Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.18.8

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Passage 2.18.8: Expulsion of Tisamenus and the descendants of Nestor.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐκβάλλουσιν οὖν ἐκ μὲν Λακεδαίμονος καὶ Ἄργους Τισαμενόν, ἐκ δὲ τῆς Μεσσηνίας τοὺς Νέστορος ἀπογόνους, Ἀλκμαίωνα Σίλλου τοῦ Θρασυμήδους καὶ Πεισίστρατον τὸν Πεισιστράτου καὶ τοὺς Παίονος τοῦ Ἀντιλόχου παῖδας, σὺν δὲ αὐτοῖς Μέλανθον τὸν Ἀνδροπόμπου τοῦ Βώρου τοῦ Πενθίλου τοῦ Περικλυμένου. Τισαμενὸς μὲν οὖν ἦλθε σὺν τῇ στρατιᾷ καὶ οἱ παῖδες ἐς τὴν νῦν Ἀχαΐαν·

English Translation

Thus they expelled Tisamenus from Lacedaemon and Argos, and from Messenia they drove out the descendants of Nestor—Alcmaeon, son of Sillus, the son of Thrasymedes; Peisistratus, son of Peisistratus; and the sons of Paeon, son of Antilochus; and with them Melanthus, son of Andropompus, son of Borus, son of Penthilus, son of Periclymenus. Consequently, Tisamenus and his sons departed with their army to the region now called Achaia.

Proper Nouns

Boros (Βῶρος) person
Thrasymedes (Θρασυμήδης) person
Melanthus (Μέλανθος) person
Also in: 1.3.3 2.18.9 7.1.9
Nestor (Νέστωρ) person
Penthelos (Πένθιλος) person
Also in: 5.4.3
Paeon (Παίων) person
Also in: 5.1.4 5.1.5
Peisistratus (Πεισίστρατος) person
Periklymenos (Περικλύμενος) person
Also in: 9.18.6
Sillos (Σίλλος) person
Tisamenus (Τισαμενός) person
Alcmaeon (Ἀλκμαίων) person
Andropompos (Ἀνδρόπομπος) person
Also in: 7.1.9 9.5.16
Antilochus (Ἀντίλοχος) person
Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων) place Q5690 Pleiades
Messenia (Μεσσηνία) place Q1247159
Achaia (Ἀχαΐα) place Q2790451
Argos (Ἄργος) place Q13533353
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