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ANCIENT ATHENS.
of the victory at Salamis, appears to have been combined with it,
because, says Plutarch, the full moon shone on the victors;1 but this is
a mistake, as the battle took place when the moon was fast waning.2
The temple of the Munychian Artemis was doubtless much older than
the age of Pericles; but it is possible that the Bendideium or temple of
Bendis, the Thracian Artemis,3 may have been erected in his time.4
Bendis was regarded with much reverence by the Athenians. Aristo-
phanes, in his ' Lemniae,' called her the Great Goddess (fieyaXr) ©ed?} ;5
and she appears in her own country to have had an image of solid gold.6
There seems to have been a Thracian settlement in the Peirseeus. The
Bendideium appears to have nearly adjoined the temple of Artemis.
Leake (p. 393) places the latter temple on the low ground near the
harbour of Stratiotiki (Zea), (which he calls Munychia), where he says
the remains of a temple may be observed. But this spot was hardly in
Munychia, and does not at all answer to the description of Strabo.
The Bendideium he places some four hundred yards to the south-west
of it, where there are some considerable remains; but then he is puzzled
to explain Xenophon's aceount, given above, of the march of the Thirty
towards the two temples, which, according to his hypothesis, must have
lain in different directions. It seems probable that the ruins which
Leake observed, may have belonged to a temple of Zea or Hecate, from
whom the harbour derived its name ; but we cannot adduce any evidence
for its existence. May not the other remains which Leake ascribes
to the Bendideium have belonged to the temple of Zeus Soter and
Athena? Such a position would answer well enough to the account
1 De Glor. Athen. 7.
2 See Mommsen, Heort. p. 403 sq. notes.
3 Flat. Rep. init. and scholia.
4 Mommsen (ib. p. 426) fixes the intro-
duction of the Bendideia at Athens in the
time of Socrates. But this does not at all
appear from the opening lines of Plato's' Re-
public,' which he quotes as his authority.
It was the demotes of the Peirweus who
were celebrating the feast for the first time,
aud it does not say what feast. Accord-
ing to the scholiast it was the lesser
Panathena'a, and he says that these fol-
lowed the Bendideia.
5 Hesych. and Phot. voc. MfyaA?; 0uk.
In Photius we should read rijv BivSw for
Tf\(3aivaiv.
6 Lucian, Jnpit. Tragcedus, c. 8, and
scholia.
of the victory at Salamis, appears to have been combined with it,
because, says Plutarch, the full moon shone on the victors;1 but this is
a mistake, as the battle took place when the moon was fast waning.2
The temple of the Munychian Artemis was doubtless much older than
the age of Pericles; but it is possible that the Bendideium or temple of
Bendis, the Thracian Artemis,3 may have been erected in his time.4
Bendis was regarded with much reverence by the Athenians. Aristo-
phanes, in his ' Lemniae,' called her the Great Goddess (fieyaXr) ©ed?} ;5
and she appears in her own country to have had an image of solid gold.6
There seems to have been a Thracian settlement in the Peirseeus. The
Bendideium appears to have nearly adjoined the temple of Artemis.
Leake (p. 393) places the latter temple on the low ground near the
harbour of Stratiotiki (Zea), (which he calls Munychia), where he says
the remains of a temple may be observed. But this spot was hardly in
Munychia, and does not at all answer to the description of Strabo.
The Bendideium he places some four hundred yards to the south-west
of it, where there are some considerable remains; but then he is puzzled
to explain Xenophon's aceount, given above, of the march of the Thirty
towards the two temples, which, according to his hypothesis, must have
lain in different directions. It seems probable that the ruins which
Leake observed, may have belonged to a temple of Zea or Hecate, from
whom the harbour derived its name ; but we cannot adduce any evidence
for its existence. May not the other remains which Leake ascribes
to the Bendideium have belonged to the temple of Zeus Soter and
Athena? Such a position would answer well enough to the account
1 De Glor. Athen. 7.
2 See Mommsen, Heort. p. 403 sq. notes.
3 Flat. Rep. init. and scholia.
4 Mommsen (ib. p. 426) fixes the intro-
duction of the Bendideia at Athens in the
time of Socrates. But this does not at all
appear from the opening lines of Plato's' Re-
public,' which he quotes as his authority.
It was the demotes of the Peirweus who
were celebrating the feast for the first time,
aud it does not say what feast. Accord-
ing to the scholiast it was the lesser
Panathena'a, and he says that these fol-
lowed the Bendideia.
5 Hesych. and Phot. voc. MfyaA?; 0uk.
In Photius we should read rijv BivSw for
Tf\(3aivaiv.
6 Lucian, Jnpit. Tragcedus, c. 8, and
scholia.