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...sius (ă-crish ́-e-us).............................................................................................................................25 Acropolis (ă-crop ́-o-lis)..........................................................................................................................25 Actæon (ak-tee ́-on)........................................................

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... kind...care for him! P A man speaks before the Acropolis in the moonlight: “Stranger, you have come to the most beautifu...

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... 130 ―Then was experiencing the Sound and Light in Athens. Sitting on a hill across from the Acropo...

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...wonders of the world. The places of worship like the Greek temples on the Acropolis, the Buddhist shrines at Ankor, the magnificent Christian cathed... ...Socrates‘ prison was considered to be on the Pnyx, a hill across from the Acropolis,—now it is considered to be in the agora, on the other side of t... ...opolis,—now it is considered to be in the agora, on the other side of the Acropolis. How accurate was our historical evidence? Is the evidence prese...

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... kind...care for him! P A man speaks before the Acropolis in the moonlight: “Stranger, you have come to the most beautifu...

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...ow whether the eminence on which they stood didn’t give him an idea of the Acropolis in its prime. Vogelstein de- ferred the satisfaction of this appe...

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...a World’s Fair, when the little Wingless Victory, tying on her sandal on the Acropolis, holds the whole horizon in the curve of her slim arm. The esse...

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...ppening. T ell her to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva in the acropolis; let her then take her key and open the doors of the sacred bui... ...m his house, storehouse, and courtyard near those of Priam and Hector on the acropolis. Here Hector entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his ha... ...e. Meanwhile the Trojans held a council, an gry and full of discord, on the acropolis by the gates of King Priam’s palace; and wise Antenor spoke. “H... ...under cloud, and called on the Trojans at the top of his voice, now from the acropolis, and now speeding up the side of the river Simois till he came ...

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...s, feigns that Aegeus, at the approach of the ship, running hastily to the Acropolis to see what news, slipped and fell down, as if he had no servants... ...it, though he en- listed and kept as many as he would, until he seized the Acropolis. When that was done, and the city in an uproar, Megacles, with al... ... see and hear all such trials of skill. The propylaea, or entrances to the Acropolis, were finished in five years’ time, Mnesicles being the principal... ...ytanes; and that the judges, carrying their suffrage from the altar in the Acropolis, should exam- ine and determine the business in the city. This la... ...long with, nay, and went before, the teams which drew the wagons up to the acropolis, as if it would incite and encourage them to draw more stoutly; u... ..., he assisted the Greeks, and came to Ath- ens, where, having ascended the Acropolis, he offered sacri- fice to the goddess, and the same day came dow... ...ers in the city, and ten in the Piraeus: he put, also, a garrison into the Acropolis, and made Callibius, a Spartan, the governor of it; who afterward... ...dif- ferent ways; and there is no comparison between the south wall of the acropolis built by Cimon, and the chambers and galleries, with their sea-vi...

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...king object that I have ever seen, either abroad or at home. Nei- ther the Acropolis of Athens, nor the Larissa of Argos, nor even Gibraltar, can ente...

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...:and you see for the greater part of the way the purple mount on which the Acropolis rises, and the gleaming houses of the town spread beneath. Round ...

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...of broken- down civilisations. Barbaric bands made their fastness upon the Acropolis, and the tomb of Hadrian became a fortress that warred across the...

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...urther on, some remains of a gi- gantic aqueduct; here the high base of an Acropolis, with the floating outline of a Parthenon; there traces of a quay...

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...er Papers with pillaging absent proprietors, began to lay up stores in the Acropolis. With ultra T urkish stupidity, however, out of pure laziness, at... ...ian sentiment was immediately arrested by the conduct of the T urks in the Acropolis, in killing nine hostages, and throwing over the walls some naked...

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...eotia through Megara, as he was going up to the magistrate’s office in the Acropolis, he was suddenly seized with pain and cramp in his sound leg, and... ...arting out of the city, it is reported, he lifted up his hands towards the Acropolis, and said, “O Lady Minerva, how is it that thou takest de- light ... ... Historical writers tell us that the very dogs are excluded from the whole Acropolis, because of their gross, uncleanly habits. The very Parthenon its...

