Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.22.1

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Passage 6.22.1: Artemis Kordaka sanctuary and Pelops' bones at Pisa

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

προελθόντι δὲ ὅσον τε στάδιον ἀπὸ τοῦ τάφου σημεῖά ἐστιν ἱεροῦ Κορδάκας ἐπίκλησιν Ἀρτέμιδος, ὅτι οἱ τοῦ Πέλοπος ἀκόλουθοι τὰ ἐπινίκια ἤγαγον παρὰ τῇ θεῷ ταύτῃ καὶ ὠρχήσαντο ἐπιχώριον τοῖς περὶ τὸν Σίπυλον κόρδακα ὄρχησιν. τοῦ ἱεροῦ δὲ οὐ πόρρω οἴκημά τε οὐ μέγα καὶ κιβωτός ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ χαλκῆ· ὀστᾶ τὰ Πέλοπος ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ φυλάσσουσι. τείχους δὲ ἢ ἄλλου κατασκευάσματος ἐλείπετο οὐδὲν ἔτι, ἄμπελοι δὲ ἦσαν διὰ τοῦ χωρίου πεφυτευμέναι παντός, ἔνθα ἡ Πίσα ᾠκεῖτο.

English Translation

About a stade beyond the tomb are the remains of a sanctuary dedicated to Artemis, surnamed Kordaka. She acquired this epithet because Pelops' followers held their victory celebrations near this goddess, performing the kordax, a type of dance customary among the people around Sipylus. Not far from this precinct there stands a modest building containing a bronze chest, in which the bones of Pelops are preserved. Of the city wall or any other structure there no longer remains anything, but vineyards have been planted all over the area that was once inhabited as Pisa.

Proper Nouns

Kordaka (Κορδάκη) deity
Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) deity
Pelops (Πέλοψ) person
Pisa (Πῖσα) place Q922329
Sipylus (Σίπυλος) place Q532698
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