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In the Temple of the Mother of the gods Metroon.
was the image of the divinity, made by Phi-
dias.

The Senate House was appropriated to the Senate House.
" Council of five hundred," instituted origin-
ally by Solon.

The Tholus, where the Prytanes sacrificed, Thoius.
contained statues of the heroes from whom the
Athenian tribes were named; viz. Hippothoon,
Antioch us, Aj ax, Leo, Erectheus, iEgeus, Mne-
as, Acamas, Cecrops, and Pandion. There
were also statues of Attalus, Ptolemy, and
Hadrian,

The Temple of Mars contained a statue of Temple of

Mars,

this god, by Alcamenes; and two of Venus.
Not far from hence were the figures of Har-
modius and Aristogiton.

In the vestibule of the Odeum, or Music Odeum.
School, were statues of the Egyptian Ptole-
mies; and near it, the fountain called " Ennea- Fountain
crunos," from its nine pipes constructed by Pi-
sistratus. Vestiges of this spring are still to
be discovered.

Further eastward were two temples; the Temples of
one of Ceres and Proserpine, in which the lesser Tripwiemui.
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