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His trees extended their cool, umbrageous branches over the merchants, who assembled in the Agora, for many generations. Those merchants certainly had deserved that act of bounty; for all the while their ships had been carrying forth the intellectual fame of Athens to the western world. Then commenced what may be called her University existence.
When Major Joe Mauser entered the swank Agora Bar, the little afternoon dance band broke into a few bars of that tune which was beginning to pall on him. "... I knew her heart was breaking, And to my heart in anguish pressed, The girl I left behind me." Nadine looked up from the little table she occupied and caught the wry expression on his face and laughed. "What price glory?" she said.
The government by the people was over, and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants had succeeded it. Socrates and Euripides walked with sad faces among the ruins on the Agora. Socrates spoke: "We are on the ruins of Athens' walls! We have become Spartans. We would have no tyrants, and now thirty rule over us." "I go to the North," said Euripides, "to Macedonia, whither I am invited."
The slain were not counted, but the number is even now measured by the space over which the blood flowed. For besides those who were slaughtered in the other parts of the city, the blood of those who fell about the Agora covered all the Keramicus within Dipylum: many say that it even flowed through the gates and deluged the suburbs.
He was considered to have borne the misfortune with more of passion than philosophy, not only in his lamentations and his embracings of the dead body and the heaviness of his grief, but also in his expenditure about the interment, and the trouble that he took about fragrant spices and costly vests which were burnt with the body, and a monument of polished Thasian stone of the cost of eight talents which was constructed in the Agora of Ænus.
Yes! the house of Athena on the Acropolis shall be your palace if you will, and they will cry in the Agora, ‘Way, way for Hermione, glorious consort of Democrates our king!’ ” “Sir,” spoke Hermione, while her hands grew chill, for now she was sure he raved, “I have not the joy to comprehend. There is no king in Athens, please Athena, there never will be.
Horsemen next, prancing chargers, the prizes from the Barbarian, and after them a litter. Noble youths bore it, sons of the Eupatrid houses of Athens. At sight of the litter the buzz of the Agora became a roar. “The beautiful! The fortunate! The deliverer! Io! Io, pæan!” Hermione stood; only her eyes followed the litter.
There is the Agora; there the half-built temple to Aeacus; above, the citadel, where yet hang the chains of the captive enemy; still linger in the ears of the populace, already vain of their prowess, and haughty in their freedom, the menace of the Persian the words that threatened them with the restoration of the exiled tyrant; and at this moment, and in this concourse, we see the subtle Milesian, wise in the experience of mankind, popular with all free states, from having restored freedom to the colonies of Ionia every advantage of foreign circumstance and intrinsic ability in his favour, about to address the breathless and excited multitude.
In public buildings other than temples such as the theatre, the agora, and the basilica the Greek architects seem to have had great scope for their genius; the planning of the theatres shows skilful and thoroughly complete provisions to meet the requirements of the case.
I need not mention the various architectural monuments of this classic city, each of which was a study the Temple of Theseus, the Agora, the Odeum, the Areopagus, the Gymnasium of Hadrian, the Lyceum, and other buildings of singular beauty, built mostly of marble, and adorned with paintings and statues.
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