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
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
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 Davis, William Stearns
In the afternoon they rambled to the village of Viana—old Marathon—picturesquely situated at the foot of Pentelicus.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
Another flashed from the lordly crest of Pentelicus, telling the news to all Attica.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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