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2 ACRopOLls
Furies' of which
igiC;itis°fl%nsll
onside^We distance.
of the peribolug 0f
on the
of outwork ,-
stiges of the Odeum
is1
Church of 0ur Lady otill
columns, on which tripods^
in such ^ form as efc
' [t Near it some inscripS^
the words TPinox andjn
1 our First Volume,
amongst which I have suppos
.here is a path, now littlek
ered to be the Odeum of Regil.re
ticus.
$\ i<rn ^{is t» Smtjo to ^mmk
,ooi. Pausan. Attic. Chap. XI
,r the theatre the most ancient Teujk'
bolus or inclosure of which aretwtti
re of Herodes Atticus.
loubtedly the site of the DionpkTii
i,(HJ!™«»«wifW*'"i'
soiS'TempleofBed^
inlv the Odeum of Per**;
5^ **-■**£$
lge20. SeehkewiseHuW"
lese almost obliterated i-g
pisomanusis .
30me^r!rtiularlv^lV
Theatre of B-* £>#
altar A^—^'^
Ch»r-
iJ'
^"'p'rtll.S'11' liniBf
• is stu
EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN OF THE ACROPOLIS. 19
passing from them at the foot of the rock, through the outwork on the south of the Acropolis, and con-
tinued thence almost in a direct line to the Choragic monument of Thrasyllus, and thence again nearly
in the same direction to that of Lysicrates. This path, I imagine, traces out the street I have already
mentioned in page 17, called by Pausanias the tripods, which, he says, began from the Prytaneum\
The monuments abovementioned, it is still evident, have had tripods placed on them, and are probably
two of the temples on which, speaking of that street, he tells us the tripods were placed".
N. A grotto at the eastern end of the Acropolis, great part of which had recently fallen inc.
t. t. t. A level space cut at the foot of the rock, not ten feet broad, but of a very considera-
ble length ; on this, it is evident, a wall has been built of no mean strength. I imagine this to have
been another part of the Pelasgic wall, between which and the rock of the Acropolis a space of
ground called the Pelasgicum" was inclosed; and, from the near approach of the wall in this place to
the rock, it seems to have terminated at no great distance east from hence. Not far from this situa-
tion, we may conclude, stood the Temple of Eleusinian Ceres, for, on the day of the greater Pana-
thenai'c Festival, the procession attending the Peplus went from the Pompe'fum, or building in which
the apparatus for religious processions was kept, through the Ceramicus to the Eleusinium, and passing
on beyond the Pelasgicum proceeded southward to the Pythian Temple, and thence continued their
march by the Portico of the Hermes, up to the Acropolis, where the Peplus was consecrated to Mi-
nerva. For an account of the Peplus, see Note in the next Chapter.
v. A grottoe near our first entrance at the little gate marked (a), it is yet plainly to be discerned
that some ornament has anciently been bestowed on it.
iews it)IUU
be Parthenon-
a Eo-Ti ^e o£o? a.7TQ rav IlgvTa.vuov, KCcXovpiv/i T^i7T0^e' Pausan.
Attic, c. 20.
' From the Prytaneum there is a street called the Tripods.'
b The site now appropriated to the Prytaneum, the depository
of the laws of Solon, will give a different and better direction to
the Street of the Tripods; as the place adopted by us for that
building, is more in the vicinity of the Choragic Monuments.
[ED.]
c In front of the eastern end of the Acropolis, nearly in a
line with the return of the south wall, and at about eighty yards
distant from the angle, are seen the remains of a wall of regular
masonry, the stones of which are of an argillaceous breccia, about
four feet in length and eighteen inches deep. This wall was
called by an antiquarian resident at Athens, the Peribolus of The-
seus ; it is at the site given by Vitruvius to the Odeum of Peri-
cles. See Note c, page 20. LED\1
d The Pelasgians were a people of eastern origin who invaded
or colonized the greater part of Greece, into which they intro-
duced letters and the useful arts; but migratory hordes of sub-
sequent invaders appear to have predominated over this original
race, a great proportion of whom probably adopted the customs of
the more numerous colonists : a considerable tribe of them, how-
ever, seems to have preserved the identity of their national cha-
racter. At a period perhaps of above one thousand years before
the birth of Christ, the Athenians, when about to strengthen
their city, were induced to invite them, on account of their
superior skill in military architecture, to fortify the Acropolis,
and the northern wall was the result of their labours, beneath
which had been allotted to them for their habitation a tract of
ground, thence called the Pelasgicum. Here it appears they were
suspected of fostering pretensions of authority over the people from
whom they had received employment, and hospitality; the Athe-
nians therefore expelled them from the city, but granted them waste
lands near Hymettus. The Athenians became afterwards jealous
of their rising prosperity, and ultimately drove them altogether
from Attica. The remains of this people afterwards established
themselves in Thessaly and Lemnos. Their peculiar adherence
to their own customs and language, seems to have rendered them
obnoxious to the people among whom they were received, or the new
invaders by whom they were outnumbered. Italy, as well as Greece,
was also the country of their colonization, and monuments, al-
most as durable as the features of nature, frequently called Cy-
clopean, exist in both countries, and attest the extent of their
science and energy. After the removal of the Pelasgians from
that portion of ground called by the Athenians the Pelasgicum,
the oracle pronounced against the future occupation or cultivation
of it, and the response was afterwards enforced by laws. On this
occasion it is worthy of remark that the late modern Greek
chieftain, Odysseus, who occupied the Acropolis after the period
of its surrender by the Turks, determined not to allow the re-
storation of the buildings at this particular spot, which had been
destroyed in a conflagration during the recent conflicts between the
Athenians and Turks; on account of the protection they would
afford to an attacking enemy; possibly on the same principle
that the oracle of old pronounced the response rl TlActa-yty.lt d^yov
Sjmito. ' it is better that the Pelasgicum should lie waste.' The
north side of the Acropolis is the place generally given by
modern authors to the Pelasgicum, but a recent architectural
writer, Mr. Wilkins, places it to the south of the citadel, ap-
parently to favour an hypothesis founded on his interpretation of
the inscriptions on the Arch of Hadrian, but contrary to the
well-grounded and received opinion deduced from ancient authors,
as particularly confirmed by a passage of Lucian.
