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3akindofoutwory
■Pinto the fortreSS,'
'gth, but with a:
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EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN OF THE ACROPOLIS. 15
spring of running water, which is soon joined by another smaller rill, rising at a little distance beyond
it; this united little stream, near which stood the Temple of iEsculapius, is at present conveyed to
the great Moschea ; passing in its way near the Tower of the Winds, in which I have supposed it
anciently gave motion to the machinery of a Clepsydra, and afterward ran under ground to the
Phalerus \
f. Another little fort.
g. A gate from this outwork to the Turkish burying-ground.
A. The lower grand battery.
h. c. i. A wall extending from the lower grand battery to the Theatre of Bacchusb.
k. A gate in that wall; over it is a very elegant little basso-relievo, mentioned by Wheler and
Sponc, and given at PL IV. Fig. 4, which seems to be a sepulchral monument, representing a
deceased husband and his wife meeting after their death, in the Elysian Shades.
I. A ruined Moschea; this I imagine was once a Christian church, raised on the foundation
of an ancient temple; near it are the ruins of several ill-built habitations, now abandoned, and in
great part demolished, these we were not permitted to examine; there was in truth little in their
appearance to excite our curiosity, but we wished to bestow some attention on them, because
Pausanias mentions several buildings that seem to have occupied this situation; particularly the
Temple of Aglaurosd, near which6 the Persians mounted up an unguarded part of the rock, and
ngs
This is probabijl
id Panc. Just before it ■»
Jther in the library at Fn^s
*. 19, of this volume, a miH
I a cavern occupies a simatkii
the steps marked on the melt
to those objects in reality, Itii
he coin, no doubt from its tk.
•ould appear by that represents.
:nt was applied to the front of k
pie that some enclosure wasadapti:
; and traces may be observed «fs:
possibly of a Greek church, repk
ic shrine. Within the cave m
sen made for statues, one largas
igs have been also cut in tie*:'
•ts In a garden beneath tkty
recently found, of a size to S
kof a statue of Apollo,*"
late Dr. E.D. Clarke,d¥
rmbridge. This statue ofM
From its formation, to I**
described by Luciano-J
fcity of groundless terror^
2 afforded the AtJ^
ays the Athenians -£j
gratitude of the A |(
,on the helme»<** ^
Anthologm,hy n^ lS
msed a statue ofM
.beneath the c.t^
dis.Antho.^.1 v
stalterumEp.^^
e,Pan,thegofi
cclel-ratedmA^^f,
dtheloveofCj >ble^
Uy deserted^11
period of the tradition. Ion became the supposed or adopted
son of Xuthus, and was, according to Vitruvius, the founder of
the Ionian colonics in Asia Minor; and lie is the subject of a
beautiful dramatic production of Euripides, who relates Apollo
to have married the virgin Creiisa by force
Ov iroitf 'EpEp^OEWS <po7fif>s E^Eufff ya.fAOi$
ITaAAado? bit', oy^u rye 'Advvauoi' yjjowq
May.pa.s xuXovcri yy<; a.va.y.ri'; 'AtdY^.
Eurip. Ion. Ver. 10.
'------ Erectheus was its king;
His daughter, call'd Creiisa, to th'embrace
Of nuptial love Apollo strain'd perforce,
Where northward points the rock beneath the heights
Crown'd with th'Athenian citadel of Pallas,
Call'd Macrai by the lords of Attica.' Potter's Trans.
Thus rendering the tradition more palatable to the national
vanity of the Athenians, and more creditable to their ancestors.
It was from this history of Ion that Apollo was called by the
Athenians flaTpao;, paternal or god of their ancestors. Vide
Euripidis Ion, Vitruv. Lib. IV. Cap. 1. Herod. Lib. VI. Meursii
Regnum Atticum, Lib. II. Cap. XIII., Chandler's Travels, Dod-
well's Travels, Vol. ]., and Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. II.,
Wilkins's Magna Gracia, Appendix. \j™.~\
a See the third chapter of our first volume, page 40.
h Now considered to be the Odeum of Regilla. [ed.]
c Wheler, page 358.
d "Ew-wpoctOe wv etvo T^5 ay.p77o\K>s, IsritjOs oe twv 'Ku'kwv, y.a.t TVS
avo^ov, Tvi tly] o^'te tk t(pv\a-r70-£, out* ccv yXTncre pr, kote t(? y.ccTcc ravrcc
avaffecw uv^ph'Jtm, tcivtvj uvz^gccv tmes y.ura. to tpov rv<; Kexpottos
§vyccTpo$ 'Ayha-vnov, KCtiToiftzp ccTtoxpypvov 16vto$ tov yujpov.—Ilerodot.
Lib. VIII. C LIII. and vide Pausan. Attic. C. XVIII. P. 41.
' In the front of the Acropolis, therefore, but behind the
gates, and the way leading up to them, no guard was kept, no
one suspecting any man would attempt to get up there; yet
there some of the barbarians mounted up, near the Temple of
Aglauros, the daughter of Cecrops, although the place is a
precipice.'
e The locality marked 1., is rather to be appropriated to the
Asclepium or Temple of iEsculapius from its vicinity to a spring
that may formerly have flowed from this place, and which is re-
corded to have been within the temple. On the route of Pausa-
nias from the theatre of Bacchus to the Acropolis, in which he
names that edifice, he must have passed this spot.
