Current sentence-level mythic, historical, and other tags
| Passage | Sentence | Bucket | Confidence | Greek | English | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6.1 | 1 | historical | low | τούτῳ μὲν ἐνταῦθα ἐγένετο ἡ τελευτή· | This man ended his life in this place. | A death at a specific place is a local historical notice rather than mythic or purely descriptive. |
| 6.6.1 | 2 | other | high | ἐν δὲ Ὀλυμπίᾳ παρὰ τοῦ Πουλυδάμαντος τὸν ἀνδριάντα δύο τε ἐκ τῆς Ἀρκάδων καὶ Ἀττικὸς ὁ τρίτος ἕστηκεν ἀθλητής. | At Olympia, next to the statue of Polydamas, there stand statues of two Arcadian athletes and a third from Attica. | A topographical description of statues at Olympia, with no mythic or post-500 BC historical event narrated. |
| 6.6.1 | 3 | other | high | τὸν μὲν δὴ Μαντινέα Πρωτόλαον Διαλκοῦς πυγμῇ παῖδας κρατήσαντα ὁ Ῥηγῖνος Πυθαγόρας , Ναρυκίδαν δὲ τὸν Δαμαρέτου παλαιστὴν ἄνδρα ἐκ Φιγαλίας Σικυώνιος Δαίδαλος , Καλλίᾳ δὲ Ἀθηναίῳ παγκρατιαστῇ τὸν ἀνδριάντα ἀνὴρ Ἀθηναῖος Μίκων ἐποίησεν ὁ ζωγράφος. | Pythagoras of Rhegium made the statue of Protolaus, son of Dialkes, a victor from Mantinea who won in boys' boxing; Daedalus of Sicyon made that of Narykidas, son of Damaretus, a wrestler from Phigalia; and Micon, the painter, an Athenian, was the maker of the statue of Callias of Athens, a victor in pankration. | Lists sculptors and athletic victors with no mythic or post-500 BC historical event. |
| 6.6.1 | 4 | historical | high | Νικοδάμου δὲ ἔργον τοῦ Μαιναλίου παγκρατιαστής ἐστιν ἐκ Μαινάλου, δύο νίκας ἐν ἀνδράσιν ἀνελόμενος, Ἀνδροσθένης Λοχαίου. | The statue of Androsthenes, son of Lochaios, a native of Maenalus who won twice in men's pankration competitions, is the work of Nicodamus of Maenalus. | Mentions a named athlete and statue base with athletic victories; an archaic/historical dedication rather than myth. |
| 6.6.2 | 1 | historical | high | ἐπὶ δὲ τούτοις Εὐκλῆς ἀνάκειται Καλλιάνακτος, γένος μὲν Ῥόδιος, οἴκου δὲ τοῦ Διαγοριδῷν· θυγατρὸς γὰρ Διαγόρου παῖς ἦν, ἐν δὲ ἀνδράσι πυγμῆς ἔσχεν Ὀλυμπικὴν νίκην. | After these stands Eukles, the son of Kallianax; he was by birth a Rhodian, from the family of the Diagoridae; for he was the son of a daughter of Diagoras, and won an Olympic victory in boxing among the men. | Refers to an Olympic victor and family genealogy, a post-mythic historical/antiquarian notice. |
| 6.6.2 | 2 | other | high | τούτου μὲν δὴ ἡ εἰκὼν Ναυκύδους ἐστὶν ἔργον· Πολύκλειτος δὲ Ἀργεῖος, οὐχ ὁ τῆς Ἥρας τὸ ἄγαλμα ποιήσας, μαθητὴς δὲ Ναυκύδους, παλαιστὴν παῖδα εἰργάσατο Θηβαῖον Ἀγήνορα. | The statue of Eukles is the work of Naucydes. | Purely antiquarian/art-historical identification of a statue and its maker; no mythic or historical event. |
| 6.6.2 | 3 | historical | medium | ἀνετέθη δὲ ἡ εἰκὼν ὑπὸ τοῦ Φωκέων κοινοῦ· Θεόπομπος γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Ἀγήνορος πρόξενος τοῦ ἔθνους ἦν αὐτῶν. | The Argive Polycleitus—not the one who made the image of Hera, but a pupil of Naucydes—created the statue of Agenor, a young wrestler from Thebes. | Refers to a dedicatory statue and named historical persons/office-holding, not mythic narrative. |
| 6.6.3 | 1 | historical | high | Νικόδαμος δὲ ὁ πλάστης ὁ ἐκ Μαινάλου Δαμοξενίδαν ἄνδρα πύκτην ἐποίησεν ἐκ Μαινάλου. | Nicodamus, the sculptor from Maenalus, made a statue representing Damoxenidas, a boxer, who was also from Maenalus. | Records a named sculptor making a statue of a boxer; this is an antiquarian/historical notice about a real person, not myth. |
