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MOUNT EUBOEA
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Fig. 5. — View of Mount Euboea, with South Stoa in the foreground.
The foundations of the Second Temple rise above the South Stoa, and above these the Cyclopean supporting-
wall of the Old Temple.
only the mountain-top behind the Heraeum; but, as Pausanias distinctly indicates, the
group of foothills and the hilly district adjoining the mountain. When once we admit
that Euboea designated not only the hill immediately behind (to the northeast of) the He-
raeum (Fig. 5) which is 532 metres high, but also the hilly district adjoining it, the gen-
eral scale of distance on which we identify the sites mentioned by Pausanias must grow
larger. He divides the territory of the Heraeum1 into three parts, viz., Euboea, Acraea,
and Prosymna. Two of these (Euboea and Acraea) are manifestly mountainous districts ;
the other designates the plain. We should thus follow Steffen in his identification of
Euboea (see Fig. 1), which, even among the modern inhabitants, has the name of
Evvia, while we should see Acraea, lying " opposite the Heraeum," opposite Euboea to
the east, in the mountain now called Elias Berbatiotikos. While it is difficult to define
the extent of each hill-country, it is still more difficult to fix the bounds of the low-
lying land Prosymna, which Pausanias defines as " the district below the Heraeum." I
am inclined to believe that this part of the " sacred domain," which, though below the
hill-land of the Heraeum, was, relatively to the plain, nearer Tiryns and the banks of
the Inachus, " lofty and green " as Statius calls it,2 was of considerable extent. The
passages in Strabo3 (ravTr) [MiSea] S'o/xopo? Ilpoo-u/xi'a) and Stephanus of Byzantium
1 The land belonging to the sanctuary, the glebe land, tract of grazing land under Prosymna. So too in the
must have extended far beyond the T€/xevos itself, as is
already suggested by the fact that from the sacred herds
probably one hundred head were sacrificed at the festival
alone. In the passages quoted below from Statius, the poet
is clearly speaking of large and wide tracts and subdivi-
sions of points on the whole Argive plain : Larisa, Lerna,
Prosymna, Midea, — and thus evidently implies a large
passage quoted from Stephanus Byz., his definition of
Trpocrv/xmios as & o'lKr/Tap, shows that a habitable district is
meant. Of. the curious epithet irpoffip-vTi of Demeter at
Lerna. Pans. II. 37. 1.
2 Theb. i. 383; iii. 325; iv. 44.
s VIII. 6. 11. 373.
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Fig. 5. — View of Mount Euboea, with South Stoa in the foreground.
The foundations of the Second Temple rise above the South Stoa, and above these the Cyclopean supporting-
wall of the Old Temple.
only the mountain-top behind the Heraeum; but, as Pausanias distinctly indicates, the
group of foothills and the hilly district adjoining the mountain. When once we admit
that Euboea designated not only the hill immediately behind (to the northeast of) the He-
raeum (Fig. 5) which is 532 metres high, but also the hilly district adjoining it, the gen-
eral scale of distance on which we identify the sites mentioned by Pausanias must grow
larger. He divides the territory of the Heraeum1 into three parts, viz., Euboea, Acraea,
and Prosymna. Two of these (Euboea and Acraea) are manifestly mountainous districts ;
the other designates the plain. We should thus follow Steffen in his identification of
Euboea (see Fig. 1), which, even among the modern inhabitants, has the name of
Evvia, while we should see Acraea, lying " opposite the Heraeum," opposite Euboea to
the east, in the mountain now called Elias Berbatiotikos. While it is difficult to define
the extent of each hill-country, it is still more difficult to fix the bounds of the low-
lying land Prosymna, which Pausanias defines as " the district below the Heraeum." I
am inclined to believe that this part of the " sacred domain," which, though below the
hill-land of the Heraeum, was, relatively to the plain, nearer Tiryns and the banks of
the Inachus, " lofty and green " as Statius calls it,2 was of considerable extent. The
passages in Strabo3 (ravTr) [MiSea] S'o/xopo? Ilpoo-u/xi'a) and Stephanus of Byzantium
1 The land belonging to the sanctuary, the glebe land, tract of grazing land under Prosymna. So too in the
must have extended far beyond the T€/xevos itself, as is
already suggested by the fact that from the sacred herds
probably one hundred head were sacrificed at the festival
alone. In the passages quoted below from Statius, the poet
is clearly speaking of large and wide tracts and subdivi-
sions of points on the whole Argive plain : Larisa, Lerna,
Prosymna, Midea, — and thus evidently implies a large
passage quoted from Stephanus Byz., his definition of
Trpocrv/xmios as & o'lKr/Tap, shows that a habitable district is
meant. Of. the curious epithet irpoffip-vTi of Demeter at
Lerna. Pans. II. 37. 1.
2 Theb. i. 383; iii. 325; iv. 44.
s VIII. 6. 11. 373.