Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.36.3

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Passage 10.36.3: Ambrossos: city at Mount Parnassus with a double black-stone defensive wall

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἡ δὲ Ἄμβροσσος κεῖται μὲν ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος τὸν Παρνασσόν, τὰ ἐπέκεινα δὲ ἢ Δελφοί· τεθῆναι δὲ τὸ ὄνομα τῇ πόλει ἀπὸ ἥρωός φασιν Ἀμβρόσσου. Θηβαῖοι δὲ ἐς τὸν Μακεδόνων καὶ Φιλίππου καθιστάμενοι πόλεμον περιέβαλον τῇ Ἀμβρόσσῳ διπλοῦν τεῖχος· τὸ δέ ἐστιν ἐπιχωρίου λίθου, χρόαν μέλανος, ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἰσχυροῦ· κύκλος δὲ ἑκάτερος τοῦ τείχους πλάτος μὲν ἀποδέων ὀλίγον ἐστὶν ὀργυιᾶς, τὸ δὲ ὕψος ἐς ἡμίσειάν τε καὶ δύο ὀργυιάς, ὅπου μὴ τὸ τεῖχος πεπόνηκε·

English Translation

Ambrossos lies at the foot of Mount Parnassus, beyond Delphi. They say the city received its name from the hero Ambrossos. When the Thebans were preparing for their war against Philip and the Macedonians, they surrounded Ambrossos with a double wall. This wall is made of a native stone, black in color and exceedingly strong; each circuit of the wall is just under a fathom wide, with a height of two and a half fathoms, except in places where the wall has suffered damage.

Proper Nouns

Thebans (Θηβαῖοι) person
Macedonians (Μακεδόνες) person
Philip (Φίλιππος) person
Delphi (Δελφοί) place Q75459 Pleiades
Parnassus (Παρνασσός) place Q105261
Ambrossos (Ἄμβροσσος) place Q12872250
Also in: 10.3.2 10.36.1
Mount Parnassos (Ὄρος Παρνασσός) place Q105261
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