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In the late afternoon Mando came back to fetch us, and we drove to the Acropolis.

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

The curving benches are broken, chipped, tumbled, but still in place, as are the marble chairs, the seats of honor for the legislators.

The carved statues of the frieze against the low wall are for the most part headless, but their exquisitely graceful nude and draped torsos and the kneeling Atlantes are well preserved in their perfect proportion.