Questions Concerning Attic Topography and Religion with Reference to Thucydides II. 15

L. R. Farnell
1900 The Classical Review  
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more » ... haeology, but it is surprising that Mr. Frazer's edition of Pausanias should be dismissed with the briefest mention. LEONARD WHIBLEY. ARCHAEOLOGY. QUESTIONS CONCERNING ATTIC TOPOGRAPHY AND RELIGION WITH REFERENCE TO THT7CYDIDES II. 15. MANY vital questions concerning Attic topography and some questions of interest touching Attic religion depend on the interpretation of the 15th chapter of the second book of Thucydides, in which the prehistoric City of Athens is contrasted with the Athens of his day. I venture reluctantly and diffidently to approach the thorny topographical problem. I am constrained to do so because many of the inquiries in which I am more specially interested depend upon it; and also because a certain theory has been put forward in recent years by Dr. Dorpfeld concerning that chapter, which claims acceptance or refutation. Hitherto it has met with little acceptance; the criticism has been mainly hostile, but not sufficiently searching and conclusive. The question at issue is at first purely literary, a question of translation or of paraphrase. Beginning with the words § 4 TO 8e irpb rovrov Dr. Dorpfeld would translate this and the following section somewhat in this manner. ' In the days before Theseus that which is now the Acropolis, together with the district at its foot that lies more or less towards the South, constituted the City. The proof that the Acropolis with this small outlying portion was the ancient city, is that the temples on the rock itself are dedicated to (...) Athena) as well as to other deities, and the temples that lie outside (the wall of the ancient Acropolis) are situated in the main near to this latter portion^ of the city (viz. near to the ancient Acropolis), and there are other ancient shrines situated near to the ancient Polis (Tuwru)... § 7. And the fountain now called 'Ewcdfcpowos, but formerly Kallirrhoe when the springs were above ground, was used by our ancestors for all the
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