On Summer Seas: Including the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Ionian, the Adriatic, and the Euxine, and a Voyage Down the Danube (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Athens - Tawdry, showy aspect of the city and its inhabitants The palace and its garden - A soldier's funeral - The modern cemetery and the ancient Street of Tombs - The groves of Academe - The Stadium - The Acropolis - The Parthenon - The Temple of Theseus - The Areopagus - Barathrum, or the place of execution - Doctor Schliemann's Museum - The visit to Athens disappointing - Characteristics of the modern Greeks - Their abuse of the liberty of the press - The peasant and the political agitator.

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