626 ELEUSIS. 
CHAP. U p On or near to the spot which is now occupied 
y,. > by a small Church or Chapel upon the brow 
Temple of the hill. That of Ceres, built during the 
administration of Pericles, by Jciinus the archi- 
tect of the Parthenon at Athens, and mentioned 
by Plutarch*, by Strako*, and by Pitruvius 3 , was 
perhaps destroyed before the invasion of Alaric, 
at the end of the fourth century; and even 
before the time of Pausanias in the second; as 
it is not mentioned by him. But as Phidias 
presided over all the artists employed to com- 
plete it 4 , and the marble of Mount Pentelicus 
was employed in its construction, it is easily 
to be recognised in those Ruins among which 
the Statue was discovered; an area or pave- 
ment, leading to it, being of Pentelican marble, 
and still existing, at the commencement of the 
Thriasian Plain, upon the western side of the 
Acropolis. The antient port of Eleusis was 
Port of entirely artificial ; being inclosed by a semicir- 
cular pier of white marble. Going to this port 
from the modern village (which does not con- 
tain forty houses), along the remains of the 
(1) Plutarch. \nPericl. vol. I. p. 159. 
(2) Strabon. Geog. lih. ix. 
(3) ntruv. in Pracfat. 
(4) nra < lulf. t) miirtn lr!ffwti Hi *or* <t>ElAUE. Pluturck. 
in Pericl. 
