Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.8.5

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Passage 9.8.5: The city's gates: Krenaean, Hypsistai (by Zeus Hypsistos), Ogygian, Homoloian

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

πύλας δὲ Κρηναίας, τὰς δὲ Ὑψίστας ἐπὶ λόγῳ τοιῷδε ὀνομάζουσι· πρὸς δὲ ταῖς Ὑψίσταις Διὸς ἱερὸν ἐπίκλησίν ἐστιν Ὑψίστου. τὰς δὲ ἐπὶ ταύταις πύλας ὀνομάζουσιν Ὠγυγίας, τελευταῖαι δέ εἰσιν Ὁμολωίδες· ἐφαίνετο δὲ εἶναί μοι καὶ τὸ ὄνομα νεώτατον ταῖς πύλαις ταύταις, αἱ δὲ Ὠγύγιαι τὸ ἀρχαιότατον.

English Translation

There are gates called Krenaean, and others named Highest (Hypsistai), for the following reason: near these Highest gates stands a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Hypsistos (Most High). The gates beyond these they call the Ogygian, and the last gates are the Homoloian. It seemed to me that the Homoloian gates bore the most recent of these names, while the Ogygian were named from the earliest times.

Proper Nouns

Zeus (Ζεύς) deity
Hypsistos (Ὑψίστος) deity
Krenaia (Κρηναία) place
Homoloides (Ὁμολωίδες) place Q135495756
Also in: 9.8.7
Hypsistai (Ὑψίσται) place Q108911348
Ogygia (Ὠγύγια) place Q1232442
Ogygiai (Ὠγύγιαι) place
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