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ANCIENT ATHENS.
CHAPTEfi IX.
Pausanias' third tour—Serapeium—Theseus and Peirithoiis—Temple of Eileithyia—
Arch of Hadrian—Olympium—Described—Temple of Cronos and Rhea—Temenos
of Ga?a—Statue of Isocrates—Pythium—Tripods—Delphinium—Palace of iEgeus
—The Kepi—Aphrodite Urania—Cynosarges—Tombs—The Cynics—Lyceium—
Fountain of Panops—The Peripatetics—Agrse — Mttsaa Ilissiades — Boreas and
Orithyia—Bridge—Artemis Agrotera — Heliconian Poseidon — Metroum—Lesser
Mysteries—Stadium—Temple of Fortune—Ardettus—Palladium—Ionic temple.
A little to the eastward of the Prytaneium the road divided into two
branches, one of which proceeded almost straightforwards to the Olym-
pium and what Pausanias calls the lower parts of the city (ra /edrco tt)<;
nro\fa)<i), while the other turned to the south round and under the
eastern foot of the Acropolis towards the Lenaeum and Dionysiac
theatre. Pausanias now takes the former of these roads, and after
traversing these lower parts in the region about and beyond the Ilissus,
returns again to the Prytaneium and proceeds to describe the objects
on the latter route. Each of these may therefore be considered as
forming a separate tour or journey.
The first object met with after quitting the Prytaneium was the
Temple of Sabapis, which must, therefore, have lain near the eastern
foot of the Acropolis (xviii. 4). The worship of Sarapis was introduced
by Ptolemy. The Athenians readily admitted foreign deities. Their
native gods, public and private, were called trdrpioi and irarrp&oi; the
foreign ones, 6eol 1~eviicoL Such were Genetyllis, Corythalia, Hyes, &C.1
But especially they had admitted a vast multitude of Egyptian gods;
so that Aristophanes, long before the time of Ptolemy, complained that
1 Ilcsych. voc. fcfviKos with note of Hemsterh
ANCIENT ATHENS.
CHAPTEfi IX.
Pausanias' third tour—Serapeium—Theseus and Peirithoiis—Temple of Eileithyia—
Arch of Hadrian—Olympium—Described—Temple of Cronos and Rhea—Temenos
of Ga?a—Statue of Isocrates—Pythium—Tripods—Delphinium—Palace of iEgeus
—The Kepi—Aphrodite Urania—Cynosarges—Tombs—The Cynics—Lyceium—
Fountain of Panops—The Peripatetics—Agrse — Mttsaa Ilissiades — Boreas and
Orithyia—Bridge—Artemis Agrotera — Heliconian Poseidon — Metroum—Lesser
Mysteries—Stadium—Temple of Fortune—Ardettus—Palladium—Ionic temple.
A little to the eastward of the Prytaneium the road divided into two
branches, one of which proceeded almost straightforwards to the Olym-
pium and what Pausanias calls the lower parts of the city (ra /edrco tt)<;
nro\fa)<i), while the other turned to the south round and under the
eastern foot of the Acropolis towards the Lenaeum and Dionysiac
theatre. Pausanias now takes the former of these roads, and after
traversing these lower parts in the region about and beyond the Ilissus,
returns again to the Prytaneium and proceeds to describe the objects
on the latter route. Each of these may therefore be considered as
forming a separate tour or journey.
The first object met with after quitting the Prytaneium was the
Temple of Sabapis, which must, therefore, have lain near the eastern
foot of the Acropolis (xviii. 4). The worship of Sarapis was introduced
by Ptolemy. The Athenians readily admitted foreign deities. Their
native gods, public and private, were called trdrpioi and irarrp&oi; the
foreign ones, 6eol 1~eviicoL Such were Genetyllis, Corythalia, Hyes, &C.1
But especially they had admitted a vast multitude of Egyptian gods;
so that Aristophanes, long before the time of Ptolemy, complained that
1 Ilcsych. voc. fcfviKos with note of Hemsterh