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 W. Blanchard Jerrold
Another flashed from the lordly crest of Pentelicus, telling the news to all Attica.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
Behind, there spread mountain, valley, plain,—here green, here brown, here golden,—with Pentelicus the Mighty rearing behind all, his summits fretted white, not with winter snows, but with lustrous marble.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
He saw Pentelicus and Hymettus, Parnes and Cithæron, the hills he had wandered over in glad boyhood, the hills where rested his ancestors’ dust.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
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