Pausanias Analysis

Current sentence-level mythic, historical, and other tags

Chapter 10.11

PassageSentenceBucketConfidenceGreekEnglishRationale
10.11.1 1 other high πλησίον δὲ τοῦ ἀναθήματος τοῦ Ταραντίνων Σικυωνίων ἐστὶ θησαυρός· Near the offering of the Tarentines is the treasury of the Sicyonians. Purely topographical/descriptive location of a treasury near an offering; no mythic or historical event.
10.11.1 2 other high χρήματα δὲ οὔτε ἐνταῦθα ἴδοις ἂν οὔτε ἐν ἄλλῳ τῶν θησαυρῶν. Yet here, as indeed in all of the treasuries, you will not find money. A descriptive statement about the contents of treasuries; no mythic or historical event.
10.11.1 3 mythic high Κνίδιοι δὲ ἐκόμισαν ἀγάλματα ἐς Δελφοὺς Τριόπαν οἰκιστὴν τῆς Κνίδου παρεστῶτα ἵππῳ καὶ Λητὼ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνά τε καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἀφιέντας τῶν βελῶν ἐπὶ Τιτυόν· The Cnidians brought statues to Delphi depicting Triopas, the founder of Cnidus, standing beside a horse, and Leto, Apollo, and Artemis shooting arrows at Tityos. The sentence describes mythic figures and scenes: Triopas as founder and Apollo, Artemis, and Leto shooting at Tityos.
10.11.1 4 other high ὁ δὲ καὶ τετρωμένος ἐστὶν ἤδη τὸ σῶμα. The latter already appears wounded in his body. Describes a physical state without identifying a mythic or historical event.
10.11.2 1 other high ταῦτα ἕστηκε παρὰ τὸν Σικυωνίων θησαυρόν· These stand next to the treasury of the Sicyonians. Purely locational description identifying where the objects stand beside the Sicyonian treasury.
10.11.2 2 historical medium ἐποιήθη δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ Σιφνίων ἐπὶ αἰτίᾳ τοιᾷδε θησαυρός. The treasury of the Siphnians also was built for the following reason. Introduces a treasury built by the Siphnians for a stated reason; this is an antiquarian/historical monument, not a mythic event.
10.11.2 3 mythic high Σιφνίοις ἡ νῆσος χρυσοῦ μέταλλα ἤνεγκε, καὶ αὐτοὺς τῶν προσιόντων ἐκέλευσεν ὁ θεὸς ἀποφέρειν δεκάτην ἐς Δελφούς· The island itself had yielded gold mines to the Siphnians, and the god commanded them to pay a tenth of their revenues to Delphi. The sentence attributes the island's gold mines and a divine command to Delphi to a god, which is mythic/legendary causation affecting the landscape.
10.11.2 4 historical medium οἱ δὲ τὸν θησαυρὸν ᾠκοδομήσαντο καὶ ἀπέφερον τὴν δεκάτην. So, they built a treasury and delivered the tenth part. Building a treasury and paying a tenth are cultic/historical acts, not mythic narrative.
10.11.2 5 mythic medium ὡς δὲ ὑπὸ ἀπληστίας ἐξέλιπον τὴν φοράν, ἐπικλύσασα ἡ θάλασσα ἀφανῆ τὰ μέταλλά σφισιν ἐποίησεν. However, when out of greed they ceased paying, the sea rose and submerged their mines, making them utterly inaccessible. A mythic causal response of the sea submerging mines is presented as landscape change caused by impiety/greed.
10.11.3 1 historical high ἀνέθεσαν δὲ καὶ ἀνδριάντας Λιπαραῖοι ναυμαχίᾳ κρατήσαντες Τυρρηνῶν. The Lipareans also dedicated statues after winning a naval battle against the Tyrrhenians. A naval victory by the Lipareans over the Tyrrhenians is a historical event and the dedication of statues follows that historical battle.
10.11.3 2 other high οἱ δὲ Λιπαραῖοι οὗτοι Κνιδίων μὲν ἦσαν ἄποικοι, τῆς δὲ ἀποικίας ἡγεμόνα γενέσθαι φασὶν ἄνδρα Κνίδιον· These Lipareans were colonists from Cnidus, and they say that a Cnidian man became the leader of the colony. Colonial origin notice and founder attribution; antiquarian/geographical, not mythic or post-500 BC historical event.
