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RUINS OF TWO CITIES NEAR CAPE ZOSTER. 525
TO SOME RUINS NEAR CAPE ZOSTER.
As I was desirous of exploring the sea shore between Cape Kolias
and Cape Zoster, and of searching for the remains of some of the
demoi mentioned b}r Strabo and Pausanias, we quitted Athens on
the 22nd of November, and passing through the Albanian gate,
crossed the bridge over the Ilissos. There was ice and snow on the
road; and the summits of Hymettos, Parnes, Pentelikon, Gerania,
and the Peloponnesian mountains, that were covered with snow,
brought to our recollection the dreary winter of a more northern
latitude.
Proceeding in a southern direction towards Sunium, we arrived in
two hours at a low promontory and peninsula called Agiea. The
whole plain from which the peninsula projects is strewed with an-
cient remains, that are overgrown Avith the impenetrable lentiscus.
The small church of St. Nicolo seems to occupy the site of an
ancient temple.
Among the bushes I discovered a marble lion, admirably sculp-
tured in the style of those at Mycenae : it is in a recumbent posture ;
its length is four feet nine inches; but its head is mutilated.
Not many paces from the lion is a marble statue of a female
figure, in drapery, and as large as life: it is in a good style,
but has been much impaired. These ruins seem the remains of a
considerable demos. Prom the eastern side of the plain rises Mount
Bernidi, which is that part of Hymettos anciently called Anudros.
We returned to Athens through the village called TragSnes, near
which the Cape of Agia Kosmos projects into the sea.
Here are also the remains of a town, and the foundations of the
cella of a temple, near which is a mutilated bas-relief representing the
sacrifice of a goat, and some rites associated with the mythology of
Bacchus, who perhaps had a temple at this place, of which the mo-
dern nameofTragftnesmay be traditional, and derived from Tpuyog, a
TO SOME RUINS NEAR CAPE ZOSTER.
As I was desirous of exploring the sea shore between Cape Kolias
and Cape Zoster, and of searching for the remains of some of the
demoi mentioned b}r Strabo and Pausanias, we quitted Athens on
the 22nd of November, and passing through the Albanian gate,
crossed the bridge over the Ilissos. There was ice and snow on the
road; and the summits of Hymettos, Parnes, Pentelikon, Gerania,
and the Peloponnesian mountains, that were covered with snow,
brought to our recollection the dreary winter of a more northern
latitude.
Proceeding in a southern direction towards Sunium, we arrived in
two hours at a low promontory and peninsula called Agiea. The
whole plain from which the peninsula projects is strewed with an-
cient remains, that are overgrown Avith the impenetrable lentiscus.
The small church of St. Nicolo seems to occupy the site of an
ancient temple.
Among the bushes I discovered a marble lion, admirably sculp-
tured in the style of those at Mycenae : it is in a recumbent posture ;
its length is four feet nine inches; but its head is mutilated.
Not many paces from the lion is a marble statue of a female
figure, in drapery, and as large as life: it is in a good style,
but has been much impaired. These ruins seem the remains of a
considerable demos. Prom the eastern side of the plain rises Mount
Bernidi, which is that part of Hymettos anciently called Anudros.
We returned to Athens through the village called TragSnes, near
which the Cape of Agia Kosmos projects into the sea.
Here are also the remains of a town, and the foundations of the
cella of a temple, near which is a mutilated bas-relief representing the
sacrifice of a goat, and some rites associated with the mythology of
Bacchus, who perhaps had a temple at this place, of which the mo-
dern nameofTragftnesmay be traditional, and derived from Tpuyog, a