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...lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory was filled yesterday afternoon by an audience which listened with the greatest interest to Dr. Wheeler's lecture upon the later history of the Parthenon...
...Wheeler said that the Parthenon was always regarded with the greatest veneration by the Athenians. The temple was a splendid offering to Athena, rather than a place for her worship; the Erechtheum was the temple devoted to her worship. Nothing shows the veneration of the Athenians for the Parthenon better than its history, for it was never desecrated in any way until the disappearance of the chryselephantine statue of Athen. This statue disappeared about the middle of the fifth century, A. D.; at about the same time the temple came into the hands of the Christians and became a church...
...Wheeler's remarks on the Greeks' conception of their gods, and how that conception was influenced by the work of the great sculptors were very interesting. This idea will be further developed in the next lecture, which will deal with the Marbles of the Parthenon...
...MONDAY.The Atheuian Acropolis. "The Athena Parthenos and the Marbles of the Parthenon." Illustrated lecture. Dr. Wheeler. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m. Open to the public...
...Athenian Acropolis. The Marbles of the Parthenon. Illustrated lecture. Dr. Wheeler. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m. Open to the public...