Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.36.3

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Passage 2.36.3: Didymoi: sanctuaries of Apollo, Poseidon, and Demeter with upright white-stone statues

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἀπὸ Μάσητος δὲ ὁδὸς ἐν δεξιᾷ ἐστιν ἐπὶ ἄκραν καλουμένην Στρουθοῦντα. στάδιοι δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἄκρας ταύτης κατὰ τῶν ὀρῶν τὰς κορυφὰς πεντήκοντά εἰσι καὶ διακόσιοι ἐς Φιλανόριόν τε καλούμενον καὶ ἐπὶ Βολεούς· οἱ δὲ Βολεοὶ οὗτοι λίθων εἰσὶ σωροὶ λογάδων. χωρίον δὲ ἕτερον, ὃ Διδύμους ὀνομάζουσι, στάδια εἴκοσιν αὐτόθεν ἀφέστηκεν· ἐνταῦθα ἔστι μὲν ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνος, ἔστι δὲ Ποσειδῶνος, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖς Δήμητρος, ἀγάλματα δὲ ὀρθὰ λίθου λευκοῦ.

English Translation

From Masetos there is a road on the right leading to a promontory called Strouthous. From this promontory it is two hundred and fifty stades, following along the mountain peaks, to a place called Philanorion and to the cairns called Boleoi; these same Boleoi are heaps of gathered stones. Another place, called Didymoi, lies twenty stades distant from there; here are sanctuaries of Apollo, of Poseidon, and, above these, of Demeter, containing upright statues of white stone.

Proper Nouns

Demeter (Δήμητρα) deity
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) deity
Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) deity
Boleoi (Βολεοί) place Q34396244
Didyma (Δίδυμοι) place Q671358
Masetos (Μάσητος) place Q111929514
Strouthounta (Στρουθοῦντα) place
Philanorion (Φιλανόριον) place Q131911843
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