ATHENS

ATHENS, anciently the capital of Attica, so famous for its learned men, orators, and captains, now called Setines. It stands upon a plain watered by the rivers Illissus and Eridanus, about 40 miles east of the isthmus of Corinth: At present it is said to contain 10,000 inhabitants, three parts of which are Christians. The town does not lie round the castle as anciently, but on the north-west side of it. Here a Greek metropolitan resides. Among the many remains of antiquity, is the temple of Jupiter Olympius, and temple of Minerva, called Parthenon, which last is still entire, and converted into a Turkish mosque, which, as later travellers assure us, is the finest temple in the world. This city, as all the rest of Greece, is subject to the Turks. E. long. $24^\{\backslash circ\}\; 15\text{'}$ N. lat. $38^\{\backslash circ\}\; 5\text{'}$