Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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buildings during the three preceding centuries,
by the Peloponnesian and Roman wars, was
much repaired; new monuments of architec-
tural skill and profuse expenditure arose, to re-
store the seat of science to its former lustre;
numberless altars were consecrated to the
worship of the heathen deities, and statues
erected to perpetuate the fame of Hadrian the
benefactor of the city. The annexed plan will
furnish some idea of the topography of Athens,
at the date of which Pausanias speaks. The
probable or conjectured site of those build-
ings which no longer exist, according to the
last accounts of travellers, is designated only
by a number referring; to the index for its
name; and where opinions differ with regard
to the situation of any particular structure, the
best authenticated locality is given. Thus
will the actual state of the town, reduced as
its treasures are to some few most venerable
remnants of antiquity, be readily compared
with what it once was, when it attracted the
admiration, and enjoyed the patronage, of a
Roman emperor.