though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us; for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.  Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver or stone, graven by art and device of man.  The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked, but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:  inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead.”

The Acropolis is a great mass of stone near Mars’ Hill, but rising much higher and having a wall around its crest.  At one time, it is said, the population of the city lived here, but later the city extended into the valley below and the Acropolis became a fortress.  About 400 B.C. the buildings were destroyed by the Persians, and those now standing there in ruins were erected by Pericles.  The entrance, which is difficult to describe, is through a gateway and up marble stairs to the top, where there are large quantities of marble in columns, walls, and fragments.  The two chief structures are the Parthenon and the Erectheum.  The Parthenon is two hundred and eight feet long and one hundred and one feet wide, having a height of sixty-six feet.  It is so large and situated in such a prominent place that it can be seen from all sides of the hill.  In 1687 the Venetians while besieging Athens, threw a shell into it and wrecked a portion of it, but part of the walls and some of the fluted columns, which are more than six feet in diameter, are yet standing.  This building is regarded as the most perfect model of Doric architecture in the world, and must have been very beautiful before its clear white marble was discolored by the hand of time and broken to pieces in cruel war.  The Erectheum is a smaller temple, having a little porch with a flat roof supported by six columns in the form of female figures.

The Theseum, an old temple erected probably four hundred years before Christ, is the best preserved ruin of ancient Athens.  It is a little over a hundred feet long, forty-five feet wide, and is surrounded by columns nearly nineteen feet high.  The Hill of the Pynx lies across the road a short distance from the Theseum.  At the lower side there is a wall of large stone blocks and above this a little distance is another wall cut in the solid rock, in the middle of which is a cube cut in the natural rock.  This is probably the platform from which the speaker addressed the multitude that could assemble on the shelf or bench between the two walls.