Orgas ...suppliants of Argus; the Athenians say that it was because he had devastated Orgas; the Delphians put it down to the bribes he gave the Pythian prophetess...

Orgas

79 Hermae ...son of Agis, my account of Sicyon has already set forth. On the way from the Hermae the whole of the region is full of oak-trees. The name of the district...

Hermae

80 22.543094,37.32399,0 of Poseidon surnamed Securer ...and of Zeus of the Market-place, another of Athena of the Market-place and of Poseidon surnamed Securer, and likewise one of Apollo and of Hera. There is also dedicated a colossal...

of Poseidon surnamed Securer

77 Peloponnesus ...him before he arrived there, that the Dorians would make this return to the Peloponnesus. But the more correct account is that Aristodemus was murdered by the sons of...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...held out by force of arms, but at last they were overcome and retired from the Peloponnesus under a truce. The remnant of them left behind in the land became the slaves of...

Peloponnesus

81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...people of Acriae say that this is the oldest sanctuary of this goddess in the Peloponnesus, although the Magnesians, who live to the north of Mount Sipylus, have on the...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...from Acriae is Geronthrae. It was inhabited before the Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus, but the Dorians of Lacedemon expelled the Achaean inhabitants and afterwards...

Peloponnesus

77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Greece ...It is said that this lady voluntarily joined the expedition of Xerxes against Greece and distinguished herself at the naval engagement off Salamis. On the...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...by sea from Cyphanta. The inhabitants have a story, found nowhere else in Greece, that Semele, after giving birth to her son by Zeus, was discovered by Cadmus...

Greece

76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...name; in Trojan Ida there grew in a grove of Apollo cornel-trees, which the Greeks cut down to make the Wooden Horse. Learning that the god was wroth with them...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...is an acceptable victim to the most valiant of the gods. I know of no other Greeks who are accustomed to sacrifice puppies except the people of Colophon; these...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Sicyon ...of Agis, son of Eudamidas, and of Eurydamidas, son of Agis, my account of Sicyon has already set forth. On the way from the Hermae the whole of the region is...

Sicyon

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Asia ...called Ilius, Asia and Cnacadium; formerly it lay on the summit of Mount Asia. Even now there are ruins of the old town, with a statue of Heracles outside...

Asia

75 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...on their return home from Colchis; for the Colchians had a shrine of Athena Asia. I know that the sons of Tyndareus took part in Jason's expedition. As to the...

Asia

78 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Persia ...be a more glorious success to conquer Artaxerxes and acquire the riches of Persia than to destroy the empire of Priam. but even as he was sacrificing armed...

Persia

77 Persia ...he sailed to Egypt, to succor the Egyptians who had revolted from the king of Persia. Agesilaus performed many noteworthy achievements in Egypt, but, being by this...

Persia

80 temple of Zeus ...Athena; her surname is the Worker. As you go to the south portico there is a temple of Zeus surnamed Cosmetas (Orderer), and before it is the tomb of Tyndareus. The west...

temple of Zeus

79 Greece ...Trojan war, and fought against the Thessalians before the Persian invasion of Greece, when they accomplished some noteworthy deeds. Expecting that the Thessalians...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...in the foot-race. When they had seized the sanctuary, the best mercenaries in Greece at once mustered to join them, while the Thebans, at variance before, declared...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...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...

Greece

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...that not a Gaul returned home in safety. The expedition of the Celts against Greece, and their destruction, took place when Anaxicrates was archon at Athens, in...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Asia ...have known from of old, the actual beasts, before the Macedonians crossed into Asia, nobody had seen at all except the Indians themselves, the Libyans, and their...

Asia

81 27.5,37.5,0 coast ...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...

coast

80 coast ...with him. And Pandion is said to have fallen ill there and died, and on the coast of the Megarid is his tomb, on the rock called the rock of Athena the...

coast

78 Samians ...who sailed in the Argo, and that these brought the image from Argos. But the Samians themselves hold that the goddess was born in the island by the side of the...

Samians

79 26.84,37.73,0 Athenian ...of Daedalus, though of less repute. Daedalus belonged to the royal Athenian clan called the Metionidae, and he was rather famous among all men not only for...

Athenian

70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Histiaea ...were succeeded by Amphiclus, who because of an oracle from Delphi came from Histiaea in Euboea. Three generations from Amphiclus, Hector, who also had made himself...

Histiaea

78 Carians ...Hector, who also had made himself king, made war on those Abantes and Carians who lived in the island, slew some in battle, and forced others to surrender...

Carians

72 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Ionians ...set out from Colophon and displaced the Aeolians; subsequently, however, the Ionians allowed the Smyrnaeans to take their place in the general assembly at...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Panionium ...Ionians allowed the Smyrnaeans to take their place in the general assembly at Panionium. The modern city was founded by Alexander, the son of Philip, in accordance...

Panionium

80 27.329993,37.703924,0 Milesian ...and then come two unfinished sanctuaries of Apollo, the one in Branchidae, in Milesian territory, and the one at Clarus in the land of the Colophonians. Besides...

Milesian

80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Clarus ...of Apollo, the one in Branchidae, in Milesian territory, and the one at Clarus in the land of the Colophonians. Besides these, two temples in Ionia were burnt...

Clarus

74 27.19292,38.00466,0 Samos ...two temples in Ionia were burnt down by the Persians, the one of Hera in Samos and that of Athena at Phocaea. Damaged though they are by fire, I found them a...

Samos

75 26.84,37.73,0 Erythrae ...less, both being keen to land the image on their own shores. At last a man of Erythrae (his name was Phormio) who gained a living by the sea and by catching fish, but...

Erythrae

81 26.48103,38.38122,0 Eleans ...son of Pyrrhus, and Troilus, son of Alcinous. These also were both Eleans by birth, though their victories were not the same. Troilus, at the time that...

Eleans

69 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...The date of his victories was the hundred and second Festival. After this the Eleans passed a law that in future no umpire was to compete in the chariot-races. The...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...name of the victor, not Lichas, but the Theban people. Near Lichas stands an Elean diviner, Thrasybulus, son of Aeneas of the Iamid family, who divined for the...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Arcadia ...old pattern. After Hysmon comes the statue of a boy wrestler from Heraea in Arcadia, Nicostratus the son of Xenocleides. Pantias was the artist, and if you count...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenian ...phrase it, painted both the walls. For when Alcibiades had a strong fleet of Athenian triremes along the coast of Ionia, most of the Ionians paid court to him, and...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...on the Strait. He was crowned, they say, by the Amphictyons and twice by the Eleans, and his mode of wrestling was similar to the pancratium of Sostratus the...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Pytho ...of Philanor, won two victories in the long foot-race at Olympia, and two at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The inscription on the statue states that he came...

Pytho

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Nestus ...of a different kind. The mountainous part of Thrace, on this side the river Nestus, which runs through the land of Abdera, breeds among other wild beasts lions...

Nestus

78 23.75,41.75,0 Olympic ...ambition, by writing up in the gymnasium at Olympia the names of those who won Olympic victories. So much for these. But it would not be right for me to pass over...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Locrians ...his victories and his other glories. Euthymus was by birth one of the Italian Locrians, who dwell in the region near the headland called the West Point, and he was...

Locrians

80 16.23715,38.20782,0 Messene ...Caucon. And together they summoned heroes to return and dwell with them, first Messene the daughter of Triopas, after her Eurytus, Aphareus and his children, and of...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Athenians ...maintained the war with the help of the Argives and Arcadians, and asked the Athenians for help. They refused to join in an attack on Laconia, but promised to render...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...than the force with Lycortas and had been unable to obtain any news of it; the Messenians, having the advantage of the high ground, defeated him and took him alive. I...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Limnae ...past the town in the plain. In the interior is a village Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the lake). They say that Teleclus...

Limnae

80 22.191795,37.121691,0 Calydon ...came to be established among them in the following way: Among the people of Calydon, Artemis, who was worshipped by them above all the gods, had the title Laphria...

Calydon

78 21.533106,38.372423,0 Patrae ...place. The name Laphria spread only to the Messenians and to the Achaeans of Patrae. But all cities worship Artemis of Ephesus, and individuals hold her in honor...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Ephesians ...temple, surpassing all buildings among men, the eminence of the city of the Ephesians and the renown of the goddess who dwells there. The Messenians have a temple...

Ephesians

78 27.339722,37.941944,0 Messene ...and Parian marble. At the back of the temple are paintings of the kings of Messene: before the coming of the Dorian host to Peloponnese, Aphareus and his sons...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Parnassus ...blinding. He was the son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, who once dwelt on Parnassus, but settled among the Odrysae when pregnant, for Philammon refused to take her...

Parnassus

81 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Corone ...of a small cave; from it the drinking water flows to Corone. The old name of Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese by the...

Corone

80 21.927944,36.954171,0 Athenians ...told the facts relating to Pyrrhus the son of Aeacides in my account of the Athenians. Procles the Carthaginian indeed rated Alexander the son of Philip higher on...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Caria ...there are two other kinds. The water in the White Plain, as it is called, in Caria, by the village with the name Dascylou Come, is warm and sweeter than milk to...

Caria

79 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Megarid ...Pylos lies. This was founded by Pylos the son of Cleson, bringing from the Megarid the Leleges who then occupied the country. But he did not enjoy it, as he was...

Megarid

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Erytheia ...reigning then in Sicily, plainly had so violent a desire for the cattle from Erytheia that he wrestled with Heracles, staking his kingdom on the match against these...

Erytheia

79 -6.294444,36.528381,0 Athenians ...like manner the Lacedemonian reverse made Sphacteria known to all mankind. The Athenians dedicated a bronze statue of Victory also on the acropolis as a memorial of the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...of Asclepius. For they say that the sons of Asclepius who went to Troy were Messenians, Asclepius being the son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, not the son of...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...a part of my account of Tisamenus. I will only add the following: When the Dorians assigned Argos to Temenus, Cresphontes asked them for the land of Messenia, in...

Dorians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Gerenia ...them and he was the first to sacrifice to Machaon the son of Asclepius in Gerenia, and to assign to Messene, the daughter of Triopas, the honors customarily paid...

Gerenia

76 22.208656,36.927195,0 Oechalia ...river Pamisus and also the offering to the hero Eurytus the son of Melaneus at Oechalia before the mysteries of the great Goddesses, which were still held at...

Oechalia

81 Delos ...Messenians for the first time sent an offering and chorus of men to Apollo at Delos. Their processional hymn to the god was composed by Eumelus, this poem being...

Delos

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Messenian ...is a sanctuary of Artemis called Limnatis (of the Lake) on the frontier of Messenian, in which the Messenians and the Lacedemonians alone of the Dorians shared...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...of Messenian, in which the Messenians and the Lacedemonians alone of the Dorians shared. According to the Lacedemonians their maidens coming to the festival...

Dorians

75 22.25,38.75,0 Eleians ...a man of no small distinction in all respects and an Olympic victor. (The Eleians were holding the fourth Olympiad, the only event being the short foot-race...

Eleians

76 21.25,37.75,0 Ampheia ...by night, appointing Alcamenes the son of Teleclus leader of the force. Ampheia is a small town in Messenia near the Laconian border, of no great size, but...

Ampheia

74 22.075138,37.264193,0 Laconian ...of Teleclus leader of the force. Ampheia is a small town in Messenia near the Laconian border, of no great size, but situated on a high hill and possessing copious...

Laconian

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...these words Euphaes dismissed the gathering, and henceforward kept all the Messenians under arms, compelling the untrained to learn the art of war and the trained...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Theban ...on the right. The center was held by Euryleon, now a Lacedemonian, but of Theban origin of the house of Cadmus, fourth in descent from Aegeus the son of...

Theban

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Messenians ...the words of Euphaes. When the leaders on either side gave the signal, the Messenians charged the Lacedemonians recklessly like men eager for death in their wrath...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...doubtful. But as he was a close friend of Euphaes, Euphaes persuaded the Messenians that the oracle was fulfilled by the death of the girl and that the deed done...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...shrank from offering battle. But five years after the escape of Lyciscus from Ithome, the victims being auspicious, the Lacedemonians marched against Ithome. The...

Ithome

80 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...of clay to the god, and returned to Sparta to tell the Lacedemonians. The Messenians, when they saw them, were greatly disturbed, thinking, rightly enough, that...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...on them, they used to bring the half of all the produce of their fields to Sparta. It was also ordained that for the funerals of the kings and other magistrates...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonians ...I know that the Macedonians tell a similar story about Olympias, and the Sicyonians about Aristodama, but there is this difference: The Messenians do not make...

Sicyonians

75 22.71135,37.98336,0 Ithome ...blazed up openly), they revolted in the thirty-ninth year after the capture of Ithome, and in the fourth year of the twenty-third Olympiad, when Icarus of Hyreresia...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Eleians ...of the Lacedemonians, and some of the Lepreans owing to their hatred of the Eleians. But the people of Asine were bound by oaths to both sides. This spot, the...

Eleians

78 21.25,37.75,0 Amyclae ...Aphidna itself was captured. I must now end my criticisms. As you go down to Amyclae from Sparta you come to a river called Tiasa. They hold that Tiasa was a...

Amyclae

80 24.76084,35.0133,0 Euenus ...avenging himself upon Diomedes the Thracian, and upon Nessus at the river Euenus. Hermes is bringing the goddesses to Alexander to be judged. Adrastus and...

Euenus

76 21.5193991,38.3288971,0 Therapne ...Polydeucea and a sanctuary of Polydeuces are on the right of the road to Therapne. Not far from Therapne is what is called Phoebaeum, in which is a temple of...

Therapne

75 22.454127,37.066091,0 Taygetus ...named after Lapithus, a native of the district. So this Lapithaeum is on Taygetus, and not far off is Dereium, where is in the open an image of Artemis Dereatis...

Taygetus

75 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Gythium ...have eighteen cities; the first as you go down from Aegiae to the sea is Gythium; after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis...

Gythium

75 22.562341,36.763663,0 Gerenia ...are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax...

Gerenia

77 22.208656,36.927195,0 Achaean ...Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus, but the Dorians of Lacedemon expelled the Achaean inhabitants and afterwards sent to it settlers of their own; but in my time it...

Achaean

78 Geronthrae ...Above the town, and like it in the interior, is a village, Glyppia. From Geronthrae to another village, Selinus, is a journey of twenty stades. These places are...

Geronthrae

75 Boeae ...and of Isis. The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. On the way to them there stands on the left a stone image of Hermes. Among the...

Boeae

77 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Boeatae ...sea; but the wave took it and brought it to land here in the country of the Boeatae. For this reason they call the place Epidelium. But neither Menophanes nor...

Boeatae

78 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Cos ...at this point in Laconia when sailing on public business to Asclepius in Cos. Warned by dreams that appeared to them, they remained and settled here. They...

Cos

75 27.257012,36.875681,0 Brasiae ...this reason the name of their city, hitherto called Oreiatae, was changed to Brasiae after the washing up of the chest to land; so too in our time the common word...

Brasiae

79 22.890275,37.144402,0 Brasiae ...in whose honor they hold an annual festival. There is a small promontory at Brasiae, which projects gently into the sea; on it stand bronze figures, not more than...

Brasiae

78 22.890275,37.144402,0 Las ...called Arainus is the tomb of Las with a statue upon it. The natives say that Las was their founder and was killed by Achilles, and that Achilles put in to their...

Las

80 22.5047,36.7279,0 Lydia ...has told the story of Arion and the dolphin, as he heard it, in his history of Lydia. I have seen the dolphin at Poroselene that rewards the boy for saving his...

Lydia

81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Caenepolis ...and all by a woman washing dirty clothes in it. From the point of Taenarum Caenepolis is distant forty stades by sea. Its name also was formerly Taenarum. In it is a...

Caenepolis

78 22.442714,36.460433,0 Ithome ...it is possible, if the Lacedemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among them. Cardamyle, which is mentioned by Homer in the...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Laconians ...is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free Laconians. Worth seeing here are temples of Dionysus and of Artemis.

Laconians

77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Eira ...for them. Aristomenes then, in view of the truce, was at a distance from Eira and was advancing somewhat carelessly, when seven of these archers laid an...

Eira

75 21.927988,37.398271,0 Sparta ...of Emperamus, bringing his master's cattle. Emperamus was a man of repute in Sparta. This herdsman, who kept his cattle not far from the Neda, saw the wife of one...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...their ignorance of the ground and the daring of Aristomenes gave pause to the Lacedemonians, while the Messenians had not previously received a watchword from their...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...desperate courage, and mustering as they happened to be gathered rushed on the Lacedemonians. Women too were eager to fling tiles and what they could upon the enemy, yet...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...themselves, and asked them in the hearing of Aristocrates and the rest of the Arcadians if they were ready to die with him, avenging their country He did not know that...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...in Sparta. As the slave was returning, he was intercepted by some of the Arcadians, who had formerly been at variance with Aristocrates and regarded him then with...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Zacynthos ...debate where they should go. It was the view of Gorgus that they should occupy Zacynthos off Cephallenia, becoming islanders instead of mainlanders, and raid the coasts...

Zacynthos

81 20.892091,37.787178,0 Cephallenia ...should go. It was the view of Gorgus that they should occupy Zacynthos off Cephallenia, becoming islanders instead of mainlanders, and raid the coasts of Laconia with...

Cephallenia

77 20.59,38.2,0 Messenians ...Messenians did the like by land, and the Zanclaeans, blockaded on land by the Messenians and from the sea by the fleet of the Rhegines, when their wall was carried...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Locrians ...they were allowed to depart under a truce. They had taken Naupactus from the Locrians adjoining Aetolia, called the Ozolian. The retirement of the Messenians from...

Locrians

79 21.75,38.25,0 Acarnanians ...that they had won something notable with their own hands. Knowing that the Acarnanians of Oeniadae possessed a good land and were continually at war with the...

Acarnanians

77 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Oeniadae ...force. So they changed their plans and at once turned on the Messenians in Oeniadae and prepared to besiege them, for they never supposed that men so few in number...

Oeniadae

78 21.1966,38.4077,0 Acarnanians ...killing still more of the enemy. But the greater part of them got through the Acarnanians, and reaching the territory of the Aetolians, who were their friends, arrived...

Acarnanians

80 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Eleans ...death of Endymion, the people of Heracleia near Miletus do not agree with the Eleans for while the Eleans show a tomb of Endymion, the folk of Heracleia say that he...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...leave to inscribe the name of Corinth on it, but were refused. Wroth with the Eleans, they proclaimed that they must keep away from the Isthmian games. But how...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...But how could the Corinthians themselves take part in the Olympic games if the Eleans against their will were shut out by the Corinthians from the Isthmian...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Pisa ...raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of Pylus were punished by Heracles, but his...

Pisa

80 21.653041,37.639535,0 Pytho ...Delphi to this effect "My father cares for Pisa, but to me in the hollows of Pytho." This oracle proved the salvation of Pisa. To Phyleus Heracles gave up the...

Pytho

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Molycrium ...his advice, and at the same time he led them on the voyage from Naupactus to Molycrium. In return they agreed to give him at his request the land of Elis. The man was...

Molycrium

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Aetolians ...the Elean Degmenus, an archer, and Pyraechmes, a slinger, to represent the Aetolians. Pyraechmes won and Oxylus got the kingdom. He allowed the old inhabitants, the...

Aetolians

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Pythian ...the god at Delphi for deliverance from these evils. The story goes that the Pythian priestess ordained that Iphitus himself and the Eleans must renew the Olympic...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympia ...left there is a road leading to Lepreus; from Samicum another leads to it from Olympia and a third from Elis. The longest of them is a day's journey. The city got...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ephesian ...before, if they are caught in the Acidas, they are eatable. I heard from an Ephesian that the Acidas was called Iardanus in ancient times. I repeat his statement...

Ephesian

79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Messenian ...used as a fortified post against the Arcadians. As to the ruins of Arene, no Messenian and no Elean could point them out to me with certainty. Those who care to do so...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...well hold that the Neda near the sea was made the boundary between Elis and Messenia at the time of the return of the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus. After the...

Messenia

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Scillus ...the Eleans utterly destroyed it. The Lacedemonians afterwards separated Scillus from Elis and gave it to Xenophon, the son of Grylus, when he had been exiled...

Scillus

75 21.602752,37.609552,0 Alpheius ...tributaries, including seven very important ones. The Helisson joins the Alpheius passing through Megalopolis; the Brentheates comes out of the territory of that...

Alpheius

75 21.451667,37.6125,0 Crete ...Apollo, and Apollo won Olympic victories. Later on there came (they say) from Crete Clymenus, the son of Cardys, about fifty years after the flood came upon the...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Olympia ...occurred an earthquake, and the army retired home after advancing as far as Olympia and the Alpheus but in the next year Agis devastated the country and carried...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...Thrasydaeus, who at this time championed the interests of the popular party at Elis, overthrew in battle Xenias and his followers and cast them out of the...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...allow the Lacedemonians to sacrifice to the god and to compete in the games at Olympia. Agis used also to make continual incursions into Attica, and established the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Decelea ...make continual incursions into Attica, and established the fortified post at Decelea to annoy the Athenians. When the Athenian navy was destroyed at Aegospotami...

Decelea

79 23.794134,38.152799,0 Delphi ...they might have done so, the Lacedemonians did not refer the disputed point to Delphi; the reason was in my opinion that Lysander, the son of Aristocritus, an active...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sardes ...for Lydia at this period was the most important district of lower Asia, and Sardes, pre-eminent for its wealth and resources, had been assigned as a residence to...

Sardes

78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Athenians ...Cylon and Sodamas, the Thebans Androcleides, Ismenias and Amphithemis, the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates, with the Corinthians who had Argive sympathies...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Locrians ...Polyanthes and Timolaus. But those who first openly started the war were the Locrians from Amphissa. For there happened to be a piece of land the ownership of which...

Locrians

80 21.75,38.25,0 Locris ...corn in this land and drove off the booty. The Phocians on their side invaded Locris with all their forces, and laid waste the land. So the Locrians brought in the...

Locris

80 22.75,38.75,0 Isthmian ...their fear of Agesilaus but when he marched to Sparta, they too celebrated the Isthmian games along with the Argives. Agesilaus again marched with an army against...

Isthmian

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Attica ...then belonged to the land. To prevent misconception, I added in my account of Attica that I had not mentioned everything in order, but had made a selection of what...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Sparta ...of what was most noteworthy. This I will repeat before beginning my account of Sparta; for from the beginning the plan of my work has been to discard the many...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Halicarnassus ...There is also a figure of Artemisia, daughter of Lygdamis and queen of Halicarnassus. It is said that this lady voluntarily joined the expedition of Xerxes against...

Halicarnassus

73 27.424112,37.037864,0 Lacedemonians ...is called Choros (Dancing), because at the Gymnopaediae, a festival which the Lacedemonians take more seriously than any other, the lads perform dances in honor of Apollo...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...Dareius to demand earth and water, left its mark upon the whole state of the Lacedemonians, but in Athens fell upon individuals, the members of the house of one man...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...at the hands of the Athenians of those of the heralds who came to Attica. The Lacedemonians have an altar of Apollo Acritas, and a sanctuary, surnamed Gasepton, of Earth...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...made good his retreat by stealth but afterwards he made an expedition against Sparta and succeeded in avenging himself on Hippocoon, and also on the sons of...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...Tisamenus had for his mother Demonassa, the sister of Amphilochus. The Lacedemonians are the only Greeks who surname Hera Goat-eater, and sacrifice goats to the...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Larisa ...no citadel rising to a conspicuous height like the Cadmea at Thebes and the Larisa at Argos. There are, however, hills in the city, and the highest of them they...

Larisa

78 Argos ...rising to a conspicuous height like the Cadmea at Thebes and the Larisa at Argos. There are, however, hills in the city, and the highest of them they call the...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...They too left it unfinished, and it was many years afterwards that the Lacedemonians made of bronze both the temple and the image of Athena. The builder was...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lerna ...buried Lysistratus. Distant from Argos forty stades and no more is the sea at Lerna. On the way down to Lerna the first thing on the road is the Erasinus, which...

Lerna

81 22.71809,37.55107,0 Lerna ...from Argos forty stades and no more is the sea at Lerna. On the way down to Lerna the first thing on the road is the Erasinus, which empties itself into the...

Lerna

78 22.71809,37.55107,0 Dorians ...as the Athenians, and in Philammon's day I do not suppose that even the name Dorians was familiar to all Greek ears. All this was proved in the demonstration. At...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Messenian ...him to retire in fear; the Lacedemonians say that he went to Pellana, but a Messenian legend about him is that he fled to Aphareus in Messenia, Aphareus being the...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...districts, Messene and Argos, had kings put over them; Argos had Temenus and Messene Cresphontes. In Lacedemon, as the sons of Aristodemus were twins, there arose...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Amyclaeans ...To this heroism the Dorians bore witness by raising a trophy against the Amyclaeans, implying that their success was the most memorable exploit of that time. Not...

Amyclaeans

75 24.76084,35.0133,0 Athenians ...of his end was a punishment for his treatment of the suppliants of Argus; the Athenians say that it was because he had devastated Orgas; the Delphians put it down to...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thermopylae ...host against Greece, and Leonidas with three hundred Lacedemonians met him at Thermopylae. Now although the Greeks have waged many wars, and so have foreigners among...

Thermopylae

80 22.538294,38.796511,0 Macedonians ...against Antigonus. On their doing so, he would himself, he said, attack the Macedonians in rear; but before such a move it was not fair for Egyptian sailors to attack...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Sparta ...on, when I come to the history of Messenia. While Theopompus was still king in Sparta there also took place the struggle of the Lacedemonians with the Argives for...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...Leotychides for Tegea. This Archidamus did terrible damage to the land of the Athenians, invading Attica with an army every year, on each occasion carrying destruction...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elean ...it. It happened that by the providence of Heaven there was then at Delphi an Elean embassy praying for deliverance from a pestilence. So the Pythian priestess...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Sipylus ...is a lake called after Tantalus and a famous grave, and on a peak of Mount Sipylus there is a throne of Pelops beyond the sanctuary of Plastene the Mother. If you...

Sipylus

77 27.45394,38.5668,0 Alpheius ...the altars I have enumerated there is one on which they sacrifice to Alpheius and Artemis together. The cause of this Pindar, I think, intimates in an ode...

Alpheius

71 21.451667,37.6125,0 Altis ...building is an altar to all the gods in common. Now return back again to the Altis opposite the Leonidaeum. The Leonidaeum is outside the sacred enclosure, but...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...its leaves are made the crowns which it is customary to give to winners of Olympic contests. Near this wild olive stands an altar of Nymphs; these too are styled...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...where stands the hearth. In this room they entertain the winners in the Olympic games. It remains after this for me to describe the temple of Hera and the...

Olympic

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...esteemed of all the women. The cities from which they chose the women were Elis, . . . The women from these cities made peace between Pisa and Elis. Later on...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...said that in his day the roof of the Heraeum had fallen into decay. When the Eleans were repairing it, the corpse of a foot-soldier with wounds was discovered...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Olympic ...the Athenians were disdainful enough not to pay the money and to boycott the Olympic games, until finally the god at Delphi declared that he would deliver no oracle...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delphi ...to pay the money and to boycott the Olympic games, until finally the god at Delphi declared that he would deliver no oracle on any matter to the Athenians before...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...the wild-olive for winning the pancratium and the wrestling: Caprus from Elis itself, and of the Greeks on the other side of the Aegean, Aristomenes of...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Thesprotian ...The land called Abantis and the town of Thronium in it were a part of the Thesprotian mainland over against the Ceraunian mountains. When the Greek fleet was...

Thesprotian

76 20.25,39.75,0 Thronium ...the Greek fleet was scattered on the voyage home from Troy, Locrians from Thronium, a city on the river Boagrius, and Abantes from Euboea, with eight ships...

Thronium

76 22.725727,38.775841,0 Aegina ...Nemea is the first of the sisters, and after her comes Zeus seizing Aegina; by Aegina stands Harpina, who, according to the tradition of the Eleans and Phliasians...

Aegina

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Pisa ...and Phliasians, mated with Ares and was the mother of Oenomaus, king around Pisa; after her is Corcyra, with Thebe next; last of all comes Aesopus. There is a...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Lacedemonians ...they been so the Eleans would have had something to say about them, and the Lacedemonians more still, seeing that they were their fellow-citizens. By the side of the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinth ...Laoetas and Poseidon Laoetas is a Zeus on a bronze pedestal. The people of Corinth gave it and Musus made it, whoever this Musus may have been. As you go from the...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Asia ...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...

Asia

73 27.5,37.5,0 graves, that of Menander ...during the rule of those named the Thirty. Along the road are very famous graves, that of Menander, son of Diopeithes, and a cenotaph of Euripides. He himself went to King...

graves, that of Menander

76 Peiraeus ...of Androgeos. But when Themistocles became archon, since he thought that the Peiraeus was more conveniently situated for mariners, and had three harbors as against...

Peiraeus

79 23.644609,37.937222,0 Athenians ...times, though it was not a port before Themistocles became an archon of the Athenians. Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cnidus ...a sanctuary of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the Carian peninsula. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very great honor...

Cnidus

79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Amazons ...Such is the account of Hegias. But the Athenians assert that when the Amazons came, Antiope was shot by Molpadia, while Molpadia was killed by Theseus. To...

Amazons

72 monument ...by Molpadia, while Molpadia was killed by Theseus. To Molpadia also there is a monument among the Athenians. As you go up from the Peiraeus you see the ruins of the...

monument

81 Greeks ...who, as most of the Athenians say, brought about the peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes. Here also is Demosthenes, whom the Athenians...

Greeks

73 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...have received from the gods are the Argives, just as among those who are not Greeks the Egyptians compete with the Phrygians. It is said, then, that when Demeter...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...himself proceeded rapidly towards Macedonia, having with him an army both of Greeks and of foreigners. But Ptolemy, brother of Lysandra, had taken refuge with him...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in the vicissitudes of fortune, but honored by the Athenians alone among the Greeks. And they are conspicuous not only for their humanity but also for their...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...produced when she contended for their land. Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew...

Persians

77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...For against Priam and the Trojans war was made with one accord by all the Greeks; but by them selves the Athenians sent armies, first with Iolaus to Sardinia...

Greeks

76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...from these the Scythians bring them to Sinope, thence they are carried by Greeks to Prasiae, and the Athenians take them to Delos. The first-fruits are hidden...

Greeks

76 22.5,37.5,0 Arsinoites ...to die before this, leaving no issue, and there is in Egypt a district called Arsinoites after her. It is pertinent to add here an account of Attalus, because he too...

Arsinoites

80 30.75,29.25,0 Libyan ...But while on the march Magas was in formed that the Marmaridae, a tribe of Libyan nomads, had revolted, and thereupon fell back upon Cyrene. Ptolemy resolved to...

Libyan

77 26.5,31.5,0 Aetolians ...around Parnassus; a force of Aetolians also joined the defenders, for the Aetolians at this time were pre-eminent for their vigorous activity. When the forces...

Aetolians

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Phrygians ...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...

Phrygians

77 27.75,40.25,0 Lamia ...the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against Oeta, and shut them up there. The portrait is in the long portico...

Lamia

76 22.43516,38.9046,0 Olympia ...applied to him. I am told that a similar thing happened to Themistocles at Olympia, for the audience there rose to do him honor. But Philip, the son of...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Achaeans ...too was to be punished for his pride. After being appointed commander of the Achaeans for the eighth time, he reproached a man of no little distinction for having...

Achaeans

79 Messene ...Lycortas gathered a force from Arcadia and Achaia and marched against Messene. The Messenian populace at once went over to the side of the Arcadians, and...

Messene

72 21.920439,37.175491,0 Garates ...time the grave is no longer within the gates. By the road flows also the river Garates. Crossing the Garates and advancing ten stades you come to a sanctuary of Pan...

Garates

81 22.25,37.25,0 Tegeans ...by a deer. A little farther on is a sanctuary of Pan, where Athenians and Tegeans agree that he appeared to Philippides and conversed with him. Mount Parthenius...

Tegeans

76 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...mountain you are within the cultivated area, and reach the boundary between Tegea and Argos; it is near Hysiae in Argolis. These are the divisions of the...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Argolis ...area, and reach the boundary between Tegea and Argos; it is near Hysiae in Argolis. These are the divisions of the Peloponnesus, the cities in the divisions, and...

Argolis

77 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Eleutherae ...from Thebes across the plain, but along the road to Hysiae in the direction of Eleutherae and Attica, where not even a scout had been placed by the Plataeans, being due...

Eleutherae

81 23.37572,38.17934,0 Plataeans ...of Eleutherae and Attica, where not even a scout had been placed by the Plataeans, being due to reach the walls about noon. The Plataeans, thinking that the...

Plataeans

74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Sys ...Orpheus. Immediately when night came the god sent heavy rain, and the river Sys (Boar), one of the torrents about Olympus, on this occasion threw down the...

Sys

79 22.75,40.25,0 Boeotians ...of Achilles, and other poems besides the Works and Days. These same Boeotians say that Hesiod learnt seercraft from the Acarnanians, and there are extant a...

Boeotians

70 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Plataeans ...for this is the name that they give to the wooden image also. This feast the Plataeans celebrate by themselves, calling it the Little Daedala, but the Great Daedala...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Daedala ...are fourteen wooden images ready, having been provided each year at the Little Daedala. Lots are cast for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans...

Daedala

81 28.976568,36.749409,0 Marathon ...the one which the Athenians also erected as first-fruits of the battle at Marathon; the Plataeans too had Pheidias for the maker of their image of Athena. In the...

Marathon

76 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Pergamus ...Hall in the same city there is a portrait of a Grace, painted by Apelles. At Pergamus likewise, in the chamber of Attalus, are other images of Graces made by...

Pergamus

79 27.184167,39.1325,0 Parian ...is called the Pythium there is a portrait of Graces, painted by Pythagoras the Parian. Socrates too, son of Sophroniscus, made images of Graces for the Athenians...

Parian

81 25.150728,37.08579,0 Orchomenus ...in Greece. In course of time the foolhardy and reckless Phlegyans seceded from Orchomenus and began to ravage their neighbors. At last they even marched against the...

Orchomenus

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Athenians ...of their territory. They met with a second disaster when arrayed against the Athenians at Plataea, at the time when they are considered to have chosen the cause of...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...way responsible for this choice, as at that time an oligarchy was in power at Thebes and not their ancestral form of government. In the same way, if it had been...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Orchomenians ...of Clymenus. Under the leadership of these the Minyans marched against Troy. Orchomenians also joined with the sons of Codrus in the expedition to Ionia. When expelled...

Orchomenians

80 22.959486,38.495082,0 Naupactus ...remedy. Whereupon the envoys asked a further question, where in the land of Naupactus they would find the bones; to which the Pythian priestess answered again that a...

Naupactus

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Arcadians ...of Thebes were the Athenians, and they were helped by Messenians and the Arcadians of Megalopolis. My own view is that in building Thebes Cassander was mainly...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...So he collected offerings from Olympia, those at Epidaurus, and all those at Delphi that had been left by the Phocians. These he divided among his soldiery, and...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lebadeia ...Athens, the inhabitants went down to the low ground, and the city was named Lebadeia after him. Who was the father of Lebadus, and why he came, they do not know...

Lebadeia

78 22.87352,38.431063,0 Acraephnium ...could not find the oracle. Thereupon Saon, one of the envoys from the city Acraephnium and the oldest of all the envoys, saw a swarm of bees. It occurred to him to...

Acraephnium

77 23.219541,38.451533,0 Thebes ...the works of Daedalus there are these two in Boeotia, a Heracles in Thebes and the Trophonius at Lebadeia. There are also two wooden images in Crete, a...

Thebes

70 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocis It is plain that such part of Phocis as is around Tithorea and Delphi was so named in very ancient days after a...

Phocis

30 22.25,38.25,0 Tithorea It is plain that such part of Phocis as is around Tithorea and Delphi was so named in very ancient days after a Corinthian, Phocus, a son...

Tithorea

50 22.66931,38.58344,0 Argives ...the Thebaid more highly than any other poem. So much for the war waged by the Argives against the Thebans on account of the sons of Oedipus. Not far from the gate...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phocis ...son of Aeacus. Opposite the Peloponnesus, and in the direction of Boeotia, Phocis stretches to the sea, and touches it on one side at Cirrha, the port of Delphi...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...cavalry of the Thessalians. Hence all forlorn hopes are called by the Greeks "Phocian despair." On this occasion the Phocians forthwith proceeded to attack the...

Phocian

80 22.25,38.25,0 Phocis ...ones. For when the armies were lying opposite each other at the pass into Phocis, five hundred picked men of Phocis, waiting until the moon was full, attacked...

Phocis

76 22.25,38.25,0 Coroneia ...you come to Haliartus. The question who became founder of Haliartus and Coroneia I cannot separate from my account of Orchomenus. At the Persian invasion the...

Coroneia

74 22.956902,38.392613,0 Thessalians ...of Elis who devised this stratagem also for the Phocians to use against the Thessalians. When the Persian army crossed into Europe, it is said that the Phocians were...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Phocians ...Thessalians. When the Persian army crossed into Europe, it is said that the Phocians were forced to join the Great King, but deserted the Persian cause and ranged...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Thessalians ...the fine was inflicted because of the misdeeds of the Phocians, or whether the Thessalians exacted the fine from the Phocians because of their ancient hatred. As they...

Thessalians

81 21.75,39.25,0 Phocians ...the omen of the dream. On the death of Phaylus the sovereignty of the Phocians devolved on Phalaecus his son. Phalaecus, accused of appropriating to his own...

Phocians

73 22.25,38.25,0 Haliartus ...say, commanded him to kill the man who should first meet him on his return to Haliartus. On his arrival he was met by his son Lophis, and at once smote the youth with...

Haliartus

80 23.088416,38.379818,0 Amphicleia ...certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia...

Amphicleia

80 22.5813,38.6424,0 Drymaea ...known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former...

Drymaea

78 22.54128,38.70507,0 Boeotians ...Itonian Athena. It is named after Itonius the son of Amphictyon, and here the Boeotians gather for their general assembly. In the temple are bronze images of Itonian...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Peneius ...confined to the following traditions. They say that Andreus, son of the river Peneius, was the first to settle here, and after him the land Andreis was named. When...

Peneius

80 21.25,37.75,0 Phocian ...were given by the Amphictyons to the Macedonians. Subsequently, however, the Phocian cities were rebuilt, and their inhabitants restored from the villages to their...

Phocian

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...back the inhabitants before the disaster of Chaeroneia befell the Greeks. The Phocians took part in the battle of Chaeroneia, and afterwards fought at Lamia and...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Lamia ...Phocians took part in the battle of Chaeroneia, and afterwards fought at Lamia and Crannon against the Macedonians under Antipater. No Greeks were keener...

Lamia

75 22.43516,38.9046,0 Orchomenians ...a son Orchomenus, in whose reign the city was called Orchomenus and the men Orchomenians. Nevertheless, they continued to bear the additional name of Minyans, to...

Orchomenians

78 22.959486,38.495082,0 Argos ...in Arcadia. To this Orchomenus during his kingship came Hyettus from Argos, who was an exile because of the slaying of Molurus, son of Arisbas, whom he...

Argos

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...because of his wife's bed; / Leaving his home he fled from horse-breeding Argos, And reached Minyan Orchomenus, and the hero / Welcomed him, and bestowed on...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...for the Athenians, it was enacted in the laws which he drew up for the Athenians that the punishment of an adulterer should be one of the acts condoned by the...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocian ...and going forwards, you see on the left of the road a building called the Phocian Building, where assemble the Phocian delegates from each city. The building is...

Phocian

76 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...left of the road a building called the Phocian Building, where assemble the Phocian delegates from each city. The building is large, and within are pillars...

Phocian

78 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...its length. From the pillars rise steps to each wall, on which steps the Phocian delegates take their seats. At the end are neither pillars nor steps, but...

Phocian

75 22.25,38.25,0 Lebadeia ...earth opened and swallowed up Trophonius at the point in the grove at Lebadeia where is what is called the pit of Agamedes, with a slab beside it. The kingdom...

Lebadeia

72 22.87352,38.431063,0 Pythian ...men and beasts, so that they sent envoys to the god. To these, it is said, the Pythian priestess made answer that to bring the bones of Hesiod from the land of...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...city Pytho, as well as Delphi, just as Homer so calls it in the list of the Phocians. Those who would find pedigrees for everything think that Pythes was a son of...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Pythian ...submit to the competition in musical skill. They say too that Eleuther won a Pythian victory for his loud and sweet voice, for the song that he sang was not of his...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cephisian ...blocked up the chasm through the mountain. Now Homer too knows that the Cephisian Lake was a lake of itself, and not made by Heracles. Wherefore Homer says...

Cephisian

74 23.625,38.125,0 Delphi ...themselves with the Phocians. When Brennus led the Gallic army against Delphi, no Greeks showed greater zeal for the war than the Phocians, and for this...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ionia ...than the one inside the temple. The Massiliots are a colony of Phocaea in Ionia, and their city was founded by some of those who ran away from Phocaea when...

Ionia

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Argives ...no other works of Daedalus still in existence. For the images dedicated by the Argives in the Heraeum and those brought from Omphace to Gela in Sicily have...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cephisus ...heard another account, that the water was a gift to Castalia from the river Cephisus. So Alcaeus has it in his prelude to Apollo. The strongest confirmation of this...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Patrae ...first to melt bronze were the Samians Theodorus and Rhoecus. The Achaeans of Patrae assert indeed that Hephaestus made the chest brought by Eurypylus from Troy...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Arcadians ...by Dameas; the Apollo and Zeus by Athenodorus. The last two artists were Arcadians from Cleitor. Behind the offerings enumerated are statues of those who...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lamian ...of Delphi, and on the other at the city of Anticyra. In the direction of the Lamian Gulf there are between Phocis and the sea only the Hypocnemidian Locrians. By...

Lamian

79 22.43516,38.9046,0 Thessalians ...so waited for the Thessalian cavalry. Ignorant of the Phocian stratagem, the Thessalians without knowing it drove their horses on to the water-pots, where stumbling...

Thessalians

79 21.75,39.25,0 Cleonae ...taken from the army that landed with Datis at Marathon. The inhabitants of Cleonae were, like the Athenians, afflicted with the plague, and obeying an oracle from...

Cleonae

77 22.75372,37.81708,0 Macedonians ...battle of Chaeroneia, and afterwards fought at Lamia and Crannon against the Macedonians under Antipater. No Greeks were keener defenders against the Gauls and the...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Erythraeans ...the left is water running down into a well, and the images of the nymphs. The Erythraeans, who are more eager than any other Greeks to lay claim to Herophile, adduce as...

Erythraeans

81 26.48103,38.38122,0 Daulis ...date, the Daulians say was brought from Athens by Procne. In the territory of Daulis is a place called Tronis. Here has been built a shrine of the Founder hero...

Daulis

81 22.72926,38.50665,0 Phocians ...of Ornytion, son of Sisyphus. At any rate, he is worshipped every day, and the Phocians bring victims and pour the blood into the grave through a hole, but the flesh...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...Tiryns, not the Canopian." For before this the Egyptian Heracles had visited Delphi. On the occasion to which I refer the son of Amphitryon restored the tripod to...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...from the laurel in Tempe. This temple must have had the form of a hut. The Delphians say that the second temple was made by bees from bees-wax and feathers, and...

Delphians

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Euxine ...two images of Apollo, one dedicated by the citizens of Heracleia on the Euxine, the other by the Amphictyons when they fined the Phocians for tilling the...

Euxine

74 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pytho ...rotted here, and that this was the reason why the city received the name Pytho. For the men of those days used pythesthai for the verb "to rot," and hence...

Pytho

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...he had not learned to accompany his own singing on the harp. Homer too came to Delphi to inquire about his needs, but even though he had learned to play the harp, he...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...being the same as those at Olympia, except the four-horse chariot, and the Delphians themselves added to the contests running-races for boys, the long course and...

Delphians

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aetolians ...Achilles. The Aetolians have dedicated a statue of Eurydamus, general of the Aetolians, who was their leader in the war against the army of the Gauls. On the...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Attica ...delegates were styled Amphictyons after him. But Androtion, in his history of Attica, says that originally the councillors came to Delphi from the neighboring...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Dolopes ...to the common assembly the following tribes of the Greek people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians...

Dolopes

78 21.75,39.25,0 Athenians ...men from Attica, which put in at Sardinia and founded Olbia; by themselves the Athenians founded Ogryle, either in commemoration of one of their parishes in the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sardinia ...A large part of the population, oppressed by civil strife, left it and came to Sardinia; there they took up their abode, confining themselves to the highlands. The...

Sardinia

81 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Cyrnus ...from cooling the atmosphere and the ground here. Others say that the cause is Cyrnus, which is separated from Sardinia by no more than eight stades of sea, and is...

Cyrnus

80 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Arcadians ...theater are left foundations of the council house built for the Ten Thousand Arcadians, and called Thersilium after the man who dedicated it. Hard by is a house...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Helisson ...sanctuary is a spring, the water flowing down from which is received by the Helisson. Megalopolis was founded by the Arcadians with the utmost enthusiasm amidst...

Helisson

78 22.217753,37.612883,0 Sicyonians ...by the Sicyonians, vowed to Apollo that, if they should drive the host of the Sicyonians out of their native land, they would organize a daily procession in his honor...

Sicyonians

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Carthaginians ...was dedicated by the Massiliots as firstfruits of their naval victory over the Carthaginians. The Aetolians have made a trophy and the image of an armed woman, supposed to...

Carthaginians

81 10.327986,36.857569,0 Messenia ...to Messene, and there is another leading from Megalopolis to Carnasium in Messenia. The first thing you come to on the latter road is the Alpheius at the place...

Messenia

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athenians ...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...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Anemosa ...the only city left to be described on the road from Tricoloni, a place called Anemosa, and also Mount Phalanthus, on which are the ruins of a city Phalanthus. It is...

Anemosa

80 22.238568,37.571793,0 Arcadia ...Schoenus, so named from a Boeotian, Schoeneus. If this Schoeneus emigrated to Arcadia, the race-courses of Atalanta, which are near Schoenus, probably got their name...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Panormus ...come first to the cape called Rhium, fifty stades from Patrae, the harbor of Panormus being fifteen stades farther from the cape. It is another fifteen stades from...

Panormus

79 21.81667,38.31667,0 Olympia ...and on it Orchomenus built his city. Methydrium too had citizens victorious at Olympia before it belonged to Megalopolis. There is in Methydrium a temple of Horse...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Erineus ...Athena to the harbor of Erineus is a coastal voyage of ninety stades, and from Erineus to Aegium is sixty. But the land route is about forty stades less than the...

Erineus

81 21.993332,38.309763,0 Acacesium ...to the hill called Acacesian Hill. At the foot of this hill used to be a city Acacesium, and even today there is on the hill a stone image of Acacesian Hermes, the...

Acacesium

81 Arcadians ...the authors of the god's sufferings. This is the story of Anytus told by the Arcadians. That Artemis was the daughter, not of Leto but of Demeter, which is the...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaeans ...worship of Heliconian Poseidon has remained, even after their expulsion by the Achaeans to Athens, and subsequently from Athens to the coasts of Asia. At Miletus too...

Achaeans

81 Arcadians ...cities. On the left of the sanctuary of the Mistress is Mount Lycaeus. Some Arcadians call it Olympus, and others Sacred Peak. On it, they say, Zeus was reared...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lycaeus ...Sacred Peak. On it, they say, Zeus was reared. There is a place on Mount Lycaeus called Cretea, on the left of the grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The...

