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
Gods, the twelve, i. 3, 40; viii. 25.
Unknown gods, i. 1; v. 14.
Gorgias of Leontini, vi. 17; x. 18.
Gorgon, ii. 21.
See also Medusa.
Gorgus, the son of Aristomenes, iv. 19, 21, 23.
Graces, ix. 35.
Grasshoppers, idiosyncrasy of, vi. 6.
Greeks, apt to admire things out of their own country, ix. 36.
Numbers that fought against Xerxes and the Galati, x. 20.
Munificence of in their worship of the gods, v. 12.
Griffins, i. 24.
Gryllus, the son of Xenophon, i. 3; viii. 9, 11; ix. 15.
Gymnopædia, festival of, iii. 11.
Gythium, Lacedæmonian arsenal, i. 27; iii. 21; viii. 50.
Hair, shorn to river-gods, i. 37; viii. 41.
See also viii. 20.
Halirrhothius, i. 21, 28.
Hannibal, oracle about his death, viii. 11.
Happiness only intermittent, viii. 24.
Harmodius, i. 8, 29.
Harmosts, officers among the Lacedæmonians, ix. 6, 32.
Harpies, iii. 18; v. 17; x. 30.
Hebe, i. 19; ii. 13, 17; viii. 9.
Hecas, the seer, iv. 16, 21.
Hecatæus, the Milesian, iii. 25; iv. 2; viii. 4, 47.
Hecate, i. 43; ii. 22, 30.
Hecatomphonia, iv. 19.
Hector, son of Priam, iii. 18; v. 25; ix. 18; x. 31.
Hecuba, x. 12, 27.
He-goat, oracle about, iv. 20.
Helen, the famous, a woe to Europe and Asia, x. 12.
Tradition about, iii. 19.
Her maids, x. 25.
Oath taken about, iii. 20.
Helen, a Jewess, her tomb, viii. 16.
Helenus, son of Priam, i. 11; ii. 23; v. 22.
Helicon, a mountain in Bœotia, ix. 26, 27, 28, 29.
Hellas in Thessaly, gave name to the Hellenes, iii. 20.
Hellebore, x. 36, 37.
Helots, iii. 11, 20; iv. 23, 24; viii. 51.
Hephæstus, (the Latin _Vulcan_,) i. 20; ii. 31; iii. 17; viii. 53;
ix. 41.
Hera, (the Latin _Juno_,) i. 18; ii. 15; v. 16; vi. 24.
Story about her quarrel and reconciliation with Zeus, ix. 3.
Becomes a virgin again annually, ii. 38.
The cuckoo in connection with her, ii. 17.
The peacock sacred to her, ii. 17.
Heraclidæ, Return of the, ii. 13, 18; iii. 1; iv. 3.
Hercules, the Egyptian, x. 13.
Hercules, the son of Amphitryon, his Colonnade, vi. 23.
Hunts the Erymanthian boar, viii. 24.
Fights against the Amazons, v. 11, 25.
Relieves Atlas, v. 10, 11.
Brings up Cerberus from Hades, ii. 31, 35; iii. 25; ix. 34.
Cleans Elis, v. 1, 10; ix. 11.
Drives off the oxen of Geryon, iii. 16, 18; iv. 36; v. 19.
Overcomes the Nemean lion, iii. 18; v. 11; vi. 5; viii. 13.
Has an eating contest with Lepreus, v. 5.
First accounted a god by the people of Marathon, i. 15, 32.
Taken to heaven by Athene, iii. 18, 19.
Kills Nessus, iii. 18.
Introduces into Greece the white poplar, v. 14.
Liberates Prometheus, v. 10.
His club, ii. 31.
His Labours, iii. 17; v. 10, 26.
Hercules, the Idæan, v. 7, 13; ix. 27.
Heredity, i. 6; viii. 5, 13.
Hermæ, i. 17, 24; iv. 33; viii. 39; x. 12.
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