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cylinder; an entablature and a dome to cover it completed the building. 
Between the capitals of the columns are tripods in bas-relief, and the frieze 
is ornamented with a bas-relief representing the history of Bacchus, who 
conquered the Tyrrhenian pirates, and changed them into dolphins. The 
flutes of the columns terminate in leaves, an arrangement entirely unique. 
The recess at the neck of the columns has probably been filled by an astra- 
galus of bronze or gold. The roof is of one single block of marble, admirably 
wrought so as to appear covered with tiles of the shape of olive leaves. The 
crowning flower is of a beautiful model, and terminates in three volutes of 
great elegance. Other volutes on the roof have probably served to carry 
some ornaments on which the corners of the large flower must have rested. 
In our restoration (pl. 19, jig. 24) we have adopted dolphins, to correspond 
with the frieze; others have introduced satyrs. 
Behind this eee was the Odeon of Pericles (pl. 17, jig. 1, eleva- 
tion; jig. 2, section; jig. 3, plan). It was of the Doric order, aioe with 
32 stone ae eas the peribolus. The masts of the Basia ships 
taken in war were used as rafters in the roof, which had the form of a 
tent. According to Diodorus, the building was of an oval shape, with 
an open portico (pl. 10, jig. 10, front; jig. 11, side view; jig. 12, plan). 
During the Mithridatian war it was either destroyed by fire or pulled down 
by the order of Aristion, the Mithridatian commander, to facilitate the ap- 
proach to the Acropolis. It was rebuilt, by the order of Ariobarzanes, by 
Caius and Marius, sons of Caius Stallius. On certain days the.Odeon was 
used as a grain market. 
The Theatre of Bacchus, located at the southeastern foct of the Acropolis, 
stood so near to the latter that the seats were partly cut in the rocks. This 
theatre was built by Themistocles, and afterwards the interior was decorated 
with portraits and statues of different poets. In the rock of the Acropolis, 
at the height of the top of the roof of the theatre, was the choragian monu- 
ment of Thrasyllus and Thrassicles cut out in shape of a niche or a grotto, 
and adjoining it another niche containing a tripod, upon which were repre- 
sented Apollo and Diana murdering the children of Niobe. Adjoining the 
theatre was the temple of Bacchus Limneeus, the oldest temple of this god 
at Athens. Its peribolus inclosed still another temple, that of Bacchus 
Eleutheros, whose statue was of gold and ivory. 
On the southern slope of the rock of the Acropolis were the mausoleum 
of Talus, who was killed by Deedalus, and the temple of #sculapius, con- 
taining the statues of Aisculapius and of his children, besides several beau- 
tiful paintings. | 
The Odeon of Regilla, located at the southern foot of the rock of the Acro- 
polis, was built 150 years z.c., by Herodes Atticus, in honor of his wife 
Regilla. Eumenicus added a colonnade to it, which connected it with the 
theatre of Bacchus. It was of white marble. 
South of the Stoic Hall, and southeast of the Pnyx, were the Areopagus 
and the temple of the Eumenides, situated upon a hill commanding the view 
of the seashore over the roof of the Pnyx. Near this place is a Doric portico 
(gl. 10, fig. 18, elevation ; Sg: 14, plan) supposed to have been the entrance 
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