Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides
CHAPTER II.
THE SANCTUARIES IN THE CITADEL.
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 and the Kekropidae. The hero-snake. The snakes of the _poros_ pediment of the Hecatompedon. The Pandroseion. Pandrosos. The ‘Maidens.’ The _semeia_. The sacred olive. The ‘sea.’ The trident-mark. Its primitive significance and connection with Poseidon. Poseidon and Erechtheus. Athena. Herakles. pp. 37-65