Stuart, James; Revett, Nicholas: The antiquities of Athens (Band 2) (London, 1825)

HEUS,
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°n the s

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lnamehe^st0;

hicl

Probably

MINERVA POLIAS, AND PANDROSUS. 65

was m the twenty-third year of the Peloponnesian war; hence it is not improbable, that tins building
was begun during the administration of Pericles, and a stop put to it either by his death or the ca-
lamities and expences of that wara.

"°Ciety0fDil^i,,r
°f COmP'eting them, J

»sr when Diodes

was a

le be

■'"'""{.'inii to differentparts oftL.

«Of which are<nnl ', °fll(,:

llicl' are spoken of

's, that the words

near ^ j,.

■t singular, dual, or plura,, ^

«I-I^«in.,ferti4lB2

»ee Visconti, MuseoPiofw
and Mem. p. 90. Wiltu,'^

here alluded to is so important ic-
ecian constructive arcliitocture, tkt-

ert it for the satisfaction of tieib
and is the more highly interne
icture of the age of Pericles, dia
:overed it at a house on tl
of Minerva Polios, andui
■ circumstances obtainedposs
y, who have since presented it tit

rom this Athenian inscription isk
actor, divested of the archaisms iie
i marbles engraved previous totk«
republication of this architected a
)Ortant amendment of Dr. Cbi
ie superior architectural knowing
f Mr. W. Wilkins, to which art*
the researches of the German m
it and Boeckh, united to'
II J. Rose, of Cambridge,to*'
t Greek Inscriptions the BejW

NIENSE.

owya. «i

tou mi* '$(7*'

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T0t dux s?1

all

„,e tribes reso""'"1'6

'Ar"'

massed, dclig^ rfdoBie^

^ a The archonship of Diodes was in the fourth year of the
ninety-second Olympiad, 409 b. a, and Pericles died about 429
b. c ; consequently this building remained unfinished twenty
years after the death of that great man.

According to the passage of Xenophon before alluded to in a
note, at p. 42., on the Parthenon, and subsequently mentioned
by Stuart, the old Temple of Minerva is recorded to have suf-
fered from fire, three years after this survey, which Mr. Wilkins

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