Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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^1 irecting with which the Spartans beheld the maritime
the ene- predominance of the Athenians, Pericles com-
affairs o( manded the army, and was defeated, notwith-
^ new as. standing great personal valour. To satisfy
il seemed the people, he proposed a decree for recalling
freedom, Cimon, by whom a peace was effected with
ic son of Lacedaemon. After the death of Cimon, his
i'; union* brother-in-law Thucydides, the orator, was
>ras, and opposed as a check to the increasing power of
their in- / Pericles. Between these two ambitious rivals
personk the city was divided into an aristocratical and
Br8t j]e democratical opposing party; and, with the
>V encou- latter Pericles strove to ingratiate himself by
tinments, every practicable method. To clear the place
publican °^ Qse^ess anc^ obnoxious persons, he settled
Less than c°l°n^es m Asia Minor, Thrace, and Italy,
i jj]e " But that," says Plutarch, " which was the

chief delight and ornament of Athens and the
wonder of strangers, and which alone serves
to prove that the boasted power and opulence
of ancient Greece is not an idle tale, was the
magnificence of the temples and public edi-
fices/' Against the reproaches of his enemies,
who accused him of wasting the public trea-
sure upon expensive buildings, he advanced

distance,
or of the
ratboiitj

of which
imself of
3 banish-
onnesian
jealousy