Image from page 102 of "St. Nicholas (serial)" (1873)

Identifier: stnicholasserial81dodg

Title: St. Nicholas [serial]

Year: 1873 (1870s)

Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905

Subjects: Children's literature

Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.]

Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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they played his Alcestis ? Oh, yes, spoke up Charmides; that partwhere Hercules breaks into the house of mourningand makes such a jolly row, scolds every one forwearing a solemn face, and keeps calling for re-freshments ; and then, like the true old hero heis, fights a duel with Death, and brings Alcestisback to her husband. There is a boy at our gym-nasium who cant bear what Euripides writes ; his chariot, running by the side of the horses for along distance, and then remounting with abound. Then there were the recitations of poems,the musical exercises, and dances at the Odeon,and finally, on the fourth day, the procession.All the citizens met in the Ceramicus, or pottersquarter, and marched out to Eleusis, a town to thenorth of Athens, and making the circuit of a very-large temple in honor of Ceres, returned to Athens,halting at the Areopagus, or Mars Hill, where, later,St. Paul made a memorable address. Then thepeople mounted by an immense marble staircase to MYRTO S FESTIVAL. 85

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THE PROCESSION—THE ATHLETES. the Acropolis, a high hill on which were crowdedthe principal temples of Athens, the chief of whichwas the Parthenon, which had just been completedin honor of Pallas. In this procession the old menled, bearing branches of trees; next followed theyoung girls of noble families, bearing a beautifulcrocus-colored mantle, richly embroidered, for thestatue of Pallas. Next came the deputations fromallied cities, the distinguished guests, as weshould say nowadays. Then more people with of-ferings, and the athletes on horses or in chariots,which must have been left. at the foot of the stair-case, and then the great mass of the people. Atlast they reached the Parthenon, decorated withsculptures from the studio of Phidias. The friezeis now in the British Museum, brought there, fromGreece, by Lord Elgin. And what do you imagine itrepresents ? What butthis very same joyousfestival procession, justas I have explained it toyou. The building musthave been a marvel ofbea

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