DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4325#0018
CHAPTER V.
OF GREECE.
PLATE I.
RUIN NEAR THE PORT OF yEGINA.
" The present view is taken from the site of the ancient city in the island of ^Egina. The two
Doric columns, supporting an architrave, are a remnant, as supposed, of a Temple of Venus.
Situated near the port, the walls of the ports and arsenal may be traced to a considerable extent.
From an eminence may be discovered the Acropolis of Athens, seated on a hill, near the middle of
a plain, and encompassed with mountains, except toward the sea; a portion of its territory, covered
with dusky olive groves, looking black, as if under a dark cloud." (Chandler, p. 11.)
OF GREECE.
PLATE I.
RUIN NEAR THE PORT OF yEGINA.
" The present view is taken from the site of the ancient city in the island of ^Egina. The two
Doric columns, supporting an architrave, are a remnant, as supposed, of a Temple of Venus.
Situated near the port, the walls of the ports and arsenal may be traced to a considerable extent.
From an eminence may be discovered the Acropolis of Athens, seated on a hill, near the middle of
a plain, and encompassed with mountains, except toward the sea; a portion of its territory, covered
with dusky olive groves, looking black, as if under a dark cloud." (Chandler, p. 11.)