4 Jacques Carrey made a series of one
hundred careful drawings of the Parthenon, which were confirmed by two
English travellers, Messrs. Spon and Wheler, in 1675. These were the
last visitors who saw it before its destruction.

The Acropolis Museum is also built on the hill. It contains many
interesting things that could not be allowed to remain exposed to the
weather.

The vast Theatre of Dionysius, which held 30,000 people, is also here.

There are many other fine buildings, statues and temples on the
Acropolis, but space will not permit of their description.

We descend to a lower plateau and there find the remains of the vast
Temple of Zeus Olympus, called by Aristotle, "a work of despotic
grandeur," "in accordance," as Livy adds, "with the greatness of the
god." It contained an immense statue of Zeus. Originally it had more
than one hundred imposing marble Corinthian columns, arranged in double
rows of twenty each on the north and south sides, and triple rows of
eight each at the ends. Its size was three hundred and fifty-three by
one hundred and thirty-four feet, which was exceeded only by the Temple
of Diana. To its left is the Arch of Hadrian. Looking east is seen
the Stadium or racecourse. Here the Pan-Athenian games were held in
olden times. It was laid out in 330 B.C., and has been restored in
solid white marble by a rich Greek. It cost a large sum of money and
will accommodate a multitude of spectators. The first year in which
the revival of the games took place the Greek youths won twelve out of
twenty-seven prizes, the others going to various nationalities.

[Illustration: HANGING THREE LEADERS OF THE ARMENIAN MASSACRE ON THE
GALATA BRIDGE, CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 3, 1909]

Beyond in the suburbs lies the public park owned by Academus in the
fifth century before Christ. Plato and many other philosophers taught
their pupils here, and from the name of the owner is derived the word
academy.

These are but a few of the commanding sights of Athens. No attempt
will be made to speak of the men and the wars that made her the _multum
in parvo_ of human history. The modern Greeks are a serious and decent
people; they seem to be impressed with the fact that their ancestors
were the salt of the earth, and at least try to be worthy of them.
There is no begging in the streets (the Greeks being too proud to beg),
and the people are quite respectable for their opportunities. Their
city is well laid out a