Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.3.5

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Passage 9.3.5: Daedala festivals: Plataeans' annual 14 wooden images; the Greater held every 60 years.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ταύτην μὲν ἰδίᾳ οἱ Πλαταιεῖς ἑορτὴν ἄγουσι, Δαίδαλα μικρὰ ὀνομάζοντες· Δαιδάλων δὲ ἑορτὴν τῶν μεγάλων καὶ Βοιωτοί σφισι συνεορτάζουσι, διʼ ἑξηκοστοῦ δὲ ἄγουσιν ἔτους· ἐκλιπεῖν γὰρ τοσοῦτον χρόνον τὴν ἑορτήν φασιν, ἡνίκα οἱ Πλαταιεῖς ἔφευγον. ξόανα δὲ τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα ἕτοιμά σφισίν ἐστι κατʼ ἐνιαυτὸν ἕκαστον παρασκευασθέντα ἐν Δαιδάλοις τοῖς μικροῖς.

English Translation

This festival the Plataeans celebrate by themselves, calling it the Little Daedala; but the Greater Daedala the Boeotians join them in celebrating, holding it at intervals of sixty years. For they say that the festival was interrupted for precisely this length of time during the exile of the Plataeans. Fourteen wooden images are prepared for them beforehand, each made ready annually at every Little Daedala.

Proper Nouns

Daedala (Δαίδαλα) other
Also in: 9.3.2 9.3.3 9.3.6
Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) person
Plataeans (Πλαταιεῖς) person
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