Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.8.8

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Passage 10.8.8: Odysseus wounded by a boar while hunting with Autolycus' sons.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐν δὲ τοῦ γυμνασίου τῷ ὑπαίθρῳ πεφυκέναι ποτὲ ἀγρίαν φασὶν ὕλην, καὶ Ὀδυσσέα, ἡνίκα ὡς τὸν Αὐτόλυκον ἀφικόμενος μετὰ τοῦ Αὐτολύκου τῶν παίδων ἐθήρευε, τότε αὐτὸν τὸ τραῦμα τὸ ὑπὲρ τοῦ γόνατος ἐνταῦθα σχεῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ συός. τραπομένῳ δὲ ἐς ἀριστερὰν ἀπὸ τοῦ γυμνασίου καὶ ὑποκαταβάντι οὐ πλέον ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἢ τρία στάδια, ποταμός ἐστιν ὀνομαζόμενος Πλεῖστος· οὗτος ὁ Πλεῖστος ἐπὶ Κίρραν τὸ ἐπίνειον Δελφῶν καὶ τὴν ταύτῃ κάτεισι θάλασσαν.

English Translation

In the open area of the gymnasium, they say there once grew wild woodland, and that here Odysseus, when he came to Autolycus and was hunting with the sons of Autolycus, received the wound above his knee inflicted by the boar. Turning left from the gymnasium and descending slightly for no more, as it seems to me, than three stades, there is a river called Pleistos. This Pleistos flows down towards Cirrha, the harbor of Delphi, and reaches the sea in that direction.

Proper Nouns

Autolykos (Αὐτόλυκος) person
Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς) person
Delphi (Δελφοί) place Q75459 Pleiades
Kirrha (Κίρρα) place Q56754242
Pleistos (Πλεῖστος) place Q3537166
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