Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.5.8

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Passage 2.5.8: Demeter intervenes - raises Orthopolis, preserving Pleminaeus's lineage to Lamedon.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

ὄνομα δὲ ἦν Πέρατος τῷ παιδί. τὰ δὲ ἐς Πλημναῖον τὸν Περάτου μάλιστα ἐφαίνετό μοι θαύματος ἄξια· τὰ γάρ οἱ τικτόμενα ὑπὸ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτίκα ὁπότε πρῶτον κλαύσειεν ἠφίει τὴν ψυχήν, ἐς ὃ Δημήτηρ ἔλεον ἴσχει Πλημναίου, παραγενομένη δὲ ἐς τὴν Αἰγιάλειαν ὡς δὴ γυνὴ ξένη Πλημναίῳ παῖδα ἀνέθρεψεν Ὀρθόπολιν. Ὀρθοπόλιδι δὲ θυγάτηρ γίνεται Χρυσόρθη· ταύτην τεκεῖν νομίζουσιν ἐξ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ ὁ παῖς ὠνομάσθη Κόρωνος, Κορώνου δὲ γίνονται Κόραξ καὶ νεώτερος Λαμέδων.

English Translation

The child's name was Peratus. But what especially seemed to me most worthy of wonder concerning Pleminaeus, the son of Peratus, was as follows: all the children born to him by his wife immediately, upon their first cry, gave up their life. So it continued, until Demeter took pity on Pleminaeus. Visiting Aegialea disguised as a foreign woman, she raised a child for him named Orthopolis. Orthopolis in turn had a daughter, Chrysorthe; Chrysorthe, according to belief, bore a child by Apollo, whom they named Coronus. The children of Coronus were Corax and a younger son named Lamedon.

Proper Nouns

Demeter (Δημήτηρ) deity
Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) deity
Korax (Κόραξ) person
Also in: 2.6.1 6.10.7
Koronos (Κόρων) person
Lamedon (Λαμέδων) person
Also in: 2.6.3 2.6.5 2.6.6
Peratos (Πέρατος) person
Plemnaios (Πλημναῖος) person
Also in: 2.11.2
Chrysorthe (Χρυσόρθη) person
Orthopolis (Ὀρθόπολις) person
Aigialeia (Αἰγιάλεια) place Q23504981
Also in: 2.5.6 2.6.2 2.7.7
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