Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
travelling carriage, and drove off. And an Epidaurian took the news to
Deiphontes that Cerynes and Phalces had gone off with Hyrnetho against
her will. And he came to the rescue with all speed, and the Epidaurians
when they heard what the matter was came to the rescue with him. And
Deiphontes when he came up with Cerynes shot at him and killed him
with an arrow, but as Phalces was close to Hyrnetho he did not dare
to shoot at him, lest he should miss him and kill her, but he closed
with him and endeavoured to get her away. But Phalces resisting and
pulling Hyrnetho too violently killed her, for she was pregnant. And
he perceiving what he had done to his sister, drove the travelling
carriage at full speed, hastening to be off before the Epidaurians
could come up: and Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho
Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who
afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of
Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.
And they built a chapel to her memory and paid her other honours, and
with regard to the olive trees that grow in her grove, or any other
trees there, it is an established custom that no one should break
pieces of them off and carry them away, nor use them for any purpose,
but leave them intact as sacred to Hyrnetho. And not far from the city
is the sepulchre of Melissa, who was the wife of Periander the son of
Cypselus, and the sepulchre of Proclees the father of Melissa. And he
was king at Epidaurus, as his son in law Periander was at Corinth.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Epidaurus has the following things most worthy of record. There is
a temple of Æsculapius, and statues of Æsculapius and Epione, who
they say was his wife. These are in the open air, and are of Parian
marble. And there are temples of Dionysus and Artemis, the latter as
a Huntress. There is a temple also built to Aphrodite: and near the
harbour on the cliff jutting out into the sea is they say one of Hera.
And the Athene in the citadel, a wooden statue well worth seeing, they
call Cissæan Athene.
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