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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DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES, &c.

been before mentioned as probably on the site of a temple of Apollo
Deiradiotes. To the right of this gate was the stadium. To the
right is the plain of Argos and the foot of Mount Artemisium and
torrent Charadrus. On the left a few of the houses of modern Argos
are seen.

PLATE XIX.

Plate 19? gives a general view of the country from the top of one of
the modern towers of Larissa, the citadel of Argos. In the fore-
ground are the ruins of Venetian buildings. The greater part of the
modern fortress consisting of numerous turrets lies behind the specta-
tor. Below the tower on the left lies the present town of Argos, of
which a few of the roofs generally placed in regular and parallel lines
are visible.

From the town numerous roads are seen running toward different
points of the country. The streams Inachus and Charadrus, which
unite in the plain toward the left, have in the design as in reality no-
thing to distinguish them from the roads but that they terminate
without an object. The site of Tiryns and its little hill are marked
above the tower on the left, and the road to that place is seen
crossing the bed of the Inachus in the plain at its junction with the
Charadrus.

This is the road mentioned by Pausanias as the great road to
Epidaurus, which left Tiryns on the right, while Mideia lay on some