The Temple of Theseus is the best preserved and one of the oldest of the buildings of ancient Athens. It was founded in B. C. 469, and is a small, graceful, and perfect Doric temple. Having served as a Christian church, dedicated to St. George, it escaped injury. It contains the beautiful and celebrated tombstone of Aristion, the warrior of Marathon.
All that remains of Hadrian's great Temple to Zeus (A. D. 132) are a few standing columns in an open space, which are imposing from their isolated position.
OLD CORINTH AND THE ACROCORINTHUS.
The monument of Philopappus is thought to have been begun A. D. 110, and for a king in Asia Minor.
TEMPLE OF JUPITER, ATHENS.
The Tower of the Winds, erected by Andronicus Cyrrhestes about B. C. 100, contained a weathercock, a sun dial, and a water clock. It is an octagonal building, with reliefs on the frieze, representing by appropriate figures the eight winds into which the Athenian compass was divided.