Pausanias Analysis
Chapter 8.4
Chapter 8.4
- 8.4.1: Arcas brings agriculture and arts, renaming Pelasgia to Arcadia.
- 8.4.2: Erato the Dryad, mother of Arkas's sons Azan, Apheidas, and Elatos.
- 8.4.3: Arcas divides Arcadia among his sons (Azania; Apheidas' Tegea)
- 8.4.4: Elatus, holder of Cyllene who founded Elateia, and his five sons.
- 8.4.5: Funeral games instituted for Azan, including a horse-race.
- 8.4.6: Mount Cyllene named for Cyllen.
- 8.4.7: Aepytus killed while hunting by an ash-colored, crab-like serpent
- 8.4.8: Aleus builds the sanctuary and royal residence of Athena Alea at Tegea.
- 8.4.9: Auge's tomb at Pergamus
- 8.4.10: Lycurgus succeeds Aleus, kills Areithous, outlives sons Ancaeus and Epochus