Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 6.20

• 6.20.1: Basilae sacrifice to Kronos atop Mount Kronion.
• 6.20.2: Sanctuary of Eileithyia and Sosipolis at the Kronion.
• 6.20.3: Sanctuary of Sosipolis and Eileithyia
• 6.20.4: Woman offers her infant to the Eleans as a war-helper.
• 6.20.5: The child-turned-serpent deity Sosipolis and his temple
• 6.20.6: Tomb of Arcadian war dead and Aphrodite Urania temple ruins by Eileithyia.
• 6.20.7: The Hippodameion at Olympia: an enclosure for women's annual sacrifices to Hippodameia.
• 6.20.8: The stadium, its Hidden Gate, judges' seats, and a white stone altar.
• 6.20.9: Priestess of Demeter Chamyne watching the Olympic games
• 6.20.10: Ship-prow-shaped starting-place for horse races with a bronze dolphin.
• 6.20.11: The starting-place for equestrian events at Olympia
• 6.20.12: Altar automaton: bronze eagle springs up while a dolphin falls.
• 6.20.13: Chariot race starting procedure at the Stoa of Agnaptos
• 6.20.14: Cleoitas's horse-racing starting gate, later improved by Aristides.
• 6.20.15: Taraxippus, the circular altar at the hippodrome that terrifies horses.
• 6.20.16: Taraxippos: tomb of the horseman Olenios or of Dameon and his horse.
• 6.20.17: Taraxippus (horse-terrifier) and Myrtilus' tomb.
• 6.20.18: Taraxippus, the "horse‑frightener", possibly a cult title of Poseidon Hippios.
• 6.20.19: Taraxippos horse‑terror sites and Olympia's bronze Hippodameia