Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.32.1

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Passage 10.32.1: Delphi: theater, Cnidian Dionysus statue, and Herodes' Pentelic-marble stadium

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τοῦ περιβόλου δὲ τοῦ ἱεροῦ θέατρον ἔχεται θέας ἄξιον, ἐπαναβάντι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ περιβόλου Διονύσου δὲ ἄγαλμα ἐνταῦθα Κνιδίων ἐστὶν ἀνάθημα. στάδιον δέ σφισιν ἀνωτάτω τῆς πόλεως τοῦτό ἐστιν· ἐπεποίητο δὲ ἐκ τῆς πέτρας ὁποῖαι περὶ τὸν Παρνασσόν εἰσιν αἱ πολλαί, ἄχρις Ἀθηναῖος Ἡρώδης λίθῳ τῷ Πεντελῆσιν αὐτὸ μετεκόσμησεν. τὰ μὲν δὴ ἀνήκοντα ἐς συγγραφὴν τοσαῦτά τε καὶ τοιαῦτα κατʼ ἐμὲ ἦν τὰ δὲ λειπόμενα ἐν Δελφοῖς·

English Translation

Next to the enclosure of the sanctuary is a theater well worth seeing. Ascending from the enclosure, one finds here a statue of Dionysus, which is a dedication by the Cnidians. Their stadium is at the highest point of the city; it had been constructed out of the kind of rock that is abundant around Parnassus, until Herodes the Athenian adorned it anew with Pentelic marble. These, then, were the matters relevant to my account that I considered worthy of mention; those that remain at Delphi are as follows.

Proper Nouns

Dionysus (Διόνυσος) deity
Herodes the Athenian / Herodes Atticus (Ἀθηναῖος Ἡρώδης) person
Delphi (Δελφοί) place Q75459 Pleiades
Cnidians (Κνίδιοι) place
Parnassus (Παρνασσός) place Q105261
Penteli (Πεντελη) place Q1125206
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