Word: parthenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Van Fleet is not working, he likes to stroll about Athens' ancient hills, or to sit and watch the setting sun throw a rosy gleam over the Parthenon. Most of all, he likes to browse through the Athens Archaeological Museum, where he invariably stops before a bronze statue, by an unknown Greek sculptor of the 3rd Century B.C., which seems to symbolize his own character and task. It represents a horseman leaning forward on his steed, "With Will...
...Parthenon Above the Rubble. From the ferry returning to Stalingrad, the structure that stood out most prominently in the sun's slanting rays was the theater. On the high point of the bluff above the water, with its white-columned portico and low classical pediment, it recalled the Parthenon above Athens. The resemblance was not just physical. For what the architect told us was true. Since dialectical materialism rules out a next life, the good things of this life are the best hope the Soviet system has to offer. What their temples meant to the ancient Greeks, theaters symbolize...
...Feast of Peace. On the walls of the working-class district beneath the Parthenon, scrawled slogans gave a chronology of Greece's sorrow...
...London's Underground (subway) to hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
...night Athens was awesome. The darkness which engulfed the city was periodically pierced by flares parachuted by the R.A.F. to reveal ELAS troop movements. The floating flares also revealed the Parthenon in a new, glowing beauty. The Acropolis was again a fortress. Under cover of night British paratroopers descended on the historic (and once more strategic) eminence, found it unoccupied. All round them was ELAS-land, but the skytroopers were confident they could hold the precipitous heights against any assault. The only troops which had ever taken the Acropolis by storm were the Persians...