Word: delphi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next Friday evening Mr. William Cranston Lawton will deliver under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club a public lecture in Sever 11, on the proposed excavation of Delphi under the direction of the Archaeological Institute of America. Less than a year ago Professor Norton delivered in the same place an address, in which, after making mention of the past and present aspect of the site of the ancient temple of Delphi, he gave some account of the attitude of the Greek government toward the American proposal to undertake investigation on Greek soil. Since that time matters have been gradually...
...LAWTON, 128 Mellen St., Agent of the Institute and Secretary of the Delphi committee...
...from William Cranston Lawton which deserves careful perusal. Up to this time, as will be seen America has contributed little or nothing to the furtherance of archaeological research in Greece, and has in fact in this respect no enviable record. Now, however, preparations are making for the excavation of Delphi and its surroundings under the direction of American scholars and these excavations, if successful, will go far toward proving America's claim to scholarly recognition. No more fruitful field certainly could have been chosen for the initial work than the site of ancient Delphi so replete with the historic associations...
Fifty thousand dollars of the one hundred and fifty thousand needed to purchase the site of ancient Delphi has been raised...
...ethics and morality. They thought of him as the fountain head of all virtue and goodness, and they therefore defied and worshipped him. Through all the ages Homer's place in literature has received as little injury from the hands of assailants as his statue in the temple at Delphi received at the hands of Xerxes' invading soldiers, and today we feel a reverence for him as true if not as humble as that of the Greeks...