Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Acheron, a river in Thesprotia, i. 17; v. 14; x. 28.
Achilles, i. 22; iii. 18, 19, 24.
Acichorius, a general of the Galati, x. 19, 22, 23.
Acrisius, son of Abas, ii. 16.
Husband of Eurydice, iii. 13.
Constructs a brazen chamber for his daughter Danae, ii. 23; x. 5.
Killed unintentionally by his grandson Perseus, ii. 16.
Actæa, the ancient name of Attica, i. 2.
Actæon, son of Aristæus, ix. 2; x. 17, 30.
Addison, ii. 20, Note.
Adonis, ii. 20; ix. 29.
Adrian, the Roman Emperor, i. 3, 18, 44; ii. 3, 17; vi. 16, 19; viii.
8, 10, 11, 22.
His love for, and deification of, Antinous, viii. 9.
Adriatic sea, viii. 54.
Adultery, iv. 20; ix. 36.
Ægialus, afterwards Achaia, v. 1; vii. 1, where see Note.
Ægina, the daughter of Asopus, ii. 5, 29; v. 22; x. 13.
Ægina, the island, ii. 29, 30.
Ægisthus, i. 22; ii. 16, 18.
Ægos-potamoi, iii. 8, 11, 17, 18; iv. 17; ix. 32; x. 9.
Æneas, the son of Anchises, ii. 21, 23; iii. 22; v. 22; viii. 12; x.
17, 26.
Æschylus, the son of Euphorion, i. 2, 14, 21, 28; ii. 13, 20, 24;
viii. 6, 37; ix. 22; x. 4.
Æsculapius, the son of Apollo, ii. 10, 26, 27, 29; iii. 23; vii. 23;
viii. 25.
His temples, i. 21; ii. 10, 13, 23; iii. 22, 26; iv. 30, 31; vii.
21, 23, 27; viii. 25.
Æsymnetes, vii. 19, 20.
Æthra, wife of Phalanthus, her love for her husband, x. 10.
Ætna, its craters, how prophetic, iii. 23.
Eruption of Ætna, x. 28.
Agamemnon, i. 43; ii. 6, 18; iii. 9; vii. 24; ix. 40.
His tomb, ii. 16; iii. 19.
Ageladas, an Argive statuary, iv. 33; vi. 8, 10, 14; vii. 24; viii.
42; x. 10.
Aglaus of Psophis, happy all his life, viii. 24.
Ajax, the son of Oileus, his violation of Cassandra, i. 15; x. 26, 31.
Ajax, the son of Telamon, i. 5, 35; v. 19.
Alcæus, vii. 20; x. 8.
Alcamenes, a statuary, a contemporary of Phidias, i. 8, 19, 20, 24;
ii. 30; v. 10; viii. 9; ix. 11.
Alcmæon, son of Amphiaraus, the murderer of his mother Eriphyle, i.
34; v. 17; viii. 24.
Alcman, the poet, i. 41; iii. 18, 26.
Alcmena, the daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and wife of
Amphitryon, deceived by Zeus, v. 18.
Hated by Hera, ix. 11.
Mother of Hercules, v. 14.
Alcyone, the daughter of Atlas, ii. 30; iii. 18; ix. 22.
Alexander, son of Alexander the Great by Roxana, i. 6; ix. 7.
Alexander the Great, i. 9; v. 21; vii. 5; ix. 23, 25.
Said by the Macedonians to be the son of Ammon, iv. 14.
Very passionate, vi. 18.
Tradition about his death, viii. 18.
Buried at Memphis, i. 6.
His corpse removed thence by Ptolemy, i. 7.
Statues of him, i. 9; v. 25; vi. 11.
Cassander’s hatred of him, ix. 7.
Alexandria, v. 21; viii. 33.
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