. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 109 see that Greece has borne up beneath the burden of theRomans, Goths, and Ostrogoths, of the Vandals and theSlavs, of the Franks, the Catalans, and the Venetians,and — for the list is not yet finished — of the Florentines,the Genoese, and for nearly four hundred years she has allbut succumbed beneath the barbarous oppression of the the traveler need not be deeply versed in historynor in art to feel the charm that with the evening descendsupon the sacred height of the Acropolis. The time-stainedpillars of the Parthenon are bathed in

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. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 109 see that Greece has borne up beneath the burden of theRomans, Goths, and Ostrogoths, of the Vandals and theSlavs, of the Franks, the Catalans, and the Venetians,and — for the list is not yet finished — of the Florentines,the Genoese, and for nearly four hundred years she has allbut succumbed beneath the barbarous oppression of the the traveler need not be deeply versed in historynor in art to feel the charm that with the evening descendsupon the sacred height of the Acropolis. The time-stainedpillars of the Parthenon are bathed in an atmosphere ofrosy glory, the fluted columns reflect the sunset fires onceagain as thev have done unnumbered times before. No ;not unnumbered ; for we know the date of their ARCHAIC (iOUDliSSliS I 10 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES

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