Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.13.2

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Passage 4.13.2: Aristodemus' prophetic dream of being stripped of arms and crowned

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ταῦτά τε δὴ τὸν Ἀριστόδημον ἐτάρασσε καὶ ὀνείρατος ὄψις ἐπιγενομένη τοιάδε. ἔδοξεν ἐξιέναι οἱ μέλλοντι ἐς μάχην καὶ ὡπλισμένῳ τῶν ἱερείων τὰ σπλάγχνα ἐπὶ τραπέζῃ προκεῖσθαι, τὴν δέ οἱ θυγατέρα ἐπιφανῆναι μέλαιναν ἐσθῆτα ἔχουσαν καὶ φαίνουσαν τό τε στέρνον καὶ τὴν γαστέρα ἀνατετμημένα, ἀναφανεῖσαν δὲ ἀπορρῖψαι μὲν τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης, ἀφελέσθαι δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰ ὅπλα, ἀντὶ τούτων δὲ στέφανον ἐπιθεῖναι χρυσοῦν καὶ ἱμάτιον ἐπιβαλεῖν λευκόν.

English Translation

These things were troubling Aristodemus, and afterwards a vision appeared to him in a dream of the following nature: As he was preparing to go out armed into battle, he seemed to see upon a table set before him the entrails of sacrificial victims. His daughter appeared dressed in black garments, showing her breast and abdomen cut open. Having appeared thus, she threw down from the table what lay upon it, stripped him of his weapons, and instead placed upon him a golden crown and clad him in a white robe.

Proper Nouns

Aristodemos (Ἀριστόδημος) person
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