Pausanias Analysis

Passage 5.22.4

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Passage 5.22.4: Thronium founded by Locrians and Abantes, later expelled by the Apolloniatae.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

σκεδασθεισῶν γὰρ Ἕλλησιν, ὡς ἐκομίζοντο ἐξ Ἰλίου, τῶν νεῶν, Λοκροί τε ἐκ Θρονίου τῆς ἐπὶ Βοαγρίῳ ποταμῷ καὶ Ἄβαντες ἀπὸ Εὐβοίας ναυσὶν ὀκτὼ συναμφότεροι πρὸς τὰ ὄρη κατηνέχθησαν τὰ Κεραύνια. οἰκήσαντες δὲ ἐνταῦθα καὶ πόλιν οἰκίσαντες Θρόνιον, καὶ τῆς γῆς ἐφʼ ὅσον ἐνέμοντο Ἀβαντίδος ὄνομα ἀπὸ κοινοῦ λόγου θέμενοι, ἐκπίπτουσιν ὕστερον ὑπὸ Ἀπολλωνιατῶν ὁμόρων κρατηθέντες πολέμῳ. ἀποικισθῆναι δὲ ἐκ Κορκύρας τὴν Ἀπολλωνίαν, τὴν δὲ Κορινθίων εἶναί φασιν ἀποικίαν, οἱ δὲ Κορινθίοις αὐτοῖς μετεῖναι λαφύρων.

English Translation

For when, upon their return from Ilium, the Greeks' fleet was scattered, the Locrians from Thronium upon the river Boagrius, together with the Abantes from Euboea, were driven with eight ships towards the Ceraunian Mountains. Having settled there and founded a city named Thronium, they called the territory they occupied by the general name Abantis. Afterwards, however, they were expelled, having been defeated in war by their neighbors, the Apolloniatae. It is said that Apollonia was colonized from Corcyra, itself a Corinthian colony, and that the Corinthians themselves took part in the spoils.

Proper Nouns

Corinthians (Κόρινθος) person
Locrians (Λοκροί) person
Apolloniates (Ἀπολλωνιάται) person
Also in: 5.22.3
Abantes (Ἄβαντες) person
Also in: 7.2.4 7.4.9
Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) person
Boagrius (river) (Βοαγρεύς) place
Euboea (Εὔβοια) place Q173096
Thronion (Θρόνιον) place Q3035310
Also in: 5.22.3
Corcyra (Κέρκυρα) place Q3693378
Ceraunian (Mountains) (Κεραύνια) place Q1054699
Also in: 1.13.1 5.22.3
Abantis (Ἀβαντίς) place Q19979682
Also in: 5.22.3
Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία) place Q505703
Also in: 5.22.3 6.14.13
Ilium (Ἴλιον) place Q22647
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