Pausanias Analysis - Current Sentence Tags 9.2

Chapter 9.2

Passage	Sentence	Bucket	Confidence	Greek	English	Rationale
9.2.1	1	other	high	γῆς δὲ τῆς Πλαταιίδος ἐν τῷ Κιθαιρῶνι ὀλίγον τῆς εὐθείας ἐκτραπεῖσιν ἐς δεξιὰ Ὑσιῶν καὶ Ἐρυθρῶν ἐρείπιά ἐστι.	Within Plataean territory, after turning a short distance to the right from the direct path on Mt. Cithaeron, lie the ruins of Hysiai and Erythrae.	Purely topographical route description locating ruins near Cithaeron; no mythic or historical event.
9.2.1	2	other	high	πόλεις δέ ποτε τῶν Βοιωτῶν ἦσαν, καὶ νῦν ἔτι ἐν τοῖς ἐρειπίοις τῶν Ὑσιῶν ναός ἐστιν Ἀπόλλωνος ἡμίεργος καὶ φρέαρ ἱερόν·	These cities once belonged to the Boeotians, and even now among the ruins of Hysiai there remains a half-built temple of Apollo and a sacred well.	Topographical and antiquarian description of ruins, temple, and sacred well; no specific mythic or post-500 BC historical event.
9.2.1	3	mythic	high	πάλαι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ φρέατος κατὰ τὸν Βοιωτῶν λόγον ἐμαντεύοντο πίνοντες.	In ancient times, according to the Boeotian account, those who drank from this well practiced divination.	Describes an ancient divinatory practice tied to a sacred spring, reflecting mythic/religious tradition rather than a historical event.
9.2.2	1	historical	high	ἐπανελθοῦσι δὲ ἐς τὴν λεωφόρον ἐστὶν αὖθις ἐν δεξιᾷ Μαρδονίου λεγόμενον μνῆμα εἶναι.	When one returns to the main road, there is again on the right hand side a tomb said to be that of Mardonius.	Mardonius is a Persian Wars historical figure, and the sentence describes his tomb on the landscape.
9.2.2	2	historical	high	καὶ ὅτι μὲν εὐθὺς ἦν μετὰ τὴν μάχην ἀφανὴς ὁ Μαρδονίου νεκρός, ἔστιν ὡμολογημένον· τὸν δὲ θάψαντα οὐ κατὰ ταὐτά, ὅστις ἦν, λέγουσι·	It is agreed that immediately after the battle the body of Mardonius was nowhere to be found; but accounts differ as to who it was that buried him.	Refers to Mardonius and the Battle of Plataea, a post-500 BC historical event.
9.2.2	3	historical	high	φαίνεται δὲ Ἀρτόντης ὁ Μαρδονίου πλεῖστα μὲν δοὺς Διονυσοφάνει δῶρα ἀνδρὶ Ἐφεσίῳ, δοὺς μέντοι καὶ ἄλλοις Ἰώνων ὡς οὐδὲ ἐκείνοις ἀμελὲς γενόμενον ταφῆναι Μαρδόνιον.	However, it seems that Artontes son of Mardonius gave abundant gifts to Dionysophanes, a man of Ephesus, and bestowed gifts also upon other Ionians, so that they too did not neglect the burial of Mardonius.	Refers to the burial of Mardonius and the Persian Wars era, a post-500 BC historical event.
9.2.3	1	other	high	αὕτη μὲν ἀπʼ Ἐλευθερῶν ἐς Πλάταιαν ἄγει, τοῖς δὲ ἐκ Μεγάρων ἰοῦσι πηγή τέ ἐστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ καὶ προελθοῦσιν ὀλίγον πέτρα·	This road goes from Eleutherae to Plataea; but for those who travel from Megara, there is on the right hand a spring, and a little further on, a rock.	Purely geographical route description and landmarks; no mythic or historical event.
9.2.3	2	mythic	high	καλοῦσι δὲ τὴν μὲν Ἀκταίωνος κοίτην, ἐπὶ ταύτῃ καθεύδειν φάμενοι τῇ πέτρᾳ τὸν Ἀκταίωνα ὁπότε κάμοι θηρεύων, ἐς δὲ τὴν πηγὴν ἐνιδεῖν λέγουσιν αὐτὸν λουμένης Ἀρτέμιδος ἐν τῇ πηγῇ.	They call the rock the "bed of Actaeon," saying that Actaeon used to rest here when weary from hunting, and they assert that it was into this spring that he looked and saw Artemis bathing.	Actaeon seeing Artemis bathing is a mythic event explaining the named rock and spring.
