Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides

Account of Thucydides. Its incidental character and its object. The scattered _burghs_. The _Synoikismos_. The definition of the ancient city. The fourfold evidence of its small...

The sanctuaries of the ‘other deities.’ The later Erechtheion built to enclose a complex of cults. Prof. Dörpfeld’s elucidation of its plan. The hero-tomb of Kekrops. Kekrops an...

Meaning of the words ‘towards this part.’ The four sanctuaries (1) the Sanctuary of Zeus Olympios, (2) the Pythion. Their position interdependent. The site of the Pythion certai...

The spring Kallirrhoë. The water-supply of Athens. Geological structure of the _Limnae_. Site of Kallirrhoë fixed in Pnyx rock. Efforts to reinforce water-supply before time of...

By a rare good fortune we have from Thucydides himself an account of the nature and extent of the city of Athens in the time of the kingship. This account is not indeed as expli...

Needless difficulties have been raised about this sentence, and, quite unnecessarily, a lacuna in the text has been supposed[65]. Though the form of the sentence is compressed,...

Let us recapitulate. Thucydides has made a statement as to the city before the days of Theseus.—_Before this, what is now the citadel was the city, together with what is below i...

floor, and outside, let into the pavement, is a large vessel, 0·50 m. in diameter, quadrangular above, round below. They had found, beyond all possible doubt, what they had neve...

The argument now stands as follows. As evidence that the old city was _the present citadel with the addition of what is below it towards about South_ Thucydides has adduced two...