. The Burton Holmes lectures;. Till-; IAK I IIKNON, \\UST 1-RONT lOO THE OLYMPIAN GAMES burned, their walls and columns were cracked and defaced,the precious offerings all were gone, and, worst of all, themarble population of the sacred hill had not escaped the furyof the Asiatic host. The statues of Athena, of the gods andgoddesses who had so long been worshiped here, had beentumbled from their pedestals, their members shattered by thefall, their faces marred by vandal hands. The arms, thelegs, the hands, the dainty fingers, the noses and the ears ofinnumerable divinities were scattered here
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. Till-; IAK I IIKNON, \\UST 1-RONT lOO THE OLYMPIAN GAMES burned, their walls and columns were cracked and defaced,the precious offerings all were gone, and, worst of all, themarble population of the sacred hill had not escaped the furyof the Asiatic host. The statues of Athena, of the gods andgoddesses who had so long been worshiped here, had beentumbled from their pedestals, their members shattered by thefall, their faces marred by vandal hands. The arms, thelegs, the hands, the dainty fingers, the noses and the ears ofinnumerable divinities were scattered here as if an avalanchehad swept across the sacred height. We do not wonder thatthe Athenians wept at sight of all that ruin. But then withan indomitable energy the people of Attica resolved to makea New Athens which should surpass the old whose loss theymourned. And first of all, that this determination to beginfrom the beginning should be plainly understood, they buriedall those muti- .^^^il^^^^^i^fc^^ lated deities in. THIC PARTHENON, EAST IRONT THE OLYMPIAN GAMES lOI
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