A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ainst the He thenproceeds to mention the ornaments of the Agora,namely, the statue of the philosopher Pyrrhon ;the temple and statue of Apollo Acesius ; thestatues of the Sun and Moon ; the temple of theGraces, with their wooden statues, of which thedress was gilt, and the hands and feet were ofwhite marble ; the temple of Seilenus, dedicatedto him alone, and not in common with Dionysus ;and a monumental shrine, of peculiar fonn, with-out walls, but with oak pillars supporting the roof,which was reported to be the monument of Ag
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ainst the He thenproceeds to mention the ornaments of the Agora,namely, the statue of the philosopher Pyrrhon ;the temple and statue of Apollo Acesius ; thestatues of the Sun and Moon ; the temple of theGraces, with their wooden statues, of which thedress was gilt, and the hands and feet were ofwhite marble ; the temple of Seilenus, dedicatedto him alone, and not in common with Dionysus ;and a monumental shrine, of peculiar fonn, with-out walls, but with oak pillars supporting the roof,which was reported to be the monument of Agora also contained the dwelling of the six-teen females, who wove in it the sacred robe forHera. It is worthy of remark that several ofthese details confirm the high antiquity whichPausanias assigns to this Agora. Hirt has drawn out the following plan from thedescription of Pausanias. (Gesehichte der Bau-kunst bei den Alien, Taf. xxi. fig. 5.) We give it,not as feeling satisfied of its complete accuracy, butas a useful commentarv on of a GROUND PLAN OF THE OLD AGORA AT ELIS. A, the chief open space of the agora, called, inthe time of Pausanias, hippodromus : a, colonnadesseparated by streets, b: b, the Stoa in which theHellanodicae sat, divided from the Agora by astreet o : c, the house of the Hellanodicae: x, theTholus : d, the Corcyraean Stoa, composed of twoparts, c looking into the Agora, and d looking awayfrom it: e, g, h, small temples : f, statues of theSun and Moon : i, monument of Oxylus : k, houseof the sixteen women. In this Agora the Stoa, B, answers to the laterbasilica, and the house c, to the prytaneium in other Greek ayopai. With respect to the ether parts, itis pretty evident that the chief open space, a, whichPausanias calls to viraidpov ttjs ayopas, was de-voted to public assemblies and exercise, and theo-Toai (a), with their intervening streets (b), toprivate business and traffic. Hirt traces a resem-blance of form between the Eleian agora and th
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