Athens from Mars Hill
Athens from Mars Hill There is nowhere else such a multitude of commanding positions as in the city of Athens. The site of Athens embraces several lofty hills. One of these is the Areopagus. A city more favorable to a high display of oratory and too powerful effects certainly never existed. Here the “philosophers of fashion,” who taught philosophy and religion, not as a faith, but as a system, came into contact with the thorough earnestness, the profound conviction, the red-hot zeal, of the Apostle Paul. From Mars Hill, the whole city was spread out like a map before the speaker. In the above picture, we are looking toward the northwest, in which we have a view of the whole plain on which Athens was situated with the mountains in the distance. The houses of Athens are for the most part white—some of a marble, some of the firm, fine-grained limestone with which the region abounds, but most of them are stuccoed. The streets are of a respectable width, a f...