ATHENS. 253 
The Kremlin at Moscow, the .Acropolis of a city CHAP. 
whose inhabitants have preserved, with their 
religion, many a remnant of Grecian manners, 
is in like manner held sacred by the people ; and 
no person is permitted to pass the " Holy Gate" 
leading to the interior, but with his head 
uncovered 3 . 
We then descended, to visit the ODEUM OF 
REGILLA, (the building we had passed in the BesiUa ' 
morning,) at the foot of the rock of the Acro- 
polis, and upon its south-western side 4 . The 
remains of this edifice are those which Wheler 
and all former travellers, excepting Chandler, 
even to the time of Stuart, have described as 
the THEATRE OF BACCHUS. Chandler con- 
sidered it as the Odeum of Pericles, rebuilt by 
Herodes Atticus. But Pausanias, speaking of the 
Odeum erected by Herodes in memory of his 
wife, mentions it as an original structure. It 
was therefore distinct both from the edifice 
erected by Pericles and from the Theatre of 
Bacchus ; so that, perhaps, no doubt will here- 
after be entertained upon the subject, so far as 
(3) See Vol. I. of these Travels, Chap. VII. p. 149. Octavo Edit. 
(4) See the Plan of Athens, engraved as a Vignette to this Chapter. 
