Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 19
ased to be. Athens reached its climax of material prosperity in thedays of Pericles, the greatest of all the great statesmenof the ancient world. And simultaneously it attained itshighest level of intellectual excellence. In truth, thepower of Athens must not be measured by the limitedarea of her… … spot on the surface of the Earth ; but, as it has justlybeen remarked, there are other reahns, depicted on no map, over which sheheld an unchallengedsupremacy — a supre-macy chiefly earned inthe age and under theguidance of Pericles.That statesman, says arecent historian,*whoseown mind had…
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