The brochure extols…
Athens
The pride of Greece, the evidence of a period that has never been duplicated — this is Athens. Small wonder
the inhabitants revere the many treasures still preserved from the golden age of Pericles. Small wonder, too, that
they will beam with pleasure at your every expression of admiration for an art so pure in line.
Shortly after you enter Athens, the Acropolis, standing in eloquent majesty above the city, will draw you entranced
to its world-famed Parthenon, and to the Erechtheum with its Porch of Maidens. Everywhere the spirit of Socrates,
Aeschylus, and Diogenes will seem to come to life as you view the beauties of their culture.
Before descending Mars Hill to the place where St. Paul preached to the Stoics, you will want to scan the broad
panorama of fertile fields, and the modern city of Athens spread before your feet. Although much of Greece is in
foreign museums, there is still a fantastic wealth of ancient culture here to be seen…
- the Theseum, an almost perfect miniature of the Parthenon
- the Odeon, the ancient open air theatre where the plays of Sophocles and Euripides were presented
- Hadrian's Temple of Zeus
- the Classics Museum
- and the excavated ruins of the Agora to mention but a few
