Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.4.9

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Passage 8.4.9: Auge's tomb at Pergamus

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ταύτῃ τῇ Αὔγῃ τῷ Ἑκαταίου λόγῳ συνεγίνετο Ἡρακλῆς, ὁπότε ἀφίκοιτο ἐς Τεγέαν· τέλος δὲ καὶ ἐφωράθη τετοκυῖα ἐκ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους, καὶ αὐτὴν ὁ Ἄλεος ἐσθέμενος ὁμοῦ τῷ παιδὶ ἐς λάρνακα ἀφίησεν ἐς θάλασσαν, καὶ ἡ μὲν ἀφίκετο ἐς Τεύθραντα δυνάστην ἄνδρα ἐν Καΐκου πεδίῳ καὶ συνῴκησεν ἐρασθέντι τῷ Τεύθραντι· καὶ νῦν ἔστι μὲν Αὔγης μνῆμα ἐν Περγάμῳ τῇ ὑπὲρ τοῦ Καΐκου, γῆς χῶμα λίθου περιεχόμενον κρηπῖδι, ἔστι δὲ ἐν τῷ μνήματι ἐπίθημα χαλκοῦ πεποιημένον, γυνὴ γυμνή.

English Translation

According to the account of Hecataeus, it was this Auge with whom Heracles consorted whenever he came to Tegea. Eventually, however, she was discovered to have given birth by Heracles, and Aleus, perceiving this, cast her together with the child into a chest and let it drift out to sea. She arrived at the court of Teuthras, a ruler in the plain of the river Caicus, who fell in love with her and married her. Even now there is a tomb of Auge in Pergamus above the Caicus, a mound of earth surrounded by a stone base, and on her tomb there is a bronze image of a naked woman.

Proper Nouns

Auge (Αὐγή) person Q159948
Also in: 8.47.4
Teuthras (Τεύθραντας) person
Also in: 3.25.4
Aleus (Ἄλεος) person
Hecataeus (Ἑκαταῖος) person
Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) person
Caicus (Καΐκος) place Q1737602
Pergamum (Πέργαμος) place Q18986
Tegea (Τεγέα) place Q645234 Pleiades
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