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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 10.35.2

θεῷ δὲ τῷ ἐν Ἄβαις οὐχ ὁμοίως Ῥωμαῖοί τε ἀπένειμαν τὰ ἐς τιμὴν καὶ ὁ Πέρσης· ἀλλὰ Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν εὐσεβείᾳ τῇ ἐς τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα Ἀβαίοις δεδώκασιν αὐτονόμους σφᾶς εἶναι, στρατιὰ δὲ ἡ μετὰ Ξέρξου κατέπρησε καὶ τὸ ἐν Ἄβαις ἱερόν. Ἑλλήνων δὲ τοῖς ἀντιστᾶσι τῷ βαρβάρῳ τὰ κατακαυθέντα ἱερὰ μὴ ἀνιστάναι σφίσιν ἔδοξεν, ἀλλὰ ἐς τὸν πάντα ὑπολείπεσθαι χρόνον τοῦ ἔχθους ὑπομνήματα· καὶ τοῦδε ἕνεκα οἵ τε ἐν τῇ Ἁλιαρτίᾳ ναοὶ καὶ Ἀθηναίοις τῆς Ἥρας ἐπὶ ὁδῷ τῇ Φαληρικῇ καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ Φαληρῷ τῆς Δήμητρος καὶ κατʼ ἐμὲ ἔτι ἡμίκαυτοι μένουσι. The treatment that the god at Abae received at the hands of the Persians was very different from the honor paid him by the Romans. For while the Romans have given freedom of government to Abae because of their reverence for Apollo, the army of Xerxes burned down, as it did others, the sanctuary at Abae. The Greeks who opposed the barbarians resolved not to rebuild the sanctuaries burnt down by them, but to leave them for all time as memorials of their hatred. This too is the reason why the temples in the territory of Haliartus, as well as the Athenian temples of Hera on the road to Phalerum and of Demeter at Phalerum, still remain half-burnt even at the present day.

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

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1. Isocrates, Orations, 4.156 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
2. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 81, 80 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 11.29.2-11.29.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 11.29.2.  And when the Greek forces were assembled at the Isthmus, all of them agreed that they should swear an oath about the war, one that would make staunch the concord among them and would compel entrenchment nobly to endure the perils of the battle. 11.29.3.  The oath ran as follows: "I will not hold life dearer than liberty, nor will I desert the leaders, whether they be living or dead, but I will bury all the allies who have perished in the battle; and if I overcome the barbarians in the war, I will not destroy any one of the cities which have participated in the struggle; nor will I rebuild any one of the sanctuaries which have been burnt or demolished, but I will let them be and leave them as a reminder to coming generations of the impiety of the barbarians.
4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.1.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.1.5. Twenty stades away is the Coliad promontory; on to it, when the Persian fleet was destroyed, the wrecks were carried down by the waves. There is here an image of the Coliad Aphrodite, with the goddesses Genetyllides (Goddesses of Birth), as they are called. And I am of opinion that the goddesses of the Phocaeans in Ionia, whom they call Gennaides, are the same as those at Colias. On the way from Phalerum to Athens there is a temple of Hera with neither doors nor roof. Men say that Mardonius, son of Gobryas, burnt it. But the image there to-day is, as report goes, the work of Alcamenes fl. 440-400 B.C. So that this, at any rate, cannot have been damaged by the Persians.
5. Epigraphy, Ig I , 987, 986
6. Epigraphy, Ig I , 987, 986

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
amynos	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
asklepios	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
athenians, dedications of	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
athenians, oath of plataea	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92
athenians, sacrifices of	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91
athenians, treatment of dead	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91
callimachus of athens	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
corinthians	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
curses	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91
dead, treatment of	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91
dedications, after marathon	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
dedications, after plataea	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
demeter, eleusinia of athens	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 92
epilektoi	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
festivals, eleutheria of plataea	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92
hera, of athens	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 92
hera	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
herakles, in demes	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
hermes, in demes	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
kleruch, samos	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
komarch, kômê	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
kybele	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
leonidas of sparta	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
leto, goddess, of corinth	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
loutrophoros	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
oaths, of plataea	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92
oaths	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92
olympia, dedications at	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
pollution	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91
pythia of delphi	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
sacrifices	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91
simonides of ceos	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 213
spartans	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92
themistocles of athens, decree of	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 92
vows	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92
walls'	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 1045
xerxes of persia, impieties of	Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2003) 91, 92