In addition to the proof that appears to us to exist, that the
Ionic Temple above alluded to, situate at the south-western ex-
tremity of the Acropolis, was that dedicated to Victory Ap-
teros, we conclude the Temple of Aglauros, the name applied
to it by Stuart, to have been placed at a far distant part
of the rock of the citadel. The Aglaurium was situated
above the Temple of the Dioscuri, and consequently it was ele-
vated above the lower part of the city, and as Pausanias mentions
it before he describes the Acropolis, and while he is speaking of
the monuments below, it follows that it was not within the cita-
del. It is natural also to suppose that sanctuary to have been
situated, where, according to the legend, the sisters of Pandrosus
threw themselves from the highest precipice of the Acropolis,
' E»fla w ixuXurrct. immpoS. It would appear also from a passage
of Euripides that the site sacred to Aglauros was near to the cave
of Pan and the " Mccxpa.) TIitpu.1", ' long rocks', a locality now
undisputed which was on the northern front of the Acropolis.
£2 Tlccvo$, Sa.vz.'iu.ccfcc xcti
Xiapa.v'hil^ovacc wetpcc
Mv^aTUto-t Ma.Kp_a.~c;,
A.ypa.u\ov yopcci Tptyotoi
Xta-Sia. xXotpcc 7Tp<j TlaXhaooq
Nam,— ION. V. 495.
' Ye rustic seats, Pan's dear delight,
Ye caves of Macrai's rocky height,
Where oft the social virgins meet,
And weave the dance with nimble feet,
Descendants from Aglauros they
In a third line, with festive play
Minerva's hallow'd fane before
The verdant plain light tripping o'er,' Potter.
Part of the above passage we conceive to be more correctly in-
terpreted by Musgrave:
-—" Ubi chorcae pulsant pedibus
Agrauli triplices puellae
Viridia stadia,"—
This subject, as well as passage, also receives some illustration
from a bas-relief in the Museum Worsleyanum, named of Ce-
crops and his three daughters; on which at the eave of Pan who
is introduced sedent with the syrinx and rhyton, the yipat rpiyovoi
appear hand in hand as if beginning a dance before a rude
altar, and near them is a figure supposed to be of Cecrops. This
sculpture therefore coincides with the description, by the poet,
3akindofoutwory
■Pinto the fortreSS,'
'gth, but with a:
heir musketry throu^
another, reaching fi, t
EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN OF THE ACROPOLIS. 15
spring of running water, which is soon joined by another smaller rill, rising at a little distance beyond
it; this united little stream, near which stood the Temple of iEsculapius, is at present conveyed to
the great Moschea ; passing in its way near the Tower of the Winds, in which I have supposed it
anciently gave motion to the machinery of a Clepsydra, and afterward ran under ground to the
Phalerus \
f. Another little fort.
g. A gate from this outwork to the Turkish burying-ground.
A. The lower grand battery.
h. c. i. A wall extending from the lower grand battery to the Theatre of Bacchusb.
k. A gate in that wall; over it is a very elegant little basso-relievo, mentioned by Wheler and
Sponc, and given at PL IV. Fig. 4, which seems to be a sepulchral monument, representing a
deceased husband and his wife meeting after their death, in the Elysian Shades.
I. A ruined Moschea; this I imagine was once a Christian church, raised on the foundation
of an ancient temple; near it are the ruins of several ill-built habitations, now abandoned, and in
great part demolished, these we were not permitted to examine; there was in truth little in their
appearance to excite our curiosity, but we wished to bestow some attention on them, because
Pausanias mentions several buildings that seem to have occupied this situation; particularly the
Temple of Aglaurosd, near which6 the Persians mounted up an unguarded part of the rock, and
ngs
This is probabijl
id Panc. Just before it ■»
Jther in the library at Fn^s
*. 19, of this volume, a miH
I a cavern occupies a simatkii
the steps marked on the melt
to those objects in reality, Itii
he coin, no doubt from its tk.
•ould appear by that represents.
:nt was applied to the front of k
pie that some enclosure wasadapti:
; and traces may be observed «fs:
possibly of a Greek church, repk
ic shrine. Within the cave m
sen made for statues, one largas
igs have been also cut in tie*:'
•ts In a garden beneath tkty
recently found, of a size to S
kof a statue of Apollo,*"
late Dr. E.D. Clarke,d¥
rmbridge. This statue ofM
From its formation, to I**
described by Luciano-J
fcity of groundless terror^
2 afforded the AtJ^
ays the Athenians -£j
gratitude of the A |(
,on the helme»<** ^
Anthologm,hy n^ lS
msed a statue ofM
.beneath the c.t^
dis.Antho.^.1 v
stalterumEp.^^
e,Pan,thegofi
cclel-ratedmA^^f,
dtheloveofCj >ble^
Uy deserted^11
period of the tradition. Ion became the supposed or adopted
son of Xuthus, and was, according to Vitruvius, the founder of
the Ionian colonics in Asia Minor; and lie is the subject of a
beautiful dramatic production of Euripides, who relates Apollo
to have married the virgin Creiisa by force
Ov iroitf 'EpEp^OEWS <po7fif>s E^Eufff ya.fAOi$
ITaAAado? bit', oy^u rye 'Advvauoi' yjjowq
May.pa.s xuXovcri yy<; a.va.y.ri'; 'AtdY^.
