DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1755#0197
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152
APHID3SJE to ehamnus.
by Theseus. Above all, Hercules gave no encouragement to the arts, and he
was often satirized on the Athenian stage for his clownishness and gluttony.
Theseus was, on the other hand, the friend—he is called the cousin and
brother—of Dredalus, who formed the Cretan labyrinth for Minos, and who
first endued statues with the powers of motion and of sight: Theseus was also
the favourite, the son, of Neptune ; he built ships and encouraged commerce :
he worked mines and coined money, and he was the personification of an
accomplished citizen and enlightened statesman. In all these respects the
balance is greatly in favour of the Athenian hero; or, as it may be expressed in
other words, in all the arts and sciences which elevate the thoughts and promote
the welfare of man in social and civil life, the merits of Attica are asserted by
these traditions to have far eclipsed the pretensions of her Boeotian neighbour.
COAST OF E
FIlllM THE ATTIC SHORES.
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To return from these excursions in the regions of the early history of
this country to a survey of the scenery which suggested them—We pursue
our course from Aphidnse, in an easterly direction, over the high land of
Mount Fames till we arrive at the sea-coast, which is distant about ten miles
from the ruins of that place. The cliffs above the shore present magnificent
views of the channel of the Euripus, and of the bold and rocky coast of
Eubcea, sweeping in a varied line, and terminating at the south on the bay
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152
APHID3SJE to ehamnus.
by Theseus. Above all, Hercules gave no encouragement to the arts, and he
was often satirized on the Athenian stage for his clownishness and gluttony.
Theseus was, on the other hand, the friend—he is called the cousin and
brother—of Dredalus, who formed the Cretan labyrinth for Minos, and who
first endued statues with the powers of motion and of sight: Theseus was also
the favourite, the son, of Neptune ; he built ships and encouraged commerce :
he worked mines and coined money, and he was the personification of an
accomplished citizen and enlightened statesman. In all these respects the
balance is greatly in favour of the Athenian hero; or, as it may be expressed in
other words, in all the arts and sciences which elevate the thoughts and promote
the welfare of man in social and civil life, the merits of Attica are asserted by
these traditions to have far eclipsed the pretensions of her Boeotian neighbour.
COAST OF E
FIlllM THE ATTIC SHORES.
m
To return from these excursions in the regions of the early history of
this country to a survey of the scenery which suggested them—We pursue
our course from Aphidnse, in an easterly direction, over the high land of
Mount Fames till we arrive at the sea-coast, which is distant about ten miles
from the ruins of that place. The cliffs above the shore present magnificent
views of the channel of the Euripus, and of the bold and rocky coast of
Eubcea, sweeping in a varied line, and terminating at the south on the bay