Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.3.15

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Passage 6.3.15: Statues of Alcibiades at Samos and Lysander at Olympia

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

κατὰ τὸ λεγόμενον ὑπʼ αὐτῶν Ἰώνων, τοὺς τοίχους τοὺς δύο ἐπαλείφοντες. Ἀλκιβιάδου μέν γε τριήρεσιν Ἀθηναίων περὶ Ἰωνίαν ἰσχύοντος ἐθεράπευον αὐτὸν Ἰώνων οἱ πολλοί, καὶ εἰκὼν Ἀλκιβιάδου χαλκῆ παρὰ τῇ Ἥρᾳ τῇ Σαμίων ἐστὶν ἀνάθημα· ὡς δὲ ἐν Αἰγὸς ποταμοῖς ἑάλωσαν αἱ ναῦς αἱ Ἀττικαί, Σάμιοι μὲν ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν τὸν Λύσανδρον, Ἐφέσιοι δὲ ἐς τὸ ἱερὸν ἀνετίθεσαν τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος Λύσανδρόν τε αὐτὸν καὶ Ἐτεόνικον καὶ Φάρακα καὶ ἄλλους Σπαρτιατῶν ἥκιστα ἔς γε τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν γνωρίμους.

English Translation

According to what is said by the Ionians themselves, they used to plaster over the two walls. Indeed when Alcibiades stood powerful with the Athenian navy around Ionia, most of the Ionians showed him honor, and a bronze statue of Alcibiades set up by the Samians stands as a dedication by the temple of Hera at Samos. But when the Attic fleet was captured at Aegospotami, the Samians set up at Olympia a statue of Lysander, while the Ephesians dedicated in the temple of Artemis figures of Lysander himself, and Eteonicus, Pharax, and other Spartans who were very little known in the Greek world.

Proper Nouns

Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) deity
Hera (Ἥρα) deity
Lysander (Λύσανδρος) person
Samians (Σάμιοι) person
Spartiates (Σπαρτιᾶται) person
Pharax (Φάραξ) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Alcibiades (Ἀλκιβιάδης) person
Eteonikos (Ἐτεόνικος) person
Also in: 9.32.8 10.9.10
Ephesians (Ἐφέσιοι) person
Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) person
Ionians (Ἴωνες) person
Aegospotami (Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί) place Q404513
Also in: 3.8.6 4.17.3
Ionia (Ἰωνία) place Q620874
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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