. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . the city had taken in the great victory over the hosts ofXerxes. From the earliest days of the citys history, theAcropolis had been the center of the religious life of Athens,and its inner stronghold. It is a bare rock which rises some200 feet above the level of the city, and is about 900 feet inlength by 500 feet at its greatest width. This eminence,with its beautiful outlook over the Attic plain and the bluestretch of the Saronic Gulf, was a fitting site for the citysglory. 200. Character of Greek Architecture.—The Greeks we
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . the city had taken in the great victory over the hosts ofXerxes. From the earliest days of the citys history, theAcropolis had been the center of the religious life of Athens,and its inner stronghold. It is a bare rock which rises some200 feet above the level of the city, and is about 900 feet inlength by 500 feet at its greatest width. This eminence,with its beautiful outlook over the Attic plain and the bluestretch of the Saronic Gulf, was a fitting site for the citysglory. 200. Character of Greek Architecture.—The Greeks wereendowed by nature with an inborn love for beautiful things,with fine taste, and a sense of harmony such as few peopleshave had. In epic and lyric poetry, and in the Atheniandrama, this sense of beauty expressed itself in works ofperfect beauty; while in architecture its most character-istic form appeared in the temples of the gods. The Greektemple architecture is one of the gifts of Greece to civiliza-tion, which has never been lost. All of our cities contain.
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