Pausanias Analysis

Passage 1.5.3

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Passage 1.5.3: Pandion's tomb on the rock Athena Aethyia in the Megarid.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

Κέκροπα δὲ καὶ Πανδίονα---εἶδον γὰρ καὶ τούτων ἐν τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις εἰκόνας---οὐκ οἶδα οὓς ἄγουσιν ἐν τιμῇ· πρότερός τε γὰρ ἦρξε Κέκροψ, ὃς τὴν Ἀκταίου θυγατέρα ἔσχε, καὶ ὕστερος, ὃς δὴ καὶ μετῴκησεν ἐς Εὔβοιαν, Ἐρεχθέως υἱὸς τοῦ Πανδίονος τοῦ Ἐριχθονίου. καὶ δὴ καὶ Πανδίων ἐβασίλευσεν ὅ τε Ἐριχθονίου καὶ ὁ Κέκροπος τοῦ δευτέρου· τοῦτον Μητιονίδαι τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐξελαύνουσι, καί οἱ φυγόντι ἐς Μέγαρα---θυγατέρα γὰρ εἶχε Πύλα τοῦ βασιλεύσαντος ἐν Μεγάροις---συνεκπίπτουσιν οἱ παῖδες. καὶ Πανδίονα μὲν αὐτοῦ λέγεται νοσήσαντα ἀποθανεῖν, καί οἱ πρὸς θαλάσσῃ μνῆμά ἐστιν ἐν τῇ Μεγαρίδι ἐν Ἀθηνᾶς Αἰθυίας καλουμένῳ σκοπέλῳ·

English Translation

As for Cecrops and Pandion—for indeed I saw statues of these men also among the eponymous heroes—I am not sure to which ones exactly they are paying honor. The earlier Cecrops ruled first and took to wife the daughter of Actaeus; the later one, who migrated to Euboea, was the son of Erechtheus, who was the son of Pandion, the son of Erichthonius. And indeed Pandion also became king—the son both of Erichthonius, and of Cecrops the second. This Pandion was expelled from his rule by the sons of Metion, and when he fled to Megara—for he had married the daughter of Pylas, who had reigned in Megara—his children departed together with him. Pandion himself, it is said, fell ill there and died; his tomb lies by the sea in the Megarid upon the rock known as Athena Aethyia.

Proper Nouns

Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ) deity
Aithyia (Aethyia) (Αἰθυία) other
Cecrops (Κέκροψ) person
Metionids (Μητιονίδαι) person
Also in: 7.4.5
Pandion (Πανδίων) person
Pylos (Πύλος) person
Actaeus (Ἀκταῖος) person
Also in: 1.2.6 1.14.7
Erechtheus (Ἐρεχθεύς) person
Erichthonius (Ἐριχθόνιος) person
Euboea (Εὔβοια) place Q173096
Megara (Μέγαρα) place Q42307600
Megaris (Μεγαρίς) place Q645572
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