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)

ARGOS. 59

ARGOS.

The public buildings in the city of Argos were very numerous.
Pausanias says, that arriving at Argos from Mycenae, the gate by which
you enter is called that of Lucina from the neighbouring temple. Of
the Argive temples, that of Apollo Lycius is by far the most
splendid. Corinthiaca, 61.

Here are the sepulchres of Linus, the son of Apollo, and of Psama-
tha, the daughter of Crotopos. Not far distant is the temple of Ne-
msean Jupiter. Proceeding, the sepulchre of Phoroneus is on the right.
Beyond the temple of Nemaean Jupiter is a very ancient temple of
fortune. The next tomb is that of Choria the Bacchanal.

The temple of the hours is not far distant; returning from which are
the statues of the chiefs who besieged Thebes, and a cenotaph of those
Argives who Avent to Troy. There is also the temple of Jupiter the
Saviour, from which you come to the cell in which the Argive matrons
deplore the death of Adonis. To the right of the entrance of this
temple is that dedicated to the river Cephissus. The water of that
river is supposed to have flowed below this temple, when Neptune
had dried up the bed of the stream. Near the temple of the Ce-
phissus is the head of Medusa sculptured in stone, said to have been
the work of the Cyclopes. The district behind this is called Criterion.

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