Primitive Athens as described by ThucydidesHarrison, Jane Ellen
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Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides
Harrison, Jane Ellen
Athens (Greece) -- Antiquities; Athens (Greece) -- Description and travel
[32] _Od._ XI. 594. Mr Salomon Reinach in his “Sisyphe aux enfers et
quelques autres damnés,” _Rev. Arch._ 1903, has established beyond doubt
the true interpretation of the stone of Sisyphos.
[33] Paus. I. 28. 3.
[34] Dr Rendel Harris, _The Dioscuri_, p. 8.
[35] Plin. _Nat. Hist._ VII. 57.
[36] For _Euryalos_ see _Eph. Arch._ 1885, Taf. v. 2 and 3. For
_Hyperbios_, _Mon. d. Inst._ VI. and VII.
[37] Herod. VI. 137 μισθὸν τοῦ τείχεος τοῦ περὶ τὴν ἀκρόπολίν ποτε
ἐληλαμένου.
[38] Herod. V. 64 ἐπολιόρκεε τοὺς τυράννους ἀπεργμένους ἐν τῷ Πελασγικῷ
τείχει. All the MSS. except Z have Πελασγικῷ: Z has been corrected to
Πελα_ρ_γικῷ.
[39] _C.I.A._ IV. 2. 27. 6 ... ἐν τῷ Πελαργικῷ ... ἐκ τοῦ Πελαργικοῦ.
[40] In the best MS. (Laur. C).
[41] For details of this temple, see my _Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens_, p.
496. For its ground-plan, see below p. 40, Fig. 18.
[42] Wiegand-Schrader-Dörpfeld, _Poros-Architektur der Akropolis_. For
any realization of pre-Periclean architecture a study of the coloured
plates of this work is essential.
[43] Typhon and Tritons appear together on the throne of Apollo at
Amyclae. The artistic motives of this Ionian work are largely Oriental.
The conjunction of Typhon and the Tritons is not, I think, a mere
decorative chance. Attention has not, I think, been called, in connection
with this pediment, to the fact that in Plutarch’s _Isis and Osiris_
(XXXII.) Typhon _is_ the sea into which the Nile flows (Τυφῶνα δὲ τὴν
θάλασσαν, εἰς ἣν ὁ Νεῖλος ἐμπίπτων ἀφανίζεται). The Egyptian inspiration
of the _Isis and Osiris_ no one will deny, and on this Egyptianized
pediment with its lotus-flowers the Egyptian sea-god Typhon is well in
place. His name is doubtless, as Muss Arnolt _Semitic Words in Greek and
Latin_, p. 59 points out, connected with Heb. צָפוֹן hidden, dark,
northern. The sea was north of Egypt.
[44] Ar. _Av._ 1139
ἕτεροι δ’ ἐπλινθοποίουν πελαργοὶ μύριοι.
[45] Eur. _Ion_ 154, trans. by Dr Verrall.
[46] See Lechat, _Au Musée de l’Acropole d’Athènes_, p. 215.
[47] Any learned blunderer might write Πελα_σ_γικόν for Πελα_ρ_γικόν, but
if Πελα_σ_γικόν were the original form it would be little likely to be
changed to Πελα_ρ_γικόν.
[48] Thucyd. II. 17 τό τε Πελαργικὸν καλούμενον τὸ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, ὃ
καὶ ἐπάρατόν τε ἦν μὴ οἰκεῖν καί τι καὶ Πυθικοῦ μαντείου ἀκροτελεύτιον
τοιόνδε διεκώλυε, λέγον ὡς τὸ Πελαργικὸν ἀργὸν ἄμεινον, ὅμως ὑπὸ τῆς
παραχρῆμα ἀνάγκης ἐξῳκήθη. Thucydides calls ‘τὸ Πελαργικὸν ἀργὸν ἀμείνον’
a final hemistich. Mr A. B. Cook kindly points out to me that it is in
fact a complete line of the ancient metrical form preceding the hexameter
and known as _paroimiac_.
[49] καὶ τὸ ὑπ’ αὐτὴν μάλιστα πρὸς νότον τετραμμένον.
[50] Lucian, _Piscator_, 46.
[51] _C.I.A._ IV. 2. 27. 6.
[52] Poll. _On._ VIII. 101.
[53] Dörpfeld, ‘Die Propyläen 1 und 2,’ _A. Mitt._ X. 1885, pp. 38 and
131 and see my _Mon. and Myth. Ancient Athens_, p. 353.
[54] Dörpfeld, _A. Mitt._ XXVII. 1902, p. 405.
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