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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
The sequence of construction of the Propylaia to the Acropolis of Athens is reassessed in the light of Pontus Hellstrom's suggestion that the two unbuilt east halls, and the original plan for the S.W. hall were intended to be dining halls like the Pinakotheke. It is argued that the objections of the various priests are unlikely to account for changes in plan; that the east halls were abandoned before work started on the S.W. wing; and that the cause of the change was financial, the need to economize in the face of the growing certainty of war with Sparta.
1 The planned function of the Mnesiklean Propylaia Op.Ath. 17 (1988) 107. For the latest account of the architectural history of the Propylaia, to the present day Tanoulas, Tasos, The Propylaia of the Acropolis since the 17th century JdI 102 (1987) 413–83.Google Scholar
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6 Garland, R.S.J., Religious authority in Archaic and Classical Athens BSA 79 (1984) 75f.Google Scholar I am grateful to Professor Garland for discussing this point with me.
7 IG 13 35 Meiggs Lewis GHI 44.
8 Bundgaard, J.A.Mnesikles 55.Google Scholar The building identified from poros fragments of its architecture Wiegand, Die Archaische Poros architektur des Acropolis 155.Google Scholar Doubts as to its locality W.B. Dinsmoor Jnr The Propylaia to the Athenian Acropolis 1 The Predecessors 2 n.10.
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10 Gruben loc. cit. (Note 3).
11 Clearly illustrated in Bundgaard op. cit. fig. 53.
12 AM 10 (1885) 54.
13 This jointing is clearly marked on T. Tanoulas' new reconstruction of the plan op. cit. 414 fig. 1.
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15 Below p. 413.
16 W.B. Dinsmoor Jnr. op. cit. xvii, 38.
17 IG i3 51. The imminence of the war, and the need for economy rather than the outbreak of war itself have been suggested as reasons for the unfinished state of the Propylaia by T. Kalpaxis Hemiteles.
18 W.B. Dinsmoor Jnr. op. cit. 54.
19 IG 13 462–6.
20 Pausanias 1 22.4.
21 Pausanias 1 22.6.
