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CHAPTER XIX.
ATHENS.
Tower of the fVinds, %c.
'EvflaSe /jiitt-Tv\\ov<rt iponov (paedovTtSos a?y\r)>:,
u8a<xi S* tjeXioio TaAavrevovo-i KeXevdov1;.
Anthol. T. ii. p. 263. Jacobs.
There are four other buildings which will be men-
tioned here, as completing our notices of the decorated
edifices, belonging to the period of its independence,
which still survive at Athens. These are the Tower
of the Winds, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates,
the Temple of Jupiter Olympius, and the Panathenaic
Stadium. They stand in the above order, and nearly
in a line, drawn from the Temple of Theseus toward
the south-east.
The Tower of the Winds, if we consider its object,
will appear to have been well placed. It stands near
the centre of the site of the new Agora, with the
formation of which it was probably nearly contem-
porary. In form it is an octagon. Each of the
eight sides faces the direction • of one of the eight
winds into which the Athenian compass was di-
vided: and both the name and the ideal form of
ATHENS.
Tower of the fVinds, %c.
'EvflaSe /jiitt-Tv\\ov<rt iponov (paedovTtSos a?y\r)>:,
u8a<xi S* tjeXioio TaAavrevovo-i KeXevdov1;.
Anthol. T. ii. p. 263. Jacobs.
There are four other buildings which will be men-
tioned here, as completing our notices of the decorated
edifices, belonging to the period of its independence,
which still survive at Athens. These are the Tower
of the Winds, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates,
the Temple of Jupiter Olympius, and the Panathenaic
Stadium. They stand in the above order, and nearly
in a line, drawn from the Temple of Theseus toward
the south-east.
The Tower of the Winds, if we consider its object,
will appear to have been well placed. It stands near
the centre of the site of the new Agora, with the
formation of which it was probably nearly contem-
porary. In form it is an octagon. Each of the
eight sides faces the direction • of one of the eight
winds into which the Athenian compass was di-
vided: and both the name and the ideal form of