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OBJECTS OF THE AGOEA.
cherish the memory of the Dead with warmer affection than they court the
favour of the Living.
Such are the most remarkable objects contained in the Agora of Athens.
We speak, be it remembered, as beholding it in the times of its glory;
GATE Ot THE HEW AGORA, CALLED ALSO HADKIAS'S ABCH.
the Gate of the New Agora represented above is evidently of Boman origin.
Taking then a general survey of the whole, from the south-west angle of the
Acropolis, we observe at its farthest extremity a vista formed by the two
parallel colonnades, which lead those who come from the north-west gate of
the city into the curved area of which the Agora consists. We behold tins
area itself, lying between two hills, which sink gradually into it; we see it
encircled with a zone of stately edifices, shaded by rows of Oriental Plane-
trees planted by the hand of Cimon son of Miltiades : in its centre is an altar,
the geographical focus of Attica: visible beneath the trees and in front of the
Temples, are statues of marble, bronze, and gold, giving to this spot the
appearance not merely of a great national Atrium or Hall, whither the People
of Athens resort as to their common home, but also of a civic Museum 01
Architecture, Sculpture, and of Painting, where they learn to admire and love
the Arts which give perpetuity to the past; and by exhibiting Men and
Things, noble in themselves, as invested with greater nobleness, and enduing
212
OBJECTS OF THE AGOEA.
cherish the memory of the Dead with warmer affection than they court the
favour of the Living.
Such are the most remarkable objects contained in the Agora of Athens.
We speak, be it remembered, as beholding it in the times of its glory;
GATE Ot THE HEW AGORA, CALLED ALSO HADKIAS'S ABCH.
the Gate of the New Agora represented above is evidently of Boman origin.
Taking then a general survey of the whole, from the south-west angle of the
Acropolis, we observe at its farthest extremity a vista formed by the two
parallel colonnades, which lead those who come from the north-west gate of
the city into the curved area of which the Agora consists. We behold tins
area itself, lying between two hills, which sink gradually into it; we see it
encircled with a zone of stately edifices, shaded by rows of Oriental Plane-
trees planted by the hand of Cimon son of Miltiades : in its centre is an altar,
the geographical focus of Attica: visible beneath the trees and in front of the
Temples, are statues of marble, bronze, and gold, giving to this spot the
appearance not merely of a great national Atrium or Hall, whither the People
of Athens resort as to their common home, but also of a civic Museum 01
Architecture, Sculpture, and of Painting, where they learn to admire and love
the Arts which give perpetuity to the past; and by exhibiting Men and
Things, noble in themselves, as invested with greater nobleness, and enduing