We have noticed the doubts raised by Bryant as to the sepa-
rate existence of the Pelasgic people, whom he intermixes and
unites with the Leleges, Inachidae, Daniadae, Heraclidee, and
Cadmians, who according to him were no other than shepherds
of Egypt, who came originally from Chaldca, and being expelled
by the Egyptians, came into Hellas or Greece, and went under
the above different denominations. The conclusions drawn by
this very learned person [who wrote on the one hand to disprove
the existence of Troy, and on the other in support of the authen-
ticity of the poems of Rowley,] are often founded on a too san-
guine application, of etymological resemblance, and of hypothe-
tical inferences. His ingenious work, " The Analysis of Ancient
Mythology", however seldom it commands implicit conviction,
will, notwithstanding, long remain as a beacon to the enqui-
ries of the scholar and the researches of the antiquary. See He-
rodotus. Thucydides. Pausanias. Mitford's Greece. Leeke's
Topography of Athens. Wilkins's Atheniensia. Hawkins's
Topography of Athens in Walpole's Memoirs. Bryant's Ana-
lysis, Vol. III. p- 407. Waddington's Visit to Greece, 1825.
[ED.]
e The supposed Hieron of Aglauros. See Note e, p. 15.
[ED.]
Furies' of which
igiC;itis°fl%nsll
onside^We distance.
of the peribolug 0f
on the
of outwork ,-
stiges of the Odeum
is1
Church of 0ur Lady otill
columns, on which tripods^
in such ^ form as efc
' [t Near it some inscripS^
the words TPinox andjn
1 our First Volume,
amongst which I have suppos
.here is a path, now littlek
ered to be the Odeum of Regil.re
ticus.
$\ i<rn ^{is t» Smtjo to ^mmk
,ooi. Pausan. Attic. Chap. XI
,r the theatre the most ancient Teujk'
bolus or inclosure of which aretwtti
re of Herodes Atticus.
loubtedly the site of the DionpkTii
i,(HJ!™«»«wifW*'"i'
soiS'TempleofBed^
inlv the Odeum of Per**;
5^ **-■**£$
lge20. SeehkewiseHuW"
lese almost obliterated i-g
pisomanusis .
30me^r!rtiularlv^lV
Theatre of B-* £>#
altar A^—^'^
Ch»r-
iJ'
^"'p'rtll.S'11' liniBf
• is stu
EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN OF THE ACROPOLIS. 19
passing from them at the foot of the rock, through the outwork on the south of the Acropolis, and con-
tinued thence almost in a direct line to the Choragic monument of Thrasyllus, and thence again nearly
in the same direction to that of Lysicrates. This path, I imagine, traces out the street I have already
mentioned in page 17, called by Pausanias the tripods, which, he says, began from the Prytaneum\
The monuments abovementioned, it is still evident, have had tripods placed on them, and are probably
two of the temples on which, speaking of that street, he tells us the tripods were placed".
N. A grotto at the eastern end of the Acropolis, great part of which had recently fallen inc.
t. t. t. A level space cut at the foot of the rock, not ten feet broad, but of a very considera-
ble length ; on this, it is evident, a wall has been built of no mean strength. I imagine this to have
been another part of the Pelasgic wall, between which and the rock of the Acropolis a space of
ground called the Pelasgicum" was inclosed; and, from the near approach of the wall in this place to
the rock, it seems to have terminated at no great distance east from hence. Not far from this situa-
tion, we may conclude, stood the Temple of Eleusinian Ceres, for, on the day of the greater Pana-
thenai'c Festival, the procession attending the Peplus went from the Pompe'fum, or building in which
the apparatus for religious processions was kept, through the Ceramicus to the Eleusinium, and passing
on beyond the Pelasgicum proceeded southward to the Pythian Temple, and thence continued their
march by the Portico of the Hermes, up to the Acropolis, where the Peplus was consecrated to Mi-
nerva. For an account of the Peplus, see Note in the next Chapter.
v. A grottoe near our first entrance at the little gate marked (a), it is yet plainly to be discerned
that some ornament has anciently been bestowed on it.
iews it)IUU
be Parthenon-
a Eo-Ti ^e o£o? a.7TQ rav IlgvTa.vuov, KCcXovpiv/i T^i7T0^e' Pausan.
