Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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and towered, below t ni of the Apennines. For two centuries the city lay erted, its temples fading and its walls lapsing into ruin. Norman knights robbed its fever-haunted hei bl ns, their tombs, and l sunset death- ruined ples and Is now scarce sign in this place of mental nature; only phalanxes of columns I Amphitheater, baths, streets, port, and walls have disappeared and 3 but surmised. The ight of in the solen li j 1 tn he western sun. sites are 1an’s work and passion is lost Of Greeks that mourned 1 an marts, of peasants that fled from pestilence and the despoiler, there is no trace. The traveler is mocked by the old ixe e toler I Da 1OTl, nN question, “Where are the snows of yester-year ?” Thus the impression of Paestum is very simple—just three owing brown temples on a broken field that slopes from the white curve of coast back to the tawny Apennines. Yet the place is Greek in its simplicity, Greek in i 1 o] its radiance of color, and Greek in its permanence. i ‘alled the shrine of Poseidon, was the Poseidonia, and is chief interest of the f a calcareous travertine covered ls VBA Pr ae with a glaze and probably brilliantly colored. Now has disappeared, but the brown of the travertine ren entablature, columns, and pediment. The thirty-six columns stand in measured perfectness throug! hundred and ninety feet of length. for the Doric order, but economy of line, j and strength of construction have cau

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