Pausanias Analysis

Passage 7.3.7

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Passage 7.3.7: The founding and mixed settlement of Erythrae.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Ἐρυθραῖοι δὲ τὸ μὲν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀφικέσθαι σὺν Ἐρύθρῳ τῷ Ῥαδαμάνθυός φασιν ἐκ Κρήτης καὶ οἰκιστὴν τῇ πόλει γενέσθαι τὸν Ἔρυθρον· ἐχόντων δὲ αὐτὴν ὁμοῦ τοῖς Κρησὶ Λυκίων καὶ Καρῶν τε καὶ Παμφύλων, Λυκίων μὲν κατὰ συγγένειαν τὴν Κρητῶν ---καὶ γὰρ οἱ Λύκιοι τὸ ἀρχαῖόν εἰσιν ἐκ Κρήτης, οἳ Σαρπηδόνι ὁμοῦ ἔφυγον---, Καρῶν δὲ κατὰ φιλίαν ἐκ παλαιοῦ πρὸς Μίνω, Παμφύλων δὲ ὅτι γένους μέτεστιν Ἑλληνικοῦ καὶ τούτοις---εἰσὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ οἱ Πάμφυλοι τῶν μετὰ ἅλωσιν Ἰλίου πλανηθέντων σὺν Κάλχαντι---, τούτων τῶν κατειλεγμένων ἐχόντων Ἐρυθράς, Κλέοπος ὁ Κόδρου συλλέξας ἐξ ἁπασῶν τῶν ἐν Ἰωνίᾳ πόλεων ὅσους δὴ παρὰ ἑκάστων ἐπεισήγαγεν Ἐρυθραίοις συνοίκους.

English Translation

The Erythraeans say that originally settlers came together with Erythrus, the son of Rhadamanthys, from Crete, and that Erythrus became their city's founder. Later, when Lycians, Carians, and Pamphylians occupied the city along with the Cretans—Lycians due to their kinship with the Cretans (for the Lycians too originally came from Crete, those who fled together with Sarpedon); Carians because of their ancient friendship with Minos; and Pamphylians because they had a share of Greek ancestry (indeed, the Pamphylians are among those who, after the capture of Troy, wandered with Calchas)—while these aforementioned peoples were occupying Erythrae, Cleopus, the son of Codrus, gathered colonists from all the Ionian cities, bringing as many as he could from each, and introduced them as fellow inhabitants to the Erythraeans.

Proper Nouns

Calchas (Κάλχας) person
Also in: 1.43.1 9.19.6
Carians (Καρ) person
Kleopos (Κλέοπος) person
Cretan (Κρής) person
Kodros (Κόδρος) person
Lycian (Λύκιος) person
Minos (Μῖνος) person
Pamphylians (Πάμφυλος) person
Also in: 2.28.6
Sarpedon (Σαρπηδών) person
Also in: 10.31.5 10.31.8
Erythraeans (Ἐρυθραῖοι) person
Erythros (Ἐρυθρός) person
Greeks (Ἕλλην) person
Rhadamanthys (Ῥαδάμανθυς) person
Also in: 8.53.4 8.53.5
Crete (Κρήτη) place Q34374 Pleiades
Erythrai (Ἐρυθραί) place Q2714769 Pleiades
Ionia (Ἰωνία) place Q620874
Ilium (Ἴλιον) place Q22647
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