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ABDETTUS—TI1E PALLADIUM. 297
venaiiones or combats with, wild beasts. Hadrian gave one of these
spectacles in which, it is said, a thousand were slaughtered.1 Gladiatorial
combats were also probably exhibited here, to whose introduction at
Athens by the Eomans we have before adverted; but the more usual
place for them seems to have been the Dionysiac theatre.
Herodes also erected a temple of FoKTiraE near the Stadium, with
an ivory image of the goddess. He died at his villa at Marathon, and
directed that his remains should be buried there; but they were forcibly
carried off by the Athenians, and interred at his Panathenai'c Stadium.2
Pausanias, having completed his survey of the lower parts of the
city by the description of the Stadium, returns to the Prytaneium,
whence he had started, and begins another tour. But before we accom-
pany him on it we must advert to one or two things which he appears
to have omitted in the present one.
We may infer from Plutarch's description of the battle with the
Amazons that the places called Ardettus and Palladium lay not far
from the Lyceium, since he mentions them all in connection when he
describes the Athenians as marching from that quarter.3 And this
inference is confirmed by other accounts. Harpocration and Hesychius
(sub voc.) describe Ardettus as near the Ilissus and Panathenaic
Stadium; Harpocration, in particular, states that it was above the
Stadium, and near the deme of Agryle, which lay below it.4 This deme
most probably lay towards Hymettus,5 and hence we should have to
place Ardettus on the southern side of the Stadium. Harpocration adds,
it was said that the heliastic oath was formerly taken here, and that the
place was named after an ancient hero, Ardettus, who first administered
the oath; but Theophrastus had recorded, in his book on the laws, that
the custom had been abolished.
It is one of the arguments of Forchhammer for extending the city
walls beyond the Ilissus, that the heliastic oath would hardly have been
taken outside of them. But we see from this passage that the custom
1 Spartian, Adr. c. 19. 4 vnep to orahwv to HavaQ^valKov, irpos
2 Philostr. Vit. Herod, s. 15. np Si^w ru vnevtpBtv 'AypvAtW.—iu voc.
3 Thcs. c. 27. " See Leake, i. 281.
venaiiones or combats with, wild beasts. Hadrian gave one of these
spectacles in which, it is said, a thousand were slaughtered.1 Gladiatorial
combats were also probably exhibited here, to whose introduction at
Athens by the Eomans we have before adverted; but the more usual
place for them seems to have been the Dionysiac theatre.
Herodes also erected a temple of FoKTiraE near the Stadium, with
an ivory image of the goddess. He died at his villa at Marathon, and
directed that his remains should be buried there; but they were forcibly
carried off by the Athenians, and interred at his Panathenai'c Stadium.2
Pausanias, having completed his survey of the lower parts of the
city by the description of the Stadium, returns to the Prytaneium,
whence he had started, and begins another tour. But before we accom-
pany him on it we must advert to one or two things which he appears
to have omitted in the present one.
We may infer from Plutarch's description of the battle with the
Amazons that the places called Ardettus and Palladium lay not far
from the Lyceium, since he mentions them all in connection when he
describes the Athenians as marching from that quarter.3 And this
inference is confirmed by other accounts. Harpocration and Hesychius
(sub voc.) describe Ardettus as near the Ilissus and Panathenaic
Stadium; Harpocration, in particular, states that it was above the
Stadium, and near the deme of Agryle, which lay below it.4 This deme
most probably lay towards Hymettus,5 and hence we should have to
place Ardettus on the southern side of the Stadium. Harpocration adds,
it was said that the heliastic oath was formerly taken here, and that the
place was named after an ancient hero, Ardettus, who first administered
the oath; but Theophrastus had recorded, in his book on the laws, that
the custom had been abolished.
It is one of the arguments of Forchhammer for extending the city
walls beyond the Ilissus, that the heliastic oath would hardly have been
taken outside of them. But we see from this passage that the custom
1 Spartian, Adr. c. 19. 4 vnep to orahwv to HavaQ^valKov, irpos
2 Philostr. Vit. Herod, s. 15. np Si^w ru vnevtpBtv 'AypvAtW.—iu voc.
3 Thcs. c. 27. " See Leake, i. 281.