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
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
At the same time he thanks him by anticipation for some busts of Hermes, in which the pedestals were of marble from Pentelicus, and the heads of bronze.
From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church
Another flashed from the lordly crest of Pentelicus, telling the news to all Attica.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
Parnes or Parnethus with its double top,A Brilessus or Pentelicus with its numerous rills and fountains, and Hymettus with its balmy odours, have been “hymned by loftier harps than mine.”
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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