. Fig. I.âthe SUimiT OF MOUNT P\ AS SEEX FROM THE SOl"TH-E.\ST. reached farther east than the Struma valley. Later in the same century the mission sent by the French Government under Heuzey and Daumet = carried out some detailed surveys and archaeological exploration as far as the plain of Drama, but the east was still un- touched and no attempt was made to investigate Pangseum and its problems. Later still two Greeks explored the Pangtean districtâChrj-sochoos ^ and Mertzides,' the former a cartographer, the latter a doctor who lived in Thasos. But Chrysochoos, whose work is able
. Fig. I.âthe SUimiT OF MOUNT P\ AS SEEX FROM THE SOl"TH-E.\ST. reached farther east than the Struma valley. Later in the same century the mission sent by the French Government under Heuzey and Daumet = carried out some detailed surveys and archaeological exploration as far as the plain of Drama, but the east was still un- touched and no attempt was made to investigate Pangseum and its problems. Later still two Greeks explored the Pangtean districtâChrj-sochoos ^ and Mertzides,' the former a cartographer, the latter a doctor who lived in Thasos. But Chrysochoos, whose work is able and important, produced no map of the Pangjean area, and Mertzides, who is the only writer to leave an account of an ascent of Pangaeum, is brief and unilluminatmg. Perdrizet,^ a French scholar, is ' Les Observations de plusieurs singularilez el choses metnorabhs troiivees en Grece. (Paris, 1554.) - Voyage au Levant (La Have, 1705), and I'oyage dans la Grece (Amsterdam, 1714). ' Voyage dans la Macedoine. (Paris. 1831.) * Travels in Northern Greece. (London, 1835.) "â Mission Archeologique de Macedoine. (Paris, 1876.) * Various articles in the'ETTtT-ijpij ToC na/3i'0!r(roC, 1898, 1900, etc. ' Oi iXi7nrot. (Constantinople. 1897.) * Les cultes du Pangee (Nancy, 1912), and an article, " Scap- tcsyle," in Klio. x, pp. 1-27. the only writer of the present century who has made a serious study of Pangreimi and the Panga;an area. His work has done much to raise the many historical and archaeological problems involved. Thus it has come about that Mount Pangieum. although distant only a seven-days' journey from London, remains one of the least-known parts of Greece. That it is v\'orth exploration is sufficientlv evident from the fact that in antiquity it was a refuge for the most warlike and unsubduable tribes of Thrace ; that it was the greatest and most sacred centre in Greece for the worship of Dionysus, holding, as it did, the famous Oracle of Dionysus; and, finally
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