| 6.6.3 | 2 | historical | high | ἕστηκε δὲ καὶ Λαστρατίδα παιδὸς εἰκὼν Ἠλείου, πάλης ἀνελομένου στέφανον· | There also stands a statue of Lastratidas, a boy from Elis, who won the crown in wrestling. | Records a named athletic victor and his statue, an historical/antiquarian notice. |
| 6.6.3 | 3 | historical | high | ἐγένετο δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ Νεμείων ἔν τε παισὶ καὶ ἀγενείων ἑτέρα νίκη. | He moreover achieved another victory at Nemea, both as a boy and later as a youth (agenios). | Refers to athletic victories at Nemea, a historical contest result rather than mythic narrative. |
| 6.6.3 | 4 | historical | high | Παραβάλλοντι δὲ τῷ Λαστρατίδα πατρὶ ὑπῆρξε μὲν διαύλου παρελθεῖν δρόμῳ, ὑπελίπετο δὲ καὶ ἐς τοὺς ἔπειτα φιλοτιμίαν, τῶν νικησάντων Ὀλυμπίασι τὰ ὀνόματα ἀναγράψας ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ τῷ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ. | His father, Paraballon, attained victory in the diaulos running race, and he further demonstrated his ambition toward subsequent generations by inscribing in the gymnasium at Olympia the names of those who won victories at Olympia. | Refers to Olympic victors and an inscribed record at Olympia, a historical/antiquarian act rather than myth or geography. |
| 6.6.4 | 1 | other | high | τὰ μὲν δὴ ἐς τούτους εἶχεν οὕτω· | Thus were the matters concerning these figures. | Summative transition referring to prior figures; purely narrative/descriptive, not mythic or historical event. |
| 6.6.4 | 2 | historical | high | τὰ δὲ ἐς Εὔθυμον τὸν πύκτην, οὔ με εἰκὸς ὑπερβαίνειν ἦν τὰ ἐς τὰς νίκας αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ ἐς δόξαν ὑπάρχοντα τὴν ἄλλην. | As for Euthymus the boxer, I ought not omit the mention of his victories and his overall renown. | Euthymus is an Olympic boxer; his victories and fame are historical, not mythic. |
| 6.6.4 | 3 | other | high | γένος μὲν δὴ ἦν ὁ Εὔθυμος ἐκ τῶν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ Λοκρῶν, οἳ χώραν τὴν πρὸς τῷ Ζεφυρίῳ τῇ ἄκρᾳ νέμονται, πατρὸς δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἀστυκλέους· | Euthymus was, by origin, from the Locrians in Italy, who dwell in the region near the promontory called Zephyrium. | Gives Euthymus’ origin and the location of the Locrians near Zephyrium; purely geographical/antiquarian. |
| 6.6.4 | 4 | mythic | high | εἶναι δὲ αὐτὸν οὐ τούτου, ποταμοῦ δὲ οἱ ἐπιχώριοι τοῦ Καικίνου φασίν, ὃς τὴν Λοκρίδα καὶ Ῥηγίνην ὁρίζων τὸ ἐς τοὺς τέττιγας παρέχεται θαῦμα. | Though his father was named Astycles, according to local tradition Euthymus was not really his son; rather, he was said to be the son of the river Caecinus, which marks the boundary between Locri and Rhegium and presents a singular marvel concerning cicadas. | The sentence gives a local mythic genealogy for Euthymus as son of the river Caecinus, with the river's marvel as part of the mythic landscape. |
| 6.6.4 | 5 | other | high | οἱ μὲν γὰρ τέττιγες οἱ ἐντὸς τῆς Λοκρίδος ἄχρι τοῦ Καικίνου κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις τέττιξιν ᾄδουσι· | For on the Locrian side of the Caecinus, the cicadas sing just like other cicadas. | Purely geographical/natural description of cicadas along the Locrian side of the Caecinus. |
| 6.6.4 | 6 | other | high | διαβάντων δὲ τὸν Καικίνην οὐδεμίαν ἔτι οἱ ἐν τῇ Ῥηγίνῃ τέττιγες ἀφιᾶσι τὴν φωνήν. | yet when one crosses this river into the territory of Rhegium, the cicadas there no longer produce voice of any kind. | Purely geographical/descriptive observation about cicadas and the boundary of Rhegium; no mythic or historical event. |
