Cockerell, Charles Robert: The temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae near Phigaleia in Arcadia: to which is add a memoir of the systems of proportion employed in the original design of these structures (London, 1860)

TEMPLE OF MINERVA AT THE PORT. 41

Chandler has called these ruins the remains of a Temple of Venus, without any other ground for so doing than
the fact of their standing near the - most frequented" Port, and without any reference to the secret ports, or the
citadel ■ of which he makes no mention, and which, indeed, he appears never to have examined with care..
The modern Greek Churches, which were always erected on the sites of former tempies, are seen in the plan of
the city close to the port, and it is most probable that one of these was the Temple of Veuns.

Herodotus * speaks of a Temple of Minerva in which the prows of Saurian vessels taken by the ^ginetans
were suspended as a trophy. Pausanias makes no mention of a Temple of Mmerva, which being in the Citadel,
he perhir-y not have been admitted to see. The magnitude of the order and its position give plausibility to

the title here proposed.

t +M« Tprrmlp in Plate XVIII. is made more or less conjecturally from the

The attempt at the restoration of this Temple m Plate Panhellenium;

two columns of the Posticum, which appear to indicate proportions tar mo j heiffhtemnff the

fori fnr not onlv from its importance, but also by the necessity ot heightening tne
a circumstance to *«^*^Me * -niediate contrast to the surrounding buildings. We
proportions of a temple withm the city and standi g ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

have seen that great pains were taken U *»^°™ ^ _

ITSTJ •: n^Ta^^T^ assignedgyet the character of the cap and the
to ascribe to a ^ ^ reagonable doubt of lts antiqmty.

hypotrachelion, and, above all, the absence 01 we e

* Herodotus, Thalia, par. LLX.

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