Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.12.3

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Passage 2.12.3: Phlious territory, Titane road, and Phliasian origins.

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

ἡ δὲ Φλιασία τῆς Σικυωνίων ἐστὶν ὅμορος· καὶ Τιτάνης μὲν τεσσαράκοντα σταδίους ἀπέχει μάλιστα ἡ πόλις, ἐκ Σικυῶνος δὲ ἐς αὐτὴν ὁδός ἐστιν εὐθεῖα. καὶ ὅτι μὲν Ἀρκάσι Φλιάσιοι προσήκουσιν οὐδέν, δηλοῖ τὰ ἐς τὸν Ἀρκάδων κατάλογον τῆς Ὁμήρου ποιήσεως, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶν Ἀρκάσι καὶ οὗτοι συγκατειλεγμένοι· ὡς δὲ Ἀργεῖοί τε ἦσαν ἐξ ἀρχῆς καὶ ὕστερον Δωριεῖς γεγόνασιν Ἡρακλειδῶν κατελθόντων ἐς Πελοπόννησον, φανεῖται προϊόντι ὁμοῦ τῷ λόγῳ. διάφορα δὲ ἐς τοὺς Φλιασίους τὰ πολλὰ εἰδὼς εἰρημένα, τοῖς μάλιστα αὐτῶν ὡμολογημένοις χρήσομαι.

English Translation

The territory of Phlious borders on that of the Sicyonians. The city of Titane is situated about forty stades away, and the road from Sicyon to Titane is a direct one. That the Phliasians bear no kinship to the Arcadians is clearly shown by the Catalogue of Arcadians in Homer's poetry, in which they are not included with the Arcadians. That originally they were Argives, and afterwards became Dorians when the Heracleidae descended into the Peloponnese, will become clear as my account proceeds. Since I have found many differing statements concerning the Phliasians, I shall chiefly rely on those facts upon which they themselves most agree.

Proper Nouns

Dorieus (Δωριεύς) person
Phliasian (Φλιάσιος) person
Also in: 2.5.2 7.26.6
Argive (Ἀργεῖος) person
Arcadian (Ἀρκάς) person
Heracleid (Ἡρακλεής) person
Homer (Ὅμηρος) person
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος) place Q78967
Sicyon (Σικυών) place Q368628 Pleiades
Titanē (Τιτάνη) place Q59637009
Phliasia (Φλιασία) place Q12885806
Also in: 2.5.2 2.25.6
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