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122 PROSPECT FROM THE PARTHENON. [cHAP. XV.
tected by an extended awning or velarium, worked
with embroidery. This supposition is founded on the
passage in the Ion of Euripides1 which has been proved
to allude to the structure of the Parthenon. In the
building there erected, which is a copy of the Par-
thenon, we have this provision made for the roof,
\afiwv v(pao~naO lepd Qnaavpwv irdpa
KareamaXe, Oav/uaT dv9p(07rots opqv'
evtjv o v(pavTal ypafi/xaffw Toialo u(pai.
He brought the hangings from the Temple's Store,
And spread them over-head, a wondrous Dome,
In which were woven these embroideries.
The site of the Parthenon is the highest point in
the city. It is also the centre of the Acropolis, as the
Acropolis was of Athens. Looking northward from it,
the city, and beyond it, the plain of Athens formed into
a great peninsula by mountains, lay before the view
of the ancient Athenians. The eye having been sated
with the splendour of the objects in the city below
it, might raise itself gradually, and passing northward
over corn fields and vineyards, farms and villages, such
as Colonus or Achamse, might at last repose upon some
sequestered object on the distant hills, upon the deep
pass of Phyle, or the solitary towers of Deceleia. Then
too there were appropriate living objects to enliven
such a scene. There would be rural sights such as
Aristophanes describes of husbandmen issuing out into
the fields, with their iron implements of agriculture
1 V. 1143.
tected by an extended awning or velarium, worked
with embroidery. This supposition is founded on the
passage in the Ion of Euripides1 which has been proved
to allude to the structure of the Parthenon. In the
building there erected, which is a copy of the Par-
thenon, we have this provision made for the roof,
\afiwv v(pao~naO lepd Qnaavpwv irdpa
KareamaXe, Oav/uaT dv9p(07rots opqv'
evtjv o v(pavTal ypafi/xaffw Toialo u(pai.
He brought the hangings from the Temple's Store,
And spread them over-head, a wondrous Dome,
In which were woven these embroideries.
The site of the Parthenon is the highest point in
the city. It is also the centre of the Acropolis, as the
Acropolis was of Athens. Looking northward from it,
the city, and beyond it, the plain of Athens formed into
a great peninsula by mountains, lay before the view
of the ancient Athenians. The eye having been sated
with the splendour of the objects in the city below
it, might raise itself gradually, and passing northward
over corn fields and vineyards, farms and villages, such
as Colonus or Achamse, might at last repose upon some
sequestered object on the distant hills, upon the deep
pass of Phyle, or the solitary towers of Deceleia. Then
too there were appropriate living objects to enliven
such a scene. There would be rural sights such as
Aristophanes describes of husbandmen issuing out into
the fields, with their iron implements of agriculture
1 V. 1143.