Identifier: turkhislostprovi00curt (find matches)
Title: The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Greece -- Description and travel Bulgaria -- Description and travel Serbia -- Description and travel Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Description and travel
Publisher: Chicago London : F.H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ates wasarraigned for this crime before the courts, as Christ wasbefore the Sanhedrin. Both admitted the truth of thecharge, while they denied the criminality. Theanswer of Socrates to his accusers was almost thesame as that of Jesus before Pilate, four hundred yearslater. He was convicted, however, and condemned todie. Owing to a superstition about putting men todeath during a festival, the execution of his sentencewas postponed, and in the meantime he drank his cupof hemlock juice. Near the Areopagus are twochambers about sixteen feet square, hewn in the sideof a rocky cliff. They are divided by a partition witha narrow door and are protected by gratings of ironbars, like the cage of a wild beast. The guide-bookcalls them the prison of Socrates, and it is gen-erally understood among the people that he wasimprisoned and died there, but there is no evidence tosustain such a supposition. Demosthenes had a country home on the other sideof Mount Hymettus, which is as famous for its honey
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SHRINES AND TEMPLES 381 to-day as it was two thousand years ago. The wiklflowers that grow in the soil of that mountain contain anunusual amount of saccharine and give a flavor to thehoney which is not found in that made elsewhere.The ancient Greeks considered it a great luxury, andit still sustains its reputation and is sold to-day in allthe markets of Europe for high prices. Tourists buyit at the hotels and curiosity-shops of Athens. Demosthenes was the son of a rich furniture-dealer,and was a statesman, lawyer, orator and patriot. Helived nearly a century after Socrates, and in the year322 B.C., when the Macedonians secured control of thegovernment, fled from Athens across the sea into thePeloponnesus. There he was followed by an officerof the police with a warrant for his arrest. Demos-thenes was prepared for him and received him in thetemple of Poseidon in Calauria. Rather than sufferthe humiliation of trial and imprisonment, he decidedto take his own life. Suspecting such an int

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