9.2.3	3	mythic	high	Στησίχορος δὲ ὁ Ἱμεραῖος ἔγραψεν ἐλάφου περιβαλεῖν δέρμα Ἀκταίωνι τὴν θεόν, παρασκευάζουσάν οἱ τὸν ἐκ τῶν κυνῶν θάνατον, ἵνα δὴ μὴ γυναῖκα Σεμέλην λάβοι.	The poet Stesichorus of Himera wrote that the goddess threw a deer-skin around Actaeon, thereby bringing about his death at the jaws of his own dogs, in order that he might not marry Semele.	Actaeon’s death and Semele are mythic figures; the sentence reports a mythological explanation.
9.2.4	1	mythic	high	ἐγὼ δὲ ἄνευ θεοῦ πείθομαι νόσον λύσσαν τοῦ Ἀκταίωνος ἐπιλαβεῖν τοὺς κύνας· μανέντες δὲ καὶ οὐ διαγινώσκοντες διαφορήσειν ἔμελλον πάντα τινὰ ὅτῳ περιτύχοιεν.	But I myself, without divine intervention, am inclined to believe that madness, a disease, seized the dogs of Actaeon, and that, driven insane and incapable of distinguishing their master, they would have torn apart whomever they encountered.	Actaeon and his dogs are a mythic episode; the sentence explains the mythic behavior of the dogs.
9.2.4	2	mythic	high	καθότι δὲ τοῦ Κιθαιρῶνος Πενθεῖ τῷ Ἐχίονος ἐγένετο ἡ συμφορὰ ἢ Οἰδίποδα ὅπῃ τεχθέντα ἐξέθεσαν, οἶδεν οὐδείς,	Now, no one knows precisely where on Mount Cithaeron Pentheus son of Echion met disaster or where Oedipus was exposed at birth.	Refers to Pentheus and Oedipus, both mythic figures, and to their mythic events on Mount Cithaeron.
9.2.4	3	mythic	high	καθάπερ γε ἴσμεν τὴν Σχιστὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐπὶ Φωκέων, ἐφʼ ᾗ τὸν πατέρα Οἰδίπους ἀπέκτεινεν,	Unlike these places, we do know the Schiste road which leads toward Phocis, on which Oedipus killed his father.	Refers to Oedipus killing his father, a mythic event tied to the road's identity.
9.2.4	4	other	high	ὁ δὲ Κιθαιρὼν τὸ ὄρος Διὸς ἱερὸν Κιθαιρωνίου ἐστίν ἃ δὴ καὶ ἐς πλέον ἐπέξειμι, ἐπειδὰν ἐς αὐτὰ ὁ λόγος καθήκῃ μοι.	Mount Cithaeron is sacred to Zeus Cithaeronius; concerning these matters I shall return and speak more fully as soon as my account reaches that point.	Describes a mountain’s cult significance and a narrative aside, not a mythic event or historical event.
9.2.5	1	historical	high	κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἔσοδον μάλιστα τὴν ἐς Πλάταιαν τάφοι τῶν πρὸς Μήδους μαχεσαμένων εἰσί.	Along the road as one enters Plataea are tombs of those who fought against the Medes.	The tombs commemorate those who fought the Medes, i.e. the Persian Wars, a historical event.
9.2.5	2	historical	high	τοῖς μὲν οὖν λοιποῖς ἐστιν Ἕλλησι μνῆμα κοινόν· Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναίων τοῖς πεσοῦσιν ἰδίᾳ τέ εἰσιν οἱ τάφοι καὶ ἐλεγεῖά ἐστι Σιμωνίδου γεγραμμένα ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς.	For the rest of the Greeks, there is a common memorial; but for the Lacedaemonians and Athenians who fell, there are separate tombs, upon which elegiac verses composed by Simonides are inscribed.	Refers to memorials and tombs for the fallen Spartans and Athenians, i.e. a post-500 BC historical battlefield monument.
9.2.5	3	other	high	οὐ πόρρω δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῶν Ἑλλήνων Διός ἐστιν Ἐλευθερίου βωμὸς τοῦτον μὲν δὴ χαλκοῦ, τοῦ Διὸς δὲ τόν τε βωμὸν καὶ τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐποίησεν λευκοῦ λίθου.	Not far from the common tomb of the Greeks stands an altar of Zeus Eleutherios; this altar is made of bronze, while the altar and statue of Zeus himself are crafted from white marble.	Purely locational and descriptive notice of a cult altar and statue materials; no mythic or historical event is being narrated.
