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A beautiful little temple near it, raised for a similar prize gained 

 by Lysicrates, and commonly called the Lantern of Demosthenes, 

 has also been drawn and modelled with minute attention. It is one 

 of the most exquisite productions of Greek architecture. The ele- 

 vation, ground. plan, and other details of the octagonal temple, 

 raised by Androuitus Cyrrhcstes to the winds, have also been exe- 

 cuted wish care ; but the sculpture on itsfrize is in so heavy a style 

 that it was not judged worthy of being modelled in plaister. 



Permission was obtained from the archbishop of Athens, to ex- 

 amine the interior of all the churches and convents in Athens and its 

 neighbourhood, in search of antiquities ; and his authority was fre- 

 quently employed, to permit Lord Elgin to carry away several 

 curious fragments of antiquity. This search furnished many valu- 

 able bas-reliefs, inscriptions, ancient dials, a Gymnasiarch's chair 

 in marble, on the back of which are 6gures of Harmodius and Aris- 

 togiton, with daggers in their hands, and the death of Leaena, who 

 bit out her tongue during the torture, rather than confess what she 

 knew of the conspiracy against the Pisistratidae. The fountain in 

 the court.yard of the English consul Logotheti's house was deco- 

 rated with a bas-relief of Bacchantes, in the style called Graeco 

 Etruscam ; Lord Elgin has obtained this, as well as a quadriga in 

 bas relief, with a victory hovering over the charioteer, probably 

 an ex voto, for some victory at the Olympic games. Amongst the 

 funeral Cippi found in different places, are some remarkable 

 .names, particularly that of Socrates ; and in the Ceramicus itself 

 Lord Elgin discovered an inscription in elegiac verse, on the 

 Athenians who fell at Potidsea, and whose eulogy was delivered 

 with pathetic eloquence in the funeral oration of Pericles. 



The peasants at Athens generally put into a niche over the door 

 of their cottages, any fragment they discover in ploughing the fields. 

 Out of these, were selected and purchased many curious antique 

 votive tablets, with sculpture and inscriptions. A complete series 

 has also been formed of capitals, of the only three orders known 

 in Greece, the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian ; from the 

 earliest dawn of art in Athens, to its zenith under Pericles ; and 

 from thence, through all its degradations, to the dark ages of the 

 lower empire. 



At a convent called Daphne, about half way between Athens 

 and Eleusis, where the remains of an Ionic temple of Venus, 

 equally remarkable for the brilliancy of the marble, the bold style 



