Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.18.5

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Passage 2.18.5: Orestes acquires Argos after Cylarabes dies childless.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τὸ δὲ ἐγχώριον γένος οἱ Ἀναξαγορίδαι βασιλεύουσι πλέον. Ἶφις μὲν γὰρ ὁ Ἀλέκτορος τοῦ Ἀναξαγόρου Σθενέλῳ τῷ Καπανέως ἀδελφοῦ παιδὶ ἀπέλιπε τὴν ἀρχήν· Ἀμφιλόχου δὲ μετὰ ἅλωσιν Ἰλίου μετοικήσαντος ἐς τοὺς νῦν Ἀμφιλόχους, Κυανίππου δʼ ἄπαιδος τελευτήσαντος, οὕτω Κυλαράβης ὁ Σθενέλου μόνος τὴν βασιλείαν ἔσχεν. οὐ μέντοι παῖδας κατέλιπεν οὐδʼ οὗτος, ἀλλὰ Ὀρέστης ὁ Ἀγαμέμνονος τὸ Ἄργος κατέσχε παροικῶν τε ἐγγὺς αὐτῷ καὶ ἄνευ τῆς πατρῴας ἀρχῆς προσπεποιημένος μὲν Ἀρκάδων τοὺς πολλούς, παρειληφὼς δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐν Σπάρτῃ βασιλείαν, συμμαχικοῦ δὲ ἐκ Φωκέων ἀεί ποτε ἐπʼ ὠφελείᾳ ἑτοίμου παρόντος.

English Translation

The native royal line is mostly ruled by the family of the Anaxagoridae. For Iphis, the son of Alector, son of Anaxagoras, left the kingship to Sthenelus, son of Capaneus' brother. After Amphilochus moved following the fall of Troy into the region now called Amphilochia, and after Cyanippus died childless, thus Cylarabes son of Sthenelus alone held the royal power. However, he too left no children, so Orestes, son of Agamemnon, obtained Argos, living in proximity and not possessing his hereditary rule, but commanding the allegiance of many Arcadians, having also acquired the kingship at Sparta, while always having at hand a ready alliance with the Phocians for support.

Proper Nouns

Capaneus (Καπανεύς) person
Cylarabes (Κυλαράβης) person
Cyanippus (Κύανιππος) person
Also in: 2.18.4 2.30.10
Sthenelus (Σθένελος) person
Phocians (Φωκεῖς) person
Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων) person
Alector (Ἀλέκτωρ) person
Amphilochi (Ἀμφίλοχοι) person
Amphilochus (Ἀμφίλοχος) person
Anaxagoridae (Ἀναξαγορίδαι) person
Also in: 2.30.10
Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας) person
Also in: 2.18.4 5.23.3
Arcadians (Ἀρκάδες) person
Iphis (Ἶφις) person
Orestes (Ὀρέστης) person
Sparta (Σπάρτη) place Q5690 Pleiades
Argos (Ἄργος) place Q13533353
Ilion (Ἴλιος) place Q22647
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