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this building is concerned 1 . All the remaining 
parts of this most costly theatre are, first, three 
rows of circular arches, one row above another, 
facing the south-west ; and these now constitute 
an out-work of the fortress, but originally they 
belonged to the exterior face of the Scene: 
second/y, the Coilon for the seats of the spec- 
tators, at present almost choked with soil 9 , 
(1) See the t'ignette to this Chapter. The Odeum of Pericles was 
on the south-east side, and, according to f^itruvius, upon the left of 
those who came out of the THEATRE OF BACCHUS : " Exeuntihus a 
theatro sinistrn parte, ODEUM, quod Athenis Pericles columnis lapideis 
disposuit." (Vitruv. lib. v. c. 9.) It is this circumstance alone 
which has caused the Odeum of Herodes to be confounded with that 
Theatre, but the monument alluded to by Fitruvius was at the end 
of the Street of the Tripods, and between that street and the Theatre 
of Bacchus. There were three different monuments which had 
received the name of 0>lcum : one at the south-east angle of the Citadel, 
which was the Odeum of Pericles; another at the south-u-est angle, 
which was the Odeum of Herodes Atticus. The Odeum mentioned by 
Pnusanias is again considered as a third: the Abbe Barthelemy 
believed the Pnyx to have been called Odeum by Pausanifis. The 
subject is, iudeed, somewhat embarrassed : and the reader, who 
Dishes to see it more fully illustrated, ma}- consult the Notes to the 
12th Chapter of the Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, torn. II. p. 542. 
sur le Plan d'Athtnes (a Paris, 1790); and the authorities cited by its 
author. 
(2) There is "a fine view of the interior published in the second 
volume of Stuari's Athens, ch.ii'i. PL 1.; but the representation, 
from a drawing by Preaux, will, perhaps, be found more faithful, as to 
its external appearance. (See the Quarto Edition, Vol. III. p. 506.) It 
also affords one of the most iutcresting views of the Acropolis; shewing 
the situation of the Propyl&a, the Parthenon, and, to the right of the 
Theatre of Herodes, the site of the long Porticoes surmounted by the 
two 
