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MAEOTTSI, PALLENE, LYCABETTTJS.
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of the sacred inclosure of the Temple of the Amarusian Diana, of whose appel-
lation a vestige remains in the modern name of the village of Marousi.
At the birth of Erichthonius, the ancient King of Attica, Pallas Minerva
is said to have come from her Temple at Pallene to Athens, and to have
borne through the air, as a birthday gift, that remarkable conical hill "which
stands at the north-east of Athens, and which was first named Lycabettus,
CONVENT AT MOUNT ANCIIESMVS.
then Anchesmus, and, at present, the mountain of St. Geoege. The God-
dess, it is said, dropped it from her arms on the spot where it is now placed,
m order that it might serve as a bulwark of Athens on that side. The Temple
at Pallene, from which she came, stood, it is probable, not far from Marousi.
«is a spot famed in history as the scene of the contests between the sons
°f Peisistratus and their rivals the Alcmteonidoe, and in earlier days, for the
pursuit, by Iolaus, of the Argive Eurystheus, from the Plain of Marathon to
the Scironian rocks.
Between the southern foot of Pentelicus and the northern slope of
-Hymettus is a level interval, two miles broad. This is the communication
between the two principal plains of Attica, namely, that of Athens on the
West, and that of MesoG/EA, or Interior of Attica, on the south-east. At
the eastern foot of the mountain a lion sculptured in marble, of colossal size,
ls to he seen. The lion is in Pentelic marble, well preserved, except the legs,
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MAEOTTSI, PALLENE, LYCABETTTJS.
171
of the sacred inclosure of the Temple of the Amarusian Diana, of whose appel-
lation a vestige remains in the modern name of the village of Marousi.
At the birth of Erichthonius, the ancient King of Attica, Pallas Minerva
is said to have come from her Temple at Pallene to Athens, and to have
borne through the air, as a birthday gift, that remarkable conical hill "which
stands at the north-east of Athens, and which was first named Lycabettus,
CONVENT AT MOUNT ANCIIESMVS.
then Anchesmus, and, at present, the mountain of St. Geoege. The God-
dess, it is said, dropped it from her arms on the spot where it is now placed,
m order that it might serve as a bulwark of Athens on that side. The Temple
at Pallene, from which she came, stood, it is probable, not far from Marousi.
«is a spot famed in history as the scene of the contests between the sons
°f Peisistratus and their rivals the Alcmteonidoe, and in earlier days, for the
pursuit, by Iolaus, of the Argive Eurystheus, from the Plain of Marathon to
the Scironian rocks.
Between the southern foot of Pentelicus and the northern slope of
-Hymettus is a level interval, two miles broad. This is the communication
between the two principal plains of Attica, namely, that of Athens on the
West, and that of MesoG/EA, or Interior of Attica, on the south-east. At
the eastern foot of the mountain a lion sculptured in marble, of colossal size,
ls to he seen. The lion is in Pentelic marble, well preserved, except the legs,
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