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ANCIENT ATHENS.
was a very ancient one, and must have existed long before the walls of
Themistocles were built; and we suppose that Forchhammer would
hardly contend that Ardettus was comprehended within the walls
attributed to Theseus. Of the site of the Palladium we know nothing
more than that it must have been somewhere in this neighbourhood.
There was a court at it for the trial of involuntary homicides. Its
origin is referred to a story of Diomedes having brought with him the
Palladium, which he was carrying off from Troy, to Phalerum, when
his sailors, not knowing where they were, having landed and committed
some devastations, were repulsed by Demophon, who carried off the
Palladium. His horse having accidentally killed a man on his road
back to Athens, Demophon was the first who was tried in the court.1
We shall only further observe about this neighbourhood, that at the
time of Stuart's visit to Athens, about a century ago, there existed on
the right bank of the Ilissus, near the cascade called Callirrhoe, a small
church called e Panaghia eis ten Petran, or St. Mary on the Eock, which
still exhibited many remains of its former state as a temple of the
Ionic order. It was considered a fine example of that order, which is
somewhat rare at Athens, the Erechtheium and the reconstructed temple
of Nike Athena being the only other instances of it extant. It has now
completely disappeared. Various attempts have been made to identify
it, but they rest only on conjecture.2
1 Pausan. c. 28, 9. see Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, vol. i.
2 For a full description of this building ch. 2 ; and Eoss, Nike Tempel, p. 11.
ANCIENT ATHENS.
was a very ancient one, and must have existed long before the walls of
Themistocles were built; and we suppose that Forchhammer would
hardly contend that Ardettus was comprehended within the walls
attributed to Theseus. Of the site of the Palladium we know nothing
more than that it must have been somewhere in this neighbourhood.
There was a court at it for the trial of involuntary homicides. Its
origin is referred to a story of Diomedes having brought with him the
Palladium, which he was carrying off from Troy, to Phalerum, when
his sailors, not knowing where they were, having landed and committed
some devastations, were repulsed by Demophon, who carried off the
Palladium. His horse having accidentally killed a man on his road
back to Athens, Demophon was the first who was tried in the court.1
We shall only further observe about this neighbourhood, that at the
time of Stuart's visit to Athens, about a century ago, there existed on
the right bank of the Ilissus, near the cascade called Callirrhoe, a small
church called e Panaghia eis ten Petran, or St. Mary on the Eock, which
still exhibited many remains of its former state as a temple of the
Ionic order. It was considered a fine example of that order, which is
somewhat rare at Athens, the Erechtheium and the reconstructed temple
of Nike Athena being the only other instances of it extant. It has now
completely disappeared. Various attempts have been made to identify
it, but they rest only on conjecture.2
1 Pausan. c. 28, 9. see Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, vol. i.
2 For a full description of this building ch. 2 ; and Eoss, Nike Tempel, p. 11.