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
Cosmosandalum, ii. 35.
Costoboci, x. 34.
Creon, i. 3; ix. 5, 10.
Cresphontes, son of Aristomachus, ii. 18; iv. 3, 5, 31; v. 3.
Marries the daughter of Cypselus, iv. 3; viii. 5, 29.
Crete, island of, iii. 2; vii. 2; viii. 38, 53.
Cretan bowmen, i. 23; iv. 8; vii. 16.
Crocodiles, i. 33; ii. 28; iv. 34.
Crœsus, iii. 10; iv. 5; viii. 24.
Cronos, (the Latin _Saturnus_,) i. 18; viii. 8, 36; ix. 2, 41; x. 24.
Crotonians, their tradition about Helen, iii. 19.
Milo a native of Croton, vi. 14.
Wolves numerous in the neighbourhood of Croton, vi. 14.
Crowns in the games, viii. 48.
Cuckoo and Hera, ii. 17.
Curetes, iv. 31, 33; v. 7; viii. 2, 37; x. 38.
Cybele, see the Dindymene Mother.
Cyclades, islands, i. 1; v. 21, 23.
Cyclopes, their buildings, ii. 16, 20, 25; vii. 25.
Cycnus, a Celtic king, tradition about, i. 30.
Cydias, his prowess against the Galati, x. 21.
Cydnus, a river that flows through the district of Tarsus, a cold
river, viii. 28.
Cynoscephalæ, battle of, vii. 8.
Cyprus, claims to be birth-place of Homer, x. 24.
Cypselus, his chest, v. 17, 18, 19.
Dædalus, the famous Athenian, son of Palamaon, why called Dædalus,
ix. 3.
A contemporary of Œdipus, x. 17.
Fled to Crete, why, i. 21; vii. 4; viii. 53.
His pupils, ii. 15; iii. 17; v. 25.
His works of art, i. 27; ii. 4; viii. 16, 35, 46; ix. 11, 39.
Dædalus of Sicyon, statuary also, vi. 2, 3, 6; x. 9.
Damophon, the best Messenian statuary, iv. 31; vii. 23; viii. 31, 37.
Danae, daughter of Acrisius and mother of Perseus, her brazen
chamber, ii. 23; x. 5. (Horace’s “turris aenea.”)
Danaus, how he became king of Argos, ii. 19.
His daughters’ savageness, ii. 16, 24; x. 10.
How he got them second husbands, iii. 12.
Daphne, and the crown of laurel in the Pythian games, x. 7.
Darius, the son of Hystaspes, iii. 4, 9, 12; vii. 10.
Decelea, iii. 8.
Delium, i. 29; ix. 6, 20; x. 28.
Delphi, x. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Delta, ii. 21; vi. 26.
Demaratus, a seven-month child, iii. 4, 7.
Demeter, (the Latin _Ceres_,) i. 14, 37, 39, 43; ii. 35; viii. 15,
25, 42.
See also Triptolemus.
Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, i. 6, 10, 25, 36; ix. 7.
Demo, the Sibyl of Cumæ, x. 12.
Democracies, none in Greece in old times, ix. 1.
No democracy that we know of but Athens ever rose to greatness,
iv. 35.
Remark on, i. 8.
Demosthenes, the son of Alcisthenes, i. 13, 29.
Demosthenes, the son of Demosthenes, i. 8; ii. 33.
Despœna, viii. 37.
See also Proserpine.
Deucalion, his flood, i. 18, 40; v. 8; x. 6.
Dicæarchia, iv. 35; viii. 7. (_Puteoli._)
Dice, vi. 24; vii. 25; x. 30.
Dindymene Mother, vii. 17, 20; viii. 46; ix. 25. (That is Cybele.)
Diocles, ii. 14.
Diomede, king of Thrace, iii. 18; v. 10.
Diomede, who led the Argives to Troy, i. 11, 28; ii. 30, 32; x. 31.
Runs off with the Palladium, i. 22.
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