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Athens Built The Acropolis. Corinth Was A Commercial City, Interested In Purely Materialistic Things.
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Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in
purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the
old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.
-- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry
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