of Classical Studies at Athens THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT CORINTH [PLATES II, III] MANY Grecian temples in a more or less ruined condition, but with columns still standing, have survived the changes and chances of time unto our own day and may be seen in Sicily, Southern Italy, and Greece. The remains are here, but the names have not descended, with them. This is probably not surprising in the cities of Sicily and Magna Graecia, for we know but little of their inner life, but when we reach Greece proper and find ruins on prominent sites, of which descriptions have come to us from ancient writers, it is a matter for comment that names have not been attached to them with more certainty. 66 The spade of the archaeologist in our own day has changed many names for more certain ones; the traditional "Theseum" at Athens has become the temple of Hephaestus, the Temple of Athena" at Sunium has been assigned to Poseidon, and the Doric temple on Aegina, after passing from Zeus Panhellenius to Athena, has now taken Aphaea as its mistress. No ruin in Greece has suffered more on the score of nomenclature than that of the old temple at Corinth, of which seven columns are now standing. Pausanias, in his description of Corinth, gives us passable guidance to the city of the second century A.D., and names a number of temples there. The root of the evil has been in the fact that we have had no starting-point for our topography, and, in consequence, almost American Journal of Archaeology, Second Series. Journal of the 44 |