Word: propylaea
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Another large audience gathered in the lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to listen to Dr. Wheeler's second lecture on the Acropolis. The first lecture had been introductory; the second began the study of the Acropolis, the Propylaea being the first topic considered in detail...
...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 with views illustrating the architecture, he succeeded...
...Athenian Acropolis. "The Propylaea." Illustrated lecture. Dr. J. R. Wheeler. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m. Open to the public...
...Wheeler will give today the second of his lectures on the Acropolis at Athens. The Propylaea will form the topic of the lecture...
...Introductory remarks on Pausanias. Translation from his Piriegesis, I. 22, 4-23, 4, with some omissions. 2. Description of the Propylaea. 3. The ascent of the Acr polis at different periods. 4. Later history of the Propylaea...