the bafement, ahd with much difficulty procured ladders fuffi-
ciently long and ft rong to kfcend and meafure the upper part.
From the traces of painting on the Walls aboVe, it appears that
a church has been ererted'againft ft. This fabric, which is t>f
the Corinthian order, with the tower o f the Winds and other
ftrurtures at Athens, is leen to difadvantage from the acceffion
o f lbil found about it. Beyond it, within ïfee 'region o f flew
Athens, is thfe Hiajfeftrc ruin o f the temple o f Jupiter Olympics.
D eucalion was faid to have created the fir-ft temple of
Jupiter on this lpot$ and the place of his burial was Ihown near
it to prove that he had lived at Athens. Pififtratus the fecond
founder dying, his Ions carried on the work j but after they
were llain, lo many difficulties •• occurred, that it remained for
ages unfinilhed; a fpecimen of the Only temple in the world
defigned with a grandeur worthy of the ruler of heaven j and
backing aftonifhment in every beholder. About ifour hundred
years after Pififtratus, Afttiochus Epipfaaft'es promifed to complete
it $ and Goflutius, a Roman, thfe aróhimrt, is Oxtèlled for
his noble ideaa o f »»ag^iitode in the cell, and for chafing Rthe
columns and the entablature with an exart lymmetry, which
trifled his exquifitfe knowing« and Ikillv It is likely he was
employed in fitting up theinfide of the fabric, in which', as
Well as hi the Parthenon, We¥e colon»ades. The t-emple was a
dipteros and hypaethros, or With -double, «rows'of columns and
opdn to thé Iky j thddgh -nöt, as Was moft common, With ten-,
but With eight, colOnffts in front. R-Ome ■ aftbedesd no exarrlple
Of this ipeeies. It was -one of *the feat marble -edifiöfefe, which
had railed to -the pinnacle of rerioWn the -Uecbiterts', who
planned thfetn j -men, it is faid, admired in the -öffembly of
the.gods for -their wifdom and excellence.
Sy i/l a , when he pilnifhed 'Athene, dated to plunder'even
Jupiter Olymjmis, -and removed columns and brazen throlhölds
^Antlftates, Gaujefchros, AHömachides, and Porinus were thfe earlier archi-
téils erhplóyed öft tfifsTabric.
to
to adorn the eapitql at Ramp. The ftrudfore ftiU em tim r
ing imperfert, the kings, in alliance with ^pgyftus egreed
to it hy eontribation, and jointly dedicate it fo the
g e n iu s of the emperor. Afterwards, by command fff. CaU-
gula, the image of Jupiter wag jtranfported the eapifob
where the god fubmitted to loft his own head, which wa?
broken off, and,to accept in it& room that of a mnofter W$
civil to him even than Sylla. It was referred for .Hadrian in pa*
the left hand to » work, on which Athens had, e&p^&dftd (oven
thoufand eighty-eight taints, and which Antioehus, with
united kings, had been ambitious .of completing, This achievement
of the emperor was celebrated in a hymn fbng at the
Sacrifice, when he dedicated the fabric 10 Jupiter, more tha#
feven hundred years after its foundation by Pififtratus ; and he
acquired- from it-- the title of Olympics, He placed # the _
temple an .uncommon ferpent brought from India.
Wn 1M1 m&ri- hem .an extraft feom ;Pa»fenii$ testing t9
this temple, “ The image Jupiter .is. worth feeing, pot
(f fpj- its ftmaHtude to other ft,atu®s in fine> for thofe o f the
tt Romans and .Rhodians are not eoJoffal, but §s sasde i f ivory
« a*d gold, and with art, as will be pe.rc§ive4;by foofe who
*< confider its magnitude. The ft&tuos o f Hadrian there are
*4, two o-f Thaftan marble, and two o f Egyptian* Tb® Afhfir
H nian .Colonies ftand in brafs before the columns. The whole
** Anobfore is about four fcadia, half a mile, in oiroumforotjce,
<* >and fall o f ftatues $ for o©e .of Hadrian was dedicated hy
a* «aqh o f the cities, and Athens has exceeded them ah iby
“ flfifering the Coloflks, (which was behind the temple M d
4( worthy <of notice.) The .antiquities within the indofut.® at®
a‘ a brazen Jupiter, and a temple of Saturn and Rhea, and the
“ portion of this goddefs who is called Olympia, There the
a* pavement is rent afonder as muchjas a,cubit; and they relate,
•“ [that after the .Denealionean flood the .cha£m,afforded a paflage
** to the water; ;and they.caft yearly into it wheat flower mixed
“ with honey. And,, hefides a ftafoe of Ifocrates, there is a
L a “ brazen