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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 10.19.5

Γαλατῶν δὲ τῆς ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐπιστρατείας ἔχει μέν τινα μνήμην καὶ ἡ ἐς τὸ βουλευτήριον ἡμῖν τὸ Ἀττικὸν συγγραφή· προάγειν δὲ ἐς τὸ σαφέστερον τὰ ἐς αὐτοὺς ἠθέλησα ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τῷ ἐς Δελφούς, ὅτι ἔργων τῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς βαρβάρους τὰ μέγιστα Ἕλλησιν ἐνταῦθα ἦν. ὑπερόριον μὲν οἱ Κελτοὶ στρατείαν πρώτην ὑπὸ ἡγεμόνι ἐποιήσαντο Καμβαύλῃ· προελθόντες δὲ ἄχρι τῆς Θρᾴκης τὸ πρόσω τῆς πορείας οὐκ ἀπεθάρσησαν, καταγνόντες αὑτῶν ὅτι ὀλίγοι τε ἦσαν καὶ οὐκ ἀξιόμαχοι κατʼ ἀριθμὸν Ἕλλησιν. 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.

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1. Herodotus, Histories, 2.123.1, 7.152.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.123.1. These Egyptian stories are for the benefit of whoever believes such tales: my rule in this history is that I record what is said by all as I have heard it. The Egyptians say that Demeter and Dionysus are the rulers of the lower world. 7.152.3. The conduct of the Argives was accordingly not utterly shameful. As for myself, although it is my business to set down that which is told me, to believe it is none at all of my business. This I ask the reader to hold true for the whole of my history, for there is another tale current, according to which it would seem that it was the Argives who invited the Persian into Hellas, because the war with the Lacedaemonians was going badly, and they would prefer anything to their present distresses.
2. 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.
3. Plutarch, Cimon, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.17.4, 6.3.8, 10.19.3, 10.19.12 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.17.4. The statue of Hera is seated on a throne; it is huge, made of gold and ivory, and is a work of Polycleitus. She is wearing a crown with Graces and Seasons worked upon it, and in one hand she carries a pomegranate and in the other a sceptre. About the pomegranate I must say nothing, for its story is somewhat of a holy mystery. The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre they explain by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet. This tale and similar legends about the gods I relate without believing them, but I relate them nevertheless. 6.3.8. The statue of Oebotas was set up by the Achaeans by the command of the Delphic Apollo in the eightieth Olympiad 460 B.C., but Oebotas won his victory in the footrace at the sixth Festival 756 B.C. . How, therefore, could Oebotas have taken part in the Greek victory at Plataea ? For it was in the seventy-fifth Olympiad 479B.C. that the Persians under Mardonius suffered their disaster at Plataea . Now I am obliged to report the statements made by the Greeks, though I am not obliged to believe them all. The other incidents in the life of Oebotas I will add to my history of Achaia . See Paus. 7.17.6 . 10.19.3. 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 . 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.
5. Epigraphy, Syll. , 398.9-398.10

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 190
aegean sea	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
affordance	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
agalmata	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 197
ambitouti	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
asia, roman province	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
asia minor, northern	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
atticism	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 262
augustus (emperor)	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
bithynia	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
bronze	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
celts, in galatia	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
centre	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188, 197
cios	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
cosmographic deixis	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 197
east	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188, 197
europe	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
galatia	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
galloi	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
germanicopolis	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
germanicus	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
gold	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188, 197
hellespont	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
hephaistos	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
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
hyperochos and amadokos	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 190
king	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 197
kēlēdones	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
metopes	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
midas of gordium	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
neoptolemus	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 190
olen	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
pausanias, imitation of herodotus, nature of	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 262
pausanias, judgment of literary talents of	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 262
pausanias	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 262
persians	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188, 197
phrygia	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
primordial temples of delphi	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
propontis	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
south	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188, 197
sōteria	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 190
teutosages	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
tolostobogii	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
trocmi	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
victory	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188
voturi'	Roller, A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder (2022) 318
war	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 197
west	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 197
winds	Gagne, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece (2021), 188