10.11.3 3 other high ὄνομα δὲ εἶναί οἱ Πένταθλον Ἀντίοχος ὁ Ξενοφάνους Συρακούσιος ἐν τῇ Σικελιώτιδι συγγραφῇ φησι. According to Antiochus, son of Xenophanes, a Syracusan, in his History of Sicily, this man’s name was Pentathlos. A source citation about a person's name; antiquarian and non-narrative rather than mythic or historical event.
10.11.3 4 historical medium λέγει δὲ καὶ ὡς ἐπὶ Παχύνῳ τῇ ἄκρᾳ τῇ ἐν Σικελίᾳ κτίσαντες πόλιν αὐτοὶ μὲν ἐκπίπτουσιν ὑπὸ Ἐλύμων καὶ Φοινίκων πολέμῳ πιεσθέντες, Antiochus also says that after founding a city upon Cape Pachynos in Sicily, the colonists were driven out by the Elymians and Phoenicians following their defeat in war. A colony’s founding and later expulsion by named peoples is treated as historical, even if the report is attributed to Antiochus.
10.11.3 5 mythic high τὰς νήσους δὲ ἔσχον ἐρήμους ἔτι ἢ ἀναστήσαντες τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας, ἃς καὶ κατὰ τὰ τὰ ἔπη τὰ Ὁμήρεια Αἰόλου καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι ὀνομάζουσι. Thus, they occupied the islands that were still uninhabited or expelled their previous inhabitants; these islands are called, even up to our own time, the islands of Aeolus according to the Homeric poems. Refers to Aeolus and Homeric poems, grounding the place-name in mythic tradition rather than historical events.
10.11.4 1 historical high τούτων Λιπάραν μὲν κτίσαντες πόλιν ἐνταῦθα οἰκοῦσιν, Ἱέραν δὲ καὶ Στρογγύλην καὶ Διδύμας γεωργοῦσι διαβαίνοντες ναυσὶν ἐς αὐτάς. After founding a city on Lipara, they now dwell there, while they cultivate Hiera, Strongyle, and Didyma by sailing over to them in ships. Describes settlement and agricultural use of islands, a post-mythic landscape result of human colonization.
10.11.4 2 other high ἐν δὲ τῇ Στρογγύλῃ καὶ πῦρ δῆλόν ἐστιν ἀνιὸν ἐκ τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐν Ἱέρᾳ δὲ πῦρ τε αὐτόματον ἐπὶ ἄκρας ἀνακαίεται τῆς νήσου καὶ ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ λουτρά ἐστιν ἐπιτήδεια, εἰ δέξεταί σε ἠπίως τὸ ὕδωρ, ἐπεὶ ἄλλως γε χαλεπὸν ὑπὸ ζεστότητός ἐστιν ἐμβαίνεσθαι. On Strongyle there is clearly visible a fire which rises up from the earth; and on Hiera an automatic fire blazes forth on the summit of the island, where by the sea there are baths suitable for bathing, provided the water accepts you gently, as otherwise it is difficult to enter because of its heat. Describes volcanic fire, baths, and landscape features of the islands; purely geographical/descriptive, not mythic or historical.
10.11.5 1 historical high οἱ δὲ θησαυροὶ Θηβαίων ἀπὸ ἔργου τῶν ἐς πόλεμον, καὶ Ἀθηναίων ἐστὶν ὡσαύτως· The treasuries of the Thebans were constructed from the spoils of war, and the Athenians' likewise. Treasuries built from spoils of war refer to historical dedications and their landscape impact, not mythic narrative.
10.11.5 2 historical high Κνιδίους δὲ οὐκ οἶδα εἰ ἐπὶ νίκῃ τινὶ ἢ ἐς ἐπίδειξιν εὐδαιμονίας ᾠκοδομήσαντο, ἐπεὶ Θηβαίοις γε ἀπὸ ἔργου τοῦ ἐν Λεύκτροις καὶ Ἀθηναίοις ἀπὸ τῶν ἐς Μαραθῶνα ἀποβάντων ὁμοῦ Δάτιδί εἰσιν οἱ θησαυροί. As for the Cnidians, I do not know whether they built theirs on account of some victory or merely as a demonstration of their prosperity, for the Thebans certainly made theirs from the spoils of the battle at Leuctra, and the Athenians founded theirs from the victory at Marathon over the forces of Datis. Refers to the historical battles of Leuctra and Marathon and the dedications made from their spoils.
