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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE RIBBON-DEALER FROM HALIMUS. When Pericles and Anaxagoras left the house, they went down the street leading from the great theatre of Dionysus to the foot of the southern declivity of the Acropolis, and then turned northward to enter the one which ran between the western slope of the Acropolis and the hill of the Areopagus to the Agora. They had now reached their goal, and were standing on the Agora. This central point of Athenian life and intercourse covered a wide space in the district of the Cerameicus. It lay as if sheltered under the protection of the hills of Athens; on the southern side it had the rugged rocks of the Areopagus and Acropolis, on the western the Hill of the Nymphs, joined in a southerly direction by the more famous summit of the Pnyx, to the north was the moderately high hill that bore the temple of Theseus, and on the northwest appeared the slopes of the famous Colonus. Thus all the famed and hallowed hills of Athens looked down upon the Agora. In its midst rose the altar of the twelve great Olympian gods. Here, too, stood the bronze statues of the ten legendary ancestral heroes of the Attic nation and country. Opposite to these statues was allotted to each of the nine Archons, the chief magistrates of Athens, the place of his public activity within the limits of the Agora. Here, too, were most of the courts of justice; the spot where the Council of the Five Hundred assembled, the Bouleuterion and the domed rotunda of the Tholus. The throng of people surged more densely than usual around these meeting-places to-day. In the Tholus, many were hastening to the prytanes, the men who belonged to the division of magistrates then officiating. Many other members of the magistracy were seen on the square, but attracted little not...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217176712 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217176712 |
| Weight | 1.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $26.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 374 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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