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
on the Athenians was visited privately, and mainly on the house of one
man, Miltiades the son of Cimon, for he was the person responsible for
getting the envoys that came to Attica put to death by the Athenians.
And the Lacedæmonians have an altar of Apollo Acritas, and a temple
of Earth called Gaseptum, and above it is Apollo Maleates. And at the
end of the road Apheta, and very near the walls, is the temple of
Dictynna, and the royal tombs of the Eurypontidæ. And near Hellenium
is the temple of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus, and the sister
of the wives of Polydeuces and Castor. And at what is called Garrison
there is a temple of Artemis, and as you go on a little further there
is a monument erected to the prophets from Elis who are called Iamidæ.
And there is a temple of Maro and Alpheus, who, of the Lacedæmonians
that fought at Thermopylæ, seem to have been reckoned most valiant
next to Leonidas. And the temple of Victory-giving Zeus was erected by
the Dorians, after a victory over the people of Amyclæ and the other
Achæans, who at this time occupied Laconia. And the temple of the great
Mother is honoured especially. And next to it are hero-chapels of
Theseus, and the Arcadian Aulon, and the son of Tlesimenes: some say
that Tlesimenes was the brother, others the son, of Parthenopæus the
son of Melanion.
And there is another outlet from the market-place, where is built the
place called Scias, where even now they hold meetings. This Scias was
they say built by the Samian Theodorus, who was the first discoverer
of fusing, and making statues, in iron. Here the Lacedæmonians hung
up the harp of Milesian Timotheus, censuring him for adding four
chords in harpistry to the old Seven. And near Scias there is a round
building (in which are statues of Olympian Zeus and Olympian Aphrodite)
constructed they say by Epimenides, of whom they give a different
account to that of the Argives, since they say that the Argives never
fought with the Gnossians.
CHAPTER XIII.
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