Barrows, Samuel J.: The isles and shrines of Greece (Boston, 1898)

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to the dressing-room, that may have served for the
introduction of a ghost or for any mysterious disap-
pearance. The other feature is an arched passage-
way on the level of the orchestra, and leading by a
flight of stairs to a point behind the skene.

From the theatre we ascended to what was once
the acropolis, guided by the remains of the walls by
which it was protected. You can follow the ruined
wall, strengthened here and there by towers, down
the hill and into the bay, running out to a little
island and enclosing a portion of the harbor. It is
possible that these walls existed before the Persian
War, 490 B. C.; but they did not prevent the Per-
sians from taking and sacking the town. From the
acropolis wc had a fine view of the mountains of
Fuboea.

It was not far from Eretria that Dr. Waldstein dis-
covered, in 1891, what was somewhat prematurely
heralded by the press as the tomb of Aristotle or
some member of his family. The tradition is, how-
ever, that the philosopher was buried at Chalcis, and
not at Eretria.