"Here we meet with a temple consisting of two chapels, one dedicated to Minerva Polias, the other to Neptune Erechtheus. Remark the manner in which fabulous traditions may sometimes be reconciled with historical facts. You are here shown, on one side, the olive tree which sprang out of the earth at the command of the goddess, and which has so greatly multiplied in Attica; and, on the other, the well, whence they pretend that Neptune caused the water of the sea to gush out. By such bounties was it that these divinities aspired to the honour of bestowing their names on this rising city. The gods decided in favour of Minerva; and the Athenians for ages preferred agriculture to commerce." Anacharsis Vol. 2, pp. 218-219
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Barthelemy, Jean Jacques. The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece. 8 vols. London: G. Woodfall, 1806.
Fowler, Harold North, James Rignall Wheeler, and Gorham Phillips Stevens. A Handbook of Greek Archaeology. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, 1909.
Verrall, Margaret de G. and Jane E. Harrison. Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890.
