Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.35.5

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Passage 9.35.5: Accounts of the Graces' names and parentage.

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

Ἡσίοδος δὲ ἐν Θεογονίᾳ---προσιέσθω δὲ ὅτῳ φίλον τὴν Θεογονίαν---, ἐν δʼ οὖν τῇ ποιήσει ταύτῃ τὰς Χάριτάς φησιν εἶναι Διός τε καὶ Εὐρυνόμης καί σφισιν ὀνόματα Εὐφροσύνην τε καὶ Ἀγλαΐαν εἶναι καὶ Θαλίαν. κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ ἐν ἔπεσίν ἐστι τοῖς Ὀνομακρίτου. Ἀντίμαχος δὲ οὔτε ἀριθμὸν Χαρίτων οὔτε ὀνόματα εἰπὼν Αἴγλης εἶναι θυγατέρας καὶ Ἡλίου φησὶν αὐτάς. Ἑρμησιάνακτι δὲ τῷ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα γράψαντι τοσόνδε οὐ κατὰ τὴν τῶν πρότερον δόξαν ἐστὶν αὐτῷ πεποιημένον, ὡς ἡ Πειθὼ Χαρίτων εἴη καὶ αὐτὴ μία.

English Translation

Hesiod, however, in his Theogony—and let anyone who pleases accept the Theogony—within this poem he declares the Graces to be daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, naming them Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thaleia. Omacritus, in his poems, accords precisely with this view. Antimachus, on the other hand, neither stating the number nor the names of the Graces, says that they are daughters of Aegle and the Sun. Moreover, Hermesianax, who composed elegies, diverges so far from previous opinion that he maintains Peitho ("Persuasion") herself is also one of the Graces.

Proper Nouns

Aegle (Αἴγλη) deity Q3586199
Eurynome (Εὐρυνόμη) deity Q60848089
Euphrosyne (Εὐφροσύνη) deity Q689422
Zeus (Ζεύς) deity Q34201
Thalia (Θάλεια) deity Q1260484
Peitho (Πειθώ) deity Q611171
Charites (Χάριτες) deity
Aglaia (Ἀγλαΐα) deity Q4439972
Helios (Ἥλιος) deity Q134270
Theogony (Θεογονία) other Q156498
Antimachus (Ἀντίμαχος) person
Hermesianax (Ἑρμησιάναξ) person Q1613558
Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος) person Q44233
Onomacritus (Ὀνομακρίτος) person Q537647
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