History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . brick or, at the most, of rough idea of great and beautiful buildings for the offices of thegovernment was still unknown in the Mediterranean world, andno such building yet existed in Europe. Thus far the great publicbuildings of Greece were temples and not quarters for the officesof the government. 215. Pericles New Buildings on the Acropolis. As the citizenturns from the Painted Porch the height of the Acropolis towersabove him. There, on its summit, has always been the dwellingplace of Athena, wh
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . brick or, at the most, of rough idea of great and beautiful buildings for the offices of thegovernment was still unknown in the Mediterranean world, andno such building yet existed in Europe. Thus far the great publicbuildings of Greece were temples and not quarters for the officesof the government. 215. Pericles New Buildings on the Acropolis. As the citizenturns from the Painted Porch the height of the Acropolis towersabove him. There, on its summit, has always been the dwellingplace of Athena, whose arm is ever stretched out in protectionover her beloved Athens. Now at last Pericles has undertaken toreplace the ancient shrines burned by the Persians, on a scale ofmagnificence and beauty before unknown anywhere in the Greekworld. The tinkle of many distant hammers from the height abovetells where the stonecutters are shaping the marble blocks for thestill unfinished Parthenon, a noble temple dedicated to Athena(Figs. 43, 45, and plate, p. 144). There the people often see. A Corner of the PAKxiitNON U B G TcuLner Looking through the Doric colonnades at the southeast corner of the build-ing to the distant hills of Hymettus. On the left is the base of the wall of theinterior, blown out by the explosion of a Turkish powder magazine. At thetop of this wall was the frieze of Phidias, extending around the inner part ofthe building. From painting by Bethe-Lowe (f-ihine Prints by B. G. Teubner,Leipzig. The Prang Company, New Sork) Athens in the Age of Pericles 145 Pericles intently inspecting the buildings, as Phidias the sculptorand Ictinus the architect of the Parthenon follow him up anddown the inclosure, explaining to him the progress of the work. 216. Phidias and the Parthenon Sculptures. Phidias was thegreatest of the sculptors at Athens. In a long band of carvedmarble extending entirely around the Parthenon (plate, p. 144)
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