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 3G0 VII. On the Classical Authorities for Ancient Art. {Continued from p. 252.) I now proceed to the enumeration of authors proper, begin- ning as before with those whose works are lost. Athenaeus (xur. 60G), after mentioning a statue by Ctesicles, and adding respecting it a circumstance which is mentioned by Alexis, nat. b. c. 394, and by Philemon, adds : Kryo-ucXtovs Se eoriv epyov to &yap.a, Ss (prjcriu A8aios MltvXtjvoios iv rco ntpl dyaXparo- noicov. Reiske assumes that the Adaeus here mentioned is the same as the author of the epigram aiov (sic) MeniXfjuaiav (Anthol. Gr. vn. 305). Again, in another passage, Athenaeus quotes as his authority a work by one Alcetas nep t>v iv Ae(po7s dvad^pdrcov. No reader of Pausanias wants to be reminded of the significance of dvaOrjpara in the history of ancient art. Statues and paintings were the chief of the very varied objects comprised under this designation. A treatise, which would unfold with adequate breadth and depth the various uses of the word dvdOrjpa, would be one of the most interesting chapters on the religious life and religious art of Classical antiquity. The temple, in and about which these offer- ings were deposited and erected, was in itself a kind of dvdOrjpa a sort of petrified ' sursum corda' of the Greek. It is this, in my apprehension at least, which imparts a peculiar significance to the altitude of the Kprjmbcopa or icprjms of the temple : a term, of which the double meaning reminds me that this basement might be called the Cothurn of Greek temple architecture: for it was r peculiar feature of a sacred edifice, just as the thick-soled tragic shoes, or e/x/3ar<u, more commonly known by the Cretan name of Cothurn, were used to indicate the superhuman dignity of any God or Hero in the Dramatis Personae. I cannot quit the sub- ject of the dpaOrjpara, without remarking that statues placed, under that category, in the irtpifioKos of the temple must be care- fully distinguished from the ayriXpa in the cell. To this were the prayers of worshippers directed. The others had some analogy to the collections of modern museums. A work on the same sub-