Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6.1890-1897 (1897))

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PAPERS DIONYSUS iv A£|ivaiS. ATHENS.

before the entrance, some two hundred| paces from the city-walls,
was the spring Enneacrunus, whose water was most esteemed by
the citizens. ~Eot far from this was the wine-press. Here the
people built the first altar, the first temple, the first orchestra, and
instituted the first festival in honor of the wine-god, long before
the new Dionysian cult was brought injfrom Eleutheraj; and here
for centuries were raised every year about the orchestra tiers of
wooden seats in preparation for the annual dramatic contests.

John Pickard.
American School of Classical Studies,
Athens, 1891.