Potter, John; Anthon, Charles [Hrsg.]: Archaeologia Graeca or the antiquities of Greece (New York, 1825)

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Page 34. One part of it remains to this day, sustained by Ionic pillars." The
aqueduct of which Potter here speaks has now disappeared almost entirely. A flat
piece of carved marble serves as a top to one of the gateways of the city, and is sup-
posed to be the last remnant of the ruins described by Sir George Wheeler and other
travellers, as forming a part of Adrian's reservoir. Hobhuvx'i Journey, Vol. I. p. 271.

Page 36. " AnjSnuat. So called from Academus, an old hero." Another account
makes these grounds to have belonged to one Academus, a citizen of Athens, who gave
them to the people, and hence the name. vid. Hes^ch. et ISuid. in voc. A*5td\ Wal-
pole, in his Travels in Turkey, p. 140, observes, " the Academy is known at present
by the name Acathymia; it is a low hill, about a mile to the north of the city."
Geli, in his Itinerary, p. 48, remarks, " The Academy is supposed to have been in the
di.ection of Sepolia.''

Page 38. " The K.<,tkov or Cavea." The space between the lowest row of seats and
the orchestra, or, as we would term it, the pit, was left entirely unoccupied, it being
thought that when this was vacant the voices of the performers were heard to more
advantage. Ariatot. protA- sect. xi. 25. Plin. xi. 51.

" ri£ />ani/c." J he following particulars cannot fail to prove interesting. They are
from Hub house's Journey, Vol. 1. p. 299. Nothing in the present appearance of the
Piraeus would enable you to suspect that it was once a flourishing port, the emporium
of a great state, itself a city, and abounding with temples^ porticoes, and other mag-
nificent structures. The triple port is not very apparent, ihe recess on the right hand,
the ancient Zea, being like a marsh, and that on the left, Cantharus, towards Muny-
chia, of but little depth. The deepest water is at the mouth oi the third interior
port, the Aphrodisius of the old Piraeus. One does not know what to think of the size
of the ships composing the fleets which were anchored within this basin ; and yet so
late as the time of Constantine, two hundred ships of war were collected in the Pirae-
us. The Athenian fleet consisted at one time of three hundred ships of three banks
of oars. We saw an Hydriote merchant vessel of about two hundred tons, anchored
iii the port, and she seemed too big for the station. Yet Wheeler judged it capable of
containing forty or fifty of the great ships of his time, which is sufficient only to con-
vince me, that the size of vessels ha3 been very much enlarged during the last centu-
ry and a half. An English sloop of war was warned that she would run aground if
she endeavoured to get in, and was therefore obliged to anchor in the straits between
Salamis and the port once called Phoron. The direction of the harbour is from .north-
west to south-east, and the whole length of it, from the outer mouth to the innermost
reefs, is not a mile and a quarter. The Pirasus is now called Draco by the Greeks,
but by the Franks, Porto Leone.

Page 39. "Moyn-^a." The old harbour of Munychia is of a circular form:
there are several remains of wall running into the Water, and a piece of pier is to
be seen at each side ol the mouth of it ; so that the entrance a= well as the whole
port is smaller than that of the Piraeus. If the harbour once contained four hundred
ships, each vessel must have been a wherry The direction of the port is from South
to north.'' H bhouse's Journey, Voi. 1. p. 301.

"<D*a»/>ov." " Phalerum is of an elliptical form, smaller than Munychia ; and the
remains oi the piers on each side of the narrow mouth are to be seen. The line of
its length is fiom east io west, that of its breadth from north to south." Hobhouse's
Journey, Vol. 1. p. 301.

Page 45. " Some affirm that the tribes did not take their names from the sons of
Ion." i he two opinions mentioned in the text may be reconciled by supposing that
the professional classification of the Athenians preceded the birth of Ion's children,
and that this prince, as a compliment to the tribes, bestowed their names upon his
four sons. Larcher maintains that the four tribes certainly existed before the sons of
Ion were born. The division into ten tribes shewed great political sagacity on the
part of Clisthenes, since,under the previous stated things, one tribe might unite
with another, and they render any contest equal. In all the editions of Herodotus
before that of Gronivius, the name Geleon was used ; for this Gronovius sub-
stituted Teleon. The marble of Cyzicus, however, is decisive in favour of Geleon,
vid. Caylns, Recueil d" Antiquite, Tom. II. p. 207. Aristot. Polit- III. 2. Wesseling
ad Herod. V. 66.

Page 48. " Mei-oiKo/." In many other parts of Greece besides Athens, foreigners
laboured under heavy restrictions. Aristotle, {Polit. 3.1.) has the following passage to
this effect: " ttokkh^w oi/efs Tourav (scil. tou cP/khv u7rt^iiv xsu cTiKa^so-fla/) rtKiu; oi ftirot-
Kii tooS oLVstyKii vtjuuv Trfoa-TccTuv." They were generally regarded with a

jealous eye by the government, lest a desire to enjoy the full rights of citizens might