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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 
Athens.” * 
In the Antiquities of Athens, by Stuart, vol. ii. p. 4, it is said, 
**Pausanias gives but a transient account of this temple, nor 
does he say whether Hadrian repaired it, though his statue 
and that of his empress Sabina in the western pediment have 
occasioned a doubt whether the sculptures, in both, were not 
put up by him. Wheler and Spon were of this opinion, and 
say they were whiter than the rest of the building. The statue 
of Antinous, now remaining at Rome, may be thought a proof 
that there were artists in his time capable of executing them ; 
but this whiteness is no proof that they were more modern than 
the temple,. for they might be made of a whiter marble; and 
the heads of Hadrian and Sabina might be put on two of the 
ancient figures, which was no uncommon practice among the 
Romans}; and if we may give credit to Plutarch, the buildings 
of Pericles were not in the least impaired by age in his time; 
therefore, this temple could not want any material repairs in 
the reign of Hadrian.” 
With regard to the works of Hadrian at Athens, Spartian 
says *‘ that he did much for the Athenians*;” and a little 
after, on his 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 Ju- 
piter, 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 f. 
He called some other cities after his own name, and directed a 
part of Athens to be styled Hadrianopolis t: 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 foundation, or 
adorned with dedicated gifts and decorations, or whatever do- 
nations he made to the cities of the Greeks, and of the Bar- 
barians also, who made application to him, were all recorded 
at Athens in the temple common to all the gods §.” 
it is not unlikely, that a confused recollection of the statue 
which Hadrian actually placed at Athens, may have led one of 
the earliest travellers into a mistake, which has been repeated 
and countenanced by subsequent writers: but Mr. Fauvel, who 
will be quoted presently, speaks as from his own examination 
* 
* Folio edit. Paris 1620, p. 6. + b Ixix.c. 16. 
} Spartian, p. 10. § Paus. Att. p. 5. Ed. Xyl. 
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