"There is perhaps no part of Europe, which more deservedly...excites the curiosity of the Lovers of polite Literature than...Attica, and Athens its Capital City: whether we reflect on the Figure it makes in History, on account of the excellent men it has produced in every Art...or whether we consider the Antiquities which are said to be still remaining there...the most perfect Models of what is excellent in Sculpture and Architecture."
- James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, in The Victorians and Ancient Greece, R.Jenkins, Harvard University Press, 1980
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