SOURCE: "Pausanias at Athens, II: A Commentary on Book I, Chapters 18-19," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer, 1963, pp. 157-75.

In the following excerpt, Wycherley examines Pausanias's account of the southeastern quarter of Athens and its monuments.

Several years ago I discussed Pausanias' account of the Athenian Agora in this journal, in the light of the detailed archaeological knowledge of the site provided by the American excavations.¹ The next phase of his description of the city, intermediate between the Agora and the Acropolis with its nearer approaches, is concerned almost entirely with the southeastern quarter, dominated then as now by the great temple of Olympian Zeus. In this region as well archaeological research, supplemented by occasional lucky finds, has provided a good deal of new material since the time of Judeich,² though nothing so extensive or spectacular as the Agora; and the time has perhaps come...