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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 1.15.2

ἐν δὲ τῷ μέσῳ τῶν τοίχων Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ Θησεὺς Ἀμαζόσι μάχονται. μόναις δὲ ἄρα ταῖς γυναιξὶν οὐκ ἀφῄρει τὰ πταίσματα τὸ ἐς τοὺς κινδύνους ἀφειδές, εἴ γε Θεμισκύρας τε ἁλούσης ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέους καὶ ὕστερον φθαρείσης σφίσι τῆς στρατιᾶς, ἣν ἐπʼ Ἀθήνας ἔστειλαν, ὅμως ἐς Τροίαν ἦλθον Ἀθηναίοις τε αὐτοῖς μαχούμεναι καὶ τοῖς πᾶσιν Ἕλλησιν. ἐπὶ δὲ ταῖς Ἀμαζόσιν Ἕλληνές εἰσιν ᾑρηκότες Ἴλιον καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖς ἠθροισμένοι διὰ τὸ Αἴαντος ἐς Κασσάνδραν τόλμημα· καὶ αὐτὸν ἡ γραφὴ τὸν Αἴαντα ἔχει καὶ γυναῖκας τῶν αἰχμαλώτων ἄλλας τε καὶ Κασσάνδραν. On the middle wall are the Athenians and Theseus fighting with the Amazons. So, it seems, only the women did not lose through their defeats their reckless courage in the face of danger; Themiscyra was taken by Heracles, and afterwards the army which they dispatched to Athens was destroyed, but nevertheless they came to Troy to fight all the Greeks as well as the Athenians them selves. After the Amazons come the Greeks when they have taken Troy, and the kings assembled on account of the outrage committed by Ajax against Cassandra. The picture includes Ajax himself, Cassandra and other captive women.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Herodotus, Histories, 9.27.4 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 9.27.4. We also have on record our great victory against the Amazons, who once came from the river Thermodon and broke into Attica, and in the hard days of Troy we were second to none. But since it is useless to recall these matters—for those who were previously valiant may now be of lesser mettle, and those who lacked mettle then may be better men now—
2. Plato, Menexenus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 239b. deeming it their duty to fight in the cause of freedom alike with Greeks on behalf of Greeks and with barbarians on behalf of the whole of Greece . The story of how they repulsed Eumolpus and the Amazons, and still earlier invaders, when they marched upon our country, and how they defended the Argives against the Cadmeians and the Heracleidae against the Argives, is a story which our time is too short to relate as it deserves, and already their valor has been adequately celebrated in song by poets who have made it known throughout the world;
3. Plutarch, Theseus, 27.2-27.4, 28.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.15.3, 1.17.2, 1.17.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.15.3. At the end of the painting are those who fought at Marathon; the Boeotians of Plataea and the Attic contingent are coming to blows with the foreigners. In this place neither side has the better, but the center of the fighting shows the foreigners in flight and pushing one another into the morass, while at the end of the painting are the Phoenician ships, and the Greeks killing the foreigners who are scrambling into them. Here is also a portrait of the hero Marathon, after whom the plain is named, of Theseus represented as coming up from the under-world, of Athena and of Heracles. The Marathonians, according to their own account, were the first to regard Heracles as a god. of the fighters the most conspicuous figures in the painting are Callimachus, who had been elected commander-in-chief by the Athenians, Miltiades, one of the generals, and a hero called Echetlus, of whom I shall make mention later. 1.17.2. In the gymnasium not far from the market-place, called Ptolemy's from the founder, are stone Hermae well worth seeing and a likeness in bronze of Ptolemy. Here also is Juba the Libyan and Chrysippus The Stoic philosopher, 280-207 B.C. of Soli . Hard by the gymnasium is a sanctuary of Theseus, where are pictures of Athenians fighting Amazons. This war they have also represented on the shield of their Athena and upon the pedestal of the Olympian Zeus. In the sanctuary of Theseus is also a painting of the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapithae. Theseus has already killed a Centaur, but elsewhere the fighting is still undecided. 1.17.4. The accounts of the end of Theseus are many and inconsistent. They say he was kept a prisoner until Heracles restored him to the light of day, but the most plausible account I have heard is this. Theseus invaded Thesprotia to carry off the wife of the Thesprotian king, and in this way lost the greater part of his army, and both he and Peirithous (he too was taking part in the expedition, being eager for the marriage) were taken captive. The Thesprotian king kept them prisoners at Cichyrus.
5. Demosthenes, Orations, 60.8
6. Lysias, Orations, 2.4-2.6

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 685
ajax the locrian	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549, 685
ajax the locrian (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
amazon	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
amazons,attic amazonomachy	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 146
amazons,in the figurative arts	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 146
amazons	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
antiope,role in the attic amazonomachy	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 146
archeology,and homeric bowls	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
asia	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
athamas (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
athenian	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
athens	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
cassandra,abduction of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
cimon,and the painted stoa	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 146
competition	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
dionysia,athenian	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
dionysus,and athamas	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
dithyramb	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
ephesus	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
euripides,on achilles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 685
fragments,of sophocles works	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
general polyxena	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 685
hellenic identity,in opposition to the barbarian	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
homeric bowl,and athamas	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
iliad (homer),and sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 685
ino	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
marathon	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
marathon (battle of)	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 146
nephele	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
on the sublime,on sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 685
panathenaea	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
persians	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
philaid	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
plays,lost	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
proclus,and ajax the locrian (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
scyros	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
sophocles,lost plays and fragments of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 549
stoa poecile	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682
theseus'	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 153
theseus	Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 682