Chapter XV: Corinth Towards the Gulf

HERE the builders had tried for a wonderful scheme, and worked it out wonderfully, light against light--the glittering temple against the gleaming sea--the rigid, solid lines of the building telling against the faint, far-away, half-revealed, half-concealed silhouettes in form and colour of the mountains; over whose sides the cloud-shadows slowly moved. On one side my countrymen have built a shanty where they lived while excavating; on the other is a bare barrack, in which they have stored the stuff they have found. From the village Square, this museum completely hides the temple; but Greece was so much finer before it was discovered by archaeologists--or by most of them--for most of them have no feeling at all for the art they have dug up.

XVI

ACRO-CORINTH FROM CORINTH