498 0N THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



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

 tripod over the grotto and some statues. 



Dicaearchus, too, speaks of the theatre in this position ; o KotXoupsvog 

 notj&vjav v7rs(>xs!fJt.evos rov QsuTgou, 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 believe 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 exeuntibus e theatro sinistra parte Odeum, 

 quod Themistocles columnis lapideis navium malis et antennis e spoliis 

 Persicis pertexit, idem autem incensum Mithridatico bello 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 : — ToZ 

 Srnd.T(so\j $e o KccXova-tv, uhTov ; and by Suidas more particularly, ilhiov 

 A3rjv^(riv 'dcntiQ Bbutpov, o ■n'STro^KSv, dog (poL<ri f ne^ucX'/jg sig to e-rt&£iKM(r3cx.( 

 Tcvg povtrntovg. hoi touto yo&() v.ou uSeTov ex\yj&v] oltto rqg afiqg, eg~t <5e sv avru 



£:zocg~rioicv rov " Ap^ovTog. Stef/LtTgetro SI %ot\ uX(f)iTa. exei. 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 

 AgirtfJ" «uto(j <r'jve$euyev l;x7rp>]Vas to ildeiov, Hm fJ.rj eTolfj.ots %vXoi$ aVTixct 6 ^vWct; ep^o* tijv 

 «x^7roXiv Ivo^Aelv. He adds, that Sylla permitted his soldiers to sack the city, but not to 

 burn it. In the passage of Pausanias, 7roi>j^v«» 8e <r. ; — tDojvijj is probably the true 

 reading. 



