English Guide: Description of the Antiquities of Athens and Its Environs With a Catalogue of the Museums (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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When the visitor for the first time comes to Athens, as soon as his foot touches its classic soil, instinctively his mind turns towards the sacred Rock, and his steps are spontaneously directed to it, in order to pay the tribute of veneration to the sublime genius that flourished during the most glorious days of ancient Greece. He stands to admire the remains of those unrivalled masterpices, which like a luminous beacon shed across the world their rays of beauty, testifying to the former grandeur and magnificence of this country) which up to the present time has served as a model of perfection to wise men in all civilized countries. Tradition relates that the earliest settlers of the Acropolis were the Pelasgians, who levelled its top and constructed a wall of defence around it. Part of this wall, which consisted of huge rough blocks of stone, is still to be seen.

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