CHAPTER I.

THE ANCIENT CITY, ITS CHARACTER AND LIMITS.

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 size. The ancient city was the Acropolis of the times of Thucydides with an _addendum_ ‘towards about South.’ Excavation of the plateau of the Acropolis confirms the statement of Thucydides. Natural features of the Acropolis. The ‘Pelasgic’ circuit wall. Analogy with other ‘Mycenaean’ _burghs_ or fortified hills. Evidence of excavations North of the Erechtheion and South of the Parthenon. Mythical master-builders. Giants and Kyklopes. Pela_s_goi and Pela_r_goi. The storks of the _poros_ pediment. Pela_s_gikon and Pela_r_gikon. The _addendum_ to the South. The Enneapylai and the approach to the citadel. pp. 5-36