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 Parthenon," says Colonel Leake, "was constructed entirely of white marble, from Mount Pentelicus.
From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard
This was a temple dedicated to the goddess Minerva, and was built of the hard white marble of Pentelicus.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
The ode is no smooth-cut verse from Pentelicus, but a mass of rugged quartz, beautiful with prismatic crystals, and deep veined here and there with virgin gold.
From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. by Lowell, James Russell
Dawn glowed at last, unveiling the brown Attic shoreline with Pentelicus the marble-fretted and all his darker peers.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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