498 PELOPONNESUS. 
C vm P< * n t ^ ie beginning f tne Electra, the prospect is 
- * ' described as it was viewed by a spectator upon 
Internal 1 . 
Evidence his arrival at Mycenae i and the beauties or the 
de s having poet can only be adequately estimated by per- 
Ipot. ed the sons wno nave been upon the spot. The best 
commentary upon the drama itself would be an 
accurate representation of the very scene, as it 
is exhibited to a spectator who is placed before 
the Propylcea of the Acropolis of Mycence. When 
the companion of Orestes is made to say, upon 
coming to the gates, that " Argos is present to 
the view 1 , and that the Herteum is upon the left 
hand*," the Scholiast has been so confounded 
as to make of Argos and Mycence one city ; 
whereas the speaker is only describing what 
the eye commands from that situation. Argos 
is thence in view ; making a conspicuous 
object upon the right hand 3 ; as the Heresum, 
according to Pausanias, also did upon the left 4 . 
(1) Ta yuf y ru.l.a.iov "AfyoSt u 'irettifi ?$( 
Sophocl. Elect, v. 4. torn. I. p. 176. Paris, 1781; 
(2) ol\ /xgHTTlgx; 3' i'Sl, 
"Hgttf a xXimos 10.0; 
Ibid. vv. 11,12. p. 178. 
(3) See Plates vin. ix. facing pp. 36, 38, of Cell's Itin. of Greece. 
Land. 1810. Sir W. Cell's drawings afford a valuable commentary 
upon the text of Sopfwchs, in the opening of the Electra. 
(4) Muxntai SI ix i^irri^a., irivrt i*i%u xai 2ict, <rr2/* TO 'H^atar. 
Pausani<E Corinthiaca, c. 17. p. 147. ed. Kuhnii. 
