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
On the right of Tricoloni is a steep road to a spring called Wells,
as you descend about 30 stades you come to the tomb of Callisto, a
high mound of earth, with many trees growing wild, and some planted.
And on the top of this mound is a temple of Artemis called The Most
Beautiful, and I think when Pamphus in his verses called Artemis The
Most Beautiful he first learnt this epithet from the Arcadians. And
twenty-five stades further, 100 from Tricolonus in the direction of the
Helisson, on the high road to Methydrium, (which is the only town left
to Tricoloni), is a place called Anemosa and the mountain Phalanthum,
on which are ruins of a town of the same name, founded they say by
Phalanthus, the son of Agelaus, and grandson of Stymphelus. Above it
is a plain called Polus, and next to it is Schœnus, so called from the
Bœotian Schœneus. And if Schœneus was a stranger in Arcadia, Atalanta’s
Course near Schœnus may have taken its name from his daughter. And next
is a place called I think * * *, and all agree that this is Arcadian
soil.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Nothing now remains to be mentioned but Methydrium, which is 137 stades
from Tricoloni. It was called Methydrium, because the high hill on
which Orchomenus built the town was between the rivers Malœtas and
Mylaon, and, before it was included in Megalopolis, inhabitants of
Methydrium were victors at Olympia. There is at Methydrium a temple
of Poseidon Hippius near the river Mylaon. And the mountain called
Thaumasium lies above the river Malœtas, and the people of Methydrium
wish it to be believed that Rhea when she was pregnant with Zeus came
to this mountain, and got the protection of Hoplodamus and the other
Giants with him, in case Cronos should attack her. They admit that
Rhea bore Zeus on part of Mt Lycæeus, but they say that the cheating
of Cronos and the offering him a stone instead of the child, (a legend
universal amongst the Greeks), took place here. And on the top of the
mountain is Rhea’s Cave, and into it only women sacred to the goddess
may enter, nobody else.
About 30 stades from Methydrium is the well Nymphasia, and about
30 stades from Nymphasia is the joint boundary for the districts of
Megalopolis Orchomenus and Caphya.
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