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CHAPTER VII.
THE ALTAR OF EUMENES AT PERGAMOS.
ON the Acropolis of Athens we watched the glory
and the consummation of Greek art; to the
Acropolis of Pergamos we must turn to see its
downfall and its ruin, and again the offering is made
to the honour of Athene. It is Athene who with her
shield on her arm, her aegis on her breast, is grasping
the strong-winged giant by the hair, and she is the
victress now as before,for near her floats Nike, the victory -
bringer, and conquest is assured. It is the meaning of
this triumph and the manner of its expression that we
must seek to understand.
The slab (Fig. 9) lies now in the Museum at Berlin,
but it came to us from the summit of the hill at Per-
gamos ; we have its history to learn in the present and
the past.
More than twenty years ago a young German en-
gineer whose name must always claim our reverence-
Carl Humann—travelling on the coast of Asia Minor
THE ALTAR OF EUMENES AT PERGAMOS.
ON the Acropolis of Athens we watched the glory
and the consummation of Greek art; to the
Acropolis of Pergamos we must turn to see its
downfall and its ruin, and again the offering is made
to the honour of Athene. It is Athene who with her
shield on her arm, her aegis on her breast, is grasping
the strong-winged giant by the hair, and she is the
victress now as before,for near her floats Nike, the victory -
bringer, and conquest is assured. It is the meaning of
this triumph and the manner of its expression that we
must seek to understand.
The slab (Fig. 9) lies now in the Museum at Berlin,
but it came to us from the summit of the hill at Per-
gamos ; we have its history to learn in the present and
the past.
More than twenty years ago a young German en-
gineer whose name must always claim our reverence-
Carl Humann—travelling on the coast of Asia Minor