 | 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 508
..."which furnished the only access to the summit of the hill, presented a breadth of only 168 feet — an opening so narrow that it appeared practicable...to fill up the space with a single building, which, in serving the main purpose of a gateway, should contribute at once to fortify and adorn the citadel.... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...The western end of the Acropolis, which furnished the only access to the summit of the hill, was 168 feet in breadth, an opening so narrow that it appeared...to fill up the space with a single building, which, in serving the main purpose of a gateway, should contribute at once to fortify and to adorn the citadel.... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...The western end of the Acropolis, which furnished the only access to the summit of the hill, was 168 feet in breadth, an opening so narrow that it appeared...to fill up the space with a single building, which, in serving the main purpose of a gateway, should contribute at once to fortify and to adorn the citadel.... | |
 | Thomas Swinburne Carr - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...together on the Acropolis, exhibiting an amazing concentration of all that was most perfect in art. It appeared practicable to the artists of Pericles to fill up the entrance on the western side with a single building, which, in serving the main purpose of a gate way,... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...access to the summit of the hill, presented a breadth of only one hundred and sixty-eight feet, — an opening so narrow, that it appeared practicable...to fill up the space with a single building, which, in serving the main purpose of a gateway, should contribute at once to fortify and adorn the citadel.... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 942
...western end, and since the total breadth of the hill at this point was only 168 feet, it seemed advisable "to fill up the space with a single building which...of architecture and sculpture which was within the inclosure. This work [the Propyla"i|, the greatest production of civil architecture in Athens, which... | |
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The western end of the Acropolis," says this writer, "which furnished the only access to the summit of the hill, presented a breadth of only 168 feet — an opening so narrow that it appeared practicable to the artists of Pericles to fill up the space... 