Lycaeus

75 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Heliconian ...worth seeing. There are also passages in Homer referring to Helice and the Heliconian Poseidon. But later on the Achaeans of the place removed some suppliants from...

Heliconian

78 22.82514,38.35217,0 Theisoan ...the spot. This it is their custom to do. To the north of Mount Lycaeus is the Theisoan territory. The inhabitants of it worship most the nymph Theisoa. There flow...

Theisoan

81 21.96367,37.50665,0 Arcadians ...of the Nomian Mountains is derived from the pasturings (nomai) of Pan, but the Arcadians themselves derive the name from a nymph. By Lycosura to the west passes the...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Plataniston ...passes the river Plataniston. No traveller can possibly avoid crossing the Plataniston who is going to Phigalia. Afterwards there is an ascent for some thirty stades...

Plataniston

77 21.75,37.25,0 Argolis ...through this part of Achaia. To this part came as settlers Mycenaeans from Argolis because of a catastrophe. Though the Argives could not take the wall of Mycenae...

Argolis

77 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Athenians ...whom Mardonius, the son of Gobryas, entrusted the message to be given to the Athenians. The rest of the population came to Ceryneia, and the addition of the...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympian ...who carried off two prizes for wrestling at the Isthmian games and four at the Olympian, they will not even mention by name. This I believe is because he overthrew the...

Olympian

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aegeira ...Rivers come down from the mountains above Pellene, the one on the side nearest Aegeira being called Crius, after, it is said, a Titan of the same name. There is...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Arcadians ...as suppliants to the Pythian priestess and received this response: Azanian Arcadians, acorn-eaters, who dwell In Phigaleia, the cave that hid Deo, who bare a horse...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pallantium ...was the home of Evander and the Arcadians who accompanied him, got the name of Pallantium in memory of the city in Arcadia. Afterwards the name was changed by omitting...

Pallantium

81 22.336587,37.462155,0 Pallantium ...why the emperor bestowed boons upon Pallantium. Antoninus, the benefactor of Pallantium, never willingly involved the Romans in war; but when the Moors (who form the...

Pallantium

80 22.336587,37.462155,0 Echinadian ...who live along the coast at the other end of the Peloponnesus, opposite the Echinadian islands, dwell the Eleans. The land of Elis, on the side of Olympia and the...

Echinadian

78 21.25,38.25,0 Hypsus ...styled by Homer "rich in sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and Hypsus, and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that both the...

Hypsus

76 22.080985,37.554985,0 Tegeans ...Apheidas was the father of Leucone, and not far from Tegea is her tomb. The Tegeans say that in the time of Tegeates, son of Lycaon, only the district got its name...

Tegeans

79 22.429,37.464,0 Peraethenses ...Cromus, Charisia after Charisius, its founder, Tricoloni after Tricolonus, Peraethenses after Peraethus, Asea after Aseatas, Lycoa after . . . 4 and Sumetia after...

Peraethenses

77 22.243152,37.442734,0 Athens ...destroyed by a fire which suddenly broke out when Diophantus was archon at Athens, in the second year of the ninety-sixth Olympiad, at which Eupolemus of Elis...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pencalas ...the colonists who dwell about the cave in Phrygia called Steunos and the river Pencalas. To Apheidas fell Tegea and the land adjoining, and for this reason poets too...

Pencalas

81 29.5859461,39.1758167,0 Corinthian ...especially for its size. Its first row of pillars is Doric, and the next to it Corinthian; also, outside the temple, stand pillars of the Ionic order. I discovered that...

Corinthian

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Caicus ...the back is a representation of Telephus fighting Achilles on the plain of the Caicus. The ancient image of Athena Alea, and with it the tusks of the Calydonian...

Caicus

81 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Sicily ...(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...

Sicily

75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Cyzicus ...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...

Cyzicus

80 27.874127,40.389806,0 Calydonian ...offerings in the temple these are the most notable. There is the hide of the Calydonian boar, rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles. Hanging up are the...

Calydonian

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Phigalia ...and he a son Phialus, who robbed Phigalus, the son of Lycaon, the founder of Phigalia, of the honor of giving his name to the city; Phialus changed it to Phialia...

Phigalia

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Delphi ...a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis; why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later. At the Isthmus the pine, and at...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Isthmus ...of Elis; why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of...

Isthmus

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Arcadians ...the throne occurred the war between the Lacedemonians and the Messenians. The Arcadians had from the first been friendly to the Messenians, and on this occasion they...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Laconian ...slab it is called Gynaecothoenas (He who entertains women). At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedemon made the first invasion, the women armed...

Laconian

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Thessaly ...each send six deputies; the Boeotians, who in more ancient days inhabited Thessaly and were then called Aeolians, the Phocians and the Delphians, each send two...

Thessaly

76 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemon ...Argolic shields and long spears. When Machanidas the upstart became despot of Lacedemon, and war began once again between that city under Machanidas and the Achaeans...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megalopolis ...of Demetrius, king of Macedonia, who poisoned Aratus of Sicyon, sent men to Megalopolis with orders to murder Philopoemen. The attempt failed, and Philip incurred the...

Megalopolis

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lydian ...is of bronze. The gold shield given to Athena Forethought by Croesus the Lydian was said by the Delphians to have been stolen by Philomelus. Near the sanctuary...

Lydian

75 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Elis ...who have left a reputation behind them I have set forth in my account of Elis. There is a statue at Delphi of Phaylus of Crotona. He won no victory at...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Corcyraeans ...sea and saw a countless number of tunny-fish. He reported the matter to the Corcyraeans, who, finding their labour lost in trying to catch the tunnies, sent envoys to...

Corcyraeans

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Messenians ...the most widely divergent opinions were expressed. Deinocrates, and all the Messenians whose wealth made them influential, urged that Philopoemen should be put to...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Elatus ...the country, Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, Arcas, who gave Arcadia its name, Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan, the sons of Arcas, and also Triphylus. The mother of this...

Elatus

79 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Troezen ...of Argos; the soothsayer by Pison, from Calaureia, in the territory of Troezen; the Artemis, Poseidon and also Lysander by Dameas; the Apollo and Zeus by...

Troezen

73 Boeotian ...Lysander at Aegospotami. They are these:– Aracus of Lacedemon, Erianthes a Boeotian . . . above Mimas, whence came Astycrates, Cephisocles, Hermophantus and...

Boeotian

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Myndian ...Tisander, but the next were made by Alypus of Sicyon, namely:– Theopompus the Myndian, Cleomedes of Samos, the two Euboeans Aristocles of Carystus and Autonomus of...

Myndian

80 27.23432,37.05332,0 Pellene ...Dion from Epidaurus in Argolis. Next to these come the Achaean Axionicus from Pellene, Theares of Hermion, Pyrrhias the Phocian, Comon of Megara, Agasimenes of...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Paphian ...whom they surname the Fruit-bringers, and hard by is one of Aphrodite called Paphian. The latter was built by Laodice, who was descended, as I have already said...

Paphian

79 32.573711,34.707147,0 Cnossus ...his date and teacher we do not know. The residence of Daedalus with Minos at Cnossus secured for the Cretans a reputation for the making of wooden images also...

Cnossus

79 25.163106,35.297847,0 Tarentum ...taken from the Messapians, a non-Greek people bordering on the territory of Tarentum, and are works of Ageladas the Argive. Tarentum is a colony of the...

Tarentum

78 17.228553,40.476034,0 Lipara ...are called by Homer, the Islands of Aeolus. Of these islands they dwell in Lipara, on which they built a city, but Hiera, Strongyle and Didymae they cultivate...

Lipara

78 14.95373,38.46708,0 Marathon ...the Athenian treasury from those taken from the army that landed with Datis at Marathon. The inhabitants of Cleonae were, like the Athenians, afflicted with the...

Marathon

81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Rhium ...a sacrifice was offered to Theseus and to Poseidon at the cape called Rhium. It seems to me that the inscription refers to Phormio, son of Asopichus, and...

Rhium

72 21.7850004,38.3099987,0 Lacedemonians ...the Plataeans declared that the peace with them still held, because when the Lacedemonians seized the Cadmeia they had no part either in the plan or in the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataeans ...been placed by the Plataeans, being due to reach the walls about noon. The Plataeans, thinking that the Thebans were holding an assembly, were afield and cut off...

Plataeans

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Lacedemonians ...formerly when they were taken by the Lacedemonians under Archidamus. For the Lacedemonians reduced them by preventing them from getting out of the city, building a double...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Chaonians ...a Babylonian Sibyl, others an Egyptian. Phaennis, daughter of a king of the Chaonians, and the Peleiae (Doves) at Dodona also gave oracles under the inspiration of a...

Chaonians

79 19.5,40.5,0 Lacedemonians ...against the Persians. Of the Greeks generally there is a common tomb, but the Lacedemonians and Athenians who fell have separate graves, on which are written elegiac...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cithaeronian ...fifteen stades below the peak, on which they make the altar, is a cave of the Cithaeronian nymphs. It is named Sphragidium, and the story is that of old the nymphs gave...

Cithaeronian

80 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Boeotians ...a tomb of Leitus, who was the only one to return home of the chiefs who led Boeotians to Troy. The spring Gargaphia was filled in by the Persian cavalry under...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Gargaphia ...only one to return home of the chiefs who led Boeotians to Troy. The spring Gargaphia was filled in by the Persian cavalry under Mardonius, because the Greek army...

Gargaphia

78 Thebes ...an aboriginal. From his name is derived Ogygian, which is an epithet of Thebes used by most of the poets. The Ectenes perished, they say, by pestilence, and...

Thebes

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...certainly have been accused of favouring Persia. Afterwards, however, the Thebans won a victory over the Athenians at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, where...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenian ...and the Lacedemonians were friendly. But when the war was fought out and the Athenian navy destroyed, after a brief interval Thebes along with Corinth was involved...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Leuctra ...Demeter Lawgiver were the opposite of those that occurred before the action at Leuctra. For then spiders spun a white web over the door of the sanctuary, but on the...

Leuctra

81 23.18095,38.25422,0 Sardinia ...army of Iolaus, consisting of Thespians and men from Attica, which put in at Sardinia and founded Olbia; by themselves the Athenians founded Ogryle, either in...

Sardinia

79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Sardinia ...with Aeneas. A part of them, carried from their course by winds, reached Sardinia and intermarried with the Greeks already settled there. But the non-Greek...

Sardinia

75 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Corsicans ...themselves to the highlands. The Sardinians, however, call them by the name of Corsicans, which they brought with them from home. When the Carthaginians were at the...

Corsicans

81 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Thebans ...and from the Messenians, and likewise mercenaries came to the help of the Thebans from Phocis, and the Phlegyans from the Minyan country. When the battle took...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ismenian ...and the Phlegyans from the Minyan country. When the battle took place at the Ismenian sanctuary, the Thebans were worsted in the encounter, and after the rout took...

Ismenian

79 Athenian ...very ignorant. The horse next to the statue of Sardus was dedicated, says the Athenian Callias son of Lysimachides, in the inscription, by Callias himself from spoils...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aetolia ...dedicated an image of Athena after reducing by siege one of the cities of Aetolia, the name of which was Phana. They say that the siege was not a short one, and...

Aetolia

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Delphi ...of their native land, they would organize a daily procession in his honor at Delphi, and sacrifice victims of a certain kind and of a certain number. Well, they...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Samos ...ashore by the current to the island, then without a name, that lies off Samos. Heracles came across the body and recognized it, giving it burial where even...

Samos

74 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedemonians ...did not actually range themselves against the Greeks. It was because of the Lacedemonians, they say, that they took no part in resisting the Gallic threat to...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Prinus ...There are two others on the side of Mantineia: one through what is called Prinus and one through the Ladder. The latter is the broader, and its descent had...

Prinus

76 22.49503,37.60963,0 Oeta ...and four hundred from Thebes. A thousand Phocians guarded the path on Mount Oeta, and the number of these should be added to the Greek total. Herodotus does...

Oeta

78 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Athenians ...is represented the wrestling with Antaeus. Thrasybulus, son of Lycus, and the Athenians who with him put down the tyranny of the Thirty, set out from Thebes when they...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argive ...this point on, and for this reason Aeschylus among others calls the Inachus an Argive river. After crossing into Mantinean country over Mount Artemisius you will...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Maeander ...rising up in the sea. A greater marvel still is the water that boils in the Maeander, which comes partly from a rock surrounded by the stream, and partly rises from...

Maeander

79 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Tarentine ...education, and when a young man went to receive instruction from Lysis, a Tarentine by descent, learned in the philosophy of Pythagoras the Samian. When Lacedemon...

Tarentine

76 17.228553,40.476034,0 Glisas ...of Adrastus. When the Argives made their second attack on Thebes he died at Glisas early in the first battle, and his relatives carried him to Pagae in Megaris...

Glisas

78 23.396935,38.391809,0 Erenea ...neither by dreams nor in any other way. Here is something else that I heard in Erenea, a village of the Megarians. Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus, left Thebes to live...

Erenea

81 Thrace ...to being expelled from Thrace, but on Pyrrhus' coming to his aid he mastered Thrace and afterwards extended his empire at the expense of the Nestians and...

Thrace

79 27.5,42.5,0 Macedonians ...Thrace and afterwards extended his empire at the expense of the Nestians and Macedonians. The greater part of Macedonia was under the control of Pyrrhus himself, who...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...in the matter of the death of Aridaeus, and much more wickedly to certain Macedonians, and for this reason was considered to have deserved her subsequent treatment...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Epeirus ...their hatred of Olympias, and when after wards they forgave him, his return to Epeirus was next opposed by Cassander. When a battle occurred at Oeneadae between...

Epeirus

81 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Tyre ...In his self-conceit, although the Carthaginians, being Phoenicians of Tyre by ancient descent, were more experienced sea men than any other non-Greek...

Tyre

72 35.209358,33.268071,0 Pherae ...best by the Celtic armour dedicated in the sanctuary of Itonian Athena between Pherae and Larisa, with this inscription on them: "Pyrrhus the Molossian hung these...

Pherae

81 22.737728,39.384163,0 Larisa ...Celtic armour dedicated in the sanctuary of Itonian Athena between Pherae and Larisa, with this inscription on them: "Pyrrhus the Molossian hung these shields /...

Larisa

80 22.41474,39.64147,0 Athenians ...the entire destruction of the Persians; the achievement of Demosthenes and the Athenians on the island of Sphacteria was no victory, but only a trick in war. Their...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sparta ...who had come as their allies. Pyrrhus won the day, and came near to capturing Sparta without further fighting, but desisted for a while after ravaging the land and...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...war there again. When Antigonus was about to lead his army from Argos into Laconia, Pyrrhus himself reached Argos. Victorious once more he dashed into the city...

Laconia

77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athens ...ended the period of Epeirot ascendancy. When you have entered the Odeum at Athens you meet, among other objects, a figure of Dionysus worth seeing. Hard by is a...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Branchidae ...the most religious of the kings. Firstly, it was Seleucus who sent back to Branchidae for the Milesians the bronze Apollo that had been carried by Xerxes to Ecbatana...

Branchidae

77 27.256115,37.384829,0 Crete ...afterwards his liberty was expelled. So Theseus set out to Deucalion in Crete. Being carried out of his course by winds to the island of Scyros he was...

Crete

74 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Lacedemon ...they say that Peirithous and Theseus made their pact before setting forth to Lacedemon and afterwards to Thesprotia. Hard by is built a temple of Eileithyia, who...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megarid ...When the Cretans attacked the country, they captured the other cities of the Megarid by assault, but Nisaea, in which Nisus had taken refuge, they beleaguered. The...

Megarid

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 temple of Artemis Agrotera ...and king of Athens. Across the Ilisus is a district called Agrae and a temple of Artemis Agrotera (the Huntress). They say that Artemis first hunted here when she came from...

temple of Artemis Agrotera

74 Phocis ...a general of Mithridates, was at the time besieging Elatea in Phocis, but on receiving the news he withdrew his troops towards Attica. Learning...

Phocis

64 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...Chaeronea. When Sulla returned to Attica he imprisoned in the Cerameicus the Athenians who had opposed him, and one chosen by lot out of every ten he ordered to be...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Rome, but she flourished again when Hadrian was emperor. In the theater the Athenians have portrait statues of poets, both tragic and comic, but they are mostly of...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotian ...combatants but also the women and children. I have evidence to bring. All the Boeotian towns which the Thebans sacked were inhabited in my time, as the people escaped...

Boeotian

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thebans ...women and children. I have evidence to bring. All the Boeotian towns which the Thebans sacked were inhabited in my time, as the people escaped just before the...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Trojan ...in bronze. That the work of Epeius was a contrivance to make a breach in the Trojan wall is known to everybody who does not attribute utter silliness to the...

Trojan

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Coronea ...suspected of being a very wealthy man, and was murdered by some men of Coronea for the sake of this wealth. After freeing the Athenians from tyrants Demetrius...

Coronea

74 22.956902,38.392613,0 Aetolia ...earlier than this, when Cassander had invaded Attica, Olympiodorus sailed to Aetolia and induced the Aetolians to help. This allied force was the main reason why...

Aetolia

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Achaeans ...a band of mercenaries. Going back to Megalopolis, he was at once chosen by the Achaeans to command the cavalry, and he turned them into the finest cavalry in Greece...

Achaeans

81 Pythian ...a man of Megalopolis, the most famous harpist of his time, who had won a Pythian victory, was then singing the Persians, an ode of Timotheus the Milesian. When...

Pythian

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemon ...cautious that they went away home, and abandoned their military operation. In Lacedemon another despot arose, Nabis, and the first of the Peloponnesians to be attacked...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gortys ...and of Acacallis, daughter of Minos, that Catreus was a son of Minos, and Gortys a son of Rhadamanthys. As to Rhadamanthys himself, Homer says, in the talk of...

Gortys

76 22.041,37.534,0 Pisa ...place called by the Arcadians Pegae (Springs), and flowing past the land of Pisa and past Olympia, it falls into the sea above Cyllene, the port of Elis. Not...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Tegeans ...notable sight in the tomb of Orestes, the son of Agamemnon; from here, say the Tegeans, a Spartan stole his bones. In our time the grave is no longer within the...

Tegeans

81 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemon ...by the Achaeans. The Achaeans at that time had themselves been expelled from Lacedemon and Argos by the Dorians. The history of the Ionians in relation to the...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineans ...at Mantineia between the Lacedemonians and the Thebans under Epaminondas, the Mantineans joined the ranks of the Lacedemonians. Subsequently the Mantineans quarrelled...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Achaeans ...and Argos by the Dorians. The history of the Ionians in relation to the Achaeans I will give as soon as I have explained the reason why the inhabitants of...

Achaeans

75 Lacedemon ...On the occasion referred to, being expelled by the Dorians from Argos and Lacedemon, the Achaeans themselves and their king Tisamenus, the son of Orestes, sent...

Lacedemon

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...Apollo, the Mantineans fought on the side of the Romans, while the rest of Arcadia joined the ranks of Antonius, for no other reason, so it seems to me, except...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sardinia ...Iolaus of Thebes, the nephew of Heracles, led the Athenians and Thespians to Sardinia. One generation before the Ionians set sail from Athens, the Lacedemonians and...

Sardinia

79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Mantineia ...is the sanctuary of Horse Poseidon, not more than six stades distant from Mantineia. About this sanctuary I, like everyone else who has mentioned it, can write...

Mantineia

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Megalopolis ...rest of the Arcadian army, each city under its own leader, the contingent of Megalopolis being led by Lydiades and Leocydes. The center was entrusted to Aratus, with...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lydians ...the Ionians who sailed against Ephesus) expelled from the land the Leleges and Lydians who occupied the upper city. Those, however, who dwelt around the sanctuary had...

Lydians

81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Cyclades Islands ...DESCRIPTION OF GREECE, tr. W. H. S. JONES On the Greek mainland facing the Cyclades Islands and the Aegean Sea the Sunium promontory stands out from the Attic land. When...

Cyclades Islands

78 25.139512376923083,37.0415464153846,0 Maeander ...small inlet of the sea used to run into their land. This inlet the river Maeander turned into a lake, by blocking up the entrance with mud. When the water...

Maeander

75 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Cretans ...Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians; Lycians because of their kinship with the Cretans, as they came of old from Crete, having fled along with Sarpedon; Carians...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Boeotian ...of those called the Sparti, while there are slabs on the tomb, one old, with a Boeotian inscription, the other dedicated by the Emperor Hadrian, who wrote the...

Boeotian

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athenian ...or at least consider him second to none other. For the Lacedemonian and the Athenian leaders enjoyed the ancient reputation of their cities, while their soldiers...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Libyssa ...a fever, and he died on the third day. The place where lie died is called Libyssa by the Nicomedians. The Athenians received an oracle from Dodona ordering them...

Libyssa

76 29.539812,40.769562,0 Mantinean ...Odysseus returned from Troy he had a son Ptoliporthes by Penelope. But the Mantinean story about Penelope says that Odysseus convicted her of bringing paramours to...

Mantinean

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Argives ...of his followers, who had been expelled from Epidauria by Deiphontes and the Argives. This Procles was descended from Ion, son of Xuthus. But the Ephesians under...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Samians ...island, accusing them of conspiring with the Carians against the Ionians. The Samians fled and some of them made their home in an island near Thrace, and as a result...

Samians

81 26.84,37.73,0 Colophon ...which even now they call the old city, was seized by Ionians who set out from Colophon and displaced the Aeolians; subsequently, however, the Ionians allowed the...

Colophon

80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Orchomenian ...through a deep gully between the city and Mount Trachy, descends to another Orchomenian plain, which is very considerable in extent, but the greater part of it is a...

Orchomenian

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Pheneus ...again, one way leading to Stymphalus, the other to Pheneus. On the road to Pheneus you will come to a mountain. On this mountain meet the boundaries of...

Pheneus

78 22.30692,37.91045,0 Erythraeans ...out from Tyre in Phoenicia. The reason for this we are not told even by the Erythraeans themselves. They say that when the raft reached the Ionian Sea it came to rest...

Erythraeans

78 26.48103,38.38122,0 Lebedus ...from the grove is the river Ales, the coldest river in Ionia. In the land of Lebedus are baths, which are both wonderful and useful. Teos, too, has baths at Cape...

Lebedus

80 26.964722,38.077883,0 Pellene ...Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of Sicyonia. In them, which had previously been...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Dorians ...several fatherlands, while because of the Trojan war they scorned to be led by Dorians of Lacedemon. This became plain in course of time. For when later on the...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Lacedemonians ...Achaean League by its unbroken growth in power. Alone among the Greeks the Lacedemonians were the bitter enemies of the Achaeans and openly carried on war against them...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotians ...Peloponnesus Corinth was fortified with its citadel; to watch Euboea, the Boeotians and the Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the Thessalians themselves...

Boeotians

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Crathis ...spot, though in earlier days it was a city of the Achaeans. After this Crathis is named the river in Bruttium in Italy. On Mount Crathis is a sanctuary of...

Crathis

73 22.25,38.25,0 Macedonians ...Greek cities which had done the Romans no harm, and were subject to the Macedonians against their will. They foresaw too that the Romans were coming to impose...

Macedonians

74 21.75,41.25,0 Styx ...by the blood of the he-goat. The only thing that can resist the water of the Styx is a horse's hoof. When poured into it the water is retained, and does not...

Styx

79 22.25,38.25,0 Lacedemonian ...who had fled before their trial and had been condemned in their absence. The Lacedemonian connection with the Achaean League was not broken, but foreign courts were...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 sanctuary of Aphrodite ...stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the Carian...

sanctuary of Aphrodite

80 Styx ...it would appear that the Arcadians have in the water near Pheneus, called the Styx, a thing made to be a mischief to man, while the spring among the Cynaetheans...

Styx

80 22.25,38.25,0 Pheneus ...it the road goes down to a place called Lycuria, which is the boundary between Pheneus and Cleitor. Advancing about fifty stades from Lycuria, you will come to the...

Pheneus

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Athens ...free Athens and the whole of Greece. But Demades and the other traitors at Athens persuaded Antipater to have no kindly thoughts towards the Greeks, and by...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Stymphalus ...That they are by race Arcadians is testified by the verses of Homer, and Stymphalus their founder was a grandson of Arcas, the son of Callisto. It is said that it...

Stymphalus

75 22.45931,37.85932,0 altar of Androgeos ...said by the Athenians to have sailed with Jason to Colchis. There is also an altar of Androgeos, son of Minos, though it is called that of Heros; those, however, who pay...

altar of Androgeos

79 Achaean ...on this occasion it was decided to send up to Rome every one of the Achaean people, however innocent, whom Callicrates chose to accuse. They amounted to...

Achaean

70 Munychia ...by the Cnidians themselves. The Athenians have also another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have...

Munychia

74 23.6559,37.9406,0 Stymphalus ...Hereafter they put greater zeal into the festival in honor of Artemis. After Stymphalus comes Alea, which too belongs to the Argive federation, and its citizens point...

Stymphalus

80 22.45931,37.85932,0 Athenians ...and to request that the garrison be withdrawn according to the agreement. The Athenians refused to do either of these things, saying that the blame lay, not with the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemon ...urged them to invade Attica. But they met with opposition, especially from Lacedemon, and the army withdrew. Though the Oropians had received no help from the...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oropians ...They promised, however, that the culprits should he brought to account. The Oropians then appealed to the Achaeans for aid, but these refused to give it out of...

Oropians

79 23.846116,38.291099,0 Athens ...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...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...the rest of the League. These disputes were the cause of a war between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and the former, realizing that they were not a match for...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...reputation he enjoyed. He bade the twenty-four to go into voluntary exile from Lacedemon, instead of bringing war upon Sparta by remaining where they were; if they...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Rome ...Sparta, and were condemned to death. The Achaeans on their side despatched to Rome Callicrates and Diaeus to oppose the exiles from Sparta before the senate...

Rome

80 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...the fugitives from the field of battle. As it was, he at once recalled the Achaeans from the pursuit, and confined his future operations to raids and plunder...

Achaeans

77 Achaeans ...reached Rome I do not know that he would have been of any assistance to the Achaeans – perhaps he would have been the cause of greater troubles. The debate between...

Achaeans

78 Achaean ...to be friendly to the Achaeans, and even introduced garrisons into them, to be Achaean bases against Sparta. The Lacedemonians elected Menalcidas to be their general...

Achaean

81 Achaean ...that neither the Lacedemonians nor yet Corinth itself should belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus...

Achaean

77 Lacedemonians ...that the Roman senate had decreed the complete subjection to them of the Lacedemonians; Menalcidas deceived the Lacedemonians into thinking that the Romans had...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...ran out of the house and summoned the Achaeans to an assembly. When the Achaeans heard the decision of the Romans, they at once turned against the Spartans who...

Achaeans

74 Achaean ...go. They also despatched to Rome Thearidas, with certain other members of the Achaean government. These set out, but meeting on the journey the Roman envoys who had...

Achaean

80 Tegea ...Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and Critolaus had a conference with them at Tegea in Arcadia, being most unwilling to summon the Achaeans to meet them in a...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Rome ...the Lacedemonians in no war, but to await the arrival of the arbitrators from Rome. But he invented another trick to embarrass the Lacedemonians. He induced the...

Rome

80 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...Spercheius, he fled to Scarpheia in Locris, without daring even to draw up the Achaeans in the pass between Heracleia and Thermopylae, and to await Metellus there. To...

Achaeans

81 Arcadian ...of Metellus and the Romans, should they march that way. When the picked Arcadian troops had been overthrown near Chaeroneia, Metellus moved his army and marched...

Arcadian

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenian ...killed Epaminondas, but they too give Machaerion as the name of the man. The Athenian account, with which the Theban agrees, makes out that Epaminondas was wounded...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonian ...famous Greek general, or at least consider him second to none other. For the Lacedemonian and the Athenian leaders enjoyed the ancient reputation of their cities, while...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...reputation of their cities, while their soldiers were men of a spirit, but the Thebans, whom Epaminondas raised to the highest position, were a disheartened people...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Etis ...with his ships to Laconia, becoming the founder of the cities Aphrodisias and Etis; his father Anchises for some reason or other came to this place and died...

Etis

80 Scarpheia ...and the Achaeans took to flight, but at a short distance from Scarpheia they were overtaken by the men of Metellus, who killed many and took about a...

Scarpheia

64 22.68341970000006,38.81072,0 Oeta ...the dead. If he dared to plunge into the marsh of the sea at the foot of Mount Oeta he must inevitably have sunk into the depths without leaving a trace to tell...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Halicarnassus ...them, the one at Halicarnassus and one in the land of the Hebrews. The one at Halicarnassus was made for Mausolus, king of the city, and it is of such vast size, and so...

Halicarnassus

80 27.424112,37.037864,0 Cyllene ...of these, but of juniper wood. Its height, I conjecture, is about eight feet. Cyllene can show also the following marvel. On it the blackbirds are entirely white...

Cyllene

81 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Achaeans ...thrown himself into Corinth and received the fugitives within the walls, the Achaeans might have been able to get favorable terms from Mummius, by putting him to the...

Achaeans

79 Pheneus ...is a boon to make up for the bane in the other place. One of the roads from Pheneus, which go westward, remains, the one on the left. This road leads to Cleitor...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Lycuria ...a course for the river Aroanius. By it the road goes down to a place called Lycuria, which is the boundary between Pheneus and Cleitor. Advancing about fifty...

Lycuria

78 22.25,37.75,0 Cleitor ...their javelins and daggers. Such is the tale. From the source of the Ladon, Cleitor is sixty stades away, and the road from the source of the Ladon is a narrow...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Orchomenian ...of Caphyae has been made a dyke of earth, which prevents the water from the Orchomenian territory from doing harm to the tilled land of Caphyae. Inside the dyke flows...

Orchomenian

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Achaia ...resume after my researches into Achaean history. The boundary between Achaia and Elis is the river Larisus, and by the river is a temple of Larisaean...

Achaia

72 Nasi ...be called a river, and descending into a chasm of the earth it rises again at Nasi, as it is called. The place where it reappears is called Rheunus; the stream...

Nasi

80 22.25,37.75,0 Ladon ...you will go down to what is called Nasi. Fifty stades farther on is the Ladon. You will then cross the river and reach a grove called Soron, passing through...

Ladon

74 21.75,37.75,0 Ionians ...Augustus annexed it to Patrae. Its more ancient name was Paleia, but the Ionians changed this to its modern name while they still occupied the city; I am...

Ionians

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Argives ...was because their princes had incurred the enmity of the leaders of the Argives, who were in most cases related by blood to Alcmaeon, and had joined him in his...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aetolia ...from their homes and all their land has been laid waste. Accordingly, as Aetolia remains untilled, the Achelous does not bring as much mud upon the Echinades as...

Aetolia

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Psophis ...and blessed, being destined by birth to both states alike. As you go from Psophis to Thelpusa you first reach on the left of the Ladon a place called Tropaea...

Psophis

77 21.892903,37.871725,0 Olenus ...king of Olenus, and the entertainment Heracles received at his court. That Olenus was from the beginning a small town I find confirmed in an elegiac poem...

Olenus

77 21.640599,38.153707,0 Achaeans ...for the Aetolians, to help them in their war with the Gauls, and no other Achaeans joined them. But suffering unspeakable disasters in the fighting, and most of...

Achaeans

76 Lusia ...anger, because the Arcadians call being wrathful "being furious," and Bather (Lusia) because she bathed in the Ladon. The images in the temple are of wood, but...

Lusia

80 23.691421,38.000521,0 Nicopolis ...Emperor Augustus in order that the Aetolian people might be incorporated into Nicopolis above Actium, the people of Patrae thus secured the image of Laphria. Most of...

Nicopolis

80 20.735953,39.023389,0 Athenian ...of Zeus with a sitting image of Pentelic marble, the work of Eucleides the Athenian. In this sanctuary there also stands an image of Athena. The face, hands and...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaia ...territory of Aegeira is bounded by that of Pellene, which is the last city of Achaia in the direction of Sicyon and the Argolid. The city got its name, according to...

Achaia

80 Pellenians ...Sicyon and the Argolid. The city got its name, according to the account of the Pellenians, from Pallas, who was, they say, one of the Titans, but the Argives think it...

Pellenians

81 22.5384,38.0446,0 Aegeira ...And they say that he was the son of Phorbas, the son of Triopas. Between Aegeira and Pellene once stood a town, subject to the Sicyonians and called Donussa...

Aegeira

76 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pellene ...he or one of his colleagues perverted the name through ignorance. The port of Pellene is Aristonautae. Its distance from Aegeira on the sea is one hundred and twenty...

Pellene

81 22.5384,38.0446,0 Olympian ...Zeus; the god himself is on a throne with Athena standing by it. Beyond the Olympian is an image of Hera and a sanctuary of Apollo. The god is of bronze, and naked...

Olympian

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Argolis ...Corinthians are bounded by the Sicyonians, who dwell in the extreme part of Argolis on this side. After Sicyon come the Achaeans who live along the coast at the...

Argolis

78 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Achaeans ...who dwell in the extreme part of Argolis on this side. After Sicyon come the Achaeans who live along the coast at the other end of the Peloponnesus, opposite the...

Achaeans

79 Phigalia ...best. Thus Pallantium was founded by Pallas, Oresthasium by Orestheus and Phigalia by Phigalus. Pallantium is mentioned by Stesichorus of Himera in his...

Phigalia

76 21.8391,37.3963,0 Thocnia ...and by Daseatas, Macareus, Helisson, Acacus and Thocnus. The last founded Thocnia, and Acacus Acacesium. It was after this Acacus, according to the Arcadian...

Thocnia

76 22.077856,37.41772,0 Maenalus ...Thyrea in Argolis and also the Thyrean gulf were named after this Thyraeus. Maenalus founded Maenalus, which was in ancient times the most famous of the cities of...

Maenalus

79 22.265891,37.549491,0 Cleitor ...were certainly held, but I cannot speak positively about other contests. Now Cleitor the son of Azan dwelt in Lycosura, and was the most powerful of the kings...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Eleans ...may have a local story about it. After the statue of the man who the Eleans say had not his name recorded with the others because he was proclaimed winner...

Eleans

72 21.25,37.75,0 Gela ...Plainly, therefore, he would have announced himself as of Syracuse, not Gela. The fact is that this Gelon must be a private person, of the same name as the...

Gela

74 14.258433,37.062775,0 Messene ...Cypselus, who, aided by the Heracleidae from Lacedemon and Argos, restored to Messene his sister's son Aepytus. Holaeas had a son Bucolion, and he a son Phialus, who...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Arcadians ...on pack-animals to the Arcadians. In return for this Pompus honored the Arcadians greatly, and furthermore gave the name Aeginetes to his son out of friendship...

Arcadians

74 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...became king of the Arcadians, and it was then that Charillus and the Lacedemonians for the first time invaded the land of Tegea with an army. They were defeated...

Lacedemonians

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...than Polymestor. After Aechmis came to the throne occurred the war between the Lacedemonians and the Messenians. The Arcadians had from the first been friendly to the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Syracuse ...Hiero is a man of the same name as the son of Deinomenes. He too was tyrant of Syracuse, and was called Hiero the son of Hierocles. After the death of Agathocles, a...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Thermopylae ...they say, that they took no part in resisting the Gallic threat to Thermopylae; they feared that their land would be laid waste in the absence of their men of...

Thermopylae

69 22.538294,38.796511,0 Carthaginians ...When the Romans went to war with Carthage for the possession of Sicily, the Carthaginians held more than half the island, and Hiero sided with them at the beginning of...

Carthaginians

78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Macedonian ...extinguished so relentlessly the life of Alexander and, at the same time, the Macedonian supremacy. So much by way of a digression. After the ruins of Nestane is a...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Sicilian ...Athens. Their friendship with the Athenians led them to take part also in the Sicilian expedition. Later on a Lacedemonian army under Agesipolis, the son of...

Sicilian

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Achaia ...made by the Arcadian confederacy; no other city Triteia, except the one in Achaia, is to be found in Greece. However, one may assume that at the time of the...

Achaia

78 Olympic ...an oath upon slices of boar's flesh that in nothing will they sin against the Olympic games. The athletes take this further oath also, that for ten successive months...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Tyrrhenian ...from both sides, from the Adriatic and the other sea, which is called the Tyrrhenian, and even if there be no gale blowing, even then the strait of itself produces...

Tyrrhenian

76 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Pachynum ...the headland of Sicily that looks towards Libya and the south, called Pachynum, there stands the city Motye, inhabited by Libyans and Phoenicians. Against...

Pachynum

72 15.25,36.75,0 Motye ...city Motye, inhabited by Libyans and Phoenicians. Against these foreigners of Motye war was waged by the Agrigentines, who, having taken from them plunder and...

Motye

80 12.46829,37.86747,0 Ionians ...are the foreign races in Sicily. The Greeks settled there include Dorians and Ionians, with a small proportion of Phocians and of Attics. On the same wall as the...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Agrigentines ...of Phocians and of Attics. On the same wall as the offerings of the Agrigentines are two nude statues of Heracles as a boy. One represents him shooting the lion...

Agrigentines

71 13.75,37.25,0 Achaeans ...too is written on the pedestal: "To Zeus these images were dedicated by the Achaeans, Descendants of Pelops the godlike scion of Tantalus." Such is the inscription...

Achaeans

78 Tegea ...steward of his property afterwards, on the death of Anaxilas, he went away to Tegea. The inscriptions on the offerings give Choerus as the father of Micythus, and...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Syracuse ...metrical. It runs thus: "Phormis dedicated me, an Arcadian of Maenalus, now of Syracuse. This is the horse in which is, say the Eleans, the hippomanes (what maddens...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Heraeum ...side of the river Imbrasus under the withy that even in my time grew in the Heraeum. That this sanctuary is very old might be inferred especially by considering...

Heraeum

78 26.84,37.73,0 Ionian ...to unite with the Ionians in sacrificing at Panionium. It is said that the Ionian confederacy gave him a tripod as a prize for valor. Such was the account of the...

Ionian

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Smyrnaeans ...the Nemeses appeared and bade him found a city there and to remove into it the Smyrnaeans from the old city. So the Smyrnaeans sent ambassadors to Clarus to make...

Smyrnaeans

81 27.14781,38.440912,0 Erythraeans ...of the mother of Pyrrhus; they tell a legend about Pyrrhus the shepherd. The Erythraeans have a district called Calchis, from which their third tribe takes its name...

Erythraeans

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Pharae ...were known to all the Greek world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and...

Pharae

81 21.717095,38.093144,0 Cadmeia ...that the peace with them still held, because when the Lacedemonians seized the Cadmeia they had no part either in the plan or in the performance. But the Thebans...

Cadmeia

81 Boeotia ...Alalcomenae is a grove of oaks. Here the trunks of the oaks are the largest in Boeotia. To this grove come the Plataeans, and lay out portions of boiled flesh. They...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Plataeans ...son of Antipater, rebuilt Thebes, the Thebans wished to be reconciled with the Plataeans, to share in the common assembly, and to send a sacrifice to the Daedala. The...

Plataeans

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Corinthian ...anticipated no danger from the Gauls, if only they walled off the Corinthian Isthmus from the sea at Lechaeum to the other sea at Cenchreae. This was the...

Corinthian

68 22.878721,37.906045,0 Oeroe ...recovered the water. On the road from Plataea to Thebes is the river Oeroe, said to have been a daughter of the Asopus. Before crossing the Asopus, if you...

Oeroe

72 23.25,38.25,0 Achaean ...an interval. Some too who lived outside the Isthmus were persuaded to join the Achaean League by its unbroken growth in power. Alone among the Greeks the...

Achaean

81 Argives ...in battle, Aegialeus, the son of Adrastus, was killed by Laodamas but the Argives were victorious in the fight, and Laodamas, with any Theban willing to...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Macedonians ...with the Achaeans and Antigonus. This Antigonus at the time ruled over the Macedonians, being the guardian of Philip, the son of Demetrius, who was still a boy. He...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...found the most famous to be the following. They were overcome in battle by the Athenians, who had come to the aid of the Plataeans, when a war had arisen about the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataeans ...They were overcome in battle by the Athenians, who had come to the aid of the Plataeans, when a war had arisen about the boundaries of their territory. They met with a...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Chalcis ...fortified with its citadel; to watch Euboea, the Boeotians and the Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the Thessalians themselves and the Aetolian people...

Chalcis

79 23.602,38.464,0 Athens ...In the same way, if it had been while Peisistratus or his sons still held Athens under a despotism that the foreigner had invaded Greece, the Athenians too...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...war between Athens and the Peloponnesus, the relations between Thebes and the Lacedemonians were friendly. But when the war was fought out and the Athenian navy destroyed...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...the war was fought out and the Athenian navy destroyed, after a brief interval Thebes along with Corinth was involved in the war with Lacedemon. Overcome in battle...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Rome ...and how the weakness of their allies urged the Athenians to seek help from Rome. A short time before, the Romans had sent a force ostensibly to help the...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...a garrison, and sat down to besiege it, while at the same time he sent to the Achaeans and bade them come to Corinth with an army, if they desired to be called allies...

Achaeans

80 Athenians ...of Antipater. Heartiest in their support of the restoration of Thebes were the Athenians, and they were helped by Messenians and the Arcadians of Megalopolis. My own...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...caught the attention of the Achaeans. At this time the Achaeans brought the Lacedemonians into the Achaean confederacy, exacted from them the strictest justice, and...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Glisas ...circumstance. When the Thebans were beaten in battle by the Argives near Glisas, most of them withdrew along with Laodamas, the son of Eteocles. A portion of...

Glisas

75 23.396935,38.391809,0 Epeirots ...but to judge the charges brought against Philip by the Thessalians and certain Epeirots. In actual fact Philip himself and the Macedonian ascendancy had been put down...

Epeirots

81 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Ismenian ...of the gate is a hill sacred to Apollo. Both the hill and the god are called Ismenian, as the river Ismenus flows by the place. First at the entrance are Athena and...

Ismenian

79 Lacedemon ...might receive all together instructions to be gentler in their treatment of Lacedemon. The officers replied that they would call a meeting of the Achaeans neither...

Lacedemon

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...and Hippo. These in the bloom of their youth were wickedly outraged by two Lacedemonians, Phrurarchidas and Parthenius. The maidens, unable to bear the shame of their...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...of the agreement between the Romans and the Achaeans, which allowed the Achaeans as a body to send a deputation to the Roman senate but forbade any city of the...

Achaeans

74 Thespians ...the engagement, he permitted all who would to leave the camp and go home. The Thespians left with all their forces, as did any other Boeotians who felt annoyed with...

Thespians

80 23.154521,38.293384,0 Achaean ...capital charges; all other charges were to be submitted for judgment to the Achaean League. The circuit of the city walls was restored by the Spartans right from...

Achaean

78 Rome ...hoping to vex them most by the following plot. They persuaded to go up to Rome the exiles of the Achaeans, along with the Messenians who had been held to be...

Rome

76 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Lacedemonians ...having proclaimed that the other Peloponnesians should depart home, kept the Lacedemonians cooped up in Leuctra. But when reports came that the Spartans in the city were...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotians ...his enemy to depart under a truce, saying that it would be better for the Boeotians to shift the war from Boeotia to Lacedemon. The Thespians, apprehensive...

Boeotians

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Delphi ...to take Ceressus, but success seemed hopeless. So they consulted the god at Delphi, and received the following response: "A care to me is shady Leuctra, and so...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ionians ...reign of Dareius, the son of Hystaspes, the king of Persia, the cause of the Ionians was ruined because all the Samian captains except eleven betrayed the Ionian...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Achaeans ...as absolutely unfair, and the members present demanded that, if certain Achaeans had sided with Perseus, their individual names should be mentioned, it being...

Achaeans

74 Leuctra ...bronze shields, said to be those of Lacedemonian officers who fell at Leuctra. Near the Proetidian gate is built a theater, and quite close to the theater...

Leuctra

72 23.18095,38.25422,0 Elis ...journey of roughly twenty stades. The boundary between Heraea and the land of Elis is according to the Arcadians the Erymanthus, but the people of Elis say that...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lacedemonian ...and respect for the Athenians. Thereupon the Oropians promised Menalcidas, a Lacedemonian who was then general of the Achaeans, a gift of ten talents if he would induce...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megalopolis ...into the Alpheius. Near the source of the Buphagus is the boundary between Megalopolis and Heraea. Megalopolis is the youngest city, not of Arcadia only, but of...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonians ...were in earlier times in almost daily danger of being subjected by war to the Lacedemonians, but when they had increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hysiae ...but when they had increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns, Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in...

Hysiae

74 22.585884,37.519836,0 Cnidus ...and the inscription on it says that it was dedicated by the Chersonesians> of Cnidus from enemy spoils. On either side of the image of Zeus they have dedicated...

Cnidus

80 27.37404,36.686188,0 Egyptian men-of-war ...it and a palisade constructed by Patroclus, who was admiral in command of the Egyptian men-of-war sent by Ptolemy, son of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, to help the Athenians, when...

Egyptian men-of-war

80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Altis ...independently of the Ephesians as a body. There is also by the wall of the Altis a Zeus turned towards the setting of the sun; it bears no inscription, but is...

Altis

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Rhegium ...thirty-five boys, and with it a trainer and a flautist, to a local festival of Rhegium. On one occasion a disaster befell them for not one of those sent out returned...

Rhegium

81 15.649244,38.111146,0 Phoenicians ...south, called Pachynum, there stands the city Motye, inhabited by Libyans and Phoenicians. Against these foreigners of Motye war was waged by the Agrigentines, who...

Phoenicians

80 35.25,33.25,0 Dorians ...Such are the foreign races in Sicily. The Greeks settled there include Dorians and Ionians, with a small proportion of Phocians and of Attics. On the same...

Dorians

73 22.25,38.75,0 Achaean ...called the Sacred Road. There are also offerings dedicated by the whole Achaean race in common; they represent those who, when Hector challenged any Greek to...

Achaean

75 Lacedemonians ...and wealthy because they had seized the sanctuary at Delphi, then the Lacedemonians, if eagerness would have done it, would have removed bodily the Megalopolitans...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...The Aeginetan, whose sire was Micon." Not far from the offering of the Achaeans there is also a Heracles fighting with the Amazon, a woman on horseback, for...

Achaeans

74 Thasians ...he was clearly born before Zancle took its present name of Messene. The Thasians, who are Phoenicians by descent, and sailed from Tyre, and from Phoenicia...

Thasians

75 24.717535,40.78201,0 Aulis ...his spear the thigh of the goddess, and actually did lead his army back from Aulis. On his return to his native land the goddess appeared to him in a vision with...

Aulis

79 23.5925,38.4335,0 Maenalus ...them are those dedicated by the Maenalian Phormis. He crossed to Sicily from Maenalus to serve Gelon the son of Deinomenes. Distinguishing himself in the campaigns...

Maenalus

79 22.265891,37.549491,0 Altis ...in spring but on any day, are at heat towards it. In fact they rush into the Altis, breaking their tethers or escaping from their grooms, and they leap upon it...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...is not one of the offerings of Phormis, but has been given to the god by the Arcadians of Pheneus. The inscription says that the artist was Onatas of Aegina helped by...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Gatheatas ...Maniae to the Alpheius is roughly fifteen stades long. At this point the river Gatheatas falls into the Alpheius, and before this the Carnion flows into the Gatheatas...

Gatheatas

81 22.061019,37.298673,0 Megalopolis ...called "by the Mistress"; it too forms a boundary between Messenia and Megalopolis. There are small images of the Mistress and Demeter; likewise of Hermes and...

