Pausanias Analysis

Passage 5.22.7

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Passage 5.22.7: Private Leontini dedication: a seven-cubit statue of Zeus holding an eagle and thunderbolt.

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

ἰδίᾳ δὲ ἄνδρες Λεοντῖνοι καὶ οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ Δία ἀνέστησαν· μέγεθος μὲν τοῦ ἀγάλματος πήχεις εἰσὶν ἑπτά, ἐν δὲ ταῖς χερσὶν ἀετός τέ ἐστιν αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ βέλος τοῦ Διὸς κατὰ τοὺς τῶν ποιητῶν λόγους. ἀνέθεσαν δὲ Ἱππαγόρας τε καὶ Φρύνων καὶ Αἰνεσίδημος, ὃν ἄλλον πού τινα Αἰνεσίδημον δοκῶ καὶ οὐ τὸν τυραννήσαντα εἶναι Λεοντίνων.

English Translation

Privately and not on behalf of their community, certain men of Leontini dedicated a statue of Zeus. The statue is seven cubits in height, and in its hands are an eagle and the thunderbolt of Zeus, as described in the accounts of the poets. Those who dedicated it were Hippagoras, Phrynon, and Aenesidemus, whom I suppose to have been another Aenesidemus, not the one who was tyrant of Leontini.

Proper Nouns

Zeus (Ζεύς) deity
statue (ἄγαλμα) other
Also in: 7.22.3
Ainesidemos (Αἰνεσίδημος) person Q314467
Phrynōn (Φρύνων) person
Hippagoras (Ἱππαγόρας) person
Leontinoi (Λεοντῖνοι) place Q3830644
Also in: 6.17.9 10.18.7
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