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made use. The name of it again, k<$> 'IttttoXvto),
has been actually discovered for us in an inscrip-
tion1. Pausanias then has really left no more
important contribution on the monuments of
this place than Euripides has done in his casual
reference. It matters little that the last two
verses quoted above are spurious2. While the
vabv Kv-rrpiSos (v. 29) is genuine the title under
which it was known is of secondary importance.

In Sparta our poet was acquainted with the
temple of Athena Chalkioikos3, which, according
to Pausanias, was situated on the Acropolis and
dated from the time of Tyndareus. It was com-
pleted many years later by the Lakedaimonians,
who put in the bronze statue of the goddess.
The latter was the work of Gitiades4.

The temple of the Taurian Artemis is particu-
larly well described. The cella where the image
was kept had a marble floor5. The columns are
spoken of as shapely0, the coping is gilded7, the
style is a Doric peripterals. As Pylades suggests

1 Harrison, Mythology and Monuments of Athens, p. 333.

2 Wilamowitz aptly remarks that Phaidra, who all the time
conceals her love for Hippolytos, could not have given this name
to the temple. Vid. Euripides Hippolytos, p. 188.

3 Hel. v. 1466 f. Cf. also vs. 228, 245 ; Troad. v. 1113.

' Paus. 3. 17. 2. 5 Iph. T. v. 997. 6 v. 128.

7 v. 129. 8 v. 405.