Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.2.6

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Passage 6.2.6: Antipater of Miletus asserts Milesian origin and dedicates a statue at Olympia.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

παρὰ δὲ τοῦ Θρασυβούλου τὴν εἰκόνα Τιμοσθένης τε Ἠλεῖος ἕστηκε σταδίου νίκην ἐν παισὶν εἰληφὼς καὶ Μιλήσιος Ἀντίπατρος Κλεινοπάτρου παῖδας κατειργασμένος πύκτας. Συρακοσίων δὲ ἄνδρες, ἄγοντες ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν παρὰ Διονυσίου θυσίαν, τὸν πατέρα τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου χρήμασιν ἀναπείθουσιν ἀναγορευθῆναί οἱ τὸν παῖδα ἐκ Συρακουσῶν· Ἀντίπατρος δὲ ἐν οὐδενὶ τοῦ τυράννου τὰ δῶρα ἡγούμενος ἀνεῖπεν αὑτὸν Μιλήσιον καὶ ἀνέγραψε τῇ εἰκόνι ὡς γένος τε εἴη Μιλήσιος καὶ Ἰώνων ἀναθείη πρῶτος ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν εἰκόνα.

English Translation

Next to the statue of Thrasybulus stands Timosthenes of Elis, who won a victory in the boys' footrace, and Antipater of Miletus, who trained boys, sons of Cleinopatrus, in boxing. Some Syracusans, who were bringing an offering from Dionysius to Olympia, persuaded Antipater's father with money to declare that his son was from Syracuse. Antipater, however, counting as nothing the gifts of the tyrant, publicly proclaimed himself to be Milesian, and inscribed upon his statue that he was Milesian by descent, and that he was the first of the Ionians to dedicate a statue at Olympia.

Proper Nouns

Ionians (Ἴωνες) other
Dionysios (Διονύσιος) person
Thrasyboulos (Θρασύβουλος) person
Kleinopator (Κλεινοπάτηρ) person
Milesian (Μιλήσιος) person
Timosthenes (Τιμοσθένης) person
Also in: 6.2.7 6.2.8 6.11.2
Antipater (Ἀντίπατρος) person
Eleians (Ἠλεῖος) person
Syracuse (Συρακοῦσαι) place Q4420718
SyraCusians/Syracusans (Συρακόσιοι) place
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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