Pausanias Analysis

Passage 1.27.5

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Passage 1.27.5: Tolmides' raids, colonization efforts, and defeat at Haliartus

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ βάθρου καὶ ἀνδριάντες εἰσὶ Θεαίνετος ὃς ἐμαντεύετο Τολμίδῃ καὶ αὐτὸς Τολμίδης, ὃς Ἀθηναίων ναυσὶν ἡγούμενος ἄλλους τε ἐκάκωσε καὶ Πελοποννησίων τὴν χώραν ὅσοι νέμονται τὴν παραλίαν, καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπὶ Γυθίῳ τὰ νεώρια ἐνέπρησε καὶ τῶν περιοίκων Βοιὰς εἷλε καὶ τὴν Κυθηρίων νῆσον· ἐς δὲ τὴν Σικυωνίαν ποιησάμενος ἀπόβασιν, ὥς οἱ δῃοῦντι τὴν γῆν ἐς μάχην κατέστησαν, τρεψάμενος σφᾶς κατεδίωξε πρὸς τὴν πόλιν. ὕστερον δὲ ὡς ἐπανῆλθεν ἐς Ἀθήνας, ἐσήγαγε μὲν ἐς Εὔβοιαν καὶ Νάξον Ἀθηναίων κληρούχους, ἐσέβαλε δὲ ἐς Βοιωτοὺς στρατῷ· πορθήσας δὲ τῆς γῆς τὴν πολλὴν καὶ παραστησάμενος πολιορκίᾳ Χαιρώνειαν, ὡς ἐς τὴν Ἀλιαρτίαν προῆλθεν, αὐτός τε μαχόμενος ἀπέθανε καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἤδη στράτευμα ἡττᾶτο. τὰ μὲν ἐς Τολμίδην τοιαῦτα ἐπυνθανόμην ὄντα, ἔστι δὲ Ἀθηνᾶς ἀγάλματα

English Translation

Upon the pedestal are also statues of Theaenetus, who gave prophecies to Tolmides, and of Tolmides himself. It was Tolmides who, commanding the Athenian fleet, did great harm to various peoples and ravaged those regions of Peloponnesus inhabited along the coast. He burned the Lacedaemonians' dockyards at Gythium, captured Boeae from the Perioeci, and also took the island of Cythera. After making a landing in the territory of the Sicyonians, he encountered resistance while devastating the land; he defeated his opponents and pursued them closely up to the city itself. Later, upon returning to Athens, he sent out Athenian colonists to settle in Euboea and Naxos. Then he invaded Boeotia with an army and, having ravaged much of the land there and attacked Chaeroneia with siege, proceeded to the territory of Haliartus, where he fell in battle himself, and his entire army was decisively defeated. Such, I learned, were the actions of Tolmides. There are also statues of Athena here.

Proper Nouns

Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ) deity
Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) person
Theainetos (Θεαίνετος) person
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Peloponnesians (Πελοποννήσιοι) person
Toldmides (Τολμίδης) person
Also in: 1.29.14
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Boiai (Βοιαί) place Q11909406
Gytheion (Γύθειον) place Q56398303
Euboea (Εὔβοια) place Q173096
Kythera (Κύθηρα) place Q207239
Also in: 3.23.1
Naxos (Νάξος) place Q188527
Sicyonia (Σικυωνία) place Q15464107
Chaeronea (Χαιρώνεια) place Q13574678
Athens (Ἀθῆναι) place Q844930
Haliartos (Ἁλίαρτος) place Q359627
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