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
There are also in the Acropolis at Athens statues of Pericles the
son of Xanthippus and Xanthippus himself, who fought against the
Persians at Mycale. The statue of Pericles stands by itself, but
near that of Xanthippus is Anacreon of Teos, the first after Lesbian
Sappho who wrote erotic poetry mainly: his appearance is that of a
man singing in liquor. And near are statues by Dinomenes of Io the
daughter of Inachus, and Callisto the daughter of Lycaon, both of
whom had precisely similar fates, the love of Zeus and the hatred of
Hera, Io being changed into a cow, and Callisto into a she-bear. And
on the southern wall Attalus has pourtrayed the legendary battle of
the giants, who formerly inhabited Thrace and the isthmus of Pallene,
and the contest between the Amazons and the Athenians, and the action
at Marathon against the Persians, and the slaughter of the Galati in
Mysia, each painting two cubits in size. There too is Olympiodorus,
illustrious for the greatness of his exploits, notably at that period
when he infused spirit in men who had been continually baffled, and on
that account had not a single hope for the future. For the disaster at
Chæronea was a beginning of sorrows for all the Greeks, and made slaves
alike of those who were absent from it, and of those who fought at it
against the Macedonians. Most of the Greek cities Philip captured,
and though he made a treaty with the Athenians nominally, he really
hurt them most, robbing them of their islands, and putting down their
naval supremacy. And for some time they were quiet, during the reign
of Philip and afterwards of Alexander, but when Alexander was dead and
the Macedonians chose Aridæus as his successor, though the whole power
fell to Antipater, then the Athenians thought it no longer endurable
that Greece should be for all time under Macedonia, but themselves
took up arms and urged others to do the same. And the cities of the
Peloponnesians which joined them were Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Trœzen,
Elis, Phlius, Messene, and outside the Peloponnese the Locrians, the
Phocians, the Thessalians, the Carystians, and those Acarnanians
who ranked with the Ætolians. But the Bœotians who inhabited the
Theban territory which had been stripped of Thebans, fearing that the
Athenians would eject them from Thebes, not only refused to join the
confederate cities but did all they could to further the interests of
the Macedonians. Now the confederate cities were led each by their own
general, but the Athenian Leosthenes was chosen generalissimo, partly
from his city’s renown, partly from his own reputation for experience
in war. He had besides done good service to all the Greeks. For when
Alexander wished to settle in Persia all of those who had served for
pay with Darius and the satraps, Leosthenes was beforehand with him
and conveyed them back to Europe in his ships. And now too, after
having displayed more brilliant exploits than they expected, he infused
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