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Corinth
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Above the sanctuary of the Dioscuri is a sacred enclosure of Aglaurus. It was to Aglaurus and her sisters, Herse and Pandrosus, that they say Athena gave Erichthonius, whom she had hidden in a chest, forbidding them to pry curiously into what was entrusted to their charge. Pandrosus, they say, obeyed, but the other two （for they opened the chest） went mad when they saw Erichthonius, and threw themselves down the steepest part of the Acropolis. Here it was that the Persians climbed and killed the Athenians who thought that they understood the oracle1 better than did Themistocles, and fortified the Acropolis with logs and stakes.2
Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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- Harvey Alan Shapiro, Art, Myth, and Culture, Greek Vases from Southern Collections, Denman Collection (Shapiro No. 4)
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ATHE´NAE
- Smith's Bio, Erichtho'nius
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