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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 1.4.6

Περγαμηνοῖς δὲ ἔστι μὲν σκῦλα ἀπὸ Γαλατῶν, ἔστι δὲ γραφὴ τὸ ἔργον τὸ πρὸς Γαλάτας ἔχουσα. ἣν δὲ νέμονται οἱ Περγαμηνοί, Καβείρων ἱεράν φασιν εἶναι τὸ ἀρχαῖον· αὐτοὶ δὲ Ἀρκάδες ἐθέλουσιν εἶναι τῶν ὁμοῦ Τηλέφῳ διαβάντων ἐς τὴν Ἀσίαν. πολέμων δὲ τῶν μὲν ἄλλων, εἰ δή τινας ἐπολέμησαν, οὐκ ἐς ἅπαντας κεχώρηκεν ἡ φήμη· τρία δὲ γνωριμώτατα ἐξείργασταί σφισι, τῆς τε Ἀσίας ἀρχὴ τῆς κάτω καὶ ἡ Γαλατῶν ἀπʼ αὐτῆς ἀναχώρησις καὶ τὸ ἐς τοὺς σὺν Ἀγαμέμνονι Τηλέφου τόλμημα, ὅτε Ἕλληνες ἁμαρτόντες Ἰλίου τὸ πεδίον ἐλεηλάτουν τὸ Μήιον ὡς γῆν τὴν Τρῳάδα. ἐπάνειμι δὲ ἐς τὴν ἀρχὴν ὅθεν ἐξέβην τοῦ λόγου. They have spoils from the Gauls, and a painting which portrays their deed against them. The land they dwell in was, they say, in ancient times sacred to the Cabeiri, and they claim that they are themselves Arcadians, being of those who crossed into Asia with Telephus. Of the wars that they have waged no account has been published to the world, except that they have accomplished three most notable achievements; the subjection of the coast region of Asia, the expulsion of the Gauls therefrom, and the exploit of Telephus against the followers of Agamemnon, at a time when the Greeks after missing Troy, were plundering the Meian plain thinking it Trojan territory. Now I will return from my digression.

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1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.4.5, 1.35.7-1.35.8, 10.18.7, 10.19.4, 10.19.12, 10.21.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.4.5. The greater number of the Gauls crossed over to Asia by ship and plundered its coasts. Some time after, the inhabitants of Pergamus, that was called of old Teuthrania, drove the Gauls into it from the sea. Now this people occupied the country on the farther side of the river Sangarius capturing Ancyra, a city of the Phrygians, which Midas son of Gordius had founded in former time. And the anchor, which Midas found, A legend invented to explain the name “ Ancyra,” which means anchor. was even as late as my time in the sanctuary of Zeus, as well as a spring called the Spring of Midas, water from which they say Midas mixed with wine to capture Silenus. Well then, the Pergameni took Ancyra and Pessinus which lies under Mount Agdistis, where they say that Attis lies buried. 1.35.7. But what really caused me surprise is this. There is a small city of upper Lydia called The Doors of Temenus. There a crest broke away in a storm, and there appeared bones the shape of which led one to suppose that they were human, but from their size one would never have thought it. At once the story spread among the multitude that it was the corpse of Geryon, the son of Chrysaor, and that the seat also was his. For there is a man's seat carved on a rocky spur of the mountain. And a torrent they called the river Ocean, and they said that men ploughing met with the horns of cattle, for the story is that Geryon reared excellent cows. 1.35.8. And when I criticized the account and pointed out to them that Geryon is at Gadeira, where there is, not his tomb, but a tree showing different shapes, the guides of the Lydians related the true story, that the corpse is that of Hyllus, a son of Earth, from whom the river is named. They also said that Heracles from his sojourning with Omphale called his son Hyllus after the river. 10.19.4. The carvings in the pediments are: Artemis, Leto, Apollo, Muses, a setting Sun, and Dionysus together with the Thyiad women. The first of them are the work of Praxias, an Athenian and a pupil of Calamis, but the temple took some time to build, during which Praxias died. So the rest of the ornament in the pediments was carved by Androsthenes, like Praxias an Athenian by birth, but a pupil of Eucadmus. There are arms of gold on the architraves; the Athenians dedicated the shields from spoils taken at the battle of Marathon, and the Aetolians the arms, supposed to be Gallic, behind and on the left. Their shape is very like that of Persian wicker shields. 10.19.12. This was the size of the army, and such was the intention of Brennus, when he attacked Greece . The spirit of the Greeks was utterly broken, but the extremity of their terror forced them to defend Greece . They realized that the struggle that faced them would not be one for liberty, as it was when they fought the Persian, and that giving water and earth would not bring them safety. They still remembered the fate of Macedonia, Thrace and Paeonia during the former incursion of the Gauls, and reports were coming in of enormities committed at that very time on the Thessalians. So every man, as well as every state, was convinced that they must either conquer or perish. 10.21.5. On this day the Attic contingent surpassed the other Greeks in courage. of the Athenians themselves the bravest was Cydias, a young man who had never before been in battle. He was killed by the Gauls, but his relatives dedicated his shield to Zeus God of Freedom, and the inscription ran:— Here hang I, yearning for the still youthful bloom of Cydias, The shield of a glorious man, an offering to Zeus. I was the very first through which at this battle he thrust his left arm, When the battle raged furiously against the Gaul .

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aetia prologue, hymns	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
apamea celaenae	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
apollo	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
barbarian/barbarians	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
barbarians, in hymn 4 to delos	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
brassidas	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
callimachus, on kings and kingship	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
celts	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
coins, ptolemaic	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
delphi	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
galatians, as new titans	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
galatians, revolt of, in egypt	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
gaul/gauls	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
greece (mainland), old	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
hellenistic period	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
heracles	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
herodotus	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
history, greek	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
hymn '4 to delos, and kingship ideology"	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
hymn 6 to demeter, kingship ideology	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
identity, greek	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
identity, local/regional	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
ionia	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
iran/iranian	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
king, lydian	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
kingship ideology	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
laodiceia	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
leonidas	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
magnesia (thessaly)	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
magnesia by sipylos	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
nonnos	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
peloponnese	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
pelops	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
pericles	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
persia/persians	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
prestige	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
ptolemy ii philadelphus, in hymn to delos	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
shield, as trophy'	Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 198
themisonion	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
thermopylai, battle at	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18
xerxes	Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 18