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THE STREET OF TEIPODS.
215
THE SO-CALLED TOMB OF EKRII'
of men. Thus the spectators and the spectacles which they witnessed were
Mended together in unity, and w^ere received into the heart of things.
From the south-east angle of the Theatre, a road winds round the eastern
hase of the Acropolis. It is called the Street of Tripods, from the row of
small temples which form it, and which bear on their summits the tripods
that have been dedicated to Dionysos or Bacchus, the patron Deity of the
Athenian drama, by those persons who have defrayed the expense of a chorus
to which a prize has been adjudged in the neighbouring theatre for the poetic
and musical excellence of the drama to which it belonged.
On the architraves of these temples are inscribed the names of the Victor
associated with those of the Poet and the Flute-player of the successful
drama, and with that of the Archon in whose year it was performed. From
these inscriptions the Didascalise, or annals of the Athenian Theatre, are
compiled. Its history is written in these fabrics composing the street which
conducts to it. The martial trophies of Miltiades and Themistocles stand
upon the plain of Marathon and the promontory of Salamis, but those of
^Eschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are ranged side by side on this spot,
and present themselves daily to the eyes of their countrymen, as they pass
'o and from that place where those peaceful victories were won which these
Monuments commemorate.
Near the spot where this street communicates with the Theatre, is a building
THE STREET OF TEIPODS.
215
THE SO-CALLED TOMB OF EKRII'
of men. Thus the spectators and the spectacles which they witnessed were
Mended together in unity, and w^ere received into the heart of things.
From the south-east angle of the Theatre, a road winds round the eastern
hase of the Acropolis. It is called the Street of Tripods, from the row of
small temples which form it, and which bear on their summits the tripods
that have been dedicated to Dionysos or Bacchus, the patron Deity of the
Athenian drama, by those persons who have defrayed the expense of a chorus
to which a prize has been adjudged in the neighbouring theatre for the poetic
and musical excellence of the drama to which it belonged.
On the architraves of these temples are inscribed the names of the Victor
associated with those of the Poet and the Flute-player of the successful
drama, and with that of the Archon in whose year it was performed. From
these inscriptions the Didascalise, or annals of the Athenian Theatre, are
compiled. Its history is written in these fabrics composing the street which
conducts to it. The martial trophies of Miltiades and Themistocles stand
upon the plain of Marathon and the promontory of Salamis, but those of
^Eschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are ranged side by side on this spot,
and present themselves daily to the eyes of their countrymen, as they pass
'o and from that place where those peaceful victories were won which these
Monuments commemorate.
Near the spot where this street communicates with the Theatre, is a building