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With this permission the artists proceeded to take, down the sculptures, the most important of which were those of the Parthenon. Architectural specimens were also taken from the Propylaea, Nike Apteros, and Erechtheum. Between two and three hundred more were engaged several months in remov-these marbles from the Acropolis and lower city, so that when Lord Elgin stopped at Athens on his return to England be found two hundred cases ready for shipment. Some of them were lost by shipwreck in the Mediterranean and it was not until 1812 that all were safely landed in England. At first these...
Yesterday afternoon, in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Dr. Wheeler gave the third of his series of lectures on the Athenian Acropolis. The subject of the lecture was the temple of Athena Nike...
...Wheeler will deliver, this afternoon, in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, the third lecture on the Athenian Acropolis. The principal topic of the lecture will be the Pyrgos, the temple of Athena Nike and the Parthenon...
...Athenian Acropolis. The Temple of Athena Nike." Introductory remarks on the Farthenon. Illustrated lecture. Dr. Wheeler. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m. Open to the public...
...topics of the third lecture are: 1, The Pyrgos and Temple of Athena Nike. 2. Continuation of Pausanias' description, I. 23, 5-24, 4. 3. The early temple destroyed by the Persians. 4. The Parthenon. (a) Questions as to its date...