Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.14.13

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Passage 6.14.13: Statues of athletic victors and wrestlers.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

κεῖνται δὲ καὶ ἐν παισὶν εἰληφότες δρόμου νίκας Μενεπτόλεμος ἐξ Ἀπολλωνίας τῆς ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ καὶ Κορκυραῖος Φίλων, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖς Ἱερώνυμος Ἄνδριος, ὃς τὸν Ἠλεῖον Τισαμενὸν πενταθλοῦντα ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κατεπάλαισε τὸν ἐν Ἕλλησιν ὕστερον τούτων ἐναντία Μαρδονίου καὶ Μήδων Πλαταιᾶσι μαντευσάμενον. οὗτός τε δὴ ὁ Ἱερώνυμος ἀνάκειται καὶ παρʼ αὐτὸν παλαιστὴς παῖς, Ἄνδριος καὶ οὗτος, Προκλῆς ὁ Λυκαστίδα· τοῖς πλάσταις δὲ οἳ τοὺς ἀνδριάντας ἐποίησαν, τῷ μὲν Στόμιός ἐστιν ὄνομα, τῷ δὲ τὸν Προκλέα εἰργασμένῳ Σῶμις . Αἰσχίνῃ δὲ Ἠλείῳ νῖκαί τε δύο ἐγένοντο πεντάθλου καὶ ἴσαι ταῖς νίκαις αἱ εἰκόνες.

English Translation

Statues also stand here of victors who won foot-race victories as boys: Meneptolemus from Apollonia on the Ionian Gulf, and Philon from Corcyra. Beside them is Hieronymus of Andros, who defeated in wrestling the pentathlete Tisamenus of Elis at Olympia, the same man who later prophesied among the Greeks at Plataea against Mardonius and the Medes. This Hieronymus has his statue exhibited, and near him is the figure of a boy wrestler, also an Andrian, Procles, son of Lycastidas. The artists who produced their statues were Stomios, who made Hieronymus, and Somis, who made Procles. Aeschines of Elis received two pentathlon victories, and the statues commemorating him are equal in number to his victories.

Proper Nouns

Lykastis (Λυκαστίς) other
Medes (Μῆδοι) other
Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) other
Aischines/Aeschines (Αἰσχίνης) person
Also in: 4.26.7
Mardonius (Μαρδόνιος) person
Menephtolemos (Μενεπτόλεμος) person
Procles (Προκλῆς) person
Stomios (Στόμιος) person
Also in: 6.3.2
Soomis (Σῶμις) person
Tisamenus (Τισαμένης) person
Also in: 3.11.9
Philon (Φίλων) person
Also in: 6.9.9
Hieronymos (Ἱερώνυμος) person
Corcyra (Κέρκυρα) place Q3693378
Plataea (Πλάταιαι) place Q742538
Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία) place Q505703
Also in: 5.22.3 5.22.4
Andros (Ἄνδρος) place Q175741
Elis (Ἤλις) place Q217667
Ionian Gulf (Ἰόνιος κόλπος) place
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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