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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THE CITY.

Our account of those remains of the ancient
magnificence of Athens, with which our coun-
try, by the acquisition of the Elgin collection,
has been so inestimably enriched, will be ren-
dered more intelligible, by a cursory view of
the city, before the number of its Temples,
Fora, Gymnasia and Porticoes was diminish-
ed, as it is at the present day, not only by the
ravages of time, but by a more than ordinary
share of hostile devastation. Pausanias, to
whom all subsequent writers in Greece have
been much indebted, lived in the time of
Hadrian; he visited Athens probably about,
or somewhat previous to, the year of oar Lord
170. Under the auspices of the emperor, the
havoc which had been made in the public