A Tramp Trip; How to See Europe On Fifty Cents a Day
The book A Tramp Trip; How to See Europe On Fifty Cents a Day was written by author Meriwether, Lee, 1862-1966 Here you can read free online of A Tramp Trip; How to See Europe On Fifty Cents a Day book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Tramp Trip; How to See Europe On Fifty Cents a Day a good or bad book?
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This Hippodrome, once brilliant with the decorations of prodigal emperors, once alive with the gayeties and pomp of a luxurious court, is now bleak and bar- ren. Of all the works of art that once adorned its ample space only three relics now remain — the Egyptian obelisk, erected by the Emperor Theodosius, the Byzantine obelisk, and a spiral column of brass. The first column, originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt, B.C. 1600, was brought to Con- stantinople by Theodosius. The Byzantine obeli...sk was for- merly ornamented by bass-reliefs ; they have long since disap- THE SULTAN AHMED MOSQUE. 185 pcared, and the shaft stands now a mere skeleton of its former self. The spiral column is one of the most ancient and inter- esting relics of antiquity. It was erected by the Greeks in the Temple of Apollo after the battle of Platsea and Salamis, to com- memorate their victory over the Persians. So venerable is this column it occupies a page in the history of Herodotus. Since it was transported from Delphos by Constantine to its present site the level of the Hippodrome has risen fourteen feet.
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