Megalopolis

73 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonians ...to the effect that the Eleans raised it as a sign that they had beaten the Lacedemonians. It was in this battle that the warrior lost his life who was found lying in...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tricoloni ...and the journey from Charisiae to Tricoloni is another ten stades. Once Tricoloni also was a city, and even today there still remains on a hill a sanctuary of...

Tricoloni

75 22.165174,37.480046,0 Thyraeum ...the plain on a mountain which is also called Hypsus. The district between Thyraeum and Hypsus is all mountainous and full of wild beasts. My narrative has already...

Thyraeum

76 22.127148,37.513321,0 Sumetia ...and a bronze image of her. On the southern slope of the mountain once stood Sumetia. On this mountain is what is called the Meeting of the Three Ways, whence the...

Sumetia

79 Ionians ...his trainer Mycon dedicated the statue and that the Samians are best among the Ionians for athletes and at naval warfare; this is what the inscription says, but it...

Ionians

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lycosura ...all the cities that earth has ever shown, whether on mainland or on islands, Lycosura is the oldest, and was the first that the sun beheld; from it the rest of...

Lycosura

79 22.030087,37.389509,0 Megalopolis ...was named a city in Parrhasia; Theisoa today is a village in the district of Megalopolis. From Neda the river Neda takes its name; from Hagno a spring on Mount Lycaeus...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Eleans ...in the Olympic games came with them. For at the festival celebrated by the Eleans in the year after the settlement of Messene, the foot-race for boys was won by...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Harma ...between the Thebans and the Euboeans. Adjoining are the ruins of the cities Harma (Chariot) and Mycalessus. The former got its name, according to the people of...

Harma

79 23.486691,38.388352,0 Elis ...Chaereas are statues of a Messenian boy Sophius and of Stomius, a man of Elis. Sophius outran his boy competitors, and Stomius won a victory in the...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Thespeia ...The name, they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue: "Thespeia, Graea, and wide Mycalessus." Later, however, it recovered its old name. There...

Thespeia

80 23.154521,38.293384,0 Tanagra ...houses in a clear space where no men live. Corinna, the only lyric poetess of Tanagra, has her tomb in a, conspicuous part of the city, and in the gymnasium is a...

Tanagra

81 23.587064,38.309371,0 Achaia ...all. The other incidents in the life of Oebotas I will add to my history of Achaia. The statue of Antiochus was made by Nicodamus. A native of Lepreus, Antiochus...

Achaia

78 Pythian ...throughout Greece he was raised to a greater height of fame by an order of the Pythian priestess, who bade the Delphians give to Pindar one half of all the...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Larymna ...not in Greek but in the Carian speech. On crossing Mount Ptous you come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the coast, said to have been named after Larymna, the...

Larymna

78 23.288,38.566,0 Thebes ...shall give in my account of Locris. Of old Larymna belonged to Opus, but when Thebes rose to great power the citizens of their own accord joined the Boeotians. Here...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ionia ...For when Alcibiades had a strong fleet of Athenian triremes along the coast of Ionia, most of the Ionians paid court to him, and there is a bronze statue of...

Ionia

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Hyettus ...they did not show me anything that was in the least worth seeing, but in Hyettus is a temple of Heracles, from whom the sick may get cures. There is an image...

Hyettus

75 23.103304,38.55756,0 Samos ...statues in bronze of Conon and of Timotheus both in the sanctuary of Hera in Samos and also in the sanctuary of the Ephesian goddess at Ephesus. It is always the...

Samos

79 26.84,37.73,0 Boeotians ...Platanius, which flows into the sea. On the right of the river the last of the Boeotians in this part dwell in Halae-on-Sea, which separates the Locrian mainland from...

Boeotians

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Nemean ...would not let go until he saw that his opponent had given in. He won at the Nemean and Isthmian games combined twelve victories, three victories at Olympia and...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Onchestus ...a dream. Distant from this mountain fifteen stades are the ruins of the city Onchestus. They say that here dwelt Onchestus, a son of Poseidon. In my day there...

Onchestus

80 23.146959,38.364863,0 Lacedemonians ...boys. By the side of Sodamas stands Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, king of the Lacedemonians. Before this Archidamus no king, so far as I could learn, had his statue set up...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Libethra ...one of the torrents about Olympus, on this occasion threw down the walls of Libethra, overturning sanctuaries of gods and houses of men, and drowning the...

Libethra

78 22.53438,40.02458,0 Cnossus ...Himera; but it is said that this is incorrect, and that be was a Cretan from Cnossus. Expelled from Cnossus by a political party he came to Himera, was given...

Cnossus

79 25.163106,35.297847,0 Thebes ...For having attacked the walls of Haliartus, in which were troops from Thebes and Athens, he fell in the fighting that followed a sortie of the...

Thebes

72 23.255096,38.318092,0 Olympus ...Macedonia, and the other towards Thessaly and the river Peneius. Here on Mount Olympus Polydamas slew a lion, a huge and powerful beast, without the help of any...

Olympus

81 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Temesa ...old age, and escaping again from death departed from among men in another way. Temesa is still inhabited, as I heard from a man who sailed there as a merchant. This...

Temesa

81 16.1315,39.03644,0 Alalcomenae ...flows into the Libyan sea out of lake Tritonis. Before reaching Coroneia from Alalcomenae we come to the sanctuary of Itonian Athena. It is named after Itonius the son...

Alalcomenae

81 23.00169,38.385259,0 Orchomenians ...continued to bear the additional name of Minyans, to distinguish them from the Orchomenians in Arcadia. To this Orchomenus during his kingship came Hyettus from Argos, who...

Orchomenians

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Trojan ...by the Arcadians themselves. Of their memorable achievements the oldest is the Trojan war; then comes the help they gave the Messenians in their struggle against...

Trojan

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thebans ...the murder of Clymenus. But when Heracles had grown to manhood in Thebes, the Thebans were thus relieved of the tribute, and the Minyans suffered a grievous defeat...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Hysiae ...is a pass into Arcadia on the Argive side in the direction of Hysiae and over Mount Parthenius into Tegean territory. There are two others on the...

Hysiae

64 22.585884,37.519836,0 Thebans ...prevailed, the water spreads over a yet greater extent of the territory. The Thebans declare that the river Cephisus was diverted into the Orchomenian plain by...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elis ...over against the island Pharos, and his name was Sarapion; arriving at Elis when the townsfolk were suffering from famine he supplied them with food. For...

Elis

73 21.37493,37.89131,0 Corcyreans ...two being one street. The Eleans call it the Corcyrean, because, they say, the Corcyreans landed in their country and carried off part of the booty, but they themselves...

Corcyreans

81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Dine ...Argolis. In olden times the Argives cast horses adorned with bridles down into Dine as an offering to Poseidon. Not only here in Argolis, but also by Cheimerium in...

Dine

81 Argolis ...with bridles down into Dine as an offering to Poseidon. Not only here in Argolis, but also by Cheimerium in Thesprotis, is there unmistakably fresh water rising...

Argolis

75 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Nestane ...son of Amyntas, and of a village called Nestane. For it is said that by this Nestane Philip made an encampment, and the spring here they still call Philippium after...

Nestane

79 22.461269,37.616101,0 Aegialus ...banished from the land by the rest of the sons of Erechtheus. He reached Aegialus, made his home there, and there died. Of his sons, Achaeus with the assistance...

Aegialus

76 22.3484,38.1478,0 Lacedemonians ...restored they proved far from grateful. They were caught treating with the Lacedemonians and intriguing for a peace with them privately without reference to the rest of...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Helice ...he became king of the Aegialians. He called the city he founded in Aegialus Helice after his wife, and called the inhabitants Ionians after himself. This...

Helice

78 22.14015,38.22257,0 Corinthians ...Nemea and the Isthmus. The mare of the Corinthian Pheidolas was called, the Corinthians relate, Aura (breeze), and at the beginning of the race she chanced to throw...

Corinthians

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Isthmus ...on a slab with this inscription: "The swift Lycus by one victory at the Isthmus and two here Crowned the house of the sons of Pheidolas." But the inscription...

Isthmus

74 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Epidamnus ...know that the Argives acted similarly in the case of Creugas, a boxer of Epidamnus. For the Argives too gave to Creugas after his death the crown in the Nemean...

Epidamnus

75 19.44594,41.31497,0 Athenian ...the statue of Agathinus was dedicated by the Achaeans of Pellene. The Athenian people dedicated a statue of Aristophon, the son of Lysinus, who won the men's...

Athenian

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...a statue of Aristophon, the son of Lysinus, who won the men's pancratium at Olympia. Pherias of Aegina, whose statue stands by the side of Aristophon the...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...to Nicasylus of Rhodes. Being eighteen years of age he was not allowed by the Eleans to compete in the boys' wrestling-match, but won the men's match and was...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Tegea ...the temples in the Peloponnesus, this might be placed first after the one at Tegea for the beauty of its stone and for its symmetry. Apollo received his name from...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Olympia ...surpassed by Artemidorus of Tralles. He failed in the boys' pancratium at Olympia, the reason of his failure being his extreme youth. When, however, the time...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phigalians ...of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians that he also saved the Phigalians, and at no other time; the evidence is that of the two surnames of Apollo...

Phigalians

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Arcadia ...It did not, however, occur to me to take pains to discover where in Arcadia the source of the Lymax is. Beyond the sanctuary of Apollo the Helper is a...

Arcadia

70 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympian ...devolved on his brother Hieron. Hieron died before he could dedicate to Olympian Zeus the offerings he had vowed for his victories in the chariot-race, and so...

Olympian

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phigalia ...sacrifice by private persons, and at the annual sacrifice by the community of Phigalia, is to offer grapes and other cultivated fruits, with honeycombs and raw wool...

Phigalia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Pallantium ...letters L and N.61 These are the reasons why the emperor bestowed boons upon Pallantium. Antoninus, the benefactor of Pallantium, never willingly involved the Romans...

Pallantium

79 22.336587,37.462155,0 Pytho ...winning the crown, when he was not more than twenty years old, at Olympia, at Pytho, at Nemea and at the Isthmus. The statue of the boy runner Xenon, son of...

Pytho

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Asea ...the citadel has traces of fortifications to this day. Some five stades from Asea are the sources of the Alpheius and of the Eurotas, the former a little...

Asea

78 22.283,37.405,0 Aetolian ...victory also at Olympia. The statue of Olidas, of Elis, was dedicated by the Aetolian nation, and Charinus of Elis is represented in a statue dedicated for a victory...

Aetolian

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Eurotas ...streams flow on for some twenty stades. Then they fall into a chasm, and the Eurotas comes again to the surface in the Lacedemonian territory, the Alpheius at Pegae...

Eurotas

79 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Lycaean ...did not sacrifice to them after the same fashion as his father sacrificed to Lycaean Zeus. On the right of the so-called Dyke lies the Manthuric plain. The plain...

Lycaean

79 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Pytho ...of Epitherses, son of Metrodorus, who won two boxing prizes at Olympia, two at Pytho, and also victories at Nemea and the Isthmus; the Syracusans dedicated two...

Pytho

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonian ...are worn dim with age. After Eutelidas is another statue of Areus the Lacedemonian king, and beside it is a statue of Gorgus the Elean. Gorgus is the only man...

Lacedemonian

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...Elean. Gorgus is the only man down to my time who has won four victories at Olympia for the pentathlum, beside a victory in the double race and a victory in the...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aetolians ...among the boys. Pleistaenus, the son of the Eurydamus who commanded the Aetolians against the Gauls, had his statue dedicated by the Thespians. The statue of...

Aetolians

74 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Nemean ...Nemean and Isthmian games, but was restored to the Argives for their winter Nemean games by the emperor Hadrian. Quite close to the statue of Aristeides stands...

Nemean

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Megalopolis ...particular, free from anger, but the Arcadian was somewhat passionate. When Megalopolis was captured by Cleomenes, Philopoemen was not dismayed by the unexpected...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Sellasia ...a truce. When the battle had joined with the Lacedemonians under Cleomenes at Sellasia, in which Achaeans and Arcadians from all the cities took part, along with...

Sellasia

81 Aetolia ...of the opposing cavalry, and then turned to flight all the mounted troops of Aetolia and Elis. L. As the Achaeans now turned their gaze on Philopoemen and placed...

Aetolia

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Lacedemonian ...wrestling-match; his statue was made by Andreas of Argos. Demosthenes the Lacedemonian won an Olympic victory in the men's foot-race, and he dedicated in the Altis a...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megara ...when the Megarians deceived them into thinking that Philopoemen had come to Megara. This made the Thebans so cautious that they went away home, and abandoned...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Olympia ...wrestling-match, and of Gorgias of Leontini. This statue was dedicated at Olympia by Eumolpus, as he himself says, the grandson of Deicrates who married the...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sparta ...for the civil war, sold some three thousand Helots, razed the walls of Sparta, and forbade the youths to train in the manner laid down by the laws of...

Sparta

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...laid down by the laws of Lycurgus, ordering them to follow the training of the Achaean youths. The Romans, in course of time, were to restore to the Lacedemonians the...

Achaean

81 Arcadian ...cities of the interior. By founding cities too, of no small fame, Messene and Arcadian Megalopolis, Epaminondas made Greece more famous. I reckon Leosthenes also and...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...in stone. The Tegeans also have what they call a Common Hearth of the Arcadians. Here there is an image of Heracles, and on his thigh is represented a wound...

Arcadians

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Laconia ...carved in relief upon a slab. On the left of the road as you go from Tegea to Laconia there is an altar of Pan, and likewise one of Lycaean Zeus. The foundations...

Laconia

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Alpheius ...boundary between the territories of Lacedemon and Tegea is the river Alpheius. Its water begins in Phylace, and not far from its source there flows down into...

Alpheius

71 21.451667,37.6125,0 Asea ...Phylace and the place called Symbola it sinks into the Tegean plain; rising at Asea, and mingling its stream with the Eurotas, it sinks again into the...

Asea

81 22.283,37.405,0 Alpheius ...large and stormy a sea, it shows in Ortygia, before Syracuse, that it is the Alpheius, and unites its water with Arethusa. The straight road from Tegea to Thyrea...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Syracuse ...brought most of them safe to Catana, and then returned by the same way back to Syracuse. Finding the enemy still plundering the Athenian camp, he cut down some five of...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athenians ...he and his horse received mortal wounds and died. So he won glory for the Athenians and for himself, by saving the men under his command and seeking his own death...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...also sold all the slaves who had been set free, had fought on the side of the Achaeans, and had not fallen at once on the field of battle. The most admired votive...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...Greece, but of Achaia, because the cause of the subjection of Greece was the Achaeans, at that time at the head of the Greek nation. This war came to an end when...

Achaeans

79 Elis ...Elis. To Amarynceus, therefore, Augeas also gave a share in the government of Elis; Actor and his sons had a share in the kingdom and were natives of the country...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Patrae ...eighty stades from the river Peirus is the city of Patrae. Not far from Patrae the river Glaucus flows into the sea. The historians of ancient Patrae say that...

Patrae

74 21.738518,38.243265,0 Attica ...wife. The reason why I omitted to mention this Music Hall in my history of Attica is that my account of the Athenians was finished before Herodes began the...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Patrae ...horsemanship that he has acquired his name, and not for any other reason. In Patrae, not far from that of Poseidon, are sanctuaries of Aphrodite. One of the two...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Pisa ...Elis. The men of Pylus were punished by Heracles, but his expedition against Pisa was stopped by an oracle from Delphi to this effect "My father cares for Pisa...

Pisa

79 21.653041,37.639535,0 Aegium ...cities are at some distance from the sea and completely inland. As you sail to Aegium from Patrae you come first to the cape called Rhium, fifty stades from Patrae...

Aegium

81 22.081952,38.252707,0 Olympic ...the Lacedemonians, arranged the games at Olympia and reestablished afresh the Olympic festival and truce, after an interruption of uncertain length. The reason for...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Selinus ...do at Thermopylae and at Delphi. Going on further you come to the river Selinus, and forty stades away from Aegium is a place on the sea called Helice. Here...

Selinus

75 12.75,37.75,0 Teos ...spring Biblis there is before the city an altar of Heliconian Poseidon, and in Teos likewise the Heliconian has a precinct and an altar, well worth seeing. There...

Teos

81 26.785014,38.177262,0 Arcadians ...Persian invasion of Greece. I pass over their struggles with the Pisans and Arcadians for the management of the Olympian games. Against their will they joined the...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athens ...rose up with the Mantineans and Argives against the Lacedemonians, inducing Athens too to join the alliance. When Agis invaded the land, and Xenias turned...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...to fight against the Greeks at Chaeroneia. They joined Philip's attack on the Lacedemonians because of their old hatred of that people, but on the death of Alexander they...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Anigrus ...old uncleanness in its water, coming up sound and of one color. Crossing the Anigrus and going to Olympia by the straight road, not far away on the right of the...

Anigrus

80 Anigrus ...flowing into the sea near Arene." 11.722-3 These ruins are very near to the Anigrus; and, although it might be questioned whether Samicum was called Arene, yet the...

Anigrus

79 Pisa ...ruins of Scillus. It was one of the cities of Triphylia but in the war between Pisa and Elis the citizens of Scillus openly helped Pisa against her enemy, and for...

Pisa

81 21.653041,37.639535,0 Olympia ...future trainers should strip before entering the arena. By the time you reach Olympia the Alpheius is a large and very pleasant river to see, being fed by several...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Erymanthus ...comes the Buphagus; from the land of the Clitorians the Ladon; from Mount Erymanthus a stream with the same name as the mountain. These come down into the Alpheius...

Erymanthus

76 21.8489331,37.9816702,0 Syracuse ...Arethusa, unwilling to marry, crossed, they say, to the island opposite Syracuse called Ortygia, and there turned from a woman to a spring. Alpheius too was...

Syracuse

74 15.29382,37.05963,0 Olympia ...was the first king of heaven, and that in his honor a temple was built in Olympia by the men of that age, who were named the Golden Race. When Zeus was born...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delos ...an ode to Opis and Hecaerge declaring that these, even before Achaeia, came to Delos from the Hyperboreans. And Aristeas of Proconnesus – for he too made mention...

Delos

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Olympic ...pentathlum are jumping; for the flute-song is sacred to Apollo, and Apollo won Olympic victories. Later on there came (they say) from Crete Clymenus, the son of...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...is, according to the account of the Troezenians, Sphaerus, but the guide at Olympia called him Cillas. The sculptures in the front pediment are by Paeonius, who...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Erytheia ...boar, his exploit against Diomedes the Thracian, and that against Geryones at Erytheia; he is also about to receive the burden of Atlas, and he cleanses the land from...

Erytheia

80 -6.294444,36.528381,0 gate ...of our time assigns the statue to another, and not to Poseidon. From the gate to the Cerameicus there are porticoes, and in front of them brazen statues of...

gate

75 Argives ...Poseidon, Heracles, Zeus and Athena. They are called gods from Argos. The Argives say it is because they were made in Argos; the people of Aegium themselves say...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aegium ...is a sanctuary of Demeter Panachaean. The beach, on which the people of Aegium have the sanctuaries I have mentioned, affords a plentiful supply of water from...

Aegium

74 22.081952,38.252707,0 Helice ...the type of earthquake, they say, that on the occasion referred to levelled Helice to the ground, and that it was accompanied by another disaster in the season of...

Helice

78 22.14015,38.22257,0 Dodona ...many proofs that the wrath of the God of Suppliants is inexorable. The god at Dodona too manifestly advises us to respect suppliants. For about the time of Apheidas...

Dodona

80 20.78784,39.54648,0 Lacedemonians ...oracle from Delphi making them despair of success in the future; but certain Lacedemonians, who got unnoticed within the walls in the night, perceived at daybreak that...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ceryneia ...you will turn from the sea to the right and you will come to the town of Ceryneia. It is built on a mountain above the high road, and its name was given to it...

Ceryneia

75 22.143425,38.158659,0 Bura ...There is drapery for Demeter. Isis too has a sanctuary. On descending from Bura towards the sea you come to a river called Buraicus, and to a small Heracles in...

Bura

78 22.231166,38.142006,0 Aegae ...of time, it is said, it was abandoned because its people were weak. This Aegae is mentioned by Homer in Hera's speech: "They bring thee gifts up to Helice and...

Aegae

75 22.3484,38.1478,0 Sicyonians ...a sanctuary of Artemis the Huntress, believing that the trick against the Sicyonians was an inspiration of Artemis. The name Aegeira, however, did not supersede...

Sicyonians

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Evagoras King of Cyprus ...in his poem on women. Near the portico stand Conon, Timotheus his son and Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes...

Evagoras King of Cyprus

77 Corinthians ...interior of the Peloponnesus. The first people within the peninsula are the Corinthians, living on the Isthmus, and their neighbors on the side sea-wards are the...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenian ...not founded before the Lycaean. The early name for the former festival was the Athenian, which was changed to the Panathenian in the time of Theseus, because it was...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Tegea ...in ancient times the most famous of the cities of Arcadia, Tegeates founded Tegea and Mantineus Mantineia. Cromi was named after Cromus, Charisia after...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Messenians ...and the Messenians. The Arcadians had from the first been friendly to the Messenians, and on this occasion they openly fought against the Lacedemonians on the side...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pisa ...of Hades and then closed up once more. Others say that Chamynus was a man of Pisa who opposed Pantaleon, the son of Omphalion and despot at Pisa, when he plotted...

Pisa

79 21.653041,37.639535,0 Lacedemonian ...but Acrias, the next after them to be killed, one might guess to have been a Lacedemonian and the founder of Acriae. After Acrias they say that Oenomaus slew Capetus...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Elis ...an image of a boy boxer. He was by birth, so the Guardian of the Laws at Elis told me, from Alexandria over against the island Pharos, and his name was...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Arcadia ...anchorage. It is the port of Elis, and received its name from a man of Arcadia. Homer does not mention Cyllene in the list of the Eleans, but in a later part...

Arcadia

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Aegialians ...recovered the throne of his fathers: Ion, while gathering an army against the Aegialians and Selinus their king, received a message from Selinus, who offered to give...

Aegialians

80 23.909752,37.7924365,0 Argos ...The Achaeans at that time had themselves been expelled from Lacedemon and Argos by the Dorians. The history of the Ionians in relation to the Achaeans I will...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Automate ...and after their arrival became sons-in-law of Danaus, Architeles marrying Automate and Archander Scaea. A very clear proof that they settled in Argos is the fact...

Automate

76 25.38225,36.39633,0 Ionians ...to go with them, but the greatest number of their company was composed of Ionians. This was the third expedition sent out from Greece under kings of a race...

Ionians

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Magnesian ...present day, on the road leading from the sanctuary past the Olympieum to the Magnesian gate. On the tomb is a statue of an armed man. The Ionians who settled at Myus...

Magnesian

80 22.75,39.75,0 Myus ...a native, yet down to the present day are accounted Ionians. The people of Myus left their city on account of the following accident. A small inlet of the sea...

Myus

77 27.42788,37.59716,0 Clarus ...under Mount Pergamus. The people of Colophon suppose that the sanctuary at Clarus, and the oracle, were founded in the remotest antiquity. They assert that while...

Clarus

78 27.19292,38.00466,0 Parian ...the crowns for the victors. There are statues of emperors: Hadrian, of Parian marble dedicated by the cities of the Achaean confederacy, and Trajan...

Parian

74 25.150728,37.08579,0 Eleans ...the Altis there is also a sacred enclosure consecrated to Pelops, whom the Eleans as much prefer in honor above the heroes of Olympia as they prefer Zeus over...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...to Pelops, whom the Eleans as much prefer in honor above the heroes of Olympia as they prefer Zeus over the other gods. To the right of the entrance of the...

Olympia

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Chios ...Opportunity. I know that a hymn to Opportunity is one of the poems of Ion of Chios; in the hymn Opportunity is made out to be the youngest child of Zeus. Near the...

Chios

79 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Corinthians ...descendants, Cypselids as they are called, dedicated the chest at Olympia. The Corinthians of that age called chests kypselai, and from this word, they say, the child...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Arcadian ...Eupolus of Thessaly bribed the boxers who entered the competition, Agenor the Arcadian and Prytanis of Cyzicus, and with them also Phormio of Halicarnassus, who had...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Harpina ...of the sisters, and after her comes Zeus seizing Aegina; by Aegina stands Harpina, who, according to the tradition of the Eleans and Phliasians, mated with Ares...

Harpina

76 21.674729,37.648791,0 Potidaeans ...taken away by the Roman emperor to help to found Nicopolis near Actium. The Potidaeans twice suffered removal from their city, once at the hands of Philip, the son of...

Potidaeans

78 23.3278,40.1937,0 Hyblaeans ...to devotions than any other foreigners in Sicily. Near the offering of the Hyblaeans has been made a pedestal of bronze with a Zeus upon it, which I conjecture to...

Hyblaeans

78 14.90091,37.567342,0 Lacedemonians ...For Epaminondas, Malgis and Xenocrates were minded to do battle with the Lacedemonians at once, but Damocleidas, Damophilus and Simangelus were against joining in...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cithaeron ...The seventh Boeotarch, whose name was Brachyllides, was guarding the pass by Cithaeron, and on his return to the army added his vote to the side of Epaminondas, and...

Cithaeron

79 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Mantineans ...before he came of age, was an ardent supporter of the Achaeans, and so the Mantineans, among other honors, changed the name of their city to Antigoneia. Afterwards...

Mantineans

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lacedemonians ...and of such Boeotians as remained loyal amounted to forty-seven, but of the Lacedemonians themselves there fell more than a thousand men. After the battle Epaminondas...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineans ...in relief upon a slab, of whom I shall make fuller mention later on. The Mantineans have other sanctuaries also, one of Zeus Saviour, and one of Zeus Giver of...

Mantineans

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Delphi ...they brought from Maenalus, in obedience to an oracle delivered to them from Delphi: Maenalia is storm-swept, where lies Arcas, from whom all Arcadians are named...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mantineia ...each year, and games every four years. There is a building in the gymnasium of Mantineia containing statues of Antinous, and remarkable for the stones with which it is...

Mantineia

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineia ...in the Cerameicus which represented the engagement of the Athenians at Mantineia. In the market-place is a bronze portrait-statue of a woman, said by the...

Mantineia

73 22.393259,37.618138,0 Phalerum ...the sanctuary of the god called in the native tongue Osogoa. But the sea at Phalerum is about twenty stades distant from Athens, and the port of Mylasa is eighty...

Phalerum

78 23.7062,37.9373,0 Arcadian ...part in the fighting. On the left wing was stationed all the rest of the Arcadian army, each city under its own leader, the contingent of Megalopolis being led...

Arcadian

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Theban ...give Machaerion as the name of the man. The Athenian account, with which the Theban agrees, makes out that Epaminondas was wounded by Grylus. Similar is the story...

Theban

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Haliartia ...For when some Theban prisoners in the hands of Thracians had reached Haliartia on their march, they were delivered by the god, who gave up the sleeping...

Haliartia

71 23.088416,38.379818,0 Thebans ...Androcleia and Aleis, daughters of Antipoenus. For when Heracles and the Thebans were about to engage in battle with the Orchomenians, an oracle was delivered...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Pheneus ...say, on the mainland opposite Ithaca. On the base of the image the people of Pheneus pointed out to me writing, purporting to be instructions of Odysseus to those...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Samians ...of the Spartans. The first men to melt bronze and to cast images were the Samians Rhoecus the son of Philaeus and Theodorus the son of Telecles. Theodorus also...

Samians

77 26.84,37.73,0 Thebans ...they brought Hector's bones from Troy because of the following oracle: "Ye Thebans who dwell in the city of Cadmus, If you wish blameless wealth for the country...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Pheneus ...wore, being exceedingly proud of it. As you go down from the acropolis of Pheneus you come to a stadium, and on a hill stands a tomb of Iphicles, the brother of...

Pheneus

77 22.30692,37.91045,0 Elis ...voyage, but only sailed from the mouth of the Alpheius to the harbor of Elis. So the Sea of Myrto is obviously not named after Myrtilus, the son of Hermes...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Helene ...begins at Euboea and reaches the Aegaean by way of the uninhabited island of Helene. I think that a probable account is given by the antiquarians of Euboea, who...

Helene

79 24.116,37.678,0 Eleusis ...and they perform a ritual to the goddess, saying that the ceremonies at Eleusis are the same as those established among themselves. For Naus, they assert, came...

Eleusis

74 23.538311,38.041096,0 Pythian ...of the Pheneatians themselves, shortly after passing the sanctuary of the Pythian Apollo you will be on the road that leads to Mount Crathis. On this mountain...

Pythian

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Crathis ...Achaeans. After this Crathis is named the river in Bruttium in Italy. On Mount Crathis is a sanctuary of Artemis Pyronia (Fire-goddess), and in more ancient days the...

Crathis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Phrygian ...I have never seen winged snakes I believe that they exist, as I believe that a Phrygian brought to Ionia a scorpion with wings exactly like those of locusts. Beside...

Phrygian

81 27.75,40.25,0 Styx ...who came with Guneus he makes the river Titaresius receive its water from the Styx. He also represents the Styx as a river in Hades, and Athena says that Zeus...

Styx

80 22.25,38.25,0 Thebes ...of the territory belonging to Thebes, and I learned that in later times men of Thebes escaped to it, at the time when Alexander destroyed Thebes. Weak and old, they...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...later times men of Thebes escaped to it, at the time when Alexander destroyed Thebes. Weak and old, they could not even get safely away to Attica, but made their...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Hyettus ...plain, belongs to the district of Orchomenus. All the stories I heard about Hyettus the Argive and Olmus, the son of Sisyphus, I shall include in my history of...

Hyettus

78 23.103304,38.55756,0 Orchomenus ...that Heracles cut off the noses, as an insult, of the heralds who came from Orchomenus to demand the tribute. Advancing from here twenty-five stades you come to a...

Orchomenus

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Stymphalus ...and a section of them might have flown on some occasion to Arcadia and reached Stymphalus. Originally they would be called by the Arabians, not Stymphalian, but by...

Stymphalus

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Ephesian ...of Apheidas, as their founder. The sanctuaries of the gods here are those of Ephesian Artemis and Athena Alea, and there is a temple of Dionysus with an image. In...

Ephesian

79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Thebes ...private people dared to perform in Naupactus the ritual just as it was done in Thebes, and soon afterwards justice overtook them. Then, again, certain men of the...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Orchomenians ...of Heracles surnamed Hippodetus (Binder of Horses). For they say that the Orchomenians came to this place with an army, and that Heracles by night took their...

Orchomenians

76 22.31536,37.724716,0 Lacedemon ...we see your vassals taking the oath city by city." When the war between Lacedemon and Thebes had already broken out, and the Lacedemonians were advancing to...

Lacedemon

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cephisian ...Epaminondas with a part of the army occupied to meet them a position above the Cephisian lake, under the impression that at this point the Peloponnesians would make...

Cephisian

81 23.625,38.125,0 Lacedemonians ...was also said that the wrath of the daughters of Scedasus fell upon the Lacedemonians. Scedasus, who lived near Leuctra, had two daughters, Molpia and Hippo. These...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ladon ...in my account of Epidaurus. There is a river Tuthoa, and it falls into the Ladon at the boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians...

Ladon

78 21.75,37.75,0 Ladon ...Stratia and Rhipe, mentioned by Homer, were once inhabited islands in the Ladon, cherish, I would tell them, a false belief. For the Ladon could never show...

Ladon

76 21.75,37.75,0 Boeotia ...throughout all the year. At this place the Euripus separates Euboea from Boeotia. On the right is the sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter, and a little farther on...

Boeotia

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Arcadians ...to deal with their vassal neighbors. It was with this policy in view that the Arcadians united, and the founder of the city might fairly be considered Epaminondas of...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Carian ...in his own language, and the god too gave a response, not in Greek but in the Carian speech. On crossing Mount Ptous you come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the...

Carian

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Trapezus ...taken to Megalopolis by force against their will, while the inhabitants of Trapezus departed altogether from the Peloponnesus, such of them as were left and were...

Trapezus

78 22.060685,37.456281,0 Arcadians ...The Lycosurians, although they had disobeyed, were nevertheless spared by the Arcadians because of Demeter and the Mistress, in whose sanctuary they had taken...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athens ...the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, when Phrasicleides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the hundred and second Olympiad, when Damon of Thurii...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Euboea ...in this part dwell in Halae-on-Sea, which separates the Locrian mainland from Euboea. Very near to the Neistan gate at Thebes is the tomb of Menoeceus, the son of...

Euboea

80 Thebes ...separates the Locrian mainland from Euboea. Very near to the Neistan gate at Thebes is the tomb of Menoeceus, the son of Creon. He committed suicide in obedience...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Gortynius ...after his birth was bathed in it; those farther from the source call it the Gortynius after the village. The water of this Gortynius is colder than that of any other...

Gortynius

78 22.25,37.75,0 Helicon ...they say that Aganippe was a daughter of the Termessus, which flows round Helicon. As you go along the straight road to the grove is a portrait of Eupheme carved...

Helicon

76 22.82514,38.35217,0 Pamphylia ...Cydnus which passes through Tarsus, and of the Melas which flows past Side in Pamphylia. The coldness of the Ales in Colophon has even been celebrated in the verse of...

Pamphylia

80 30.98638,36.990721,0 Ephesian ...offices of Megalopolis, six rooms in number. In one of them is an image of Ephesian Artemis, and in another a bronze Pan, surnamed Scoleitas, one cubit high. It...

Ephesian

77 27.339722,37.941944,0 Gortys ...and Artemis. These are the notable things at Teuthis. On the road from Gortys to Megalopolis stands the tomb of those who were killed in the fight with...

Gortys

74 22.041,37.534,0 Cromi ...and in it the ruins of the city Cromi have not entirely disappeared. From Cromi it is about twenty stades to Nymphas, which is well supplied with water and...

Cromi

76 22.75,37.75,0 Trapezus ...and to the ruins of a city Trapezus. On the left, as you go down again from Trapezus to the Alpheius, there is, not far from the river, a place called Bathos...

Trapezus

78 22.060685,37.456281,0 Heracleia ...it further. Brennus brought his army across over the bridges and proceeded to Heracleia. The Gauls plundered the country, and massacred those whom they caught in the...

Heracleia

81 22.442503,38.790767,0 Methydrium ...citizens victorious at Olympia before it belonged to Megalopolis. There is in Methydrium a temple of Horse Poseidon, standing by the Mylaon. But Mount Thaumasius...

Methydrium

81 22.168912,37.627412,0 Athenians ...and threw them at the Greeks or used them in close fighting. Meanwhile the Athenians on the triremes, with difficulty and with danger, nevertheless coasted along...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Trachis ...Oeta by way of Heracleia. Here too a narrow path rises just past the ruins of Trachis. There was also at that time a sanctuary of Athena above the Trachinian...

Trachis

80 22.78885,38.35274,0 Alpheius ...is half this distance. After crossing the river it is two stades from the Alpheius to the ruins of Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Lycaeus ...his account of Niobe. The third river called the Achelous is the one by Mount Lycaeus. On the right of Lycosura are the mountains called Nomian, and on them is a...

Lycaeus

80 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Phigalia ...No traveller can possibly avoid crossing the Plataniston who is going to Phigalia. Afterwards there is an ascent for some thirty stades or so. The story of...

Phigalia

75 21.8391,37.3963,0 Ios ...father-land; but no father-land hast thou, only a mother-land. The island of Ios is the father-land of thy mother, which will receive thee When thou hast died...

Ios

79 25.2822,36.7233,0 Delphians ...of Polygnotus. It was dedicated by the Cnidians, and is called by the Delphians Lesche (Place of Talk, Club Room), because here in days of old they used to...

Delphians

72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Troy ...Clymene, Creusa, Aristomache and Xenodice. Now Stesichorus, in the Sack of Troy, includes Clymene in the number of the captives; and similarly, in the Returns...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Chalcidian ...spiteful act against the wife of Helicaon. The account of Laodice given by the Chalcidian poet Euphorion is entirely unlikely. Next to Laodice is a stone stand with a...

Chalcidian

81 23.602,38.464,0 Pergamenes ...of Aegina, son of Micon, to make them an image of Demeter at a price. The Pergamenes have a bronze Apollo made by this Onatas, a most wonderful marvel both for its...

Pergamenes

76 27.184167,39.1325,0 Arcadia ...and under him is spread a vulture's skin. Next after Eurynomus are Auge of Arcadia and Iphimedeia. Auge visited the house of Teuthras in Mysia, and of all the...

Arcadia

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pallantium ...had broken away. My story next requires me to describe whatever is notable at Pallantium, and the reason why the emperor Antoninus the first turned it from a village to...

Pallantium

81 22.336587,37.462155,0 Arcadians ...the story is that the wisest man and the best soldier among the Arcadians was one Evander, whose mother was a nymph, a daughter of the Ladon, while his...

Arcadians

66 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...Tiber. That part of modern Rome, which once was the home of Evander and the Arcadians who accompanied him, got the name of Pallantium in memory of the city in...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Aesepus ...the tomb that is bare of trees or grass, and sprinkle it with the water of the Aesepus from their wet wings. Beside Memnon is depicted a naked Ethiopian boy, because...

Aesepus

81 27.75,40.25,0 Azanians ...on the river Pencelas, and those who came to this land originally from the Azanians in Arcadia, show visitors a cave called Steunos, which is round, and handsome...

Azanians

77 22.25,37.75,0 Alpheius ...fortifications to this day. Some five stades from Asea are the sources of the Alpheius and of the Eurotas, the former a little distance from the road, the latter just...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Ionia ...is also inhabited by Phrygians. When the army of the Gauls was laying waste Ionia and the borders of Ionia, the Themisonians say that they were helped by...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Tithorea ...the water up. The name of the river is Cachales. Seventy stades distant from Tithorea is a temple of Asclepius, called Archagetas (Founder). He receives divine...

Tithorea

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Brauron ...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...

Brauron

80 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Athenians ...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...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Amphicaea ...native inhabitants. Herodotus, following the most ancient account, called it Amphicaea; but the Amphictyons, when they published their decree for the destruction of...

Amphicaea

79 22.5813,38.6424,0 Paus ...from the Indian tortoise. At the end of Soron are the ruins of the village Paus, and a little farther what is called Seirae; this Seirae forms a boundary...

Paus

77 21.981451,37.83914,0 Elateia ...forced to abandon a siege. Philip, the son of Demetrius, reduced the people of Elateia to the utmost terror, and at the same time seduced by bribery the more powerful...

Elateia

81 22.782061,38.645635,0 Elateia ...of her whom the Athenians call the Virgin. To reach Abae and Hyampolis from Elateia you may go along a mountain road on the right of the city of Elateia, but the...

Elateia

79 22.782061,38.645635,0 Opus ...road on the right of the city of Elateia, but the highway from Orchomenus to Opus also leads to those cities. If then you go along the road from Orchomenus to...

Opus

79 22.999964,38.653678,0 Abae ...Orchomenus to Opus, and turn off a little to the left, you reach the road to Abae. The people of Abae say that they came to Phocis from Argos, and that the city...

Abae

79 22.9154,38.58006,0 Carians ...by the fact that the Maeander, flowing through the land of the Phrygians and Carians, which is ploughed up each year, has turned to mainland in a short time the sea...

Carians

79 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Abae ...and turn off a little to the left, you reach the road to Abae. The people of Abae say that they came to Phocis from Argos, and that the city got its name from...

Abae

79 22.9154,38.58006,0 Psophis ...sea through Aethiopia, they are accustomed to make of black stone. I heard in Psophis a statement about one Aglaus, a Psophidian contemporary with Croesus the...

Psophis

81 21.892903,37.871725,0 Eleusinian ...called Halous, and from Halous it descends to Thaliades and a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. This sanctuary is on the borders of Thelpusa. In it are images, each...

Eleusinian

77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Ladon ...greater part of this, I found, lay level with the ground. After Thelpusa the Ladon descends to the sanctuary of Demeter in Onceium. The Thelpusians call the...

Ladon

80 21.75,37.75,0 Ladon ...islands in the Ladon, cherish, I would tell them, a false belief. For the Ladon could never show islands even as large as a ferry-boat. As far as beauty is...

Ladon

77 21.75,37.75,0 Oresthasium ...homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities...

Oresthasium

76 22.206506,37.345994,0 Dipaea ...Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni...

Dipaea

76 22.254905,37.541156,0 Tricoloni ...Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni, Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. From the Aegytae: Aegys...

Tricoloni

73 22.165174,37.480046,0 Stiris ...is an image of Demeter, as ancient as any of that goddess that exists. From Stiris to Ambrossus is about six stades. The road is flat, lying on the level with...

Stiris

79 22.757,38.385,0 Ambrossus ...The greater part of the plain is covered with vines, and in the territory of Ambrossus grow shrubs, though not close together like the vines. This shrub the Ionians...

Ambrossus

79 22.66763,38.42845,0 Trapezus ...with their lives sailed away to Pontus and were welcomed by the citizens of Trapezus on the Euxine as their kindred, as they bore their name and came from their...

Trapezus

78 22.060685,37.456281,0 Anticyra ...of Phocians was determined to call it by this name, although it was called Anticyra in Homer's day, because Anticyreus was a contemporary of Heracles. The city...

Anticyra

77 22.626059,38.375439,0 Delphi ...of the Boeotians, and wealthy because they had seized the sanctuary at Delphi, then the Lacedemonians, if eagerness would have done it, would have removed...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Arcadians ...the rise of Philip, the son of Amyntas, and of the Macedonian empire, and the Arcadians did not help the Greeks at Chaeroneia or again in the struggle in...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaia ...prevented from taking Megalopolis is the man from whom was taken Pellene in Achaia by the Sicyonians under Aratus, and later he met his end at Mantineia. Shortly...

Achaia

78 Alpheius ...in Theisoa, which borders on Methydrium. The place where its stream joins the Alpheius is called Rhaeteae. Adjoining the land of Theisoa is a village called Teuthis...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Locrian ...part of the people went away to Amphissa. Originally, however, they came of Locrian race. It is said that the name of the city is derived from Amphissa, daughter...

Locrian

78 21.75,38.25,0 Arcadians ...during every other year, does not flow, and near the spring rises up fire. The Arcadians say that the fabled battle between giants and gods took place here and not at...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Locrians ...in my history of Messenia. When the Messenians were forced to leave, the Locrians gathered again at Naupactus. The epic poem called the Naupactia by the Greeks...

Locrians

75 21.75,38.25,0 Mitylene ...still remaining. The river Helisson divides Megalopolis just as Cnidus and Mitylene are cut in two by their straits, and in the north section, on the right as one...

Mitylene

78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Thermopylae ...away those opposed to him at the pass, in order to invade Greece south of Thermopylae. Deserters kept Brennus informed about the forces from each city mustered at...

Thermopylae

76 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...kept Brennus informed about the forces from each city mustered at Thermopylae. So despising the Greek army he advanced from Heracleia, and began the battle...

Thermopylae

68 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...the shields in the porch of Zeus, God of Freedom. After this battle at Thermopylae the Greeks buried their own dead and spoiled the barbarians, but the Gauls sent...

Thermopylae

73 22.538294,38.796511,0 Heracleia ...day after the battle a regiment of Gauls attempted to go up to Oeta by way of Heracleia. Here too a narrow path rises just past the ruins of Trachis. There was also at...

Heracleia

80 22.442503,38.790767,0 Aetolia ...But Brennus reasoned that if he could compel the Aetolians to return home to Aetolia, he would find the war against Greece prove easier hereafter. So he detached...

Aetolia

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Delphians ...Delphi without waiting for the army with Acichorius to join up. In terror the Delphians took refuge in the oracle. The god bade them not to be afraid, and promised...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aetolians ...who came from all their cities; from Amphissa four hundred hoplites; from the Aetolians a few came at once on hearing of the advance of the barbarians, and later on...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Delphi ...camp. Brennus and his army were now faced by the Greeks who had mustered at Delphi, and soon portents boding no good to the barbarians were sent by the god, the...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...back again to Asia. Such was the course of the war. In the fore-temple at Delphi are written maxims useful for the life of men, inscribed by those whom the...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pergamus ...Poets sing of her death at the tomb of Achilles, and both at Athens and at Pergamus on the Caicus I have seen the tragedy of Polyxena depicted in paintings. The...

Pergamus

77 27.184167,39.1325,0 Eresus ...Odysseus, and Anchialus. There is also in the painting another corpse, that of Eresus. The tale of Eresus and Laomedon, so far as we know, no poet has sung. There is...

Eresus

81 26.489422,39.05495,0 Aegina ...about this is as follows. When Phocus, the son of Aeacus, had crossed from Aegina into what is now called Phocis, and wished to gain the rule over the men living...

Aegina

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Parnassus ...in Delphi that are worth recording. On the way from Delphi to the summit of Parnassus, about sixty stades distant from Delphi, there is a bronze image. The ascent to...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Phrygians ...but the most famous ones in Greek or in foreign lands are the following. The Phrygians on the river Pencelas, and those who came to this land originally from the...

Phrygians

79 27.75,40.25,0 Delphi ...the crime of his own impiety. Lilaea is a winter day's journey distant from Delphi; we estimated the length of the road, which goes across and down Parnassus, to...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonia ...constitution, and by messengers made overtures to its citizens to secede from Macedonia. But either they or their government were stupid enough to be faithful to...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Olympic ...and for the double race with shield, at the two hundred and thirty-fifth Olympic festival. In Runner Street at Elateia there stands a bronze statue of...

Olympic

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Asopus ...the established form of government. But the Plataeans know of no king except Asopus and Cithaeron before him, holding that the latter gave his name to the...

Asopus

79 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Cithaeron ...form of government. But the Plataeans know of no king except Asopus and Cithaeron before him, holding that the latter gave his name to the mountain, the former...

Cithaeron

74 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Daedala ...to Zeus. To commemorate this reconciliation they celebrate a festival called Daedala, because the men of old time gave the name of daedala to wooden images. My own...

Daedala

79 28.976568,36.749409,0 Daedala ...also. This feast the Plataeans celebrate by themselves, calling it the Little Daedala, but the Great Daedala, which is shared with them by the Boeotians, is a...

Daedala

81 28.976568,36.749409,0 Plataeans ...the Athenians also erected as first-fruits of the battle at Marathon; the Plataeans too had Pheidias for the maker of their image of Athena. In the temple are...

Plataeans

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Troy ...Leitus, who was the only one to return home of the chiefs who led Boeotians to Troy. The spring Gargaphia was filled in by the Persian cavalry under Mardonius...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thebes ...are the images of the goddesses. Even today the Asopus is the boundary between Thebes and Plataea. The first to occupy the land of Thebes are said to have been the...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cadmeia ...communities, but Cadmus built the city which even at the present day is called Cadmeia. Afterwards the city grew, and so the Cadmeia became the citadel of the lower...

Cadmeia

81 Thebans ...by Sulla, which brought on them such great sufferings. On this occasion the Thebans were removed from their homes by Alexander, and straggled to Athens; afterwards...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocis ...the Messenians, and likewise mercenaries came to the help of the Thebans from Phocis, and the Phlegyans from the Minyan country. When the battle took place at the...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Glisas ...to help them. Thebes too was defended by their neighbors, and a battle at Glisas was fiercely contested on both sides. Some of the Thebans escaped with...

Glisas

76 23.396935,38.391809,0 Lacedemon ...war; then comes the help they gave the Messenians in their struggle against Lacedemon, and they also took part in the action at Plataea against the Persians. It was...

Lacedemon

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...was shown on many occasions; in particular, immediately after the Lacedemonian reverse at Leuctra they seceded from them and joined the Thebans. Though they...

