The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . end of Stadium Assuming that the fifteen rows or seats extended from endto end on each side, and allowing a toot and a half for eachperson, the Stadium would seat twelve thousand spectators onits two sides, without computing the seats at the ends. Plate XVIII represents the excavation at the end adjacentto the Hieron. Y in Plate I (shown also in Plate XVIII) iseither the starting place or the goal. Z is a subterraneanpassage probably communicating with the precinct. 22
The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . end of Stadium Assuming that the fifteen rows or seats extended from endto end on each side, and allowing a toot and a half for eachperson, the Stadium would seat twelve thousand spectators onits two sides, without computing the seats at the ends. Plate XVIII represents the excavation at the end adjacentto the Hieron. Y in Plate I (shown also in Plate XVIII) iseither the starting place or the goal. Z is a subterraneanpassage probably communicating with the precinct. 22 THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OF An inscription (found in 1896) mentioned by Mr. Frazer,shows that a hippodrome also existed at the Hieron. On Mount Kynortion, some distance south of the greattheatre, stood the temple of the Maleatean Apollo. Theremains are so fragmentary that it is difficult to devise aconjectural restoration. II. The Asklepieion at Athens. Before saying anything about the ritual and the treatmentof the sick at the Hieron, it will be well to turn to theAsklepieion at Athens, and examine briefly the structural. PLATE XIX—Portico of Eumenes and Acropolis arrangements there. Situated on the south side of the Acropolis,at an elevation of perhaps eighty feet above the plain, adjoiningon the east the theatre of Dionysus, the locality was probablyas healthy as any the immediate neighbourhood of Athenscould supply. The heat no doubt was great in summer, butwe may conclude that a grove of large trees afforded gratefulshade to the sick. ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS 23 Plate XIX represents the remains of the Stoa or Porticoof Eumenes (so called) lying to the south of the Acropolis. Tothe extreme left is seen the temple of the Nike Apteros, and on tempie-thcmisO NNCA W»«0 0» AMtON
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