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
Alpheus, a river in Pisa, iii. 8; v. 7; vi. 22.
Enamoured of Artemis, vi. 22;
of Arethusa, v. 7.
Women may not cross the Alpheus on certain days, v. 6.
Leucippus lets his hair grow to the Alpheus, viii. 20.
Altars, v. 13, 14; vi. 20, 24; ix. 3, 11.
Althæa, daughter of Thestius and mother of Meleager, viii. 45; x. 31.
Altis (a corruption of ἄλσος, grove), v. 10, 11, 14, 15, 27.
Amaltheæ cornu, iv. 30; vi. 19, 25; vii. 26. (Cornu copiæ.)
Amazons, i. 15, 41; iii. 25; iv. 31; vi. 2.
Amber, native and otherwise, v. 12.
Ambraciotes, v. 23; x. 18.
Ammon, iii. 18, 21; iv. 14, 23; v. 15; vi. 8; viii. 11, 32; ix. 16;
x. 13.
Amphiaraus, i. 34; ii. 13, 23; ix. 8, 19.
Amphictyones, vii. 24; x. 2, 8, 15, 19.
Amphion and Zethus, sons of Antiope, ii. 6; ix. 5, 17; x. 32.
Amphion, ii. 21; vi. 20; ix. 5, 8, 16, 17.
Anacharsis, i. 22.
Anacreon of Teos, a friend of Polycrates, i. 2.
The first erotic poet after Sappho, i. 25.
Anaximenes, his ruse with Alexander the Great, &c., vi 18.
Ancæus, the son of Lycurgus, viii. 4, 45.
Androgeos, i. 1, 27.
Andromache, the wife of Hector, x. 25.
Androtion, vi. 7; x. 8.
Angelion and Tectæus, statuaries and pupils of Dipœnus and Scyllis,
ii. 32; ix. 35.
Antæus, ix. 11.
Antalcidas, Peace of, ix. 1, 13.
Antenor, x. 26, 27.
Anteros, i. 30; vi. 23.
Anticlea, the mother of Odysseus, x. 29.
Anticyra, famous for hellebore, originally called Cyparissus, x. 36.
Antigone, ix. 25.
Antimachus, the poet, viii. 25; ix. 35.
Antinous, viii. 9.
See also Adrian.
Antioch, the capital of Syria, viii. 29.
Antiochus, the pilot of Alcibiades, iii. 17; ix. 32.
Antiope, the Amazon, i. 2, 41.
Antiope, the mother of Zethus and Amphion, i. 38; ii. 6; ix. 17, 25;
x. 32.
Antiphanes, an Argive statuary, v. 17; x. 9.
Antipœnus, heroism of his daughters Androclea and Alcis, ix. 17.
Antonine, the Emperor, called by the Romans Pius, viii. 43.
His son and successor Antonine, viii. 43.
Anytus, one of the Titans, viii. 37.
Aphidna, i. 17, 41; ii. 22; iii. 17, 18.
Aphrodite, Anadyomene, ii. 1; v. 11.
Mother of Priapus, according to the people of Lampsacus, ix. 31.
The tutelary saint of the men of Cnidus, i. 1.
Ancient temple of her and Adonis in common in Cyprus, ix. 41.
Her clients, ii. 34; ix. 38.
Her statue by Dædalus, ix. 40.
The myrtle in connection with her, vi. 24.
The Celestial and Pandemian Aphrodite, vi. 25; ix. 16.
(The Latin _Venus_.)
Apis, the Egyptian god, i. 18; vii. 22.
Apollo, helps Alcathous, i. 42.
Herds the cattle of Laomedon, vii. 20.
Inventor of the lute, iii. 24; v. 14; viii. 31.
Jealous of Leucippus, viii. 20.
Jealous of Linus, ix. 29.
His altar in common with Hermes, v. 14.
See also Delphi.
Aratus of Soli, i. 2.
Aratus of Sicyon, ii. 8, 9; viii. 10, 52.
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