Note 27 — MARATHON.

Hercules was the patron-saint, to use modern language, of Marathon; and, where the Athenians conquered, Theseus could not be absent. These two heroes, therefore, were represented in the picture of the battle of Marathon in the painted Stoa, (Pausan., I. 15). The fountain of Macaria, the daughter of Hercules and Deianeira, is mentioned by Pausanias, (I. c. 32), as being on the field of Marathon; and sure enough there is a well on the road from Marathon to Rhamnus, near the north end of the plain, which Mr Finlay is willing to baptise with the name of the old classical nymph.