220 ATHENS. 
something singular in such an association so 
near to the Adytum, said to be tenanted by these 
two Deities. The identity of the Grotto itself 
was a theme of dispute among earlier travellers, 
who gave to the subject more consideration 
than perhaps it may seem to merit. Guilletiere 
is the first of the moderns by whom it is noticed. 
He had been with hig companions to visit the 
small chapel called Panagia Spiliotissa, or our 
Lady of the Grotto, in a hollow of the rock above 
the Theatre of Bacchus, at the south-east angle 
of the Acropolis; which a Greek spy, a native of 
Candia, had pointed out to the Venetians as a 
proper place to serve as a mine in blowing up 
the citadel 1 . Guilletiere persuaded himself that 
the Panagia was nothing less than the actual 
grotto once dedicated to Apollo and Pan, which 
is mentioned by Euripides in two or three of his 
tragedies 2 . Seven years after Guilletiere 's visit, 
the same cavern was examined by IVTieler and 
(1) Voyage tf Athens par S! De la Guilleliere, p. 180. Paris, 1675. 
(2) " Des que nous fusraes sortis de Panagia, j'obligeay nos gens 
i tourner la tfote pour y regarder avec plus d'attention, parce que je 
les fis souvenir que c'estoit la cette Grotte si ce'lebre daus I'antiquite", 
&c. Grace a la duret du rocher, c'est Ik l.e plus entier de tous les 
clbres tnonumens qui nous sont restez de 1'aocienne Athe'nes. 
Euripide a parle de cut antre, eu deux ou trois enifcxrits de ses traj^dies." 
Ibid. p. 179. 