| 6.6.5 | 1 | other | high | τούτου μὲν δὴ παῖδα εἶναι λέγεται τὸν Εὔθυμον· | It is said that Euthymus was the son of this man. | A genealogical statement identifying Euthymus as someone's son; this is antiquarian/biographical rather than mythic or historical event. |
| 6.6.5 | 2 | historical | high | ἀνελομένῳ δέ οἱ πυγμῆς ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ νίκην τετάρτῃ πρὸς ταῖς ἑβδομήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι οὐ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν Ὀλυμπιάδα ἔμελλε χωρήσειν· | When he had won the boxing victory at Olympia in the seventy-fourth Olympiad, he was not destined to gain victory again at the next Olympiad. | Mentions an Olympic victory in a specific Olympiad, a post-archaic athletic event, not mythic or geographical. |
| 6.6.5 | 3 | historical | high | Θεαγένης γὰρ ὁ Θάσιος Ὀλυμπιάδι ἐθέλων τῇ αὐτῇ πυγμῆς τε ἀνελέσθαι καὶ παγκρατίου νίκας ὑπερεβάλετο πυκτεύων τὸν Εὔθυμον, οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ ὁ Θεαγένης ἐπὶ τῷ παγκρατίῳ λαβεῖν ἐδυνήθη τὸν κότινον ἅτε προκατεργασθεὶς τῇ μάχῃ πρὸς τὸν Εὔθυμον. | For Theagenes of Thasos, desiring in the same Olympiad to achieve victories in both boxing and the pankration, overcame Euthymus in boxing. | Refers to Olympic athlete Theagenes of Thasos and his victory over Euthymus, an athletic/historical episode rather than mythic or purely descriptive. |
| 6.6.6 | 1 | historical | high | ἐπὶ τούτῳ δὲ ἐπιβάλλουσιν οἱ Ἑλλανοδίκαι τῷ Θεαγένει τάλαντον μὲν ἱερὰν ἐς τὸν θεὸν ζημίαν, τάλαντον δὲ βλάβης τῆς ἐς Εὔθυμον, ὅτι ἐπηρείᾳ τῇ ἐς ἐκεῖνον ἐδόκει σφίσιν ἐπανελέσθαι τὸ ἀγώνισμα τῆς πυγμῆς· | For this reason the Eleans imposed upon Theagenes a sacred fine of one talent payable to the god, and another talent as compensation for damages to Euthymus, because they judged that he regained the boxing prize by deliberately injuring his opponent. | Refers to the Eleans' award of fines in an athletic dispute, a post-mythic institutional/legal event. |
| 6.6.6 | 2 | historical | high | τούτων ἕνεκα καταδικάζουσιν αὐτὸν ἐκτῖσαι καὶ ἰδίᾳ τῷ Εὐθύμῳ χρήματα. | Accordingly they condemned him to pay the money to Euthymus privately as well. | A legal condemnation and payment of money is a post-mythic historical matter. |
| 6.6.6 | 3 | historical | high | ἕκτῃ δὲ Ὀλυμπιάδι ἐπὶ ταῖς ἑβδομήκοντα τὸ μὲν τῷ θεῷ τοῦ ἀργυρίου γινόμενον ἐξέτισεν ὁ Θεαγένης, καὶ ἀμειβόμενος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐσῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν πυγμήν· | At the seventy-sixth Olympiad Theagenes paid the fine due to the god, but in resentment refused to enter the boxing contest. | Dated to the seventy-sixth Olympiad and describes Theagenes' athletic conduct, a post-500 BC historical notice. |
| 6.6.6 | 4 | historical | high | καὶ ἐπʼ ἐκείνης τε αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς μετʼ ἐκείνην Ὀλυμπιάδος τὸν ἐπὶ πυγμῇ στέφανον ἀνείλετο ὁ Εὔθυμος. | Thus Euthymus won the crown for boxing both at this Olympiad itself and at the succeeding one. | Refers to Olympic victories of Euthymus, an historical athletic event. |
| 6.6.6 | 5 | other | high | ὁ δέ οἱ ἀνδριὰς τέχνη τέ ἐστι Πυθαγόρου καὶ θέας ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἄξιος. | Euthymus' statue is the work of Pythagoras and is most worthy of being seen. | Purely descriptive note about a statue and its artist; no mythic or historical event. |
| 6.6.7 | 1 | mythic | medium | ἐπανήκων δὲ ἐς Ἰταλίαν τότε δὴ ἐμαχέσατο πρὸς τὸν Ἥρω· | Returning again to Italy, he then fought against the Hero. | Mentions a fight against a named Hero, which points to a mythic episode rather than a historical event. |
