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Professor Dorpfeld will interpret Thucydides II. 15 on next Saturday morning, at 12 o'clock, in Harvard...
Professor Dorpfeld's interpretation of this celebrated passage will have an intrinsic interest, as the statement by a learned man of the grounds of his opinion on an important question; but many who hear him will feel even a greater interest in observing his method, which has become famous. I venture, therefore, to call the attention of students, especially of those students who are engaged in investigation in any department of the University, to the appointment which Professor Dorpfeld has kindly consented to make...
...subject of Professor Dorpfeld's third lecture last night in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum was the Acropolis of Athens. A beautiful picture of the Acropolis was thrown on the screen before the lecture began, which transported the audience in imagination to Athens, and brought before their eyes the celebrated citadel of Pallas Athena. Professor Dorpfeld, in his opening words, designated this famous spot as the place where still we get the truest conception of the surpassing beauty of Greek art. Other pictures of the Acropolis were shown, with explanatory comment on its monuments and history...
...lecturer then undertook a periegesis of the citadel, with the aid of a plan and many pictures, and described in detail its defences, gateways, and temples,- the Parthenon, built by Pericles; the old temple of Athena, which Dr. Dorpfeld himself discovered and named; and finally the Erechtheum, that most beautiful of the buildings of ancient Athens. The well-known Porch of the Maidens, or Caryatids, he believes to have been the approach to the grave of Cecrops...
Professor Dorpfeld lectures tonight on Tiryns and Mycenx...