Stuart, James; Revett, Nicholas: The antiquities of Athens (Band 1) (London, 1825)

Or THE OCTOGON TOWER OF ANDRONICUS CYRRHESTES.

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effects of these winds on the climate of Athens, are remarked, so far principally as relates to the
symbols which characterize them.

PLATE XXP.

Fig. 1. BOPEA2, Boreas, the north wind; is cold, fierce and stormy. At Athens, from the
situation perhaps of some rocks and grottos, it makes a loud, hollow noise, greatly resembling the
sound of a conch-shell when you blow through it; the sculptor was probably induced from such re-
semblance of sound, to place a conch-shell in the hand of this figure. He is represented an old
man looking full on the spectator, and is more warmly cloathed than any other of these figures ex-
cept Skiron ; for over the tunic or close garment which descends to his knees, he has a short jacket
with sleeves that cover his arms quite down to his wrist. His under tunic is perhaps the Exomis, as
that with the sleeves to it, may be the Cheirodota, and his cloke or mantle, the Chlamys of the
ancients.

Monsieur Le Roy describes it thus, ' Boreas, ou le Nord, qui Wheler's translator bestows the epithet of ' vieux Barbon' on

est a gauche de Schiron, est un vieux Barbon avec des bottines this figure, and describes it almost in the same words with Spon,
aux jambes, et un Manteau dont il se cache le visage pour se who says: ' ce Vent la vole tres vite avec des bottines aux jambes,
garantir du Froid.' et un manteau dont il se cache le nez pour se garantir du froid.

II ne porte rien.'

None of these gentlemen have observed the conch-shell which is in the hand of Boreas; and
they are quite mistaken, when they say, he hides his face in his mantle. It is indeed the figure of
Eurus, that they have here described under the name of Boreas: which seems to prove, that Wheler
and Spon did not make all their descriptions on the spot, but wrote their notes by memory. To this
we must attribute the several mistakes they have committed in relation to these figures. These mis-
takes, we see, in this and in most other instances, are repeated by Monsieur Le Roy.

Eig. 2. KAIKIA2, Kaikias or Csecias, the north-east wind, is cloudy, wet and cold; snow,
and at some seasons, hail and tempest accompany this wind. The figure which represents it, is an
old man with a severe countenance; he holds with both his hands a circular shield, from whence he
seems prepared to rattle down a storm of hail; the inside of it is turned to the spectators; the handle
in the middle of it, proves it to be a shield.

Cojcias, says Mons. Le Roy, ' ou le Nord-Est, &c. est un
Vieillard qui tient dans sa main un plat d'Olives qu'il ren-
verse. Pour signifier peut-etre que ce Vent est nuisible a ce
fruit.'

Wheler's account of this figure is thus rendered by his French
translator: ' Caecias, ou le Vent de Nord-Est, &c. est represents
comme un vieux Barbon, qui porte un plat d'Olives, qu'il ren-
verse, &c. Je croirois que ce vent est ainsi represente parce qu'il
est ennemi des Olives,' &c.

But it is incontestibly a shield, and not a dish, which CaBcias holds, and it is much more pro-
bable that the contents are hail stones than olives.

Fig. 3. AiTHAmTHS, Apeliotes, the east wind, brings a gradual gentle rain, and is a great
friend to vegetation. The sculptor has represented this wind by the figure of a young man, with his
hair flowing in every direction, he has a fine open countenance, and holds with both hands, the skirt
of his mantle filled with variety of fruit, a honey-comb and some ears of corn. This wind is supposed

* The state of degradation in which this Monument is seen,
is unfavorable to the consideration of the sculpture, which, added
to the extraordinary flexion of the figures and the extremely
horizontal position in which they are designed in order to
correspond with the lines of the architecture on which they are
sculptured, and with which they are perhaps too much entangled
(in a degree unobserved in any other ancient sculpture), has
caused these figures not to have met with that admiration from

travellers to which they are entitled. We regard the figure of
Eurus as a most magnificent conception, and the whole series as
a triumph of art over the disadvantages resulting from a devia-
tion from natural action, and the restraints arising from the archi-
tectural combination. The form of the letters of the names
attached to these figures, in correspondence with the supposed
date of part of the architectural details, does not display a very
remote paliographic character. CEDd