| 6.6.7 | 2 | other | high | τὰ δὲ ἐς αὐτὸν εἶχεν οὕτως. | The circumstances concerning him were as follows. | A general transitional sentence introducing ensuing circumstances; it is descriptive rather than mythic or historical. |
| 6.6.7 | 3 | mythic | high | Ὀδυσσέα πλανώμενον μετὰ ἅλωσιν τὴν Ἰλίου κατενεχθῆναί φασιν ὑπὸ ἀνέμων ἔς τε ἄλλας τῶν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ Σικελίᾳ πόλεων, ἀφικέσθαι δὲ καὶ ἐς Τεμέσαν ὁμοῦ ταῖς ναυσί· | They say that Odysseus, wandering after the fall of Troy, was driven by winds to various cities both in Italy and Sicily, and came also to Temesa together with his ships. | Odysseus' post-Troy wandering is a mythic event and its travel to Temesa belongs to mythic geography. |
| 6.6.7 | 4 | other | high | μεθυσθέντα οὖν ἐνταῦθα ἕνα τῶν ναυτῶν παρθένον βιάσασθαι καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἀντὶ τούτου καταλευσθῆναι τοῦ ἀδικήματος. | Here, one of his sailors, becoming intoxicated, seized and assaulted a maiden, and on account of this crime was stoned to death by the local inhabitants. | Describes a local incident and punishment, not a mythic or clearly historical civic event. |
| 6.6.8 | 1 | mythic | high | Ὀδυσσέα μὲν δὴ ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ θέμενον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀπώλειαν ἀποπλέοντα οἴχεσθαι. | Odysseus, holding his companion's loss as of no account, sailed away without concern. | Odysseus is a mythic hero, and the sentence narrates an episode from heroic myth. |
| 6.6.8 | 2 | mythic | high | τοῦ καταλευσθέντος δὲ ἀνθρώπου τὸν δαίμονα οὐδένα ἀνιέναι καιρὸν ἀποκτείνοντά τε ὁμοίως τοὺς ἐν τῇ Τεμέσῃ καὶ ἐπεξερχόμενον ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἡλικίαν, ἐς ὃ ἡ Πυθία τὸ παράπαν ἐξ Ἰταλίας ὡρμημένους φεύγειν Τεμέσαν μὲν ἐκλιπεῖν οὐκ εἴα, τὸν δὲ Ἥρω σφᾶς ἐκέλευσεν ἱλάσκεσθαι τέμενός τε ἀποτεμομένους οἰκοδομήσασθαι ναόν. | But the spirit of the slain man gave the people no rest, destroying indiscriminately the townsfolk of Temesa and setting upon inhabitants of every age, until finally the Pythian oracle forbade the people, though greatly desiring to flee Italy altogether, to abandon Temesa entirely, and instead commanded that they propitiate the Hero by consecrating to him a precinct and building him a temple. | Describes a ghostly spirit, a Pythian oracle, and the foundation of a hero cult and temple, all mythic etiological material. |
| 6.6.8 | 3 | mythic | high | διδόναι δὲ κατὰ ἔτος αὐτῷ γυναῖκα τῶν ἐν Τεμέσῃ παρθένων τὴν καλλίστην. | Furthermore, they were instructed each year to give him as a wife the fairest maiden among the daughters of Temesa. | Annual sacrifice of a maiden to a supernatural figure is a mythic narrative element. |
| 6.6.9 | 1 | mythic | medium | τοῖς μὲν δὴ τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ προστεταγμένα ὑπουργοῦσι δεῖμα ἀπὸ τοῦ δαίμονος ἐς τἄλλα ἦν οὐδέν· | For those who carried out the commands imposed by the god, there was nothing further to fear from the spirit. | Mentions a god and a daimon; this is framed as divine/mantic causation rather than historical narrative or simple description. |
| 6.6.9 | 2 | mythic | high | Εὔθυμος δὲ--- ἀφίκετο γὰρ ἐς τὴν Τεμέσαν, καί πως τηνικαῦτα τὸ ἔθος ἐποιεῖτο τῷ δαίμονι---πυνθάνεται τὰ παρόντα σφίσι, καὶ ἐσελθεῖν τε ἐπεθύμησεν ἐς τὸν ναὸν καὶ τὴν παρθένον ἐσελθὼν θεάσασθαι. | Now Euthymus—for he had come to Temesa at precisely the time when they were performing their customary rites for the demon—learned upon his arrival of their present situation, and wished to enter the shrine and to see the maiden once he had gone in. | Refers to Euthymus arriving at Temesa during rites for a demon and seeking the maiden in the shrine, a mythic episode. |
