306 ATHENS. 
Descending from the MUSEUM, we observed 
some remains of the ANTIENT WALLS of the 
Walls. city upon its southern side, and of the entrance 
from Phalerum 1 . The vestiges of these walls 
also appear extending towards the Monument 
of Philopappus, which they inclosed: thence they 
bore off towards the Pirceean Gate, in a line of 
direction almost due north and south 2 . After- 
wards.crossing the plain, we visited the THEATRE 
Theatre and CAVE OF BACCHUS; and some substructions 
and Cave in- r 1-11 
of Bacchus, were shewn to us by Signor Lusieri, which he 
conceived to be the foundations of a temple 
dedicated also to the same Deity. Nothing- 
exists now of the Theatre, excepting the coilon 
for the seats, as in the earliest ages of dramatic 
representation it was universally formed, by 
scooping the sloping side of a rock'. But how 
majestic, and how perfect in its preservation, 
Monument rises the Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus 
above this theatre 4 ! and how sublime the 
whole groupe of objects with which it was 
(1) See the Plan, Vignette to the preceding Chapter. 
(2) Ibid. No. 19. 
(3) Ibid. No. 16. 
(4) Ibid. No. 14. The best representation of it is in Le Roy 
("Raines de la Grece," PI. 8. Paris, 1758); now the more valuable, 
as the monument, in its present mutilated state, no longer exhibit* 
the appearance it then presented. 
