Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 7.21

• 7.21.1: Coresus's unrequited love for Callirhoe.
• 7.21.2: Coresus' prayer causes Calydonians' madness; they consult the Dodona oracle.
• 7.21.3: Oracle: Coresus must sacrifice Callirhoe to appease Dionysus.
• 7.21.4: Coresus kills himself rather than sacrifice Callirhoe.
• 7.21.5: Callirhoe's suicide at the Calydon spring, which was thereafter named for her.
• 7.21.6: Sanctuary of Aesymnetes at Patrae
• 7.21.7: Sanctuary of Soteria and a nearby temple of Poseidon; his common epithets.
• 7.21.8: Hippios, the horse-god named for inventing horsemanship.
• 7.21.9: Pamphos: Poseidon as giver of horses and ships, his name deriving from horses.
• 7.21.10: Aphrodite statues and sanctuaries at Patrae.
• 7.21.11: Seaside grove with stone temples of Apollo and Aphrodite and a sanctuary of Demeter.
• 7.21.12: Healing oracle at Demeter's temple spring using a mirror.
• 7.21.13: Truth-revealing spring by the Cyanean rocks (oracle of Apollo Thyrxeus)
• 7.21.14: The sanctuary of Asclepius at Patrae