This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: .this passage expressly mention any image, altar, or temple of Athena the Worker (Ergane) it is certain that his remark as to her epithet of the Worker must have been called forth by the sight of some monument of her worship under this title. That she was worshipped under this surname on the Acropolis is proved by the discovery on the Acropolis of five inscriptions containing dedications to Athena the Worker (C.

I. A. ii. Nos. 1428, 1429, 1434, 1438; C. I. A. iv.

No. 373271, p. 205; Ulrichs, Rcisen und For-schungen, i. p. 154; Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca, No. 776; Jahn-Michaelis, Pausaniae descriptio arcis, p. 60; AeATiov apaiooymov, 1888, p. 138).

As two of these inscriptions (C. I. A. ii. 1429; AeAriov dpa.io. I.e.

) were found on the terrace between the west end of the Parthenon and the sanctuary of Brauronian Artemis, it is not improbable that the image, altar, or temple of Athena the Worker may have stood there. This position would fit in very well with Pausaniass route, for he has described the precinct of Brauronian Artemis (i. 23. 7) and is now proceeding eastward towards the Parthenon. The statues which he mentions between the sanctuary of Brauronian Artemis and the image, altar, or temple of Athena the Worker (i. 23. 8-i. 24.

2) appear to have stood in two rows on opposite sides of the road which he followed. For after mentioning the Wooden Horse, the statues of Epicharinus, Oenobius, Hermolycus, and Phormio, and the group of Athena and Marsyas, he says (i. 24. i) that opposite the statues which he has described are others (Theseuss battle with the Minotaur, Phrixus sacrificing the ram, etc.) But the exact position of these statues can no longer be ascertained. In the present passage Pausanias makes mention of a temple, but as the.