498 <^N THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



as a farther confirmation of the accuracy of Pausanias, who notices a 

 tripod over the grotto and some statues. 



Dicagarchus, too, speaks of the theatre in this position ; 'o KcxXouuevog 

 ncc^^ivcov uTTs^K^'i^svog roil Qexr^ou, and both the Theatre and the Parthe- 

 non are represented on a bronze medal of Athens, in the same 

 situation with respect to each other. In short, I beheve it would be 

 difficult to produce a more connected chain of topographical evidence 

 than that which confirms and illustrates this part of Pausanias's nar- 

 rative. ' 



I shall now return to the building which has been previously men- 

 tioned, but without any denomination. On the authority of Plutarch 

 and Suidas, as well as of a false reading of Jocundus in his edition of 

 Vitruvius, this building has been generally supposed to be the Odeum 

 of Pericles ; but it is in reality the Odeum of Themistocles, as appears 

 by the restoration of the text in the new and excellent edition of that 

 author by Schneider : — " Et cxeuntibus e theatro sinistra parte Odeum, 

 quod Themistocles columnis lapideis navium malis et antennis e spoliis 

 Fersicis pertexit, idem autem incensum Mithridatico hello rex Ariobar- 

 zanes restituit.^^ Lib. v. cap. 9. * ■ ■ • 



The Odeum of Pericles, therefore, can be no other than that 

 which is noticed by Pausanias in his excursion through the 

 Ceramicus, and near Enneacrunos, in the following words : — Tsu 

 Sioir^av SI KocXova-iv, uSuov ; and by Suidas moi'e particularly, ilSeiou 



A^iji'riTii' iocnviD OiocToov, o Tmroii/iKev, ug (pcccrt, nspr,cXvi^ hi; to eTrtosiKvlxrBott 

 Tsuj uoufTiKovq. Oioc Touro yap Kcct uottov eKATiJrj ocvo TVjg uorji;, e^i de ev kutco 



SiKcts-ri^iov Tou "A^^ovTog. cie[x,ET^ei'To ^'s tea,) a'\<piTcc ey^it. Demosthenes in- 

 forms us, that it served not only for musical contests, but for assem- 

 blies of the people. Plutarch, however, appears to have confounded 



* This is the same building to which Appian alludes in the following words : Kai 

 Agifi'tov auTOij (T'jvs^eoyev lf<,7rp)j(raj to flSeiov, "va jxy) eToiiJ.ot; ^vKoig avTixa o SuXXac e^oi ty,v 

 axgovoXiv evo)(_\slv. He adds, that Sylla permitted his soldiers to sack the city, but not to 

 burn it. In the passage of Pausanias, TronjS^vai 8e t^j cr. ; — o-xrjv^j is probably the true 

 reading. 



