Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.24.6

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Passage 2.24.6: Mount Chaon's Erasinus spring and the Dionysus–Pan cult (Tyrbe festival)

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ὀλίγον δὲ ἀπωτέρω ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς ὁδοῦ Χάον ἐστὶν ὄρος ὀνομαζόμενον, ὑπὸ δὲ αὐτῷ δένδρα πέφυκεν ἥμερα καὶ ἄνεισι τοῦ Ἐρασίνου φανερὸν ἐνταῦθα δὴ τὸ ὕδωρ· τέως δὲ ἐκ Στυμφάλου ῥεῖ τῆς Ἀρκάδων ὥσπερ ἐξ Εὐρίπου κατὰ Ἐλευσῖνα καὶ τὴν ταύτῃ θάλασσαν οἱ Ῥειτοί. πρὸς δὲ τοῦ Ἐρασίνου ταῖς κατὰ τὸ ὄρος ἐκβολαῖς Διονύσῳ καὶ Πανὶ θύουσι, τῷ Διονύσῳ δὲ καὶ ἑορτὴν ἄγουσι καλουμένην Τύρβην.

English Translation

A short distance further, on the right-hand side of the road, there is a mountain named Chaon. At the foot of this mountain grow cultivated trees, and the water of the Erasinus river rises to view clearly there. Until that point, the river flows underground from Stymphalus in Arcadia, just as the streams called Rheitoi flow from the Euripus and emerge near Eleusis into the sea located there. Near where the Erasinus emerges from the mountain, the people sacrifice to Dionysus and Pan, and they conduct a festival for Dionysus as well, called Tyrbe.

Proper Nouns

Dionysus (Διόνυσος) deity
Pan (Πάν) deity
Tyrbe (Τύρβη) other
Arcadians (Ἀρκάδες) other
Euripus (Εὔριπος) place Q1137741
Stymphalos (Στύμφαλος) place Q2359730
Chaos (Χάος) place
Also in: 10.12.10
Eleusis (Ἐλευσῖς) place Q11918833
Erasinos (Ἐρασῖνος) place Q12877267
Rheitoi (Ῥειτοί) place Q1785564
Also in: 1.38.1
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