Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.24.10

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Passage 8.24.10: Alcmaeon's murder by Phegeus' sons over Eriphyle's necklace

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐπεθύμησεν ἡ Καλλιρόη τῆς Ἐριφύλης οἱ γενέσθαι τὸν ὅρμον καὶ διʼ αὐτὸ ἐς τὴν Φηγίαν τὸν Ἀλκμαίωνα ἔστειλεν ἄκοντα, καὶ αὐτὸν ὑπὸ Φηγέως τῶν παίδων Τημένου καὶ Ἀξίονος δολοφονηθέντα ἐπέλαβεν ἡ τελευτή. τοῦ Φηγέως δὲ οἱ παῖδες τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι ἀναθεῖναι τῷ ἐν Δελφοῖς λέγονται τὸν ὅρμον. καὶ ἐπὶ τούτων βασιλευόντων ἐν Φηγίᾳ τότε ἔτι καλουμένῃ τῇ πόλει Φηγίᾳ στρατεῦσαί φασιν Ἕλληνας ἐς Τροίαν· σφᾶς δὲ οἱ Ψωφίδιοι τοῦ στόλου φασὶν οὐ μετασχεῖν, ὅτι αὐτῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν οἱ Ἀργείων ἀπηχθάνοντο ἡγεμόνες, κατὰ γένος τε τῷ Ἀλκμαίωνι οἱ πολλοὶ προσήκοντες καὶ τῆς ἐπιστρατείας αὐτῷ κοινωνήσαντες τῆς ἐς Θήβας.

English Translation

Callirhoe desired to possess Eriphyle's necklace, and therefore sent Alcmaeon unwillingly to Phegia, where death overtook him, treacherously murdered by Phegeus' sons, Temenus and Axion. The sons of Phegeus are said to have dedicated the necklace to Apollo at Delphi. During their reign over the city then still called Phegia, the Greeks, it is said, undertook the expedition against Troy. But the people of Psophis claim that their city did not participate in this expedition, alleging that the Argive leaders bore hostility toward their own kings, since the majority were related by birth to Alcmaeon and had assisted him in his campaign against Thebes.

Proper Nouns

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) deity
Callirhoe (Καλλιρόη) person
Temenos (Τήμενος) person
Phegeus (Φηγεύς) person
Psophidians (Ψωφίδιοι) person
Also in: 5.24.2
Alcmaeon (Ἀλκμαίων) person
Argives (Ἀργεῖοι) person
Axion (Ἄξίων) person
Eriphyle (Ἐριφύλη) person
Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) person
Delphi (Δελφοί) place Q75459 Pleiades
Thebes (Θῆβαι) place Q11225429
Troy (Τροία) place Q22647
Phigalia (Φηγία) place Q7623270
Also in: 8.24.8
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