Lacedemonian

68 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineia ...to their city. Farther off from Melangeia, about seven stades distant from Mantineia, there is a well called the Well of the Meliasts. These Meliasts celebrate the...

Mantineia

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Inachus ...a temple and image of Artemis, and also the springs of the Inachus. The river Inachus, so long as it flows by the road across the mountain, is the boundary between...

Inachus

80 22.75,37.75,0 Thessalian ...Thessalonice, the daughter of Philip, and both Thessalonice and Aridaeus had Thessalian women for their mothers. The fate of Alexander is familiar to everybody...

Thessalian

79 21.75,39.25,0 Achaean ...the Mantineans quarrelled with the Lacedemonians, and seceded from them to the Achaean League. They defeated Agis, the son of Eudamidas, king of Sparta, in defence of...

Achaean

81 Maenalia ...from Maenalus, in obedience to an oracle delivered to them from Delphi: Maenalia is storm-swept, where lies Arcas, from whom all Arcadians are named, In a place...

Maenalia

75 22.265891,37.549491,0 Acropolis ...in the sanctuary. A like story is told by the Athenians about the wave on the Acropolis, and by the Carians living in Mylasa about the sanctuary of the god called in...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Troy ...on the collar: "I was a fawn when captured, at the time when Agapenor went to Troy." This story proves that the deer is an animal much longer-lived even than the...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Mantineia ...the road from Mantineia to Tegea leads through the oaks. The boundary between Mantineia and Tegea is the round altar on the highroad. If you will turn aside to the...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Megalopolis ...from the spring is the place called Petrosaca, which is the boundary between Megalopolis and Mantineia. In addition to the roads mentioned there are two others...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Mantineia ...is the place called Petrosaca, which is the boundary between Megalopolis and Mantineia. In addition to the roads mentioned there are two others, leading to...

Mantineia

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Ephesian ...do they enter the home of a private man. I know that the "entertainers" of the Ephesian Artemis live in a similar fashion, but for a year only, the Ephesians calling...

Ephesian

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Pheneatians ...chasms made in the mountains I have mentioned is the city, founded, say the Pheneatians, by Pheneus, an aboriginal. Their acropolis is precipitous on all sides, mostly...

Pheneatians

78 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneus ...mother Moline. In a fainting condition he was carried by his relatives to Pheneus, where he was carefully nursed by Buphagus, a citizen of Pheneus, and by his...

Pheneus

76 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneus ...relatives to Pheneus, where he was carefully nursed by Buphagus, a citizen of Pheneus, and by his wife Promne, who also buried him when he died of his wound. They...

Pheneus

80 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneatians ...explain why the bean in their eyes is an impure kind of pulse. Those who, the Pheneatians say, gave the goddess a welcome, Trisaules and Damithales, had a temple of...

Pheneatians

80 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneus ...persons have had the same names as distinguished heroes. The borders of Pheneus and Achaia meet in more places than one; for towards Pellene the boundary is...

Pheneus

75 22.30692,37.91045,0 Nonacris ...of' the river Styx." The water trickling down the cliff by the side of Nonacris falls first to a high rock, through which it passes and then descends into the...

Nonacris

74 22.241203,38.014421,0 Ladon ...about fifty stades from Lycuria, you will come to the source of the Ladon. I heard that the water making a lake in the territory of Pheneus, descending...

Ladon

70 21.75,37.75,0 Ladon ...him with their javelins and daggers. Such is the tale. From the source of the Ladon, Cleitor is sixty stades away, and the road from the source of the Ladon is a...

Ladon

81 21.75,37.75,0 Stymphalians ...Temenus named her Widow. This is the account which, to my own knowledge, the Stymphalians give of the goddess. The modern city contains none of these sanctuaries, but I...

Stymphalians

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Corinth ...territory is a spring, from which the emperor Hadrian brought water to Corinth. In winter the spring makes a small lake in Stymphalus, and the river...

Corinth

73 22.878721,37.906045,0 Stymphalus ...Hadrian brought water to Corinth. In winter the spring makes a small lake in Stymphalus, and the river Stymphalus issues from the lake; in summer there is no lake, but...

Stymphalus

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalus ...Corinth. In winter the spring makes a small lake in Stymphalus, and the river Stymphalus issues from the lake; in summer there is no lake, but the river comes straight...

Stymphalus

80 22.45931,37.85932,0 Arcadian ...of the ibis. Whether the modern Arabian birds with the same name as the old Arcadian birds are also of the same breed, I do not know. But if there have been from...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Carthage .... . . whom they name Carthaginian, because he put an end to the war and razed Carthage to the ground. Whenever the Romans obeyed the advice of Polybius, things went...

Carthage

80 10.327986,36.857569,0 Neda ...that they are among the first gods. Nymphs too are carved on the table: Neda carrying an infant Zeus, Anthracia, another Arcadian nymph, holding a torch...

Neda

75 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Gatheatas ...is in Aegytian territory beneath the sanctuary of Apollo Cereatas; that of the Gatheatas is at Gatheae in Cromitian territory. The Cromitian territory is about forty...

Gatheatas

81 22.061019,37.298673,0 Arcadia ...also, made for Heracles by Daedalus, stood here on the borders of Messenia and Arcadia. The road from Megalopolis to Lacedemon is thirty stades long at the Alpheius...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Methydrium ...are also roads from Megalopolis leading to the interior of Arcadia; to Methydrium it is one hundred and seventy stades, and thirteen stades from Megalopolis is a...

Methydrium

73 22.168912,37.627412,0 Charisiae ...from here are a few memorials of the city Charisiae, and the journey from Charisiae to Tricoloni is another ten stades. Once Tricoloni also was a city, and even...

Charisiae

76 Zoetia ...Tricolonus, also founded a city, in this case Paroria, ten stades distant from Zoetia. Today both towns are without inhabitants. In Zoetia, however, there still...

Zoetia

81 22.141115,37.468145,0 Tanagra ...became his foster-father. The Theban legend is different, and the people of Tanagra, again, have a legend at variance with the Theban. From Acacesium it is four...

Tanagra

78 23.587064,38.309371,0 Arcadians ...the Curetes), carved in relief upon the base, I know, but pass them by. The Arcadians bring into the sanctuary the fruit of all cultivated trees except the...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...called Cretea, on the left of the grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The Arcadians claim that the Crete, where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared, was...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Alpheius ...There flow through the land of Theisoa the following tributaries of the Alpheius, the Mylaon, Nus, Achelous, Celadus, and Naliphus. There are two other rivers...

Alpheius

74 21.451667,37.6125,0 Phigalians ...Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian was victorious for the third time. The Phigalians who escaped resolved to go to Delphi and ask the god about their return. The...

Phigalians

78 21.8391,37.3963,0 Spartans ...in all respects. For they fought and met their end gloriously; expelling the Spartans they enabled the Phigalians to recover their native land. Phigalia lies on high...

Spartans

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phigalia ...stood in my time in the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo. In the market-place of Phigalia there is also a common tomb of the picked men of Oresthasium, and every year...

Phigalia

78 21.8391,37.3963,0 Neda ...on Mount Cerausius, which is a part of Mount Lycaeus. At the place where the Neda approaches nearest to Phigalia the boys of the Phigalians cut off their hair in...

Neda

79 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Phigalia ...place for its twistings should be given to the Neda. Some twelve stades above Phigalia are hot baths, and not far from these the Lymax falls into the Neda. Where the...

Phigalia

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Athenians ...Apollo received his name from the help he gave in time of plague, just as the Athenians gave him the name of Averter of Evil for turning the plague away from them. It...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elaius ...of which is now gone, and an image of the goddess. The second mountain, Mount Elaius, is some thirty stades away from Phigalia, and has a cave sacred to Demeter...

Elaius

81 26.220385,40.051661,0 Ladon ...the Arcadians was one Evander, whose mother was a nymph, a daughter of the Ladon, while his father was Hermes. Sent out to establish a colony at the head of a...

Ladon

77 21.75,37.75,0 Athenaeum ...from Haemoniae is a place called Aphrodisium, and after it another, called Athenaeum. On the left of it is a temple of Athena with a stone image in it. About...

Athenaeum

77 22.258894,37.277285,0 Alpheius ...and the Eurotas comes again to the surface in the Lacedemonian territory, the Alpheius at Pegae (Sources) in the land of Megalopolis. From Asea is an ascent up Mount...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Milesians ...from Brauron the image of Brauronian Artemis, and furthermore, accusing the Milesians of cowardice in a naval engagement against the Athenians in Greek waters...

Milesians

78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Attica ...equally distant from Athens and Carystus in Euboea. It was at this point in Attica that the foreigners landed, were defeated in battle, and lost some of their...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Branchidae ...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...

Branchidae

77 27.256115,37.384829,0 Lycian ...one, a wooden image, is by the Hera, the other is kept in the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo. Again, the people of Cyzicus, compelling the people of Proconnesus by...

Lycian

77 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Marathonians ...spirits are not wroth with such as in ignorance chance to be spectators. The Marathonians worship both those who died in the fighting, calling them heroes, and secondly...

Marathonians

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Pentelic ...of Athena stands Asclepius, on the other Health, works of Scopas of Paros in Pentelic marble. Of the votive offerings in the temple these are the most notable...

Pentelic

79 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Olympia ...in his right hand a branch of palm. It is said that Iasius won a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delos ...victors with palm. Such, it is said, was the origin of the custom. The palm in Delos is mentioned by Homer in the passage where Odysseus supplicates the daughter of...

Delos

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Athens ...For thinking in their pride that nothing stood in the way of their taking Athens, they were bringing a piece of Parian marble to make a trophy, convinced that...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ionians ...and Phocaea were not inhabited before the Ionians came to Asia. When the Ionians arrived, a wandering division of them sent for a leader, Parphorus, from the...

Ionians

75 27.508324,37.474596,0 Parnassus ...had returned to Peloponnesus. The Phocaeans are by birth from the land under Parnassus still called Phocis, who crossed to Asia with the Athenians Philogenes and...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Maeander ...called Leleges; that Ancaeus took to wife Samia, the daughter of the river Maeander, and begat Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses and a daughter Parthenope; and...

Maeander

77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 of Amphiaraus ...day. The Oropians have near the temple a spring, which they call the Spring of Amphiaraus; they neither sacrifice into it nor are wont to use it for purifications or for...

of Amphiaraus

79 23.846116,38.291099,0 Thebes ...verse, saying that Amphiaraus gave them to the Argives who were sent against Thebes. These verses unrestrainedly appealed to popular taste. Except those whom they...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Troy ...Attica on the left. On this they say that Helen landed after the capture of Troy, and for this reason the name of the island is Helene. Salamis lies over...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Crete ...the customs of his city he went into exile of his own accord to Minos in Crete. There he made images for Minos and for the daughters of Minos, as Homer sets...

Crete

75 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Eleusis ...for this reason the name of the island is Helene. Salamis lies over against Eleusis, and stretches as far as the territory of Megara. It is said that the first to...

Eleusis

78 23.538311,38.041096,0 Clarus ...it the Smyrnaeans from the old city. So the Smyrnaeans sent ambassadors to Clarus to make inquiries about the circumstance, and the god made answer: "Thrice...

Clarus

78 27.19292,38.00466,0 Priene ...with the sanctuary of Heracles at Erythrae and with the temple of Athena at Priene, the latter because of its image and the former on account of its age. The...

Priene

78 27.298333,37.66,0 Chios ...mainland, just midway between the harbor of the Erythraeans and the island of Chios. When the raft rested off the cape the Erythraeans made great efforts, and the...

Chios

80 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Erythrae ...the free who lived there, offered themselves to be shorn. And so the men of Erythrae towed the raft ashore. Accordingly no women except Thracian women are allowed...

Erythrae

78 26.48103,38.38122,0 Rhodians ...the Egyptian, and, of the self-governing peoples, the Aetolians with the Rhodians and the Cretans among the islanders. As the reinforcements from Egypt, Mysia...

Rhodians

75 28.15629,36.41451,0 Crete ...the Cretans among the islanders. As the reinforcements from Egypt, Mysia, and Crete were for the most part too late, and the Rhodians, whose strength lay only in...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Achaeans ...Achaeans from Lacedemon, Preugenes and his son, whose name was Patreus. The Achaeans allowed them to found a city in their territory, and to it was given the name...

Achaeans

78 Macedonian ...whose strength lay only in their fleet, were of little help against the Macedonian men-at-arms, Cephisodorus sailed with other Athenians to Italy and begged aid...

Macedonian

74 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...of the Romans. They sent a force and a general, who so reduced Philip and the Macedonians that afterwards Perseus, the son of Philip, lost his throne and was himself...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...For when later on the Lacedemonians began the war with the Athenians, the Achaeans were eager for the alliance with Patrae, and were no less well disposed towards...

Achaeans

76 Euripus ...water. It is a reasonable belief that they flow beneath the ground from the Euripus of the Chalcidians, and fall into a sea of a lower level. They are said to be...

Euripus

78 23.58944,38.46276,0 Achaeans ...no longer took concerted action, but each state acted for itself alone, the Achaeans enjoyed their greatest power. For except Pellene no Achaean city had at any...

Achaeans

78 Eleusinians ...belong to the parish of Scambonidae. I could not find the grave of Crocon, but Eleusinians and Athenians agreed in identifying the tomb of Eumolpus. This Eumolpus they...

Eleusinians

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Laconian ...as a stranger to the land, and that after him is named Zarax, a town in the Laconian territory near the sea. If there is a native Athenian hero called Zarex, I have...

Laconian

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Aetolians ...Rome. A short time before, the Romans had sent a force ostensibly to help the Aetolians against Philip, but really more to spy on the condition of Macedonia. At the...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Boeotia ...Attica, but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was Cithaeron. The reason why the people of Eleutherae came over was not...

Boeotia

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Sparta ...were made by Areus and Alcibiadas, Lacedemonians of great distinction at Sparta but ungrateful to the Achaeans. For the Achaeans gave them a welcome when...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...and on the tyrant's death restored them to Sparta against the will of the Lacedemonian people. On this occasion, therefore, they too arose and attacked the Achaeans...

Lacedemonian

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gerania ...the flood in the time of Deucalion, and made his escape to the heights of Gerania. The mountain had not yet received this name, but was then named Gerania (Crane...

Gerania

76 Oropians ...the Athenians should take hostages from the Oropians. If in the future the Oropians should have any complaint to make against the Athenians, then the Athenians...

Oropians

77 23.846116,38.291099,0 Athenian ...refused to do either of these things, saying that the blame lay, not with the Athenian people, but with the men of the garrison. They promised, however, that the...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...the Oropians promised Menalcidas, a Lacedemonian who was then general of the Achaeans, a gift of ten talents if he would induce the Achaeans to help them. Menalcidas...

Achaeans

79 Naxos ...Returning afterwards to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and Naxos and invaded Boeotia with an army. Having ravaged the greater part of the land...

Naxos

80 25.52001,37.127,0 Athens ...say that originally they were from Attica, but on being expelled from Athens by Aegeus they fled to Arcadia, threw themselves on the mercy of Cepheus, and...

Athens

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Haliartus ...the land and reduced Chaeronea by a siege, he advanced into the territory of Haliartus, where he was killed in battle and all his army worsted. Such was the history...

Haliartus

79 23.088416,38.379818,0 Acropolis ...what Aegeus had deposited. There is a representation of this legend on the Acropolis, everything in bronze except the rock. Another deed of Theseus they have...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Psophis ...accurate version is that Eryx, the despot of Sicania, had a daughter named Psophis, whom Heracles, though he had intercourse with her, refused to take to his...

Psophis

77 21.892903,37.871725,0 Zacynthus ...Zacynthian acropolis, because the first man to sail across to the island was Zacynthus, the son of Dardanus, a Psophidian who became its founder. From Seirae it is...

Zacynthus

79 20.892091,37.787178,0 Erycine ...altogether improbable. In Psophis there is a sanctuary of Aphrodite surnamed Erycine; I found only ruins of it remaining, but the people said that it was...

Erycine

80 Arcadians ...has obtained two surnames, Fury because of her avenging anger, because the Arcadians call being wrathful "being furious," and Bather (Lusia) because she bathed in...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Argos ...by war to the Lacedemonians, but when they had increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns, Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...picked troops under the command of Cimon, the son of Miltiades. These the Lacedemonians dismissed, because they suspected them. The Athenians regarded the insult as...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...union and despatched a thousand picked Thebans under Pammenes to defend the Arcadians, if the Lacedemonians should try to prevent the union. There were chosen as...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Gortys ...Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus...

Gortys

79 22.041,37.534,0 Orchomenus ...Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium, Teuthis. These were joined by Tripolis, as it is called...

Orchomenus

76 22.31536,37.724716,0 Tripolis ...belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium, Teuthis. These were joined by Tripolis, as it is called, Callia, Dipoena, Nonacris. The Arcadians for the most part...

Tripolis

77 24.139967,41.150029,0 Mantinea ...region of Thrace and at Megara, and when Alcibiades persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the Eleans to revolt from the Lacedemonians, and of those who were...

Mantinea

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lacedemonians ...persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the Eleans to revolt from the Lacedemonians, and of those who were victorious over the Syracusans before Demosthenes...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pontus ...the exasperated Arcadians. Those who escaped with their lives sailed away to Pontus and were welcomed by the citizens of Trapezus on the Euxine as their kindred...

Pontus

79 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Lycosurians ...as their kindred, as they bore their name and came from their mother-city. The Lycosurians, although they had disobeyed, were nevertheless spared by the Arcadians because...

Lycosurians

81 22.030087,37.389509,0 Theisoa ...are held by the people of Megalopolis as villages, namely Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson. Only one of them...

Theisoa

78 22.093976,37.629132,0 Boeotians ...War, and they were hard pressed by the Phocians, who were neighbors of the Boeotians, and wealthy because they had seized the sanctuary at Delphi, then the...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Prospalta ...a view to her delivery, and the place received its name from this incident. Prospalta has also a sanctuary of the Maid and Demeter, and Anagyrus a sanctuary of the...

Prospalta

78 23.912351,37.848447,0 Prasiae ...these the Scythians bring them to Sinope, thence they are carried by Greeks to Prasiae, and the Athenians take them to Delos. The first-fruits are hidden in wheat...

Prasiae

81 24.0375955,37.8651735,0 Cythera ...Gythium and captured Boeae, belonging to the "provincials," and the island of Cythera. He made a descent on Sicyonia, and, attacked by the citizens as he was laying...

Cythera

80 22.97822,36.26229,0 Pentelic ...a village, but of old was a city. Here there is a temple of Asclepius, made of Pentelic marble, with the god, as a beardless youth, and an image of Health. Scopas was...

Pentelic

81 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Euboean ...of Amarysia which the Athenians celebrate is no less splendid than the Euboean. The name of the goddess, I think, came to Athmonia in this fashion and the...

Euboean

73 Alpheius ...of a city Trapezus. On the left, as you go down again from Trapezus to the Alpheius, there is, not far from the river, a place called Bathos (Depth), where they...

Alpheius

77 21.451667,37.6125,0 Olympic ...was very beautiful to look upon, and of no undistinguished fame, having won an Olympic victory in the double foot-race, while he had married the daughter of...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Megara ...double foot-race, while he had married the daughter of Theagenes, tyrant of Megara. In addition to the works I have mentioned, there are two tithes dedicated by...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megalopolis ...is another portico, smaller in size, where stand the government offices of Megalopolis, six rooms in number. In one of them is an image of Ephesian Artemis, and in...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Aegium ...harbor of Erineus is a coastal voyage of ninety stades, and from Erineus to Aegium is sixty. But the land route is about forty stades less than the number here...

Aegium

78 22.081952,38.252707,0 Heliconian ...the Ionians had a very holy sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon. Their worship of Heliconian Poseidon has remained, even after their expulsion by the Achaeans to Athens...

Heliconian

81 22.82514,38.35217,0 Attica ...the Athenians. Here too lie the men of Cleone, who came with the Argives into Attica; the occasion whereof I shall set forth when in the course of my narrative I...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Aegosthena ...and in it the Megarians have built the city Pagae and another one called Aegosthena. As you go to Pagae, on turning a little aside from the highway, you are shown...

Aegosthena

75 23.22874,38.14719,0 Megara ...road you see a sanctuary of Apollo Latous, after which is the boundary between Megara and Corinth, where legend says that Hyllus, son of Heracles, fought a duel with...

Megara

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Helice ...is an explanation expressly written on the tablet. The straight road from Helice to the Heracles is about thirty stades. Going on from the Heracles you come to...

Helice

77 22.14015,38.22257,0 Lacedemonians ...a battle was imminent at Tanagra, the Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians. For a time the Argives had the better...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...the next day the Lacedemonians had the better, as the Thessalians betrayed the Athenians. It occurred to me to tell of the following men also, firstly Apollodorus...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegeira ...women compete for the priesthood, lots are cast for the honor. To the port of Aegeira, which has the same name as the city, it is seventy-two stades from the...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Sicyonians ...dwelling there, and the reason for the name was as follows. A hostile army of Sicyonians was about to invade their territory. As they thought themselves no match for...

Sicyonians

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Tanagra ...Macedonians at Charonea, those who were killed at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, the men Leosthenes led into Thessaly, those who sailed with Cimon to Cyprus...

Tanagra

79 23.587064,38.309371,0 Pellene ...it has been considered sacred to Poseidon. About sixty stades distant from Pellene is the Mysaeum, a sanctuary of the Mysian Demeter. It is said that it was...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Academy ...tyrant, but the buildings remained to my time. Before the entrance to the Academy is an altar to Love, with an inscription that Charmus was the first Athenian to...

Academy

77 Athenians ...of which worship Amarysia, while the festival of Amarysia which the Athenians celebrate is no less splendid than the Euboean. The name of the goddess, I...

Athenians

70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lycaeus ...more clever than those of his father. He founded the city Lycosura on Mount Lycaeus, gave to Zeus the surname Lycaeus and founded the Lycaean games. I hold that...

Lycaeus

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Pallantium ...was founded by Pallas, Oresthasium by Orestheus and Phigalia by Phigalus. Pallantium is mentioned by Stesichorus of Himera in his Geryoneid. Phigalia and...

Pallantium

77 22.336587,37.462155,0 Seriphos ...of the victory his horses won at Nemea. There is also Perseus journeying to Seriphos, and carrying to Polydectes the head of Medusa, the legend about whom I am...

Seriphos

78 24.48685,37.17261,0 Elatus ...got Mount Cyllene, which down to that time had received no name. Afterwards Elatus migrated to what is now called Phocis, helped the Phocians when hard pressed in...

Elatus

78 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Athenians ...his debts were discharged he lacked the spirit to face his troops. So the Athenians, who were absolutely determined to have Phormio as their commander, paid all...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Syracuse ...coast, and crossing into Sicily forced the Carthaginians to raise the siege of Syracuse. In his self-conceit, although the Carthaginians, being Phoenicians of Tyre by...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Cyprians ...(Old Paphos). Up to that time the goddess had been worshipped by the Cyprians in the district called Golgi. Afterwards Laodice, a descendant of Agapenor...

Cyprians

71 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Ceraunian ...approach of that very night crossed to the headlands of the mountains called Ceraunian. After the defeat in Italy Pyrrhus gave his forces a rest and then declared...

Ceraunian

79 19.638889,40.198056,0 Mantineia ...the son of Hippothous, dared to enter the sanctuary of Poseidon at Mantineia, into which no mortal was, just as no mortal today is, allowed to pass; on...

Mantineia

69 22.393259,37.618138,0 Troezen ...cities that took part were, of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian...

Troezen

79 Carystus ...side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the Aetolian League. The Boeotians, who occupied...

Carystus

78 24.4204,38.0165,0 Epeirus ...also and the Long Walls. On the death of Antipater Olympias came over from Epeirus, killed Aridaeus, and for a time occupied the throne; but shortly afterwards...

Epeirus

78 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Argives ...to antiquity and the gifts they say they have received from the gods are the Argives, just as among those who are not Greeks the Egyptians compete with the...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyonian ...statue. Ptolichus was a pupil of his father Synnoon, and he of Aristocles the Sicyonian, a brother of Canachus and almost as famous an artist. Why Theognetus carries a...

Sicyonian

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Troy ...which they dispatched to Athens was destroyed, but nevertheless they came to Troy to fight all the Greeks as well as the Athenians them selves. After the Amazons...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Astypalaeans ...He entered a chest standing in the sanctuary and drew down the lid. The Astypalaeans toiled in vain in their attempts to open the chest. At last, however, they...

Astypalaeans

74 26.35528,36.54413,0 Corcyra ...the son of Leoprepes composed a very neat elegiac couplet: "My fatherland is Corcyra, and my name is Philon; I am The son of Glaucus, and I won two Olympic...

Corcyra

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Anthedon ...enumerated stands Glaucus of Carystus. Legend has it that he was by birth from Anthedon in Boeotia, being descended from Glaucus the sea-deity. This Carystian was a...

Anthedon

81 23.448834,38.498583,0 Athenian ...the sanctuary of Bel, near which he permitted the Chaldeans to live. In the Athenian market-place among the objects not generally known is an altar to Mercy, of all...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Scyros ...Deucalion in Crete. Being carried out of his course by winds to the island of Scyros he was treated with marked honor by the inhabitants, both for the fame of his...

Scyros

80 24.6099,38.82754,0 Athenians ...part of the Acropolis. Here it was that the Persians climbed and killed the Athenians who thought that they understood the oracle better than did Themistocles, and...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Nemean ...is said to have won other crowns besides, two at Pytho, eight at the Nemean and eight at the Isthmian games. The statue of Glaucus was set up by his son...

Nemean

71 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Athenians ...to the lower part of the city, is a sanctuary of Serapis, whose worship the Athenians introduced from Ptolemy. Of the Egyptian sanctuaries of Serapis the most famous...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delos ...of Phaedra, and that the third, which is the oldest, Erysichthon brought from Delos. Before the entrance to the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus – Hadrian the Roman...

Delos

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Rome ...seeing, which in size exceeds all other statues save the colossi at Rhodes and Rome, and is made of ivory and gold with an artistic skill which is remarkable when...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Pythian ...brought no remedy of the famine. So for the second time they went to the Pythian priestess, saying that although they had obeyed her instructions the wrath of...

Pythian

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...and the tripod are worth seeing. The ancient sanctuary of Olympian Zeus the Athenians say was built by Deucalion, and they cite as evidence that Deucalion lived at...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Carthage ...his son and Nereis the daughter of Pyrrhus. When the Romans went to war with Carthage for the possession of Sicily, the Carthaginians held more than half the island...

Carthage

79 10.327986,36.857569,0 Syracuse ...when Hippocrates the brother of Epicydes had just come from Erbessus to Syracuse and was beginning to harangue the multitude, rushed at him with intent to kill...

Syracuse

74 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athens ...for the old building was burnt by the Roman general Sulla when he took Athens. The cause of the war was this. Mithridates was king over the foreigners around...

Athens

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ilisus ...estimated from the fact that beginning in a crescent on the heights above the Ilisus it descends in two straight lines to the river bank. This was built by Herodes...

Ilisus

80 23.6959733,37.9582581,0 Carian ...of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the Carian peninsula. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very great honor, and they have...

Carian

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Andros ...Plataea. By the side of this Hieronymus is a statue of a boy wrestler, also of Andros, Procles, the son of Lycastidas. The sculptor who made the statue of Lycastidas...

Andros

81 24.86222,37.8528,0 Lacedemonian ...to abandon his Macedonian adventure and to go to the Peloponnesus, was a Lacedemonian who led an hostile army into the Lacedemonian territory for a reason which I...

Lacedemonian

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Psophis ...Leonidas from Naxos in the Aegean, a statue dedicated by the Arcadians of Psophis, a statue of Asamon, victor in the men's boxing-match, and a statue of...

Psophis

76 21.892903,37.871725,0 Athenians ...Eubuleus and Triptolemus. That is the account given by the Argives. But the Athenians and those who with them . . . know that Triptolemus, son of Celeus, was the...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonian ...although they were more exhausted than any of the Greeks by the long Macedonian war, and had been generally unsuccessful in their battles, nevertheless set...

Macedonian

71 21.75,41.25,0 Boeotians ...women. At the end of the painting are those who fought at Marathon; the Boeotians of Plataea and the Attic contingent are coming to blows with the foreigners. In...

Boeotians

75 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Oeta ...once led the Persians, over whelmed the Phocians stationed there and crossed Oeta unperceived by the Greeks. Then it was that the Athenians put the Greeks under...

Oeta

79 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Olympian ...Chersonesus. On the horn is an inscription in old Attic characters: "To Olympian Zeus was I dedicated by the men of Chersonesus After they had taken the...

Olympian

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Troy ...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...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleusinians ...of the commonwealth. Among the eponymoi is Erechtheus, who conquered the Eleusinians in battle, and killed their general, Immaradus the son of Eumolpus. There is...

Eleusinians

75 23.538311,38.041096,0 Megarians ...the engagement with the Corinthians. The treasury at Olympia was made by the Megarians years after the battle, but it is to be supposed that they had the offerings...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megara ...and when he fled to Megara – for he had to wife the daughter of Pylas king of Megara – his children were banished with him. And Pandion is said to have fallen ill...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Arcadians ...by Sosipolis on the most important occasions. The story is that when the Arcadians had invaded the land of Elis, and the Eleans were set in array against them, a...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Macedonian ...Aegae, he persuaded to hand it over to him. And he proceeded to bury it with Macedonian rites in Memphis, but, knowing that Perdiccas would make war, he kept Egypt...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Cyrene ...and was by no means confident of the issue; but on learning that the revolt of Cyrene had called Ptolemy to Libya, he immediately reduced the Syrians and Phoenicians...

Cyrene

81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...Magas, the son of Berenice (who was at this time married to Ptolemy) captured Cyrene in the fifth year of the rebellion. If this Ptolemy really was the son of...

Cyrene

80 21.856169,32.818736,0 Corcyra ...in their debt, because they had sent a fleet to help him in his war with Corcyra, but the most cogent arguments of the Tarentine envoys were their accounts of...

Corcyra

75 19.92178,39.60733,0 Athenians ...figure of Lycurgus, son of Lycophron, and of Callias, who, as most of the Athenians say, brought about the peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...the only Greek exile whom Archias failed to bring back to Antipater and the Macedonians. This Archias was a Thurian who undertook the abominable task of bringing to...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Tarentum ...on this occasion Pyrrhus put back with the remainder of his vessels to Tarentum. Here he met with a serious reverse, and his retirement, for he knew that the...

Tarentum

73 17.228553,40.476034,0 Pylus ...seen on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, the distance between Elis and Pylus being eighty stades. This Pylus was founded, as I have already said, by a...

Pylus

80 Lebedos ...city of Ephesus as far as the coast, bringing to it as settlers people of Lebedos and Colophon, after destroying their cities, so that the iambic poet Phoenix...

Lebedos

76 26.964722,38.077883,0 Acropolis ...hymn to Demeter written for the Lycomidae. Right at the very entrance to the Acropolis are a Hermes (called Hermes of the Gateway) and figures of Graces, which...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Athenians ...Idaean Heracles, surnamed Comrade, of Love, of the deity called by Eleans and Athenians alike Love Returned, of Demeter and of her daughter. Achilles has no altar...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ionia ...heavy. The market-place of Elis is not after the fashion of the cities of Ionia and of the Greek cities near Ionia; it is built in the older manner, with...

Ionia

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ionia ...is not after the fashion of the cities of Ionia and of the Greek cities near Ionia; it is built in the older manner, with porticoes separated from each other and...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Eleans ...permitted to enter except the priest. The following is the reason why the Eleans worship Hades; they are the only men we know of so to do. It is said that, when...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Acropolis ...accept what the Ethiopians above Syene say about the table of the sun. On the Acropolis of the Eleans is a sanctuary of Athena. The image is of ivory and gold. They...

Acropolis

81 23.625,37.875,0 Colophon ...Ephesus as far as the coast, bringing to it as settlers people of Lebedos and Colophon, after destroying their cities, so that the iambic poet Phoenix com posed a...

Colophon

80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Athens ...died. Of his sons, Achaeus with the assistance of allies from Aegialus and Athens returned to Thessaly and recovered the throne of his fathers: Ion, while...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...2.575 At that time in the reign of Ion the Eleusinians made war on the Athenians, and these having invited Ion to be their leader in the war, he met his death...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...and Cassander, and on his arrival murdered Alexander himself and ruled the Macedonians in his stead. Therefore encountering Demetrius at Amphipolis he came near to...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...was chiefly responsible for the defeat. A Macedonian garrison was set over the Athenians, and occupied first Munychia and afterwards Peiraeus also and the Long...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...he over came them, pursued them to the Museum, and captured the position. So Athens was delivered from the Macedonians, and though all the Athenians fought...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...where the Lacedemonians take the dinner called Pheiditia. The Ionians went to Attica, and they were allowed to settle there by the Athenians and their king...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Messenians ...they were not related to them, but were, through Codrus and Melanthus, Messenians of Pylus, and, on their mother's side, Athenians. Those who shared in the...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Samos ...oaths of friendship with the Ionians and escaped warfare. Androclus also took Samos from the Samians, and for a time the Ephesians held Samos and the adjacent...

Samos

80 26.84,37.73,0 Athenians ...induced the Aetolians to help. This allied force was the main reason why the Athenians escaped war with Cassander. Olympiodorus has not only honors at Athens, both on...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acropolis ...war with Cassander. Olympiodorus has not only honors at Athens, both on the Acropolis and in the town hall but also a portrait at Eleusis. The Phocians too of Elatea...

Acropolis

78 23.625,37.875,0 Ionian ...lived with them in one city on equal terms, but the kingship was taken by the Ionian leaders, Damasichthon and Promethus, sons of Codrus. Afterwards Promethus...

Ionian

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Carian ...to have been a descendant of Athamas the son of Aeolus. Here too there was a Carian element combined with the Greek, while Ionians were introduced into Teos by...

Carian

79 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Lacedemonians ...even introduced garrisons into them, to be Achaean bases against Sparta. The Lacedemonians elected Menalcidas to be their general against Diaeus, and although they were...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...already arrived to adjudicate on the dispute between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and Critolaus had a conference with them at Tegea in Arcadia, being most...

Achaeans

81 Corinth ...they departed for Rome but Critolaus summoned a meeting of the Achaeans at Corinth, and persuaded them both to take up arms against Sparta and also to declare war...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Macedonia ...the previous occasion. While making these proposals for peace he marched from Macedonia through Thessaly and along the gulf of Lamia. But Critolaus and the Achaeans...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Megalopolis ...ruined the Achaeans came to tell the tidings of disaster to the people of Megalopolis, killed his wife with his own hand, just to save her from being taken prisoner...

Megalopolis

76 22.126238,37.414256,0 Achaean ...is also the grave of Oebotas the runner. Although this Oebotas was the first Achaean to win an Olympic victory, he yet received from them no special prize...

Achaean

79 Olympic ...to Delphi at last learned why it was that they had been failing to win the Olympic crown. So they dedicated the statue of Oebotas at Olympia and honored him in...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Antheia ...the condition of affairs was at his arrival. The Ionians who lived in Aroe, Antheia and Mesatis had in common a precinct and a temple of Artemis surnamed...

Antheia

78 Calydonian ...marble. In this part of the city is also a sanctuary of Dionysus surnamed Calydonian, for the image of Dionysus too was brought from Calydon. When Calydon was still...

Calydonian

77 21.533106,38.372423,0 Dodona ...out of their minds when death overtook them. So they appealed to the oracle at Dodona. For the inhabitants of this part of the mainland, the Aetolians and their...

Dodona

81 20.78784,39.54648,0 Patrae ...In one is the tomb of Egyptus, the son of Belus. He is said by the people of Patrae to have fled to Aroe because of the misfortunes of his children and because he...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Patrae ...mere name of Argos, and even more through dread of Danaus. There is also at Patrae a sanctuary of Asclepius. This sanctuary is beyond the acropolis near the gate...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Triteia ...can conjecture that here man and wife share a common grave. The founder of Triteia is said by some to have been Celbidas, who came from Cumae in the country of...

Triteia

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Macedonians ...city was named after Ambrossus, a hero. On going to war with Philip and his Macedonians the Thebans drew round Ambrossus a double wall. It is made of a local stone...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Crisa ...and similarly in the hymn to Apollo, calls the city by its ancient name of Crisa. Afterwards the people of Cirrha behaved wickedly towards Apollo; especially in...

Crisa

77 22.468944599999986,38.4753859,0 Spartans ...when king Cleombrotus with several Lacedemonian magistrates had fallen, the Spartans were bound by necessity not to give way, in spite of their distress. For among...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...bound by necessity not to give way, in spite of their distress. For among the Lacedemonians it was considered the greatest disgrace to allow the body of a king to come...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thessalians ...in days of old they had established themselves to meet the invasion of the Thessalians. On that occasion the Thessalians tried to take Ceressus, but success seemed...

Thessalians

77 21.75,39.25,0 Alpheius ...Pholoe on the right and the district of Thelpusa on the left, flows into the Alpheius. There is also a legend that Heracles at the command of Eurystheus hunted by...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Arcadians ...presents that he naturally gave her was the necklace. While he lived among the Arcadians his disease did not grow any better, so he had recourse to the oracle at...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...his disease did not grow any better, so he had recourse to the oracle at Delphi. The Pythian priestess informed him that the only land into which the avenging...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thebans ...parts of the road, when Iphicrates, the son of Timotheus, attacked the Thebans with a force of targeteers and other Athenians. Epaminondas put his assailants...

Thebans

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...and came right up to the very city of Athens, but as Iphicrates dissuaded the Athenians from coming out to fight, he proceeded to march back to Thebes. Epaminondas...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achelous ...pollution of his mother's death. On discovering the alluvial deposit of the Achelous he settled there, and took to wife Callirhoe, said by the Acarnanians to have...

Achelous

79 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Thebans ...with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led from Athens by Chabrias. The Thebans had a rule that they should set free for a ransom all their prisoners except...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Echinades ...as Aetolia remains untilled, the Achelous does not bring as much mud upon the Echinades as it otherwise would do. My reasoning is confirmed by the fact that the...

Echinades

80 21.25,38.25,0 Theban ...is said that on her death she was turned from human form to a stone, but the Theban account does not agree with the Megarian. The Greek legends generally have for...

Theban

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Euboea ...took to wife the daughter of Actaeus, and a later – he it was who migrated to Euboea--son of Erechtheus, son of Pandion, son of Erichthonius. And there was a king...

Euboea

80 Macedonians ...and of the neighboring peoples fell into the hands of their fathers. 27 The Macedonians consider Ptolemy to be the son of Philip, the son of Amyntas, though putatively...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...the most wicked was Cassander, who although he had recovered the throne of Macedonia with the aid of Antigonus, nevertheless came to fight against a...

Macedonia

77 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...Egypt. I have already stated how this Ptolemy sent a fleet to help the Athenians against Antigonus and the Macedonians, but it did very little to save Athens...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...task of bringing to Antipater for punishment those who had opposed the Macedonians before the Greeks met with their defeat in Thessaly. Such was Demosthenes'...

Macedonians

73 21.75,41.25,0 Ephesus ...to overthrow the empire of Antigonus. He founded also the modern city of Ephesus as far as the coast, bringing to it as settlers people of Lebedos and Colophon...

Ephesus

75 27.339722,37.941944,0 Epeirus ...departure from Epeirus (Pyrrhus was of a very roving disposition) he ravaged Epeirus until he reached the royal tombs. The next part of the story is incredible to...

Epeirus

79 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Thermopylae ...had been generally unsuccessful in their battles, nevertheless set forth to Thermopylae with such Greeks as joined them, having made the Callippus I mentioned their...

Thermopylae

78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...the Athenians on the fleet suffered most, for the Lamian gulf is a swamp near Thermopylae – the reason being, I think, the hot water that here runs into the sea. These...

Thermopylae

80 22.538294,38.796511,0 Phliasians ...commander-in-chief in the Eleusinian war. Now I cannot possibly agree with the Phliasians in supposing that an Eleusinian was conquered in battle and driven away into...

Phliasians

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Athens ...generations of men older than Pelasgus the son of Arcas and those called at Athens aboriginals. On the roof of what is called the Anactorum they say is dedicated...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argos ...to Zeus of Apesas. Ascending to Tretus, and again going along the road to Argos, you see on the left the ruins of Mycenae. The Greeks are aware that the...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...the female conquers in battle, Driving away the male, and wins great glory in Argos, Many an Argive woman will tear both cheeks in her sorrow." Such are the words...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sipylus ...who legend says was son of Zeus and Pluto – it is worth seeing – is on Mount Sipylus. I know because I saw it. Moreover, no constraint came upon him to flee from...

Sipylus

79 27.45394,38.5668,0 Syracuse ...built a common grave of those Argives who sailed with the Athenians to enslave Syracuse and Sicily. As you go from here along a road called Hollow there is on the...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Argives ...received its name from Cestrinus, son of Helenus. Now even the guides of the Argives themselves are aware that their account is not entirely correct. Nevertheless...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...found, and that it was Ariadne's. He also said that both he himself and other Argives had seen it. Near the temple of Dionysus is a temple of Heavenly...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...son of Peirene, that caused it to be so called. Here are common graves of the Argives who conquered the Lacedemonians in battle at Hysiae. This fight took place, I...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cyrene ...called Healer, who like the others came from Epidaurus. From the one at Cyrene was founded the sanctuary of Asclepius at Lebene, in Crete. There is this...

Cyrene

74 21.856169,32.818736,0 Troezen ...the descendants of Aetius, son of Anthas, were dispatched as colonists from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons...

Troezen

78 Troezenians ...however, one incident that I must add. On the return of the Heracleidae, the Troezenians too received Dorian settlers from Argos. They had been subject at even an...

Troezenians

80 Calaurea ...maidens of dedicating their girdles before wedlock to Athena Apaturia. Calaurea, they say, was sacred to Apollo of old, at the time when Delphi was sacred to...

Calaurea

74 23.48041,37.52255,0 Macedon ...hot baths. They say that it was when Antigonus, son of Demetrius, was king of Macedon that the water first appeared, and that what appeared at once was not water...

Macedon

80 21.75,41.25,0 Methana ...is not touched. If this be the case I do not know, though the people around Methana said that it was true, and I have seen before now men trying to keep off hail...

Methana

78 23.34909,37.58672,0 Hermionians ...Chthonia was brought to Hermion by Demeter, and made the sanctuary for the Hermionians. At any rate, the goddess herself is called Chthonia, and Chthonia is the name...

Hermionians

77 23.243591,37.385218,0 Oropus ...they were brothers of Oenoe, from whom the parish has its name. The land of Oropus, between Attica and the land of Tanagra, which originally belonged to Boeotia...

Oropus

79 23.846116,38.291099,0 Athenians ...of Tanagra, which originally belonged to Boeotia, in our time belongs to the Athenians, who always fought for it but never won secure pos session until Philip gave it...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Oropians ...to Protesilaus, and Lebadea of the Boeotians dedicated to Trophonius. The Oropians have both a temple and a white marble statue of Amphiaraus. The altar shows...

Oropians

76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Athenians ...of Eurysaces, the son of Ajax, is said to have handed the island over to the Athenians, having been made an Athenian by them. Many years afterwards the Athenians...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...son of Demetrius, king of Macedon. Cephisodorus induced to become allies of Athens two kings, Attalus the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and, of the...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rheiti ...before which is a noteworthy wall of unwrought stone. The streams called Rheiti are rivers only in so far as they are currents, for their water is sea water...

Rheiti

76 23.625,38.125,0 Athenians ...were the boundaries between the land of the Eleusinians and that of the other Athenians, and the first to dwell on the other side of the Rheiti was Crocon, where at...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...borders on Attica. Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary on the side towards Attica, but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Cithaeron ...these it is clear that the city was built a little above the plain close to Cithaeron. There is another road from Eleusis, which leads to Megara. As you go along...

Cithaeron

78 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Megara ...Athenians to Aegeus, the eldest of all the family, was himself made king of Megara and of the territory as far as Corinth. Even at the present day the port of the...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...accomplished nothing brilliant, on their way home they took Megara from the Athenians, and gave it as a dwelling-place to such of the Corinthians and of their other...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...mentioned previously as having given his daughter in marriage to Cylon the Athenian. This Theagenes upon becoming tyrant built the fountain, which is noteworthy...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corcyra ...as having removed his home after the death of Pelias from Iolcus to Corcyra, and Mermerus, the elder of his children, to have been killed by a lioness...

Corcyra

70 19.92178,39.60733,0 Thebans ...Scheria and Oenone, while from Thebe is named the city below the Cadmea. The Thebans do not agree, but say that Thebe was the daughter of the Boeotian, and not of...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...who became king after Epopeus, gave up Antiope. As she was being taken to Thebes by way of Eleutherae, she was delivered there on the road. On this matter...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sicyon ...This man became king, and the land was named after him Sicyonia, and the city Sicyon instead of Aegiale. But they say that Sicyon was not the son of Marathon, the...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pytho ...among them for the following reason. When Apollo and Artemis had killed Pytho they came to Aegialea to obtain purification. Dread coming upon them at the...

Pytho

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sicyonians ...the wooden image was brought from Pherae. This gymnasium was built for the Sicyonians by Cleinias, and they still train the youths here. White marble images are...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pellene ...the harbor called the Sicyonians' and turned towards Aristonautae, the Port of Pellene, you see a little above the road on the left hand a sanctuary of Poseidon...

Pellene

81 22.5384,38.0446,0 Crommyon ...serpents in many parts of Greece, and the boars of Calydon, Eryrmanthus and Crommyon in the land of Corinth, so that it was said that some were sent up by the...

Crommyon

78 23.14146,37.92753,0 Athenians ...below the deck. Outside the city, too, in the parishes and on the roads, the Athenians have sanctuaries of the gods, and graves of heroes and of men. The nearest is...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Euboea ...declaring that one and the same slab has been erected to those who died in Euboea and Chios, and to those who perished in the remote parts of the continent of...

Euboea

77 Megarians ...of reaching her home in Themiscyra, she died of a broken heart, and the Megarians gave her burial. The shape of her tomb is like an Amazonian shield. Not far...

Megarians

74 15.18273,37.2038,0 Chaeronea ...which is confirmed by extant evidence, is that he ruled over Daulis beyond Chaeronea, for in ancient times the greater part of what is now called Greece was...

Chaeronea

77 22.840365,38.493361,0 Gerania ...hands, there he was to build a temple of Apollo and to dwell himself. At Mount Gerania the tripod slipped and fell unawares. Here he dwelt in the village called the...

Gerania

81 wall ...portico is built behind with pictures of the gods called the Twelve. On the wall opposite are painted Theseus, Democracy and Demos. The picture represents...

wall

78 Athenians ...the Peloponnesus, and the contingent sent to the Lacedemonians from the Athenians. In the picture is a cavalry battle, in which the most famous men are, among...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argos ...it is clear that the Corinthians none the less were subject to the despots at Argos or Mycenae. By themselves they provided no leader for the campaign against...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenian ...the sufferings of the people of Cassandreia would not fall far short of the Messenian. These then are the reasons for the war which the two sides allege. An embassy...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...the kingdom. The Lacedemonians, without sending a herald to declare war on the Messenians or renouncing their friendship beforehand, had made their preparations secretly...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Acrocorinthus ...It is for this reason that the goddess is called Bunaea. On the summit of the Acrocorinthus is a temple of Aphrodite. The images are Aphrodite armed, Helius, and Eros with...

Acrocorinthus

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Acrocorinthus ...to give information to the seeker before he had a spring given him on the Acrocorinthus. When Asopus granted this request Sisyphus turned informer, and on this account...

