MODERN ATHENS
... MODERN A THENS THE old Athens has gone as the old Greeks have gone, and a newer and degenerate city has risen in its place. Among the ruined memorials of its ancient grandeur which time, and war, and the spoiler have left, are streets of modem houses and shops ; where philosophers, poets, and orators trode, in- triguing politicians and greedy place-men now meet, and the scenes which have been ...