. Men of old Greece, by Jennie Hall. ii -_ o - o = .- y. — - - - - x a = M Phidias and the Part/tenon 187 in the greatest and most beautiful processionof all (Ireeee. Not only the house-tops were filled withpeople looking on. In open places plat-forms had been built, and they were filledwith gay men and women. People stood in ^ *• V,. WOMEN OF ATIIKNS AT THE PANATHENAIC FESTIVAL the porches of temples, or crowded the cor-ners of the market-place. They were visit-ors from all the world, come to see this greatfestival. Athenian women were there whocould not take the long walk, and fathers andmot
. Men of old Greece, by Jennie Hall. ii -_ o - o = .- y. — - - - - x a = M Phidias and the Part/tenon 187 in the greatest and most beautiful processionof all (Ireeee. Not only the house-tops were filled withpeople looking on. In open places plat-forms had been built, and they were filledwith gay men and women. People stood in ^ *• V,. WOMEN OF ATIIKNS AT THE PANATHENAIC FESTIVAL the porches of temples, or crowded the cor-ners of the market-place. They were visit-ors from all the world, come to see this greatfestival. Athenian women were there whocould not take the long walk, and fathers andmothers who wrere too old to go, and childrenwho were too young. Houses and columnsand statues were hung with garlands of 188 Men of Old Greece flowers. The city would not be so beauti-ful again for four years, until the next Pan-athenaic festival. In the distance, all the time, ahead ofthe procession, the Acropolis arose. Thegreat bronze Athene watched her peoplecome. Her shining spear seemed to beckonthem. Now they had left the market-place andwere winding up the steep front of theAcropolis. All foreigners had stayed freemen of Athens might set foot onthe Acropolis,—men and women with heroesfor ancestors. They looked up lovingly atthe tall bronze Athene. The people hadhad that statue made at the end of the Per-sia
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