Arthur Woollgar Verrall

Name: Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Author: Arthur Woollgar Verrall

Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

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“Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition”, published in 1888, is a work by Arthur Woollgar Verrall. It explores elements such as Pausanias, Cadmea and Thebes.

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Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The most famous monument of ancient Thebes was the outer wall with its seven gates, which even as late as the 6th century B.O. was probably the largest of artificial Greek fortresses. The names of the gates vary, but four are constant, the Free tides, Electrse, Neistae or Neitse, and Homoloides; Pausanias gives the others as Ogygise, Hypsistse, Crenaese. There is evidence that the gate Electee was on the south, and near it was the tomb of the Thebans who fell at the capture by Alexander. The gates shown to Pausanias as Neistse and Prcetides led respectively north-west and north-east. ”

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Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The most curious of later buildings is the church of St Luke, south-east of the Cadmea, believed to contain the tomb of the evangelist. From the abundance of water the place is favourable to gardens, and the neigh bouring plain is extremely fertile. But the population is scanty, and the town at present of no importance.
In prehistoric times the Cadmea, with the enlarged city of Thebes into which it developed, was a power of the first rank, as is shown by its unrivalled legends. ”

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Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ From the interest of the site in history and still more in literature, as the scene of so many dramas, the temptation to fix details has been specially strong. Conjectural plans or descriptions, differing widely, are given by Leake, Forchhammer, Ulrichs, Bursian, and others (references below) . All are based on the assumption that the description of Pausanias and the allusions of the Attic trage dians may be read together and combined, and that the result will give the plan as it existed in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. But to this two objections must be taken. ”

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“ THEBES (anciently rjpGreece, is situated on low hilly ground of gentle slope a little north of the range of Cithasron, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the edge of the Boeotian plain, about 44 miles from Athens, whence it is now reached by two carriage-roads. It has about 3500 inhabitants, and is the seat of a bishop. The present town occupies the site of the ancient citadel, the Cadmea ”

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Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Æschylus places the tomb of Amphion outside the wall opposite the north gate (Septem, 527) , and the Prcetides elsewhere. Ulrichs concludes that Pausanias "evi dently" went out by the north gate to view the monument and then returned to the Prcetides. Of course this is possible, but it is useless to draw exact inferences from documents which require such an hypothesis. It is equally probable that Pausanias identified the tomb with a monument called the Ampheion, which seems (Ulrichs, p. 17) to have been somewhere near the market-place. ”

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Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Of more lasting effect than the politics of Thebes have been its legends. Bceotia, or rather the Cadmeis (Thucyd., i. 12) , was a land of poetry from extremely ancient times, and the stories of Thebes are in Greek literature as important as those of Troy. The legends of the five chief groups will be found under the names indicated in the following division: (1) the foundation of the Cadmea by Cadmus; (2) the foundation by Amphion, to this belong originally the "seven-gated" wall, the name of irrdirvos 07J07J, and the legends of Zethus, Antiope, and Dirce ”

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“ In 395 A.D., however, it had some strength, for Alaric, on his way to the capture of Athens, did not think fit to attack it. In the later times of the Eastern empire (10th to 12th century) it again became wealthy and important, being specially celebrated for the manufacture of silk and cloth. ”

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Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ From the west side of the Cadmea another copious fountain (Paraporti) falls to the Dirce. In a suburb to the east is another (Fountain of St Theodore) , and north-west are two more. The Cadmea itself is supplied with water brought from an unknown source to the south by works supposed of prehistoric antiquity. It now enters the town by an aqueduct of twenty arches of Prankish construction. The "waters" of Thebes are celebrated both by Pindar and by the Athenian poets, and the site is still, as described by Dicsearchus (3d century B.C.) , "all springs," Ka.Qv8po<; Traa-a. ”

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