RUINS OF NEMEA. 
mound of earth. Scarcely a vestige of the 
grove remains where the triennial games were 
celebrated; unless a solitary tree, here and 
there, may be considered as relics 1 . The plain 
all around the Temple exhibits an open surface 
of agricultural soil. We could discover no trace 
either of a Stadium or of a Theatre*', both of 
which are found in every other part of Greece 
where solemn games were celebrated. When 
every other monument by which Nemea was 
adorned shall have disappeared, this tomb, with 
that of Opheltes, and the fountain of Archemorm 
upon the slope of the neighbouring hill, will 
be the only indications of the situation of the 
sacred grove. The three remaining columns of 
the Temple of Jupiter are not likely to continue 
long in their present place : some diplomatic 
virtuoso, or pillaging Pasha, will bear away these 
(1) Pausanias says that the temple was surrounded by a grove of 
cypresses. Kuf^ie-ffu aXm>; If TII rig/ ra txov. (Vid. Pausan. in Cor. 
c. 15. p. 144.) No cypress-tree is now to be seen near the Ruins. 
(2) It does not necessarily follow, that if this be the Temple of 
Nemecean Jove, the Games were celebrated close to the spot where the 
Temple stands. Sir ff. Cell found the remains of a Tiieatre in his 
journey from Corinth to Nemea; which, although he does not seem to 
be aware of the circumstance, may be that of the Nemeaan Games. 
He is just entering the Nemecean Plain or valley ; and he says, 
" Here joins the road leading from Mycente to Nemea, which turning 
to the right, falls into the Valley of Nemta, between the site of a 
Theatre on the right, and afoimt on the left, now dry." See GelFs 
liin. of Greece, p. 22. Land. 1801. 
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