A tour in Greece, 1880 . eace, warmth, and plenty; and instantly the imagination isabsorbed with undisturbed pictures of that far-away rustic lifeon which history is so silent, when flocks and herds rangedthese hills and dales in company with the stag and wild boar—when man, simple but not barbarous, shared these grovesand streams with creatures of his own imagination, with godsand nymphs and satyrs—or when, from their craggy homebelow, by the sounding falls of the Neda, long trains ofPhigalian citizens toiled up the steep ascent to offer sacrificeand praise to Apollo the Healer, the Averter o
A tour in Greece, 1880 . eace, warmth, and plenty; and instantly the imagination isabsorbed with undisturbed pictures of that far-away rustic lifeon which history is so silent, when flocks and herds rangedthese hills and dales in company with the stag and wild boar—when man, simple but not barbarous, shared these grovesand streams with creatures of his own imagination, with godsand nymphs and satyrs—or when, from their craggy homebelow, by the sounding falls of the Neda, long trains ofPhigalian citizens toiled up the steep ascent to offer sacrificeand praise to Apollo the Healer, the Averter of Evils, who hadhelped them in their sorest need. The edifice itself offers several architectural is a peripteral hexastyle of the Doric order, with fifteencolumns on each side. The material is a very close-grainedblue-grey stone, quarried on the spot. Of the thirty-eightexterior columns, only three have fallen, and upon the greater i!!l!iiiiiiiilllllllllililifllll!l!ii!!l!!iir illillilllllllilliiill.
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