Pausanias Analysis

Passage 1.29.5

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Passage 1.29.5: Athenian expedition into Thrace led by Leagros and Sophanes

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς κεραυνοὶ πέσοιεν ἐς αὐτούς. στρατηγοὶ δὲ ἄλλοι τε ἦσαν καὶ Λέαγρος, ᾧ μάλιστα ἐπετέτραπτο ἡ δύναμις, καὶ Δεκελεὺς Σωφάνης, ὃς τὸν Ἀργεῖόν ποτε πένταθλον Νεμείων ἀνῃρημένον νίκην ἀπέκτεινεν Εὐρυβάτην βοηθοῦντα Αἰγινήταις. στρατὸν δὲ ἔξω τῆς Ἑλλάδος Ἀθηναῖοι τρίτον τοῦτον ἔστειλαν· Πριάμῳ μὲν γὰρ καὶ Τρωσὶ πάντες Ἕλληνες ἀπὸ κοινοῦ λόγου κατέστησαν ἐς πόλεμον, Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ ἰδίᾳ μετʼ Ἰολάου τε ἐς Σαρδὼ καὶ δευτέραν ἐς τὴν νῦν Ἰωνίαν ἐστράτευσαν καὶ τρίτον δὴ τότε ἐς τὴν Θρᾴκην.

English Translation

It is said also that thunderbolts fell upon them. The commanders among others included Leagros, upon whom chiefly the command of the army was conferred, and Sophanes from Deceleia, who had killed Eurybates of Argos, a victor in the pentathlon at the Nemean games, when Eurybates came to aid the Aeginetans. This army was the third which the Athenians had dispatched outside Greece. For the war against Priam and the Trojans had been undertaken jointly by all the Greeks, but the Athenians alone, first with Iolaus, waged a campaign against Sardinia, secondly sailed against what is now Ionia, and thirdly now made this expedition into Thrace.

Proper Nouns

Aeginetans (Αἰγινῆται) person
Dekeleus (Δεκελεὺς) person
Eurubates (Εὐρυβάτης) person Q18010038
Leagros (Λέαγρος) person
Priam (Πρίαμος) person
Sopanes (Σωφάνης) person
Trojans (Τρῶες) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Argive (Ἀργεῖος) person
Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) person
Iolaus (Ἰόλαος) person
Thrace (Θρᾴκη) place Q41741
Nemea (Νεμέα) place Q748108
Sardinia (Σαρδώ) place Q1462
Hellas (Ἑλλάς) place Q7798
Ionia (Ἰωνία) place Q620874
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