...buildings, fortune gave them sufficient means both to maintain their ascendency in Greece, and to apply n part of the wealth at their command in the indulgence...intervened between the victory of Salamis and the Peloponnesian war, the injury inflicted upon the buildings of Athens by the Persians was not only fully...

...degree of internal beauty and splendour, which no other Grecian city ever attained. The King of Persia, in directing against Greece an expedition of a magnitude...indulgence of their taste and magnificence. The same sources-of wealth continuing, and even increasing during the halfcentury which intervened between the...

...greater part of the islands, as well as of the colonies on the coasts of Asia, Macedonia, and Thraee; and thus, at the very moment when the destruction...sources of wealth continuing, and even increasing dnring the half-century which intervened between the victory of Salamis and the Peloponnesian war,...

...Macedonia, and Thraee; and thus, at the very moment when the destruction of their city rendered it neofssary for them to renew all their principal buildings, fortune...the indulgence of their taste and magnificence. The ваше sources of wealth continuing, and even increasing during the half-century which intervened...

...success was most fortunate for the Athenians ; for by forcing them to concentrate all their exertions on their fleet, in which they were as superior in numbers...in the indulgence of their taste and magnificence. " — Leake. A new aera begins with the Persian war. Athens was reduced to ashes by Xerxes, but was...