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Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ATHENIAN YOUTH IN PROCESSION. (From the Frieze of the Parthenon.) the Periclean Age, Hellenic genius and piety adorned this spotwith temples and statues that all the world has pronounced to befaultless specimens of beauty and taste. The most celebrated of the buildings upon the Acropolis wasthe Parthenon, the Residence of the virgin-goddess Athena.This is considered the finest specimen of Greek architecture. Itwas designed by the architect Ictinus, but the sculptures thatadorned it were the work of the celebrated Phidias.^ It was built 1 The subject of the wonderful frieze running round the temple was the pro-cession which formed the most important feature of the Athenian festival
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(81 182 GREEK ARCHITECTURE. in the Doric order, of marble from the neighboring PenteUcus.After standing 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 morethan half of this masterpiece of ancient art was shivered intofragments. The front is nearly perfect, and is the most prominentfeature of the Acropohs at the present time. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. —This structure was anotherof the Seven Wonders of the World. It was a monumental tombdesigned to preserve the memory of Mausolus, king of Caria, whodied 353 B.C. Its erection was prompted by the love and grief ofhis wife Artemisia. The combined genius of the most noted artistsof the age executed the wish of the queen. It is the traditions ofthis beautiful structure that have given the worl

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