Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.34.10

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Passage 4.34.10: Asinaeans' flight from Parnassus and resettlement at Asine in Argolis.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Ἀσιναῖοι δὲ αὐτοὶ περὶ σφῶν οὕτω λέγουσι· κρατηθῆναι μὲν ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέους μάχῃ συγχωροῦσιν ἁλῶναί τε τὴν ἐν τῷ Παρνασσῷ πόλιν, αἰχμάλωτοι δὲ γενέσθαι καὶ ἀχθῆναι παρὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα οὔ φασιν· ἀλλʼ ὡς ἡλίσκετο ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους τὸ τεῖχος, ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἀναφυγεῖν ἐς τὰ ἄκρα τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ, διαβάντες δὲ ὕστερον ναυσὶν ἐς Πελοπόννησον γενέσθαι φασὶν Εὐρυσθέως ἱκέται, καὶ σφίσιν Εὐρυσθέα ἅτε ἀπεχθανόμενον τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ δοῦναι τὴν ἐν τῇ Ἀργολίδι Ἀσίνην.

English Translation

The Asinaeans themselves relate their story as follows: they admit having been defeated in battle by Heracles and that their city on Parnassus was taken, but they deny that they became prisoners or were taken to Apollo. Rather, they say that when the city walls were being captured by Heracles, they abandoned their town and fled to the heights of Parnassus. Afterwards they crossed by ships into the Peloponnese, became suppliants of Eurystheus, and Eurystheus, because of his hatred for Heracles, gave them Asine in Argolis.

Proper Nouns

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) deity
Eurystheus (Εὐρυσθεύς) person Q117453263
Asinaeans (Ἀσιναῖοι) person
Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) person
Parnassus (Παρνασσός) place Q105261
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος) place Q78967
Argolis (Ἀργολίς) place Q12649101
Asine (Ἀσίνη) place Q1154474
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