Wordsworth, Christopher: Athens and Attica: journal of a residence (London, 1837)

CHAPTER XXIII.

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avTo irapapet^-at to TieXaayiKov, kcxi KopLi^Ofxevoe icapa
to Ylvdiov iXdeiv, ol vvv tbppLicrTai.

Philostrat. Vit. Herod. Soph. 11.

/ have heard this description of the Panathenaic festival:
they tell me that a Peplos, more lovely than a picture,
was hung from the ship wafted by its swelling bosom;
that the ship sailed along, not drawn by animals, but
gliding secretly on machinery passing over the ground;
that it got under weigh at the Cerameicus with crowded
sail, and made for the Eleusinium; that it doubled this
point and passed the Pelasgicum, and then hove to, at
the Pythium, where it is now moored.

We will make an application of these observa-
tions on the topography of Athens, by endeavouring
to trace the route of the Panathenaic procession.
The principal feature in that procession was the
Panathenaic peplos, which was carried to the Acro-
polis as a periodic offering to Minerva Polias: and
with which her statue, in her temple there, was sub-
sequently invested.