New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-07

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..,.o NJ the rebellion which resulted in the ndcpehu
epce Of our country. .,
A.. ,sc,;o, ror officers was then held, with the fol-
,oud,,y ,esuh: President, Hon. LUTHER B2ADisH;
Id vice President Rev Thomas Dewitt, ID. d; "a do,
Frederick DE Peyster For Cor. Secretary, Rev Ia
ward Robinson, d. D. Dom Cor. Secretary, Hon JAS
W. Beekman: Recording Secretary, Msunsen Brad
bur,, Field Treasurcr, William Chauncey; Libra
nan George H. Moore.
The next business was the paper for the evening,
being come notice Of Athens the Acropolis and the
distinguished Professor of History recently OF the
OTTOMAN College Of Athens. He IL native OF Dem
mark
Professor KoEprEHs Lecture was illustrated win
.evera views Of the ParthenoD exhibiting the temple
rs stood in antiquity with its poychrone decorations
and ia ruins in their present condition after the recent
excavations around Its foundations and the partial
restoration Of It's columns by the architects OF King
tl,a Anr lie tppic
in antiquity was occupied by vast number OF sanrt-
mics stsrs and statues Of gods heroes and celebrated
Athenian and Roman Statesmen and poets, is at the
present day covered with immense heaps oil marble
blocks among which many precious sculptures ana In
scriptions have been found now deposited in the has
Of tho Propylaa On the left of the entrance are stl
seen the euuare foundations Of the pedestal on which
stood the colossal bronze statue of Minerva Promachoz
the masterpiece Of Athenan statuary The great tenn
ple of Minerva Che Prthenon) was built in the year
40 B. c. on the foundations of an older temple which
bad been been burnt down during the Persian wars
he eloquence Of Pericles excited the enthusiasm oil
lie A,hcnians to undertake this great national monu
ment Every citizen fastened to have hi she in the
hbors on the Acropolis the whole city was trans
formed into a working place. while thousands OF
mules aud oxen were dragging the huge marble
blocks from the quarries on Mount Pentelicon to the
hight of the castle rock The Parthenon signifies the
dwelling of the Virgin end was Doric temple, with
double row Of eight columns in each front and seven
teen In each flank, sixtyfour in all The hight OF
the autcd columns is thirty four feet their diameter
six feet two nchcs The length OF the temple Is two
hundred md twenty eight feet its breadth ono hun
bred and two feet 1t is raised on au immense plat
FORM having three stairs all around the building The
la1
on the east the hol0mos or virgins hail. where the I'M
preston Of the base of the colossal statue OF Minerva ID
still seen on the marble pavement. The western apart
mcnt WIS smaller it called op'thodomos. or back
room and servedas the treasury Of the Atheniln Re
pulc. ,hus placed beneath the imlic liae profession
of the tutela deity Of Atca large collection OF IN
seripion lately discovered on the Acropos, give the
most minute account Of the state of the public treasury
during different periods Of Athenian history, and con
Tain highly curious register of the precious arms vases
ard other yotve off rings adjoining the interior OF the
sanctuary Afer an Interesting detail OF the various
has reheis of the eze and metopcs aud ofthe statues
in the two pcdiments and lucid explanation oil the
late discoveries from elegant paintings by NJ Leon dc
La Bordc the lecturer dwolls with enthusiasm on the
beauty and taste of the poychromatc end golden orna
mcnts of tie aYcenis. Not only the celebrated ivory
statue of Minerva was richly adorned with golden
decorations but the same precious metal was proiu5e
w employed in the ornaments OF the other sc1ip'
lures and ON the glitierng shields on the iagades
of the temple Their relief sci on with the
mot brilliant culOrs. On the PaTthenon the two
peSiments and thc ground of the metopes were amt
cd in purple the igyIhs and the ground oil the irieze
wss of brilliant ezure blue and the whole peristyle
end both the eastern and crn poricos were richly
painted with elegant and ianeiu decorations These
colors are all metallic and Were applied on the " r5ie
by means OF a thin coating OF way Tie eNcIHSf
painting burnt on the marble by ire used by ta'
ancients In order TO give gloss and brancy 10 their
colors and to preserve them from injury 10y air or mos
ure The Greeks with their bright creative magma
uon and their high of beauty, living surrounded
by scenery which nature had touched with the most
brilliant tin,s of the rainbow boldly took up the hin;
thus given them aud adorned their sanctuan,s with
bright and gltcring coors in perfect harmony with the
natural objects around them. The Goths, the Danes
the Anglo saxons beneath their cold and cloudy sky,
admired the immense gray and gloomy piles Of their
Christian Churches the vaulted Ssles thercoo
and their bat;lem6n;cd castles. Tie Greeks, ON the
contrary were ioud Of sht ana lite they con'ecratei
darkness and death the sustcre detos Of the internal
regions end called the Furcs the sable sisters o. night
The DARLING hight of day surrounded the snowy abode
OF their olyman gods and tie luminous sanctuary OF
Psllas MhCSe on her lowering Acropolis. THUS the
painted decorations the Hellenic monuments may be
considered as being in the most perfect harmony
Of character and execution with their sculpture but
it was only during the plainly days Of Atheaan art-thc
age Of Pcr.ecs ard phdissthai forms of such excel
lent accurate and delicate design were produced. Mr..
Koeppen then gave the history Of the PaSihenon from
the earliest times down 10 the present day In the year
1857 this celebrated temple partly Destroyed by
the exlosionoi powder magazine bat the most bar.
barrie treatment which has received was in the elry
part of the present century, when Lord Elyn, thea
Epgish Ambassador a; Constsntinope, obtained t--
from the Grand sisnor to allow him collect
cid stones in snd about Athens lie proceeded with
his authority to disodge the freze> aud other oma.
mental parts of the temples especially Of the Psrthe
ncnto the statues, after grossly mu,ilstia,
them, and rendering almost worthless wha, be could
No, take AWAY The srht of this In AZ r.,s ,,