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 48
my snow-white hairs,While I suspend my spoils, a Thracian targe,Above the columns of Athenas fane !^ Eviripides, Erechtheus, Gaisfords edition, vol. ii. p. 403. ATHENA THE VIRGIN. 45 The name of the Parthenon, as Bishop Wordsworth sug-gests,* may have originated in two causes;—first, thenecessity… … Interior of the Parthenon. of Farthenos, or Virgin, signified her invincibiHty. It isworth notice that when the Parthenon, about the fifthcentury, was converted into a Christian church, it wasdedicated to the Blessed Virgin, f * Bishop Wordsworth, Athens and Attica, p. loo. t The Turks, after their…
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