Acrocorinthus

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sicyonians ...other stories about the river are current among both the Phliasians and the Sicyonians, for instance that its water is foreign and not native, in that the Maeander...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lacedemonians ...at nightfall, they fortified his front also on the ravine. So at daybreak the Lacedemonians realized the forethought of Euphaes. They had no means of fighting the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...being no longer alive. The Messenians encamped opposite them, and when the Spartans endeavored to join battle, went out to meet them. The Lacedemonian commander...

Spartans

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...Epopeus also was wounded, but won the day. Nycteus they carried back ill to Thebes, and when he was about to die he appointed to be regent of Thebes his brother...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argos ...to Talaus the son of Bias, king of the Argives; and when Adrastus fled from Argos he came to Polybus at Sicyon, and afterwards on the death of Polybus he became...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...about slaying the flying. In the center, where Euryleon was commanding the Lacedemonians, and Cleonnis on the Messenian side, the contest was undecided; the coming of...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonian ...about Rhodes fulfilled. When you have come from the Corinthian to the Sicyonian territory you see the tomb of Lycus the Messenian, whoever this Lycus may be...

Sicyonian

73 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyonians ...which is very well worth seeing. Farther on from here is the grave of the Sicyonians who were killed at Pellene, at Dyme of the Achaeans, in Megalopolis and at...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Dyme ...on from here is the grave of the Sicyonians who were killed at Pellene, at Dyme of the Achaeans, in Megalopolis and at Sellasia. Their story I will relate more...

Dyme

77 21.551425,38.144625,0 Sicyonians ...Cleon. He became tyrant in the modern city there was another tyranny while the Sicyonians still lived in the lower city, that of Cleisthenes, the son of Aristonymus, the...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyonians ...and of Antigonus, the guardian of Philip, the son of Demetrius, he induced the Sicyonians, who were Dorians, to join the Achaean League. He was immediately elected...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lacedemonians ...beyond the Isthmus, while Ptolemy made an alliance with the Achaeans. The Lacedemonians and king Agis, the son of Eudamidas, surprised and took Pellene by a sudden...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ithome ...her tomb, Arcadian horsemen lay in wait and captured him. When carried to Ithome and brought into the assembly he urged that he had not departed a traitor to...

Ithome

76 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...by the consequent terror that they would be destroyed by want. Even then the Messenians were not inferior in courage and brave deeds, but all their generals were...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...held out for some five months, but as the year was coming to an end deserted Ithome, the war having lasted twenty years in all, as is stated in the poems of...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Argives ...at Amyclae, they gave to the people of Asine, who had been driven out by the Argives, that part of Messenia on the coast which they still occupy; to the descendants...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Titane ...he was the brother of Helius (Sun), and that after him the place got the name Titane. My own view is that he proved clever at observing the seasons of the year and...

Titane

80 22.62501,37.92049,0 Sicyonians ...the passage in Homer that deals with the list of the Arcadians, in which the Sicyonians are not included among the Arcadian confederates. As my narrative progresses it...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Tegea ...hold a festival called Tyrbe (Throng). On returning to the road that leads to Tegea you see Cenchreae on the right of what is called the Wheel. Why the place...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Oenoe ...his death buried him here. After him the Argives name the place Oenoe. Above Oenoe is Mount Artemisius, with a sanctuary of Artemis on the top. On this mountain...

Oenoe

80 22.56036,37.608146,0 Argives ...the Asinaeans joined in the invasion, and with them ravaged the land of the Argives. When the Lacedemonian expedition departed home, the Argives under their king...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Orneae ...the Argives removed all its citizens, who thereupon came to live at Argos. At Orneae are a sanctuary and an upright wooden image of Artemis; there is besides a...

Orneae

80 22.557292,37.713973,0 Epidaurians ...from her father that she was with child by Apollo. In the country of the Epidaurians she bore a son, and exposed him on the mountain called Nipple at the present...

Epidaurians

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Messenia ...on his mother's side. The story goes on to say that he settled at Thalamae in Messenia, and that his children were born to him when he was living there. Subsequently...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Epidaurians ...against her will; he himself rushed to the rescue with all speed, and as the Epidaurians learned the news they reinforced him. On overtaking the runaways, Deiphontes...

Epidaurians

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Dorians ...approved. Tradition has it that Aristodemus himself died at Delphi before the Dorians returned to the Peloponnesus, but those who glorify his fate assert that he was...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Mysia ...Orestes was the leader, who was destined to occupy the land between Ionia and Mysia, called at the present day Aeolis; his ancestor Penthilus had even before this...

Mysia

80 27.75,40.25,0 Phocis ...sons of Phocus made their home about Parnassus, in the land that is now called Phocis. This name had already been given to the land, at the time when Phocus, son of...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Scarphea ...Aeacus the name spread to all from the borders of the Minyae at Orchomenos to Scarphea among the Locri. From Peleus sprang the kings in Epeirus; but as for the sons...

Scarphea

80 22.68341970000006,38.81072,0 Panopeus ...to the time of Evagoras. Asius the epic poet says that to Phocus were born Panopeus and Crisus. To Panopeus was born Epeus, who made, according to Homer, the...

Panopeus

77 22.79418,38.49551,0 Epidaurus ...a division of the Argives who, under Deiphontes, had seized Epidaurus, crossed to Aegina, and, settling among the old Aeginetans, established in the...

Epidaurus

62 23.079167,37.596111,0 Cretan ...was taught how to do this by the Pythian priestess, others that he introduced Cretan institutions. The Cretans say that these laws of theirs were laid down by...

Cretan

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Aeginetans ...all the Greeks (Panellenios), he caused rain to fall upon the earth, and the Aeginetans made these likenesses of those who came to him. Within the enclosure are olive...

Aeginetans

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Lacedemonians ...those called the Eurypontidae. Archelaus had a son Teleclus. In his reign the Lacedemonians conquered in war and reduced Amyclae, Pharis, and Geranthrae, cities of the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aphaea ...honor Pindar composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the story of Aphaea is Cretan) that Carmanor, who purified Apollo alter he had killed Pytho, was...

Aphaea

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Crete ...Alcamenes his son succeeded to the throne, and the Lacedemonians sent to Crete Charmidas the son of Euthys, who was a distinguished Spartan, to put down the...

Crete

75 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Aeginetans ...paying to the Athenians what they had agreed to pay, on the ground that the Aeginetans had the images, how the Athenians perished who crossed over to Aegina to fetch...

Aeginetans

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezenians ...they used to cleanse Orestes was water from Hippocrene (Horse's Fount) for the Troezenians too have a fountain called the Horse's, and the legend about it does not differ...

Troezenians

81 Lacedemonian ...these statements I can vouch for. Anaxandrides the son of Leon was the only Lacedemonian to possess at one and the same time two wives and two households. For his first...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oeta ...had not guided the army with Hydarnes by the path that stretches across Oeta, and enabled the enemy to surround the Greeks; so Leonidas was overwhelmed and...

Oeta

74 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Lacedemonians ...and took up for burial those who had fallen under the wall of Haliartus. The Lacedemonians disapproved of this decision, but the following reason leads me to approve it...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Leuctra ...the kingdom devolved upon Cleombrotus, who was general in the battle at Leuctra against the Boeotians. Cleombrotus showed personal bravery, but fell when the...

Leuctra

74 23.18095,38.25422,0 Athens ...of the Lacedemonians with Areus their king at their head. Antigonus invested Athens and prevented the Athenian reinforcements from entering the city; so Patroclus...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sparta ...the son of Prytanis and Polydectes the son of Eunomus were on the throne, Sparta continued at peace, but Charillus the son of Polydectes devastated the land of...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...to the throne in place of Demaratus, took part with the Athenians and the Athenian general Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, in the engagement of Mycale, and...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...on from here is a sanctuary of Ammon. From the first the Lacedemonians are known to have used the oracle in Libya more than any other Greeks. It is...

Lacedemonians

59 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...warring against Aphytis. And so Lysander raised the siege, and induced the Lacedemonians to worship the god still more. The people of Aphytis honor Ammon no less than...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...of Argos have statues here; the former a woman with a lyre, supposed to be Sparta, the latter an Aphrodite called "beside the Amyclaean." These tripods are...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Magnesians ...lioness. On the very top of the throne has been wrought a band of dancers, the Magnesians who helped Bathycles to make the throne. Underneath the throne, the inner part...

Magnesians

81 22.75,39.75,0 Alesiae ...Going on from here in the direction of Taygetus you come to a place called Alesiae (Place of Grinding) they say that Myles (Mill-man) the son of Lelex was the...

Alesiae

77 22.413455,37.043277,0 Alesiae ...was the first human being to invent a mill, and that he ground corn in this Alesiae. Here they have a hero-shrine of Lacedemon, the son of Taygete. Crossing from...

Alesiae

78 22.413455,37.043277,0 Messenia ...they were. The slaves afterwards acquired, although they were Dorians of Messenia, also came to be called Helots, just as the whole Greek race were called...

Messenia

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Mysian ...On the road is a precinct of Cranius surnamed Stemmatias, and a sanctuary of Mysian Artemis. The image of Modesty, some thirty stades distant from the city, they...

Mysian

79 27.75,40.25,0 Brasiae ...side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that are left to the Free Laconians out...

Brasiae

81 22.890275,37.144402,0 Asopus ...place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum. Two hundred stades from Asopus there juts out into the sea a headland, which they call Onugnathus (Jaw of an...

Asopus

80 22.8426,36.6845,0 Boeae ...worship that myrtle tree, and name Artemis Saviour. In the market-place of Boeae is a temple of Apollo, and in another part of the town are temples of...

Boeae

78 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Etis ...of the town are temples of Asclepius, of Serapis, and of Isis. The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. On the way to them there...

Etis

78 Ilius ...site of the present town extends over the ground between the mountains called Ilius, Asia and Cnacadium; formerly it lay on the summit of Mount Asia. Even now...

Ilius

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sparta ...Carneius according to the same custom that prevails among the Lacedemonians of Sparta. On the acropolis is a sanctuary and image of Athena, and there is a temple and...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Elis ...the sanctuary at Olympia. So they dispatched a herald commanding the people of Elis to grant home-rule to Lepreum and to any other of their neighbors that were...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lacedemonian ...refused, saying that they would give no help. When Agesilaus had assembled his Lacedemonian forces and those of the allies, and at the same time the fleet was ready, he...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...Ismenias and Amphithemis, the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates, with the Corinthians who had Argive sympathies, Polyanthes and Timolaus. But those who first openly...

Corinthians

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lacedemonians ...arms, but the Lacedemonians dismissed the envoys in anger. The sequel, how the Lacedemonians set forth and how Lysander died, I have already described in my account of...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...elder son of this Archidamus, met his death fighting against Antipater and the Macedonians, but while the younger son, Eudamidas, was king, the Lacedemonians enjoyed...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Pleuron ...is a sanctuary of Zeus of Fair Wind, on the right of which is a hero-shrine of Pleuron. The sons of Tyndareus were descended on their mother's side from Pleuron, for...

Pleuron

81 21.414714,38.402823,0 Sparta ...endured the fight at Thermopylae against the Persians. There is a place in Sparta called Theomelida. In this part of the city are the graves of the Agiad kings...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegina ...not really Artemis hut Britomartis of Crete. I deal with her in my account of Aegina. Very near to the tombs which have been built for the Agiadae you will see a...

Aegina

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Egestaeans ...but Dorieus himself and the greater part of his army were destroyed by the Egestaeans. The Lacedemonians have also made a sanctuary for Lycurgus, who drew up the...

Egestaeans

77 12.839871,37.939199,0 Cleonaeans ...them to wife; they were daughters of Thersander son of Agamedidas, king of the Cleonaeans and great-grandson of Ctesippus, son of Heracles. Opposite the temple is the...

Cleonaeans

81 22.75372,37.81708,0 Sparta ...both the temple and the image of Athena. The builder was Gitiadas, a native of Sparta, who also composed Dorian lyrics, including a hymn to the goddess. On the...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Byzantium ...suffice; I shall content myself with adding to them what I heard from a man of Byzantium. Pausanias was detected in his treachery, and was the only suppliant of the...

Byzantium

81 28.975926,41.012379,0 Lacedemonians ...it to be so called. Here are common graves of the Argives who conquered the Lacedemonians in battle at Hysiae. This fight took place, I discovered, when Peisistratus was...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argolis ...down to a lower level you reach the ruins of Hysiae, which once was a city in Argolis, and here it is that they say the Lacedemonians suffered their reverse. The...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Argive ...made very like a pyramid, and on it in relief are wrought shields of the Argive shape. Here took place a fight for the throne between Proetus and Acrisius; the...

Argive

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dorians ...the natives the descendants of Epidaurus either. But the last king before the Dorians arrived in the Peloponnesus was, they say, Pityreus, a descendant of Ion, son...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Saronic ...the sacred enclosure, and after him they named the sea in these parts the Saronic instead of the Phoebaean lagoon. They know nothing of the later kings down to...

Saronic

76 23.46300815833333,37.77606943333334,0 Crete ...temple was founded and the name Saviour given by Theseus when he returned from Crete after overcoming Asterion the son of Minos. This victory he considered the most...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Sphaeria ...and it is possible to wade across the channel. This was formerly called Sphaeria, but its name was changed to Sacred Island for the following reason. In it is...

Sphaeria

74 Argives ...there was war between the two peoples, or it would have been spoken of by the Argives. There is a road from Troezen to Hermion by way of the rock which aforetime...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Hermionians ...of mention is a sanctuary of Demeter on Pron. This sanctuary is said by the Hermionians to have been founded by Clymenus, son of Phoroneus, and Chthonia, sister of...

Hermionians

78 23.243591,37.385218,0 Olen ...says, in the descent of Odysseus to Hell, that she was the wife of Heracles. Olen, in his hymn to Hera, says that Hera was reared by the Seasons, and that her...

Olen

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Asopus ...it. The land was named, they say, after Nemea, who was another daughter of Asopus. Above Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to...

Asopus

77 22.75,37.75,0 Mycenae ...see on the left the ruins of Mycenae. The Greeks are aware that the founder of Mycenae was Perseus, so I will narrate the cause of its foundation and the reason why...

Mycenae

81 22.756111,37.730833,0 Troy ...and a votive offering, the shield which Menelaus once took from Euphorbus at Troy. The statue of Hera is seated on a throne; it is huge, made of gold and ivory...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Nemean ...to whom even in our time they bring offerings as to a hero. Over against the Nemean Zeus is a temple of Fortune, which must be very old if it be the one in which...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Argive ...is also a sanctuary of Zeus the Saviour. Beyond it is a building where the Argive women bewail Adonis. On the right of the entrance is the sanctuary of Cephisus...

Argive

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...woman who was especially renowned for her poetry. It happened that the Argives had suffered an awful defeat at the hands of Cleomenes, the son of...

Argives

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...of Zeus Mechaneus (Contriver), and that here the Argives who set out against Troy swore to hold out in the war until they either took Troy or met their end...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argives ...the flesh as food and the skins as raiment. When the storm was over and the Argives, having refitted their ships, were returning home, they took with them the...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Larisa ...temple of Dionysus is a temple of Heavenly Aphrodite. The citadel they call Larisa, after the daughter of Pelasgus. After her were also named two of the cities in...

Larisa

79 Lerna ...of Egyptus. For here are the heads apart from the bodies, which are at Lerna. For it was at Lerna that the youths were murdered, and when they were dead...

Lerna

73 22.71809,37.55107,0 Phocis ...have been begotten by Poseidon. He migrated to Tithorea in what is now called Phocis, but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained behind at Corinth. Thoas...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Trojans ...Tenea is just about sixty stades distant. The inhabitants say that they are Trojans who were taken prisoners in Tenedos by the Greeks, and were permitted by...

Trojans

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sicyon ...god. As you go from Corinth, not into the interior but along the road to Sicyon, there is on the left not far from the city a burnt temple. There have, of...

Sicyon

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sellasia ...who were killed at Pellene, at Dyme of the Achaeans, in Megalopolis and at Sellasia. Their story I will relate more fully presently. By the gate they have a spring...

Sellasia

77 Sicyonians ...holds a staff in one hand, and a cone of the cultivated pine in the other. The Sicyonians say that the god was carried to them from Epidaurus on a carriage drawn by two...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Phliasians ...distant from Titane, and there is a straight road to it from Sicyon. That the Phliasians are in no way related to the Arcadians is shown by the passage in Homer that...

Phliasians

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Athens ...Eurystheus demanded his children; whereupon the king of Trachis sent them to Athens, saying that he was weak but Theseus had power enough to succor them. The...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...it but never won secure pos session until Philip gave it to them after taking Thebes. The city is on the coast and affords nothing remarkable to record. About...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...a sanctuary of Amphiaraus. Legend says that when Amphiaraus was exiled from Thebes the earth opened and swallowed both him and his chariot. Only they say that the...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Chersonesus ...the Greeks as gods; some even have cities dedicated to them, such as Eleus in Chersonesus dedicated to Protesilaus, and Lebadea of the Boeotians dedicated to Trophonius...

Chersonesus

80 26.5,40.33333,0 of Amphiaraus ...to Trophonius. The Oropians have both a temple and a white marble statue of Amphiaraus. The altar shows parts. One part is to Heracles, Zeus, and Apollo Healer...

of Amphiaraus

75 23.846116,38.291099,0 Milesians ...to the smallest ribs, those called by doctors bastard. Before the city of the Milesians is an island called Lade, and from it certain islets are detached. One of these...

Milesians

80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Athens ...he married Pythonice, whose family I do not know, but she was a courtesan at Athens and at Corinth. His love for her was so great that when she died he made her a...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argive ...the rape of her daughter, how the daughters of Celeus thence took her as an Argive woman to their mother, and how Metaneira thereupon entrusted to her the rearing...

Argive

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...dead for burial and deny that they engaged in battle. After the graves of the Argives is the tomb of Alope, who, legend says, being mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...of Alcmena, near the Olympieum. They say that as she was walking from Argos to Thebes she died on the way at Megara, and that the Heracleidae fell to disputing, some...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megara ...in Delphi gave them an oracle that it was better for them to bury Alcmena in Megara. From this place the local guide took us to a place which he said was named...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Cithaeronian ...Dioscuri against Aphidna. Megareus they say promised that he who killed the Cithaeronian lion should marry his daughter and succeed him in the kingdom. Alcathous...

Cithaeronian

78 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Megarians ...he was helping Alcathous in the building. I am confirmed in my view that the Megarians used to be tributary to the Athenians by the fact that Alcathous appears to...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...I am confirmed in my view that the Megarians used to be tributary to the Athenians by the fact that Alcathous appears to have sent his daughter Periboea with...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...the colossus in Egypt made me marvel far more than anything else. In Egyptian Thebes, on crossing the Nile to the so called Pipes, I saw a statue, still sitting...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Pagae ...of Megaris borders upon Boeotia, and in it the Megarians have built the city Pagae and another one called Aegosthena. As you go to Pagae, on turning a little...

Pagae

79 23.362766,37.974359,0 Pagae ...he died at Glisas early in the first battle, and his relatives carried him to Pagae in Megaris and buried him, the shrine being still called the Aegialeum. In...

Pagae

80 23.362766,37.974359,0 Ephesian ...On the market-place, where most of the sanctuaries are, stand Artemis surnamed Ephesian and wooden images of Dionysus, which are covered with gold with the exception...

Ephesian

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Sicyon ...Pegasus. As you go along another road from the market-place, which leads to Sicyon, you can see on the right of the road a temple and bronze image of Apollo, and...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Greeks ...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...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...the battle between the Athenians and the Amazons, the engagement with the Persians at Marathon and the destruction of the Gauls in Mysia. Each is about two...

Persians

76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phocians ...the body of Patroclus he says that Schedius, son of Iphitus and king of the Phocians, who was killed by Hector, lived in Panopeus. It seemed to me that the reason...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Thebes ...votive offering of Echembrotus, a bronze tripod dedicated to the Heracles at Thebes. The tripod has as its inscription: "Echembrotus of Arcadia dedicated this...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocian ...a race for two-horse chariots, and the chariot won of Execestides the Phocian. At the fifth Festival after this they yoked foals to a chariot, and the...

Phocian

72 22.25,38.25,0 Ladon ...the prevailing tradition has it that Apollo fell in love with the daughter of Ladon. Some are of opinion that the assembly of the Greeks that meets at Delphi was...

Ladon

80 21.75,37.75,0 Euboea ...and the Locrians opposite Euboea, send one each; there is also one from Euboea. Of the Peloponnesians, the Argives, Sicyonians, Corinthians and Megarians send...

Euboea

74 Tegeans ...Apheidas and Erasus by Antiphanes of Argos. These offerings were sent by the Tegeans to Delphi after they took prisoners the Lacedemonians that attacked their city...

Tegeans

79 22.429,37.464,0 Athenians ...and Eteonicus. These, they say, are works of Patrocles and Canachus. The Athenians refuse to confess that their defeat at Aegospotami was fairly inflicted...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thyrea ...the penalty." So much for this belief. The struggle for the district called Thyrea between the Lacedemonians and the Argives was also foretold by the Sibyl, who...

Thyrea

79 Athenian ...Argives themselves say, from the spoils of the victory which they and their Athenian allies won over the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in Argive territory. From spoils of...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messapians ...captive women dedicated by the Tarentines were made from spoils taken from the Messapians, a non-Greek people bordering on the territory of Tarentum, and are works of...

Messapians

81 17.881511615384618,40.41225884615385,0 Taras ...Tarentum, the largest and most prosperous city on the coast. They say that Taras the hero was a son of Poseidon by a nymph of the country, and that after this...

Taras

77 17.228553,40.476034,0 Delphi ...gold mines, and the god ordered them to pay a tithe of the revenues to Delphi. So they built the treasury, and continued to pay the tithe until greed made...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Syracusan ...been a Cnidian, whose name was Pentathlus according to a statement made by the Syracusan Antiochus, son of Xenophanes, in his history of Sicily. He says also that they...

Syracusan

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Alexandria ...beneath the earth. Marpessus is two hundred and forty stades distant from Alexandria in the Troad. The inhabitants of this Alexandria say that Herophile became the...

Alexandria

76 26.79365,39.64192,0 Alexandria ...forty stades distant from Alexandria in the Troad. The inhabitants of this Alexandria say that Herophile became the attendant of the temple of Apollo Smintheus, and...

Alexandria

78 26.79365,39.64192,0 Paeonian ...bronze head of the Paeonian bull called the bison was sent to Delphi by the Paeonian king Dropion, son of Leon. These bisons are the most difficult beasts to...

Paeonian

78 21.75,41.75,0 Mantineans ...brought to Delphi a bronze Zeus, and with the Zeus an image of Aegina. The Mantineans of Arcadia dedicated a bronze Apollo, which stands near the treasury of the...

Mantineans

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Thera ...a figure of Battus in a chariot; he it was who brought them in ships from Thera to Libya. The reins are held by Cyrene, and in the chariot is Battus, who is...

Thera

76 25.478129,36.36399,0 Sardinia ...Actaeon, and vexed alike with Boeotia and the whole of Greece, he migrated to Sardinia. Others think that Daedalus too ran away from Camicus on this occasion...

Sardinia

80 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Erytheia ...this was the first city in the island, and they say that Norax was a son of Erytheia, the daughter of Geryones, with Hermes for his father. A fourth component part...

Erytheia

78 -6.294444,36.528381,0 Trojans ...and Iolaus is worshipped by the inhabitants. When Troy was taken, among those Trojans who fled were those who escaped with Aeneas. A part of them, carried from their...

Trojans

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sardinia ...mode of living generally, they are like the Libyans. Not far distant from Sardinia is an island, called Cyrnus by the Greeks, but Corsica by the Libyans who...

Sardinia

77 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Athenians ...these also that comes very near to the truth. For not more than nine thousand Athenians marched to Marathon, even if we include those who were too old for active...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Locrian ...include those who were too old for active service and slaves; so the number of Locrian fighting men who marched to Thermopylae cannot have exceeded six thousand. So...

Locrian

81 22.75,38.75,0 Theban ...have been dedicated by Cadmus. Those who think that the Cadmus who came to the Theban land was an Egyptian, and not a Phoenician, have their opinion contradicted by...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...by the Phoenician name of Onga, and not by the Egyptian name of Sais. The Thebans assert that on the part of their citadel, where today stands their...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydian ...Phrygian melodies flutes of a different pattern were made; what is called the Lydian mode was played on flutes of a third kind. It was Pronomus who first devised a...

Lydian

80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Pellene ...overcame the Lacedemonians in a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led from Athens by Chabrias. The Thebans had a rule that they...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Boeotian ...that they should set free for a ransom all their prisoners except such as were Boeotian fugitives; these they punished with death. So when he captured the Sicyonian...

Boeotian

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Cyprus ...may hazard the conjecture that a division of the Telchinians who once dwelt in Cyprus came to Boeotia and established a sanctuary of Telchinian Athena. Seven stades...

Cyprus

81 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Mycalessus ...here, and not where the Thebans say it did. Both peoples agree that Mycalessus was so named because the cow lowed (emykesato) here that was guiding Cadmus and...

Mycalessus

70 23.545847,38.415804,0 Mycalessus ...but few inhabitants of Aulis, and these are potters. This land, and that about Mycalessus and Harma, is tilled by the people of Tanagra. Within the territory of Tanagra...

Mycalessus

81 23.545847,38.415804,0 Olen ...men consider Love to be the youngest of the gods and the son of Aphrodite. But Olen the Lycian, who composed the oldest Greek hymns, says in a hymn to Eileithyia...

Olen

81 21.640599,38.153707,0 Olen ...says in a hymn to Eileithyia that she was the mother of Love. Later than Olen, both Pamphos and Orpheus wrote hexameter verse, and composed poems on Love, in...

Olen

75 21.640599,38.153707,0 Pieria ...and louder than others. The Macedonians who dwell in the district below Mount Pieria and the city of Dium say that it was here that Orpheus met his end at the hands...

Pieria

81 22.424792491340284,40.13002811595563,0 Helicon ...to the natives contains the bones of Orpheus. There is also a river called Helicon. After a course of seventy-five stades the stream hereupon disappears under the...

Helicon

78 22.82514,38.35217,0 Helicon ...stades the water rises again, and under the name of Baphyra instead of Helicon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dium say that at first...

Helicon

73 22.82514,38.35217,0 Aetolian ...For a year previous to this the Aetolians had forced Heracleia to join the Aetolian League; so now they defended a city which they considered to belong to them...

Aetolian

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Heracleia ...could lay hands on, so that only a small part of them escaped to the camp at Heracleia. There was still a hope of saving the life of Brennus, so far as his wounds...

Heracleia

79 22.442503,38.790767,0 Nemean ...when the Epigoni, as they are called, held the second celebration of the Nemean games, that of Adrastus being the first. Lescheos says of Aethra that, when...

Nemean

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Aulis ...wrought a serpent as a memorial of the prodigy that appeared on the victims at Aulis. Under those who are administering the oath to Ajax, and in a line with the...

Aulis

81 23.5925,38.4335,0 Phrygians ...borders of the Phrygians of Stectorium, and after him poets are wont to call Phrygians by the name of Mygdones. Coroebus came to marry Cassandra, and was killed...

Phrygians

79 27.75,40.25,0 Aegina ...a stone set in gold. But when Phocus returned, not long afterwards, to Aegina, Peleus at once plotted to kill him. This is the reason why in the painting, as...

Aegina

73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Phocians ...the singing of Orpheus. In this part of the painting is Schedius, who led the Phocians to Troy, and after him is Pelias, sitting on a chair, with grey hair and grey...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Aetolians ...account. For these poems say that Apollo helped the Curetes against the Aetolians, and that Meleager was killed by Apollo. The story about the brand, how it was...

Aetolians

74 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Troy ...Ethiopian boy, because Memnon was king of the Ethiopian nation. He came to Troy, however, not from Ethiopia, but from Susa in Persia and from the river...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Troy ...river Choaspes, having subdued all the peoples that lived between these and Troy. The Phrygians still point out the road through which he led his army, picking...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Delphi ...rebuilt it of Pentelic marble. Such in my day the objects remaining in Delphi that are worth recording. On the way from Delphi to the summit of Parnassus...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tithorea ...the clouds, and the Thyiad women rave there in honor of Dionysus and Apollo. Tithorea is, I should guess, about one hundred and eighty stades distant from Delphi on...

Tithorea

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Athenians ...them the city of Parapotamii. However, Parapotamii was not restored by the Athenians and Boeotians, but the inhabitants, being poverty stricken and few in number...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotians ...of Parapotamii. However, Parapotamii was not restored by the Athenians and Boeotians, but the inhabitants, being poverty stricken and few in number, were...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Tithronium ...is Tithronium, lying on a plain. It contains nothing remarkable. From Tithronium it is twenty stades to Drymaea. At the place where this road joins at the...

Tithronium

72 22.58105,38.67517,0 Cephisus ...a short distance quite close to the town of Elateia. In the plain flows the Cephisus, and the most common bird to live along its banks is the bustard. The Elateans...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Hyampolis ...construction. Returning to the straight road to Opus, you come next to Hyampolis. Its mere name tells you who the inhabitants originally were, and the place...

Hyampolis

74 22.905228,38.596346,0 Stiris ...the most part mountainous, that leads from Chaeroneia to the Phocian city of Stiris. The length of the road is one hundred and twenty stades. The inhabitants...

Stiris

79 22.757,38.385,0 Dictynnaean ...of Aeginetan workmanship, and made of a black stone. From the sanctuary of the Dictynnaean goddess the road is downhill all the way to Anticyra. They say that in days of...

Dictynnaean

81 23.767831,35.663634,0 Pythian ...from Athens to give them advice. They asked the oracle about victory, and the Pythian priestess replied: "You will not take and throw down the tower of this city, /...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Oeantheia ...of Patrae, the emperor Augustus having granted them this privilege. In Oeantheia is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and a little beyond the city there is a grove of...

Oeantheia

73 22.315807,38.41224,0 Athenian ...to Ithome at the time of the earthquake at Lacedemon, and how, after the Athenian disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians expelled the Messenians from...

Athenian

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 tomb ...sacrifice to Pyrrhus as to a hero, although formerly they held even his tomb in dishonor, as being that of an enemy. The greater number of the Gauls...

tomb

74 tomb ...and the hero has given his name to both place and torrent. Hard by is the tomb of Cephisodorus, who was champion of the people and opposed to the utmost...

tomb

77 tomb ...of Alcathous, which in my day the Megarians used as a record office, was the tomb, they said, of Pyrgo, the wife of Alcathous before he married Euaechme, the...

tomb

79 Libya ...well worth seeing and a likeness in bronze of Ptolemy. Here also is Juba the Libyan and Chrysippus of Soli. Hard by the gymnasium is a sanctuary of Theseus, where...

Libya

79 26.5,31.5,0 Messene ...I was extremely anxious to learn what children were born to Polycaon by Messene, I read the poem called Eoeae and the epic Naupactia, and in addition to these...

Messene

74 21.920439,37.175491,0 Oechalia ...Eurytium, which today is not inhabited, was formerly a city and was called Oechalia. The account given by the Euboeans agrees with the statements of Creophylus in...

Oechalia

77 Arene ...But Aphareus had the greater authority. On his accession he founded a city Arene, named after the daughter of Oebalus, who was both his wife and sister by the...

Arene

77 21.59852,37.53384,0 Argolid ...The facts regarding her have already been given twice, in my account of the Argolid and of Laconia. Aphareus then founded the city of Arena in Messenia, and...

Argolid

78 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Gerenia ...their account of the Asclepiadae is that they point to a tomb of Machaon in Gerenia and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae. After the conclusion of the Trojan...

Gerenia

78 22.208656,36.927195,0 Stenyclerus ...the palace was at Pylos, but Cresphontes ordained that the king should live in Stenyclerus. As his government for the most part was directed in favour of the people, the...

Stenyclerus

81 21.75,37.25,0 Messenian ...murderers and all who had been accessories to the crime. By winning the Messenian nobles to his side by deference, and all who were of the people by gifts, he...

Messenian

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...they say that the maidens who were violated killed themselves for shame. The Messenians say that a plot was formed by Teleclus against persons of the highest rank in...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...themselves, killed the beardless youths and Teleclus himself; but the Lacedemonians, they say, whose king did not plan this without the general consent, being...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...sons of Phintas were reigning -- the mutual hatred of the Lacedemonians and Messenians was aroused, and the Lacedemonians began war, obtaining a pretext which was not...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...have come to regard this as so bitter a reproach. Although the courage of the Messenians and the length of time for which they fought differ from the facts of the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...that after deliberation with the people they would send the findings to Sparta and after their departure they themselves summoned the citizens to a meeting...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconian ...and finally gave up attempting the towns. The Messenians also ravaged the Laconian coast and all the cultivated land round Taygetos. Three years after the...

Laconian

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...after the capture of Ampheia, being eager to put to use the spirit of the Messenians, now at the height of their passion against the Lacedemonians, and considering...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...arms and with fierce looks, and fell to recriminations, these calling the Messenians already their slaves, no freer than the Helots; the others answering that they...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...than they and not to render their death of no avail to their fatherland. The Lacedemonians refrained from exhorting one another, and were less inclined than the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...center, where Euryleon was commanding the Lacedemonians, and Cleonnis on the Messenian side, the contest was undecided; the coming of night separated them here...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ampheia ...While he was returning from Delphi men from the Lacedemonian garrison at Ampheia laid an ambush for him. Though trapped, he did not submit to be made a...

Ampheia

75 22.075138,37.264193,0 Argives ...the suspicion of others of the Peloponnesians, especially of the Arcadians and Argives. The Argives intended to come without the knowledge of the Lacedemonians, and...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Arcadians ...than by public declaration. The expedition was openly proclaimed among the Arcadians, but they did not arrive either. For the Messenians were induced by the credit...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Ithome ...by the enemy. He also took care that they should be drawn up with Mount Ithome in their rear. Placing Cleonnis in command of these troops, he himself and...

Ithome

74 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Sparta ...as night fell, dedicated these tripods of clay to the god, and returned to Sparta to tell the Lacedemonians. The Messenians, when they saw them, were greatly...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...and his plans. He had reigned six years and a few months when he died. The Messenians were plunged into despair, and were even ready to send to the Lacedemonians to...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...that for the funerals of the kings and other magistrates men should come from Messene with their wives in black garments, and a penalty was laid on those who...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messene ...of the Messenians: "Then indeed shall the bright bloom of Sparta perish and Messene again shall be inhabited for all time." I have discovered that Bacis also told...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Mothone ...but they founded other towns. The men of Nauplia were not disturbed at Mothone, and they allowed the people of Asine to remain in their home, remembering...

Mothone

73 21.705,36.817,0 Eira ...their own land two hundred and eighty-seven years after the capture of Eira, in the archonship of Dyscinetus at Athens and in the third year of the hundred...

Eira

73 21.927988,37.398271,0 Thebans ...as were also the Plataeans. When Alexander had destroyed the city of the Thebans themselves, Cassander the son of Antipater rebuilt it after a few years. The...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Messenians ...in person if the Lacedemonians began war and invaded Messenia. Finally the Messenians formed an alliance with Philip the son of Amyntas and the Macedonians; it was...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...Demetrius the son of Philip. These are the facts relating to the capture of Messene. Philip was in need of money, and as it was necessary to raise it at all...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Megalopolis ...Cleonymus, captured the Arcadian Megalopolis in peace-time. Of the people of Megalopolis who were caught in the city, some were killed at the time of its capture, but...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Arcadians ...was the will of heaven that the Messenians should in their turn preserve the Arcadians, and what is still more surprising, that they should capture Sparta. For they...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenia ...a description of the country and cities. There is in our time a city Abia in Messenia on the coast, some twenty stades distant from the Choerius valley. They say...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebans ...the battle of Leuctra, though no longer among men, and say that he helped the Thebans and was the chief cause of the Lacedemonian disaster. I know that the...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...was imparted to Aristomenes for all time. What I myself heard in Thebes gives probability to the Messenian account, although it does not coincide in...

Thebes

68 23.255096,38.318092,0 Illyrians ...world in native wit, and least disregarded the established laws. Now the Illyrians, having tasted empire and being always desirous of more, built ships, and...

Illyrians

76 19.5,41.5,0 Pylos ...to the promontory of Coryphasium, on which Pylos lies. This was founded by Pylos the son of Cleson, bringing from the Megarid the Leleges who then occupied the...

Pylos

77 Eleans ...and only five, divisions must agree that Arcadia contains both Arcadians and Eleans, that the second division belongs to the Achaeans, and the remaining three to...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Hermionians ...is also a chasm in the earth. Through this, according to the legend of the Hermionians, Heracles brought up the Hound of Hell. At the gate through which there is a...

Hermionians

77 23.243591,37.385218,0 Lacedemonian ...in the invasion, and with them ravaged the land of the Argives. When the Lacedemonian expedition departed home, the Argives under their king Eratus attacked...

Lacedemonian

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Erasinus ...the sea at Lerna. On the way down to Lerna the first thing on the road is the Erasinus, which empties itself into the Phrixus, and the Phrixus into the sea between...

Erasinus

80 22.75,37.75,0 Lernaeans ...himself made the sanctuary of Athena by the Pontinus. The mysteries of the Lernaeans were established, they say, by Philammon. Now the words which accompany the...

Lernaeans

77 22.71809,37.55107,0 Aetolian ...the heart made of orichalcum, was shown not to be Philammon's by Arriphon, an Aetolian of Triconium by descent, who now enjoys a reputation second to none among the...

Aetolian

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Argive ...in honor of Dionysus I must not divulge to the world at large. Temenium is in Argive territory, and was named after Temenus, the son of Aristomachus. For, having...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemon ...Greece, was murdered by Polemarchus, a member of a distinguished family in Lacedemon, but, as he showed, a man of an unscrupulous temper. After his death Polydorus...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...As soon as he became king, Cleomenes gathered together an army, both of the Lacedemonians themselves and of their allies, and invaded Argolis. The Argives came out under...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...offered battle, and Thrasybulus was reported to be not far away with the Athenians. He was waiting for the Lacedemonians to take the offensive, on which his...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonian warships ...And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the Carian peninsula. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very...

Lacedemonian warships

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...being brought to trial in Lacedemon he voluntarily went into exile to Tegea, where he sought sanctuary as a suppliant of Athena Alea. Zeuxidamus, the son...

Tegea

72 22.429,37.464,0 Plataea ...each occasion carrying destruction from end to end; he also besieged and took Plataea, which was friendly to Athens. Nevertheless he was not eager that war should...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Phocaeans ...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...

Phocaeans

79 26.75261,38.6684,0 Messenian ...been victorious in the long foot race at Olympia. Aristomenes collected the Messenian survivors after the battle and persuaded them to desert Andania and most of the...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Mothone ...cut off from the rest of Messenia, except in so far as the people of Pylos and Mothone maintained the coastal districts for them, the Messenians plundered both...

Mothone

81 21.705,36.817,0 Eira ...of Hyacinthus was approaching, made a truce of forty days with the men of Eira. They themselves returned home to keep the feast, but some Cretan archers, whom...

Eira

76 21.927988,37.398271,0 Neda ...safety, receiving this reply from the Pythia: "Whensoever a he-goat drinks of Neda's winding stream, no more do I protect Messene, for destruction is at...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Messenians ...calling on Zeus who keeps Ithome and the gods who had hitherto protected the Messenians to remain guardians of the pledge, and not to put their only hope of return...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Neda ...The Messenians commanded the mountain of Eira and its slopes as far as the Neda, some of them having their dwellings outside the gates. The only deserter that...

Neda

77 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Eleians ...district retired in ships on the capture of Eira to Cyllene, the port of the Eleians. Thence they sent to the Messenians in Arcadia, proposing to unite their forces...

Eleians

79 21.25,37.75,0 Zancle ...Anaxilas summoned the Messenians. When they came, he said that the people of Zancle were at war with him, and that they possessed a prosperous land and city well...

Zancle

79 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Samian ...it as a base for their raids and cruises. Their leaders were Crataemenes a Samian and Perieres of Chalcis. Later Perieres and Crataemenes resolved to introduce...

Samian

77 26.84,37.73,0 Ithome ...would be punished if they committed a crime against the suppliant of Zeus of Ithome. For this reason then they were allowed to go from Peloponnese under a...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Oeniadae ...won something notable with their own hands. Knowing that the Acarnanians of Oeniadae possessed a good land and were continually at war with the Athenians, they...

Oeniadae

78 21.1966,38.4077,0 Acarnanians ...the town and occupied the country for about a year. In the following year the Acarnanians collected a force from all their towns and discussed an attack on Naupactus...

Acarnanians

80 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Messenians ...due. For at the end of the oracle given to Aristodemus, who reigned over the Messenians, are the words: "Act as fate wills, destruction comes on this man before that,"...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicily ...after their victory at Leuctra the Thebans sent messengers to Italy, Sicily and to the Euesperitae, and summoned the Messenians to Peloponnese from every...

Sicily

71 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Athens ...from end to end; he also besieged and took Plataea, which was friendly to Athens. Nevertheless he was not eager that war should be declared between the...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympic ...Olympic games, and was the first woman to breed horses and the first to win an Olympic victory. After Cynisca other women, especially women of Lacedemon, have won...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delphi ...earlier one upon Pausanias that Simonides wrote on the tripod dedicated at Delphi, there is no poetic composition to commemorate the doings of the royal houses...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...but Cyrus who had been supplying the pay for the fleet during the war with Athens. Agesilaus, who was appointed to lead the expedition across to Asia and to be...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotians ...they say, by the horse of Bellerophon striking the ground with his hoof. The Boeotians dwelling around Helicon hold the tradition that Hesiod wrote nothing but the...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thisbe ...not out to sea, but along Boeotia, you reach on the right a city called Thisbe. First there is a mountain by the sea; on crossing it you will come to a plain...

Thisbe

74 22.96835,38.259722,0 Haliartus ...is the tomb of Lysander the Lacedemonian. For having attacked the walls of Haliartus, in which were troops from Thebes and Athens, he fell in the fighting that...

Haliartus

77 23.088416,38.379818,0 Athens ...having attacked the walls of Haliartus, in which were troops from Thebes and Athens, he fell in the fighting that followed a sortie of the enemy. Lysander in some...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Haliartus ...decide that Lysander brought on the Lacedemonians more harm than benefit. In Haliartus too there is the tomb of Lysander and a hero-shrine of Cecrops the son of...

Haliartus

80 23.088416,38.379818,0 Haliartus ...represents Teiresias as the only one in Hades endowed with intelligence. At Haliartus there is in the open a sanctuary of the goddesses they call Praxidicae (those...

Haliartus

79 23.088416,38.379818,0 Pythian ...came to Delphi and asked in what way they would find water in the land. The Pythian priestess, they say, commanded him to kill the man who should first meet him on...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olmones ...this Almus. Afterwards the name of the village that was generally adopted was Olmones. The Boeotians say that Eteocles was the first man to sacrifice to the Graces...

Olmones

80 23.105792,38.476052,0 Athenians ...punishment from an adulterer. Later on, when Dracon was legislator for the Athenians, it was enacted in the laws which he drew up for the Athenians that the...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aspledon ...because of a shortage of water. They say also that the city got its name from Aspledon, who was a son of the nymph Mideia and Poseidon. Their view is confirmed by...

Aspledon

80 22.957728,38.534199,0 Aspledon ...this city stood on high ground, and was called Mideia after the mother of Aspledon. But when Lebadus came to it from Athens, the inhabitants went down to the low...

Aspledon

76 22.957728,38.534199,0 Arne ...in course of time. Next to Lebadeia comes Chaeroneia. Its name of old was Arne, said to have been a daughter of Aeolus, who gave her name also to a city in...

Arne

77 22.93328,38.48288,0 Chaeroneia ...Bore mighty Chaeron, tamer of horses. Homer, I think, though he knew that Chaeroneia and Lebadeia were already so called, yet uses their ancient names, just as he...

Chaeroneia

76 22.840365,38.493361,0 Argive ...in a bordering country. For his victory Caranus set up a trophy after the Argive fashion, but it is said to have been upset by a lion from Olympus, which then...

Argive

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Chaeroneans ...divine about this scepter is most clearly shown by the fame it brings to the Chaeroneans. They say that it was discovered on the border of their own country and of...

Chaeroneans

79 22.840365,38.493361,0 Trojan ...the Phocian people were undertaken by the whole nation. They took part in the Trojan war, and fought against the Thessalians before the Persian invasion of Greece...

Trojan

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thessalians ...hundred picked men of Phocis, waiting until the moon was full, attacked the Thessalians on that night, first smearing themselves with chalk and, in addition to the...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Cydonia ...as sided with him and by a part of his mercenaries, he sat down to besiege Cydonia, which refused to accede to his demand for money, and perished along with the...

Cydonia

77 24.019611,35.517333,0 Phocians ...and had had no share in the seizure of the sanctuary or in the war. The Phocians were deprived of their share in the Delphic sanctuary and in the Greek...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Chaeroneia ...Athenians and Thebans who brought back the inhabitants before the disaster of Chaeroneia befell the Greeks. The Phocians took part in the battle of Chaeroneia, and...

Chaeroneia

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 Panopeus ...the memorable exploits of the Phocians. From Chaeroneia it is twenty stades to Panopeus, a city of the Phocians, if one can give the name of city to those who possess...

Panopeus

81 22.79418,38.49551,0 Phocian ...they have boundaries with their neighbors, and even send delegates to the Phocian assembly. The name of the city is derived, they say, from the father of Epeius...

Phocian

76 22.25,38.25,0 Cynurians ...territory were harrying Argolis, the Argives being their kinsmen, and that the Cynurians themselves openly made forays into the land. The Cynurians are said to be...

Cynurians

81 22.75,37.25,0 Cretans ...by the Pythian priestess, others that he introduced Cretan institutions. The Cretans say that these laws of theirs were laid down by Minos, and that Minos was not...

Cretans

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Arcadian ...of the Perioeci, and sold the inhabitants into slavery, suspecting them of Arcadian sympathies. Charilaus, the king of the other house, helped Archelaus to destroy...

Arcadian

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenian ...king. As to the causes of the war, the Lacedemonian version differs from the Messenian. The accounts given by the belligerents, and the manner in which this war...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...was enslaved to the Lacedemonians, Polydorus, who had a great reputation at Sparta and was very popular with the masses – for he never did a violent act or said...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 sanctuary ...stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the...

sanctuary

80 12.8420345,47.0823314,0 Egyptian ...they have tribes named after the following, Attalus the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and within my own time the emperor Hadrian, who was extremely religious in the...

Egyptian

81 Egyptian ...she was put to death by Alexander, whom she herself had made to be king of the Egyptians. When the deed was discovered, and Alexander fled in fear of the citizens...

Egyptian

81 portico ...Marathon and in the Persians who landed there. Above the Cerameicus and the portico called the King's Portico is a temple of Hephaestus. I was not surprised that...

portico

79 Ionian Sea ...he could meet the Romans in battle. So Pyrrhus was the first to cross the Ionian Sea from Greece to attack the Romans. And even he crossed on the invitation of the...

Ionian Sea

77 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 city ...called the Museum. This is a hill right opposite the Acropolis within the old city boundaries, where legend says Musaeus used to sing, and, dying of old age, was...

city

80 coast ...native troops of Antigonus an his Gallic mercenaries he pursued them to the coast cities, and himself reduced upper Macedonia and the Thessalians. The extent of...

coast

78 tomb ...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...

tomb

77 tomb ...son of Cassander, as I have related in a former part of my account. After the tomb of Cephisodorus is the grave of Heliodorus Halis. A portrait of this man is...

tomb

81 Libya ...the statue of Athena had blue eyes I found out that the legend about them is Libyan. For the Libyans have a saying that the Goddess is the daughter of Poseidon...

