Pausanias Analysis

Passage 1.25.1

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Passage 1.25.1: Statues of Pericles, Xanthippus, Anacreon, Io and Callisto on the Athenian Acropolis.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τοιαῦτα μὲν αὐτοῖς συμβαίνοντα εἶδον· ἔστι δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἀθηναίων ἀκροπόλει καὶ Περικλῆς ὁ Ξανθίππου καὶ αὐτὸς Ξάνθιππος, ὃς ἐναυμάχησεν ἐπὶ Μυκάλῃ Μήδοις. ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν Περικλέους ἀνδριὰς ἑτέρωθι ἀνάκειται, τοῦ δὲ Ξανθίππου πλησίον ἕστηκεν Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήιος, πρῶτος μετὰ Σαπφὼ τὴν Λεσβίαν τὰ πολλὰ ὧν ἔγραψεν ἐρωτικὰ ποιήσας· καί οἱ τὸ σχῆμά ἐστιν οἷον ᾄδοντος ἂν ἐν μέθῃ γένοιτο ἀνθρώπου. γυναῖκας δὲ πλησίον Δεινομένης Ἰὼ τὴν Ἰνάχου καὶ Καλλιστὼ τὴν Λυκάονος πεποίηκεν, αἷς ἀμφοτέραις ἐστὶν ἐς ἅπαν ὅμοια διηγήματα ἔρως Διὸς καὶ Ἥρας ὀργὴ καὶ ἀλλαγὴ τῇ μὲν ἐς βοῦν, Καλλιστοῖ δὲ ἐς ἄρκτον.

English Translation

Such, then, were the things I saw happening to them. On the Acropolis of the Athenians there stand statues both of Pericles, son of Xanthippus, and of the elder Xanthippus himself, who fought in the sea-battle against the Persians off Mycale. The statue of Pericles, however, is set up separately at a different spot, but near Xanthippus stands Anacreon of Teos, who was, next after the Lesbian poetess Sappho, the first to compose mostly poems on love. His image is posed in such a way as to suggest a man singing in a state of drunkenness. Beside these figures are statues of women made by Deinomenes: Io, daughter of Inachus, and Callisto, daughter of Lycaon; these two have altogether similar stories, love from Zeus, wrath from Hera, and transformation—the one into a cow, Callisto into a bear.

Proper Nouns

Zeus (Ζεύς) deity
Hera (Ἥρα) deity
Medes (Μῆδοι) other
Teian (Τήιος) other
Deinomenes (Δεινομένης) person Q28556208
Callisto (Καλλιστώ) person
Lycaon (Λυκάων) person
Xanthippos (Ξάνθιππος) person
Pericles (Περικλῆς) person
Sappho (Σαπφώ) person
Also in: 9.27.3 9.29.8
Anacreon (Ἀνακρέων) person
Also in: 1.2.3
Io (Ἰώ) person
Also in: 2.16.1 3.18.13
Inachos (Ἴναχος) person
Lesbos (Λέσβος) place Q128087
Mykale (Μυκάλη) place Q1330828
Athens (Ἀθῆναι) place Q844930
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