Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.30.8

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Passage 2.30.8: Hyperes and Anthas, sons of Poseidon, found the cities Hypereia and Antheia.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τοὺς δὲ ὕστερον βασιλεύσαντας οὐκ ἴσασιν ἄχρι Ὑπέρητος καὶ Ἄνθα· τούτους δὲ εἶναι Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Ἀλκυόνης Ἄτλαντος θυγατρός, καὶ πόλεις αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ φασὶν Ὑπέρειάν τε καὶ Ἄνθειαν οἰκίσαι· Ἀέτιον δὲ τὸν Ἄνθα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ θείου παραλαβόντα τὴν ἀρχὴν τὴν ἑτέραν τῶν πόλεων Ποσειδωνιάδα ὀνομάσαι. Τροίζηνος δὲ καὶ Πιτθέως παρὰ Ἀέτιον ἐλθόντων βασιλεῖς μὲν τρεῖς ἀντὶ ἑνὸς ἐγένοντο, ἴσχυον δὲ οἱ παῖδες μᾶλλον οἱ Πέλοπος.

English Translation

Of those who reigned afterward, they do not know the names until we come to Hyperes and Anthas. These, they say, were sons of Poseidon and Alcyone, daughter of Atlas, and founded cities within the land, Hypereia and Antheia. When Aëtius, the son of Anthas, received authority from his father and uncle, he renamed one of these cities Poseidonia. After Troezen and Pittheus came to Aëtius, there were three kings instead of one, but the sons of Pelops possessed the greater power.

Proper Nouns

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) deity
Pelops (Πέλοψ) person
Pittheus (Πιτθεύς) person
Troezen (Τροίζην) person
Aetios (Ἀέτιος) person
Also in: 2.30.9 2.31.10
Alcyone (Ἀλκυόνη) person
Also in: 3.18.10 9.22.5
Anthas (Ἄνθας) person
Also in: 2.31.10 9.22.5
Atlas (Ἄτλας) person
Hyperetos (Ὑπέρητος) person
Poseidonia (Ποσειδωνιάς) place Q329967 Pleiades
Antheia (Ἄνθεια) place Q60790607
Hypereia (Ὑπέρεια) place Q125966733
Also in: 2.30.9
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