[Illustration:  TOMB FROM THE CERAMICUS, ATHENS.]

Until A.D. 1687 the Parthenon remained almost perfect, and then not age but a shell from the Venetians falling upon Turkish powder, made a rent which, when seen from below, makes it look like two temples.

[Illustration:  TOWER OF THE WINDS, ATHENS.]

The Temple of Theseus is the best preserved and one of the oldest of the buildings of ancient Athens.  It was founded in B.C. 469, and is a small, graceful, and perfect Doric temple.  Having served as a Christian church, dedicated to St. George, it escaped injury.  It contains the beautiful and celebrated tombstone of Aristion, the warrior of Marathon.

[Illustration:  THE ACROPOLIS, ATHENS.]

All that remains of Hadrian’s great Temple to Zeus (A.D. 132) are a few standing columns in an open space, which are imposing from their isolated position.

[Illustration:  OLD CORINTH AND THE ACROCORINTHUS.]

The monument of Philopappus is thought to have been begun A.D. 110, and for a king in Asia Minor.

[Illustration:  TEMPLE OF JUPITER, ATHENS.]

The Tower of the Winds, erected by Andronicus Cyrrhestes about B.C. 100, contained a weathercock, a sun dial, and a water clock.  It is an octagonal building, with reliefs on the frieze, representing by appropriate figures the eight winds into which the Athenian compass was divided.

[Illustration:  THE PANTHENON, ATHENS.]

In the Street of Tombs the monuments are lying or standing as they were found; each year shows many changes in Athens, a tomb last year in the Ceramicus may be this year in a museum.  There is a great similarity in all these tombstones; no doubt they were made beforehand, as they seldom suggest the idea of a portrait.  They generally represent an almost heroic leave-taking.  The friends standing in the act of saying farewell are receiving presents from the dead; often in the corner is a crouching slave, and frequently a dog.

[Illustration:  ERECTEUM, ATHENS.]

Beyond the river Kephiesus, the hill of Colonus, and the groves of the Academy, is the Pass of Daphne, which was the road to Eleusis, and along which passed the annual sacred processions in the days of the Mysteries.  Cut there in the rock are the niches for the votive offerings.  This dark Daphne Pass seems still to possess an air of mystery which is truly in keeping with the rites which were once observed there.

[Illustration:  NICHES FOR VOTIVE OFFERINGS ON THE SACRED WAY TO ELEUSIS.]

[Illustration:  TEMPLE OF CORINTH, FROM THE MONUMENT OF PHILOPAPPUS.]