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262 RUINS OF EPIDAUROS.
and wild olives. Some few uncertain vestisres are seen near the
road.
In an hour we came in sight of the Saronic gulf, where the view
was adorned with the rocky and pointed promontory of Methana,
while the islands of iEgina and Salamis, with the Attic coast, and
its capital, captivated the eye by the beauty they displayed, and
the recollections they inspired.
We passed through the plain where Hyrnetho, wife of Deiphontes,
was buried, and honoured with an heroic monument.1 The plain is
watered by a rapid rivulet, which turns a mill. Before entering
Epidauros, Pausanias mentions the monument2 of Melissa, wife of
Periander, son of Cypselos; and also that of Prokles the father of
Melissa: but I observed no remains of these monuments. Peri-
ander, the t}a-ant of Corinth, having put his wife to death, a war
ensued between the two neighbouring states; Prokles, the tyrant of
Epidauros, was taken by Periander, as well as the capital.1
We arrived at the village of Epidaura in two hours and ten
minutes. It stands upon the ruins of Epidauros, which, according
to Livy,+ was five miles from the temple of iEsculapius. The badness
of the road made the distance appear more considerable.
The ancient city, of which time has preserved only a few and
imperfect vestiges, occupied the plain, at the foot of a peninsular
promontory, divided into two points, on which the acropolis was
situated.
The few remains of the walls which are preserved, are of the fourth,
or last, style of ancient Grecian masonry. The dense mass of bushes
which envelops the ruins, will not permit an elaborate investigation
of the antiquities, and it was by mere chance that I found the fallen
ruins of a Doric temple of small proportions; probably that5 of Juno,
1 r^uiav.—Pausan. b. 2. c. 28. ! ^cnjjOta.
3 Herodot. b. 3. c. 50. and 52.—Athenaeus Deipnosopb. b. 13. * B. 45. c. 28.
5 ispcv—B. 2. c. 29.
and wild olives. Some few uncertain vestisres are seen near the
road.
In an hour we came in sight of the Saronic gulf, where the view
was adorned with the rocky and pointed promontory of Methana,
while the islands of iEgina and Salamis, with the Attic coast, and
its capital, captivated the eye by the beauty they displayed, and
the recollections they inspired.
We passed through the plain where Hyrnetho, wife of Deiphontes,
was buried, and honoured with an heroic monument.1 The plain is
watered by a rapid rivulet, which turns a mill. Before entering
Epidauros, Pausanias mentions the monument2 of Melissa, wife of
Periander, son of Cypselos; and also that of Prokles the father of
Melissa: but I observed no remains of these monuments. Peri-
ander, the t}a-ant of Corinth, having put his wife to death, a war
ensued between the two neighbouring states; Prokles, the tyrant of
Epidauros, was taken by Periander, as well as the capital.1
We arrived at the village of Epidaura in two hours and ten
minutes. It stands upon the ruins of Epidauros, which, according
to Livy,+ was five miles from the temple of iEsculapius. The badness
of the road made the distance appear more considerable.
The ancient city, of which time has preserved only a few and
imperfect vestiges, occupied the plain, at the foot of a peninsular
promontory, divided into two points, on which the acropolis was
situated.
The few remains of the walls which are preserved, are of the fourth,
or last, style of ancient Grecian masonry. The dense mass of bushes
which envelops the ruins, will not permit an elaborate investigation
of the antiquities, and it was by mere chance that I found the fallen
ruins of a Doric temple of small proportions; probably that5 of Juno,
1 r^uiav.—Pausan. b. 2. c. 28. ! ^cnjjOta.
3 Herodot. b. 3. c. 50. and 52.—Athenaeus Deipnosopb. b. 13. * B. 45. c. 28.
5 ispcv—B. 2. c. 29.