. The proceedings of the Charaka Club. ive hundredyears before Christ. A short description is given byPausanias. It probably suffered very much in laterGreek times, but it was restored by Antoninus in thesecond century It then gradually became thevictim of time and treasure hunters until, one hundredand fifty years ago, when the described by aFrench traveller, it was a ruin. Various descriptionsof these ruins have been made during the last centuryand a half, but not until nineteen years ago was anysystematic attempt made to study them. Since thenarchaeologists have spent much ti
. The proceedings of the Charaka Club. ive hundredyears before Christ. A short description is given byPausanias. It probably suffered very much in laterGreek times, but it was restored by Antoninus in thesecond century It then gradually became thevictim of time and treasure hunters until, one hundredand fifty years ago, when the described by aFrench traveller, it was a ruin. Various descriptionsof these ruins have been made during the last centuryand a half, but not until nineteen years ago was anysystematic attempt made to study them. Since thenarchaeologists have spent much time and labor in theresearches, with the result that there has recentlyappeared an elaborate work by two French scholarscontaining a description of the ruins and a restorationof the temple based upon the result of these manyyears of study.* I shall not attempt to make any criticism of thehistorical value of this restoration ; it is sufficient to * £pidaure, Restauration et Description par Alphonse Defrasse etHenri Lechat. Paris, THOLOS ARATON T] Fig. 16.— The Hieron, or Sacred Grove, containing the
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