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... the birth of a star Fraternal with heaven’s in beauty and ray, Sprang the Acropolis. Ask what crown Comes of our tides of the blood at war, For men ...

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...e to believe so much the more. To our Theme.— The man who has stood on the Acropolis, And look’d down over Attica; or he Who has sail’d where ...

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... of an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strai...

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...f an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait...

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... this fair land were endowed with intelligence and the love of beauty. The Acropolis of the ancient Athens extended to the Ilissus and Eridanus, and i... ...em, and then they left their gardens and dining-halls. In the midst of the Acropolis was a fountain, which gave an abundant supply of cool water in su... ...w the city in those days was arranged on this wise. In the first place the Acropolis was not as now. For the fact is that a single night of excessive ... ...the great destruction of Deucalion. But in primitive times the hill of the Acropolis extended to the Eridanus and Ilissus, and included the Pnyx on on... ... with soil, and level at the top, except in one or two places. Outside the Acropolis and under the sides of the hill there dwelt arti- sans, and such ... ...n side of the hill was made use of by them for the same purpose. Where the Acropolis now is there was a fountain, which was choked by the earth- quake... ...whom were appointed to keep watch in the lesser zone, which was nearer the Acropolis; while 23 Plato the most trusted of all had houses given them wi...

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... beginning to grow pale. The horses of Eschmoun, on the very summit of the Acropolis in the cy- press wood, feeling that the light was coming, placed ... ...ains, and in the other into the mists of the sea, and on the summit of the Acropolis, the pyramidal cypress trees, fringing the temple of Eschmoun, sw... ...ing of the waves, and the rustling of the great trees on the summit of the Acropolis. “Hush!” cried Salammbo. “What ails you, mistress? The blowing of... ...ugh their yawn- ing apertures like rivers beneath bridges. The hill of the Acropolis, in the centre of Byrsa, was hidden beneath a disordered array of... ... ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands. Behind the Acropolis the Mappalian road, which was lined with tombs, extended through ... ...ple wall? Then behind the town, at the back of Megara, and higher than the Acropolis, appeared Hamilcar’ s palace. Matho’ s eyes were directed thither... ...their foot and lions’ heads at the top, reached to the western part of the Acropolis, where they sank beneath the town to incline what was nearly a ri... ...ng planet of Chabar. 59 Flaubert Then Matho turned in silence towards the Acropolis. They crept along the nopal hedges which bordered the paths. The ... ...ud- denly the space grew wider and they recognised the western face of the Acropolis. At the foot of Byrsa there stretched a long black mass: it was t...

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...e full of them; and nota bly the robe of Athene, which is carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea, is em broidered with them. Are all t...

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...will crowd thither to see his works as they crowd now to Athens to see the Acropolis, to Madrid to see the pictures of Velasquez, to Bayreuth to see t...

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...need of treatment. LXX LXX LXX LXX LXX O! when shall I see Athens and its Acropolis again? Miserable man! art thou not contented with the daily ...

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...it Athens and Delphi, and either shrine of intellectual song—that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas; that under Parnassus, where the eagles b...

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...he famous copper buckler called Ancile was seen to descend from heaven. At Acropolis, near Athens, Minerva’s statue formerly fell from the empyreal he... ...at light. We also saw the lantern of Pharos, that of Nauplion, and that of Acropolis at Athens, sacred to Pallas. Near the port there’s a little hamle... ... and inconsumptible, like the oil formerly put into Pallas’ golden lamp at Acropolis of Ath- 789 Rabelais ens by Callimachus. In each of them was a f...

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...Perhaps life would be there. He thought of Renan, who declares that on the Acropolis at Athens beauty and wisdom do exist, really exist, as external p...

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...ured group at Athens of T wo Lions devouring a Bull (Dickens, “Cat. of the Acropolis Museaum,” No. 3). THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX (fragments) Fragment #1 — ...

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...ght were his, Incendiary or bigot could be found To burn that stump on the Acropolis, Or break in bits the famous ivories Or traffic in the grasshopper...