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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 10.19.3


τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ ἔρχομαι διηγησόμενος λόγον Λέσβιον. ἁλιεῦσιν ἐν Μηθύμνῃ τὰ δίκτυα ἀνείλκυσεν ἐκ θαλάσσης πρόσωπον ἐλαίας ξύλου πεποιημένον· τοῦτο ἰδέαν παρείχετο φέρουσαν μὲν τοι ἐς τὸ θεῖον, ξένην δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ θεοῖς Ἑλληνικοῖς οὐ καθεστῶσαν. εἴροντο οὖν οἱ Μηθυμναῖοι τὴν Πυθίαν ὅτου θεῶν ἢ καὶ ἡρώων ἐστὶν ἡ εἰκών· ἡ δὲ αὐτοὺς σέβεσθαι Διόνυσον Φαλλῆνα ἐκέλευσεν. ἐπὶ τούτῳ οἱ Μηθυμναῖοι ξόανον μὲν τὸ ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης παρὰ σφίσιν ἔχοντες καὶ θυσίαις καὶ εὐχαῖς τιμῶσι, χαλκοῦν δὲ ἀποπέμπουσιν ἐς Δελφούς.I am going on to tell a Lesbian story. Certain fishermen of Methymna found that their nets dragged up to the surface of the sea a face made of olive-wood. Its appearance suggested a touch of divinity, but it was outlandish, and unlike the normal features of Greek gods. So the people of Methymna asked the Pythian priestess of what god or hero the figure was a likeness, and she bade them worship Dionysus Phallen. Whereupon the people of Methymna kept for themselves the wooden image out of the sea, worshipping it with sacrifices and prayers, but sent a bronze copy to Delphi .


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

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1. Homer, Odyssey, 8.258-8.259 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2. Aristotle, Poetics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Polybius, Histories, 2.35.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

2.35.7.  For indeed I consider that the writers who chronicled and handed down to us the story of the Persian invasion of Greece and the attack of the Gauls on Delphi have made no small contribution to the struggle of the Hellenes for their common liberty.
4. Longinus, On The Sublime, 33 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Plutarch, Cimon, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.43.3, 7.19.6, 7.19.9, 9.12.4, 10.19.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.43.3. In the city are graves of Megarians. They made one for those who died in the Persian invasion, and what is called the Aesymnium (Shrine of Aesymnus) was also a tomb of heroes. When Agamemnon's son Hyperion, the last king of Megara, was killed by Sandion for his greed and violence, they resolved no longer to be ruled by one king, but to have elected magistrates and to obey one another in turn. Then Aesymnus, who had a reputation second to none among the Megarians, came to the god in Delphi and asked in what way they could be prosperous. The oracle in its reply said that they would fare well if they took counsel with the majority. This utterance they took to refer to the dead, and built a council chamber in this place in order that the grave of their heroes might be within it. 7.19.6. The sacrifice to Artemis of human beings is said to have ceased in this way. An oracle had been given from Delphi to the Patraeans even before this, to the effect that a strange king would come to the land, bringing with him a strange divinity, and this king would put an end to the sacrifice to Triclaria. When Troy was captured, and the Greeks divided the spoils, Eurypylus the son of Euaemon got a chest. In it was an image of Dionysus, the work, so they say, of Hephaestus, and given as a gift by Zeus to Dardanus. 7.19.9. And so the malady of Eurypylus and the sacrifice of these people came to an end, and the river was given its present name Meilichus. Certain writers have said that the events I have related happened not to the Thessalian Eurypylus, but to Eurypylus the son of Dexamenus who was king in Olenus, holding that this man joined Heracles in his campaign against Troy and received the chest from Heracles. The rest of their story is the same as mine. 9.12.4. There is also a story that along with the thunderbolt hurled at the bridalchamber of Semele there fell a log from heaven. They say that Polydorus adorned this log with bronze and called it Dionysus Cadmus. Near is an image of Dionysus; Onasimedes made it of solid bronze. The altar was built by the sons of Praxiteles. 10.19.5. I have made some mention of the Gallic invasion of Greece in my description of the Athenian Council Chamber. Paus. 1.3.4 But I have resolved to give a more detailed account of the Gauls in my description of Delphi, because the greatest of the Greek exploits against the barbarians took place there. The Celts conducted their first foreign expedition under the leadership of Cambaules. Advancing as far as Thrace they lost heart and broke off their march, realizing that they were too few in number to be a match for the Greeks.
7. Epigraphy, Syll. , 398.9-398.10



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
affordance Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
agalmata Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
ainos Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
apotropaia Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
aristotle Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
arrival Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
artemis, artemis triklaria Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
brasiae, bryseae Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
bronze Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
callimachus Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
centre Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
charites, in iambi Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
cult, cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
cult images, aniconic Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
cult images Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
delphi, delphian, delphic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
delphi Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
dionysi, dionysoi, dionysoses Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
dionysos, dionysos aisymnetes Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
dionysos, dionysos aroeus Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
dionysos, dionysos kephalena Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
dionysos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
dionysos phallen Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
dionysus, dionysus aisymnetes Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
dionysus, dionysus phallen Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
dionysus phallen Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
east Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
epeios (sculptor) Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
epeius Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
face, of divine image Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
family dynamics, in iambi Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
fran¸cois vase Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
frontisi-ducroux, f. Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
gaze, of cult images Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
gaze, of gorgon Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
gold Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
gorgon Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
gorgoneia Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
hephaistos Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
hermes, hermes perpheraios Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
hermes Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
hermes perpheraeus Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
hero Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
herodotus Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
homer Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
homeric Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
iambi (callimachus), family dynamics in Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
ionia, ionian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
kadmos, kadmeian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
kēlēdones Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
lacan, jacques Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
lenaea vases Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
lesbos/lesbian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
longinus Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
mask Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
measurement, in iambus Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
megara, megarean Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
mercury/hermes, and the sea Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
methymna Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500; Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
metopes Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
myth, mythical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
myths, aetiological Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
olen Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
patras Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
pausanias Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
persians Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
phidias, statue of zeus at olympia Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
primordial temples of delphi Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
pythian games Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
romano, i. b. Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83
samothrace Miller and Clay, Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (2019) 286
semele Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
south Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
sphaleotas, images of Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 83, 173
statues, and viewers Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
statues, aniconic Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
statues, of zeus by phidias at olympia Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500
terror masks, Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
thebes, theban Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
vase painting Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
victory Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
viewers Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 173
winds Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
xoanon ξόανον' Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 412
zeus, statue by phidias at olympia Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 500