§ 1.2.5 One of the stoas contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very great honor, and they have sanctuaries of the goddess the oldest is to her as Doritis (Bountiful), the next in age as Acraea (Of the Height/Promontory), while the newest is to the Aphrodite called Cnidian by men generally, but Euploia (Fair Voyage) by the Cnidians themselves. And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian triremes off Cnidus in the Carian peninsula. The portrait is in the Long Stoa, where stands an agora for those living near the sea - those farther away from the harbor have another - but behind the stoa near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. This Leosthenes at the head of the Athenians and the united Greeks defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against Oeta, and shut them up there. Here is a portrait of Leosthenes and of his sons, painted by Arcesilaus. Both their images are of bronze Zeus holds a staff and a Victory, Athena a spear. § 1.1.3 The most noteworthy sight in the Peiraeus is a precinct of Athena and Zeus.
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