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...carefully selected so as to give a harmonious combination of colors. The other ornamentations are principally in silver and gold. In the matters of scenery, too, it has been the aim of the managers to have it perfectly consistent. It is worked up from illustrations and descriptions of Athenian houses and representations of Athens as it was about 300 B. C. As in the classical drama, the unity of place was strictly observed. Only one scene is necessary and that represents the street in front of the houses of Micio and Sostrata, with a view of Athens on the right...
...rumored that a well-known professor recently discovered a papyrus manuscript of the Iliad of the date 308 B. C., in an Athenian monastery...
...poets sing Athenian girls...
...evening, will be found numerous books of reference on artistic subjects, and particularly upon subjects connected with the Fine Arts courses in college. Among other works which have been lent to the Club are the folio History of Athens, by Stuart and Revet, and Penrose's Principles of Athenian Architecture. In addition to these books of reference several of the leading Art journals will be found in the rooms, such as the Portfolio, L'Art, and the Gazette des Beaux Arts...
...page 3 of the "Studies of the Year 1874-75," after line 27, insert "9. Thucydides (Books I. and II.). - Demosthenes (Law Orations). - Athenian Legal Antiquities. Two or three times a week. Prof. GOODWIN...