Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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... century grandeur of Magna Graecia . Beneath all lies Phoenicia , mysterious , secret and remote . Cyrene has its sixth century temple of Pythian Apollo , where priestesses inebriated with sacred laurel leaves gave tongue as at Delphi ...
... century grandeur of Magna Graecia . Beneath all lies Phoenicia , mysterious , secret and remote . Cyrene has its sixth century temple of Pythian Apollo , where priestesses inebriated with sacred laurel leaves gave tongue as at Delphi ...
Page 135
... century grandeur of Magna Graecia . Beneath all lies Phoenicia , mysterious , secret and remote . Cyrene has its sixth century temple of Pythian Apollo , where priestesses inebriated with sacred laurel leaves gave tongue as at Delphi ...
... century grandeur of Magna Graecia . Beneath all lies Phoenicia , mysterious , secret and remote . Cyrene has its sixth century temple of Pythian Apollo , where priestesses inebriated with sacred laurel leaves gave tongue as at Delphi ...
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... century duomo rose on the great Doric columns of the sixth century B.C. temple of Athene , once , says Cicero , the most magnificent building of Syracuse with its golden adornments that shone over the sea , a beacon to sailors . Now the ...
... century duomo rose on the great Doric columns of the sixth century B.C. temple of Athene , once , says Cicero , the most magnificent building of Syracuse with its golden adornments that shone over the sea , a beacon to sailors . Now the ...
Contents
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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