Note (return) — THE TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS BURNT BY THE PERSIANS.

It will, I hope, be observed, that I do not claim to have proved the non-existence of the earlier temple after the completion of the Parthenon. All I claim is that its existence is not proved. Now if, as I hope I have shown, the temple is not mentioned by Pausanias, 35 and there is no reasonable likelihood of its silent disappearance between 435 B.C. and the time of Pausanias, the probabilities are in favor of its disappearance about 435 B.C., when it was supplanted by the Parthenon. No one, however, would welcome more gladly than I any further evidence either for or against its continued existence.