Pausanias Analysis

Passage 3.20.7

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Passage 3.20.7: Open-air statue of Artemis Dereatis at Dereium

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐκ τούτου δὴ τοῦ Ἕλους ξόανον Κόρης τῆς Δήμητρος ἐν ἡμέραις ῥηταῖς ἀνάγουσιν ἐς τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον. πεντεκαίδεκα δὲ τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου σταδίους ἀφέστηκε Λαπίθαιον καλούμενον ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς ἐγχωρίου Λαπίθου· τοῦτό τε οὖν τὸ Λαπίθαιόν ἐστιν ἐν τῷ Ταϋγέτῳ καὶ οὐ πόρρω Δέρειον, ἔνθα Ἀρτέμιδος ἄγαλμα ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ Δερεάτιδος, καὶ πηγὴ παρʼ αὐτῷ ἣν Ἄνονον ὀνομάζουσι. μετὰ δὲ τὸ Δέρειον σταδίους προελθόντι ὡς εἴκοσιν ἔστιν Ἅρπλεια καθήκοντα ἄχρι τοῦ πεδίου.

English Translation

From this place called Helos they bring an ancient wooden image of the Maiden, daughter of Demeter, to the Eleusinion during certain prescribed days. Fifteen stades from the Eleusinion stands a place called Lapithaeum, named for a local man called Lapithus. This Lapithaeum is situated on Mount Taygetus, and not far from it is Dereium, where there is an open-air statue of Artemis Dereatis and near it a spring they name Anonus. About twenty stades beyond Dereium lies Harpleia, which extends to the edge of the plain.

Proper Nouns

Demeter (Δήμητρα) deity
Dereatis (Δερεᾶτις) deity
Kore (Κόρη) deity
Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) deity
Lapithos (Λαπίθος) person
Dereion (Δέρειον) place Q60792061
Lapithaion (Λαπίθαιον) place Q60792059
Taygetos (Ταΰγετος) place Q515809
Anonon (Ἄνονος) place
Harpleia (Ἅρπλεια) place Q60792060
Eleusinion (Ἐλευσίνιον) place Q1349784
Also in: 1.14.3
Helos (Ἕλος) place Q56670610
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