Pausanias Analysis

Passage 1.44.5

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Passage 1.44.5: Sanctuary of Melampus at Aigosthena

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐν Αἰγοσθένοις δὲ Μελάμποδος τοῦ Ἀμυθάονός ἐστιν ἱερὸν καὶ ἀνὴρ οὐ μέγας ἐπειργασμένος ἐν στήλῃ· καὶ θύουσι τῷ Μελάμποδι καὶ ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔτος ἑορτὴν ἄγουσι. μαντεύεσθαι δὲ οὔτε διʼ ὀνειράτων αὐτὸν οὔτε ἄλλως λέγουσι. καὶ τόδε ἄλλο ἤκουσα ἐν Ἐρενείᾳ τῇ Μεγαρέων κώμῃ, Αὐτονόην τὴν Κάδμου τῷ τε Ἀκταίωνος θανάτῳ, συμβάντι ὡς λέγεται, καὶ τῇ πάσῃ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρῴου τύχῃ περισσότερον ἀλγοῦσαν ἐνταῦθα ἐκ Θηβῶν μετοικῆσαι· καὶ Αὐτονόης μνῆμά ἐστιν ἐν τῇ κώμῃ ταύτῃ.

English Translation

In Aigosthena there is a sanctuary of Melampus, son of Amythaon, and a figure, of no great size, carved upon a stele. They offer sacrifices to Melampus and hold a festival in his honor annually. But they say that he does not offer oracles, neither through dreams nor in any other way. I also heard this other account in Ereneia, a village of the Megarians: Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus, struck by a deeper grief at the death of Actaeon—as tradition relates—and by the general misfortune of her paternal household, migrated from Thebes to this place; and there is a tomb of Autonoe in this village.

Proper Nouns

Megarians (Μεγαρεῖς) other
Autonoe (Αὐτονόη) person
Also in: 10.17.4
Kadmos (Κάδμος) person
Melampus (Μελάμπους) person
Actaeon (Ἀκταίων) person
Amythaon (Ἀμυθάων) person
Aigosthenai (Αἰγοσθέναι) place
Thebes (Θῆβαι) place Q11225429
Ereneia (Ἐρένεια) place Q131912252
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