Libya

79 26.5,31.5,0 island ...Here also is Demosthenes, whom the Athenians forced to retire to Calauria, the island off Troezen, and then, after receiving him back, banished again after the...

island

81 Elaea ...is another beardless image of Zeus. It was dedicated by the people of Elaea, who live in the first city of Aeolis you reach on descending from the plain of...

Elaea

72 27.041,38.9416,0 Lacedemonians ...to Greece with money, instructing him to stir up in Greece a war against the Lacedemonians. Those who shared in this money are said to have been the Argives Cylon and...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aetolia ...way and annihilated by the Athenians under Iphicrates. Agesilaus went also to Aetolia to give assistance to the Aetolians, who were hard pressed in a war with, the...

Aetolia

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 sea ...which he had invaded with an army, and at the same time was blockading them by sea with a fleet. The Peiraeus was a parish from early times, though it was not a...

sea

81 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 three harbors ...thought that the Peiraeus was more conveniently situated for mariners, and had three harbors as against one at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time...

three harbors

81 Athens ...Athenians. Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and of his sons, painted by Arcesilaus. This Leosthenes at the head of the Athenians and the united Greeks defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acraea ...the goddess; the oldest is to her as Doritis (Bountiful), the next in age as Acraea (Of the Height/Promontory), while the newest is to the Aphrodite called Cnidian...

Acraea

79 one of Zeus ...is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown, and of heroes, and of...

one of Zeus

79 Athenians ...by men generally, but Euploia (Fair Voyage) by the Cnidians themselves. The Athenians have also another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Scyros ...were to bring back Theseus from Scyros to Athens otherwise they could not take Scyros. Now the bones of Theseus were discovered by Cimon the son of Miltiades, who...

Scyros

81 24.6099,38.82754,0 Athenians ...conducted campaigns against Athens, by the first of which he delivered the Athenians from the sons of Peisistratus and won a good report among the Greeks both for...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleusis ...they say, the district called Orgas, which was sacred to the deities in Eleusis. He advanced as far as Aegina, and proceeded to arrest such influential...

Eleusis

74 23.538311,38.041096,0 Lacedemonians ...guilty; the rest of the court voted for his acquittal. Shortly after this the Lacedemonians gathered an army against Thebes; the reason for so doing will be given in my...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...the citizens of which refused to revolt from Thebes. Already a band of Thebans and Athenians had secretly entered the city; these came out and offered battle...

Thebans

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tegea ...was too late for the fight, having been collecting forces from Tegea and Arcadia generally; when he finally reached Boeotia, although he heard of...

Tegea

65 22.429,37.464,0 Boeotia ...collecting forces from Tegea and Arcadia generally; when he finally reached Boeotia, although he heard of the defeat of the forces with Lysander and of the death...

Boeotia

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athena Alea ...to stand his trial, but was received by the people of Tegea as a suppliant of Athena Alea. Now this sanctuary had been respected from early days by all the...

Athena Alea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Argives ...in this action with the Lacedemonians, and shortly after were punished by the Argives, who inflicted great destruction on their fatherland and drove out the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thessaly ...uninterrupted victories in the fighting might have enabled him to reduce all Thessaly, he accepted bribes from the Aleuadae. Or, being brought to trial in Lacedemon...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...son, but also with prayers and tears charged them to take the tidings to the Lacedemonians. After the death of Agis, Agesilaus tried to keep Leotychides from the throne...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...confirmed them in their policy of inactivity. The envoy dispatched to Thebes was Aristomelidas, the father of the mother of Agesilaus, a close friend of the...

Thebes

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...he was sacrificing at Aulis. The Athenians receiving early intimation of the Lacedemonians' intentions, sent to Sparta begging them to submit their grievances to a court...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...he marched to Sparta, they too celebrated the Isthmian games along with the Argives. Agesilaus again marched with an army against Corinth, and, as the festival...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aegina ...uninhabited, Aegina, daughter of Asopus, its name was changed from Oenone to Aegina; and when Aeacus, on growing up, asked Zeus for settlers, the god, they say...

Aegina

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Myndus ...were dispatched as colonists from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons of Troezen, migrated to Attica, and...

Myndus

75 27.23432,37.05332,0 Argos ...return of the Heracleidae, the Troezenians too received Dorian settlers from Argos. They had been subject at even an earlier date to the Argives; Homer, too, in...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...settlers from Argos. They had been subject at even an earlier date to the Argives; Homer, too, in the Catalogue, says that their commander was Diomedes. For...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidaurians ...too, share in their worship) they do not give the same account as the Epidaurians and Aeginetans, but say that they were maidens who came from Crete. A general...

Epidaurians

72 23.079167,37.596111,0 Hermionians ...which they perform mystic ritual to Demeter. Such are the possessions of the Hermionians in these parts. The modern city is just about four stades distant from the...

Hermionians

80 23.243591,37.385218,0 Acherusian ...places which the Hermionians call that of Clymenus, that of Pluto, and the Acherusian Lake. All are surrounded by fences of stones, while in the place of Clymenus...

Acherusian

77 20.75,39.25,0 Argolis ...son of Polydectes, son of Eunomus, son of Prytanis, son of Eurypon, invaded Argolis with an army, the Asinaeans joined in the invasion, and with them ravaged the...

Argolis

78 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Temenium ...every year in honor of Dionysus I must not divulge to the world at large. Temenium is in Argive territory, and was named after Temenus, the son of Aristomachus...

Temenium

77 22.737804,37.581685,0 Messenia ...to Pellana, but a Messenian legend about him is that he fled to Aphareus in Messenia, Aphareus being the son of Perieres and the brother of Tyndareus on his...

Messenia

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...Argos, had kings put over them; Argos had Temenus and Messene Cresphontes. In Lacedemon, as the sons of Aristodemus were twins, there arose two royal houses; for they...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mycenae ...still in position in front of the burnt temple. By the side of the road from Mycenae to Argos there is on the left hand a hero-shrine of Perseus. The neighboring...

Mycenae

80 22.756111,37.730833,0 Megara ...while I have already given the history of the son of Psamathe in my account of Megara. After these is an image of Apollo, God of Streets, and an altar of Zeus, God...

Megara

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thebes ...to be restored to Thebes swore an oath together that they would either capture Thebes or die. As to the tomb of Prometheus, their account seems to me to be less...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Opuntians ...of Prometheus, their account seems to me to be less probable than that of the Opuntians, but they hold to it nevertheless. Passing over a statue of Creugas, a boxer...

Opuntians

80 22.75,38.75,0 Argives ...brother of the Alexanor who is honored among the Sicyonians in Titane. The Argives, like the Athenians and Sicyonians, worship Artemis Pheraea, and they, too...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Erasinus ...called Chaon. At its foot grow cultivated trees, and here the water of the Erasinus rises to the surface. Up to this point it flows from Stymphalus in Arcadia...

Erasinus

77 22.75,37.75,0 Argive ...Phlius and Sicyon, which order corresponds to the position of the towns in the Argive territory. The name is derived from Orneus, the son of Erechtheus. This Orneus...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...went to Athens with his people and dwelt there, while Deiphontes and the Argives took possession of Epidauria. These on the death of Temenus seceded from the...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Megalopolis ...superior to those anywhere else in their splendor, and the Arcadian theater at Megalopolis is unequalled for size, what architect could seriously rival Polycleitus in...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Thebes ...back ill to Thebes, and when he was about to die he appointed to be regent of Thebes his brother Lycus for Labdacus, the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus, being...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...august side of their family, and says that they were the first founders of Thebes, in my opinion distinguishing the lower city from the Cadmea. When Lamedon...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sicyonians ...pentathlon or won a victory at Olympia. This tomb is a mound of earth, but the Sicyonians themselves usually bury their dead in a uniform manner. They cover the body in...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...by the Theban Phanes at the command of the Pythian priestess. Phanes came to Sicyon when Aristomachus, the son of Cleodaeus, failed to understand the oracle given...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pergamenes ...as being a god, they give burnt sacrifices. If I conjecture aright, the Pergamenes, in accordance with an oracle, call this Euamerion Telesphorus (Accomplisher)...

Pergamenes

74 27.184167,39.1325,0 Epidaurians ...with an oracle, call this Euamerion Telesphorus (Accomplisher) while the Epidaurians call him Acesis (Cure). There is also a wooden image of Coronis, but it has no...

Epidaurians

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Phliasians ...Mnesarchus, the son of Euphranor, the son of Hippasus. This is the account the Phliasians give about themselves, and the Sicyonians in general agree with them. I will...

Phliasians

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasians ...the spot from the blow. A chapel keeps the memory of the deed fresh among the Phliasians; it is built by the side of the sanctuary of Apollo, and it contains statues...

Phliasians

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Mycenae ...an exchange of kingdoms; taking over himself that of Megapenthes, he founded Mycenae. For on its site the cap (myces) fell from his scabbard, and he regarded this...

Mycenae

79 22.756111,37.730833,0 Lacedemonians ...was the son of Sparton, and Sparton of Phoroneus, I cannot accept, because the Lacedemonians themselves do not accept it either. For the Lacedemonians have at Amyclae a...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...first time, and hard by that of Cretan bowmen. Again there are monuments to Athenians: to Cleisthenes, who invented the system of the tribes at present existing, and...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cyprus ...Tanagra, the men Leosthenes led into Thessaly, those who sailed with Cimon to Cyprus, and of those who with Olympiodorus expelled the garrison not more than...

Cyprus

80 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Tiryns ...is a spring called Macaria with the following legend. When Heracles left Tiryns, fleeing from Eurystheus, he went to live with his friend Ceyx, who was king of...

Tiryns

75 22.80004,37.59918,0 Megaris ...at Glisas early in the first battle, and his relatives carried him to Pagae in Megaris and buried him, the shrine being still called the Aegialeum. In Aegosthena is...

Megaris

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Achelous ...and Cenchrias, said to be the children of Poseidon and Peirene the daughter of Achelous, though in the poem called The Great Eoeae Peirene is said to be a daughter of...

Achelous

81 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Caryae ...right, and leads to Caryae (Walnut-trees) and to the sanctuary of Artemis. For Caryae is a region sacred to Artemis and the nymphs, and here stands in the open an...

Caryae

81 22.515967,37.288734,0 Spartan ...one of Apollo and of Hera. There is also dedicated a colossal statue of the Spartan People. The Lacedemonians have also a sanctuary of the Fates, by which is the...

Spartan

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Acritas ...of the heralds who came to Attica. The Lacedemonians have an altar of Apollo Acritas, and a sanctuary, surnamed Gasepton, of Earth. Above it is set up Maleatian...

Acritas

80 21.8764,36.72016,0 Sparta ...are named daughters of Dionysus there is held a footrace; this custom came to Sparta from Delphi. Not far from the Dionysus is a sanctuary of Zeus of Fair Wind, on...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympic ...of Hetoemocles. Both Hetoemocles himself and his father Hipposthenes won Olympic victories for wrestling the two together won eleven, but Hipposthenes succeeded...

Olympic

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Orthia ...in the Tauric land keeps its fondness for human blood. They call it not only Orthia, but also Lygodesma (Willow-bound), because it was found in a thicket of...

Orthia

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataea ...of the Lady of the Bronze House stand two statues of Pausanias, the general at Plataea. His history, as it is known, I will not relate. The accurate accounts of my...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Amyclae ...for the tomb of Cassandra, it is claimed by the Lacedemonians who dwell around Amyclae. Agamemnon has his tomb, and so has Eurymedon the charioteer, while another is...

Amyclae

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Argos ...dedicated over the door. Not far from the building in the market-place of Argos is a mound of earth, in which they say lies the head of the Gorgon Medusa. I...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 temple of Demeter ...are held in some cases every year, in others at longer intervals. Hard by is a temple of Demeter, with images of the goddess herself and of her daughter, and of Iacchus holding...

temple of Demeter

81 Argives ...occasion wild she-goats had gathered there to escape from the storm. These the Argives killed, using the flesh as food and the skins as raiment. When the storm was...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...learnt the history of Epidaurus. The most famous sanctuary of Asclepius at Argos contains at the present day a white-marble image of the god seated, and by his...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 it ...island called the Island of Patroclus. For a fortification was built on it and a palisade constructed by Patroclus, who was admiral in command of the...

it

74 23.875,37.625,0 Heraclea ...that her death took place near Trachis and not in Argos, and her grave is near Heraclea, at the foot of Mount Oeta. The story of Helenus, son of Priam, I have already...

Heraclea

81 22.442503,38.790767,0 Nemean ...Adjoining it is the race-course, in which they hold the games in honor of Nemean Zeus and the festival of Hera. As you go to the citadel there is on the left of...

Nemean

76 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Ammon ...worship the god still more. The people of Aphytis honor Ammon no less than the Ammon Libyans. The story of Artemis Cnagia is as follows. Cnageus, they say, was a...

Ammon

81 25.54359,29.20514,0 Thesprotians ...think there was a battle at Aphidna at all, Theseus being detained among the Thesprotians and the Athenians not being unanimous, their sympathies inclining towards...

Thesprotians

79 20.25,39.75,0 Sparta ...was captured. I must now end my criticisms. As you go down to Amyclae from Sparta you come to a river called Tiasa. They hold that Tiasa was a daughter of...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Amyclae ...less than wings do birds. Such I found were the things worth mentioning about Amyclae. Another road from the city leads to Therapne, and on this road is a wooden...

Amyclae

80 24.76084,35.0133,0 Taygetus ...is surnamed, they say, after a man who served the god as his priest. Leaving Taygetus from here you come to the site of the city Bryseae. There still remains here a...

Taygetus

79 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Phoenician ...but the best shell-fish for the manufacture of purple dye after those of the Phoenician sea are to be found on the coast of Laconia. The Free Laconians have eighteen...

Phoenician

79 35.25,33.25,0 Gythium ...and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae...

Gythium

74 22.562341,36.763663,0 Geronthrae ...by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that are left to the Free Laconians out of...

Geronthrae

74 Gythium ...have been built a temple and image of Athena. Just about three stades from Gythium is an unwrought stone. Legend has it that when Orestes sat down upon it his...

Gythium

78 22.562341,36.763663,0 portico ...benefactor to all his subjects and especially to the city of the Athenians. A portico is built behind with pictures of the gods called the Twelve. On the wall...

portico

81 Messene ...with the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, and the foundation of the present city of Messene under Ithome, I think that no city had the name Messene. I base this conclusion...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messene ...Hermes and paths of holy Demeter and Kore her firstborn, where they say that Messene established the feast of the Great Goddesses, taught by Caucon, sprung from...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messene ...that the mysteries were originally at Andania. And it seems natural to me that Messene should have established the mysteries where she and Polycaon lived, not...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Eretria ...of Miletus stated that Oechalia is in Scius, a part of the territory of Eretria. Nevertheless, I think that the whole version of the Messenians is more...

Eretria

74 22.607216,39.290562,0 Hermione ...Pyrrhus the son of Achilles put in here when he sailed from Scyros to wed Hermione. Across the river is an ancient shrine . . . further from an altar of Zeus...

Hermione

76 23.243591,37.385218,0 Andania ...Goddesses to Aphareus and his children and to his wife Arene; but it was to Andania that he brought the rites and revealed them there, as it was there that Caucon...

Andania

78 21.938099,37.26217,0 Psamathus ...into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius and Psamathus. On the promontory is a temple like a cave, with a statue of Poseidon in front...

Psamathus

74 22.48239,36.437175,0 Dorian ...of the Trojan war and the death of Nestor after his return home, the Dorian expedition and return of the Heracleidae, which took place two generations...

Dorian

71 22.25,38.75,0 Taenarum ...a standing statue of stone. Thirty stades distant is Thyrides, a headland of Taenarum, with the ruins of a city Hippola; among them is a sanctuary of Athena...

Taenarum

79 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Thalamae ...Pasiphae is a title of the Moon, and is not a local goddess of the people of Thalamae. Twenty stades from Thalamae is a place called Pephnus on the coast. In front...

Thalamae

79 22.325671,36.786208,0 Messenians ...with daggers introduced them among the Messenians when they were resting; the Messenians, in defending themselves, killed the beardless youths and Teleclus himself; but...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicily ...in love with Hippostratus. The story is that originally she was of Hycara in Sicily. Taken captive while yet a girl by Nicias and the Athenians, she was sold and...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Acrocorinthus ...is the account I heard of the Asopus. When you have turned from the Acrocorinthus into the mountain road you see the Teneatic gate and a sanctuary of Eilethyia...

Acrocorinthus

70 22.878721,37.906045,0 Olympia ...Telchis Apis. This Apis reached such a height of power before Pelops came to Olympia that all the territory south of the Isthmus was called after him Apia. Apis...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cithaeron ...but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was Cithaeron. The reason why the people of Eleutherae came over was not because they were...

Cithaeron

80 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Megarians ...found himself unable to seize them. He committed suicide in Megara, and the Megarians forthwith raised him a barrow, and every year sacrifice to him, using in the...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarian ...Victory, and yet a third of Athena Aeantis (Ajacian). About the last the Megarian guides have omitted to record anything, but I will write what I take to be the...

Megarian

75 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenian ...who was seer to Tolmides, and of Tolmides himself, who when in command of the Athenian fleet inflicted severe damage upon the enemy, especially upon the...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinth ...When he was let loose on the Argive plain he fled through the isthmus of Corinth, into the land of Attica as far as the Attic parish of Marathon, killing all he...

Corinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Peiraeus ...greatest achievement of Olympiodorus, not to mention his success in recovering Peiraeus and Munychia; and again, when the Macedonians were raiding Eleusis he collected...

Peiraeus

81 23.644609,37.937222,0 Delphi ...the following way. As there had been no rain for a year and more, they sent to Delphi envoys from each city. These asked for a cure for the drought, and were bidden...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delians ...she followed Theseus, took it with her from home. Bereft of Ariadne, say the Delians, Theseus dedicated the wooden image of the goddess to the Delian Apollo, lest...

Delians

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Sicily ...by the Argives in the Heraeum and those brought from Omphace to Gela in Sicily have disappeared in course of time. Next to Lebadeia comes Chaeroneia. Its...

Sicily

74 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Chaeroneia ...to Gela in Sicily have disappeared in course of time. Next to Lebadeia comes Chaeroneia. Its name of old was Arne, said to have been a daughter of Aeolus, who gave her...

Chaeroneia

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 Cirrha ...of Boeotia, Phocis stretches to the sea, and touches it on one side at Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and on the other at the city of Anticyra. In the direction...

Cirrha

73 22.450621,38.428937,0 Cynus ...direction, by Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned exploits of the Phocian people...

Cynus

81 23.0622,38.7234,0 Thessalians ...horses and butchered by their enemies, perished to a man at the hands of the Thessalians. Their disaster created such panic among the Phocians in the camp that they...

Thessalians

79 21.75,39.25,0 Lilaea ...cities of Phocis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were...

Lilaea

79 22.50592,38.62687,0 Elateia ...Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon...

Elateia

71 22.782061,38.645635,0 Panopeus ...son of Iphitus and king of the Phocians, who was killed by Hector, lived in Panopeus. It seemed to me that the reason why the king lived here was fear of the...

Panopeus

78 22.79418,38.49551,0 Panopeus ...at this point is the easiest pass from Boeotia into Phocis, so the king used Panopeus as a fortified post. The former passage, in which Homer speaks of the...

Panopeus

79 22.79418,38.49551,0 Daulis ...said Cleon. About twenty-seven stades distant from Panopeus is Daulis. The men there are few in number, but for size and strength no Phocians are...

Daulis

65 22.72926,38.50665,0 Phocis ...Corinth and the land at the Isthmus were the scene of his upbringing. Phocis and the Cleft Road received the pollution of his murdered father's blood...

Phocis

72 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...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...

Phocian

74 22.25,38.25,0 Elis ...foals, and a race for ridden foals, were many years afterwards introduced from Elis. The first was brought in at the sixty-first Pythian Festival, and Iolaidas of...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Macedonian ...proclaimed for the former was Lycormas of Larisa, for the latter Ptolemy the Macedonian. For the kings of Egypt liked to be called Macedonians, as in fact they were...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Phocians ...a section of the Dorians, namely the Lacedemonians, lost their membership, the Phocians because of their rash crime, the Lacedemonians as a penalty for allying...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Aenianians ...League, that the Magnesians moreover and the Malians, together with the Aenianians and Phthiotians, should be numbered with the Thessalians, and that all their...

Aenianians

74 22.25,38.75,0 Dolopes ...with the Thessalians, and that all their votes, together with those of the Dolopes, who were no longer a separate people, should be assigned to the...

Dolopes

77 21.75,39.25,0 Castalia ..."Crossing with swift feet snowy Parnassus he reached the immortal water of Castalia, daughter of Achelous. Panyassis, work unknown I have heard another account...

Castalia

77 22.505528,38.483082,0 Lacedemonians ...that attacked their city. 15 Opposite these are offerings of the Lacedemonians from spoils of the Athenians: the Dioscuri, Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, and beside...

Lacedemonians

68 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...of Troezen, and Dion from Epidaurus in Argolis. Next to these come the Achaean Axionicus from Pellene, Theares of Hermion, Pyrrhias the Phocian, Comon of...

Achaean

73 Phoenicians ...on Cape Pachynum in Sicily, but were hard pressed in a war with the Elymi and Phoenicians, and driven out, but occupied the islands, from which they expelled the...

Phoenicians

80 35.25,33.25,0 Hellespont ...Memnon are embroidered birds. Their name is Memnonides, and the people of the Hellespont say that on stated days every year they go to the grave of Memnon, and sweep...

Hellespont

80 26.4,40.2,0 Delphi ...day the objects remaining in Delphi that are worth recording. On the way from Delphi to the summit of Parnassus, about sixty stades distant from Delphi, there is a...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tithorea ...inquisitiveness. It is said that everywhere he saw ghosts, and on returning to Tithorea and telling what he had seen he departed this life. I have heard a similar...

Tithorea

81 22.66931,38.58344,0 Charadra ...to me that the town was named after the Charadrus. In the market-place at Charadra are altars of Heroes, as they are called, said by some to be the Dioscuri, by...

Charadra

76 22.489574,38.640939,0 Delphi ...wool. Ambrossus lies at the foot of Mount Parnassus, on the side opposite to Delphi. They say that the city was named after Ambrossus, a hero. On going to war with...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...from the cities in ancient Doris. The Boulians are said of Philomelus and the Phocians . . . the general assembly. To Boulis from Thisbe in Boeotia is a journey of...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Anticyra ...stades; but I do not know if in Phocis there be a road by land at all from Anticyra, so rough and difficult to cross are the mountains between Anticyra and Boulis...

Anticyra

77 22.626059,38.375439,0 Boulis ...is a sail of one hundred stades, and the road by land from the harbor to Boulis we conjectured to be about seven stades long. Here a torrent falls into the...

Boulis

75 22.802911,38.276455,0 Cirrha ...Apollo, calls the city by its ancient name of Crisa. Afterwards the people of Cirrha behaved wickedly towards Apollo; especially in appropriating some of the god's...

Cirrha

80 22.450621,38.428937,0 Aetolians ...the largest and most renowned city of Locris. The people hold that they are Aetolians, being ashamed of the name of Ozolians. Support is given to this view by the...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Cumaeans ...was called Demo, and came from Cumae in the territory of the Opici. The Cumaeans can point to no oracle given by this woman, but they show a small stone urn in...

Cumaeans

74 26.936283,38.75953,0 Dodona ...daughter of a king of the Chaonians, and the Peleiae (Doves) at Dodona also gave oracles under the inspiration of a god, but they were not called by...

Dodona

66 20.78784,39.54648,0 Troad ...the people of Tenedos to merge themselves with the Alexandrians on the Troad mainland. The Greeks who fought against the king, besides dedicating at...

Troad

73 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Corsica ...far distant from Sardinia is an island, called Cyrnus by the Greeks, but Corsica by the Libyans who inhabit it. A large part of the population, oppressed by...

Corsica

75 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Sardinia ...that Cyrnus prevents the west wind and the north wind from reaching as far as Sardinia. Neither poisonous nor harmless snakes can live in Sardinia, nor yet wolves...

Sardinia

80 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Achaeans ...Some of the besiegers ran up and took the woman prisoner, who informed the Achaeans that the scanty water from the spring, that was fetched each night, was...

Achaeans

77 Mycenae ...a hundred and twenty; from the other cities in Arcadia one thousand; from Mycenae eighty; from Phlius two hundred, and from Corinth twice this number; of the...

Mycenae

76 22.756111,37.730833,0 Spercheius ...and Combutis, who, making their way back by way of the bridges over the Spercheius and across Thessaly again, invaded Aetolia. The fate of the Callians at the...

Spercheius

75 22.25,38.75,0 Aetolians ...suffered severely owing to the number and desperation of the Gauls. But the Aetolians, men and women, drawn up all along the road, kept shooting at the barbarians...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Heracleots ...passed to attack in the rear the Greeks under Leonidas. By this road the Heracleots and the Aenianians promised to lead Brennus, not that they were ill-disposed to...

Heracleots

76 22.442503,38.790767,0 Heracleots ...of others. Brennus was encouraged by the promise made by the Aenianians and Heracleots. Leaving Acichorius behind in charge of the main army, with instructions that...

Heracleots

79 22.442503,38.790767,0 Phocians ...Greeks came on from Delphi, making a frontal attack with the exception of the Phocians, who, being more familiar with the district, descended through the snow down...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...slaughter was wrought among the Gauls by the madness sent by the god. Those Phocians who had been left behind in the fields to guard the flocks were the first to...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Aetolians ...proceeded with difficulty as far as the Spercheius, pressed hotly by the Aetolians. But after their arrival at the Spercheius, during the rest of the retreat the...

Aetolians

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Delphi ...but Myson of Chenae, a village on Mount Oeta. These sages, then, came to Delphi and dedicated to Apollo the celebrated maxims, "Know thyself," and "Nothing in...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cyprus ...foretold the birth of Homer in the following verses: "And then in sea-girt Cyprus there will be a mighty singer, Whom Themisto, lady fair, shall bear in the...

Cyprus

77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Creusa ...the women between Aethra and Nestor are other captive women, Clymene, Creusa, Aristomache and Xenodice. Now Stesichorus, in the Sack of Troy, includes...

Creusa

72 23.110281,38.20809,0 sea ...Greece. These Gauls inhabit the most remote portion of Europe, near a great sea that is not navigable to its extremities, and possesses ebb and flow and...

sea

79 -2.647939,51.479364,0 Sythas ...Farther along the highway is a river called the Helisson, and after it the Sythas, both emptying themselves into the sea. Phliasia borders on Sicyonia. The city...

Sythas

77 22.62377,38.08036,0 Sicyonia ...it the Sythas, both emptying themselves into the sea. Phliasia borders on Sicyonia. The city is just about forty stades distant from Titane, and there is a...

Sicyonia

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Phliasians ...to the Peloponnesus. I know that most of the traditions concerning the Phliasians are contradictory, but I shall make use of those which have been most generally...

Phliasians

73 22.649131,37.846299,0 Megarians ...fact that the note of these birds is plaintive and like a lamentation. The Megarians have another citadel, which is named after Alcathous. As you ascend this...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Aegina ...to Sisyphus. The latter knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, but refused to give information to the seeker before...

Aegina

75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Phliasians ...Asopus. The other stories about the river are current among both the Phliasians and the Sicyonians, for instance that its water is foreign and not native, in...

Phliasians

72 22.649131,37.846299,0 Lacedemonians ...in Asia. Thus it was the purpose of heaven to turn the trick employed by the Lacedemonians against the Messenians to their own destruction. After receiving the money from...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pylos ...Eira and cut off from the rest of Messenia, except in so far as the people of Pylos and Mothone maintained the coastal districts for them, the Messenians plundered...

Pylos

80 Lacedemonian ...of his chosen troop to three hundred. They harried and plundered whatever Lacedemonian property they could; when corn, cattle and wine were captured, they were...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lycaeus ...Messene, for destruction is at hand. The springs of the Neda are in Mount Lycaeus. The river flows through the land of the Arcadians and turning again towards...

Lycaeus

77 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Sparta ...on the Lacedemonians, as he knew well that trouble would always be brewing for Sparta through him, but he gave them Gorgus and Manticlus as leaders. Euergetidas too...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ialysos ...Aristomenes is not recorded, but when Damagetus the Rhodian, who reigned at Ialysos, came to Apollo and asked whence he should take a wife, the Pythia bade him...

Ialysos

79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Pythia ...reigned at Ialysos, came to Apollo and asked whence he should take a wife, the Pythia bade him take a daughter of the bravest of the Greeks. As Aristomenes had a...

Pythia

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Nauplia ...the land belonging to the people of Asine; but they gave Mothone to the men of Nauplia, who had recently been driven from their town by the Argives. The Messenians...

Nauplia

81 22.796,37.565,0 Messenian ...razed all their city to the ground. At this disaster all the serfs who were of Messenian origin seceded to Mount Ithome. Against them the Lacedemonians, amongst other...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sphacteria ...Messenians went to them, their leader being Comon, who had commanded them in Sphacteria. A year before the victory of the Thebans at Leuctra, heaven foretold their...

Sphacteria

79 21.665725,36.930136,0 Messenians ...of the Thebans at Leuctra, heaven foretold their return to Peloponnese to the Messenians. It is said that in Messene on the Straits the priest of Heracles saw a vision...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Leuctra ...the recovery of Messene. Not long afterwards the Lacedemonians suffered at Leuctra the disaster that had long been due. For at the end of the oracle given to...

Leuctra

78 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenians ...wills, destruction comes on this man before that," signifying that he and the Messenians must suffer evil at the present, but that hereafter destruction would overtake...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Rome ...the statue of Cheimon at Olympia there is another in the temple of Peace at Rome, brought there from Argos. Both are in my opinion among the most glorious works...

Rome

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Delphi ...of time, when the earth yielded no crop to the Thasians, they sent envoys to Delphi, and the god instructed them to receive back the exiles. At this command they...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonian ...the son of Niceratus. After the likenesses of Hiero stand Areus the Lacedemonian king, the son of Acrotatus, and Aratus the son of Cleinias, with another statue...

Lacedemonian

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...given some account of both Aratus and Areus, and Aratus was also proclaimed at Olympia as victor in the chariot-race. Timon, an Elean, the son of Aesypus, entered a...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elean ...is Victory. Callon the son of Harmodius and Hippomachus the son of Moschion, Elean by race, were victors in the boys' boxing-match. The statue of Callon was made...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Ceramus ...Greeks. Polites also you will consider a great marvel. This Polites was from Ceramus in Caria, and showed at Olympia every excellence in running. For from the...

Ceramus

79 27.951332,37.042418,0 Samos ...on it states that Scaeus won his victory at the time when the people of Samos were in exile from the island, but the occasion . . . the people to their...

Samos

74 26.84,37.73,0 Olympia ...descent, and this Diallus declares that he was the first Ionian to receive at Olympia a crown for the boys' pancratium. There are statues of Thersilochus of Corcyra...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...strong effort. There are also at Olympia statues to Anauchidas and Pherenicus, Eleans by race who won crowns for wrestling among the boys. Pleistaenus, the son of...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Thespians ...who commanded the Aetolians against the Gauls, had his statue dedicated by the Thespians. The statue of Antigonus the father of Demetrius and the statue of Seleucus...

Thespians

81 23.154521,38.293384,0 Elis ...the son of Philip against Dareius and the Persians. There are two more from Elis, Archidamus who was victorious with a four-horse chariot and Eperastus the son...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...Clytius was the son of Alcmaeon by the daughter of Phegeus, and he migrated to Elis because he shrank from living with his mother's brothers, knowing that they had...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Athens ...of a Syracusan woman to a property. However, Gorgias surpassed his fame at Athens; indeed Jason, the tyrant of Thessaly, placed him before Polycrates, who was a...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Myanians ...cities of the Locrians near Phocis, and among them the Myonians. So the Myanians on the shield are in my opinion the same folk as the Myonians on the Locrian...

Myanians

74 22.315807,38.41224,0 Corinthians ...declaring that the Megarians dedicated the treasury from spoils taken from the Corinthians. I think that the Megarians won this victory when Phorbas, who held a life...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Cladeus ...tomb of the Arcadians who were killed in the battle is on the hill across the Cladeus to the west. Near to the sanctuary of Eileithyia are the remains of the...

Cladeus

80 21.75,37.75,0 Thessalians ...wife of Melaneus. Most matters of Greek history have come to be disputed. The Thessalians say that Eurytium, which today is not inhabited, was formerly a city and was...

Thessalians

81 21.75,39.25,0 Messenia ...of Leucippus, not the son of Coronis, and they call a desolate spot in Messenia by the name Tricca and quote the lines of Homer, in which Nestor tends Machaon...

Messenia

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...Dorians, but agreed to be ruled by Cresphontes and to divide the land with the Dorians. They were induced to give way to them in this by the suspicion which they felt...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Ithome ...but attained to greater piety. For the precinct of Zeus on the summit of Ithome, having been consecrated by Polycaon and Messene, had hitherto received no...

Ithome

75 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...were still held at Andania. In the reign of Phintas the son of Sybotas the Messenians for the first time sent an offering and chorus of men to Apollo at Delos. Their...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...cases pertaining to murder. They say that these were not the reasons of the Lacedemonians in going to war, but that they had formed designs on their country through...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Carian ...had reduced the other Greeks of Asia Minor and all the Dorians who live on the Carian mainland. They point out too that when the Phocian leaders had seized the...

Carian

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Lacedemonian ...On the side of the Messenians Antander and Euphaes were posted opposite the Lacedemonian right; the other wing, opposite Polydorus, was held by Pytharatus, with...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...who a generation earlier had been driven out of their own country by the Argives and had come as suppliants to Lacedemon, were forced to serve in the army...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...the Messenian light-armed they employed Cretan archers as mercenaries. The Messenians were inspired alike by desperation and readiness to face death, regarding all...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...protection for them all. The place was strong in other respects, for Ithome falls short of none of the mountains within the Isthmus in height and at this...

Ithome

71 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Cretans ...the victims being auspicious, the Lacedemonians marched against Ithome. The Cretans were no longer with them. The allies of the Messenians also were late, for the...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messenians ...against Ithome. The Cretans were no longer with them. The allies of the Messenians also were late, for the Spartans had now incurred the suspicion of others of...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...openly proclaimed among the Arcadians, but they did not arrive either. For the Messenians were induced by the credit placed in the oracle to face the risk without...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Delphi ...to despair of all hope in the war. For this reason they sent envoys to Delphi, who received the following reply from the Pythia: "Phoebus bids thee pursue...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythia ...of the Lacedemonian intrigues, also sent men to enquire of the god. And the Pythia replied to them: The god gives thee glory in war, but beware lest by guile the...

Pythia

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amyclae ...the remaining towns. Of the spoils they dedicated bronze tripods to the god of Amyclae. A statue of Aphrodite stands under the first tripod, of Artemis under the...

Amyclae

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Lacedemonians ...when he reached the tree, lost his shield, and his disobedience gave to the Lacedemonians an opportunity for some to escape from the rout. For he lost time trying to...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...after the Lacedemonians. Unknown. He recovered his shield also, going to Delphi and descending into the holy shrine of Trophonius at Lebadeia, as the Pythia...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Boeotia ...on it is an eagle with both wings outspread to the rim. Now on his return from Boeotia having learnt of the shield at the shrine of Trophonius and recovered it, he at...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Sparta ...waiting only for the wound to heal, he was making an attack by night on Sparta itself, but was deterred by the appearance of Helen and of the Dioscuri. But he...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Nauplia ...they refused to join the Lacedemonians in the war against them. The men of Nauplia on the return of the Messenians to Peloponnese brought them such gifts as they...

Nauplia

77 22.796,37.565,0 Orchomenos ...from their island by the Athenians. The Minyae, driven by the Thebans from Orchomenos after the battle of Leuctra, were restored to Boeotia by Philip the son of...

Orchomenos

78 22.959486,38.495082,0 Laconian ...companies, a thousand picked Messenian troops arrived hurriedly at Elis with Laconian blazons on their shields. Seeing their shields, all the Laconising party in...

Laconian

79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedemonians ...obtained admission in this way, the Messenians drove out the supporters of the Lacedemonians and made over the city to their own partisans. The trick is Homer's, but the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Chaeroneia ...afterwards by the confederate Greeks, the Achaeans took part in the battle of Chaeroneia against the Macedonians under Philip, but they say that they did not march out...

Chaeroneia

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 Thermopylae ...that Adrastus died fighting for the Greeks against Leonnatus. The march to Thermopylae against the army of the Gauls was left alone by all the Peloponnesians alike...

Thermopylae

78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Aetolians ...each man. Otilius had received orders from the Romans to protect Athenians and Aetolians from war with Philip. Otilius carried out his orders up to a point, but...

Aetolians

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Macedonians ...and on the rest of Greece, merely in fact to take the place of Philip and the Macedonians. At the meeting of the League many opposite views were put forward, but at last...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Corinth ...the Roman party prevailed, and the Achaeans joined Flamininus in besieging Corinth. On being delivered from the Macedonians the Corinthians at once joined the...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Macedonians ...against the Syrians under Antiochus. All that the Achaeans did against the Macedonians or the host of the Syrians they did because of their friendship to the Romans...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...the Achaeans, not all of which were true. More accusations still against the Achaeans were made by Areus and Alcibiadas, Lacedemonians of great distinction at Sparta...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...The mere sight of Appius and his colleagues was sure to be displeasing to the Achaeans, for they brought with them Areus and Alcibiadas, detested by the Achaeans at...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...the Achaeans, for they brought with them Areus and Alcibiadas, detested by the Achaeans at that time beyond all other men. The commissioners vexed the Achaeans yet...

Achaeans

81 Achaean ...as a body to send a deputation to the Roman senate but forbade any city of the Achaean League to send a deputation privately. A deputation of the Achaeans was sent...

Achaean

81 Lacedemonians ...great arrogance, both in word and deed, while he made a complete mock of the Lacedemonians and Argives. These states had reached the highest degree of renown, and in a...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...their own an embassy to Rome, and the Romans allowed them to secede from the Achaean League. The senate also commissioned Gallus to separate from the Achaean...

Achaean

79 Athens ...were wronged by certain of the garrison. They accordingly despatched envoys to Athens to ask for the restoration of their hostages and to request that the garrison...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...and revealed this to Epiteles the son of Aeschines, who had been chosen by the Argives to be their general and to refound Messene. He was bidden by the dream...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...of Triopas at Andania. The wrath of the sons of Tyndareus against the Messenians began before the battle in Stenyclerus, and arose, I think, for the following...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Stenyclerus ...of the sons of Tyndareus against the Messenians began before the battle in Stenyclerus, and arose, I think, for the following reason. Panormus and Gonippus of...

Stenyclerus

77 21.75,37.25,0 Messenians ...courage and could no longer refrain from attacking the Messenians. The Messenians maintained the war with the help of the Argives and Arcadians, and asked the...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eleians ...the Messenians occupied Elis, employing strategy and daring alike. The Eleians in the earliest times were the most law-abiding of the Peloponnesians, but when...

Eleians

73 21.25,37.75,0 Messenians ...who escaped is said to have been more than two-thirds) were received by the Messenians, who for the sake of the former services rendered by the Arcadians in the time...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...is the city of the Messenians under Ithome. It is enclosed not only by Mount Ithome, but on the side towards the Pamisos by Mount Eva. The mountain is said to have...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Aetolians ...Naupactus from the Athenians, being at that time close neighbors of the Aetolians, adopted her from the people of Calydon. I will describe her appearance in...

Aetolians

74 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Artemis of Ephesus ...only to the Messenians and to the Achaeans of Patrae. But all cities worship Artemis of Ephesus, and individuals hold her in honor above all the gods. The reason, in my view...

Artemis of Ephesus

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Neda ...say that the god was brought up among them and that his nurses were Ithome and Neda, the river having received its name from the latter, while the former, Ithome...

Neda

81 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Achelous ...do up the Rhine and Maeander. The chief run of fish is up the stream of the Achelous, which discharges opposite the Echinades islands. But the fish that enter the...

Achelous

78 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Mothonaeans ...board ship, they set sail for the Ionian Sea, having desolated the city of the Mothonaeans. In Mothone is a temple of Athena Of the Winds, with a statue dedicated, it is...

Mothonaeans

81 21.705,36.817,0 Thermopylae ...color and scent. The bluest that I know from personal experience is that at Thermopylae, not all of it, but that which flows into the swimming-baths, called locally...

Thermopylae

79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Leleges ...This was founded by Pylos the son of Cleson, bringing from the Megarid the Leleges who then occupied the country. But he did not enjoy it, as he was driven out by...

Leleges

77 26.75,39.75,0 Achaeans ...that he succeeded in saving Menalcidas in spite of the opposition of the Achaeans. The Achaeans, individually and as a body, held Diaeus responsible for the...

Achaeans

75 Lacedemon ...the Achaeans under Damocritus when these had already begun a campaign against Lacedemon, and so, realizing that the Achaeans were set against their advice, proceeded...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...Achaeans were set against their advice, proceeded on their way to Asia. The Lacedemonians, with a spirit greater than their strength, took up arms, and sallied forth to...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...after Damocritus, agreed, when Metellus sent another embassy, to involve the Lacedemonians in no war, but to await the arrival of the arbitrators from Rome. But he...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...the envoys despatched from Rome to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, among them being Orestes. He invited to visit him the magistrates in each of...

Achaeans

81 Lacedemonians ...to them the whole story, that the Roman senate decreed that neither the Lacedemonians nor yet Corinth itself should belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oeta ...itself should belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus should be released from the Achaean confederacy...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Achaeans ...As soon as Metellus learned that Mummius and his army were coming to fight the Achaeans, he was full of enthusiasm to bring the war to a conclusion without help before...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...between them. But when the Phocians heard of the disaster to Critolaus and the Achaeans, they ordered the Arcadians to depart from Elateia. As they were retreating to...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...Athenians before the battle of Marathon, and enlisted from the cities of the Achaeans and Arcadians those who were of military age. The muster, including the slaves...

Achaeans

79 Megara ...four thousand, put them under the command of Alcamenes, and despatched them to Megara to garrison the city, and to stay the advance of Metellus and the Romans...

Megara

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megara ...immediately, brought before Metellus and punished. When the army approached Megara, Alcamenes and his men did not face it, but straightway fled to the camp of the...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Achaeans ...a blow, and when Metellus came to the Isthmus he again made overtures to the Achaeans for an agreed peace. For he was possessed of a strong desire to settle by...

Achaeans

79 Attica ...was deserted by its good fortune at the Dorian revolution. The people of Attica, reviving after the Peloponnesian war and the plague, raised themselves again...

Attica

76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Dyme ...a temple of Larisaean Athena; about thirty stades distant from the Larisus is Dyme, an Achaean city. This was the only Achaean city that in his wars Philip the...

Dyme

80 21.551425,38.144625,0 Delphi ...that the curse of Oebotas should be fulfilled, but the Achaeans by sending to Delphi at last learned why it was that they had been failing to win the Olympic...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dyme ...to place a wreath on the statue of Oebotas at Olympia. Some forty stades from Dyme the river Peirus flows down into the sea; on the Peirus once stood the Achaean...

Dyme

81 21.551425,38.144625,0 Patrae ...a third city, called Mesatis. The stories told of Dionysus by the people of Patrae, that he was reared in Mesatis and incurred there all sob of perils through the...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 Patrae ...of greater circumference so as to include Aroe within it, and named the city Patrae after himself. Agenor, the father of Preugenes, was the son of Areus, the son...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Rome ...is of stone. The ancient image, as the folk of Triteia say, was carried to Rome. The people here are accustomed to sacrifice both to Ares and to...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Messene ...to him by the people of Elis. By Damophon too is the so-called Laphria at Messene. The cult came to be established among them in the following way: Among the...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Ithome ...Neda, the river having received its name from the latter, while the former, Ithome, gave her name to the mountain. These nymphs are said to have bathed Zeus here...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Delos ...epic lines of Eumelus and other sources. Eumelus, in his processional hymn to Delos, says: "For dear to the God of Ithome was the Muse, whose [lute] is pure and...

Delos

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Achaia ...be two local heroes. When the Electra is crossed, there is a spring called Achaia, and the ruins of a city Dorium. Homer states that the misfortune of Thamyris...

Achaia

78 Colonides ...dedicated by the Argonauts, is of bronze. The city of Corone is adjoined by Colonides. The inhabitants say that they are not Messenians but settlers from Attica...

Colonides

79 21.928788,36.836082,0 Acritas ...Colonides to Asine, and of an equal number from Asine to the promontory called Acritas. Acritas projects into the sea and has a deserted island, Theganussa, lying off...

Acritas

81 21.8764,36.72016,0 Thesprotian ...only people of Messenia on the coast to suffer a disaster like the following: Thesprotian Epirus was ruined by anarchy. For Deidameia the daughter of Pyrrhus, being...

Thesprotian

80 20.25,39.75,0 Mothone ...which its water passed. It is a journey of about a hundred stades from Mothone to the promontory of Coryphasium, on which Pylos lies. This was founded by...

Mothone

74 21.705,36.817,0 Pylos ...about a hundred stades from Mothone to the promontory of Coryphasium, on which Pylos lies. This was founded by Pylos the son of Cleson, bringing from the Megarid...

Pylos

81 Heracleia ...Axius was named after him Paeonia. As to the death of Endymion, the people of Heracleia near Miletus do not agree with the Eleans for while the Eleans show a tomb of...

Heracleia

80 27.52707,37.49759,0 Motye ...that looks towards Libya and the south, called Pachynum, there stands the city Motye, inhabited by Libyans and Phoenicians. Against these foreigners of Motye war...

Motye

81 12.46829,37.86747,0 Altis ...hands in an attitude of prayer to the god. They are placed on the wall of the Altis, and I conjectured that the artist was Calamis, a conjecture in accordance with...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phoenicians ...the Phrygians came from the river Scamander and the land of the Troad. The Phoenicians and Libyans came to the island on a joint expedition, and are settlers from...

Phoenicians

77 35.25,33.25,0 Elis ...by the Eleans. Previously it stood at the end of the road that leads from Elis to Olympia, called the Sacred Road. There are also offerings dedicated by the...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Heracleia ...when they had overrun the land of the Mariandynians, their foreign neighbors. Heracleia is a city built on the Euxine sea, a colony of Megara, though the people of...

Heracleia

80 31.414722,41.284722,0 Eleans ...with an inscription upon the shield of the trophy, to the effect that the Eleans raised it as a sign that they had beaten the Lacedemonians. It was in this...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...my history of the Lacedemonian kings. By the side of the statue of Troilus at Olympia has been made a basement of stone, whereon are a chariot and horses, a...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...their king. I shall have more to say about this in my account of the Arcadians. On the statue of Thrasybulus is a spotted lizard crawling towards his right...

Arcadians

71 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sicyonian ...Eleans say that the dead general was a native of Sicyon in command of Sicyonian troops, and that they themselves with the force from Boeotia attacked Sicyon...

Sicyonian

72 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lepreus ...the Lacedemonian disaster at Leuctra. Next stands the statue of a boxer from Lepreus in Elis, whose name was Labax son of Euphron, and also that of Aristodemus, son...

Lepreus

80 21.724777,37.439599,0 Nemean ...that he also received two Pythian crowns for the pentathlum and another at the Nemean games. It is also said of Eupolemus that three umpires stood on the course, of...

