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ISLANDS OF THE jEGEAN 345
representing combats between Trojans and -Eginetan
heroes, are now in the Glyptothek at Munich, still
wearing that patent " yEginetan smile."
The view from /Egina is fine. Athens, its ancient
rival, lies across the gulf, and you can even see the
King's Garden. Pentclicus, Hymettus, the mountains
near Eleusis and Megara to the north, and the moun-
tains of the Peloponnesus to the west loom up. Salamis
lies to the north and Poros to the south.
Leaving the Saronic Gulf wc sail into the island-
studded sea. Under the shelter of Sunium lies
Makronisi, the ancient Helene, seven miles long and
three wide, an uninhabited pasturage, with no monu-
ments. Its only title to fame is the tradition that
Helen once landed there. On the other hand Ceos,
thirteen miles from Sunium, is rich in association
and interest. The merchant goes there for valonea,
figs or wine, the antiquarian to see its famous lion,
sculptured like that of Lucerne in the living rock,
and the literary pilgrim to see the birthplace of
Simonides, Bacchylides, and Prodicus. A fresh inter-
est is awakened in this isle by the welcome discovery
in Egypt of the manuscript containing the poems of
Bacchylides. It is as if the poet had strung his lyre
afresh and given to the world sweet harmonies of
which before only single notes or broken chords had
sounded in the ear. Andros, the most northerly of
the Cycladcs, is really but a prolongation of Euboea,
from which it is separated by a narrow strait, and
Tenos is but an extension of Andros. Naxos is the
largest of the group, with twenty-two thousand inhab-
itants. West of it is Paros, renowned for quarries
from whose beautiful marble were summoned immor-
representing combats between Trojans and -Eginetan
heroes, are now in the Glyptothek at Munich, still
wearing that patent " yEginetan smile."
The view from /Egina is fine. Athens, its ancient
rival, lies across the gulf, and you can even see the
King's Garden. Pentclicus, Hymettus, the mountains
near Eleusis and Megara to the north, and the moun-
tains of the Peloponnesus to the west loom up. Salamis
lies to the north and Poros to the south.
Leaving the Saronic Gulf wc sail into the island-
studded sea. Under the shelter of Sunium lies
Makronisi, the ancient Helene, seven miles long and
three wide, an uninhabited pasturage, with no monu-
ments. Its only title to fame is the tradition that
Helen once landed there. On the other hand Ceos,
thirteen miles from Sunium, is rich in association
and interest. The merchant goes there for valonea,
figs or wine, the antiquarian to see its famous lion,
sculptured like that of Lucerne in the living rock,
and the literary pilgrim to see the birthplace of
Simonides, Bacchylides, and Prodicus. A fresh inter-
est is awakened in this isle by the welcome discovery
in Egypt of the manuscript containing the poems of
Bacchylides. It is as if the poet had strung his lyre
afresh and given to the world sweet harmonies of
which before only single notes or broken chords had
sounded in the ear. Andros, the most northerly of
the Cycladcs, is really but a prolongation of Euboea,
from which it is separated by a narrow strait, and
Tenos is but an extension of Andros. Naxos is the
largest of the group, with twenty-two thousand inhab-
itants. West of it is Paros, renowned for quarries
from whose beautiful marble were summoned immor-