Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.18.8

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Passage 8.18.8: Lousoi and the sanctuary of Artemis Hemerasia.

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

πόλιν μὲν δή ποτε εἶναι λέγουσι τοὺς Λουσούς, καὶ Ἀγησίλας ἀνὴρ Λουσεὺς ἀνηγορεύθη κέλητι ἵππῳ νικῶν, ὅτε πρώτην ἐπὶ ταῖς δέκα ἐτίθεσαν πυθιάδα Ἀμφικτύονες· τὰ δὲ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν οὐδὲ ἐρείπια ἔτι λειπόμενα ἦν Λουσῶν. τὰς δʼ οὖν θυγατέρας τοῦ Προίτου κατήγαγεν ὁ Μελάμπους ἐς τοὺς Λουσοὺς καὶ ἠκέσατο τῆς μανίας ἐν Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερῷ· καὶ ἀπʼ ἐκείνου τὴν Ἄρτεμιν ταύτην Ἡμερασίαν καλοῦσιν οἱ Κλειτόριοι.

English Translation

They say that Lousoi was once indeed a city, and Agesilas, a man from Lousoi, was proclaimed victor with the riding horse when the Amphictyons introduced a competition for the first time at the tenth Pythiad. But in our time not even ruins of Lousoi remain. Melampus brought down the daughters of Proitos to Lousoi and cured them of their madness in the sanctuary of Artemis. From that time the Kleitorians have called this Artemis by the name Hemerasia ("the Gentle").

Proper Nouns

Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) deity
Hemeresia (Ἡμερασία) deity
Kleitorians (inhabitants of Kleitor) (Κλειτόριοι) other
Lousian (from Lousoi) (Λουσεύς) other
Pythiad (period of the Pythian Games; rel. to Delphi) (Πυθιάς (relative to Πύθια)) other
Amphictyons (Ἀμφικτύονες) other
Melampus (Μελάμπους) person
Proetus (Προῖτος) person
Agesilas (Ἀγησίλας) person
Lousoi (Λοῦσοι) place Q1572206
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