Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.26.2

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Passage 10.26.2: Polygnotus' painting of Trojan War figures.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

γεγραμμέναι δὲ ἐπὶ κλίνης ὑπὲρ ταύτας Δηινόμη τε καὶ Μητιόχη καὶ Πεῖσίς ἐστι καὶ Κλεοδίκη· τούτων ἐν Ἰλιάδι καλουμένῃ μικρᾷ μόνης ἐστὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς Δηινόμης, τῶν δʼ ἄλλων ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν συνέθηκε τὰ ὀνόματα ὁ Πολύγνωτος. γέγραπται δὲ καὶ Ἐπειὸς γυμνὸς καταβάλλων ἐς ἔδαφος τῶν Τρώων τὸ τεῖχος· ἀνέχει δὲ ὑπὲρ αὐτὸ κεφαλὴ τοῦ ἵππου μόνη τοῦ δουρείου. Πολυποίτης δὲ ὁ Πειρίθου δεδεμένος τὴν κεφαλὴν ταινίᾳ καὶ παρʼ αὐτὸν Ἀκάμας ἐστὶν ὁ Θησέως ἐπικείμενος τῇ κεφαλῇ κράνος·

English Translation

Written upon a couch above these women are Deinome, Metioche, Peisis, and Cleodice. Of these, only Deinome's name occurs in the poem called the Little Iliad; it is my opinion that Polygnotus himself invented the names of the others. There is also painted Epeius, depicted naked, pulling down the Trojan wall to the ground; and above it rises only the head of the Wooden Horse. Polypoetes, the son of Peirithous, has his head bound with a fillet, and beside him stands Acamas, the son of Theseus, wearing a helmet upon his head.

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