Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 393 pages |
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Page ix
... Athens --- Arrival there --- Visits of Ceremony from the Inhabitants CHAPTER IX . Walk in Athens --- Pnyx --- Adventure there --- Athenian Acquaintance --- Mr . Cockerell --- Temple of Theseus --- Tweddell --- Archon Logotheti --- Trait ...
... Athens --- Arrival there --- Visits of Ceremony from the Inhabitants CHAPTER IX . Walk in Athens --- Pnyx --- Adventure there --- Athenian Acquaintance --- Mr . Cockerell --- Temple of Theseus --- Tweddell --- Archon Logotheti --- Trait ...
Page x
... Athens to hear Homer expounded --- Greek Composition as now taught --- Literary Society established at Athens --- Ascent up Mount Hymettus - Excursion to the great fortified Pass between the Thriasian and Acharnensian Plains --- Tour ...
... Athens to hear Homer expounded --- Greek Composition as now taught --- Literary Society established at Athens --- Ascent up Mount Hymettus - Excursion to the great fortified Pass between the Thriasian and Acharnensian Plains --- Tour ...
Page xii
... Athens --- Accompany him over the Lake --- Cold of the Winter --- Great scarcity of Fuel --- Game at Chess --- Visit to a Greek --- Dinner at the French Consul's --- Letter from Mr. Cockerell , dated Livadia , and Extract from it A ...
... Athens --- Accompany him over the Lake --- Cold of the Winter --- Great scarcity of Fuel --- Game at Chess --- Visit to a Greek --- Dinner at the French Consul's --- Letter from Mr. Cockerell , dated Livadia , and Extract from it A ...
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... Athens , and contained several chef d'œuvres of painting and statuary . Its inimitable picture of Hercules strangling * Pindar calls Agrigentum καλλίστ αν βροτεᾶν πολίων - Ακράγαντος ἔυδματον κολώναν . Pyth . Od . xii . Polybius thus ...
... Athens , and contained several chef d'œuvres of painting and statuary . Its inimitable picture of Hercules strangling * Pindar calls Agrigentum καλλίστ αν βροτεᾶν πολίων - Ακράγαντος ἔυδματον κολώναν . Pyth . Od . xii . Polybius thus ...
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... Athens , the Temple of Venus and Mars , near Argos , which Pausanias calls an iɛpòv demλev , ( Corinth . c . xxv . 1. ) or the Zenoposeidonion , a joint temple of Jupiter and Neptune , concerning which Athenæus ( lib . viii . p . 327 ...
... Athens , the Temple of Venus and Mars , near Argos , which Pausanias calls an iɛpòv demλev , ( Corinth . c . xxv . 1. ) or the Zenoposeidonion , a joint temple of Jupiter and Neptune , concerning which Athenæus ( lib . viii . p . 327 ...
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