84 T H E B E S. 
CHAP. Besides a Theatre, and a Hippodrome, containing- 
■ / ' the Sepulchre of Pindar, there were also a 
Gymnasium and a Stadium contiguous to the Hera- 
cleum\ The SiadiuiiiwiW doubtless be hereafter 
discovered, and the future knowledge of its situa- 
tion will serve as a beacon guiding to the buried 
vestiges of the Gymnasium and the Temple. In 
this edifice there were colossal statues of Hercules 
and Minerva in Pentelican marble, the w^orkraan- 
ship oi Akamenes^. It is therefore almost impos- 
sible that the antiquities enumerated by Pau- 
sanias can have been all removed from the ruins 
of a city placed at such a distance from the coast, 
and so remote from the military operations of 
the Romans after the age of the Antonines, and 
from all those means which afforded to them a 
facility of ransacking the Grecian cities for works 
of art: neither is it likely that Thebes has been 
despoiled of its valuable remains to serve as 
building materials for the Turks; because there 
is no place near enough to render it a convenient 
object of resort for such a supply ; and Turks 
(!) It is uncertain of what nature tliis edifiee wan. Pausanias does 
not once call it a temple, although it is several times mentioned by 
him. The words 'Evrxv^a'HriixXtief iffTif arc, by ^4 maso'us, rendered 
^'Herculis illic templum:" and it Is very usual to consider every struc- 
ture as a temple which is noticed by Pausanias as containing statues. 
.(-) Pansan. Bwnf. c. II. p. 7'3. e'\. Kuhnii. 