| 6.6.9 | 3 | mythic | high | ὡς δὲ εἶδε, τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἐς οἶκτον, δεύτερα δὲ ἀφίκετο καὶ ἐς ἔρωτα αὐτῆς· | On beholding her, at first he felt pity, but afterward he came to love her as well; and the girl herself swore an oath that she would marry him if he saved her. | The sentence continues a mythic rescue-and-marriage episode involving emotional development in a legendary narrative. |
| 6.6.9 | 4 | mythic | high | καὶ ἡ παῖς τε συνοικήσειν κατώμνυτο αὐτῷ σώσαντι αὐτὴν καὶ ὁ Εὔθυμος ἐνεσκευασμένος ἔμενε τὴν ἔφοδον τοῦ δαίμονος. | Euthymus, having armed himself, awaited the arrival of the demon. | The sentence describes Euthymus awaiting a demon, a mythic/supernatural event. |
| 6.6.10 | 1 | mythic | high | ἐνίκα τε δὴ τῇ μάχῃ καὶ ---ἐξηλαύνετο γὰρ ἐκ τῆς γῆς---ὁ Ἥρως ἀφανίζεταί τε καταδὺς ἐς θάλασσαν καὶ γάμος τε ἐπιφανὴς Εὐθύμῳ καὶ ἀνθρώποις τοῖς ἐνταῦθα ἐλευθερία τοῦ λοιποῦ σφισιν ἦν ἀπὸ τοῦ δαίμονος. | Indeed he was victorious in the fight, and—the Hero was driven out from the land—he disappeared, plunging into the sea; after this a celebrated marriage came to Euthymus, and henceforth the inhabitants of that place had freedom from the daemon. | The sentence describes a Hero, his disappearance into the sea, a celebrated marriage, and liberation from a daemon—mythic events and their effects on the locale. |
| 6.6.10 | 2 | historical | high | ἤκουσα δὲ καὶ τοιόνδε ἔτι ἐς τὸν Εὔθυμον, ὡς γήρως τε ἐπὶ μακρότατον ἀφίκοιτο καὶ ὡς ἀποθανεῖν ἐκφυγὼν αὖθις ἕτερόν τινα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἄλλον ἀπέλθοι τρόπον· | And I heard also this further account concerning Euthymus: that he lived to a most advanced old age, and having escaped death, departed from mankind in a different manner. | Reports Euthymus’ lifespan and death; this is biographical/historical rather than mythic or geographic. |
| 6.6.10 | 3 | historical | high | οἰκεῖσθαι δὲ τὴν Τεμέσαν καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ ἀνδρὸς ἤκουσα πλεύσαντος κατὰ ἐμπορίαν. | And I heard from a merchant who sailed there that Temesa was inhabited even in my own time. | Refers to Temesa being inhabited in Pausanias' own time, i.e. a contemporary historical condition. |
| 6.6.11 | 1 | other | high | τόδε μὲν ἤκουσα, γραφῇ δὲ τοιάδε ἐπιτυχὼν οἶδα· | This indeed I heard; but I also know, because I came upon such a picture. | Reports hearing and seeing a picture; this is source commentary, not mythic or historical ঘটনা. |
| 6.6.11 | 2 | other | high | ἦν δὲ αὕτη γραφῆς μίμημα ἀρχαίας. | And this was evidently a copy of an ancient painting. | Describes a painting as a copy of an ancient work; this is antiquarian/art-historical description, not a mythic event or post-500 BC historical event. |
| 6.6.11 | 3 | mythic | high | νεανίσκος Σύβαρις καὶ Κάλαβρός τε ποταμὸς καὶ Λύκα πηγή, πρὸς δὲ ἡρῷόν τε καὶ Τεμέσα ἦν ἡ πόλις, ἐν δέ σφισι καὶ δαίμων ὅντινα ἐξέβαλεν ὁ Εὔθυμος, χρόαν τε δεινῶς μέλας καὶ τὸ εἶδος ἅπαν ἐς τὰ μάλιστα φοβερός, λύκου δὲ ἀμπίσχετο δέρμα ἐσθῆτα· | In it was depicted a young man named Sybaris, a river named Calabrus, and a spring called Lyca. | The sentence names mythic figures and a daimon associated with Euthymus, reflecting legendary rather than historical or merely descriptive material. |
| 6.6.11 | 4 | mythic | high | ἐτίθετο δὲ καὶ ὄνομα Λύκαν τὰ ἐπὶ τῇ γραφῇ γράμματα. | Near them was a hero-shrine and the city of Temesa; and among these figures was the daemon whom Euthymus expelled. | Refers to the daemon defeated by Euthymus, a mythic figure tied to the landscape. |