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Title: A tour in Greece, 1880
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Farrer, Richard Ridley
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Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ich, counting a double row on either side, and a triple rowon either face, gives the enormous total of 124. Of these,only fourteen are standing,—thirteen all together and still sup-porting their architrave; the other is picturesquely isolated,while a fifteenth lies complete upon the ground, but withits druitis shaken into confusion by the fall. The remainderhave been broken up for building material, or burnt into limeby an appreciative population. The stupendous size of thebuilding may be inferred from Pausanias statement that ithad a circumference of four stadia,^ or nearly half a mile.But deeply as we regret the loss of so striking an evidence ofEoman magnificence, we may yet feel thankful that it is uponthis gorgeous, composite, over-decorated building that destruc- ^ These measurements would include the platform upon which the buildingstood. Pausanias states that the irtpi^oKos was full of statues, so that it))crhai)s extended a greater distance than usual beyond the peristj-lc.
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ATHENS OF THE PAST. 31 tion has fallen, rather than upon such genuine models ofGreek art as the Parthenon and Theseum. The Coliseumalone, were all other such vestiges swept away, would giveample testimony to the grandeur of Imperial Eome; but hadthe Athenian temples of the fifth century disappeared, themodern world could scarcely realise what Greek architecturewas under its most favourable conditions. Hard by the columns of Olympian Zeus winds the now The Ilissus.dried-up channel of the lUssus,^ beside whose murmuringwaters, under the waving plane-trees, Socrates loved to sit andtalk. Here, too, legend narrates that the maiden Orithyiawas at play when Boreas, the North-Wind god, carried her offto share his home, and for her sake loved Athens so dearlythat he shattered the Persian ships at Salamis, and savedthe city from slavery. But stream and plane - trees arealike vanished; and the sceptical modern concurs in thePlatonic rationalisation of the myth—viz., that a blast ofextra viole

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