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CHAPTER VII.
ATHENS.
•AIA' EJ2' AGHNAI 6H2EQ2 "H nPIN nOAIS.
Inscription on Hadrian's Gate at Athens.
This Athens is the antique town of Theseus.
The" town of Athens is now lying in ruins. The
streets are almost deserted: nearly all the houses are
without roofs. The churches are reduced to bare
walls and heaps of stones and mortar. There is but
one church in which the service is performed. A few
new wooden houses, one or two of more solid struc-
ture, and the two lines of planked sheds which form
the bazar are all the inhabited dwellings that Athens
can now boast. So slowly does it recover from the
effects of the late war.
In this state of modern desolation, the grandeur
of the ancient buildings which still survive here is
more striking: their preservation is more wonderful.
There is now scarcely any building at Athens in
so perfect a state as the Temple of Theseus. The
least ruined objects here, are some of the ruins them-
selves.
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ATHENS.
•AIA' EJ2' AGHNAI 6H2EQ2 "H nPIN nOAIS.
Inscription on Hadrian's Gate at Athens.
This Athens is the antique town of Theseus.
The" town of Athens is now lying in ruins. The
streets are almost deserted: nearly all the houses are
without roofs. The churches are reduced to bare
walls and heaps of stones and mortar. There is but
one church in which the service is performed. A few
new wooden houses, one or two of more solid struc-
ture, and the two lines of planked sheds which form
the bazar are all the inhabited dwellings that Athens
can now boast. So slowly does it recover from the
effects of the late war.
In this state of modern desolation, the grandeur
of the ancient buildings which still survive here is
more striking: their preservation is more wonderful.
There is now scarcely any building at Athens in
so perfect a state as the Temple of Theseus. The
least ruined objects here, are some of the ruins them-
selves.
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