Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.27.8

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Passage 8.27.8: Founding of Megalopolis shortly after the Spartan defeat at Leuctra.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

συνῳκίσθη δὲ ἡ Μεγάλη πόλις ἐνιαυτῷ τε τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ μησίν τε ὀλίγοις ὕστερον ἢ τὸ πταῖσμα ἐγένετο Λακεδαιμονίων τὸ ἐν Λεύκτροις, Φρασικλείδου μὲν Ἀθήνησιν ἄρχοντος, δευτέρῳ δὲ ἔτει τῆς ἑκατοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος καὶ δευτέρας, ἣν Δάμων Θούριος ἐνίκα στάδιον.

English Translation

Megalopolis was founded in the same year, a few months after the defeat suffered by the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra; during the archonship of Phrasicleides at Athens, in the second year of the hundred and second Olympiad, in which Damon of Thurii won the foot-race.

Proper Nouns

Olympiad (Ὀλυμπιάς) other
Damon (Δάμων) person
Thourios (Θούριος) person
Also in: 3.18.11
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Phrasikleides (Φρασικλείδης) person
Also in: 6.5.3
Leuctra (Λεῦκτρα) place Q56761602
Megalopolis (Μεγάλη πόλις) place Q36024972
Athens (Ἀθῆναι) place Q844930
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