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A. W. Mansell Acropolis Agora Alcamenes altar ancient Apollo architectural Areopagus artistic Athenian Athens Attic bronze building built Callirrhoe cave cella centre Ceramicus Cimon columns decoration dedicated Dionysus Dipylon Dipylon Gate earlier early temple EAST PEDIMENT Enneacrunus Erechtheum evidence extant fifth century figures foundations FRIEZE OF PARTHENON front goddess Greece Greek Hadrian harbour Hephæstus hill identified Ilissus inscription Ionic Ionic order Lapith later Long Walls Lycabettus Mansell & Sons marble metopes modern monuments Munychia Odeum Olympieum painted Parthenon Pausanias pediment Pericles permission of Messrs Persian Wars Phaleric Phalerum Phidias Piræus Piraic Pisistratus Pnyx portico Posidon position precinct probably Professor Dörpfeld Propylæa Prytaneum Pythium relief remains represented restored rock sacred scene sculpture seated seen shrine side slabs slope Stoa Stoa Basileios temple of Athena Theatre Themistocles Theseum Thucydides tion tomb town traces vases Zeus ἐν καὶ τοῦ
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الصفحة 505 - ... hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked : and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
الصفحة 339 - I trust, from ever forgetting — what is meant by the virtue of handling in sculpture. The projection of the heads of the four horses, one behind the other, is certainly not more, altogether, than three-quarters of an inch from the flat ground, and the one in front does not in reality project more than the one behind it, yet, by mere drawing,* you see the sculptor has got them to appear to recede in...
الصفحة 321 - Victory, leading the horses of the triumphal chariot of Minerva, which follows it. The horses are made with such great art that the sculptor seems to have outdone himself by giving them a more than seeming life ; such a vigour is expressed in each posture of their prancing and stamping, natural to generous horses.
الصفحة iii - Ancient Athens By ERNEST ARTHUR GARDNER Yates Professor of Archaeology in University College, London ; Formerly Director of the British School at Athens; Author of "A Handbook of Greek Sculpture,
الصفحة 558 - The roof was of tiles> supported on wooden beams and rafters. . .The whole was divided into a nave and two aisles by two rows of columns; and the aisles were to be provided with every convenience for storing ships...
الصفحة 505 - Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler say?
الصفحة 346 - ... the great statue of Athena which faced the visitor entering the sacred edifice by the eastern door. " As his eyes became used to the contrast from the bright sunlight without, the first impression he would receive of the colossal statue would probably be the extraordinary richness of its decorations and of its materials, and the contrast between the smooth white surface of the ivory and the broken glimmer of light on the embossed and inlaid surfaces of the gold. Then by degrees he would pass...
الصفحة 103 - In the slope of the hill facing the Acropolis is a scarped face of rock, not straight, but consisting of two equal portions meeting at an obtuse angle ; and where they meet is a square block, like an altar, approached by steps, all cut in the living rock. Below the scarp is a semicircular area, retained at its outer edge by a wall of huge blocks, partly squared, partly polygonal. At...
الصفحة 424 - ... gigantic or savage enemy who cannot be identified, and the battle of the Greeks and Centaurs; in the pediments, groups which have completely disappeared. Gardner concludes his examination of the rival claims made for the Thesium as follows : " If, then, we infer that the identification of the ' Thesium ' as the temple of Heracles in Melite is perhaps the most probable among the attempts that have been made to give it a place among the temples recorded in Athens, this opinion must be qualified...
الصفحة 195 - No garment is covered with a complete coat of paint . unless only a small portion of it is visible. The main surfaces are always left white, showing the natural texture of the marble, but they have richly...