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Updated: May 17, 2025
Occupation at Athens Mount Pentilicus We descend into the Caverns Return to Athens A Greek Contract of Marriage Various Athenian and Albanian Superstitions Effect of their Impression on the Genius of the Poet During his residence at Athens, Lord Byron made almost daily excursions on horseback, chiefly for exercise and to see the localities of celebrated spots.
He affected to have no taste for the arts, and he certainly took but little pleasure in the examination of the ruins. The marble quarry of Mount Pentilicus, from which the materials for the temples and principal edifices of Athens are supposed to have been brought, was, in those days, one of the regular staple curiosities of Greece.
His mind and memory were filled with stores of the fittest imagery, to supply becoming backgrounds and appendages, to the characters and enterprises which he afterward depicted with such truth of nature and poetical effect. After leaving Rapthi, keeping Mount Pentilicus on the left, the travellers came in sight of the ever-celebrated Plain of Marathon.
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