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RUINS OF EPIDAUROS. 263
which, according to Pausanias, was on the promontory near the
port. He also says, that within the acropolis, there was a %ouvov, or
wooden statue of Minerva, that merited inspection.
Epidauros was a place of strength; it was frequently at war with
the surrounding states of Athens, Corinth, iEgina, and Argos;' and
when the city of Danaus was disaffected to the common cause of
Greece, Epidauros sent ten ships against the Persians at Salamis,1
and eight hundred men to Plataea.' After the death of Leonidas,
ail its troops were stationed at the Corinthian isthmus, to defend the
pass into the Peloponnesos.4 Strabo! observes that Epidauros is
not an ignoble city ; that it is situated in a recess of the gulf; and
that it is naturally a strong place, and inclosed by lofty mountains.
The acropolis seems to have served as a fortress in modern times.
In the middle ages it was probably a place of some importance, from
the security of its situation, and the commodiousness of its port.
At the foot of the promontory several masses of ruins are covered
by the sea; and, on that side which is towards the plain, there are
some other Doric remains; some Roman fragments in white marble
are also seen, which, from the inelegance of style so peculiar to
that people, are readily distinguished from the Greek. Here is the
draped statue of a female figure, in a recumbent posture, forming,
apparently, the cover of a sepulchre. The other particular objects
at Epidauros, mentioned by Pausanias, were a temenos of iEscula-
pius, a temple6 of Bacchus, a grove7 sacred to Diana, and a temple8
of Venus. No certain remains of any of these structures are seen
at the present day.
1 Thucyd. b. 5. ' Herodot. b. 8. c. 43. 3 Id. b. 9. c. 28. « Id. b. 8. c. 72.
5 ovx atnjjxoy ij etoXij. B. 8. p. 374. The following are the proportions of the fragments
which 1 found on the promontory: Diameter of a stone column three feet six inches and a
half under the capital, twenty flutings. Another frustum, two feet ten inches and a half.
Another, two feet two inches • the flutings not indented, but plain. There is one Doric
capital, but I found no triglyphs.
6 "f-os. B. 2. c. 29. T aXiro;. 8 legoy.
which, according to Pausanias, was on the promontory near the
port. He also says, that within the acropolis, there was a %ouvov, or
wooden statue of Minerva, that merited inspection.
Epidauros was a place of strength; it was frequently at war with
the surrounding states of Athens, Corinth, iEgina, and Argos;' and
when the city of Danaus was disaffected to the common cause of
Greece, Epidauros sent ten ships against the Persians at Salamis,1
and eight hundred men to Plataea.' After the death of Leonidas,
ail its troops were stationed at the Corinthian isthmus, to defend the
pass into the Peloponnesos.4 Strabo! observes that Epidauros is
not an ignoble city ; that it is situated in a recess of the gulf; and
that it is naturally a strong place, and inclosed by lofty mountains.
The acropolis seems to have served as a fortress in modern times.
In the middle ages it was probably a place of some importance, from
the security of its situation, and the commodiousness of its port.
At the foot of the promontory several masses of ruins are covered
by the sea; and, on that side which is towards the plain, there are
some other Doric remains; some Roman fragments in white marble
are also seen, which, from the inelegance of style so peculiar to
that people, are readily distinguished from the Greek. Here is the
draped statue of a female figure, in a recumbent posture, forming,
apparently, the cover of a sepulchre. The other particular objects
at Epidauros, mentioned by Pausanias, were a temenos of iEscula-
pius, a temple6 of Bacchus, a grove7 sacred to Diana, and a temple8
of Venus. No certain remains of any of these structures are seen
at the present day.
1 Thucyd. b. 5. ' Herodot. b. 8. c. 43. 3 Id. b. 9. c. 28. « Id. b. 8. c. 72.
5 ovx atnjjxoy ij etoXij. B. 8. p. 374. The following are the proportions of the fragments
which 1 found on the promontory: Diameter of a stone column three feet six inches and a
half under the capital, twenty flutings. Another frustum, two feet ten inches and a half.
Another, two feet two inches • the flutings not indented, but plain. There is one Doric
capital, but I found no triglyphs.
6 "f-os. B. 2. c. 29. T aXiro;. 8 legoy.