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Posted: 12 Apr 2022

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On the hill rising 300 feet above a secluded stretch of Danube, facing south, the king and Klenze constructed not a Gothic evocation of the gods of the ancient north, but a version of the Parthenon. Approached from the river, the entrance is reached by a huge monumental staircase, a homage to the Propylaeum of Athens, which leads to the Acropolis and the Parthenon itself. It is impossible not to have the sense of being a humble pilgrim approaching a great shrine. As the building comes into view and the portico with its double row of fluted Doric columns looms above, the message is clear: here the greatest Germans are being induced into the fellowship with the Ancient Greeks. ` Page 158

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