. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE WRECK OF AGES intact. The Turks were masters then in Greece ; a Turkishgarrison occupied the Acropolis ; the Erectheum was aseraglio ; the Parthenon, after having served as a mosque,had been converted into a powder magazine. Venice, in1687, sent her armies to dislodge the infidels. A shell fromthe Venetian batteries upon a neighboring hill, found its way,hke a messenger of destruction into the former temple of.

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