. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ycalessus,and Pharae. (Pherae, Pun. iv. 7. s. 12). The ruins of Tanagra are situated at an unin-habited spot, called Grimadha or Grimdla, situated3 miles south of the village of Skimdtari. Thesite is a large hill nearly circular, rising from thenorth bank of the Asopus. The upper part of thesite is rocky and abrupt, looking down upon the townbeneath; and it was probably upon this upper heightthat the sacred edifices stood apart from the otherbuildinss of the town. The walls of the city whichembraced a circuit of about two miles, may still betraced, b
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ycalessus,and Pharae. (Pherae, Pun. iv. 7. s. 12). The ruins of Tanagra are situated at an unin-habited spot, called Grimadha or Grimdla, situated3 miles south of the village of Skimdtari. Thesite is a large hill nearly circular, rising from thenorth bank of the Asopus. The upper part of thesite is rocky and abrupt, looking down upon the townbeneath; and it was probably upon this upper heightthat the sacred edifices stood apart from the otherbuildinss of the town. The walls of the city whichembraced a circuit of about two miles, may still betraced, but they are a mere heap of ruins. About100 yards below the height already described are theremains of the theatre, hollowed out of the slope. Onthe terrace below the theatre to the NE. are thefoundations of a public building, formed of marble ofa very dark colour with a green cast. The groundis thickly strewn in eveiy direction with remains ofearthenware, betokening the existence of a numerouspopulation in former times. ( Jiortltern. COIX OF TAXAGBA. TANAIS. Greece, vol. ii. p. 454, seq.; Wordsworth, Alliens andAttica, p. 14, seq.; com p. K. 0. Miiller, Orchomenos,p. 20.) TANAIS (Tdvais, Ptol. iii. 5. § 14, v. 9. §§ 1, 2,&c), a famous river, which in the course of timewas universally assumed as the boundary betweenEurope and Asia. (Strab. vii. 310, xi. 490; Mela,i. 3; Scyl. p. 30, &c.) The older writers of an-tiquity thought that it rose from a large lake (He-rod, iv. 57; Ephor. ap. Anon. Per. P. Etix. p. 4),which is really the case, its source being in the lakeIvan Ozero, in the government of Toula; whilst laterwriters held that it had its sources either in theCaucasus (Strab. xi. 493; Ammian. xxii. 8), or iuthe Rhipaean mountains. (Mela, i. 19; Lucan,iii. 272; Procop. B. G. iv. 6, &c.) The last ofthese hypotheses was most generally accepted; butthere was likewise a fourth which made it a branchof the Ister (Strab. I. c). Whilst Strabo, however,adduces these differen
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