DOI Kapitel:
Division A: The Agora and adjacent buildings lying to the west and north of the Acropolis, from the city gate to the Prytaneion
DOI Kapitel:Section III
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SECTION III
METROON-THOLOS
Text, i. 3, § 5 ; 5, § 1.
i- 3, 5· There is also a building, the sanctuary of the mother of the
gods, containing the statue made by Pheidias, and near is
the Council Chamber of the Five Hundred, the name given
to the Athenian counsellors who hold office for a year. In
this building is set up a wooden image of Zeus Boulaios, an
Apollo by Peisias, and a Demos, the work of Lyson. The
picture of the Thesmothetae is by Protogenes of Kaunos, and
it was Olbiades who painted Kallippos, the general who led
the Athenians to Thermopylae to guard the pass against the
invasion of Greece by the Galati.
A digression follows on the Galati.
i. 5, 1. Near the Council Chamber of the Five Hundred is what
they call the Tholos. Here the prytanes offer sacrifice ; and
it also contains some images made of silver, of no great size.
Commentary on i. 3, § 5 ; 5, § 1.
Pausanias comes next, but with no connecting link, to a group
of three buildings which, as he distinctly says, are near (πλήσ-ων)
to each other:—
1. The Metroon, or sanctuary of the mother of the gods.
2. The Bouleuterion, or Council Chamber of the Five Hundred.
3. The Tholos or Skias.
It seems certain that, at least as early as the middle of the
fourth century B.C., the Bouleuterion was actually within the
METROON-THOLOS
Text, i. 3, § 5 ; 5, § 1.
i- 3, 5· There is also a building, the sanctuary of the mother of the
gods, containing the statue made by Pheidias, and near is
the Council Chamber of the Five Hundred, the name given
to the Athenian counsellors who hold office for a year. In
this building is set up a wooden image of Zeus Boulaios, an
Apollo by Peisias, and a Demos, the work of Lyson. The
picture of the Thesmothetae is by Protogenes of Kaunos, and
it was Olbiades who painted Kallippos, the general who led
the Athenians to Thermopylae to guard the pass against the
invasion of Greece by the Galati.
A digression follows on the Galati.
i. 5, 1. Near the Council Chamber of the Five Hundred is what
they call the Tholos. Here the prytanes offer sacrifice ; and
it also contains some images made of silver, of no great size.
Commentary on i. 3, § 5 ; 5, § 1.
Pausanias comes next, but with no connecting link, to a group
of three buildings which, as he distinctly says, are near (πλήσ-ων)
to each other:—
1. The Metroon, or sanctuary of the mother of the gods.
2. The Bouleuterion, or Council Chamber of the Five Hundred.
3. The Tholos or Skias.
It seems certain that, at least as early as the middle of the
fourth century B.C., the Bouleuterion was actually within the