Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.33.8

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Passage 10.33.8: Parapotamii destroyed and its people dispersed; no ruins remain.

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ διάφορα μὲν ἐν τῇ Ἡροδότου συγγραφῇ, διάφορα δέ ἐστιν αὐτῷ καὶ ὅσα ἐπὶ ταῖς νίκαις ταῖς Πυθικαῖς μνημονεύουσιν· Ἀμφικτύονες γὰρ Πύθια ἐτίθεσαν πρῶτον, καὶ Αἰχμέας Παραποτάμιος πυγμὴν ἐνίκησεν ἐν παισίν· ὡσαύτως δὲ Ἡρόδοτος καταλέγων τὰς πόλεις, ὅσας βασιλεὺς Ξέρξης τῶν ἐν Φωκεῦσιν ἐνέπρησε, καὶ Παραποταμίους κατείλοχεν ἐν αὐταῖς πόλιν. οὐ μέντοι οἱ Παραποτάμιοί γε ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων καὶ Βοιωτῶν ἀνῳκίσθησαν, ἀλλὰ ἐς τὰς ἄλλας πόλεις οἱ ἄνθρωποι κατενεμήθησαν ὑπό τε ἀσθενείας καὶ σπάνει χρημάτων. Παραποταμίων μὲν δὴ οὔτε ἐρείπια ἔτι ἦν οὔτε ἔνθα τῆς χώρας ᾠκίσθη ἡ πόλις μνημονεύουσιν·

English Translation

In this account there are differences compared with the history of Herodotus, as well as discrepancies regarding the records commemorated for victories in the Pythian Games. For it was the Amphictyons who first established the Pythian contests, and Aechmeas of Parapotamii was victorious in boys' boxing. Moreover, Herodotus, enumerating the cities in Phocis burned by King Xerxes, includes Parapotamii among them. However, the Parapotamians were not afterward restored by the Athenians and Boeotians; instead, their people were dispersed into other cities due to weakness and poverty. Indeed, no ruins of Parapotamii remain, nor is it remembered at what place in the land their city originally stood.

Proper Nouns

Pythian Games (Πύθια) other
Aichmeas (Αἰχμέας) person Q91121903
Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) person
Xerxes (Ξέρξης) person
Parapotamioi (Parapotamians) (Παραποτάμιοι) person
Parapotamios (Παραποτάμιος) person
Phocians (Φωκείς) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Amphictyons (Ἀμφικτύονες) person
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος) person
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