Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 5.7

• 5.7.1: The Alpheios river and its tributaries at Olympia.
• 5.7.2: Alpheios and Arethousa transformed into a river and a spring.
• 5.7.3: The mingling of Alpheios' waters with Arethousa at Ortygia.
• 5.7.4: The Nile's course through an Ethiopian lake into Egypt and the sea.
• 5.7.5: The Dead Sea's buoyant, fishless waters.
• 5.7.6: The temple of Cronus at Olympia
• 5.7.7: Heracles institutes a running contest, crowning winners with a Hyperborean olive branch
• 5.7.8: Hyperboreans bringing Achaia, Opis and Hekaerge to Delos.
• 5.7.9: Heracles the Idaean institutes the Olympic contest, held every fifth year.
• 5.7.10: Apollo's victories at Olympia and the Pythian flute in the pentathlon.