well as a pious delight on the part of the citizens to re-store them. Cimon had begun the work on a noble scale,but Pericles continued the task and carried it through in afashion that has immortalized his own name as well as thatof Athens. An artist of the highest genius was at his handin the person of Phidias, who was assisted by other menof uncommon ability. The principal scene of this archi-tectural and artistic display was the Acropolis (§ 133);and the building in which it reached its height was thetemple of Athene the Virgin (Parthenos), hence calledThe Par- the Parthenon. Unlike the famous structures of theAncient East, it was not the immense size of the Par-thenon, but its beautiful proportions, exquisite adorn-ment and ideal sculptures that made it memorable. Itwas one hundred feet wide, two hundred and twenty-sixfeet long and sixty-five feet high, built of marble and thenon. PLATE Vm
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THE HERMES OF PRAXITELES Art and Literature at Athens 149 painted in harmonious colors. A row of forty-six Doriccolumns surrounded it, and every available space abovethe columns, within and without, was carved in relief withscenes representing glorious events in the religious historyof Athens. A wonderfully sculptured frieze, extendingfor more than five hundred feet around the inner temple,depicted, with a variety and energy never surpassed,scenes in the Panathenaea, the festival in honor of thepatron goddess, Athene. In the temple stood a statueof the deity, the masterpiece of Phidias, made of ivoryand gold, thirty-eight feet in height including the pedes-tal. Though the statue has long since disappeared andthe temple itself is but a ruin, the remains of it illustratesupremely the chief features of Greek architecture—simplicity, harmony, refinement, the union of strengthand beauty. 183. Nowhere in the Greek world were the religious The Re-festivals celebrated with so great splendor

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