It does not seem impossible when one remembers the achievements of the author of Cabiria in approximating Rome and Carthage.
Let the principal figure of the pageant be the virgin Athena, walking as a presence visible only to us, yet among her own people, and robed and armed and panoplied, the guardian of Pericles, appearing in those streets that were herself.

Let the architect show her as she came only in a vision to Phidias, while the dramatic writers and mathematicians and poets and philosophers go by.

The crowds should be like pillars of Athens, and she like a great pillar.

The crowds should be like the tossing waves of the Ionic Sea and Athena like the white ship upon the waves.

The audiences in the tragedies should be shown like wheat-fields on the hill-sides, always stately yet blown by the wind, and Athena the one sower and reaper.