ATHENS/ 
CHAP, contiguous temples; that of Erectheus, of Minerva 
Polios, and of Pandrosus. Stuart considered the 
eastern part of the building alone as being the 
ErectJieum; the part to the westward as that 
of Minerva; and the adjoining edifice on the south 
side, distinguished by the Caryatides supporting 
the entablature and roof, as the chapel which 
was dedicated to the Nymph Pandrosus 1 . This 
opinion has been adopted by other writers 8 : but 
it seems more consistent with the description 
and allusions to this building in the works of 
antient authors, to suppose that the whole struc- 
ture was called ERECTHEUM, consisting only of 
two contiguous temples ; that of Minerva Polios, 
with its portico towards the east ; and that of 
Pandrosus towards the west, with its two porti- 
coes standing by the north and south angles, the 
entrance to the Pandroseum being on the northern 
side 3 . Pausanias* calls the whole building 
EPEX0EION, and he decidedly describes it, not 
Temples 
of Pandro* 
5i(5 and 
Minerva 
Polios. 
(1) Antiq. of Athens, vol. II. chap. 2. p. 1C. Land. 1787- 
(2) " Near the Parthenon are three temples." (Memorandum of the 
Earl of Elgin's Pursuit* in Greece, p. 23. Lend. 1911. J See also 
CJtandler's Trav. in Greece, chap. II. p. 52. Off. 1786. &c. &c. 
(3) See a Plan of these buildings by Mr. 7f. fPilkins, author of the 
Antiquities of Magna Greecia, &c. as engraved for Mr. ff^aJpole's 
Selections from the MS. Journals of Travellers in the Lei-ant. 
(4) "Err Ji KM4 tlxttfut 'E{i%fan *a).w(tiw. Fausan. lib. i. c. 26. p. 62. 
Lips. 1696. 
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