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Excerpt from Kallistratus, an Autobiography
IN the year 430 there was no city which drew the eyes of the world so completely towards it as Athens. It had been for several decades at the head of that confederacy which was formed to maintain the security of Greece against the Persians. Originally each member of the confederacy contributed yearly either money, ships, or men, for the national defence; but in most cases, sooner or later, these contributions took the form of money alone; and as, year by year, the Persians became less and less formidable, and the surplus of the fund rapidly increased, it was presently appropriated, by the great Athenian statesman Pericles, to adorn and strengthen the city of Athens itself. Temple after temple of the fairest proportions and most beautiful work manship, shrine after shrine, statue after statue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
