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. 67

visit that of Apollo Deiras, for having mentioned the objects near that
temple, he again mentions his return to the direct road, to the
citadel.

The western side of Larissa is also too steep to have admitted of an
entrance from the plain, so that it seems at least probable that the
great monastery under'the north eastern precipices of Larissa, which is
itself perched on a lofty rock, is upon the site of the temple of Apollo
Deiras, its name alluding to its situation.

This monastery is very curiously placed, and the rock has a cavern
very well adapted to the delivery of those oracles which issued from
the temple of Apollo. Pausanias.

The monastery is also close to the wall, the foundations of which
are visible running in a right line from the acropolis to the gate which
was immediately below it. There is here also space sufficient for the
stadium, which could not have been the case on the hill of Larissa, or
on the western side of it. The brazen chamber of Danaae was of
course erected on the slope of the Phoronean hill, or in that of La-
rissa, for it is described as a subterraneous edifice, in the same words
as the treasury of Atreus, and the two other buildings of the same
description at Orchomenos and Delphi are placed on a steep slope,
for the convenience of the entrance which such a situation affords.

The principal gates seem to have been four in number, but the
great extent of the city must have rendered others necessary.

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