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Chapter V.
BAS-RELIEF PROM THE THEATRE GP BACCHUS.
No. 193.
The theatre of Bacchus was situated near the south-
eastern angle of the Acropolis, arid was that in which
the tragedies of iEsehylus and the other Athenian
dramatists were represented. An Athenian coin in
the Museum collection exhibits its original appearance,
showing the interior of the theatre, the seats and the
grotto mentioned by Pausanias in the rocks under
the Acropolis. See the first volume of the present
work, p. 28.
The temple of Bacchus or the Lenaeum near this
edifice was often styled the temple* in the Limnte,
or the marshes, this portion of Athens being so named,
as having probably once been swampy. It has
both in antient and modern times been the least in-
habited, and considered the least healthy portion of
the city.
Stuart formed a notion, in which he was mistaken,
'hat the theatre of Bacchus was built under the rock
°f the Acropolis toward the south-west; and he was
followed in this notion by Visconti f.
The bas-relief which is here before the reader J, is
"Ms described in Visconti's memo:ir:
* Dotlwell, vol. i. p. 299, says, " There are tto certain traces of
">e antient temple of Bacchus; but the c hurch of St. Alexander
Probably marks the site of one of the temples mentioned by
"Msanias."
t See his Memoir on, the Elgin Sculpts! res, pp. 12S, 129.
* h stood in the old arrangement as No ,' 235,
BAS-RELIEF PROM THE THEATRE GP BACCHUS.
No. 193.
The theatre of Bacchus was situated near the south-
eastern angle of the Acropolis, arid was that in which
the tragedies of iEsehylus and the other Athenian
dramatists were represented. An Athenian coin in
the Museum collection exhibits its original appearance,
showing the interior of the theatre, the seats and the
grotto mentioned by Pausanias in the rocks under
the Acropolis. See the first volume of the present
work, p. 28.
The temple of Bacchus or the Lenaeum near this
edifice was often styled the temple* in the Limnte,
or the marshes, this portion of Athens being so named,
as having probably once been swampy. It has
both in antient and modern times been the least in-
habited, and considered the least healthy portion of
the city.
Stuart formed a notion, in which he was mistaken,
'hat the theatre of Bacchus was built under the rock
°f the Acropolis toward the south-west; and he was
followed in this notion by Visconti f.
The bas-relief which is here before the reader J, is
"Ms described in Visconti's memo:ir:
* Dotlwell, vol. i. p. 299, says, " There are tto certain traces of
">e antient temple of Bacchus; but the c hurch of St. Alexander
Probably marks the site of one of the temples mentioned by
"Msanias."
t See his Memoir on, the Elgin Sculpts! res, pp. 12S, 129.
* h stood in the old arrangement as No ,' 235,