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
And as you go straight on for Lechæum, you will see a brazen Hermes
in a sitting posture, and by it a ram, for Hermes more than any of the
gods is thought to watch over and increase flocks, as indeed Homer
has represented him in the Iliad “The son of Phorbas rich in flocks
and herds, whom Hermes loved most of the Trojans, and increased his
substance.”[13] But the tradition about Hermes and the ram in the rites
of the Great Mother (though I know it) I purposely pass over. And next
to the statue of Hermes are Poseidon and Leucothea, and Palæmon on
the dolphin’s back. And there are several baths in various parts of
Corinth, some erected at the public expense, and others by the Emperor
Adrian. And the most famous of them is near the statue of Poseidon.
It was erected by Eurycles a Spartan, who beautified it with various
stones, amongst others by the stone they dig at Croceæ in Laconia.
On the left of the entrance is a statue of Poseidon, and next to him
one of Artemis hunting. And many conduits have been built in various
parts of the city, as there is abundance of water, as well as the water
which the Emperor Adrian brought from Stymphelus: the handsomest is the
conduit by the statue of Artemis, and on it is a figure of Bellerophon,
and the water flows by the hoof of Pegasus.
As you go from the market-place towards Sicyon, there is visible on
the right of the road a temple and brazen statue of Apollo, and at a
little distance a well called the well of Glauce: for she threw herself
into it, thinking the water would be an antidote against the poison of
Medea. Above this well is what is called the Odeum. And near it is the
tomb of the sons of Medea, whose names were Mermerus and Pheres, who
are said to have been stoned by the Corinthians because of the gifts
which they took Glauce. But because their death was violent and unjust,
the children of the Corinthians wasted away in consequence, until at
the oracular response of the god yearly sacrifices were ordained for
them, and a statue of Panic erected. This statue still remains to our
day, the figure of a woman represented as feeling the greatest terror.
But since the capture of Corinth by the Romans and the decay of the
old Corinthians, the sacrifices are no longer continued by the new
settlers, nor do their children continue to shear their hair, or wear
black raiment. And Medea when she went to Athens, lived with Ægeus, but
some time after (being detected plotting against Theseus) she had to
fly from Athens also, and going to the country which was then called
Aria, gave her name to its inhabitants, so that they were called Medes
from her. And the son whom she carried off with her when she fled to
the Arians was they say her son by Ægeus, and his name was Medus. But
Hellanicus calls him Polyxenus, and says Jason was his father. And
there are poems among the Greeks called Naupactian: in which Jason
is represented as having migrated from Iolcus to Corcyra after the
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