...The English poet, equalled in renown as well as in fate to blind Maeonides, has described the scene: Behold Where on the Aegean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits...

...character and habits, or to attempt to account for that civilization which flourished, as Milton says Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, it is above all things imperative to understand the conditions of Attic soil and...

...best evinc't. 335 Look once more ere we leave this specular Mount Westward, much nearer by Southwest, behold Where on the Aegean shore a City stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, Mother of Arts 240 And Eloquence, native to famous wits...

...man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on : " And that his pupils, jEschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism...with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects." v. Greek Literature before Pericles and after Alexander. 75. Now then, reader, you have arrived at...

...character and habits, or to attempt to account for that civilization which flourished, as Milton says, Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, it is above all things imperative to understand the conditions of Attic soil and...

...best evinced. Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. (PR 4. 229-41) Though the...

...recollection that Isocrates was the companion of Plato and Xenophon; . . . that his pupils Aeschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle.56 But the ground beneath our feet is treacherous when we equate human worth with giftedness....

...origins: a living encounter with the ancients, in a scene bathed in the lambent glow of nostalgic longing: behold Where on the Aegean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or...

...best evinced.0 Look once more ere we leave this specular mount0 Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the Aegean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts0 240 And eloquence, native to famous wits...

...Parthenon sculptures to Athens looks as far away as ever. 74 CHAPTER FIVE The Agora and the Classical City "Behold Where on the Aegean shore a City stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, Mother of Arts And Eloquence, native to famous wits...