but states that the disarming took place in the Anakeion, and that the arms were shut up in the sanctuary of Aglauros. These are known sites below the north and north-west sides of the Acropolis. The account of Aristotle thus shows that there was a temenos and shrine of Theseus in existence long before the time of Kimon. The date of the temple is necessarily uncertain. It cannot be older than the Persian invasion (480 B.C.), but most writers are of opinion that each part is rather older than the corresponding part of the Parthenon, both in the architecture (Julius, _Annali dell' Inst._ 1878, p. 205) and in the sculpture. There are many parallels between the metopes of the Parthenon and the sculptures, both metopes and friezes, of the Theseion. There is also a close analogy between the east friezes of the Parthenon and the Theseion in point of composition; moreover certain figures occur in both works (Murray, i. p. 244). But there is no trace in the Theseion of the low relief of the Parthenon frieze. The whole of the Theseion sculptures are metope-like in the treatment of the high relief. Overbeck states the order in point of time as follows:--Metopes of Theseion; metopes of Parthenon; west frieze of Theseion; east frieze of Theseion; frieze of Parthenon (_Gr. Plast._ 3rd ed. I., p. 349). Doerpfeld, however, followed by Miss Harrison, holds the temple to be later than the Parthenon. It has been held by Brunn, Julius (_Annali dell' Inst._ 1878, p. 202), and Murray (i. p. 251), that the differences between the sculptures of the two temples are due to the fact that the sculptures of the Theseion were produced by the school of Myron. Stuart, _Antiqs. of Athens_, vol. III., chap. i.; _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pls. 12-21; Müller, _Denkmaeler_, pl. 21; _Kunstarch. Werke_, IV., p. 1; Ross, _Das Theseion_ (1st ed. 1838; 2nd ed., 1852); Ulrichs, _Annali dell' Inst._, 1841, p. 74; Leake, _Topography of Athens_ (2nd ed.), p. 498; Gurlitt, _Das Alter der Bildwerke des sog. Theseion_; Brunn, _Sitzungsber. der k. bayer. Akad. Phil.-hist. Cl._ 1874, II., p. 51; Wachsmuth, _Die Stadt Athen_, I., p. 357; Julius, in _Annali dell' Inst._, 1877, p. 92; 1878, p. 193; and _Mon. dell' Inst._, X., pls. 43, 44, 58, 59; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 343; Murray, I., p. 235; Wolters, No. 526; Baumeister, s. v. _Theseion; Elgin Room Guide_, II., B., 1-16. The British Museum possesses an excellent series of drawings of the Theseion by Lord Elgin's artists. CASTS OF THE METOPES OF THE THESEION.