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composed on purpose, and which 

 has been lost ; and we should 

 ])robably not now have the op- 

 portunity of admiring the build- 

 ing itself, if the Emperor Hadrian 

 had not preserved it to us, by the 

 repairs which he caused to be 

 done. It is to his care that we 

 owe the few remains of antiquity 

 which are still entire at Atliens." 



In tlie Antiquities of Athens by 

 Stuart, vol. ii. p. 4, it is said, 

 " Pausanias gi^es but a transient 

 account of this temple, nor does 

 he say whether Hadrian repaired 

 it, though his statue, and that of 

 the Empress Sabina in the western 

 pediment, have occasioned adoubt 

 Avhether the scvdptures, in both, 

 were not put up by him. Wheler 

 and Spon were of this opinion, 

 and say they were whiter than 

 the rest of tlie building. The 

 statue of Antinous, now remain- 

 ing at Rome, may be thought a 

 proof that there weie artists in 

 his time capable of executing 

 them, Ijut this whiteness is no 

 proof that tliey were more mo- 

 dern than the temple, for they 

 might be made of a whiter n»ar- 

 ble ; and the heads of Hadrian 

 and Sabina might be put on two 

 of the ancient Hgin-es, which was 

 no uncommon practice among 

 the Romans ; and if we maj- give 

 credit to Plutarch, the buildings 

 of Pericles were not in the least 

 impaired by age in his time ; 

 therefore this temple could not 

 ^vi\nt any material repairs in the 

 reign of Hadrian." 



With regard to the works of 

 Hadrian at Athens, Spaitian says, 

 " that he did mucli for the Athe- 

 nians ;"* and a little after, on 



* Folio F.tiit. Paris, 16'^0. p. 6. 



hie second visit to Athens, "going 

 to the East he made his journey 

 through Athens, and dedicated 

 the works which he had begun 

 there : and particularly a temple 

 to Olympian Jupiter, and an altar 

 to himself." 



The account given by Dion 

 Cassius, is nearly to the same 

 effect, adding that he placed his 

 own statue within the temple 

 of Olympian Jupiter, which he 

 erected.* 



He called some other cities 

 after his own name, and directed 

 a part of Athens to be styled Ha- 

 drianopolis :-|- but no mention is 

 made by any ancient author, of 

 his touching or repairing the 

 Parthenon. Pausanias, who wrote 

 in his reign, says, that " the 

 temples which Hadrian either 

 erected from the fovmdation, or 

 adorned with dedicated gifts and 

 decorations, or whatever dona- 

 tions he made to the cities of tlie 

 Greeks, and of the Barbarians 

 .also, who made a])plication to 

 him, were all recorded at Athens 

 in the temple common to all the 

 gods." J 



It is not unlikely, that a con- 

 fused recollection of the statue 

 which Hadrian actually placed at 

 Athens, may have led one of the 

 earliest travellers into a mistake, 

 wliich has been repeated, and 

 countenanced by subsequent wri- 

 ters ; but M. Pauvel, Avho will 

 be quoted presently, speaks as 

 from his own examination and 

 observation, when he mentions 

 the two statues in question : 

 which, it is to be observed, still 

 remain (without their heads) up- 



* B. 69, c. 16. t Sparlian, p. 10. 



♦ Paus. Att. p. 5. Ed. Xvl. 



on 



