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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PENTELICUS (Bpr.Anvvbs, or Ilevee LKOv opoc from the deme HEveiXn; mod. Mendeli)  , a mountain to the N.E. of the Athenian plain, height 3640 ft . Its quarries of white marble were not regularly worked until after the Persian
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wars; of this material all the chief buildings of Athens were constructed, as well as the sculpture with which they were ornamented . The ancient quarries are mostly on the south side of the mountain . The best
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modern quarries are on the north side . The top of Pentelicus commands a view over the plain of
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Marathon, and from it the Athenian traitors gave the
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signal to the Persians by a flashing shield on the day of the
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battle . There was a statue of Athena on the mountain .

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