Nemean

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Eleans ...both at Olympia and at Nemea, but clearly kept away, just like other Eleans, from the Isthmian games. It is said that when Hysmon was still a boy he was...

Eleans

71 21.25,37.75,0 Samians ...paid court to him, and there is a bronze statue of Alcibiades dedicated by the Samians in the temple of Hera. But when the Attic ships were captured at Aegospotami...

Samians

81 26.84,37.73,0 Sicyon ...the other boys, his competitors – his name was Athenaeus, – and also a man of Sicyon who was a pancratiast, Sostratus surnamed Acrochersites. For he used to grip...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Isthmus ...twice the men at Olympia and at Pytho, Thrice at Nemea, and four times at the Isthmus near the sea; Chilon of Patrae, son of Chilon, whom the Achaean folk Buried for...

Isthmus

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Olympia ...at the foot of Ida, was the first of the Aeolians in this district to win at Olympia the foot-race for boys. By the side of Sodamas stands Archidamus, son of...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Isthmian ...one among the men at Olympia, and also among the boys at the Nemean and at the Isthmian games. By the side of Euanthes is the statue of a horse-breeder and his...

Isthmian

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Himera ...and Nemea. The inscription on the statue states that he came originally from Himera; but it is said that this is incorrect, and that be was a Cretan from Cnossus...

Himera

79 13.82184,37.96884,0 Cnossus ...that this is incorrect, and that be was a Cretan from Cnossus. Expelled from Cnossus by a political party he came to Himera, was given citizenship and won many...

Cnossus

79 25.163106,35.297847,0 Thurii ...without a contest. He and Peisirodus were proclaimed by the herald as of Thurii, for they had been pursued by their political enemies from Rhodes to Thurii in...

Thurii

75 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Eleans ...sacked it, with an army he had raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of Pylus were...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Samicum ...Leaving the river Anigrus on the left there is a road leading to Lepreus; from Samicum another leads to it from Olympia and a third from Elis. The longest of them is...

Samicum

81 21.59852,37.53384,0 Olympic ...that the Eleans recovered Scillus again, and that Xenophon was tried by the Olympic Council for accepting the land from the Lacedemonians, and, obtaining pardon...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Heraea ...the Gortynius; from Melaeneae, between the territories of Megalopolis and Heraea, comes the Buphagus; from the land of the Clitorians the Ladon; from Mount...

Heraea

76 21.863791,37.613569,0 Cladeus ...same name as the mountain. These come down into the Alpheius from Arcadia; the Cladeus comes from Elis to join it. The source of the Alpheius itself is in Arcadia...

Cladeus

81 21.75,37.75,0 Mende ...Cillas. The sculptures in the front pediment are by Paeonius, who came from Mende in Thrace; those in the back pediment are by Alcamenes, a contemporary of...

Mende

79 23.419,39.964,0 Arcadian ...at Olympia. Above the doors of the temple is carved the hunting of the Arcadian boar, his exploit against Diomedes the Thracian, and that against Geryones at...

Arcadian

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympia ...pentathlon, named Aenetus, on a slab. The story is that he won a victory at Olympia, but died while the crown was being placed on his head. So there is the statue...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Therapne ...was caused by her wrath. Therefore Stesichorus composed his recantation. In Therapne I remember seeing the fountain Messeis. Some of the Lacedemonians, however...

Therapne

79 22.454127,37.066091,0 Amyclae ...the son of Taygete. Crossing from here a river Phellia, and going past Amyclae along a road leading straight towards the sea, you come to the site of Pharis...

Amyclae

74 24.76084,35.0133,0 Pellana ...to have been a native of Aegium in Achaia. Farther on in the direction of Pellana is what is called Characoma (Trench); and after it Pellana, which in the olden...

Pellana

77 22.325267,37.207648,0 Isthmus ...they had been to the Lacedemonians in Sparta. All the Peloponnesus, except the Isthmus of Corinth, is surrounded by sea, but the best shell-fish for the manufacture...

Isthmus

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Corinth ...to the Lacedemonians in Sparta. All the Peloponnesus, except the Isthmus of Corinth, is surrounded by sea, but the best shell-fish for the manufacture of purple...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Oetylus ...after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side...

Oetylus

78 22.3848,36.705058,0 Gythium ...For this reason the stone was named in the Dorian tongue Zeus Cappotas. Before Gythium lies the island Cranae, and Homer says that when Alexander had carried off...

Gythium

81 22.562341,36.763663,0 Lacedemon ...was inhabited before the Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus, but the Dorians of Lacedemon expelled the Achaean inhabitants and afterwards sent to it settlers of their...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Asopus ...is also in this district a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum. Two hundred stades...

Asopus

77 22.8426,36.6845,0 Boeae ...of the ship of Menelaus. After the peak there runs into the land the Gulf of Boeae, and the city of Boeae is at the head of the gulf. This was founded by Boeus...

Boeae

80 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Aphrodisias ...and he is said to have collected inhabitants for it from three cities, Etis, Aphrodisias and Side. Of the ancient cities two are said to have been founded by Aeneas...

Aphrodisias

79 Cythera ...voyage of forty stades from a promontory on the mainland called Onugnathus. In Cythera is a port Scandeia on the coast, but the town Cythera is about ten stades...

Cythera

81 22.97822,36.26229,0 Ilius ...the spring a gymnasium, which contains an ancient statue of Hermes. On Mount Ilius is a temple of Dionysus, and of Asclepius at the very summit. On Cnacadium is...

Ilius

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Achilleius ...of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius and Psamathus. On the promontory is a temple like a cave, with a statue of...

Achilleius

80 22.25,36.25,0 Pellana ...remained to be brought up in Pephnus, but that it was Hermes who took them to Pellana. In this little island there are bronze statues of the Dioscuri, a foot high...

Pellana

80 22.325267,37.207648,0 Messenians ...which is wonderful. Also the ants here have a whiter color than is usual. The Messenians say that this district was originally theirs, and so they think that the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Gerenia ...that he took refuge here, when Pylos was captured by Heracles. Here in Gerenia is a tomb of Machaon, son of Asclepius, and a holy sanctuary. In his temple men...

Gerenia

74 22.208656,36.927195,0 Alagonia ...contains objects which are worth seeing. Thirty stades inland from Gerenia is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free Laconians. Worth...

Alagonia

80 22.261205,36.955566,0 Thebans ...judges voting that the remnant of the garrison should be put to death. Now the Thebans like the Athenians refused, saying that they would give no help. When Agesilaus...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocis ...the land. So the Locrians brought in the Thebans as allies, and devastated Phocis. Going to Lacedemon the Phocians inveighed against the Thebans, and set forth...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Lacedemonians ...were sold into slavery by the Achaeans after they had conquered in battle the Lacedemonians under their king Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas. In Thornax, which you will...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...story is more probable than the Argive. Here, where the Fates are, the Lacedemonians also have a sanctuary of Hestia. There is also Zeus Hospitable and Athena...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...in Hermione that the Lacedemonians also began to worship Demeter Chthonia. The Spartans have also a sanctuary of Serapis, the newest sanctuary in the city, and one of...

Spartans

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicily ...Athenodorus, one of those who with Dorieus the son of Anaxandrides set out for Sicily. The reason of their setting out was that they held that the Erycine district...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Eryx ...not to the foreigners who held it. The story is that Heracles wrestled with Eryx on these terms: if Heracles won, the land of Eryx was to belong to him but if...

Eryx

78 12.5919,38.03528,0 Phigalia ...suppliant of Zeus Phyxius (God of Flight), and finally went to the wizards at Phigalia in Arcadia but he paid a fitting penalty to Cleonice and to the god. The...

Phigalia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Eleans ...held, sacrifice is offered to Zeus by private individuals and daily by the Eleans. Every year the soothsayers, keeping carefully to the nineteenth day of the...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Altis ...has been set up an altar of Pan. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis, and it has been built beside the exit beyond the gymnasium. In this gymnasium...

Altis

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...the hearth contributes a great deal to the size of the altar. Each month the Eleans sacrifice once on all the altars I have enumerated. They sacrifice in an...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...the replies of the god, and the names of the men who came to Ammon from Elis. These are in the temple of Ammon. The Eleans also pour libations to all...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...women were Elis, . . . The women from these cities made peace between Pisa and Elis. Later on they were entrusted with the management of the Heraean games, and...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Altis ...of winter. Aristarchus said further that they carried the corpse outside the Altis and buried him in the earth along with his armour. What the Eleans call the...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ionian ...that Apollonius was late because he had been picking up some money at the Ionian games. In these circumstances the Eleans shut out from the games Apollonius...

Ionian

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Elean ...were the real sinners. From this fine images were made. One is set up in the Elean gymnasium; the other is in the Altis in front of what is called the Painted...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Apollonia ...verses written in ancient characters under the feet of Zeus. "As memorials of Apollonia have we been dedicated, which on the Ionian Sea Phoebus founded, he of the...

Apollonia

80 19.470413,40.720583,0 Arcadians ...the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Hermion ...people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the...

Hermion

81 23.243591,37.385218,0 Naxians ...from the Aegean and the Cyclades there came not only the Tenians but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans...

Naxians

80 25.52001,37.127,0 Actium ...Corinth, were taken away by the Roman emperor to help to found Nicopolis near Actium. The Potidaeans twice suffered removal from their city, once at the hands of...

Actium

80 Argos ...foot-race. One of the articles of the treaty is to the effect that although Argos has no part in the treaty between Athens and Sparta, yet the Athenians and the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Hyblaeans ...an ancient Zeus holding a scepter which is said to be an offering of the Hyblaeans. There were two cities in Sicily called Hybla, one surnamed Gereatis and the...

Hyblaeans

75 14.90091,37.567342,0 Lacedemonians ...actually broke the spear by the movement of his legs. After the defeat of the Lacedemonians under Cleomenes, Philopoemen returned to the camp, where the surgeons pulled...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Milesian ...won a Pythian victory, was then singing the Persians, an ode of Timotheus the Milesian. When he had begun the song: "Who to Greece gives the great and glorious jewel...

Milesian

80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Aetolians ...an enemy who had been sent for this very purpose of assassination by the Aetolians. LI. At this time Philopoemen flung himself into Sparta and forced her to join...

Aetolians

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Lacedemonians ...worth more than a hundred talents. But he scorned the wealth, and bade the Lacedemonians court with gifts, not himself, but those who could persuade the many in the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...Nicator, and the Syrian army with him, Aristaenus of Megalopolis advised the Achaeans to approve the wishes of the Romans in all respects, and to oppose them in...

Achaeans

79 Arcadians ...against Messene. The Messenian populace at once went over to the side of the Arcadians, and those responsible for the death of Philopoemen were caught and punished...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Gortyna ...own free will to Crete, and that after them were named the cities Cydonia, Gortyna and Catreus. The Cretans dissent from the account of the Tegeans, saying that...

Gortyna

77 24.9469437222,35.0627201667,0 Tegeans ...Cydonia, Gortyna and Catreus. The Cretans dissent from the account of the Tegeans, saying that Cydon was a son of Hermes and of Acacallis, daughter of Minos...

Tegeans

76 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...Laodice, who was descended, as I have already said, from Agapenor, who led the Arcadians to Troy, and it was in Paphos that she dwelt. Not far from it are two...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lycaean ...as you go from Tegea to Laconia there is an altar of Pan, and likewise one of Lycaean Zeus. The foundations, too, of sanctuaries are still there. These altars are...

Lycaean

80 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Pythian ...the left for about a stade, you see a dilapidated sanctuary of Apollo surnamed Pythian which is utterly in ruins. Along the straight road there are many oaks, and in...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Plataea ...up, in a bullock wagon, and to say that he was celebrating his marriage with Plataea, the daughter of Asopus. So Zeus followed the advice of Cithaeron. Hera heard...

Plataea

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Daedala ...given him from the daedala. So the Plataeans hold the festival of the Daedala every six years, according to the local guide, but really at a shorter...

Daedala

73 28.976568,36.749409,0 Lebadeans ...the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for at the time when Cassander, the son of Antipater, rebuilt...

Lebadeans

80 22.87352,38.431063,0 Acropolis ...marble. In size it is but little smaller than the bronze Athena on the Acropolis, the one which the Athenians also erected as first-fruits of the battle at...

Acropolis

73 23.625,37.875,0 Thebes ...is the boundary between Thebes and Plataea. The first to occupy the land of Thebes are said to have been the Ectenes, whose king was Ogygus, an aboriginal. From...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...showed his friendship with Sparta, for he actually fought against the Athenians with his own ships, until he was taken prisoner by Attic men-of-war and brought...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rhodian ...King's fleet was then at Caunus, with Conon in command, who persuaded the Rhodian people to leave the Lacedemonian alliance and to join the great King and the...

Rhodian

76 28.15629,36.41451,0 Olympian ...family. Alcaenetus too, son of Theantus, a Leprean, himself and his sons won Olympian victories. Alcaenetus was successful in the boxing contest for men, as at an...

Olympian

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...Damarchus, an Arcadian of Parrhasia, I cannot believe (except, of course, his Olympic victory) what romancers say about him, how he changed his shape into that of a...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...Zeus, and how nine years after he became a man again. Nor do I think that the Arcadians either record this of him, otherwise it would have been recorded as well in the...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenians ...affair, and, on being taken prisoner on the Acropolis, was put to death by the Athenians for his sin against them. Theognetus of Aegina succeeded in winning the crown...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartan ...statue of Philles of Elis, who won the boys' wrestling-match, was made by the Spartan Cratinus. As regards the chariot of Gelon, I did not come to the same opinion...

Spartan

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...was the first of those who bred horses in Greece to dedicate his statue at Olympia. For the offering of Evagoras the Laconian consists of the chariot without a...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...in my story, how he beat Euthymus the boxer, and how he was fined by the Eleans. On this occasion the pancratium, it is said, was for the first time on record...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Isthmus ...the four-horse chariot, while the father of Theochrestus won a victory at the Isthmus. So declares the inscription on the chariot. The elegiac verses bear witness...

Isthmus

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Athenians ...and performed many remarkable deeds, as I have related in my account of the Athenians, had his statue dedicated by Thrasybulus of Elis. Beside Pyrrhus is a little...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aeginetan ...statue of the latter is by Pantias, that of the former is by Philotimus the Aeginetan. The two statues of Pythes, the son of Andromachus, a native of Abdera, were...

Aeginetan

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Olympia ...to the statue of Aristeides stands Menalces of Elis, Proclaimed victor at Olympia in the pentathlum, along with Philonides son of Zotes, who was a native of...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Clazomenian ...The Clazomenians dedicated a statue of Herodotus because he was the first Clazomenian to be proclaimed victor at Olympia, his victory being in the boys' foot-race...

Clazomenian

76 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Olympia ...dedicated a statue of Philinus because of his great renown, for he won at Olympia five victories in running, at Pytho four victories, at Nemea four, and at the...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phocis ...that Thucydides in his history mentions various cities of the Locrians near Phocis, and among them the Myonians. So the Myanians on the shield are in my opinion...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Sybaris ...Lupiae, situated between Brundusium and Hydrus, has changed its name, and was Sybaris in ancient times. The harbor is artificial, being a work of the emperor...

Sybaris

80 16.771002,39.590607,0 Cronius ...by the people of Gela. The images, however, are no longer there. Mount Cronius, as I have already said, extends parallel to the terrace with the treasuries on...

Cronius

74 Messenians ...the people of Pylos and Mothone maintained the coastal districts for them, the Messenians plundered both Laconia and their own territory, regarding it now as enemy...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Laconia ...maintained the coastal districts for them, the Messenians plundered both Laconia and their own territory, regarding it now as enemy country. The men taking part...

Laconia

75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenian ...tent, he made it clear to the Spartans that it was Aristomenes and no other Messenian who had done this. He also made the sacrifice called the Offering for the...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Laconia ...their dwellings outside the gates. The only deserter that came to them from Laconia was a herdsman, slave of Emperamus, bringing his master's cattle. Emperamus was...

Laconia

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...away to mount guard, garrison duty on the acropolis being undertaken by the Messenians in turn. For it was at this point that they were most afraid of the enemy...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...seer and Manticlus his son, and with them Euergetidas a man of high repute in Messenia who had attained to greater honor through his wife for he was wedded to...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...the slaughter of his foes, he breathed his last. But Aristomenes called the Messenians back from the fight, except those who by virtue of their courage were fighting...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...from the Great Trench formerly had not gone unrewarded on the part of the Lacedemonians and that he would receive an additional recompense for his information on the...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...king Zeus, and keep Arcadia safe. All the Messenians, who were captured about Eira or anywhere else in Messenia, were reduced by the Lacedemonians to serfdom. The...

Eira

81 21.927988,37.398271,0 Zanclaeans ...Crataemenes resolved to introduce other Greek settlers. Anaxilas defeated the Zanclaeans, when they put to sea to oppose him, and the Messenians did the like by land...

Zanclaeans

81 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Rhodes ...was by far the bravest of the Greeks of that age. Aristomenes, coming to Rhodes with his daughter, purposed to go up from there to Sardis to Ardys the son of...

Rhodes

75 28.15629,36.41451,0 Lacedemonians ...of the daughter of Aristomenes, lest it should seem to be irrelevant. Now the Lacedemonians, gaining possession of Messenia, divided it all among themselves, except the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Taenarum ...who had been condemned to death on some charge fled as suppliants to Taenarum but the board of ephors dragged them from the altar there and put them to...

Taenarum

71 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Ithome ...At this disaster all the serfs who were of Messenian origin seceded to Mount Ithome. Against them the Lacedemonians, amongst other allies, called to their...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Thessalian ...were given to Tros in exchange for him. This offering was dedicated by the Thessalian Gnathis and made by Aristocles, pupil and son of Cleoetas. There is also...

Thessalian

77 21.75,39.25,0 Rhegium ...Messenians on the Strait in accordance with an old custom used to send to Rhegium a chorus of thirty-five boys, and with it a trainer and a flautist, to a local...

Rhegium

76 15.649244,38.111146,0 Troad ...Italy, while the Phrygians came from the river Scamander and the land of the Troad. The Phoenicians and Libyans came to the island on a joint expedition, and are...

Troad

79 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Carthage ...and Libyans came to the island on a joint expedition, and are settlers from Carthage. Such are the foreign races in Sicily. The Greeks settled there include Dorians...

Carthage

78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Olympia ...the Eleans. Previously it stood at the end of the road that leads from Elis to Olympia, called the Sacred Road. There are also offerings dedicated by the whole...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phoenicians ...born before Zancle took its present name of Messene. The Thasians, who are Phoenicians by descent, and sailed from Tyre, and from Phoenicia generally, together with...

Phoenicians

78 35.25,33.25,0 Tyre ...of Messene. The Thasians, who are Phoenicians by descent, and sailed from Tyre, and from Phoenicia generally, together with Thasus, the son of Agenor, in...

Tyre

77 35.209358,33.268071,0 Megara ...foreign neighbors. Heracleia is a city built on the Euxine sea, a colony of Megara, though the people of Tanagra in Boeotia joined in the settlement. Opposite...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Eleans ...Arcadian of Maenalus, now of Syracuse. This is the horse in which is, say the Eleans, the hippomanes (what maddens horses). It is plain to all that the quality of...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Delphi ...and Lichas his son. Xenarces succeeded in winning other victories, at Delphi, at Argos and at Corinth. Lycinus brought foals to Olympia, and when one of...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messene ...at the festival celebrated by the Eleans in the year after the settlement of Messene, the foot-race for boys was won by this Damiscus, who afterwards won in the...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lepreans ...the pentathlum twice at the Isthmian games and twice at the Nemean. For the Lepreans are not afraid of the Isthmian games as the Eleans themselves are. For example...

Lepreans

78 21.724777,37.439599,0 Caulonia ...were destroyed, either by the Romans or by the Epeirots, and these included Caulonia, whose fate it was to be utterly laid waste, having been taken by the...

Caulonia

78 16.578476,38.445422,0 Olympia ...statue of Lysander, son of Aristocritus, a Spartan, was dedicated in Olympia by the Samians, and the first of their inscriptions runs: "In the much-seen...

Olympia

71 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenian ...Polycles, another sculptor of the Attic school, a pupil of Stadieus the Athenian, has made the statue of an Ephesian boy pancratiast, Amyntas the son of...

Athenian

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Patrae ...boy pancratiast, Amyntas the son of Hellanicus. Chilon, an Achaean of Patrae, won two prizes for men wrestlers at Olympia, one at Delphi, four at the...

Patrae

73 21.738518,38.243265,0 Thessaly ...to fight against the Macedonians under Antipater at the battle of Lamia in Thessaly. Next to Chilon two statues have been set up. One is that of a man named...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Aeolians ...from Assos in the Troad, a city at the foot of Ida, was the first of the Aeolians in this district to win at Olympia the foot-race for boys. By the side of...

Aeolians

76 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Sparta ...burial. I have spoken at greater length on this matter in my account of Sparta. Euanthes of Cyzicus won prizes for boxing, one among the men at Olympia, and...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...Ergoteles, the son of Philanor, won two victories in the long foot-race at Olympia, and two at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The inscription on the statue states...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thessaly ...Olympus, one side of which is turned towards Macedonia, and the other towards Thessaly and the river Peneius. Here on Mount Olympus Polydamas slew a lion, a huge and...

Thessaly

80 21.75,39.25,0 Temesa ...ghost of the stoned man never ceased killing without distinction the people of Temesa, attacking both old and young, until, when the inhabitants had resolved to flee...

Temesa

81 16.1315,39.03644,0 Heracleia ...with the Eleans for while the Eleans show a tomb of Endymion, the folk of Heracleia say that he retired to Mount Latmus and give him honor, there being a shrine of...

Heracleia

76 27.52707,37.49759,0 Latmus ...to Mount Latmus and give him honor, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmus. Epeius married Anaxiroe, the daughter of Coronus, and begat a daughter...

Latmus

74 27.58931,37.51644,0 Elis ...Heracles to cleanse for him the land from dung, either in return for a part of Elis or possibly for some other reward. Heracles accomplished this feat too...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Isthmian ...inscription giving the crowns he won and also the reason why he secured no Isthmian victory. The inscription sets forth the reason thus: "But from going to the...

Isthmian

77 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Pylus ...The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of Pylus were punished by Heracles, but his expedition against Pisa was stopped by an...

Pylus

76 Achaia ...son of Penthilus, son of Orestes. He brought Agorius himself from Helice in Achaia, and with him a small body of Achaeans. The wife of Oxylus they say was called...

Achaia

78 Pieria ...and with him a small body of Achaeans. The wife of Oxylus they say was called Pieria, but beyond this nothing more about her is recorded. Oxylus is said to have had...

Pieria

81 22.424792491340284,40.13002811595563,0 Arcadians ...and, although it might be questioned whether Samicum was called Arene, yet the Arcadians are agreed that of old the Anigrus was called the Minyeius. One might well hold...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Alpheius ...spring. Alpheius too was changed by his love into the river. This account of Alpheius . . . to Ortygia. But that the Alpheius passes through the sea and mingles his...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Pythian ...Hermes and beat Ares at boxing. It is for this reason, they say, that the Pythian flute-song is played while the competitors in the pentathlum are jumping; for...

Pythian

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dyme ...of Thessaly won the race for mule-carts, while Pataecus, an Achaean from Dyme, won the trotting-race. The trotting-race was for mares, and in the last part...

Dyme

75 21.551425,38.144625,0 Eleans ...after this the tenth umpire was added. At the hundred and third Festival, the Eleans having twelve tribes, one umpire was chosen from each. But they were hard...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Altis ...of the word "alsos," which means a grove. Pindar too calls the place Altis in an ode composed for an Olympic victor. The temple and the image were made...

Altis

71 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...are at Athens. On the outside of the frieze that runs round the temple at Olympia, above the columns, are gilt shields one and twenty in number, an offering made...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...to receive the burden of Atlas, and he cleanses the land from dung for the Eleans. Above the doors of the rear chamber he is taking the girdle from the Amazon...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Marathon ...was a brother of Pheidias; he also painted the picture of the battle of Marathon in the painted portico at Athens. On the uppermost parts of the throne...

Marathon

74 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Elean ...the goddess every year. The old woman who tends Sosipolis herself too by an Elean custom lives in chastity, bringing water for the god's bath and setting before...

Elean

78 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...of Phlius, who took part in the expedition of Heracles against Augeas and the Eleans, was killed along with his charger by Cteatus the son of Actor, and that man...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Harpina ...The city was founded, they say, by Oenomaus, who named it after his mother Harpina. A little farther on is a high mound of earth, the grave of the suitors of...

Harpina

77 21.674729,37.648791,0 Eleans ...brought of themselves disaster on their own heads by their hostility to the Eleans, and by their keenness to preside over the Olympic games instead of them. At...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...It was the fate of Pisa, and of all her allies, to be destroyed by the Eleans. Of Pylus in the land of' Elis the ruins are to be seen on the mountain road...

Eleans

73 21.25,37.75,0 Alpheius ...people of Letrini called the goddess Alpheian because of the love of Alpheius for her. But the Eleans, who from the first had been friends of Letrini...

Alpheius

71 21.451667,37.6125,0 Eleans ...and so in time the Alpheiaean goddess came to be named Elaphiaea. The Eleans, I think, called Artemis Elaphiaea from the hunting of the deer (elaphos). But...

Eleans

73 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...was the two hundred and seventeenth Festival. In this gymnasium is also the Elean Council House, where take place exhibitions of extempore speeches and...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...the land of the Hebrews, and of another at Pergamus. In the market-place of Elis I saw something else, a low structure in the form of a temple. It has no walls...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Pylians ...Greeks, it cannot be unnatural for the same poet to hold that Hades helped the Pylians. At any rate it was in the belief that the god was their friend but the enemy...

Pylians

81 Eleans ...name from a man of Arcadia. Homer does not mention Cyllene in the list of the Eleans, but in a later part of the poem he has shown that Cyllene was one of the towns...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Argos ...the Dorians. Archander and Architeles, sons of Achaeus, came from Phthiotis to Argos, and after their arrival became sons-in-law of Danaus, Architeles marrying...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemon ...son Metanastes (Settler). When the sons of Achaeus came to power in Argos and Lacedemon, the inhabitants of these towns came to be called Achaeans. The name Achaeans...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...for the sake of Ion and his achievements when he was commander-in-chief of the Athenians. Another account is that the Athenians suspected that the Dorians would not...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...to Sardinia. One generation before the Ionians set sail from Athens, the Lacedemonians and Minyans who had been expelled from Lemnos by the Pelasgians were led by the...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Calliste ...the son of Autesion, to the island now called after him, but formerly named Calliste. The third occasion was the expedition to which I have referred, when the sons...

Calliste

78 25.478129,36.36399,0 Ionians ...which I have referred, when the sons of Codrus were appointed leaders of the Ionians, although they were not related to them, but were, through Codrus and...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Miletus ...during the reigns of Anax, an aboriginal, and of Asterius his son; but when Miletus landed with an army of Cretans both the land and the city changed their name to...

Miletus

78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...except those who escaped at the capture of the city, but the wives of the Milesians and their daughters they married. The grave of Neileus is on the left of the...

Milesians

76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Naxos ...of Codrus. Afterwards Promethus killed his brother Damasichthon and fled to Naxos, where he died, but his body was carried home and received by the sons of...

Naxos

78 25.52001,37.127,0 Ionians ...the Carians, until they were driven out by Andraemon the son of Codrus and the Ionians. The grave of Andraemon is on the left of the road as you go from Colophon...

Ionians

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lycians ...was the founder of their city. Along with the Cretans there dwelt in the city Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians; Lycians because of their kinship with the Cretans, as...

Lycians

80 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Thrace ...and Trajan, dedicated by all the Greeks. This emperor subdued the Getae beyond Thrace, and made war on Osroes the descendant of Arsaces and on the Parthians. Of his...

Thrace

81 27.5,42.5,0 Altis ...Mantineans, that they would be their allies for a hundred years. Within the Altis there is also a sacred enclosure consecrated to Pelops, whom the Eleans as much...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elean ...of the white poplar, but of no other tree, being allowed. If anybody, whether Elean or stranger, eat of the meat of the victim sacrificed to Pelops, he may not...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Theban ...Zeus. There is also an altar at Didyma of the Milesians, which Heracles the Theban is said by the Milesians to have made from the blood of the victims. But in...

Theban

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Eleans ...Goddess. The descendants of Pheidias, called Cleansers, have received from the Eleans the privilege of cleaning the image of Zeus from the dirt that settles on it...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...aside their grievances, they chose a woman from each of the sixteen cities of Elis still inhabited at that time to settle their differences, this woman to be the...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Corinth ...of the cedar-wood itself. It was in this chest that Cypselus, the tyrant of Corinth, was hidden by his mother when the Bacchidae were anxious to discover him after...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Olympic ...of Iphitus has inscribed upon it the truce which the Eleans proclaim at the Olympic festivals; the inscription is not written in a straight line, but the letters...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...pentathletes; on the second image and likewise on the third are praises of the Eleans for their fining the competitors in the pentathlum. The fourth purports to say...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Delphi ...while that on the sixth commemorates the oracle given to the Athenians by Delphi. The images next to those I have enumerated are two in number, and they were...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cynaetha ...height, with a thunderbolt in either hand. It was dedicated by the people of Cynaetha. The figure of Zeus as a boy wearing the necklace is the votive offering of...

Cynaetha

79 22.1099,38.030042,0 Troy ...mountains. When the Greek fleet was scattered on the voyage home from Troy, Locrians from Thronium, a city on the river Boagrius, and Abantes from Euboea...

Troy

73 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lacedemonians ...pedestal are inscribed the cities which took part in the engagement: first the Lacedemonians, after them the Athenians, third the Corinthians, fourth the Sicyonians, fifth...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aeginetans ...them the Athenians, third the Corinthians, fourth the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the...

Aeginetans

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Tegea ...the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Orchomenus ...the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from...

Orchomenus

74 22.31536,37.724716,0 Phlius ...the Arcadians the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of...

Phlius

79 22.649131,37.846299,0 Chalcidians ...too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of these cities the following are at the present day...

Chalcidians

78 23.602,38.464,0 Egyptian ...and married her, violating herein Macedonian custom, but following that of his Egyptian subjects. Secondly he put to death his brother Argaeus, who was, it is said...

Egyptian

81 Greece ...example the Nemean lion, the lion of Parnassus, the serpents in many parts of Greece, and the boars of Calydon, Eryrmanthus and Crommyon in the land of Corinth, so...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Celts ...part of the sea navigated by man, near which dwell the Iberians and the Celts, and Ocean surrounds the island of Britain. But of the Aethiopians beyond...

Celts

74 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 city ...Pyrrhus himself reached Argos. Victorious once more he dashed into the city along with the fugitives, and his formation not unnaturally was broken...

city

73 Hyperboreans ...is a temple of Apollo. Hither they say are sent the first-fruits of the Hyperboreans, and the Hyperboreans are said to hand them over to the Arimaspi, the Arimaspi...

Hyperboreans

74 tomb ...Eleusis from Athens along what the Athenians call the Sacred Way you see the tomb of Anthemocritus. The Megarians committed against him a most wicked deed, for...

tomb

79 Hebrews ...various subjects. He never voluntarily entered upon a war, but he reduced the Hebrews beyond Syria, who had rebelled. As for the sanctuaries of the gods that in some...

Hebrews

80 rock of Athena the Gannet ...and died, and on the coast of the Megarid is his tomb, on the rock called the rock of Athena the Gannet. But his children expelled the Metionidae, and returned from banishment at...

rock of Athena the Gannet

80 Thebes ...for the second time, Amphion and Zethus gathered a force and came back to Thebes. Laius was secretly removed by such as were anxious that the race of Cadmus...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...built towers about it, for without towers they could not Dwell in wide-wayed Thebes, in spite of their strength." Homer, however, makes no mention in his poetry of...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Asopus ...live on the citadel, which they call Thebes and not Cadmeia. Across the Asopus, about ten stades distant from the city, are the ruins of Potniae, in which is...

Asopus

75 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Athenians ...heroic age. In the case of the war between the Eleusinians and the rest of the Athenians, and likewise in that between the Thebans and the Minyans, the attackers had...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cadmean ...was attended by severe losses to the Thebans, and from that time they term a Cadmean victory one that brings destruction to the victors. A few years afterwards...

Cadmean

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Stymphalian ...and include most of what are called the twelve labours. The slaughter of the Stymphalian birds and the cleansing of the land of Elis by Heracles are omitted; in their...

Stymphalian

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Lacedemonians ...Mantineans did not fight on the side of the other Arcadians against the Lacedemonians at Dipaea, but in the Peloponnesian war they rose with the Eleans against the...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...for a peace with them privately without reference to the rest of the Arcadian people. So through their fear of the Thebans they openly changed sides and...

Arcadian

71 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonian ...So through their fear of the Thebans they openly changed sides and joined the Lacedemonian confederacy, and when the battle took place at Mantineia between the...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Antigoneia ...and so the Mantineans, among other honors, changed the name of their city to Antigoneia. Afterwards, when Augustus was about to fight the naval engagement off the...

Antigoneia

79 20.22154,40.09008,0 Mantineia ...The third place for valor they give to Podares. There are roads leading from Mantineia into the rest of Arcadia, and I will go on to describe the most noteworthy...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...Athenians and Mantineans fought against the Boeotian horse. Epaminondas, the Mantineans say, was killed by Machaerion, a man of Mantineia. The Lacedemonians on their...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Sicily ...Athenians received an oracle from Dodona ordering them to colonize Sicily, and Sicily is a small hill not far from Athens. But they, not understanding the order...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Athens ...ordering them to colonize Sicily, and Sicily is a small hill not far from Athens. But they, not understanding the order, were persuaded to undertake expeditions...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Orchomenus ...of Maera, the daughter of Atlas. There still remains the road leading to Orchomenus, on which are Mount Anchisia and the tomb of Anchises at the foot of the...

Orchomenus

76 22.31536,37.724716,0 Pheneus ...receives the water from the plain. These chasms according to the people of Pheneus are artificial, being made by Heracles when he lived in Pheneus with Laonome...

Pheneus

78 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneus ...the people of Pheneus are artificial, being made by Heracles when he lived in Pheneus with Laonome, the mother of Amphitryo, who was, it is said, the son of Alcaeus...

Pheneus

80 22.30692,37.91045,0 Euboea ...of Helene. I think that a probable account is given by the antiquarians of Euboea, who say that the sea is named after a woman called Myrto. The people of...

Euboea

77 Pheneatians ...Rites, who for some reason or other beats with rods the Folk Underground. The Pheneatians have a story that even before Naus arrived the wanderings of Demeter brought...

Pheneatians

80 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pythian ...Aegeira, an Achaean city, after about fifteen stades you come to a temple of Pythian Apollo. I found there only its ruins, which include a large altar of white...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Achaia ...have had the same names as distinguished heroes. The borders of Pheneus and Achaia meet in more places than one; for towards Pellene the boundary is the river...

Achaia

79 Sipylus ...to swans for whiteness, I am acquainted with, as I have seen them on Mount Sipylus round the lake called the Lake of Tantalus. White wild boars and Thracian white...

Sipylus

77 27.45394,38.5668,0 Cleitor ...Achaeans. As you go from Pheneus to the west, the left road leads to the city Cleitor, while on the right is the road to Nonacris and the water of the Styx. Of old...

Cleitor

81 22.103248,37.892704,0 Styx ...of hateful Hades, He would never have escaped the sheer streams of' the river Styx." The water trickling down the cliff by the side of Nonacris falls first to a...

Styx

80 22.25,38.25,0 Cleitor ...of the Aroanian mountain belongs to Pheneus, but Lusi is on the borders of Cleitor. They say that Lusi was once a city, and Agesilas was proclaimed as a man of...

Cleitor

77 22.103248,37.892704,0 Cynaetheans ...who soothes) by the Cleitorians. There is a clan of the Arcadians, called the Cynaetheans, the same folk who dedicated the image of Zeus at Olympia with a thunderbolt in...

Cynaetheans

81 22.1099,38.030042,0 Arcadians ...they call the spring Alyssus (Curer of madness). So it would appear that the Arcadians have in the water near Pheneus, called the Styx, a thing made to be a mischief...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Ladon ...of the Ladon, but I cannot say for certain whether this is true or not. The Ladon is the most lovely river in Greece, and is also famous for the legend of Daphne...

Ladon

78 21.75,37.75,0 Stymphalian ...and reached Stymphalus. Originally they would be called by the Arabians, not Stymphalian, but by another name. But the fame of Heracles, and the superiority of the...

Stymphalian

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalian ...in our own day the following miracle is said to have occurred. The festival of Stymphalian Artemis at Stymphalus was carelessly celebrated, and its established ritual in...

Stymphalian

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Bolinaeus ...to mankind than great wealth. At some distance from Argyra is a river named Bolinaeus, and by it once stood a city Bolina. Apollo, says a legend, fell in love with a...

Bolinaeus

79 21.75,38.25,0 Sicyonia ...but that the argument was as much Greek as Phoenician for at Titane in Sicyonia the same image is called both Health and . . .43 thus clearly showing that it...

Sicyonia

73 22.71135,37.98336,0 Mycenaeans ...The rest of the population came to Ceryneia, and the addition of the Mycenaeans made Ceryneia more powerful, through the increase of the population, and more...

Mycenaeans

71 22.756111,37.730833,0 Hestiaea ...time there were still some who called Oreus in Euboea by its ancient name of Hestiaea. The sights of Aegeira worth recording include a sanctuary of Zeus with a...

Hestiaea

79 Sicyon ...by that of Pellene, which is the last city of Achaia in the direction of Sicyon and the Argolid. The city got its name, according to the account of the...

Sicyon

75 22.71135,37.98336,0 Plataea ...made it before he made the images of Athena on the Athenian acropolis and at Plataea. The people of Pellene also say that a shrine of Athena sinks deep into the...

Plataea

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Olympia ...and two at Nemea. The Pellenians made two statues of him, dedicating one at Olympia and one in the gymnasium; the latter is of stone, not bronze. It is said too...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sythas ...Where the territory of Pellene borders on that of Sicyon is a Pellenian river Sythas, the last of the Achaean rivers, which flows into the Sicyonian sea.

Sythas

80 22.62377,38.08036,0 Olympic ...by the whole Athenian people gathered together in a single city. The Olympic games I leave out of the present account, because they are traced back to a...

Olympic

72 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...Cronus and Zeus wrestled there, and that the Curetes were the first to race at Olympia. My view is that Lycaon was contemporary with Cecrops, the king of Athens, but...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Trapezus ...to both the town and the river so called, and similarly Macaria, Dasea, and Trapezus were named after the sons of Lycaon. Orchomenus became founder of both the town...

Trapezus

78 22.060685,37.456281,0 Stymphalus ...Aepytus Aleus came to the throne. For Agamedes and Gortys, the sons of Stymphalus, were three generations removed from Arcas, and Aleus, the son of Apheidas, two...

Stymphalus

73 22.45931,37.85932,0 Gortys ...the capital of his kingdom. Gortys the son of Stymphalus founded the city Gortys on a river which is also called after him. The sons of Aleus were Lycurgus...

Gortys

76 22.041,37.534,0 Lacedemonians ...Athens and in crossing over to Asia with Agesilaus; they also followed the Lacedemonians to Leuctra in Boeotia. Their distrust of the Lacedemonians was shown on many...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...Thebans. Though they did not fight on the Greek side against Philip and the Macedonians at Chaeroneia, nor later in Thessaly against Antipater, yet they did not...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Thebes ...of her glory, And holy Messene received at last her children. By the arms of Thebes was Megalopolis encircled with walls, And all Greece won independence and...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...it on Antiope's tomb, the land of Tithorea will yield a harvest, but that of Thebes be less fertile. For this reason the Thebans at that time keep watch over the...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...observed at them I have never seen, but I regard it as credible. For the Thebans say that among those called heroes to whom they offer sacrifice are the...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Euripus ...of autumn, and these remain fresh throughout all the year. At this place the Euripus separates Euboea from Boeotia. On the right is the sanctuary of Mycalessian...

Euripus

80 23.58944,38.46276,0 Olympia ...the Gymnasium of Iolaus and also a race-course, a bank of earth like those at Olympia and Epidaurus. Here there is also shown a hero-shrine of Iolaus. That Iolaus...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Larymna ...come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the coast, said to have been named after Larymna, the daughter of Cynus. Her earlier ancestors I shall give in my account of...

Larymna

79 23.288,38.566,0 Opus ...ancestors I shall give in my account of Locris. Of old Larymna belonged to Opus, but when Thebes rose to great power the citizens of their own accord joined...

Opus

77 22.999964,38.653678,0 Hyettus ...right from their foundation to the present day have been villages. In my view Hyettus, as well as the Athamantian plain, belongs to the district of Orchomenus. All...

Hyettus

80 23.103304,38.55756,0 Cyrtones ...stone after the ancient fashion. About twenty stades away from Hyettus is Cyrtones. The ancient name of the town was, they say, Cyrtone. It is built on a high...

Cyrtones

77 23.044957,38.585688,0 Halae ...sea. On the right of the river the last of the Boeotians in this part dwell in Halae-on-Sea, which separates the Locrian mainland from Euboea. Very near to the...

Halae

81 23.1896,38.6583,0 Asopus ...built at the foot of Mount Helicon. They say that Thespia was a daughter of Asopus, who gave her name to the city, while others say that Thespius, who was...

Asopus

78 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Idaean ...of Heracles the son of Amphitryon, and to belong to Heracles called one of the Idaean Dactyls, to whom I found the people of Erythrae in Ionia and of Tyre possessed...

Idaean

81 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Thespiae ...Pierus, a Macedonian, after whom the mountain in Macedonia was named, came to Thespiae and established nine Muses, changing their names to the present ones. Pierus...

Thespiae

80 23.154521,38.293384,0 Nemea ...by his horses, when Acastus held his contests in honor of his father. At Nemea of the Argives there was no hero who harmed the horses, but above the...

Nemea

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Pisa ...there were no remains, but vines were planted over all the district where Pisa stood. The founder of the city, they say, was Pisus, the son of Perieres, the...

Pisa

76 21.653041,37.639535,0 Pylus ...Olympia to Elis, the distance between Elis and Pylus being eighty stades. This Pylus was founded, as I have already said, by a Megarian called Pylon, the son of...

Pylus

81 Megarian ...being eighty stades. This Pylus was founded, as I have already said, by a Megarian called Pylon, the son of Cleson. Destroyed by Heracles and refounded by the...

Megarian

76 15.18273,37.2038,0 Arcadia ...of things be crossed by the Alpheius, and, moreover, we know of no city in Arcadia named Pylus. Distant from Olympia about fifty stades is Heracleia, a village...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Letrini ...of Alpheius for her. But the Eleans, who from the first had been friends of Letrini, transferred to that city the worship of Artemis Elaphiaea established amongst...

Letrini

78 21.431292,37.672865,0 Athenians ...to be exactly the same as that of Averter of Evil, the name current among the Athenians. In another part are the stone images of the sun and of the moon; from the head...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argos ...as soon as I have explained the reason why the inhabitants of Lacedemon and Argos were the only Peloponnesians to be called Achaeans before the return of the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thermodon ...campaign against Athens and Theseus. It is a fact that the women from the Thermodon, as they knew the sanctuary from of old, sacrificed to the Ephesian goddess...

Thermodon

76 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Cayster ...an aboriginal, and Ephesus, who is thought to have been a son of the river Cayster, and from Ephesus the city received its name. The inhabitants of the land were...

Cayster

77 27.4412386,38.0304732,0 Crete ...Teians as fellow-settlers. The Erythraeans say that they came originally from Crete with Erythrus the son of Rhadamanthus, and that this Erythrus was the founder...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Leleges ...that Astypalaea had by Poseidon a son Ancaeus, who reigned over those called Leleges; that Ancaeus took to wife Samia, the daughter of the river Maeander, and begat...

Leleges

79 26.75,39.75,0 Erythraeans ...(Middle) which is on the mainland, just midway between the harbor of the Erythraeans and the island of Chios. When the raft rested off the cape the Erythraeans made...

Erythraeans

75 26.48103,38.38122,0 Ceryneia ...Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of...

Ceryneia

79 22.143425,38.158659,0 Lamia ...that the wrestler Chilon was the only Achaean who took part in the action at Lamia. I myself know that Adrastus, a Lydian, helped the Greeks as a private...

Lamia

79 22.43516,38.9046,0 Dyme ...the son of Cleonymus, king of the other royal house, won a decisive victory at Dyme over the Sicyonians under Aratus, who attacked him, and afterwards concluded a...

Dyme

81 21.551425,38.144625,0 Achaeans ...who had been placed in command of the garrison by Antigonus. Hereafter the Achaeans were called allies of the Romans, and in all respects right zealous allies they...

Achaeans

77 Achaeans ...extreme ferocity, the affairs of Lacedemon at once caught the attention of the Achaeans. At this time the Achaeans brought the Lacedemonians into the Achaean...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...of Lacedemon at once caught the attention of the Achaeans. At this time the Achaeans brought the Lacedemonians into the Achaean confederacy, exacted from them the...

Achaeans

79 Lacedemonians ...accusations still against the Achaeans were made by Areus and Alcibiadas, Lacedemonians of great distinction at Sparta but ungrateful to the Achaeans. For the Achaeans...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...Philopoemen had given him something of his spirit, set forth the case for the Achaeans in a speech suggesting that the Romans were somewhat to blame. But Appius and...

Achaeans

80 Lacedemonians ...His name was Gallus, and his instructions were to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Argives in the case of a disputed piece of territory. This Gallus on...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...a fine of five hundred talents, which the Roman senate on the appeal of the Athenians remitted with the exception of one hundred talents. Not even this reduced fine...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...more ambitious hopes, using to deceive them the following pretext. The Lacedemonians appealed to the Roman senate about a disputed territory, and the senate replied...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...in command of the Achaeans, declared that he would march to make war, not on Sparta but on those that were troubling her. When the Spartan senate inquired how...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argolid ...its time under the sun nothing remains but the wall. The case of Tiryns in the Argolid is the same. These places have been reduced by heaven to nothing. But the city...

Argolid

81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Areopagus ...Furies did to Orestes in Arcadia took place before the trial at the Areopagus; that his accuser was not Tyndareus, who no longer lived, but Perilaus, who...

Areopagus

70 Carnion ...At this point the river Gatheatas falls into the Alpheius, and before this the Carnion flows into the Gatheatas. The source of the Carnion is in Aegytian territory...

Carnion

81 22.25,37.25,0 Thebans ...This account struck me as improbable on various grounds, chiefly because the Thebans, I think, would never have allowed the Arcadians to suffer even this loss, if...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thyraeum ...a temple of Demeter and Artemis. There are also other ruins of cities: of Thyraeum, fifteen stades from Paroria, and of Hypsus, lying above the plain on a...

Thyraeum

76 22.127148,37.513321,0 Peraethenses ...intermittent stream, after an advance of some twenty stades you reach ruins of Peraethenses, among which is a sanctuary of Pan. If you cross the torrent and go straight on...

Peraethenses

81 22.243152,37.442734,0 Argives ...Argives acted similarly in the case of Creugas, a boxer of Epidamnus. For the Argives too gave to Creugas after his death the crown in the Nemean games, because his...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...and tore them as he pulled them out. Creugas expired on the spot, and the Argives expelled Damoxenus for breaking his agreement by dealing his opponent many...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thelpusa ...to Demeter surnamed Black. The Phigalians accept the account of the people of Thelpusa about the mating of Poseidon and Demeter, but they assert that Demeter gave...

