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all, appeared the beautiful Plain of ATHENS, CHAP. 
IV. 
bounded by Mount Hymettus. We rode towards . - T - * 
the craggy rock of the Citadel, passing some 
tiers of circular arches at the foot of it ; these state of 
are the remains of the Odeum of Her odes Atticus* ', 
built in memory of his wife Regilla. Thence 
continuing to skirt the base of the Acropolis, the 
road winding rather towards the north, we saw 
also upon our left, scooped in the solid rock, the 
circular sweep on which the Athenians were 
wont to assemble to hear the plays of M&chylus, 
and where the Theatre of Bacchus was after- 
wards constructed. The Torso of a statue of the 
INDIAN BACCHUS, placed, in a sitting attitude, 
upon the Choragic Monument of THRASYLLUS 
above this theatre, exhibited to us the first 
specimen of Athenian sculpture which we had 
seen upon the spot; and with the additional 
satisfaction of viewing it in the situation where 
it was originally placed 6 . Stuart considered 
(5) See the Plate above referred to. 
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(6) This statue was long believed to be that of a female. Stuart 
represented it with a female head. (See Stuart's Antiq. of Athens, 
vol.11, ch.'iv. PI. 6. Land. 1787.) Chandler considered it as the 
statue of Niobe. (Trav. in Greece, p. 64. Oxf. 1776.) It really re- 
presented the Indian, or bearded, Bacchus; part of the beard having 
been discovered upon the statue. It is moreover decorated with the 
spoils of a panther. Alas ! not only this Statue, but also the antient 
Sun-dial 
