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HISTORY OP ATHENS. 47
dedicated to the great virgin goddess; but Poseidon
himself, though he perhaps had no abode there, was
the guardian of the sacred headland, to whom the
pilor made his votive offering as he doubled the
[stormy cape, or sought shelter in its havens from the
[dangers of shipwreck. In the Knights of Aristo-
phanes, the chorus -which is divided into two bodies,
addresses respectively the god of the sea, " who loves
fhe noise of the hoofs of horses and their neighing,
|he guardian of the navy of Athens, the lord of the
golden trident, the ruler of the dolphin, the deity
Idored at Simium,"—and Pallas, " the guardian of
|he sacred city, the queen of a land the first in battle,
lioetry, and might." It would appear as if the old
jjPelasgic worship gradually disappeared, and the union
jpt the Ionian with the Athenian system formed the
jpasis of the new social system. In the Panathenaic
jpocession a sacred ship was carried, and it appears
Bot unlikely that the naval games round Cape Sunium
gere connected with the festival of the less Pana-
jftienEea (Lysias. An-oXo-y. Awpoioic.) But each spot
|n Attica, no doubt, had its deities ;. and some were
pmost equally honoured with the tutelary goddess of
pe Acropolis. The worship of the two goddesses at
^leusis, Demeter (Ceres), and Persephone (Proser-
jfIne)> the mother and the daughter, with the whole
gstem of religious rites established at Eleusis, indi-
cates another component part of Attic population.
Ipumolpus, a son of Poseidon, and Chione (snow),
jerself a daughter of Boreas or the north wind, ac-
Igwding to the story, came from Thrace, and founded
Ip worship and temple of Ceres. Yet another legend
|fems to show that the worship of this goddess was
pot introduced into the plain of Eleusis, but sprung
m there. Triptolemus, the favourite of Ceres, first
Ijowed the Rharian plain with grain, and man thus
Ipeeived the gift of corn.
dedicated to the great virgin goddess; but Poseidon
himself, though he perhaps had no abode there, was
the guardian of the sacred headland, to whom the
pilor made his votive offering as he doubled the
[stormy cape, or sought shelter in its havens from the
[dangers of shipwreck. In the Knights of Aristo-
phanes, the chorus -which is divided into two bodies,
addresses respectively the god of the sea, " who loves
fhe noise of the hoofs of horses and their neighing,
|he guardian of the navy of Athens, the lord of the
golden trident, the ruler of the dolphin, the deity
Idored at Simium,"—and Pallas, " the guardian of
|he sacred city, the queen of a land the first in battle,
lioetry, and might." It would appear as if the old
jjPelasgic worship gradually disappeared, and the union
jpt the Ionian with the Athenian system formed the
jpasis of the new social system. In the Panathenaic
jpocession a sacred ship was carried, and it appears
Bot unlikely that the naval games round Cape Sunium
gere connected with the festival of the less Pana-
jftienEea (Lysias. An-oXo-y. Awpoioic.) But each spot
|n Attica, no doubt, had its deities ;. and some were
pmost equally honoured with the tutelary goddess of
pe Acropolis. The worship of the two goddesses at
^leusis, Demeter (Ceres), and Persephone (Proser-
jfIne)> the mother and the daughter, with the whole
gstem of religious rites established at Eleusis, indi-
cates another component part of Attic population.
Ipumolpus, a son of Poseidon, and Chione (snow),
jerself a daughter of Boreas or the north wind, ac-
Igwding to the story, came from Thrace, and founded
Ip worship and temple of Ceres. Yet another legend
|fems to show that the worship of this goddess was
pot introduced into the plain of Eleusis, but sprung
m there. Triptolemus, the favourite of Ceres, first
Ijowed the Rharian plain with grain, and man thus
Ipeeived the gift of corn.