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Title: The Burton Holmes lectures;
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : The Little-Preston co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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A I!\/,A.N11NE CHURCH This mingling of the souvenirs of far separated epochs isin many places strikingly apparent. Stately columns rearedby Hadrian when Rome was mistress of the world stand likea group of minarets beside an old dilapidated mosque built bythe Turk when he was striving after universal sway. Then,looking through the portico of the Moslem builder, we see amodern house erected in the reign of George the First, kingof the Greeks of to-day. And, did we care further toprosecute our search, we could find structures built by the 32 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES Franks and the Venetians who in turn were masters of theland, and on the slope of the Acropolis, almost within theshadow of the Parthenon, we may find a little group of dwell-ings so like the whitewashed houses in the native quarter ofAlgiers that we expect to see at every corner the flowingburnoose of an Arab Kaid. This is, however, the abode ofpoverty, the headquarters of the laundresses of Athens. The
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VZANTINE AND ROMAN RlINS THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 33 newly washed linen of the Athenians is hung out to dry uponthe sacred slope of classic Athens ; for though old Athenslodged her gods in temples of immortal grandeur, and herrich men in splendid palaces, her humble citizens and hermany slaves were miserably provided for. The public lifewas everything, the home was but a place to sleep. Evento-day the poor Athenians make of the public thoroughfare aworkshop, sleeping-room, or restaurant, according to thehour. At lunch-time many a young Pericles and Alcibiadesmay be seen feastingon bread and jamupon the public curb ;and while discoursingupon sweet things Imust not fail to speaka word in praise ofthe celebrated hone\of Hymettos which isserved us every morn-ing, and it is indeeddelicious. The clas-sic bees of Mt. Hy-mettos, have, it issaid, now emigratedto another height,but, perhaps becausethe honey is so sticky,the old name adheresto it. Another veryunique feature of ourAthenian breakfastsis

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