Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Volume 4Cupples, Upham and Company, 1888 - Archaeology Appended to vols. 1-5 are statements concerning the school, regulations of the school, etc., dated Jan. 1885, Jan. 1888, Feb. 1892. |
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2d short Acropolis altar Amorg ancient Arch Areopagus assemblies Athens Attic back wall bema blocks Bull caesura century Chios Cnid Corc Corr crasis Curtius CXXVIII Cypr Cypriote dact dactylic Delos Delph diphthong Epid epigrams floor foot Greek Halic Herm hexameter Homer iamb iii-ii inscriptions Ionic Isyllus iv-ii Kaibel Löwy medial Meisterh Melos metres Mittheilungen Olymp Olympia Pelasgikon pent pentameter Petil Plate Plutarch Pnyx Pnyx Hill Rhod RM Olymp rock Röhl Ross School seats semicircular wall shortening Smyrn so-called Pnyx spondee stone Sybar terrace tetr theatre Theb Thoricus troch trochaic vase verified verse vi-v viós vowel Welcker words written Xanth XCVII Zeus ἄγαλμα ἀνέθηκεν ἀπὸ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐνθάδε ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ μὲν οἱ παῖς πρὸς τε τῇ τὴν τὸ τόδ τόδε τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Page 237 - С. • it is impossible to regard the argument of Goettling for the identity of the Pelasgicum and the Pnyx as convincing, he should have credit for suggesting one thing of which the place itself is the all-sufficient proof: that there is pre-Pnyxian work to be found in many places on and about the Pnyx. In 1852 Welcker read his paper, " Der Felsaltar des Höchsten Zeus oder das Pelasgikon zu Athen, bisher genannt die Pnyx," to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
Page 3 - THORICUS. 3 tower, built in the same manner and of the same material as the wall of the theatre. The whole character of the masonry marks it as a work of the last quarter of the fifth century BC Strabo mentions Thoricus several times,1 but without giving us any information about it, while Pausanias does not notice the place at all. Dodwell says : " Indeed, it was ruined before the time of Mela, who says,2 Thoricus et Brauronia, olim urbes, jam tantum nomina.
Page 23 - The city, which was of an irregular form, was surrounded by a wall with square projecting towers ; 9 and apparently about two miles and a half in circuit. The Acropolis was on a pointed hill above the city. The ruins are all of white marble of an inferior kind, veined with grey.
Page 232 - ... vols. Bremen, 1840, 1863. See Vol. II. p. 168. CW GOETTLING. Das Pelasgikon in Athen, in Gesammelte Abhandlungen a^ιs dem classischen Alterthume, Vol.
Page 251 - Some have attempted to explain it; others have rejected it as improbable. Stewart, Kinard, and some of the German archaeologists think that Plutarch related a story which he found current at Athens, without inquiring whether it was true or not. Gell thinks the upper terrace was the old Pnyx, and the lower one the Pnyx of the Thirty Tyrants/ Leake thinks there is every reason for believing " that Themistocles, by some temporary alteration, which has not lasted to the present time, turned the place...
Page 25 - II. 381.) — a scene which no doubt has often enlivened with mirth and laughter the now void and silent sides of this hollow theatre. the port of this place that Dionysus, the deity of the Athenian drama, first landed in Attica. " The outline of this theatre is not of a semicircular form; it is of an irregular curve, nearly resembling the fourth of an ellipse, — the longer axis commencing with the stage, and the seats beginning from the lesser axis, and running in tiers rising above each other...
Page 154 - As among the three vowels a, e, o, there does not appear to be any significant difference in the relative frequency with which they are written or omitted. But different words do differ in this respect. It can hardly be accident that те is written nearly as often as т' or ff, while Sé and 8
Page 234 - It was constructed in early time for the meetings of the people ; and is situated on a height to the north of the Museum, and to the west of the Areopagus : its declivity is supported by a circular wall.