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
And after the death of Nyctimus Arcas the son of Callisto succeeded
him in the kingdom. And he introduced sowing corn being taught by
Triptolemus, and showed his people how to make bread, and to weave
garments and other things, having learnt spinning from Adristas. And in
his reign the country was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia, and the
inhabitants were called Arcadians instead of Pelasgi. And they say he
mated with no mortal woman but with a Dryad Nymph. For the Nymphs used
to be called Dryades, and Epimeliades, and sometimes Naiades, Homer in
his poems mainly mentions them as Naiades.[22] The name of this Nymph
was Erato, and they say Arcas had by her Azan and Aphidas and Elatus:
he had had a bastard son Autolaus still earlier. And when they grew up
Arcas divided the country among his 3 legitimate sons, Azania took its
name from Azan, and they are said to be colonists from Azania who dwell
near the cave in Phrygia called Steunos and by the river Pencala. And
Aphidas got Tegea and the neighbouring country, and so the poets call
Tegea the lot of Aphidas. And Elatus had Mount Cyllene, which had no
name then, and afterwards he migrated into what is now called Phocis,
and aided the Phocians who were pressed hard in war by the Phlegyes,
and built the city Elatea. And Azan had a son Clitor, and Aphidas had
a son called Aleus, and Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and
Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus. And when Azan died funeral games
were first established, I don’t know whether any other but certainly
horseraces. And Clitor the son of Azan lived at Lycosora, and was
the most powerful of the kings, and built the city which he called
Clitor after his own name. And Aleus inherited his father’s share. And
Mount Cyllene got its name from Cyllen, and from Stymphelus the well
and city by the well were both called Stymphelus. The circumstances
attending the death of Ischys, the son of Elatus, I have already given
in my account of Argolis. And Pereus had no male offspring but only a
daughter Neæra, who married Autolycus, who dwelt on Mount Parnassus,
and was reputed to be the son of Hermes, but was really the son of
Dædalion.
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