Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 102
Then there were the recitations of poems,the musical exercises, and dances at the Odeon,and finally, on the fourth day, the procession.All the citizens met in the Ceramicus, or pottersquarter, and marched out to Eleusis, a town to thenorth of Athens, and making the circuit of a very-large temple in… … THE PROCESSION—THE ATHLETES. the Acropolis, a high hill on which were crowdedthe principal temples of Athens, the chief of whichwas the Parthenon, which had just been completedin honor of Pallas. In this procession the old menled, bearing branches of trees; next followed theyoung girls of noble…
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