Eurip. Ion. Ver. 10.
'------ Erectheus was its king;
His daughter, call'd Creiisa, to th'embrace
Of nuptial love Apollo strain'd perforce,
Where northward points the rock beneath the heights
Crown'd with th'Athenian citadel of Pallas,
Call'd Macrai by the lords of Attica.' Potter's Trans.
Thus rendering the tradition more palatable to the national
vanity of the Athenians, and more creditable to their ancestors.
It was from this history of Ion that Apollo was called by the
Athenians flaTpao;, paternal or god of their ancestors. Vide
Euripidis Ion, Vitruv. Lib. IV. Cap. 1. Herod. Lib. VI. Meursii
Regnum Atticum, Lib. II. Cap. XIII., Chandler's Travels, Dod-
well's Travels, Vol. ]., and Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. II.,
Wilkins's Magna Gracia, Appendix. \j™.~\
a See the third chapter of our first volume, page 40.
h Now considered to be the Odeum of Regilla. [ed.]
c Wheler, page 358.
d "Ew-wpoctOe wv etvo T^5 ay.p77o\K>s, IsritjOs oe twv 'Ku'kwv, y.a.t TVS
avo^ov, Tvi tly] o^'te tk t(pv\a-r70-£, out* ccv yXTncre pr, kote t(? y.ccTcc ravrcc
avaffecw uv^ph'Jtm, tcivtvj uvz^gccv tmes y.ura. to tpov rv<; Kexpottos
§vyccTpo$ 'Ayha-vnov, KCtiToiftzp ccTtoxpypvov 16vto$ tov yujpov.—Ilerodot.
Lib. VIII. C LIII. and vide Pausan. Attic. C. XVIII. P. 41.
' In the front of the Acropolis, therefore, but behind the
gates, and the way leading up to them, no guard was kept, no
one suspecting any man would attempt to get up there; yet
there some of the barbarians mounted up, near the Temple of
Aglauros, the daughter of Cecrops, although the place is a
precipice.'
e The locality marked 1., is rather to be appropriated to the
Asclepium or Temple of iEsculapius from its vicinity to a spring
that may formerly have flowed from this place, and which is re-
corded to have been within the temple. On the route of Pausa-
nias from the theatre of Bacchus to the Acropolis, in which he
names that edifice, he must have passed this spot.
In addition to the proof that appears to us to exist, that the
Ionic Temple above alluded to, situate at the south-western ex-
tremity of the Acropolis, was that dedicated to Victory Ap-
teros, we conclude the Temple of Aglauros, the name applied
to it by Stuart, to have been placed at a far distant part
of the rock of the citadel. The Aglaurium was situated
above the Temple of the Dioscuri, and consequently it was ele-
vated above the lower part of the city, and as Pausanias mentions
it before he describes the Acropolis, and while he is speaking of
the monuments below, it follows that it was not within the cita-
del. It is natural also to suppose that sanctuary to have been
situated, where, according to the legend, the sisters of Pandrosus
threw themselves from the highest precipice of the Acropolis,
' E»fla w ixuXurrct. immpoS. It would appear also from a passage
of Euripides that the site sacred to Aglauros was near to the cave
of Pan and the " Mccxpa.) TIitpu.1", ' long rocks', a locality now
undisputed which was on the northern front of the Acropolis.
£2 Tlccvo$, Sa.vz.'iu.ccfcc xcti
Xiapa.v'hil^ovacc wetpcc
Mv^aTUto-t Ma.Kp_a.~c;,
A.ypa.u\ov yopcci Tptyotoi
Xta-Sia. xXotpcc 7Tp<j TlaXhaooq
Nam,— ION. V. 495.
' Ye rustic seats, Pan's dear delight,
Ye caves of Macrai's rocky height,
Where oft the social virgins meet,
And weave the dance with nimble feet,
Descendants from Aglauros they
In a third line, with festive play
Minerva's hallow'd fane before
The verdant plain light tripping o'er,' Potter.
Part of the above passage we conceive to be more correctly in-
terpreted by Musgrave:
-—" Ubi chorcae pulsant pedibus
Agrauli triplices puellae
Viridia stadia,"—
This subject, as well as passage, also receives some illustration
from a bas-relief in the Museum Worsleyanum, named of Ce-
crops and his three daughters; on which at the eave of Pan who
is introduced sedent with the syrinx and rhyton, the yipat rpiyovoi
appear hand in hand as if beginning a dance before a rude
altar, and near them is a figure supposed to be of Cecrops. This
sculpture therefore coincides with the description, by the poet,