. The Burton Holmes lectures;. AT PRACTICE Stadium, non-existent for longcenturies, was restored at theexpense of one man, a mod-ern Croesus — a Greek of Alex-andria, whose name, GiorgiosAveroff, has been connectedwith a thousand other works ofpublic use and public Athenian Stadium was firstlaid out three hundred andthirty years before the birth ofChrist. The spectators of oldsat on the grassy slopes of thetwo long hill-like embankmentswhich faced each other on bothsides of the race-course, andwere joined at one end by an imposing hemicycle. Aboutfive hundred years later, in the da
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. AT PRACTICE Stadium, non-existent for longcenturies, was restored at theexpense of one man, a mod-ern Croesus — a Greek of Alex-andria, whose name, GiorgiosAveroff, has been connectedwith a thousand other works ofpublic use and public Athenian Stadium was firstlaid out three hundred andthirty years before the birth ofChrist. The spectators of oldsat on the grassy slopes of thetwo long hill-like embankmentswhich faced each other on bothsides of the race-course, andwere joined at one end by an imposing hemicycle. Aboutfive hundred years later, in the days of the Romans, awealthy citizen, Herodes Atticus, said to the people, Atyour next gathering here I promise you a stadium all ofmarble. And he kept his word. In 1896 a modern millionaire made a similar promise andfulfilled it. The Stadium was restored according to theancient be seen hereand there aredarker stonesfrom the orig-in a 1 structureamong the new-er blocks, hav-ing been foundand set up in. GET SET ! THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
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