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Pictures Of Hellas - Five Tales Of Ancient Greece (1888) (Paperback)
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Pictures Of Hellas - Five Tales Of Ancient Greece (1888) (Paperback)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE
HETAERIA. Hipyllos had not mentioned where he was going. Old
Myrmex, who accompanied him with a blazing pine-torch, did not rack
his brains to discover, but trudged on with dull indifference,
following his young master step by step. His most distinct feeling
was that he was beginning to be tired. They had already traversed
the greater part of Athens, and at this time ? the year Chabrias
was archon ? Athens was a large city. Shortly after sunset the
master and slave had quitted Hipyllos' house, just-inside the
Acharnian Gate, and passed through the length of Colonus, the most
northern portion of the city. Then they walked by the " Big Stones
" of the Acropolis with their numerous niches for votive offerings,
which may still be seen at the present day. From the Prytaneium
they had followed the Street of the Tripods, with its temples of
the gods and huge brazen tripods, and had gone from the Odeium down
through the Theatre of Dionysus, over whose orchestra people were
in the habit of making a short cut, as the huge building, with the
exception of a few festival days, stood empty almost all the year.
Next they had followed the Street of the Temples along the southern
edge of the citadel, where no fewer than six marble temples gleamed
through the twilight shadows at the foot of the dark cliff.
Hipyllos had made this circuit to consume the time until the lamps
were lighted in the houses. The moment had now come, more and more
points of light glimmered through the dusk. From the Street of the
Temples master and man turned into a narrow alley, which wound
between the houses, trees, and garden-walls. There was and is still
a marked difference between the air in this quarter and the
atmosphere of the rest of Athens. South of the Acropolis a
refreshing sea-breeze usually...
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