Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 7.17

• 7.17.1: Argos’s decline and loss of power with the Dorian invasion.
• 7.17.2: Decline of the Greek city-states under Macedon and inept leadership
• 7.17.3: Nero grants Greece freedom and awards Sardinia to Rome.
• 7.17.4: Vespasian re-imposes Roman rule on Greece, revoking its freedom.
• 7.17.5: The Achaian city Dyme: location; seized by Philip, plundered, later given to Patrae.
• 7.17.6: Dyme (the city) and Oebotas of Dyme's commemorative statue at Olympia
• 7.17.7: Oebotas of Oeneia, Achaean foot-race victor
• 7.17.8: Tomb of Sostratos near Dyme, beloved by Heracles.
• 7.17.9: Sanctuary of the Mother Dindymene and Attis.
• 7.17.10: The myth of Agdistis and Attis at Pessinus
• 7.17.11: The birth and upbringing of Attis
• 7.17.12: Attis' self-castration and eternal preservation.
• 7.17.13: Oebotas' tomb and his curse on Achaean Olympic victories.
• 7.17.14: The statue of Oibotas at Olympia