Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

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temple, was called Acraea, and from Euboea, the region in which the
temple is situated, and the place which lies below the temple was
named Prosymna from the third. Pausanias. Corinthiaca.

If it were safe to trust to Strabo, there would be every reason for
thinking that the Heraeum was situated on the foot of the mountain,
in a direct line between Mycenae and Nauplia, for no other hill ap-
proaches the road to Argos, and a place situated 40 stadia from one
city, and 10 from another, while the cities themselves were only 50
stadia apart, must have been in a line between the two. Pausanias
however gives a distance of 15 stadia from Mycenae to the Heraeum,
which allows of a considerable deviation from a right line.

The absolute site of the temple has not yet been discovered. It
has been sought for in vain upon a terrace near a village, on the left
of a line drawn from Mycenae to Nauplia. In all probability there
are some vestiges on the spot wherever it may be. Pieces of columns
of great diameter are found in the plain, at the distance of about one
mile south of Krabata. A search in this direction is however fruit-
less, and the account of it is only given that future travellers may
examine some other quarter. After passing the torrent at the ruined
Cyclopian's bridge, near the treasury of Atreus, there are several indi-
cations of buildings and heaps of stones in the fields.

Proceeding towards Nauplia, the track crosses the bed of a very
little rill, in winch are the remains of another ancient bridge, which