His enthusiasm for the Greece of the past translated itself into an ardent love of modern attica.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The name of the island and this custom, as well as the flames of the bull of Marathon, prove that beside the worship of the Syrian goddess at Athmonon, and the worship of Melkarth at Marathon, the worship of Baal Moloch had penetrated as far as Megara and attica.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
It was designed about 430 by Mnesicles, and in it the Doric and Ionic styles are admirably combined, whilst in the Erectheum, sacred to the memory of Erechtheus, a hero of attica, the Ionic order is seen at its best, so delicate is the carving of the capitals of its columns.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell