Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.17.3

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Passage 10.17.3: Aristaeus' followers settle Sardinia.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

ἔτεσι δὲ ὕστερον μετὰ τοὺς Λίβυας ἀφίκοντο ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἐς τὴν νῆσον οἱ μετʼ Ἀρισταίου. παῖδα δὲ λέγουσιν Ἀρισταῖον Ἀπόλλωνός τε εἶναι καὶ Κυρήνης· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἀκταίωνος περισσῶς ἀλγήσαντα τῇ συμφορᾷ καὶ Βοιωτίᾳ τε καὶ πάσῃ τῇ Ἑλλάδι κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἀχθόμενον, οὕτως ἐς τὴν Σαρδὼ μετοικῆσαί φασιν αὐτόν.

English Translation

Years later, after the Libyans, the followers of Aristaeus arrived in the island from Greece. They say Aristaeus was the son of Apollo and Cyrene, and that after the disaster that befell Actaeon, being exceedingly distressed by this calamity and equally troubled by Boeotia and indeed the entire land of Greece, he migrated thus to Sardinia.

Proper Nouns

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) deity
Cyrene (Κυρήνη) person
Libyans (Λίβυες) person
Actaeon (Ἀκταίων) person
Aristaeus (Ἀρισταῖος) person
Boeotia (Βοιωτία) place Q187570
Sardinia (Σαρδώ) place Q1462
Hellas (Ἑλλάς) place Q7798
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