10.11.5 3 historical high Κλεωναῖοι δὲ ἐπιέσθησαν μὲν κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ Ἀθηναίοις ὑπὸ νόσου τῆς λοιμώδους, κατὰ δὲ μάντευμα ἐκ Δελφῶν ἔθυσαν τράγον ἀνίσχοντι ἔτι τῷ ἡλίῳ, καὶ---εὕραντο γὰρ λύσιν τοῦ κακοῦ---τράγον χαλκοῦν ἀποπέμπουσι τᾷ Ἀπόλλωνι. The Cleonaeans were afflicted at the same time as the Athenians by an epidemic plague; by an oracle from Delphi they sacrificed a goat while the sun was still rising and, having thus discovered a cure for their misfortune, they sent as a dedication to Apollo a bronze goat. Refers to an epidemic plague and a Delphic oracle in the historical period, not a mythic event.
10.11.5 4 historical high Ποτιδαιατῶν δὲ τῶν ἐν Θρᾴκῃ καὶ Συρακουσίων, τῶν μέν ἐστιν ὁ θησαυρὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀττικοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου πταίσματος, Ποτιδαιᾶται δὲ εὐσεβείας τῆς ἐς τὸν θεὸν ἐποίησαν. Of the Potidaeans in Thrace and the Syracusans, the Syracusans' treasury comes from the great Athenian disaster, while the Potidaeans established theirs out of piety to the god. Refers to the Syracusans' treasury arising from the Athenian disaster, a post-500 BC historical event.
10.11.6 1 historical high ᾠκοδόμησαν δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι στοὰν ἀπὸ χρημάτων ἃ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ σφίσιν ἐγένετο ἀπό τε Πελοποννησίων καὶ ὅσαι Πελοποννησίοις ἦσαν τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ σύμμαχοι. The Athenians also built a stoa with the funds they acquired in the war from the Peloponnesians and from those allies of the Peloponnesians among the Hellenic states. Refers to a stoa built by the Athenians with money gained in the Peloponnesian War, a post-500 BC historical event.
10.11.6 2 other high ἀνάκειται δὲ καὶ πλοίων τὰ ἄκρα κοσμήματα καὶ ἀσπίδες χαλκαῖ· There are set up there the figureheads of ships and bronze shields. Describes votive/display objects set up in a place, not a mythic or historical event.
10.11.6 3 historical high τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς ἀριθμεῖ τὰς πόλεις ἀφʼ ὧν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὰ ἀκροθίνια ἀπέστειλαν, τήν τε Ἠλείων καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων Σικυῶνά τε καὶ Μέγαρα καὶ Πελληνέας Ἀχαιῶν Ἀμβρακίαν τε καὶ Λευκάδα καὶ αὐτὴν Κόρινθον· The inscription upon these enumerates the cities from which the Athenians sent the spoils of their victory: the city of Elis and of the Lacedaemonians, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene of the Achaeans, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. The sentence refers to an inscription listing cities from which the Athenians sent spoils of victory, a post-mythic historical commemorative detail.
10.11.6 4 historical high γενέσθαι δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ναυμαχιῶν τούτων καὶ θυσίαν Θησεῖ καὶ τῷ Ποσειδῶνι ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνομαζομένῳ Ῥίῳ. Furthermore, because of these naval victories, a sacrifice was instituted to Theseus and to Poseidon at the place called Rhion. Instituted sacrifice because of naval victories is a post-Myth historical practice and its cultic impact on the place is tied to historical events.
10.11.6 5 historical high καί μοι φαίνεται τὸ ἐπίγραμμα ἐς Φορμίωνα τὸν Ἀσωπίχου ἔχειν καὶ ἐς τοῦ Φορμίωνος τὰ ἔργα. And it seems to me that the inscription also refers to Phormio, son of Asopichus, and to the deeds accomplished by this Phormio. Refers to Phormio and his deeds, a historical figure/event context rather than mythic material.