. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ovcrt yrjq avaKjeq At9l8o<;. Eur. Igu. 8. s From the position of this temple at the entrance of the Propylcea, the goddesswas invoked by persons quitting or entering the Acropolis : — Nt/cT] r AOdva IToAtag, rj crco^et /u aet, SOPH. Pliiloct. 134. AeoTrotPa Nt/07 ^vyyevov, Toiv r TroAet yvvaiKCiv. Aeistoph. Lysistrat. 317. Chap. XXI. THE ACEOPOLIS OF ATHENS. 413 Pentelic marble in the purest Doric style, its dimensions being 228 feetin length, 101 in breadth, and 66 in height to the top of t
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ovcrt yrjq avaKjeq At9l8o<;. Eur. Igu. 8. s From the position of this temple at the entrance of the Propylcea, the goddesswas invoked by persons quitting or entering the Acropolis : — Nt/cT] r AOdva IToAtag, rj crco^et /u aet, SOPH. Pliiloct. 134. AeoTrotPa Nt/07 ^vyyevov, Toiv r TroAet yvvaiKCiv. Aeistoph. Lysistrat. 317. Chap. XXI. THE ACEOPOLIS OF ATHENS. 413 Pentelic marble in the purest Doric style, its dimensions being 228 feetin length, 101 in breadth, and 66 in height to the top of the consisted of a cella, surrounded, by a peristyle, having eight columnsin each fronts and. seventeen at each side—in all forty-six. Before eachend of the cella there was an interior range of six columns. The cellaitself was divided into two chambers, the eastern of which was theNaos, or shrine, and specially named the Hecatompedon, beiDg ninety-eight feet long, and the western, named the Opisthodomus and theParthenon, in its special sense, forty-three feet long. The former con-. The Propylaia restored. A. Pinacotheca. \ D. Road leading to the Central Entrance. B. Temple of Xike Apteros. j E. Central Entrance. C. Pedestal of Agrippa. { F. Hall corresponding to the Pinacotheca. tained the colossal statue of Athena of ivory and gold, the work ofPhidias, while the latter was used as the Treasury of Athens. Roundthe summit of the outer walls of the cella was a frieze in low relief,520 feet in length, representing the Panathenaic procession : the slabsof which it was formed are the well-known Elgin Marbles in the BritishMuseum. The Parthenon remained almost entire until 16S7, whenit was accidentally blown up during the siege by the Venetians ; it wasagain injured in 1827. The Erechtheum (Plan, 2 ; stood X. of the Par-thenon, and was the most revered of all the sanctuaries of Athens,being connected Avith the most ancient legends of Attica. The originaltemple was
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