Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece:: Or, An Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti, Τόμος 2J. Booker and R. Priestley, 1817 - 671 σελίδες |
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... Delphi .. 291 CHAP . LXVI . Sanctity of Delphi - The Amphictyonic assembly - The oracle - The temple - Its riches - Its decline 293 CHAP . LXVII . Site of Delphi - The court of the temple - Extinction of Apollo - Ves- tiges An ...
... Delphi .. 291 CHAP . LXVI . Sanctity of Delphi - The Amphictyonic assembly - The oracle - The temple - Its riches - Its decline 293 CHAP . LXVII . Site of Delphi - The court of the temple - Extinction of Apollo - Ves- tiges An ...
Σελίδα 90
... Delphi , if they please ; but the foundation in nature will be wanting ; nor indeed is it easy for a descriptive writer , when he ex- ceeds the sphere of his own observation , to avoid falling into local absurdities and untruths . Going ...
... Delphi , if they please ; but the foundation in nature will be wanting ; nor indeed is it easy for a descriptive writer , when he ex- ceeds the sphere of his own observation , to avoid falling into local absurdities and untruths . Going ...
Σελίδα 115
... Delphi- nian , the Heliæan , which was near the agora , the council of Five Hundred , and the Eleven ; with the Polemarch , the Thesmothetæ , and the annual archon . The procession at the Greater Panathenæa attended a pe- plus or ...
... Delphi- nian , the Heliæan , which was near the agora , the council of Five Hundred , and the Eleven ; with the Polemarch , the Thesmothetæ , and the annual archon . The procession at the Greater Panathenæa attended a pe- plus or ...
Σελίδα 196
... Delphi , should not depart until it lightened at Harma , a place on Mount Parnes , by Phyle ; and this signal . was expected during three months , certain priests watching in each three days and nights . Their station was at the hearth ...
... Delphi , should not depart until it lightened at Harma , a place on Mount Parnes , by Phyle ; and this signal . was expected during three months , certain priests watching in each three days and nights . Their station was at the hearth ...
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... Delphi and Olympia , to pay his army Athens . The marks in the walls testified that a great number had been plucked down . A few fragments of white marble , exquisitely carved , occur in the heap of the temple . before The inclosure of ...
... Delphi and Olympia , to pay his army Athens . The marks in the walls testified that a great number had been plucked down . A few fragments of white marble , exquisitely carved , occur in the heap of the temple . before The inclosure of ...
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acropolis adorned Ægina afterwards agora Albanian altar ancient Apollo archon Areopagus Argos Athenians Athens Attica Bacchus beneath Boeotia Brauron Cæsar called cave Cephissus Ceramicus Ceres CHAP church citadel coast columns Corinth deities Delphi descended distance Doric Doric order edifice Eleusis emperor erected feet Gastouni gate goddess Greece Greek gulf Hadrian hill houses hundred Hymettus Ilissus inclosure inscribed inscription island isthmus Jupiter land Luke Marathon marble Megara Methana miles Minerva monastery monument Morea Mount mountain Munychia named narrow Neptune Olympia parthenon passed Patræ Pausanias Peloponnesus Pentele person Phalerum Phocis Piræus Pisistratus plain port portico priest promontory propyléa road rock roof ruin sacred sailed Salamis sepulchres shore side spot stadia stadium standing statue stone Strabo summit Sunium temple of Diana temple of Jupiter temple of Minerva temple of Venus theatre Theseus tion town Turkish Turks vaiwode vessels victory village wall Wheler wind Zante
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Σελίδα 139 - ... hanging loosely about her limbs; the lower portion embroidered with flowers, and appearing beneath the shift, which has the sleeves wide and open, and the seams and edges curiously adorned with needle-work. Her vest is of silk, exactly fitted to the form of the bosom, and the shape of the body, which it rather covers than conceals, and is'shorter than the shift.
Σελίδα 140 - Aurora, is rosy-fingered, the tips being stained. — Her necklace is a string of zechins, a species of gold coin, or of the pieces called byzantines. At her cheeks is a lock of hair, made to curl towards the face ; and down her back falls a profusion of tresses, spreading over her shoulders.
Σελίδα 59 - The door of the cell was on the left hand, and at the farther end of the passage was a door leading down into the pandroseum, which was contiguous. Before the temple of Neptune...
Σελίδα 53 - The Venetians, under Koningsmark, when they besieged the acropolis in 1687, threw a bomb, which demolished the roof, and, setting fire to some powder, did much damage to the fabric. The floor, which is indented, still witnesses the place of its fall. This was the sad forerunner of farther destruction ; the Turks breaking the stones, and applying them to the building of a new mosque, which stands within the ruin, or to the repairing of their houses and the walls of the fortress. The vast pile of ponderous...
Σελίδα 46 - The propylea have ceased to be the entrance of the acropolis. The passage, which was between the columns in the centre, is walled up almost to their capitals, and above is a battery of cannon. The way now winds before the front of the ancient...
Σελίδα 139 - There the girl, like Thetis, treading on a soft carpet, has her white and delicate feet naked, the nails tinged with red. Her trowsers, which in winter are of red cloth, and in summer of fine calico, or thin gauze, descend from the hip to the ancle, hanging...
Σελίδα 136 - He was abfent when we arrived; but on his return to Athens, fent us a prefent of fine fruit and of honey from M. Hymettus ; and came to vifit us at the convent, on horfeback, attended by a virger and fome of his clergy on foot, He was a comely and portly man, with a black thick beard. A .traditional...
Σελίδα 53 - Koningsmark, when they besieged the acropolis in 1687, threw a bomb, which demolished the roof, and, setting fire to some powder, did much damage to the fabric. The floor, which is indented, still witnesses the place of its fall. This was the sad forerunner of farther destruction ; the Turks breaking the stones, and applying them to the building of a new mosque, which stands within the ruin, or to the repairing of their houses and the walls of the fortress. The vast pile of ponderous materials, which...
Σελίδα 137 - Turkiih women, is not only impenetrable, but mult not be regarded on the outfide with any degree of attention. To approach them, when" abroad, will give offence; and in the town, if they cannot be avoided, it is the culiom to turn to the wall and uand dill, without looking toward them while they pafs.
Σελίδα 53 - Paul/icon, and the temple of the unknown God. The Venetians under Koningsmark, when they besieged the acropolis in 1687, threw a bomb, which demolished the roof, and setting fire to some powder, did much damage to the fabric. The floor, which is indented, still witnesses the place of its fall. This...