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ANCIENT ATHENS.
obtain a good view of the Panathenai'c procession as it passed through
the market place. Mommsen (p. 191) adverts to a passage in Xeno-
phon's Hipparchicns (iii. 2), which we have already cited on another
occasion, where the cavalry is described as starting from the Hennas
and galloping to the Eleusinium, and thinks that Philostratus' account
of the course of the ship is thereby confirmed; but the argument,
though affording a strong presumption, is not conclusive. The pro-
cession of the Lesser Panathensea also went through the agora, as
appears from a passage of Menander's ' Hypobolimseus,' preserved by
Photius and Suidas.1
With regard to the goal, we think, with Leake and Dr. "Wordsworth,
that by the ' Pythium' Philostratus means the temenos of Apollo
Patrous near the Areiopagus. It has been shown that the Pythium,
properly so called, was near the Olympium. This could not have been
the place meant by Philostratus, since he says that the ship, after going
round the Eleusinium, which was at the eastern extremity of the agora
(above, p. 222 sq.), proceeded along the Pelasgicum, which lay west-
ward of it. Its resting-place, therefore, must have been the temenos
of Apollo Patrous; where, indeed, Pausanias seems to have seen it
when he was leaving the Acropolis (above, p. 457).
M. Beule disputes,2 and with considerable show of reason, the com-
monly received opinion that the chariots and horsemen of the procession
actually ascended to the Acropolis. This view, for which there is no
ancient authority, seems to have been suggested, he remarks, by the
frieze of the Parthenon. It was inferred from it that what was repre-
sented on the temple must really have existed around it, just as a
shadow projected on a wall necessarily implies the presence of the body
which it figures. Horses and chariots are shown on the frieze, there-
fore horses and chariots made the circuit of the Parthenon. In confir-
mation of this opinion, some travellers have imagined that they could
discover the ruts of wheels on the pavement of the Acropolis. M. Beule
1 MiKpa Xlai>a8r)vaC iirtihr] it dyopas ■nipisovra. <rc,
MofrjfiW, liTjTtjp ta>pa ttjs Koprjs c<j> apparns.—Suiflas, voc. wepuftv.
2 L'Acropole, &c, t. i. p. 147 sqq.
ANCIENT ATHENS.
obtain a good view of the Panathenai'c procession as it passed through
the market place. Mommsen (p. 191) adverts to a passage in Xeno-
phon's Hipparchicns (iii. 2), which we have already cited on another
occasion, where the cavalry is described as starting from the Hennas
and galloping to the Eleusinium, and thinks that Philostratus' account
of the course of the ship is thereby confirmed; but the argument,
though affording a strong presumption, is not conclusive. The pro-
cession of the Lesser Panathensea also went through the agora, as
appears from a passage of Menander's ' Hypobolimseus,' preserved by
Photius and Suidas.1
With regard to the goal, we think, with Leake and Dr. "Wordsworth,
that by the ' Pythium' Philostratus means the temenos of Apollo
Patrous near the Areiopagus. It has been shown that the Pythium,
properly so called, was near the Olympium. This could not have been
the place meant by Philostratus, since he says that the ship, after going
round the Eleusinium, which was at the eastern extremity of the agora
(above, p. 222 sq.), proceeded along the Pelasgicum, which lay west-
ward of it. Its resting-place, therefore, must have been the temenos
of Apollo Patrous; where, indeed, Pausanias seems to have seen it
when he was leaving the Acropolis (above, p. 457).
M. Beule disputes,2 and with considerable show of reason, the com-
monly received opinion that the chariots and horsemen of the procession
actually ascended to the Acropolis. This view, for which there is no
ancient authority, seems to have been suggested, he remarks, by the
frieze of the Parthenon. It was inferred from it that what was repre-
sented on the temple must really have existed around it, just as a
shadow projected on a wall necessarily implies the presence of the body
which it figures. Horses and chariots are shown on the frieze, there-
fore horses and chariots made the circuit of the Parthenon. In confir-
mation of this opinion, some travellers have imagined that they could
discover the ruts of wheels on the pavement of the Acropolis. M. Beule
1 MiKpa Xlai>a8r)vaC iirtihr] it dyopas ■nipisovra. <rc,
MofrjfiW, liTjTtjp ta>pa ttjs Koprjs c<j> apparns.—Suiflas, voc. wepuftv.
2 L'Acropole, &c, t. i. p. 147 sqq.