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A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life

Note * — Chapter XIV · The Peiræus and the Shipping.

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Acharn. 54 ff.

[+] Pericles employed the famous architect Hippodamus to lay out the Peiræus. It seems to have been arranged much like many of the newer American cities.

[&] There seems to have been still another precinct, sacred to “Zeus and Athena the Preservers,” where it was very proper to offer thanksgivings after a safe voyage.

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