Athens

ISOCRATES, Panegyric 50

"Our city of Athens has so far surpassed other men in its wisdom and its power of expression that its pupils have become the teachers of the world. It has caused the name of Hellene to be regarded as no longer a mark of racial origin but of intelligence, so that men are called Hellenes because they have shared our common education rather than that they share in our common ethnic origin."



Athens, 1674 (Jacques Carrey)


map of Athens 1784


Athens c.1800 (Fauvel)


Athens c.1800 (Coubault)


Athens, 1810 (Richard Temple)


Athens, 1829 (Franz Heger)
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