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
CHAPTER III.
THE SANCTUARIES OUTSIDE THE CITADEL.
Meaning of the words ‘towards this part.’ The four sanctuaries
(1) the Sanctuary of Zeus Olympios, (2) the Pythion. Their
position interdependent. The site of the Pythion certain.
Evidence from the Ion of Euripides. The Long Rocks. Evidence
of Pausanias. Evidence of recent excavations. The cave of
Apollo. Votive tablets dedicated by Thesmothetae. Apollo
Patroös and Pythios. The two sanctuaries of Zeus Olympios.
Deucalion and Zeus Meilichios. Zeus and Apollo. Ion and the
Ionians. The cave of Pan. The Sanctuary of Aglauros. (3) The
Sanctuary of Ge. (4) The Sanctuary of _Dionysos-in-the-Marshes_
to be distinguished from the Sanctuary of Dionysos Eleuthereus.
The two festivals of Dionysos at Athens. The two theatres and
precincts. The orchestra in the agora. Evidence of excavations.
The Iobakcheion and the earlier Dionysion. The earlier
Dionysion a triangular precinct—containing wine-press, altar,
temple. The Lenaion and the Lenaia. The Chytroi. The ‘other
sanctuaries.’ The Amyneion. Amynos and Asklepios. Dexion. The
sanctuary of the Semnae Theai. The sanctuary of Aphrodite
Pandemos. Evidence of inscriptions. Oriental origin of the
worship. pp. 66-110
CHAPTER IV.
THE SPRING KALLIRRHOË-ENNEAKROUNOS ‘NEAR’ THE CITADEL.
The spring Kallirrhoë. The water-supply of Athens. Geological
structure of the _Limnae_. Site of Kallirrhoë fixed in Pnyx
rock. Efforts to reinforce water-supply before time of
tyrants. Water-works of the tyrants. Polycrates at Samos. The
conduit of Peisistratos from the upper Ilissos to the Pnyx.
Comparison with conduit of Polycrates. The great reservoir. The
Fountain-House. Water-works of Theagenes at Megara. Analogy
between his Fountain-House and Enneakrounos. Evidence of
vase-paintings. The central square in front of Enneakrounos.
The Panathenaic way. The agora and its development. Argument
resumed. pp. 111-136
CONCLUSION. pp. 137-158
CRITICAL NOTE p. 159
BIBLIOGRAPHY pp. 160-163
INDEXES
1. GENERAL pp. 164-167
2. OF CLASSICAL AUTHORS pp. 167-168
STATUE OF ‘MAIDEN’ FROM THE ACROPOLIS _Frontispiece_
MAP (Fig. 46) _between_ pp. 136 _and_ 137
INTRODUCTORY.
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