Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 5.16

• 5.16.1: Temple of Hera at Elis: a Doric peripteral temple notable for one oak column.
• 5.16.2: Heraia: every five years women weave Hera's robe and run virgins' footraces.
• 5.16.3: The Heraean Games: women's footrace at Olympia.
• 5.16.4: Hippodameia founds the Heraea games for Hera
• 5.16.5: Sixteen eldest women of Elis chosen to settle disputes after Damophon.
• 5.16.6: Choruses of Physcoa and Hippodameia founded by sixteen Elis women
• 5.16.7: Physkoa and her son Narkaios, and the sixteen-woman chorus honoring Physkoa.
• 5.16.8: Purification rites at the Pierian spring for sixteen women and Eleian judges