9.2.6	1	historical	high	ἄγουσι δὲ καὶ νῦν ἔτι ἀγῶνα διὰ ἔτους πέμπτου τὰ δὲ Ἐλευθέρια, ἐν ᾧ μέγιστα γέρα πρόκειται δρόμου·	Even now they still hold a contest every fifth year called the Eleutheria, in which the greatest honours are awarded in the footrace;	A recurring festival contest still held 'even now' is a historical institution, not a mythic event.
9.2.6	2	other	high	θέουσι δὲ ὡπλισμένοι πρὸ τοῦ βωμοῦ.	the competitors run fully armed before the altar.	Describes a ritual/athletic action at an altar, not a mythic event or historical event.
9.2.6	3	historical	high	τρόπαιον δέ, ὃ τῆς μάχης τῆς Πλαταιᾶσιν ἀνέθεσαν οἱ Ἕλληνες, πεντεκαίδεκα σταδίοις μάλιστα ἕστηκεν ἀπωτέρω τῆς πόλεως.	The trophy that the Greeks dedicated after the battle for the Plataeans stands roughly fifteen stadia outside the city.	Refers to the trophy dedicated after the battle of Plataea, a post-500 BC historical event and its monument in the landscape.
9.2.7	1	historical	high	ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ πόλει προϊοῦσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ βωμοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀγάλματος ἃ τῷ Διὶ πεποίηται τῷ Ἐλευθερίῳ, Πλαταίας ἐστὶν ἡρῷον·	Within the city itself, as you proceed onward from the altar and the statue dedicated to Zeus Eleutherios, there is a heroic shrine of Plataea.	The heroic shrine of Plataea commemorates a historical city and its memorial presence in the urban landscape.
9.2.7	2	other	high	καί μοι τὰ ἐς αὐτὴν ἤδη, τὰ λεγόμενα καὶ ὁποῖα αὐτὸς εἴκαζον, ἔστιν εἰρημένα.	The matters concerning this city—both the traditions related to it and the conjectures I myself formed about them—have already been stated.	This is a meta-textual remark about prior discussion of the city's traditions and the author's conjectures, not a mythic or historical event.
9.2.7	3	other	high	Πλαταιεῦσι δὲ ναός ἐστιν Ἥρας, θέας ἄξιος μεγέθει τε καὶ ἐς τῶν ἀγαλμάτων τὸν κόσμον.	The Plataeans have a temple of Hera that is worthy of viewing, both for its great size and for the splendor of its statues.	A straightforward description of a temple and its statues; no mythic event or historical event is described.
9.2.7	4	mythic	high	ἐσελθοῦσι μὲν Ῥέα τὸν πέτρον κατειλημένον σπαργάνοις, οἷα δὴ τὸν παῖδα ὃν ἔτεκε, Κρόνῳ κομίζουσά ἐστι·	As you enter, there is Rhea, depicted holding the stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, as though she were bringing to Cronus the child she had supposedly given birth to.	Rhea and Cronus belong to the myth of Zeus’s birth; the stone wrapped as a swaddled child is a mythic object and scene.
9.2.7	5	other	high	τὴν δὲ Ἥραν Τελείαν καλοῦσι, πεποίηται δὲ ὀρθὸν μεγέθει ἄγαλμα μέγα· λίθου δὲ ἀμφότερα τοῦ Πεντελησίου, Πραξιτέλους δέ ἐστιν ἔργα.	Hera they call "Teleia" (the Perfect), and her statue, upright in posture and very large in size, is carved, like both statues, from Pentelic marble, the work of Praxiteles.	Describes a cult statue and its material/artist, which is antiquarian and descriptive rather than mythic or historical event.
9.2.7	6	mythic	high	ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἄλλο Ἥρας ἄγαλμα καθήμενον Καλλίμαχος ἐποίησε· Νυμφευομένην δὲ τὴν θεὸν ἐπὶ λόγῳ τοιῷδε ὀνομάζουσιν.	Another statue of Hera here is seated and was made by Callimachus; this goddess they call the "Bride," naming her thus due to the following story.	The sentence explains a cult title of Hera by reference to a following story, which indicates mythic tradition rather than historical fact.