Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides / by Jane Ellen Harrison.

  • Jane Ellen Harrison
Date:
1906
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Credit: Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides / by Jane Ellen Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Plutarch^ tells us that after the battle of Eurymedon (469 B.C.) so much money was raised by the sale of the spoils of the Persians Fig. 8. that the people were able to afford to build the south wall. We know also that this wall of Kimon was at least as much a retain- ing wall to the great terrace as a fortification. For the filling up of the space between the Pelasgian fortification and his own wall Kimon had material sadly ample. He had the debris left by the Persians after the sacking of the Acropolis. The fragments of sculpture and architecture that bear traces of fire are found in the strata marked IV, and there only, for it is these strata only that were laid down after the Persian War I The last courses of ‘Kimon’s wall’ (5) were laid by Perikles, and he it was who finally filled in the terrace to its present level (V). The relation of the successive walls and terraces is shown by 1 Pint. Vit. dm. 13. 2 Unfortunately at the actual time of the excavations the chronology of the various retaining walls was not clearly evident and the precise place where many of the fragments excavated were found was not noted with adequate precision.