Chapter XXXIII: The Odeon, Athens

LOOKING down from the Acropolis, one sees the theatre--even the Greeks mostly placed the theatre before the temple. But what I saw that afternoon was a school of small Greek boys studying and reciting in the Odeon, because the school had been taken for barracks. But as a soldier said to me, Mars was more real to him than the Turks he had been fighting.

XXXIV

THE STREET OF THE TOMBS, ATHENS