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THE SHRINES OF ATTICA 167
Of course the heroes and poets are honored in
the names of the streets, and this veneration is even
accorded to the gods. There is Homer Street,
and I was not quite happy until I had taken my
residence upon it; Solon Street, Hermes Street,
and streets named after yEsculapius, Hippocrates,
Athene, Constantine, Menander, Philip, Theseus,
Euripides, Praxiteles, Thucydides, Aphrodite, Ares.
Pan, Hebe, Hephaestus, Pericles, Apollo, Thrasy-
bulus, and one named after the Holy Apostles,
though none that I remember named after the Vir-
gin or the Holy Ghost, as in France and Germany.
The gods might be jealous enough if they compared
the streets named after them with their own preten-
sions to youth, cleanliness and beauty. Some of
these streets arc so narrow and insignificant that it
may be a grave question whether the gods were
not slandered by the compliment. The Christian
saints are not wholly forgotten, but the nomenclature
of paganism is prevalent, and one might conjecture
that the gods had left Olympus and come down to
dwell with Athene in her beloved city. Is there not
a hotel dedicated to Athene and one to Poseidon?
Modern topographers of Athens have disputed
as to where the old Agora lay. Some indication of
its site, supported by recent excavations, may be
gathered from Pausanias. The so-called " Gate of the
Agora " is still standing, and one may read on a tab-
let a long inscription of the time of Hadrian respect-
ing the market price of oil and salt. There are remains
too of the Stoa of Attalus, built by Attalus II., king
of Pergamon (159-139 B. C.). It was a large building,
more than three hundred feet long, with a colonnade
Of course the heroes and poets are honored in
the names of the streets, and this veneration is even
accorded to the gods. There is Homer Street,
and I was not quite happy until I had taken my
residence upon it; Solon Street, Hermes Street,
and streets named after yEsculapius, Hippocrates,
Athene, Constantine, Menander, Philip, Theseus,
Euripides, Praxiteles, Thucydides, Aphrodite, Ares.
Pan, Hebe, Hephaestus, Pericles, Apollo, Thrasy-
bulus, and one named after the Holy Apostles,
though none that I remember named after the Vir-
gin or the Holy Ghost, as in France and Germany.
The gods might be jealous enough if they compared
the streets named after them with their own preten-
sions to youth, cleanliness and beauty. Some of
these streets arc so narrow and insignificant that it
may be a grave question whether the gods were
not slandered by the compliment. The Christian
saints are not wholly forgotten, but the nomenclature
of paganism is prevalent, and one might conjecture
that the gods had left Olympus and come down to
dwell with Athene in her beloved city. Is there not
a hotel dedicated to Athene and one to Poseidon?
Modern topographers of Athens have disputed
as to where the old Agora lay. Some indication of
its site, supported by recent excavations, may be
gathered from Pausanias. The so-called " Gate of the
Agora " is still standing, and one may read on a tab-
let a long inscription of the time of Hadrian respect-
ing the market price of oil and salt. There are remains
too of the Stoa of Attalus, built by Attalus II., king
of Pergamon (159-139 B. C.). It was a large building,
more than three hundred feet long, with a colonnade