Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.29.5

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Passage 8.29.5: Basilis: ruined town with a temple of Demeter Eleusinia

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τοῦ δὲ χωρίου τοῦ ὀνομαζομένου Βάθους σταδίους ὡς δέκα ἀφέστηκεν ἡ καλουμένη Βασιλίς· ταύτης ἐγένετο οἰκιστὴς Κύψελος ὁ Κρεσφόντῃ τῷ Ἀριστομάχου τὴν θυγατέρα ἐκδούς· ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ δὲ ἐρείπια ἡ Βασιλὶς ἦν καὶ Δήμητρος ἱερὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐλείπετο Ἐλευσινίας. ἐντεῦθεν δὲ προϊὼν τὸν Ἀλφειὸν αὖθις διαβήσῃ καὶ ἐπὶ Θωκνίαν ἀφίξῃ, τὸ ὄνομα ἀπὸ Θώκνου τοῦ Λυκάονος ἔχουσαν, ἐς ἅπαν δὲ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἔρημον· ἐλέγετο δὲ ὁ Θῶκνος ἐν τῷ λόφῳ κτίσαι τὴν πόλιν. ποταμὸς δὲ ὁ Ἀμίνιος ῥέων παρὰ τὸν λόφον ἐς τὸν Ἑλισσόντα ἐκδίδωσι, καὶ οὐ πολὺ ἄπωθεν ἐς τὸν Ἀλφειὸν ὁ Ἑλισσών.

English Translation

About ten stades from the place called Bathos is the site named Basilis. Cypselus was its founder, having given his daughter in marriage to Cresphontes, the son of Aristomachus. In my time Basilis was in ruins, and among these ruins there still remained a temple of Demeter Eleusinia. Proceeding from there, you again cross the Alpheius and reach Thocnia, named after Thocnus, the son of Lycaon, but wholly deserted by our day. Thocnus was said to have built the city on a hill. The river Aminius flows by this hill and empties into the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson itself joins the Alpheius.

Proper Nouns

Demeter (Δήμητρα) deity
Eleusinian (Ἐλευσινία) other
Thoknos (Θῶκνος) person
Also in: 8.3.2
Kresphontes (Κρέσφων) person
Also in: 2.19.1
Kypselos (Κύψελος) person
Lycaon (Λυκάων) person
Aristomachus (Ἀριστόμαχος) person
Bathos (Βάθος) place Q60791682
Also in: 8.29.1
Basilis (Βασιλίς) place Q4867451
Thoknia (Θωκνία) place Q60790111
Also in: 8.3.2
Alpheios (Ἀλφειός) place Q941745
Aminios (Ἀμίνιος) place Q46397264
Elisson (Ἑλισσών) place Q3723337
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