DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.800#0365
344 ANCIENT ATHENS.
left the theatre at the diazoma, at which height there was a road, or
path, which encircled the whole hill, and which appears to have given
access to all the shrines and sanctuaries situated wo ttoXiv, or on the
sides of the cliffs, the Anaceium, Aglaurium, &c, on the north side as
well as those on the south. In 1862 was discovered on the north-east
side of the Acropolis, on the cliff ahove the spot where the Prytaneium
is commonly placed, an imperfect inscription interpreted to mean that
this encircling road measured 5 stades and 18 feet, or ahout 3052 Eng-
lish feet; which measure agrees with the circumference of the hill at
this height.1 The first object which Pausanias mentions after leaving
the theatre is the tomb of Talus.2 He does not say on which hand it
lay; but it must have been close to the cliff, as the story ran that
Daedalus, before his flight from Athens, fearing that his sister's son,
Talus, would excel him in art, precipitated him from the Acropolis. The
body was found; Daedalus was tried for the murder and condemned by
the Areiopagus; whereupon he fled to Crete.3 We may presume that
Talus was buried at the spot where his body was found, and this is
confirmed by Lucian, when he makes the tomb of Talus one of the
points from which the philosophers attempt to scale the Acropolis.4
The next object mentioned by Pausanias, is a temple of Asclephts,
worth seeing, he observes, for several statues of the god and his sons,
and for some pictures.5 In it is a fountain at which Hallirrhotius, son
of Poseidon, is said to have been killed by Ares, for an outrage on
his daughter Alcippe.6 This was the subject of the first trial for
murder. Here also was a Sarmatian breastplate, of as good workman-
ship as any Grecian. Pausanias then proceeds to describe the warlike
1 T]OYrEPirATO[Y correctly Talos. Cf. Talaus and Kalausap.
TEPIOAOC schol. ad Soph. (Ed. Col. 1320.
p[ TOAEC 3 Apollod. iii. 15, 9.
Anil * Piscator, 42.
i.e. roi KpmdTov TrfpioSos a-rciSia n<vr( * Leake translates: " worthy of mspec-
TrdSes oKTwicalSeKa. See Etf)W. 'ApX. June, tion for tho statnes of lacchus and his
1862, p. 146, and pi. IH. 1.; cf. Pervanoglu children and for the pictures which it
in Philol. B. xxiv. s. 460; C. Wachsmuth, contains."—vol. i. p. 141. Where Bacchus
in Eh. Mus. 1868, s. 14, 25. 's probably a slip of the pen for Asclepius.
2 Sometimes written Kalos, but more * Demosth. c, Aristocr. p. 641, Ilciskc.
left the theatre at the diazoma, at which height there was a road, or
path, which encircled the whole hill, and which appears to have given
access to all the shrines and sanctuaries situated wo ttoXiv, or on the
sides of the cliffs, the Anaceium, Aglaurium, &c, on the north side as
well as those on the south. In 1862 was discovered on the north-east
side of the Acropolis, on the cliff ahove the spot where the Prytaneium
is commonly placed, an imperfect inscription interpreted to mean that
this encircling road measured 5 stades and 18 feet, or ahout 3052 Eng-
lish feet; which measure agrees with the circumference of the hill at
this height.1 The first object which Pausanias mentions after leaving
the theatre is the tomb of Talus.2 He does not say on which hand it
lay; but it must have been close to the cliff, as the story ran that
Daedalus, before his flight from Athens, fearing that his sister's son,
Talus, would excel him in art, precipitated him from the Acropolis. The
body was found; Daedalus was tried for the murder and condemned by
the Areiopagus; whereupon he fled to Crete.3 We may presume that
Talus was buried at the spot where his body was found, and this is
confirmed by Lucian, when he makes the tomb of Talus one of the
points from which the philosophers attempt to scale the Acropolis.4
The next object mentioned by Pausanias, is a temple of Asclephts,
worth seeing, he observes, for several statues of the god and his sons,
and for some pictures.5 In it is a fountain at which Hallirrhotius, son
of Poseidon, is said to have been killed by Ares, for an outrage on
his daughter Alcippe.6 This was the subject of the first trial for
murder. Here also was a Sarmatian breastplate, of as good workman-
ship as any Grecian. Pausanias then proceeds to describe the warlike
1 T]OYrEPirATO[Y correctly Talos. Cf. Talaus and Kalausap.
TEPIOAOC schol. ad Soph. (Ed. Col. 1320.
p[ TOAEC 3 Apollod. iii. 15, 9.
Anil * Piscator, 42.
i.e. roi KpmdTov TrfpioSos a-rciSia n<vr( * Leake translates: " worthy of mspec-
TrdSes oKTwicalSeKa. See Etf)W. 'ApX. June, tion for tho statnes of lacchus and his
1862, p. 146, and pi. IH. 1.; cf. Pervanoglu children and for the pictures which it
in Philol. B. xxiv. s. 460; C. Wachsmuth, contains."—vol. i. p. 141. Where Bacchus
in Eh. Mus. 1868, s. 14, 25. 's probably a slip of the pen for Asclepius.
2 Sometimes written Kalos, but more * Demosth. c, Aristocr. p. 641, Ilciskc.