Identifier: easternnationsgr00myeruoft (find matches)
Title: Eastern Nations and Greece
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Ancient Greece -- History
Publisher: Boston, Ginn
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ATHENIAN YOUTH IN PROCESSiON. (FTom the Frieze of the Parthenon.) genius and piety adorned this spot with temples and statues thatall the world has pronounced to be faultless specimens of beautyand taste. The most celebrated of the buildings upon the Acropolis was theParthenon, the Residence of the virgin-goddess Athena. Thisis considered the finest specimen of Greek architecture. It wasdesigned by the architect Ictinus, but the sculptures that adornedit were the work of the celebrated Phidias.^ It was built in the ^ The subject of the wonderful frieze running round the temple was the pro-cession which formed the most important feature of the Athenian festivalknown as the Greater Panathensea, which was celebrated every four years in
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THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS. 291 Doric order, of marble from the neighboring Pentelicus. Afterstanding for more than two thousand years, and having servedsuccessively as a Pagan temple, a Christian church, and a Moham-medan mosque, it finally was made to serve as a Turkish powder-magazine, in a war with the Venetians, in 1687. During theprogress of this contest a bomb fired the magazine, and more thanhalf of this masterpiece of ancient art was shivered into fragments.The front is still quite perfect, and is the most prominent featureof the Acropolis at the present time.

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