The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-01

| of his life.
How unfortunate and ever to be re-
GREETED it is that nothing has come
down to us of this chryselephantine
wonder. 1t is said that the statue,
which was forty feet high, was re-
moved to Constantinople and persisted
there in a confagration. OF The
Athena which he made for the Par
/ thenon, likewise of gold and ivory, of
great beauty and dignity, nothing has
been preserved The gold alone in
this statue, of which the hair and
drapery was made. in value amounted
to forty talents, S750000 in our money
In all the great works which were
executed during the time of Pericles
we should not forget to recognize the
magnificent liberality Of this great
warrior and statesman who, with Law
ishing hands, furnished the treasure
which enabled Phidias and Ictinos
and their followers to make a reality
what their genius had conceived, and
in a spirit, much wanted in our day,
to glorify his country.
The influence which Pericles had
over his countrymen was sublime.
ION his lips Persuasion hung
And. powerful reason rule his tongue.
Thus he alone could boast the art
And charm at once, and pierce the
heart"
The COrinthean Columns.
The picturesque group of Corinthian
columns, fifty-six feet in hight, to the
right, is all that remains of the splen-
dor of the Temple of the Olympian
Zeus. 1t was begun by Peisistrates
$3.50 B. c., neglected and destroyed,
and finally completed during Hadrian's
reign. Its length was 1853 feet and in
width it measured 134 feet The sa-
cred precincts which enclosed a forest
of statues was 676 feet long by width
of 426 feet. Originally it possessed
near a hundred columns. There are
now thirteen in the large group, and
the single once standing alone with q
third fallen to the ground which oc-
Cured during violent storm in 1852.
Between these two groups and at a
short distance from it you see the
Hadrian arch. on which is inscribed
This side is the Athens of Hadrian
and not of Theseus." and on the other
This is the Athens of Theseus.'
TO the left of the base of the Aero
polls are the ruins of the Adeon erect
ed by Herodes Atticus in memory Of
his wife Appia ANNA Regilla, a noble
Roman lady.
To the right of these is the Theater
Dionysos, the cradle of the dramatic
art of Greece. where the plays of
Aeschylus, Sophocles. Euripides and
Aristophanes delighted the Athenians,
just discernible by the rows of marble
benches. Above these and on the ex-
IRENE end of the wall of the Acropolis,
the beautiful little temple Nike Ap-
teros is visible. Victory loosening her
sandal, reproduction is in our cast
room, beautiful relieve, comes from
this unique relic.
To the northeast and, therefore on
the other side of the Acropolis not
visible from this point, stands the tenn
pie ThesciOn. the tower of the winds,
and that graceful monument, the old
est of the Corenthian order, Lysikrates. |
A reproduction by mould is in the Met |
ropOlitan Museum in New York. The |
capitols of the columns of the porch |
at the entrance of the Telfair mansion |
are a reproduction of those of the Ly- |
Sicrates monument.
Surely these famed temples and mon |
uments We're a fit setting in whose |
bosom the Parthenon was the priceless |
pearl.
The Prison of Socrates.
To the extreme left, a low projection
of rock shows the opening of three |
chambers hewn in the solid rock this
is the so-called prison of Socrates. 1t |
is here where the sage spent the thirty
he refused the assistance of his friends
to escape and held those conversations
with Critic and Plato which made his
name immortal. 1t is here where the
hemlock was given him by his weep
ing jailor and died a godlike death. Is
there anything more touching save the
death of the Great Redeemer himself?
He believed in the Immortality of the
soul and forgiveness of his enemies,
t., 1,e~ esrr 10 nj Forth
by that low portal. l have stood with
in it's walls, and it is not easy to be
Indifferent on spots like this.
Piraeus, the Bay of Phaleron, Sala-
mis- and Eigina are hidden from view
by this slope of rock.
To the extreme right and beyond
lies modern Athens. The immediate
foreground represents the riverbed of
the Ilissos of which legend says
that the last waters of the great de-
luge disappeared in this vicinity.
From Athens to Rome.
If l have not already tired you by
my description of the Parthenon and
it's surroundings l win now be pleased
to have you accompany me in your
imagination to the Roman, Campagna.
En- route we pass the Bay of Corinth
with its wondrous blue waters. Patras,
famed for it's currents and
wine, Corfu with the charming villa
Achi1lion of the Inflated Empress of
Austria, Brindisi now as of old an i'm
portant starting point for Greece and
the East and Naples with it's unsur-
passed bay and the unfathomed phe-
nomenon the fire belching Vesuvius.
At Rome we will leave by the Via di
Porta S. Sebastian pass the ruins of
the Terme Caracala where the "Toro
Farnese" group was found. A little
farther on we pass the small church of
Domeni Quo Vadis SO named from the
legend of st. Peter, and still farther
the tomb of Caecilia Martella an object
always conspicuous in the views near
Rome. From this point on the view
of the Campagna is gradually unfold
ed and short distance beyond this
tomb we leave the Appian way on
the left we have this view before us.
The veil fell, revealing canvas of
the same size as the Acropolis picture,
and again after a short pause, the di-
rector continued his address:
The upheaval of red turf stone over
grown with wild grass and field flow
ers and here and there a scattering
shrub, form a becoming bold fore
ground and a picturesque contrast to
the distant purple mountains and the
broad. dreamy malaria breeding plain.
The middle distance is crossed by the
ruined arches of the Claudian and
Marcian Aquaducts. The restored por-
ton on the right is the Aqua Felice
which conducts in connection with an
underground conduit water from the
Alban mountains to Rome at the pres
ent time, distance of twenty-one
miles