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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon Dr Wheeler will deliver his sixth and last lecture on "Athenian Acropolis." These lectures have given men at college a good opportunity to hear something about the ancient architecture of Athens, and many have availed themselves of the privilege thus far. As this lecture ends the series all who can are urged to attend to night...
...lecturer said that in this and the following lectures he should take Pausanias as his guide. Pausanias is very unsatisfactory, but in his Piriegesis he has left us almost the only ancient description of the Acropolis we have, and it is merely fragmentary. From the first book of this work Dr. Wheeler translated the description of the Propylaea and used it as the basis of his lecture, filling in the imperfect outline given by Pausanias with the details discovered by modern research. With the assistance of stereopticon views of the ground plan of both the Acropolis and the Propylaea together...
...lecturer said in brief that the ancient world has passed away, but its arts and literature still remain, and from these we can bring everything before as connected with the life of the races which lived and flourished centuries ago. In all these traditional and historical remembrances, Homer is seen as a central figure. In the Greek world long ago he was the same glorious power that he is to us today. Seven hundred years before Christ, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey marked the beginning of the literature of all Europe, and through all the ages since they have been...
...northern portion of the city, and going a circular path towards the east, showing them the views he had collected. Rome, he said, had changed much in the last twenty-five years, and now there is a new and flourishing city built in among the relics of Ancient Rome...
...interest in this celebrated city will, doubtless, be of the same entertaining and instructive nature which has marked the two previous lectures of the course. The views which will be shown are of so varied a character that no student at all interested in the art or history of ancient or modern Rome can afford to miss this lecture...