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Show The Glory Of It PERICLES was one of the glorified names of ancient Greece. He fought his country's battles, he created a navy and a merchant fleet; he created and enforced wise laws and the echoes of his eloquence still ring down the stairs of the centuries. But the histories tell us that "the buildings in Athens and on the Acropolis formed the real glory of the Periclean age. A new theatre, termed the Odeon, was constructed for musical and poetical representations at the great Panathenaic solemnity; next the splendid temple of Athens, called the Parthenon, with all its masterpieces of decorative sculpture, friezes, and reliefs, lastly, the costly portals erected to adorn the entrance of the Acropolis, and on the western side of the hill through which the solemn sol-emn processions on festal days were conducted Nor was the sculpture less memorable than the architecture. Three statues of Athene, all by the hand of Phidias, decorated the Acropolis, one colossal, col-ossal, forty-seven feet high, of ivory in the Parthenon, Par-thenon, a second of bronze, called the Lemnium Athene, a third of colossal magnitude, also of bronze, called the Athene Promachos, placed between be-tween Propylaea and the Parthenon and visible from afar off even to the navigator approaching Piraeus by sea. One man performed that work. It not only made him immortal, but what he did lifted his country and city into a prominence that has never been equaled since anywhere upon tho earth. The proposition now is to put an adornment upon our now capitol that like the great statue on the Acropolis will be looked upon from afar ' and magnify the glory of our city and state. |