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158 ANCIENT ATHENS.
Attalus also placed in the Acropolis at the eastern extremity of the
southern or Cimonian wall a series of sculptures, representing the
Gigantomachia, the battle with the Amazons, the battle of Marathon,
and the overthrow of the Gauls in Mysia.1 He also laid out a garden
at the Academy. The Athenians rewarded him as they had done
Ptolemy, by giving the name of Attalis to the tribe Demetrias.2
Eumenes II., the son and successor of Attalus (b.c. 197-159), in-
herited his father's love for the Athenians, and built for them a portico
which appears to have lain on the west side of the theatre, as Vitruvius,
after mentioning it, observes by way of distinction, that the Odeium of
Pericles was on the left hand of those leaving the theatre, and conse-
quently on the east.3 It has been sometimes mistakenly identified with
the arches near the Odeium of Eegilla.
Antiochus IV., surnamed Epiphanes, king of Syria, was another of
those princes who took a pride in adorning Athens. About the year
b.c. 174 he formed the design of completing the Olympium, and appears
to have employed for that purpose a Eoman architect named Cossutius,
but in what state he found it, or how far he advanced it, it is impossible
to say. According to some authorities, he began it. The work was
interrupted by his death, and it was some centuries yet before the
temple was destined to be completed. Some writers say that he left it
half finished, if we are to take the word ^jutTeXe? literally.4 Antiochus
also appears to have placed above the theatre the gilded Gorgon's head.5
In b.c. 146 the Achaean League, the last bulwark of Grecian inde-
pendence, was overthrown by the Romans, and subsequently all Greece,
as far as the borders of Macedonia and Epirus, under the name of Achaia,
became a Eoman province.
1 These have heen recognized in some * See Vitruv. vii. Prajf. 15, 17; Athen.
recently discovered sculptures. SeeBrunn, v. 21; Antiochus Epi[hanes qui Athenis
Bullet, dell' Instit. 1865, p. 116. Olympeiuminchoavit—Veil. 1'at.i. 10; cf.
2 Polyb. xvi. 25 ; Liv. xxxi. 12 sq.; Liv. xli. 20. to 'OXv/jlttiov, oirep rffurtKis
Pausan. i. 5, 5; 8, 1. KartXinf riKcvrav 6 avadus /3no-iXcus.—
s lib. v. c. 9. Strab. 396.
6 Pausan. v. 12, 2.
Attalus also placed in the Acropolis at the eastern extremity of the
southern or Cimonian wall a series of sculptures, representing the
Gigantomachia, the battle with the Amazons, the battle of Marathon,
and the overthrow of the Gauls in Mysia.1 He also laid out a garden
at the Academy. The Athenians rewarded him as they had done
Ptolemy, by giving the name of Attalis to the tribe Demetrias.2
Eumenes II., the son and successor of Attalus (b.c. 197-159), in-
herited his father's love for the Athenians, and built for them a portico
which appears to have lain on the west side of the theatre, as Vitruvius,
after mentioning it, observes by way of distinction, that the Odeium of
Pericles was on the left hand of those leaving the theatre, and conse-
quently on the east.3 It has been sometimes mistakenly identified with
the arches near the Odeium of Eegilla.
Antiochus IV., surnamed Epiphanes, king of Syria, was another of
those princes who took a pride in adorning Athens. About the year
b.c. 174 he formed the design of completing the Olympium, and appears
to have employed for that purpose a Eoman architect named Cossutius,
but in what state he found it, or how far he advanced it, it is impossible
to say. According to some authorities, he began it. The work was
interrupted by his death, and it was some centuries yet before the
temple was destined to be completed. Some writers say that he left it
half finished, if we are to take the word ^jutTeXe? literally.4 Antiochus
also appears to have placed above the theatre the gilded Gorgon's head.5
In b.c. 146 the Achaean League, the last bulwark of Grecian inde-
pendence, was overthrown by the Romans, and subsequently all Greece,
as far as the borders of Macedonia and Epirus, under the name of Achaia,
became a Eoman province.
1 These have heen recognized in some * See Vitruv. vii. Prajf. 15, 17; Athen.
recently discovered sculptures. SeeBrunn, v. 21; Antiochus Epi[hanes qui Athenis
Bullet, dell' Instit. 1865, p. 116. Olympeiuminchoavit—Veil. 1'at.i. 10; cf.
2 Polyb. xvi. 25 ; Liv. xxxi. 12 sq.; Liv. xli. 20. to 'OXv/jlttiov, oirep rffurtKis
Pausan. i. 5, 5; 8, 1. KartXinf riKcvrav 6 avadus /3no-iXcus.—
s lib. v. c. 9. Strab. 396.
6 Pausan. v. 12, 2.