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...much interest was shown by several of the students after Professor Norton's lecture on Delphi that the Classical club asked Mr. Lawton to tell what has been done since. In response to their invitation he lectured last evening in Sever hall...
...pretty well acquainted with the descriptions of the beautiful situation of ancient Delphi but now the seat of the temple is covered with some two hundred huts of natives. A few remaining facts may not be out of place. The old temple was burned in 548. No one knows how long it had been built nor exactly how it was constructed. Only a single chamber, the one containing the oracle, was saved from the fire and this was built into the new temple. Apollo was the chief deity but there are some proofs that Bacchus was worshiped there before Apollo...
Harvard Classical Club. The proposed excavations at Delphi. Mr. William Cranston Lawton. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The Public are invited...
Harvard Classical Club. The proposed excavations at Delphi. Mr. William Cranston Lawton. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The Public are invited...
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...