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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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The Ari~hephoroi

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the Akropolis by way of the Propylaia and the western slope (A. Mommsen Heortologie
Leipzig 1864 p. 447—an idea tacitly dropped by the same writer in his Feste d. Siadt
Atheii p. 509). But, in view of the close connexion between Aglauros, Pandrosos, and
Herse (infra § 8 (b)), it is highly probable that the Arrhephoroi went vid the Aglaurion.
If so, their most direct and also most secluded exit would have been, not the pSros-
walled stairway in an angle of the north wall -200 ft west of the north porch of the Erech-
theion (J. H. Middleton Plans and Drawings of Athenian Buildings London 1900 pi. 1
no. 38), as has been maintained by various critics (W. Dorpfeld in the Ath. Mitth. 1887
xii. 59 pi. 1, H. G. Lolling 'Hellenische Landeskunde und Topographie' in I. Midler's
Geographic und politische Geschichte des klassischen Alteriums Nbrdlingen 1889 p. 351,
Harrison Myth. Mon. Anc. Ath. p. 163), but the stairway of later construction which led
(by means of a hanging ladder?) right down into the cave at a point some 50 ft east of
the /ores-stairway (J. H. Middleton op. cit. pi. 1 no. 42), as is urged by P. Kabbadias
in the 'E0. 'Apx- 1897 p. 26 ff., M. L. D'Ooge (The Acropolis of Athens New York 1908
PP- 10, 297 with plan 7), and O. Broneer in Hesperia 1932 i. 51 f., 1935 iv. 129 with
figs. 14 and 15. C. Belger 'Der Abstiegsweg der Arrhephoren, der Aufstieg der Perser'
in the Bcrl. philol. Woch. Sept. 25, 1897 pp. 1212—1214 (followed by W. Judeich
Topographic von A/hen Miinchen 1905 p. 170 n. 4) is non-committal: ' Wir konnen also
mit unseren Mitteln nicht konstatieren, welchen Weg die Arrhephoren wirklich gingen.'

Equally beset with uncertainties is the other end of their journey. Their destination,
according to Paus. 1. 27. 3, was 7repi'/3oXos iv rrjiv6\ei rijs Ka\ovfiivr]s iv Ki^ois 'AippoSirris
ov irippui. But Plin. nat. hist. 36. 16 (probably copying Varro, [? who copied Pasiteles (born
c. 108 B.C.),] who copied Antigonos of Karystos (born c. 295 B.C.), who copied Douris of
Samos (born c. 340 B.C.): see E. Sellers The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of
Art London 1896 p. xlii f.) describes the same Aphrodite as being outside the city-wall:
he speaks of Alkamenes ' cuius sunt opera Athenis complura in aedibus sacris praecla-
rumque Veneris extra muros, quae appellatur'XtppoSlrn} iv K?/7rois. huic summam manum
ipse Phidias inposuisse dicitur.' The discrepancy between iv tt) ir6\ei and extra muros
was explained by C. XVachsmuth Die Stadt Athen im Alterthum Leipzig 1874 i. 228 f.,
who pointed out that in the time of Pausanias the brick wall of Athens (Vitr. 2. 8. 9) had
been cleared away to make room for the Hadrianic town (the novae Athenae of Corp.
mscr. Lat. iii no. 549 = Orelli laser. Lat. sel. no. 511 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 337,
cp. Ael. Spart. v. Hadrian. 20. 4 multas civitates Hadrianopolis appellavit, ut ipsam Kartha-
ginem et Athenarum partem, Phlegon frag. 21 (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 607 Muller) ap. Steph.
Byz. s.v. '0\vp.irleiov tottos iv A^Xy, 6c KTiaavTes 'AOyvaioi xP'7Mctcr"' 'ASpiavov vias
Ad-qvas 'ASpiavas EKaXecac, a>s <&\iywv iv '0\v/XTna5uv ircvTeKaiSeKaToj). The precinct, on
this showing, adjoined the garden-quarter on the right bank of the Ilissos (H. Ilitzig and
H. Bliimner on Paus. 1. 19. 2), and somewhere in that neighbourhood must have been the
natural underground descent, through which the girls went to leave their burdens and
bring back something wrapt up (Paus. 1. 27. 3 rai Si airov (sc. tov ireptfioXov) /cdfloSos
Wrliyaios avrofiarri ■ ratfrj) Kariaaiv ai irapdivoi. kcitui /j.ev Si) to. (pepofieva Xelwovcriv,
Si iJXXo ti ko/xltpixriv iyKcKaXv/i^vov). The actual chasm or fissure has not yet
been located. But E. A. Gardner Ancient Athens London 1902 p. 251 n. 1 throws out an
'Meresting suggestion : ' It seems probable that the shrine in question may have been that
°f earth (Ge Olympia), and the cleft may be the same one by which the waters of
eucalion's deluge were said to have disappeared' (Paus. 1. 18. 7 (<ttl U dpxaia iv Tip
7rePlP°^V Zei>s xo-^koOs Kal caos Kpovov ml 'Peas nai Ti/ievos Vijs (so J. A. Letronne forr^
eodd. L. Clavier cj. yrjs tt)v, W. M. Leake cj. rrjs Yrjs) i-wU\i}o-iv 'OXv/nrlas. ivrauffa
0tro" " t6 Idacpos Siiar-qKe, KaX \iyovai lura ttjv iirofipplav ttjv e'iri AevaaXtwvos

"'^Paaav VTroppvrjvai thijtti to vSup, eV(3dX\oi'(ri re is ai'to ava wav (tos aX0ira Trvpwv fii\tTi
MiWes (I. Bekker, followed by H. C. Schubart and Hi Hitzig—H. Bliimner, cj.
M^rescp. 5. I5. IO, 9. 39. ,,„;

Recently O. Broneer of the American School at Athens has found on the N. slope of
^ Akropolis, E. of the Erechtheion, 'directly below the point where the Acropolis wall
la^es the obtuse angle at which are the traces of the Mycenaean postern gate,' a small
 
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