Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.25.6

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Passage 10.25.6: Polygnotus' painting showing wounded Lycomedes and Euryalus.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

γέγραπται δὲ καὶ Λυκομήδης παρὰ τὸν Μέγητα ὁ Κρέοντος, ἔχων τραῦμα ἐπὶ τῷ καρπῷ· Λέσχεως δʼ οὕτω φησὶν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ Ἀγήνορος τρωθῆναι. δῆλα οὖν ὡς ἄλλως γε οὐκ ἂν ὁ Πολύγνωτος ἔγραψεν οὕτω τὰ ἕλκη σφίσιν, εἰ μὴ ἐπελέξατο τὴν ποίησιν τοῦ Λέσχεω· προσεπέθηκε μέντοι καὶ σφυροῦ τῷ Λυκομήδει καὶ τρίτον τραῦμα ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ. τέτρωται δὲ καὶ Εὐρύαλος ὁ Μηκιστέως κεφαλήν τε καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ χειρὶ τὸν καρπόν.

English Translation

Lycomedes is also depicted near Meges, son of Creon, with a wound on his wrist. According to Lescheos, he was wounded by Agenor. It is thus evident that Polygnotus would not have represented their wounds in such detail if he had not closely followed the poem of Lescheos. Polygnotus, however, added further injuries to Lycomedes: one wound on the ankle and another—the third—upon his head. Euryalus, son of Mecisteus, is also portrayed wounded in the head and on the wrist of his hand.

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