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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 8.46.5

τοῦτο μὲν δὴ ἐνταῦθα ἀνάκειται ἐλέφαντος διὰ παντὸς πεποιημένον, τέχνη δὲ Ἐνδοίου · τοῦ δὲ ὑὸς τῶν ὀδόντων κατεᾶχθαι μὲν τὸν ἕτερόν φασιν οἱ ἐπὶ τοῖς θαύμασιν, ὁ δʼ ἔτι ἐξ αὐτῶν λειπόμενος ἀνέκειτο ἐν βασιλέως κήποις ἐν ἱερῷ Διονύσου, τὴν περίμετρον τοῦ μήκους παρεχόμενος ἐς ἥμισυ μάλιστα ὀργυιᾶς. Here then it has been set up, made throughout of ivory, the work of Endoeus. Those in charge of the curiosities say that one of the boar's tusks has broken off; the remaining one is kept in the gardens of the emperor, in a sanctuary of Dionysus, and is about half a fathom long.

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1. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 35.26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
2. Tacitus, Agricola, 6.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
3. Tacitus, Annals, 15.41 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 15.41.  It would not be easy to attempt an estimate of the private dwellings, tenement-blocks, and temples, which were lost; but the flames consumed, in their old-world sanctity, the temple dedicated to Luna by Servius Tullius, the great altar and chapel of the Arcadian Evander to the Present Hercules, the shrine of Jupiter Stator vowed by Romulus, the Palace of Numa, and the holy place of Vesta with the Penates of the Roman people. To these must be added the precious trophies won upon so many fields, the glories of Greek art, and yet again the primitive and uncorrupted memorials of literary genius; so that, despite the striking beauty of the rearisen city, the older generation recollects much that it proved impossible to replace. There were those who noted that the first outbreak of the fire took place on the nineteenth of July, the anniversary of the capture and burning of Rome by the Senones: others have pushed their researches so far as to resolve the interval between the two fires into equal numbers of years, of months, and of days.
4. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 55.9.6 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 55.9.6.  He made the journey as a private citizen, though he exercised his authority by compelling the Parians to sell him the statue of Vesta, in order that it might be placed in the temple of Concord; and when he reached Rhodes, he refrained from haughty conduct in both word and deed.
5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.25.9, 8.46.1-8.46.4, 9.27.3, 10.7.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 5.25.9. but Agamemnon's statue is the only one of the eight to have his name inscribed upon it; the writing is from right to left. The figure with the cock emblazoned on the shield is Idomeneus the descendant of Minos. The story goes that Idomeneus was descended from the Sun, the father of Pasiphae, and that the cock is sacred to the Sun and proclaims when he is about to rise. 8.46.1. The ancient image of Athena Alea, and with it the tusks of the Calydonian boar, were carried away by the Roman emperor Augustus after his defeat of Antonius and his allies, among whom were all the Arcadians except the Mantineans. 8.46.2. It is clear that Augustus was not the first to carry away from the vanquished votive offerings and images of gods, but was only following an old precedent. For when Troy was taken and the Greeks were dividing up the spoils, Sthenelus the son of Capaneus was given the wooden image of Zeus Herceius (of the Courtyard); and many years later, when Dorians were migrating to Sicily, Antiphemus the founder of Gela, after the sack of Omphace, a town of the Sicanians, removed to Gela an image made by Daedalus. 8.46.3. Xerxes, too, the son of Dareius, the king of Persia, apart from the spoil he carried away from the city of Athens, took besides, as we know, from Brauron the image of Brauronian Artemis, and furthermore, accusing the Milesians of cowardice in a naval engagement against the Athenians in Greek waters, carried away from them the bronze Apollo at Branchidae . This it was to be the lot of Seleucus afterwards to restore to the Milesians, but the Argives down to the present still retain the images they took from Tiryns ; one, a wooden image, is by the Hera, the other is kept in the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo. 8.46.4. Again, the people of Cyzicus, compelling the people of Proconnesus by war to live at Cyzicus, took away from Proconnesus an image of Mother Dindymene. The image is of gold, and its face is made of hippopotamus teeth instead of ivory. So the emperor Augustus only followed a custom in vogue among the Greeks and barbarians from of old. The image of Athena Alea at Rome is as you enter the Forum made by Augustus. 9.27.3. Sappho of Lesbos wrote many poems about Love, but they are not consistent. Later on Lysippus made a bronze Love for the Thespians, and previously Praxiteles one of Pentelic marble. The story of Phryne and the trick she played on Praxiteles I have related in another place. See Paus. 1.20.1 . The first to remove the image of Love, it is said, was Gaius the Roman Emperor; Claudius, they say, sent it back to Thespiae, but Nero carried it away a second time. 10.7.1. It seems that from the beginning the sanctuary at Delphi has been plotted against by a vast number of men. Attacks were made against it by this Euboean pirate, and years afterwards by the Phlegyan nation; furthermore by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, by a portion of the army of Xerxes, by the Phocian chieftains, whose attacks on the wealth of the god were the longest and fiercest, and by the Gallic invaders. It was fated too that Delphi was to suffer from the universal irreverence of Nero, who robbed Apollo of five hundred bronze statues, some of gods, some of men.
6. Epigraphy, Stratonikeia, 511

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
antoninus pius,column of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
athena alea at tegea	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
attitudes,roman	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
augustus	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
curatores,a pinacothecis	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
curatores,adiutor rationis statuarum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
curatores,procurator operum publicorum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
curatores	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
hercules,farnese	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
ilium	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
jerusalem	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
jews	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
julius agricola,cn.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
julius caesar,gaius	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
lagina	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
objects,inventory of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
pergamum	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
pliny the elder,the natural history	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
publicani	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
res gestae'	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 120
vespasian,inventories neros greek plunder	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301
vitellius,as curator	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 301