The Cave at Vari. I. Description, Account of Excavation, and History

ing pages is situated about an hour's walk to the northeast of Vari, a village of some thirty houses close to the ancient deme of Anagyrus, in Attica. The cave is almost three hundred metres above the sea, and near the top of one of the southern spurs of Mount Hymettus. The various names that have been given to the elevation in which the cave lies are all of modern origin, and furnish no clue to any ancient appellation. Dodwell states that at the