Attic, c. 20.
' From the Prytaneum there is a street called the Tripods.'
b The site now appropriated to the Prytaneum, the depository
of the laws of Solon, will give a different and better direction to
the Street of the Tripods; as the place adopted by us for that
building, is more in the vicinity of the Choragic Monuments.
[ED.]
c In front of the eastern end of the Acropolis, nearly in a
line with the return of the south wall, and at about eighty yards
distant from the angle, are seen the remains of a wall of regular
masonry, the stones of which are of an argillaceous breccia, about
four feet in length and eighteen inches deep. This wall was
called by an antiquarian resident at Athens, the Peribolus of The-
seus ; it is at the site given by Vitruvius to the Odeum of Peri-
cles. See Note c, page 20. LED\1
d The Pelasgians were a people of eastern origin who invaded
or colonized the greater part of Greece, into which they intro-
duced letters and the useful arts; but migratory hordes of sub-
sequent invaders appear to have predominated over this original
race, a great proportion of whom probably adopted the customs of
the more numerous colonists : a considerable tribe of them, how-
ever, seems to have preserved the identity of their national cha-
racter. At a period perhaps of above one thousand years before
the birth of Christ, the Athenians, when about to strengthen
their city, were induced to invite them, on account of their
superior skill in military architecture, to fortify the Acropolis,
and the northern wall was the result of their labours, beneath
which had been allotted to them for their habitation a tract of
ground, thence called the Pelasgicum. Here it appears they were
suspected of fostering pretensions of authority over the people from
whom they had received employment, and hospitality; the Athe-
nians therefore expelled them from the city, but granted them waste
lands near Hymettus. The Athenians became afterwards jealous
of their rising prosperity, and ultimately drove them altogether
from Attica. The remains of this people afterwards established
themselves in Thessaly and Lemnos. Their peculiar adherence
to their own customs and language, seems to have rendered them
obnoxious to the people among whom they were received, or the new
invaders by whom they were outnumbered. Italy, as well as Greece,
was also the country of their colonization, and monuments, al-
most as durable as the features of nature, frequently called Cy-
clopean, exist in both countries, and attest the extent of their
science and energy. After the removal of the Pelasgians from
that portion of ground called by the Athenians the Pelasgicum,
the oracle pronounced against the future occupation or cultivation
of it, and the response was afterwards enforced by laws. On this
occasion it is worthy of remark that the late modern Greek
chieftain, Odysseus, who occupied the Acropolis after the period
of its surrender by the Turks, determined not to allow the re-
storation of the buildings at this particular spot, which had been
destroyed in a conflagration during the recent conflicts between the
Athenians and Turks; on account of the protection they would
afford to an attacking enemy; possibly on the same principle
that the oracle of old pronounced the response rl TlActa-yty.lt d^yov
Sjmito. ' it is better that the Pelasgicum should lie waste.' The
north side of the Acropolis is the place generally given by
modern authors to the Pelasgicum, but a recent architectural
writer, Mr. Wilkins, places it to the south of the citadel, ap-
parently to favour an hypothesis founded on his interpretation of
the inscriptions on the Arch of Hadrian, but contrary to the
well-grounded and received opinion deduced from ancient authors,
as particularly confirmed by a passage of Lucian.
We have noticed the doubts raised by Bryant as to the sepa-
rate existence of the Pelasgic people, whom he intermixes and
unites with the Leleges, Inachidae, Daniadae, Heraclidee, and
Cadmians, who according to him were no other than shepherds
of Egypt, who came originally from Chaldca, and being expelled
by the Egyptians, came into Hellas or Greece, and went under
the above different denominations. The conclusions drawn by
this very learned person [who wrote on the one hand to disprove
the existence of Troy, and on the other in support of the authen-
ticity of the poems of Rowley,] are often founded on a too san-
guine application, of etymological resemblance, and of hypothe-
tical inferences. His ingenious work, " The Analysis of Ancient
Mythology", however seldom it commands implicit conviction,
will, notwithstanding, long remain as a beacon to the enqui-
ries of the scholar and the researches of the antiquary. See He-
rodotus. Thucydides. Pausanias. Mitford's Greece. Leeke's
Topography of Athens. Wilkins's Atheniensia. Hawkins's
Topography of Athens in Walpole's Memoirs. Bryant's Ana-
lysis, Vol. III. p- 407. Waddington's Visit to Greece, 1825.
[ED.]
e The supposed Hieron of Aglauros. See Note e, p. 15.
[ED.]