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
I noticed other statues in the Acropolis, as the boy in brass with
a laver in his hand by Lycius the son of Myron, and Perseus having
slain Medusa by Myron. And there is a temple of Brauronian Artemis,
the statue the design of Praxiteles, but the goddess gets her name
from Brauron. And the ancient statue is at Brauron, called Tauric
Artemis. And a brazen model of the Wooden Horse is here, and that this
construction of Epeus was a design to break down the walls, every
one knows who does not consider the Phrygians plainly fatuous. And
tradition says of that Horse that it had inside it the bravest of the
Greeks, and this model in brass corresponds in every particular, and
Menestheus and Teucer are peeping out of it, as well as the sons of
Theseus. And of the statues next the Horse, Critias executed that of
Epicharinus training to run in heavy armour. And Œnobius did a kindness
to Thucydides the son of Olorus. For he passed a decree that Thucydides
should be recalled from exile to Athens, and as he was treacherously
murdered on his return, he has a tomb not far from the Melitian gates.
As to Hermolycus the Pancratiast, and Phormio the son of Asopichus,
as others have written about them I pass them by: only I have this
little bit more to say about Phormio. He being one of the noblest of
the Athenians, and illustrious from the renown of his ancestors, was
heavily in debt. He went therefore to the Pæanian township, and had
his maintenance there until the Athenians chose him as Admiral. He
however declined on the score that he owed money, and that he would
have no influence with the sailors till he had paid it. Accordingly the
Athenians paid his debts, for they would have him as Admiral.
CHAPTER XXIV.
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