Pausanias Analysis

Passage 5.14.9

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Passage 5.14.9: Altars near the stadium: Hermes Enagonios and Kairos

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

ἐφεξῆς δὲ Ὁμονοίας βωμὸς καὶ αὖθις Ἀθηνᾶς, ὁ δὲ Μητρὸς θεῶν. τῆς ἐσόδου δὲ τῆς ἐς τὸ στάδιόν εἰσιν ἐγγύτατα βωμοὶ δύο· τὸν μὲν αὐτῶν Ἑρμοῦ καλοῦσιν Ἐναγωνίου, τὸν δὲ ἕτερον Καιροῦ. Ἴωνι δὲ οἶδα τῷ Χίῳ καὶ ὕμνον πεποιημένον Καιροῦ· γενεαλογεῖ δὲ ἐν τῷ ὕμνῳ νεώτατον παίδων Διὸς Καιρὸν εἶναι. πλησίον δὲ τοῦ Σικυωνίων θησαυροῦ ἤτοι Κουρήτων ἢ τοῦ Ἀλκμήνης ἐστὶν Ἡρακλέους· λέγεται γὰρ καὶ ἀμφότερα.

English Translation

Next is an altar of Concord, then again one of Athena, and another of the Mother of the Gods. Closest to the entrance to the stadium are two altars; one of these they name Hermes Enagonios ("of the Contest"), and the other Kairos ("Opportunity"). I know that Ion the Chian composed a hymn to Kairos, and in that hymn he makes Kairos the youngest son of Zeus. Near the treasury of the Sicyonians there is the treasury either of the Curetes or of Alcmene, mother of Heracles; for both accounts are told.

Proper Nouns

Zeus (Ζεύς) deity
Kairos (Καιρός) deity
Mother of the Gods (Μήτηρ θεῶν) deity
Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ) deity
Enagonios (an epithet of Hermes) (Ἐναγώνιος) deity
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) deity
Homonoia (Ὁμόνοια) deity
Curetes (Κουρῆτες) other
Also in: 3.25.2
Alcmene (Ἀλκμήνη) person
Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) person
Ion (Ἴων) person
Sicyon (Σικυών) place Q368628 Pleiades
Chian (Χῖος) place Q56399450
Also in: 4.35.10 6.15.2
stadion (στάδιον) place Q16331589
Also in: 6.20.8
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