Tagged: Kleiner

Analects of the Core: Pericles on mighty monuments

Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments we have left. Men of the future will wonder at us, as all men do today. – Pericles

Six Quotes: Kleiner on the Acropolis

“When you go into the Acropolis, why are all the great buildings off to the left? In the archaic day there was the greatest temple erected right before you. This was the temple the Persians burned down and which prompted Pericles and the Athenians to rebuild.” “Despite the agony on the centaur’s face, the whole […]