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
The MSS. have ἐκεῖνο ἐπάνω, Forchammer ἐπάνω ᾧ, Wachsmuth ἅπαν ᾧ, Dobree
πᾶν ᾧ. I follow Wachsmuth.
[300] Diomeia is marked on my map (Fig. 49) to the South-East of the
Olympieion. My map was drawn before the appearance of Dr Judeich’s
_Topographie von Athen_; I am glad to see that he (_Topographie_, pp.
155, 158) accepts the position assigned by Professor Dörpfeld to Diomeia.
The British School of Archaeology claims to have found the gymnasium of
Kynosarges (_Annual of the British School_, 1896-7, p. 89), but as the
plans are not yet published I prefer to base my argument on literary
evidence.
[301] Herod. VI. 116.
[302] Paus. I. 19. 3. Those who following Curtius (_Stadtgeschichte von
Athen_, pl. IV.) place Diomeia and Kynosarges North-West on the slopes of
Lykabettos have to make Pausanias retrace his steps to visit the stadium.
[303] Schol. _ad_ Ar. _Ran._ 501 ... οὑκ Μελίτης μαστιγίας, σύνηθές τε
οὐχ οὕτω λέγειν ἐπὶ θεῶν, οὑκ Μελίτης ἀλλ’ ὁ ἐν Μελίτῃ, ὡς καὶ Ζεὺς ὁ ἐν
Ὀλυμπίᾳ· ἐπὶ δὲ ἀνθρώπων ἐκ Μελίτης.... My attention was drawn to the
scholiast’s remark in relation to the ‘flitting’ by Mr Gilbert Murray.
[304] Ar. _Ran._ 650
ἀλλ’ ἐφρόντισα
ὁπόθ’ Ἡράκλεια τἀν Διομείοις γίγνεται.
[305] Ar. _Ran._ 501 Schol. ... ἐν γὰρ Μελίτῃ δήμῳ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἐμυήθη
Ἡρακλῆς τὰ μικρὰ μυστήρια.
[306] Plut. _Demetr._ 26. Kleidemos, ap. Bekk. _Anec._ p. 326 Ἄγραι
χωρίον ἔξω τῆς πόλεως Ἀθηνῶν, οὗ τὰ μικρὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἄγεται μυστήρια.
[307] Steph. Byz. Ἄγρα καὶ Ἄγραι χωρίον ... ἐν ᾧ τὰ μικρὰ μυστήρια
ἐπιτελεῖται μίμημα τῶν περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον, ἐν ᾧ λέγουσι καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα
μεμυῆσθαι (codd. μεμνῆσθαι).
[308] Paus. I. 14. 2.
[309] Kleidemos, _loc. cit._ παρ’ Ἰλισσοῦ μυστικαῖς ὄχθαις.
[310] Eustath. 361. 38 ἀπὸ χώρας πρὸς τῷ Ἰλισσῷ ᾧ κλῆσις Ἄγραι καὶ
Ἄγρα, οὗ τὰ μικρὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἤγετό φησι μυστήρια ἃ ἐλέγετο τὰ ἐν
Ἄγραις. Professor Tucker is I believe right in his conjecture (_Class.
Rev._ 1904, p. 416) that the Mysteries in the _Frogs_ are these Lesser
Mysteries and this, as I have pointed out in connection with his
discussion (_op. cit._, p. 418), adds fresh significance to the figure of
Herakles.
[311] Plat. _Lys._ 205 C Ἡρακλέους ξενισμόν.
[312] Xen. _Hell._ VI. 3. 6.
[313] Plut. _Vit. Thes._ 33.
[314] See my _Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens_, p. 155, Fig. 33.
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