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CHAPTER X.
Monument of Lysikrates. Convent of Missionaries—view from it. Acropolis of Athens. Dispute
with the Disdar. Theatre of Herodes Atticus. A portico. Another theatre. Monument of
Thrasyllos. Tripodial columns. Cave in the east end of the Acropolis rock—another with
niches. Ancient steps cut in the rock. Makrai Petrai. Cave of Pan. Turkish burying-place.
Walls of the Acropolis. Walls of the town.
The Dipulon, or Thriasiai Pulai was the gate formerly entered by
those coming from Eleusis : this was the largest gate-of the town, of
which Livy says, " Porta ea velut in ore urbis posita, major
aliquanto patentiorque quam caeterae est."1 The name of the
modem gate is Gyphto or Aigypto Porta. The Eleusinian or sacred
gate was also sometimes entered by those coming from Eleusis, but
there are reasons for supposing that this was the same as the Dipulon.
I took up my abode in the same house I had occupied on
my former tour. The name of my hostess was Mina, an old
widow, who made our residence less comfortable than it would
otherwise have been, by her reiterated lamentations for the death of
her son, the late English consul, who had been dead several years.
She is an archontess, and boasts of the antiquity of her family.
Her daughter Theodora, or Todorula, dresses with elegance, and
converses with propriety ; but I found to my surprise, that she
could neither read nor write.
1 B. 31. c. 24.
Monument of Lysikrates. Convent of Missionaries—view from it. Acropolis of Athens. Dispute
with the Disdar. Theatre of Herodes Atticus. A portico. Another theatre. Monument of
Thrasyllos. Tripodial columns. Cave in the east end of the Acropolis rock—another with
niches. Ancient steps cut in the rock. Makrai Petrai. Cave of Pan. Turkish burying-place.
Walls of the Acropolis. Walls of the town.
The Dipulon, or Thriasiai Pulai was the gate formerly entered by
those coming from Eleusis : this was the largest gate-of the town, of
which Livy says, " Porta ea velut in ore urbis posita, major
aliquanto patentiorque quam caeterae est."1 The name of the
modem gate is Gyphto or Aigypto Porta. The Eleusinian or sacred
gate was also sometimes entered by those coming from Eleusis, but
there are reasons for supposing that this was the same as the Dipulon.
I took up my abode in the same house I had occupied on
my former tour. The name of my hostess was Mina, an old
widow, who made our residence less comfortable than it would
otherwise have been, by her reiterated lamentations for the death of
her son, the late English consul, who had been dead several years.
She is an archontess, and boasts of the antiquity of her family.
Her daughter Theodora, or Todorula, dresses with elegance, and
converses with propriety ; but I found to my surprise, that she
could neither read nor write.
1 B. 31. c. 24.