once crowned the burial-mound on the plain of Marathon. It bears a
single figure, said to represent the messenger who brought the tidings
of victory to his countrymen.

Near the Theseium was the double gate (Dipylum) in the ancient wall
of the city whence issued the Sacred Way leading to Eleusis, and
bordered, like the Appian Way at Rome, with tombs, many of them
cenotaphs of persons who died in the public service and were deemed
worthy of a monument in the public burying-ground. Within a few years
an excavation has been made through an artificial mound of ashes,
pottery and other refuse emptied out of the city, and a section of a
few rods of this celebrated road has been laid bare. The sepulchral
monuments are ranged on one side rather thickly, and crowd somewhat
closely upon the narrow pavement. They are, for the most part, simple,
thick slabs of white marble, with a triangular or pediment-shaped top,
beneath which is sculptured in low relief the closing scene of the
person commemorated, followed by a short inscription. The work is done
in an artistic style worthy of the publicity its location gave it. On
one of these slabs you recognize the familiar full-length figure of
Demosthenes, standing with two companions and clasping in a parting
grasp the hand of a woman, who is reclining upon her deathbed. The
inscription is, _Collyrion, wife of Agathon_. On another stone of
larger size is a more imposing piece of sculpture. A horseman fully
armed is thrusting his spear into the body of his fallen foe--a
hoplite. The inscription relates that the unhappy foot-soldier fell at
Corinth _by reason of those five words of his_!--a record intelligible
enough, doubtless, to his contemporaries, but sufficiently obscure and
provocative of curiosity to later generations.

There are other noted structures at Athens, such as the Choragic