Taking a single passage of Thucydides on the early city as her guide, the Cambridge classicist examines the limits of primitive Athens, the sanctuaries on the Acropolis and those outside it, and the much-disputed site of the spring Kallirrhoë or Enneakrounos. She draws on recent excavations and on her own long study of Athenian myth and monuments.
A focused, lucid study by one of the founders of modern Greek religious scholarship. Download the free EPUB.