Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.9.8

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Passage 2.9.8: Bronze statues: daughters of Proetus, a Heracles by Lysippos, and Hermes Agoraios

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

τούτου δέ εἰσιν εἰκόνες ἐφεξῆς χαλκαῖ· τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας λέγουσιν εἶναι σφᾶς, τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα ἐς γυναῖκας ἄλλας εἶχεν. ἐνταῦθα Ἡρακλῆς χαλκοῦς ἐστι· Λύσιππος ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν Σικυώνιος, καὶ πλησίον Ἑρμῆς ἕστηκεν Ἀγοραῖος.

English Translation

Next to this are bronze statues set up in succession: they say that these represent the daughters of Proetus, though the inscription upon them refers to other women. Here is also a bronze Heracles, made by Lysippos of Sikyon, and close by stands Hermes Agoraios.

Proper Nouns

Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) deity
Agoraios (Ἀγοραῖος) other
Also in: 1.15.1 3.11.11
Lysippos (Λύσιππος) person
Proetus (Προῖτος) person
Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) person
Sicyon (Σικυών) place Q368628 Pleiades
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