Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece (London, 1811)

nised, has been inserted in a general map |
as well as detailed plans given of each.
Extensive excavations were necessary for
this purpose, particularly at the Great
Theatre of Bacchus ; at the Pnyx, where
the assemblies of the people were held,
where Pericles, Alcibiades, Demosthenes,
and iEschines, delivered their orations,
and at the theatre built by Herodes At*-
ticus, to the memory of his wife Regilla:
The supposed Tumuli of Antiope, Euri-
pides, and others, have also been opened ;
and from these excavations, and various
others in the environs of Athens, has
been procured a complete and valuable
collection of Greek vases. The colonies
sent from Athens, Corinth, &c. into Magna
Grœcia, Sicily, and Etruria, carried with
them this art of making vases, from their
mother country ; and, as the earliest mo-
dern collections of vases were made in
ihose colonies, they have improperly
acquired the name of Etruscan. Those