Ross, however (_Das Theseion_), tried to prove that this was not the Theseion. He argued that no connection could be traced between the external sculptures and the function of the building. He also argued that the real Theseion cannot have been a complete temple, and that it cannot have stood in the position of the temple now in question. He proposed to call the building a temple of Ares. It has since been suggested that Ares and Theseus may have been joint occupants of the temple, as Athenè and Erechtheus held the Erechtheion in common (Murray, i. p. 236). Curtius (_Sieben Carten_, text, p. 53) suggested that the temple may have been that of Heracles in Melitè. In this view he has been followed by Wachsmuth (_Stadt Athen_, i. p. 364). Other patron deities have also been proposed, as Apollo Patroös, or Heracles and Theseus together, or Hephaestos. Doerpfeld, followed by Miss Harrison (_Mythology and Monuments of Anc. Athens_, p. 112), is strongly in favour of the last-mentioned attribution, identifying the building with the temple of Hephaestos mentioned by Pausanias (i., 14, 6). It is clear, from a comparison of other temples, that no conclusive argument can be drawn from the subjects of the sculptures, especially of the metopes, which may have little connection with the special purpose of the temple. At the same time we know that the Theseion was decorated with paintings relating to the story of Theseus, and, so far as any weight can be attached to the subjects of the sculptures, they favour the attribution of the building to Theseus. It has been suggested that the temple may have belonged to Heracles and Theseus in common--not on the ground that we hear of such a temple, but because the ten metopes on the east front relate to Heracles. But this fact is inconclusive. The Athenians would be content to point out the parallelism of Heracles and Theseus, even if Theseus was made to occupy a subordinate position. The newly-discovered [Greek: Athênaiôn Politeia] of Aristotle furnishes some new evidence. The disarming of the Athenians by Peisistratos is said to have been effected in the following manner. He caused the citizens to put down their arms in the Theseion, presumably in the temenos of Theseus, that he might address them, and then drew them off to the Propylaea on the pretext that they would be better able to hear him. Meanwhile his agents shut up the arms in "the adjacent buildings of the Theseion" ([Greek: exoplisian en tô Thêseiô] [_sic_ MS.] [Greek: poiêsamenos ... ekeleusen autous prosanabênai pros to Propylon tês ackropoleôs ... anelontes hoi epi toutôn tetagmenoi ta hopla autôn kai synklêisantes eis ta plêsion oikêmata tou Thêseiou k.t.l.] Aristot. [Greek: Ath. pol.] ed. Kenyon, 15). From this it may be inferred that the Theseion was at no great distance from the Propylaea, though sufficiently removed for the success of the stratagem. Polyaenus (_Strat._ i., 21) tells the story,