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Tragedians toward Art
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was engaged, i. e. the Poseidon-Erechtheus
section. The latter, it appears to me, is the
correct understanding of the words as used in
the text. Pausanias is actually inside of the
temple and has described the paintings on the
walls. This demands more than one wall, which
so far as we are able to judge was all that the
western chamber of the Erechtheion had. The
doors on the north and south sides occupied
practically all the space, and the partition between
the west room and the middle one was, so far
as the investigation shows, a row of pillars. To
get walls therefore Pausanias must have been in
the west cella of the temple. His SlttXovv oiK-qfia
which follows directly at this point can have no
reference to the whole building therefore, but
simply to the room in which he found himself.
This cella was, then, the double room \ The
dividing wall probably ran east and west2.
So much for the Pausaniac use of SinXovs as
1 That Pausanias uses oiK-q^xa to denote one room, and therefore
a part of a building, is proved by i. 22. 6, where he speaks of the
Pinakotheke e<rri 5£ tv apuXTepq raiv ■npoirvXaiav oiV^/ia ^xQV 7P<*</>ds.
This, it appears to me, invalidates the argument for the exclusive
meaning of ' house,' ' dwelling,' which Miss Harrison maintains is
the only sense of the word. Cf. Mythology and Monuments of
Ancient Athens, p. 492.
2 Cf. Furtwangler, Masterpieces, p. 436, for other arguments
leading to the same result.
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was engaged, i. e. the Poseidon-Erechtheus
section. The latter, it appears to me, is the
correct understanding of the words as used in
the text. Pausanias is actually inside of the
temple and has described the paintings on the
walls. This demands more than one wall, which
so far as we are able to judge was all that the
western chamber of the Erechtheion had. The
doors on the north and south sides occupied
practically all the space, and the partition between
the west room and the middle one was, so far
as the investigation shows, a row of pillars. To
get walls therefore Pausanias must have been in
the west cella of the temple. His SlttXovv oiK-qfia
which follows directly at this point can have no
reference to the whole building therefore, but
simply to the room in which he found himself.
This cella was, then, the double room \ The
dividing wall probably ran east and west2.
So much for the Pausaniac use of SinXovs as
1 That Pausanias uses oiK-q^xa to denote one room, and therefore
a part of a building, is proved by i. 22. 6, where he speaks of the
Pinakotheke e<rri 5£ tv apuXTepq raiv ■npoirvXaiav oiV^/ia ^xQV 7P<*</>ds.
This, it appears to me, invalidates the argument for the exclusive
meaning of ' house,' ' dwelling,' which Miss Harrison maintains is
the only sense of the word. Cf. Mythology and Monuments of
Ancient Athens, p. 492.
2 Cf. Furtwangler, Masterpieces, p. 436, for other arguments
leading to the same result.
D 2