Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.5.3

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Passage 10.5.3: Oedipus' murder of his father on the Schiste road

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

προϊὼν δὲ αὐτόθεν ἐπὶ ὁδὸν ἀφίξῃ καλουμένην Σχιστήν· ἐπʼ αὐτῇ τῇ ὁδῷ τὰ ἐς τὸν φόνον τοῦ πατρὸς Οἰδίποδι εἰργάσθη. ἔδει δὲ ἄρα παθημάτων τῶν Οἰδίποδος ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα ὑπολειφθῆναι μνημόσυνα. τεχθέντος μέν γε διαπείραντες διὰ τῶν σφυρῶν κέντρα ἐκτιθέασιν αὐτὸν ἐς τὴν Πλαταιίδα, ὄρος τὸν Κιθαιρῶνα· Κόρινθος δὲ καὶ ἡ ἐπὶ τῷ ἰσθμῷ χώρα τροφὸς τῷ Οἰδίποδι ἐγένετο· γῆ δὲ ἡ Φωκὶς καὶ ὁδὸς ἡ Σχιστὴ τοῦ πατρῴου φόνου τὸ μίασμα ὑπεδέξατο· Θηβαίοις δὲ καὶ ἐς πλέον γάμων τέ σφισι τῶν Οἰδίποδος καὶ ἀδικίας τῆς Ἐτεοκλέους ἐστὶν ἡ φήμη.

English Translation

Advancing from here, you come to a road called Schiste; upon this very road Oedipus committed the murder of his father. Evidently, memorials of the sufferings of Oedipus had to remain scattered throughout all Greece. When he was born, after piercing his ankles with spikes, they exposed him on Mount Cithaeron in the region of Plataea; Corinth and the territory by the Isthmus became the nurse to Oedipus, while Phocis and the Schiste Road received the pollution of his father's murder. But among the Thebans, greater still is the report concerning both the marriage of Oedipus and the injustice of Eteocles.

Proper Nouns

Thebans (Θηβαῖοι) other
Oedipus (Οἰδίπους) person
Eteocles (Ἐτεοκλῆς) person
Cithaeron (Κιθαιρών) place Q1147780
Corinth (Κόρινθος) place Q1363688 Pleiades
Plataea (Πλαταιίς) place Q742538
Schiste (Σχιστή) place Q12885060
Also in: 10.5.4
Phocis (Φωκίς) place Q2637650
Hellas (Ἑλλάς) place Q7798
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