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 39
-east stretches the historic plain of Marathon,— The mountains look on Marathon,And Marathon looks on the sea,— where the swarming cohorts of Persia were overthrown bya handful of heroes.t Eleusis, connected with the mys-teries of the Greek religion, is situated to the north-west; * And still his… … Battlefield of Marathon. Pliylce and Decelea lie yonder against the northern hori-zon ; and to the west towers The rocky browWhich looks oer sea-born Salamis. It was there, as the Athenian who gazed upon thescene would proudly remember, that Xerxes sat andcounted his thousand ships on the morning…
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