Title | Select views in Greece, Vol. 2 |
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Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green |
Date | 1829 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 64 plates; 38 cm |
Original Item Location | DF 723 .W54 1829 v.2 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b3279276~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | Public Domain |
Identifier | exotic_201304_008 |
Title | Page 51 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_008_054.jpg |
Transcript | ^ ODED Itf, OB THE THEATRE 01 \ I tut B HERODI 3, \ i in NS 'Puis fabric was designed b\ Perieles for the ,d contests, whieh he regulated and intnMlueetl at the Panatheiuean solemnity \ The building wa* finished l>\ Lycurgus, son of Lycophron, It |-ontaiued inanv rows of seats and marhle columns. The roof was OOMfl rueted with the masts and yards of Persian ships, and formed to imitate the pavilion of \er\e-. Here \\a^ the tribunal of the arehon or supTNM magistrate; and here the Athenians listened to the i - Ol Homer, and tO AM "in1 m praise of the patriots Hannodiiii and 4ristogiton, and Thrafjbuliis< kristion and BjUa -et it OO lire: the former, when he Med to poHtj because the timber would have enabled the enemy to raise tn;i<-hine- withoiit loss of time. King Ariobar/ai second, named Philojm- bor, who reigned in Oappadoda not long after, reetored it. lie u.i honoured with i statue by the ; p|x»uri from an inecripUon. -■ the entrance were the -tatin- I'<g'> p1 'I'his WM the e<lifiee in being when Pau-anias published hi- Atti.a: afterwards, as he inform- us, it fSJ rebuilt b\ Attii Ie-, in BsfmOfJ ol hfa wife Kegilla. 'Phis fabric was roofed with cedar, and Greece had not a rhral to it in dimensions and ma I he wall of the bnei front of the proscenium is still standiu !<.ft\, with open are In as part of the out-work of the Acropotia, ( ii win i I. ii. page j I * In allusion tl tinus takes occa- play called Thrattac: It. re comet our Jove, iwi, And on his hca«l \» hsM U»< Mtfl rmiin! I'i |