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Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical geography
Publisher: London : Walton & Maberly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the peopleof Sicyon (Herod, v. 68; Pind. Nem. ix. 20). Therecan be little doubt that these ancient temples stoodin the original Acropolis of Sicyon; and indeedTausanias elsewhere (ii. 5. § 6) expressly statesthat the ancient Acropolis occupied the site of thetemple of Athena. We may place these templesnear the northern edge of the hill upon the site ofthe modern village of Vasillkd; and accordingly the SICYON. 993 remarkable opening in the rocks near the villagemay be regarded as the position of the Sacred Gate,leading into the ancient Acropolis. (Leake, Alorea,vol. iii. p. 372.) In descending from the Heraenm, on the road tothe plain, was a temple of Demeter; and close to theHeraeum were the ruins of the tennple of ApolloCarneius and Hera Prodromia, of which the latterwas founded by Phalces, the son of Temeuus.(Paus. ii. 11. §§ 1, 2.) The walls of Sicyon followed the edge of thewhole hill, and may still be traced in many parts.The direction of the ancient streets may also still be
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TLAX OF THE KuiNS OF SICYON (from the French Commission). A. Acropolis from thp timR of Demptrius. ; I. Temple of Tjche and the Dioscuri.y. Ihoatrc. 3. Stadium. I ■). Probable site of the Gymnasium.VOL. II. 3 S .i. Irnbable site of the Auora.Ci. lii)m.in Ituildine. a a Itoad from the lake of Styinpluilus to Iafilikaand Corinth. 994 SICYOX. followed by the existing foundations of the houses:they run \Yith mathematical precision from NE. toSW.. and from N\V. to SE., thus following the ruleof Vitruvius. Few of the ruins rise above theground; but there is a Roman building better pre-served, and containing several chambers, which liesnear the ridge separating the two levels of tlie hill.Leake supposes that this building was probably thepraetorium of the Komau governor during the periodbetween the destruction of Corinth by I\Iummiusand its restoration by Julius Caesar, when Sicyonwas the capital of the surrounding country; butmore recent observers are inclined to think that theruins are t

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