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ATHENS

Plan of Athens and Envikons.

antiquity furnishes no instance of such a construction; Pan to the sacred precinct of Asclepius. The well-known Ddrpfeld believes it to have extended from the grotto of passage of Lucian (Piscator 47) cannot be regarded as

decisive for any of the theories advanced, as any portion of the old enceinte dismantled by the Persians may have retained the name in later times. To the Pelasgic era may also be referred (with

Curtius and Milchhdfer) the terraces of the Pnyx with the wall of massive masonry supporting the lower platform: the theory of these scholars, how- Tbe Pnyx' ever, that the whole precinct was a sanctuary of the