Stuart, James; Revett, Nicholas: The antiquities of Athens (Band 3) (London, 1827)

116 OF THE TEMPLE AT CORINTH.

Zantiot mariners playing at cards. On the right hand of the temple appears part of the city (for it
consists of four or five groups of buildings not united together), and beyond it is the Gulph of Corinth,
with some part of the isthmus. The distant mountains are in the territory of Megara. On the left
hand, between the trees, are seen the Mounts Parnassus and Helicon, or mountains near them.'

Fig. 2. Plan of the temple.

Fig. 3. Elevation a of what is supposed to have been the flank of the temple. The modern wall
between the columns is inserted in this elevation - no measures of the column which formed a part of
the pronaos have been found.

PLATE XLIII.

Fig. 1. Capital and architrave of the columns with the step. There were six drops under each
triglyph, but all of them broken off, for which reason they could not be measured nor drawn.
Fig. 2. Annulets, or listels, under the ovolo, full size.

PLATE XLIV.

View of the Acro-Corinthos, or Acropolis of Corinth b.

' The Head-piece ' introduced in Plate XXXV.,' consists of five medals of Corinth, of which
four are silver, and one of copper. The reverses of three of them only are given. The first ' Fig. 7 '
on the left has Pegasus• and, on the reverse, an impression, possibly to hold the coin upon the die in
striking c; this is of a very early date. The next medal ' Fig. 8,' has the head of Minerva, with
Pegasus, possibly of later date than the former; the third 'Fig. 99' is the same, but of great merit in
its sculpture, and of the time when arts were in great perfection. The lower one on the right ' Fig.
10,' is also of good sculpture, and is a head of Proserpine, with a Pegasus on the reverse. The
upper one on the right 'Fig. 11,' is of exceedingly bad sculpture, and imperfect in the impression,
which is Bellerophon, mounted upon Pegasus, killing the Chimera, with the legend CAECIL
NIGR. C. HEIO. P. M." [n.]

-» At Corinth no example of the order named from that city is taken from the northern suburb of Corinth, from which the

now to be seen, neither has the acanthus been particularly Acro-Corinthos bears about south-east, and is about a mile and a

observed ia the vicinity. This ruin is very probably the most an- half distant. The northern aspect of the Acro-Corinthos is much

cient specimen of the Doric order in existence. The grandeur and more striking than that which is here represented, the summit

beauty of the echini of the capitals are very impressive at the ori- of the mountain being more conical, and the sides falling more

ginal structure. Only seven of the twelve columns of the temple precipitately : this mountain is nearly insular, and its fortified

seen by Stuart now exist, namely, the five here shewn in the summit may be regarded as a more impregnable military position

west front, and two others on the flank at the angle. The others than Gualior2 in Hindostan. [R-3

were consumed in building a house by a Governor, ' the co- c In this engraving the double line at the representation of

lumns having been blasted into fragments with gunpowder.' the four sinkings is inadvertently introduced. The form of this

When we drew from those remaining, they were immured by the incuse mark appears to have some relation to the type of the

walls of a Turkish habitation: but it appears by some sketches Mseander, or that of the Labyrinth, seen on other Grecian coins,

recently made there, that they now dominate in solitary and V. Page 72, note b. CED-J

majestic grandeur over the ashes of modern Corinth, having out- d There are similar coins to this, with the legend more

stood the manifold visitations of deplorable desolation experi- perfect, and with the addition of II. VIR on the exergue;

enced by that ill-fated city. L~EI)-] making the whole as follows: Q. CAECIL. NIGR. C. HEIO.

b This plate is engraved from a drawing of Mr. Cozens', P. M. II. VIR. which may be supposed to be at length Quinto

made from an original unfinished, drawn by Mr. Stuart. It is Csecilio Nigro, Caio Ileio Pollione Mamertino, Duumviris. Cicero

1 John Cozens was an artist of great talent, who may be considered as one the two horns of it, Acrocorinthos and Ithome. The former, from its vicinity to

of the founders of the British school of landscape painting in water-colours. The the sea and the isthmus, still preserves its military importance, and yet fortunately

view here engraved by* no means offers an adequate illustration of the extent of iiis retains a Grecian garrison. In modern civilized warfare, the resources of art

powers. His principal productions resulted from a professional tour in Italy, and and discipline triumph with comparative facility over the most powerful natural

are characterized by elegance of execution and brilliancy of effect. Nature was by bulwarks, as has been exemplified in the recent history of the Indian fortress of

him viewed through the medium of a truly poetic sentiment, and our celebrated Gualior above mentioned, which was esteemed impregnable. It is seated on

Turner has appreciated the force of his genius. [EI>-] a vast rock in t'le province of Agra, about 800 miles distant from Calcutta.

8 The Acrocorinthos, Chalcis in Eubcea, and Demetrias in Thessaly, were Major Popham, with a British force, captured it by surprise, August 4th, 1780.

termed by Philip son of Demetrius, king of Macedon, the fetters of Greece, In 1804 it again surrendered to our arms, and was restored to the Mahrattas at

and in a reply to him, recorded by Polybius, Strabo, and Plutarch, he is advised, the peace granted them by Lord Cornwallis. [™.]

with a view to command the submission of Peloponnesus, to secure, as of a bull,