202 ATHENS. 
CHAP, workmanship, evidently not of later date than 
* .,-' - any thing of the kind in Asia Minor. In other 
respects, the city exhibits nearly the appear- 
ance briefly described by Strabo eighteen cen- 
turies before our coming 1 ; and, perhaps, it 
wears a more magnificent aspect, owing to the 
splendid remains of Hadrians Temple of Olym- 
pian Jove, which did not exist when Athens 
was visited by the disciple of Xenarchus. The 
Objects in prodigious columns belonging to this temple 
spective. appeared full in view between the Citadel and 
the bed of the Ilissus* : high upon our left rose 
the Acropolis, in the most impressive grandeur 3 : 
an advanced part of the rock, upon the western 
side of it, is the Hill of the Areopagus, where 
St. Paul preached to the Athenians, and where 
their most solemn tribunal was held 4 . Beyond 
(1) fa's afvu auro -rirpa \frit iv -rtS'iaf, #tpuuxevpi*ti x,VK\tf' Itri 31 TW 
o Ttis 'Afnvas iigov, o, n ap%a,7ot nu; a iris IIoAjaSaf, Iv a a tis^iffrat 
2LVW*Si *< II^ivi, ov ixoltiffiy 'lx.r7*os> * TO rov <t>si$tav ifiyov X^- 
>, n 'A^wva. Strabon. Geog. lib. viii. p. 574. Oxon. 1807. 
(2) See the Plate facing p. 506 of Vol. 111. of the Quarto Edition 
of these Travels, from a Drawing by Preaux, made upon the spot: 
also the Vignette to this Chapter. The author pretends not to 
agitate the question, whether this building be really the Temple of 
Jujriter, or the Pantheon: the Reader may be referred to the proofs 
in support of the former opinion, as they are given by the Earl of 
Aberdeen, in the Introduction to ff^ilkins's Translation of Vdruvius, 
p. 66. also in Note (l) to p. 9 of the Text of that work. Land. 1812. 
(3) See the Plate above referred to, and the Pignette to this Chapter. 
(4) Ibid. 
