ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



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this with the other Odeum, for he tells us that in point of form it 

 resembled the tent of Xerxes. 



From the theatre Pausanias conducts us to the entrance of the 

 Acropolis, which is about due west. On his way thither, which skirts 

 along the foot of the rock, he notices the sepulchre of Kalos, and then 

 the temple of iEsculapius, in which there was a spring of water, which 

 arfords occasion to speak of Halirrothius, the whole story respecting 

 whom, like that which he had before related of the origin of the term 

 Ceramicus, shows how much the Greeks were accustomed to disguise 

 and ennoble the most trivial circumstances. * Farther on was a temple 

 of Themis the sepulchre of Hippolytus, and lastly, the temple which 

 was appropriated to Tellus Curotrophus and Ceres Chloe, which are 

 unquestionably different appellations of the same deity. And here 

 it is, at the western end of the Acropolis, that Pausanias finishes his 

 perambulation of the city : ag-v. In the course of his narrative there 

 appears to be both method and selection, and we may observe that he 

 carefully avoids any recurrence to the objects he had already noticed ; 

 tor instance, he finishes his second excursion at the stadium, and in 

 his way from the theatre, although the Ceramicus must have been 

 pretty close on his left, he notices no one building which appertains 

 to it ; confining his observation to those which stood on a higher 

 level, or nearer the foot of the rock, and passing over the spot, on 

 which, soon afterwards, was erected the theatre of Regilla, which he 

 notices when speaking of the Odeum at Patrse. 



Having accompanied Pausanias thus far in his perambulation, we 

 shall not follow him into the Acropolis, because there is no difficulty 

 in recognizing in the remains which are extant there, almost every 

 one of the public buildings which he describes. It is in this part of 

 his narrative, however, that he incidentally mentions the hill of the 



* Such as a spring of brackish water and a place for the manufactory of tiles. Pausa- 

 nias mentions a spring within the sacred enclosure ; we may conclude it was not potable, 

 from the nature of the two springs on the opposite side of the Acropolis, and the silence 

 both of Pausanias and Strabo, when they speak of Enneacrunos. The true and ignoble 

 origin of the term Ceramicus is given by Pliny, lib. xxxv. c. 12. Suidas in Ksgaju,. 



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