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324 ANCIENT ATHENS.
his Corinthiaca,' though he does not mention her in his description of
the Athenian Acropolis. According to that writer, Alcamenes was the
first who made these triple images. Siehelis, in a note on this place,
thinks that emTrvpyiSia is equivalent to guardian of the Acropolis,
citing the dictum of Phavorinus that Trvfyyos has a metaphorical meaning
of aa<j>dXeia and (j>v\aicrj. But surely Athena was the proper guardian
of the Acropolis; and it seems more probable that the epithet iiwrvp-
ytSla was derived from the statue standing on a small tower, or rather,
perhaps, the abutment of Cimon's wall, which resembled a tower.
And the preposition eVl seems to support this meaning, whilst it is
worse than superfluous in that proposed by Siebelis. We often find the
Graces associated with other deities. The group here mentioned was
probably that executed by Socrates standing near the entrance of the
Acropolis, which we shall have occasion to describe when we come to
that district.
In compartment C, No. 1, we find Erechtheus associated with
Poseidon, and both having a common priest. We have adverted to this
identification in chap. ii. (p. 36), and shall have to speak of it again
when we come to describe the Erechtheium. In throne No. 2 of this
compartment we find the epithet KoXawt? applied to Artemis, under
which name she is mentioned by Aristophanes.2 The chief seat of her
worship seems to have been in the Attic deme of the Myrrhinusii,
where there was an ancient wooden image (goavov) of her. Her sur-
name is said to have been derived from Colainos, a mythical king older
than Cecrops and a descendant of Hermes, who, in obedience to an
oracle, built a temple to Artemis Colainis.3 Myrrhinus was probably
the present Meronda, south-east of Athens and south of Brauron,
where an inscription was found in which the temple is mentioned.4
On the other hand, Euphronius, cited by the scholiast on the ' Aves,'
says that she got the name of Colainis at Amarynthus in Eubcea,
because Agamemnon sacrificed to her there a stump-horned ram (icpwv
1 ii. 30, 2. She is also mentioned in a fragment of the
* ovkcti KoAtuvts flXX' 'AKaXavffis'ApTC- comic poet Metagenes; schoL loc. cit. and
fits.—Aves, 874. Meineke, p. 424.
» Scholia in Av. 873 ; Pausan. i. 31, 3. « Boeckh, Corp. Ins. Gr. No. 100.
his Corinthiaca,' though he does not mention her in his description of
the Athenian Acropolis. According to that writer, Alcamenes was the
first who made these triple images. Siehelis, in a note on this place,
thinks that emTrvpyiSia is equivalent to guardian of the Acropolis,
citing the dictum of Phavorinus that Trvfyyos has a metaphorical meaning
of aa<j>dXeia and (j>v\aicrj. But surely Athena was the proper guardian
of the Acropolis; and it seems more probable that the epithet iiwrvp-
ytSla was derived from the statue standing on a small tower, or rather,
perhaps, the abutment of Cimon's wall, which resembled a tower.
And the preposition eVl seems to support this meaning, whilst it is
worse than superfluous in that proposed by Siebelis. We often find the
Graces associated with other deities. The group here mentioned was
probably that executed by Socrates standing near the entrance of the
Acropolis, which we shall have occasion to describe when we come to
that district.
In compartment C, No. 1, we find Erechtheus associated with
Poseidon, and both having a common priest. We have adverted to this
identification in chap. ii. (p. 36), and shall have to speak of it again
when we come to describe the Erechtheium. In throne No. 2 of this
compartment we find the epithet KoXawt? applied to Artemis, under
which name she is mentioned by Aristophanes.2 The chief seat of her
worship seems to have been in the Attic deme of the Myrrhinusii,
where there was an ancient wooden image (goavov) of her. Her sur-
name is said to have been derived from Colainos, a mythical king older
than Cecrops and a descendant of Hermes, who, in obedience to an
oracle, built a temple to Artemis Colainis.3 Myrrhinus was probably
the present Meronda, south-east of Athens and south of Brauron,
where an inscription was found in which the temple is mentioned.4
On the other hand, Euphronius, cited by the scholiast on the ' Aves,'
says that she got the name of Colainis at Amarynthus in Eubcea,
because Agamemnon sacrificed to her there a stump-horned ram (icpwv
1 ii. 30, 2. She is also mentioned in a fragment of the
* ovkcti KoAtuvts flXX' 'AKaXavffis'ApTC- comic poet Metagenes; schoL loc. cit. and
fits.—Aves, 874. Meineke, p. 424.
» Scholia in Av. 873 ; Pausan. i. 31, 3. « Boeckh, Corp. Ins. Gr. No. 100.