Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.27.8

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Passage 9.27.8: Sanctuary attributed to the Idaean Heracles.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐφαίνετό μοι τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦτο ἀρχαιότερον ἢ κατὰ Ἡρακλέα εἶναι τὸν Ἀμφιτρύωνος, καὶ Ἡρακλέους τοῦ καλουμένου τῶν Ἰδαίων Δακτύλων, οὗ δὴ καὶ Ἐρυθραίους τοὺς ἐν Ἰωνίᾳ καὶ Τυρίους ἱερὰ ἔχοντας εὕρισκον. οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ οἱ Βοιωτοὶ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους ἠγνόουν τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα, ὅπου γε αὐτοὶ τῆς Μυκαλησσίας Δήμητρος Ἡρακλεῖ τῷ Ἰδαίῳ τὸ ἱερὸν ἐπιτετράφθαι λέγουσιν.

English Translation

Yet it appeared to me that this sanctuary was older than the time of Heracles, son of Amphitryon, and belonged rather to that Heracles who is called one of the Idaean Dactyls, whose sanctuaries I discovered among the Erythraeans in Ionia and among the Tyrians. Nor indeed were even the Boeotians ignorant of this Heracles name, since they themselves say that the sanctuary of the Mycalessian Demeter was entrusted to Idaean Heracles.

Proper Nouns

Demeter (Δήμητρα) deity
Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) person
Amphitryon (Ἀμφιτρύων) person
Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) person
Heracles the Idaean (Ἡρακλῆς ὁ Ἰδαῖος) person
Idaean Dactyls (Ἰδαῖοι Δάκτυλοι) person
Also in: 5.7.6
Mykalessia (Μυκαλησσία) place Q107251001
Tyre (Τύρος) place Q82070 Pleiades
Also in: 5.25.12 7.5.5
Erythrai (Ἐρυθραί) place Q2714769 Pleiades
Ionia (Ἰωνία) place Q620874
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