Pentelicus
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From the 1890s to the 1930s, well-meaning architects sought to strengthen the battered Parthenon, which originally consisted of some 12,500 white marble stones hewn from Mount Pentelicus, ten miles to the north.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unquarried marble of Pentelicus Deny its hue of snow, and even the dawn Forget her stainless birthright for thy sake!
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
This Pentelicus is a sort of intermediate cross-chain between two main lines which diverge from either side of it, and gradually widen so as to form the plain of Athens.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
What the marble quarries of Pentelicus were to the Athenian builders, the clay beneath their feet was to those Lombard craftsmen.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
At the foot of the mountain, lying between it and Mount Pentelicus, was a large monastery, occupied by a fraternity of monks.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
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