Thelpusa

80 21.87884,37.710489,0 Cos ...of Genunia, a Roman dependency. The cities of Lycia and of Caria, along with Cos and Rhodes, were overthrown by a violent earthquake that smote them. These...

Cos

79 27.257012,36.875681,0 Eurotas ...of the Gods without a roof, and two lions made of stone. The waters of the Eurotas mingle with the Alpheius, and the united streams flow on for some twenty...

Eurotas

78 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Calydonian ...own to fame. Ancaeus, the son of Lycurgus, though wounded, stood up to the Calydonian boar, which Atalanta shot at, being the first to hit the beast. For this feat...

Calydonian

77 21.533106,38.372423,0 Nemea ...the crown is of bay I shall make plain later. At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Elatus ...On this is carved Polybius, the son of Lycortas, while on another slab is Elatus, one of the sons of Arcas. Not far from the market-place is a theater, and...

Elatus

76 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Acarnanians ...of the Achelous he settled there, and took to wife Callirhoe, said by the Acarnanians to have been the daughter of Achelous. He had two sons, Acarnan and Amphoterus...

Acarnanians

76 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Thelpusian ...Now Oncius was, according to tradition, a son of Apollo, and held sway in Thelpusian territory around the place Onceium; the goddess has the surname Fury for the...

Thelpusian

76 22.994538,38.371064,0 Ladon ...being wrathful "being furious," and Bather (Lusia) because she bathed in the Ladon. The images in the temple are of wood, but their faces, hands and feet are of...

Ladon

79 21.75,37.75,0 Thelpusa ...of Asclepius. For the story is that Asclepius, when little, was exposed in Thelpusa, but was found by Autolaus, the illegitimate son of Arcas, who reared the baby...

Thelpusa

77 21.87884,37.710489,0 Thelpusa ...is a river Tuthoa, and it falls into the Ladon at the boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians. Where the Ladon itself falls into...

Thelpusa

73 21.87884,37.710489,0 Heraea ...river Tuthoa, and it falls into the Ladon at the boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians. Where the Ladon itself falls into the Alpheius...

Heraea

81 21.863791,37.613569,0 Enispe ...Alpheius is an island called the Island of Crows. Those who have thought that Enispe, Stratia and Rhipe, mentioned by Homer, were once inhabited islands in the...

Enispe

80 Alpheius ...into Megalopolis. As you go to this town from Heraea you will cross the Alpheius, and after going over a plain of just about ten stades you will reach a...

Alpheius

74 21.451667,37.6125,0 Argives ...domination. The Arcadians united into it to gain strength, realizing that the Argives also were in earlier times in almost daily danger of being subjected by war to...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Asea ...fact that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of...

Asea

80 22.283,37.405,0 Aliphera ...Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium, Teuthis. These were...

Aliphera

80 21.864,37.532,0 Arcadians ...were joined by Tripolis, as it is called, Callia, Dipoena, Nonacris. The Arcadians for the most part obeyed the general resolution and assembled promptly at...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phigalian ...a short time a tyrant arose at Megalopolis in the person of Aristodemus, a Phigalian by birth and a son of Artylas, who had been adopted by Tritaeus, an influential...

Phigalian

77 21.8391,37.3963,0 Megalopolis ...although by this time his power was securely established. At this time Megalopolis was already a member of the Achaean League, and Lydiades became so famous among...

Megalopolis

73 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...forces under Agis, the son of Eudamidas, the king of the other house, attacked Megalopolis with larger and stronger forces than those collected by Acrotatus. They...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...forces than those collected by Acrotatus. They overcame in battle the men of Megalopolis, who came out against them, and bringing up a powerful engine against the wall...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Achaeans ...the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. They delivered their instructions to the Achaeans under Damocritus when these had already begun a campaign against Lacedemon, and...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...had already begun a campaign against Lacedemon, and so, realizing that the Achaeans were set against their advice, proceeded on their way to Asia. The...

Achaeans

77 Achaeans ...the Lacedemonians. He induced the towns around Sparta to be friendly to the Achaeans, and even introduced garrisons into them, to be Achaean bases against...

Achaeans

78 Achaeans ...being deceived, they departed for Rome but Critolaus summoned a meeting of the Achaeans at Corinth, and persuaded them both to take up arms against Sparta and also to...

Achaeans

81 Chaeroneia ...very spot on which they had deserted from the Greeks who were struggling at Chaeroneia against the Macedonians under Philip. Diaeus once more came forward to command...

Chaeroneia

78 22.840365,38.493361,0 Achaia ...sank into utter folly. Although he knew that Critolaus and the whole force of Achaia had put up such a poor fight against Metellus, he nevertheless detached about...

Achaia

80 Thebans ...near Chaeroneia, Metellus moved his army and marched against Thebes, for the Thebans had joined the Achaeans in investing Heracleia, and had taken part in the...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Corinth ...his men did not face it, but straightway fled to the camp of the Achaeans at Corinth. The Megarians surrendered their city to the Romans without a blow, and when...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Isthmus ...their city to the Romans without a blow, and when Metellus came to the Isthmus he again made overtures to the Achaeans for an agreed peace. For he was...

Isthmus

73 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Corinth ...of his death. As soon as night fell, the Achaeans who had escaped to Corinth after the battle fled from the city, and there fled with them most of the...

Corinth

72 22.878721,37.906045,0 Phocians ...in a foreign country. Racial confederacies, whether of Achaeans, or Phocians, or Boeotians, or of any other Greek people, were one and all put down. A few...

Phocians

70 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotia ...From Macedonia the wrath of Alexander swooped like a thunderbolt on Thebes of Boeotia. The Lacedemonians suffered injury through Epaminondas of Thebes and again...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Achaeans ...injury through Epaminondas of Thebes and again through the war with the Achaeans. And when painfully, like a shoot from a mutilated and mostly withered trunk...

Achaeans

74 Aetolians ...the spoils taken when alone of the Achaeans the people of Patrae helped the Aetolians against the army of the Gauls. The Music Hall is in every way the finest in...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Lacedemon ...of Artemis, the Lady of the Lake. When the Dorians were now in possession of Lacedemon and Argos, it is said that Preugenes, in obedience to a dream, stole from...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Acarnanian ...For the inhabitants of this part of the mainland, the Aetolians and their Acarnanian and Epeirot neighbors, considered that the truest oracles were the doves and...

Acarnanian

76 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Achelous ...who composed an epic poem on Heracles, says that Castalia was a daughter of Achelous. For about Heracles he says: "Crossing with swift feet snowy Parnassus he...

Achelous

78 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Cephisus ...of the Lilaeans, who on certain specified days throw into the spring of the Cephisus cakes of the district and other things ordained by use, and it is said that...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Lacedemon ...this Triphylus was not Erato, but Laodameia, the daughter of Amyclas, king of Lacedemon. There is also a statue dedicated of Erasus, son of Triphylus. They who made...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...offerings were sent by the Tegeans to Delphi after they took prisoners the Lacedemonians that attacked their city. 15 Opposite these are offerings of the Lacedemonians...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cleitor ...the Apollo and Zeus by Athenodorus. The last two artists were Arcadians from Cleitor. Behind the offerings enumerated are statues of those who, whether Spartans or...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Tarentines ...back still to Perseus. The bronze horses and captive women dedicated by the Tarentines were made from spoils taken from the Messapians, a non-Greek people bordering...

Tarentines

79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Pachynum ...in his history of Sicily. He says also that they built a city on Cape Pachynum in Sicily, but were hard pressed in a war with the Elymi and Phoenicians, and...

Pachynum

72 15.25,36.75,0 Athenians ...bronze shields. The inscription on them enumerates the cities from which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Leucas ...first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that from the spoils taken in these...

Leucas

78 20.64944,38.70819,0 Thessalians ...and Artemis were dedicated by the Phocians from the spoils taken from the Thessalians, their enemies always, who are their neighbors except where the Epicnemidian...

Thessalians

76 21.75,39.25,0 Thessalians ...offering of the Phocians, dedicated when Tellias of Elis led them against the Thessalians. Athena and Artemis were made by Chionis, the other images are works shared by...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Tiryns ...of the temple. Then the prophetess said: "Then there was another Heracles, of Tiryns, not the Canopian." For before this the Egyptian Heracles had visited Delphi...

Tiryns

80 22.80004,37.59918,0 Plataea ...tripod. The Greeks in common dedicated from the spoils taken at the battle of Plataea a gold tripod set on a bronze serpent. The bronze part of the offering is still...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Delphi ...the gold as they did the bronze. The Tarentines sent yet another tithe to Delphi from spoils taken from the Peucetii, a non-Greek people. The offerings are the...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tarrha ...and that Apollo mated with Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha. The Euboeans of Carystus too set up in the sanctuary of Apollo a bronze ox...

Tarrha

79 23.960195,35.233106,0 Euboeans ...mated with Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha. The Euboeans of Carystus too set up in the sanctuary of Apollo a bronze ox, from spoils...

Euboeans

76 Sardinians ...there they took up their abode, confining themselves to the highlands. The Sardinians, however, call them by the name of Corsicans, which they brought with them from...

Sardinians

77 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Argolis ...in the night and overcame the Molossians in battle. The men of Orneae in Argolis, when hard pressed in war by the Sicyonians, vowed to Apollo that, if they...

Argolis

76 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Massiliots ...Delphi a bronze lion. The Apollo, very near to the lion, was dedicated by the Massiliots as firstfruits of their naval victory over the Carthaginians. The Aetolians...

Massiliots

80 5.365307,43.299467,0 Pelion ...to dive. When the fleet of Xerxes was attacked by a violent storm off Mount Pelion, father and daughter completed its destruction by dragging away under the sea...

Pelion

79 23.0465058,39.43722,0 Methymna ...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...

Methymna

80 26.489422,39.05495,0 Macedonia ...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...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Phlius ...from the other cities in Arcadia one thousand; from Mycenae eighty; from Phlius two hundred, and from Corinth twice this number; of the Boeotians there...

Phlius

75 22.649131,37.846299,0 Marathon ...very near to the truth. For not more than nine thousand Athenians marched to Marathon, even if we include those who were too old for active service and slaves; so...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Creusis ...and at the same time violent gales blow down from the mountains. Sailing from Creusis, not out to sea, but along Boeotia, you reach on the right a city called...

Creusis

81 23.110281,38.20809,0 Boeotians ...Higher up is a Heracles surnamed Charops (With bright eyes). Here, say the Boeotians, Heracles ascended with the hound of Hades. On the way down from Mount...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Cephisian ...to the sanctuary of Itonian Athena is the river Phalarus, which runs into the Cephisian lake. Over against Mount Laphystius is Orchomenus, as famous a city as any in...

Cephisian

80 23.625,38.125,0 Orchomenus ...which runs into the Cephisian lake. Over against Mount Laphystius is Orchomenus, as famous a city as any in Greece. Once raised to the greatest heights of...

Orchomenus

72 22.959486,38.495082,0 Thebes ...year for the murder of Clymenus. But when Heracles had grown to manhood in Thebes, the Thebans were thus relieved of the tribute, and the Minyans suffered a...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Orchomenians ...Greece When men are judged by the touchstone of artistry. About Actaeon the Orchomenians had the following story. A ghost, they say, carrying a rock was ravaging the...

Orchomenians

79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Lebadeia ...the drought, and were bidden by the Pythian priestess to go to Trophonius at Lebadeia and to discover the remedy from him. Coming to Lebadeia they could not find...

Lebadeia

79 22.87352,38.431063,0 Chaeroneia ...was not favoured by appropriate good fortune. Of the gods, the people of Chaeroneia honor most the scepter which Homer says Hephaestus made for Zeus, Hermes...

Chaeroneia

76 22.840365,38.493361,0 Phocis ...related in my history of Arcadia),43 but it was carried off by the tyrants of Phocis. However, I do not think that it is in the sanctuary of Adonis at Amathus. For...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Thessalians ...by the whole nation. They took part in the Trojan war, and fought against the Thessalians before the Persian invasion of Greece, when they accomplished some noteworthy...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Elis ...Ambrossus. But the office of commander-in-chief was held by Tellias, a seer of Elis, upon whom rested all the Phocians' hopes of salvation. When the battle...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Phocians ...victory of that time. Then did all Greece understand the oracle given to the Phocians by Apollo. For the watchword given in battle on every occasion by the...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...Phocus, from whom the Phocians were named. Because of this engagement the Phocians sent as offerings to Delphi statues of Apollo, of Tellias the seer, and of all...

Phocians

76 22.25,38.25,0 Crete ...to his own use the sacred treasures, was deposed, and crossing with a fleet to Crete, accompanied by such Phocians as sided with him and by a part of his...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Thebans ...by their want of funds at the period of restoration. It was the Athenians and Thebans who brought back the inhabitants before the disaster of Chaeroneia befell the...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocians ...the Phocians. From Chaeroneia it is twenty stades to Panopeus, a city of the Phocians, if one can give the name of city to those who possess no government offices...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Orchomenus ...Phocians, but were originally Phlegyans who fled to Phocis from the land of Orchomenus. A survey of the ancient circuit of Panopeus led me to guess it to be about...

Orchomenus

78 22.959486,38.495082,0 Euboea ...is also said that he was a violent son of Crius, a man with authority around Euboea. He pillaged the sanctuary of the god, and he also pillaged the houses of rich...

Euboea

79 Delphians ...the houses of rich men. But when he was making a second expedition, the Delphians besought Apollo to keep from them the danger that threatened them. Phemonoe...

Delphians

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian ...as in fact they were. The reason why a crown of laurel is the prize for a Pythian victory is in my opinion simply and solely because the prevailing tradition has...

Pythian

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Callians ...and hastened to Aetolia, being exasperated at the sufferings of the Callians, and still more fired with determination to save the cities not yet captured...

Callians

70 22.171569,38.553535,0 Phocians ...to the Greeks the panic that had seized the barbarians in the night. The Phocians were thus encouraged to attack the Celts with yet greater spirit, keeping a...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Ionia ...of men, inscribed by those whom the Greeks say were sages. These were: from Ionia, Thales of Miletus and Bias of Priene; of the Aeolians in Lesbos, Pittacus of...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Delphi ...way from Delphi to the summit of Parnassus, about sixty stades distant from Delphi, there is a bronze image. The ascent to the Corycian cave is easier for an...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Corycian ...sixty stades distant from Delphi, there is a bronze image. The ascent to the Corycian cave is easier for an active walker than it is for mules or horses. I mentioned...

Corycian

79 22.52073,38.51526,0 Parnassus ...about one hundred and eighty stades distant from Delphi on the road across Parnassus. This road is not mountainous throughout, being fit even for vehicles, but was...

Parnassus

77 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Tithoreans ...enter their shrines they send visions seen in dreams. In the country of the Tithoreans a festival in honor of Isis is held twice each year, one in spring and the...

Tithoreans

79 22.66931,38.58344,0 Phoenician ...and water their fields is the tears of Isis. At that time then, so said my Phoenician, the Roman governor of Egypt bribed a man to go down into the shrine of Isis in...

Phoenician

77 35.25,33.25,0 Ledon ...the Emperor. Another road from Tithorea is the one that leads to Ledon. Once Ledon also was considered a city, but in my day the Ledontians owing to their...

Ledon

80 22.680539,38.654801,0 Macedonians ...the garrison those of the citizens who were of military age, conquered the Macedonians in battle, and forced them to withdraw under a truce. In return for this good...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Pentelic ...Artemis. the images are standing, of Attic workmanship, and of marble from the Pentelic quarries. They say that Lilaea was one of the Naids, as they are called, a...

Pentelic

81 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Lilaea ...of Parapotamii left, nor is the site of the city remembered. The road from Lilaea to Amphicleia is sixty stades. The name of this Amphicleia has been corrupted...

Lilaea

78 22.50592,38.62687,0 Elatus ...For they say that when the Phlegyans marched against the sanctuary at Delphi, Elatus, the son of Arcas, came to the assistance of the god, and with his army stayed...

Elatus

80 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Phocis ...Arcas, came to the assistance of the god, and with his army stayed behind in Phocis, becoming the founder of Elateia. Elateia must be numbered among the cities of...

Phocis

79 22.25,38.25,0 Abae ...and here too there was an oracle of that god. The treatment that the god at Abae received at the hands of the Persians was very different from the honor paid...

Abae

79 22.9154,38.58006,0 Stiris ...the parish of Stiria, the city received the name of Stiris. The people of Stiris have their dwellings on a high and rocky site. For this reason they suffer from...

Stiris

77 22.757,38.385,0 Ambrossus ...on the side opposite to Delphi. They say that the city was named after Ambrossus, a hero. On going to war with Philip and his Macedonians the Thebans drew round...

Ambrossus

73 22.66763,38.42845,0 Macedonian ...and yet once more by the Roman Otilius, because they were subjects of the Macedonian king Philip, son of Demetrius. Otilius had been despatched from Rome to help...

Macedonian

76 21.75,41.25,0 Boulis ...are said of Philomelus and the Phocians . . . the general assembly. To Boulis from Thisbe in Boeotia is a journey of eighty stades; but I do not know if in...

Boulis

73 22.802911,38.276455,0 Pythian ...sixty stades. Descending to the plain you come to a race-course, where at the Pythian games the horses compete. I have told in my account of Elis the story of the...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...where at the Pythian games the horses compete. I have told in my account of Elis the story of the Taraxippus at Olympia, and it is likely that the race-course...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Ozolian ...she is not so large as the other images. The territory of the Locrians called Ozolian adjoins Phocis opposite Cirrha. I have heard various stories about the surname...

Ozolian

81 21.75,38.25,0 Amphissians ...image is older, and of rougher workmanship, than the Athena in Amphissa. The Amphissians also celebrate mysteries in honor of the Boy Kings, as they are called. Their...

Amphissians

79 24.009397,37.709125,0 Locrians ...place its name. My account of Naupactus, how the Athenians took it from the Locrians and gave it as a home to those who seceded to Ithome at the time of the...

Locrians

78 21.75,38.25,0 Messenians ...after the Athenian disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians expelled the Messenians from Naupactus, all this I have fully related in my history of Messenia. When...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thesprotia ...Elephenor in Euboea, but he was aware that Theseus, if ever he returned from Thesprotia, would be a doughty antagonist, and so curried favour with his subjects that...

Thesprotia

79 20.25,39.75,0 Rhodes ...one worth seeing, which in size exceeds all other statues save the colossi at Rhodes and Rome, and is made of ivory and gold with an artistic skill which is...

Rhodes

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Pentelic ...bank. This was built by Herodes, an Athenian, and the greater part of the Pentelic quarry was exhausted in its construction. Leading from the prytaneum is a road...

Pentelic

76 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Troezen ...and his sons rebelled against Theseus. After putting them to death he went to Troezen for purification, and Phaedra first saw Hippolytus there. Falling in love with...

Troezen

80 Nemea ...Alcibiades, and in the picture are emblems of the victory his horses won at Nemea. There is also Perseus journeying to Seriphos, and carrying to Polydectes the...

Nemea

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Athenians ...between Aeneas and Diomedes with his Argives. One of the many ambitions of the Athenians was to reduce all Italy, but the disaster at Syracuse prevented their trying...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...mysteries, fled, they say, from Argos because of the enmity of Agenor, came to Attica and married a woman of Eleusis, by whom he had two children, Eubuleus and...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...him before the fortieth year, and afterwards he wrote verses and purified Athens and other cities. But Thales who stayed the plague for the Lacedemonians was...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mycalessians ...escaped just before the capture; so if the foreigners had not exterminated the Mycalessians the survivors would have afterwards reoccupied the town. I was greatly...

Mycalessians

81 23.545847,38.415804,0 Phocians ...Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the Aetolian League...

Phocians

73 22.25,38.25,0 Eleusinians ...and again, when the Macedonians were raiding Eleusis he collected a force of Eleusinians and defeated the invaders. Still earlier than this, when Cassander had invaded...

Eleusinians

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athenians ...when his end drew near he left the kingdom of Egypt to Ptolemy (from whom the Athenians name their tribe) being the son of Berenice and not of the daughter of...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonian ...here an account of Attalus, because he too is one of the Athenian eponymoi. A Macedonian of the name of Docimus, a general of Antigonus, who afterwards surrendered both...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Colophon ...living, otherwise he too would certainly have been moved by the taking of Colophon to write a dirge. Lysimachus also went to war with Pyrrhus, son of Aeacides...

Colophon

76 27.142222,38.115556,0 Macedon ...Cassander and his sons, friendly relations continued between Lysimachus and Macedon. But when the kingdom devolved upon Demetrius, son of Antigonus, Lysimachus...

Macedon

78 21.75,41.25,0 Teuthrania ...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...

Teuthrania

79 27.054771,39.035223,0 Larisa ...Danaus and reach a place of safety. She also, they say, lighted a beacon on Larisa as a sign that she too was now out of danger. For this reason the Argives hold...

Larisa

78 Argos ...afterwards the Argives removed all its citizens, who thereupon came to live at Argos. At Orneae are a sanctuary and an upright wooden image of Artemis; there is...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...Zeus and Hera. When rain is needed they sacrifice to them here. At Lessa the Argive territory joins that of Epidaurus. But before you reach Epidaurus itself you...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidaurians ...the land is especially sacred to Asclepius is due to the following reason. The Epidaurians say that Phlegyas came to the Peloponnesus, ostensibly to see the land, but...

Epidaurians

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Delphi ...the daughter of Leucippus. For when Apollophanes the Arcadian, came to Delphi and asked the god if Asclepius was the son of Arsinoe and therefore a...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...rule. The image of Asclepius is, in size, half as big as the Olympian Zeus at Athens, and is made of ivory and gold. An inscription tells us that the artist was...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thyrea ...when the island was depopulated by the Athenians, they took up their abode at Thyrea, in Argolis, which the Lacedemonians gave them to dwell in. They recovered...

Thyrea

80 Aphaea ...towards the mountain of Zeus, God of all the Greeks, you reach a sanctuary of Aphaea, in whose honor Pindar composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the...

Aphaea

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Pytho ...of Aphaea is Cretan) that Carmanor, who purified Apollo alter he had killed Pytho, was the father of Lubulus, and that the daughter of Zeus and of Carme, the...

Pytho

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Troezen ...of the temple, called the Sacred Stone, they say is that on which nine men of Troezen once purified Orestes from the stain of matricide. Not far from Artemis Lycea...

Troezen

80 Troezen ...is their mother-city, but the image of Isis was dedicated by the people of Troezen. On the road that leads through the mountains to Hermione is a spring of the...

Troezen

77 Pityussa ...Island). This provides a harbor where there is good anchorage. After it comes Pityussa (Pine Island), and the third they call Aristerae. On sailing past these you...

Pityussa

80 23.13285,37.26272,0 Argives ...chosen Lacedemonian warriors. All were killed except one Spartan and two Argives, and here were raised the graves for the dead. But the Lacedemonians, having...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Neris ...you come to Athene, where Aeginetans once made their home, another village Neris, and a third Eua, the largest of the villages, in which there is a sanctuary of...

Neris

77 22.665139,37.432444,0 Calliste ...colony. This colony Theras was dispatching to the island that was then called Calliste, and he hoped that the descendants of Membliarus would of their own accord give...

Calliste

80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Dorians ...inhabitants of Pharis and Geranthrae, panic-stricken at the onslaught of the Dorians, made an agreement to retire from the Peloponnesus under a truce, but those of...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Laconia ...in a sanctuary of Artemis. This sanctuary was built on the frontier of Laconia and Messenia, in a place called Limniae (Lakes). After the death of Teleclus...

Laconia

73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Achaean ...conveniently situated for the coasting voyage. They also laid waste Helos, an Achaean town on the coast, and won a battle against the Argives who came to give aid to...

Achaean

80 Lacedemonians ...then Leonidas, and finally Cleombrotus. And when Anaxandrides died, the Lacedemonians, believing Dorieus to be both of a sounder judgment than Cleomenes and a better...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegina ...and water to king Dareius, son of Hystaspes. While Cleomenes was occupied in Aegina, Demaratus, the king of the other house, was slandering him to the Lacedemonian...

Aegina

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Athenians ...had been entrusted by Lysander. Although he won a battle against the Athenians holding the Peiraeus, yet immediately after the battle he resolved to lead his...

Athenians

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Tegea ...he did not wait to stand his trial, but was received by the people of Tegea as a suppliant of Athena Alea. Now this sanctuary had been respected from early...

Tegea

72 22.429,37.464,0 Laconia ...acts against his fatherland, and induced Pyrrhus the son of Aeacides to invade Laconia. While Areus the son of Acrotatus was king in Sparta, Antigonus the son of...

Laconia

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...Macedonia or to the Egyptian king, he would have profited nothing even by the Spartans changing their minds. But as it was, when the citizens sentenced him to exile...

Spartans

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...the leadership of Charillus, took place the campaign of the Spartans against Tegea, when lured on by a deceptive oracle the Lacedemonians hoped to capture the...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Marathon ...goddess; the offering commemorating this deed was dedicated by the parish of Marathon. Why they set up a bronze statue of Cylon in spite of his plotting a tyranny...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Sparta ...It is said that the alliance between the two peoples was brought about thus. Sparta was once shaken by an earthquake, and the Helots seceded to Ithome. After the...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians. For a time the Argives had the better, but night came on and took from them the assurance of their...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Hellespont ...who was an Athenian dispatched by Arsites, satrap of Phrygia by the Hellespont, and saved their city for the Perinthians when Philip had invaded their...

Hellespont

70 26.4,40.2,0 Corinth ...by their accomplices and put to death. Here also lie those who fell near Corinth. Heaven showed most distinctly here and again at Leuctra that those whom the...

Corinth

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Carthaginians ...later on five Attic warships assisted the Romans in a naval action against the Carthaginians. Accordingly these men also have their grave here. The achievements of Tolmides...

Carthaginians

81 10.327986,36.857569,0 Delos ...thence they are carried by Greeks to Prasiae, and the Athenians take them to Delos. The first-fruits are hidden in wheat straw, and they are known of none. There...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...is at Prasiae a monument to Erysichthon, who died on the voyage home from Delos, after the sacred mission thither. How Amphictyon banished Cranaus, his...

Delos

76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Lamptrae ...and was buried there, and at the present day there is a monument to Cranaus at Lamptrae. At Potami in Attica is also the grave of Ion the son of Xuthus – for he too...

Lamptrae

81 23.831887,37.848698,0 Parnes ...Zeus Parnethius, and an altar to Zeus Semaleus (Sign-giving). There is on Parnes another altar, and on it they make sacrifice, calling Zeus sometimes Rain-god...

Parnes

76 23.7186181,38.1752735,0 of Amphiaraus ...nothing remarkable to record. About twelve stades from the city is a sanctuary of Amphiaraus. Legend says that when Amphiaraus was exiled from Thebes the earth opened and...

of Amphiaraus

81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Cnossian ...way they say that Amphiaraus rose up after he had become a god. Iophon the Cnossian, a guide, produced responses in hexameter verse, saying that Amphiaraus gave...

Cnossian

77 25.163106,35.297847,0 Attica ...given an account. There is another when you have sailed past Sunium with Attica on the left. On this they say that Helen landed after the capture of Troy, and...

Attica

75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Mysian ...the armour was cast ashore near the grave of Ajax. As to the hero's size, a Mysian was my informant. He said that the sea flooded the side of the grave facing...

Mysian

78 27.75,40.25,0 Rhodian ...knows what I mean. Of the tombs, the largest and most beautiful are that of a Rhodian who settled at Athens, and the one made by the Macedonian Harpalus, who ran...

Rhodian

81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Athens ...of Cephalus, sailed to Delphi and asked the god for permission to return to Athens. He ordered them first to sacrifice to Apollo in that spot in Attica where...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Eleusinians fought with the Athenians, Erechtheus, king of the Athenians, was killed, as was also Immaradus, son of Eumolpus. These were the terms on...

Athenians

69 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...control of the mysteries, but in all things else were to be subject to the Athenians. The ministers of the Two Goddesses were Eumolpus and the daughters of Celeus...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...formed the boundary on the side towards Attica, but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was Cithaeron. The reason why the people of...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleutherae ...henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was Cithaeron. The reason why the people of Eleutherae came over was not because they were reduced by war, but because they desired to...

Eleutherae

81 23.37572,38.17934,0 Cretan ...who married Iphinoe, the daughter of Nisus, but they ignore altogether the Cretan war and the capture of the city in the reign of Nisus. There is in the city a...

Cretan

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Argos ...fell to disputing, some wishing to carry the corpse of Alcmena back to Argos, others wishing to take it to Thebes, as in Thebes were buried Amphitryon and...

Argos

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phliasians ...Into it Amphiaraus entered, slept the night there, and then first, say the Phliasians, began to divine. According to their account Amphiaraus was for a time an...

Phliasians

77 22.649131,37.846299,0 Eleusinian ...differs from that at Eleusis, but the actual celebration is modelled on the Eleusinian rites. The Phliasians themselves admit that they copy the "performance" at...

Eleusinian

78 23.538311,38.041096,0 Nemea ...and killed by the serpent. The Argives offer burnt sacrifices to Zeus in Nemea also, and elect a priest of Nemean Zeus; moreover they offer a prize for a race...

Nemea

76 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Peneus ...not only alive but accomplishing great achievements, retired to Larisa on the Peneus. And Perseus, wishing at all costs to see the father of his mother and to greet...

Peneus

80 21.75,39.75,0 Argos ...Perseus, ashamed because of the gossip about the homicide, on his return to Argos induced Megapenthes, the son of Proetus, to make an exchange of kingdoms...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...Mycenaeans sent eighty men to Thermopylae who shared in the achievement of the Lacedemonians. This eagerness for distinction brought ruin upon them by exasperating the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Inachus ...and wooden images of the Maid, Pluto and Demeter. Farther on is a river called Inachus, and on the other side of it an altar of Helius (the Sun). After this you will...

Inachus

81 22.75,37.75,0 Argives ...named after the sanctuary near it. This sanctuary belongs to Eileithyia. The Argives are the only Greeks that I know of who have been divided into three kingdoms...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyon ...and the nymph Syllis. On the death of Zeuxippus, Agamemnon led an army against Sicyon and king Hippolytus, the son of Rhopalus, the son of Phaestus. In terror of the...

Sicyon

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sunium ...to allow the Macedonians to hold unchallenged Peiraeus, Munychia, Salamis, and Sunium; but not expecting to be able to take them by force he bribed Diogenes, the...

Sunium

81 25.28064,37.15168,0 Macedonians ...to his liking, and even Aratus was compelled to become an ally of the Macedonians and Antigonus in the following way. Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, the son of...

Macedonians

72 21.75,41.25,0 Sicyonians ...and a temple of the goddesses named by the Athenians the August, and by the Sicyonians the Kindly Ones. On one day in each year they celebrate a festival to them and...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Olympian ...a bronze Zeus, a temple of Cronus and Rhea and an enclosure of Earth surnamed Olympian. Here the floor opens to the width of a cubit, and they say that along this bed...

Olympian

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athens ...Gardens is the work of Alcamenes, and one of the most note worthy things in Athens. There is also the place called Cynosarges, sacred to Heracles; the story of...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eridanus ...that flow through Athenian territory are the Ilisus and its tributary the Eridanus, whose name is the same as that of the Celtic river. This Ilisus is the river...

Eridanus

76 Attica ...Taxilus had been defeated in battle near Chaeronea. When Sulla returned to Attica he imprisoned in the Cerameicus the Athenians who had opposed him, and one...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Rome ...refuge, and killed him. Such wise was Athens sorely afflicted by the war with Rome, but she flourished again when Hadrian was emperor. In the theater the...

Rome

80 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Lacedemonians ...and Sophocles. There is a legend that after the death of Sophocles the Lacedemonians invaded Attica, and their commander saw in a vision Dionysus, who bade him...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...will think you see a woman in tears, with head bowed down. On the way to the Athenian Acropolis from the theater is the tomb of Calos. Daedalus murdered this Calos...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troezen ...stead, sent him to Pittheus to be brought up and to be the future king of Troezen. Afterwards Pallas and his sons rebelled against Theseus. After putting them to...

Troezen

76 Brauron ...is the work of Praxiteles, but the goddess derives her name from the parish of Brauron. The old wooden image is in Brauron, the Tauric Artemis as she is...

Brauron

81 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Athenians ...if one cared, one could make many conjectures. I have already stated that the Athenians are far more devoted to religion than other men. They were the first to surname...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...Philip and subsequently of Alexander. But when on the death of Alexander the Macedonians chose Aridaeus to be their king, though the whole empire had been entrusted to...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Sicily ...of the battle between the Dwarf-men and cranes. Pyrrhus was brought over to Sicily by an embassy of the Syracusans. The Carthaginians had crossed over and were...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Delphians ...says, Achilles was killed by Alexander, son of Priam, and by Apollo, if the Delphians were bidden by the Pythia to slay Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, and if the end of...

Delphians

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phoenicians ...Paphians of Cyprus and the Phoenicians who live at Ascalon in Palestine; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera. Among the Athenians the cult was...

Phoenicians

79 35.25,33.25,0 Athenians ...the fight when the combatants were about to close. On the middle wall are the Athenians and Theseus fighting with the Amazons. So, it seems, only the women did not...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphi ...cared not at all to capture the other towns, but were very eager to sack Delphi and the treasures of the god. They were opposed by the Delphians themselves and...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...defeat in Thessaly. Such was Demosthenes' reward for his great devotion to Athens. I heartily agree with the remark that no man who has unsparingly thrown...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Odrysian ...Seleucus, suffered a severe defeat and was killed. Alexander, his son by the Odrysian woman, after interceding long with Lysandra, won his body and afterwards...

Odrysian

79 25.33686355,42.61977194999999,0 Pactye ...it, where his grave is still to be seen between the village of Cardia and Pactye. Such was the history of Lysimachus. The Athenians have also a statue of...

Pactye

76 26.780688,40.485384,0 Messenian ...of Light. The stone statues are the work of Damophon (I know of no other Messenian sculptor of merit apart from him); the statue of Epaminondas is of iron and the...

Messenian

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...if the pillar is moved by his struggles and bounds, it is a good omen to the Messenians, but if the pillar is not moved the sign portends misfortune. They have it...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebans ...to the Messenian account, although it does not coincide in all respects. The Thebans say that when the battle of Leuctra was imminent, they sent to other oracles...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ithome ...Eumelus, in his processional hymn to Delos, says: "For dear to the God of Ithome was the Muse, whose [lute] is pure and free her sandals." I think that he wrote...

Ithome

76 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Stenyclerus ...these are crossed, there is a plain called the plain of Stenyclerus. Stenyclerus was a hero, it is said. Facing the plain is a site anciently called Oechalia...

Stenyclerus

71 21.75,37.25,0 Hermus ...man-eating creatures of the worst, in shape resembling the cat-fish of the Hermus and Maeander, but of darker color and stronger. In these respects the cat-fish...

Hermus

77 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Corone ...they call the harbor "the harbor of the Achaeans." Some eighty stades beyond Corone is a sanctuary of Apollo on the coast, venerated because it is very ancient...

Corone

80 21.927944,36.954171,0 Corone ...said to have been dedicated by the Argonauts, is of bronze. The city of Corone is adjoined by Colonides. The inhabitants say that they are not Messenians but...

Corone

75 21.927944,36.954171,0 Asine ...they were not driven from their city by the Messenians. But the people of Asine give this account of themselves. They admit that they were conquered by...

Asine

77 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Asine ...he is the son of Apollo. The town itself lies on the coast just as the old Asine in Argive territory. It is a journey of forty stades from Colonides to Asine...

Asine

78 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Tyrrhenians ...his statement, when in our days at Dicaearchia (Puteoli), in the land of the Tyrrhenians, a hot spring has been found, so acid that in a few years it dissolved the lead...

Tyrrhenians

79 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Pylos ...as a memorial of the events at Sphacteria. When Cyparissiae is reached from Pylos, there is a spring below the city near the sea, the water of which they say...

Pylos

79 Paeon ...the first time. Of his brothers they say that Aetolus remained at home, while Paeon, vexed at his defeat, went into the farthest exile possible, and that the...

Paeon

81 26.639597,40.505429,0 Elis ...a father, Pyttius, of Thessalian descent, who came from Thessaly to Elis. To Amarynceus, therefore, Augeas also gave a share in the government of Elis...

Elis

70 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...children, devoted herself to detecting him. When she discovered him, the Eleans demanded satisfaction for the crime from the Argives, for at the time Heracles...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...some other way by their fellow competitors. Hence the curses of Lysippe on the Eleans, should they not voluntarily keep away from the Isthmian games. But this story...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...to Molycrium. In return they agreed to give him at his request the land of Elis. The man was Oxylus, son of Haemon, the son of Thoas. This was the Thoas who...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Acarnania ...first to win the pancratium not only from Stratus itself but from the whole of Acarnania, and his name was Xenarces the son of Philandrides. Now after the Persian...

Acarnania

81 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Lyctus ...the feast, but some Cretan archers, whom they had summoned as mercenaries from Lyctus and other cities, were patrolling Messenia for them. Aristomenes then, in view...

Lyctus

81 25.368687,35.207811,0 Megalopolis ...seven very important ones. The Helisson joins the Alpheius passing through Megalopolis; the Brentheates comes out of the territory of that city; past Gortyna, where...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Acanthus ...Pisa won the prize of wild olive in the double race, and at the next Festival Acanthus of Lacedemon won in the long course. At the eighteenth Festival they...

Acanthus

80 23.88504,40.39427,0 Elis ...head with a ribbon is said to resemble in appearance Pantarces, a stripling of Elis said to have been the love of Pheidias. Pantarces too won the wrestling-bout...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Bithynia ...Roman emperor, the ivory one they told me was a portrait of Nicomedes, king of Bithynia. After him the greatest city in Bithynia was renamed Nicomedeia; before him it...

Bithynia

81 31.501635083333333,41.01972391666666,0 Temnus ...the Mother. If you cross the river Hermus you see an image of Aphrodite in Temnus made of a living myrtle-tree. It is a tradition among us that it was dedicated...

Temnus

77 27.197,38.6719,0 Eleans ...to the other side of the Alpheius. It is said that in the same way the Eleans too sacrifice to Zeus Averter of Flies, to drive the flies out of Olympia. The...

Eleans

73 21.25,37.75,0 Olympian ...according to the account I have already given, they bring to the altar of Olympian Zeus, and what is brought from the hearth contributes a great deal to the size...

Olympian

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...in the Doric dialect, but they do not say who it was that composed them. The Eleans also have a banqueting room. This too is in the Town Hall, opposite the chamber...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Scillus ...objects contained in it. The Elean account says that it was the people of Scillus, one of the cities in Triphylia, who built the temple about eight years after...

Scillus

76 21.602752,37.609552,0 Pisa ...story about the Sixteen Women as follows. Damophon, it is said, when tyrant of Pisa did much grievous harm to the Eleans. But when he died, since the people of...

Pisa

81 21.653041,37.639535,0 Delians ...Menophanes put to death the foreigners residing there and the Delians themselves, and after plundering much property belonging to the traders and all...

Delians

64 25.268194,37.397274,0 Aetna ...But if it brings them to the surface, it is judged a bad sign. The craters in Aetna have the same feature; for they lower into them objects of gold and silver and...

Aetna

81 Laconia ...The bay has nothing to distinguish it from all the other inlets of the sea in Laconia, but the beach here contains pebbles of prettier form and of all colors. A...

Laconia

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Pyrrhichus ...wooden images, said to have been dedicated by the women from Thermodon. From Pyrrhichus the road comes down to the sea at Teuthrone. The inhabitants declare that their...

Pyrrhichus

80 22.432959,36.659054,0 Leuctra ...by the emperor Augustus. It is eight stades from the sea and sixty from Leuctra. Here not far from the beach is a precinct sacred to the daughters of Nereus...

Leuctra

74 22.26501,36.84279,0 Pherae ...dwelling of Ortilochus." By the dwelling of Ortilochus he meant the city of Pherae in Messene, and explained this himself in the visit of Peisistratus to...

Pherae

78 22.737728,39.384163,0 Messenia ...Isthmius had a son Dotadas, who constructed the harbor at Mothone, though Messenia contained others. Sybotas the son of Dotadas established the annual sacrifice...

Messenia

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...side. A generation later in the reign of Alcamenes the son of Teleclus in Lacedemon -- the king of the other house was Theopompus the son of Nicander, son of...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Dorians ...the barbarian, after he had reduced the other Greeks of Asia Minor and all the Dorians who live on the Carian mainland. They point out too that when the Phocian...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Eleans ...an athlete violated the rules of the games, and the first to be fined by the Eleans were Eupolus and those who accepted bribes from Eupolus. Two of these images...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...that the image stands to the glory of the deity, through the piety of the Eleans, and to be a terror to law-breaking athletes. The purport of the inscription on...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Alexandria ...on the same day the victory in the pancratium and the victory at wrestling. Alexandria on the Canopic mouth of the Nile was founded by Alexander the son of Philip...

Alexandria

78 29.904133,31.195371,0 Epidaurians ...the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers...

Epidaurians

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Boeotians ...and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the...

Boeotians

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Lepreans ...of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the Tenians and the Lepreans, who were the only people from Triphylia, but from the Aegean and the Cyclades...

Lepreans

81 21.724777,37.439599,0 Eleans ...that these Laconians were famous all over Greece, for had they been so the Eleans would have had something to say about them, and the Lacedemonians more still...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...Zeus from the spoils of Achaia. It stands on the left of the offering of the Lacedemonians by the side of the first pillar on this side of the temple. The largest of the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...Dorian Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians dedicated at Olympia the image of Victory upon the pillar. It is the work of Paeonius of Mende, and...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonian ...and here stands in the open an image of Artemis Caryatis. Here every year the Lacedemonian maidens hold chorus-dances, and they have a traditional native dance. On...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Amyclaean ...to speak of the latter. For in the eyes of the Lacedemonians the cult of the Amyclaean is the more distinguished, so that they spent on adorning the image in Amyclae...

Amyclaean

79 24.76084,35.0133,0 Lacedemonians ...is guarded in secret. The cult of Demeter Chthonia (of the Lower World) the Lacedemonians say was handed on to them by Orpheus, but in my opinion it was because of the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...Opposite this temple is an old image of Enyalius in fetters. The idea the Lacedemonians express by this image is the same as the Athenians express by their Wingless...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aphidna ...the manner the Lacedemonians state; for I do not think there was a battle at Aphidna at all, Theseus being detained among the Thesprotians and the Athenians not...

Aphidna

79 23.362766,37.974359,0 Locri ...of Crotona. For when war had arisen between the people of Crotona and the Locri in Italy, the Locri, in virtue of the relationship between them and the...

Locri

76 16.23715,38.20782,0 Pelasgians ...a wound. In the sanctuary is a wooden image of Orpheus, a work, they say, of Pelasgians. I know also of the following rite which is performed here. By the sea was a...

Pelasgians

79 22.25,39.75,0 Dorians ...It was founded by Helius, the youngest of the sons of Perseus, and the Dorians afterwards reduced it by siege. Its inhabitants became the first slaves of the...

Dorians

73 22.25,38.75,0 Theseus ...on the Thermodon, but could not take it, but Antiope, falling in love with Theseus, who was aiding Heracles in his campaign, surrendered the stronghold. Such is...

Theseus

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 the votive offering and work of Eubulides ...Paeonia (Healer), of Zeus, of Mnemosyne (Memory) and of the Muses, an Apollo, the votive offering and work of Eubulides, and Acratus, a daemon attendant upon Dionysos; it is only a face of him worked...

the votive offering and work of Eubulides

80 King Artaxerxes ...King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes. This he did as an Athenian whose ancestry connected him with Salamis, for he...

King Artaxerxes

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 he ...caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes. This he did as an Athenian whose ancestry connected him with Salamis, for he traced his...

he

81 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Here ...besides these, the kings from Melanthus to Cleidicus the son of Aesimides. Here is a picture of the exploit, near Mantinea, of the Athenians who were sent to...

Here

78 Athenians ...the picture is a cavalry battle, in which the most famous men are, among the Athenians, Grylus the son of Xenophon, and in the Boeotian cavalry, Epaminondas the...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicyon ...who had challenged him. The Eleans say that the dead general was a native of Sicyon in command of Sicyonian troops, and that they themselves with the force from...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...troops, and that they themselves with the force from Boeotia attacked Sicyon out of friendship to the Thebans. So the attack of the Eleans and Thebans...

Sicyon

72 22.71135,37.98336,0 Ionians ...the sanctuary of the Ephesian goddess at Ephesus. It is always the same; the Ionians merely follow the example of all the world in paying court to strength. Next...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Achaean ...times at the Isthmus near the sea; Chilon of Patrae, son of Chilon, whom the Achaean folk Buried for my valour when I died in battle." Thus much is plain from the...

Achaean

79 Chaeroneia ...to infer about the war in which Chilon fell, that plainly either he marched to Chaeroneia with the whole of the Achaeans, or else his personal courage and daring led him...

Chaeroneia

81 22.840365,38.493361,0 Olympic ...at Megara. The sons too of the daughters of Diagoras practised boxing and won Olympic victories: in the men's class Eucles, son of Callianax and Callipateira...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Stymphalus ...victory. The artist who made the statue was Callicles of Megara. A man from Stymphalus, by name Dromeus (Runner), proved true to it in the long race, for he won two...

Stymphalus

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Pellana ...the men's and previously the boys' wrestling-match; Philip, an Azanian from Pellana, who beat the boys at boxing, and Critodamus from Cleitor, who like Philip was...

Pellana

78 22.325267,37.207648,0 Samus ...on either side are the horses by the yoke, on the right Cnacias, on the left Samus. This inscription in elegiac verse is on the chariot: "Cleosthenes, son of...

Samus

79 26.84,37.73,0 Aegina ...Ptolichus of Aegina; that of Agiadas was made by Serambus, also a native of Aegina. The statue of Lycinus is the work of Cleon. Who made the statue of Tellon is...

Aegina

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Thasians ...the kings mentioned stands a Thasian, Theagenes the son of Timosthenes. The Thasians say that Timosthenes was not the father of Theagenes, but a priest of the...

Thasians

78 24.717535,40.78201,0 Nemea ...also won three victories at Pytho. These were for boxing, while nine prizes at Nemea and ten at the Isthmus were won in some cases for the pancratium and in others...

Nemea

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Athenians ...of the sea, adopting the principle of Draco, who, when he framed for the Athenians laws to deal with homicide, inflicted banishment even on lifeless things...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacinian ...his house to be a prison, and pulled down his statue set up by the temple of Lacinian Hera. There is also set up in Olympia a slab recording the victories of...

Lacinian

79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Cos ...standing by the horse the inscription declares to be Xenombrotus of Meropian Cos, who was proclaimed victor in the horse-race, and Xenodicus, who was announced...

Cos

79 27.257012,36.875681,0 Nemea ...for he won at Olympia five victories in running, at Pytho four victories, at Nemea four, and at the Isthmus eleven. The statue of Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy...

Nemea

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Colophon ...The statue of Hermesianax was dedicated by the commonwealth of Colophon. Near these are Eleans who beat the boys at boxing, Choerilus the work of...

Colophon

65 27.142222,38.115556,0 Athens ...at the Olympic assembly, and also when he accompanied Tisias on an embassy to Athens. Yet Tisias improved the art of rhetoric, in particular he wrote the most...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lampsacus ...me, O king, this favour. Enslave the women and children of the people of Lampsacus, raze the whole city even to the ground, and burn the sanctuaries of their...

Lampsacus

75 26.68998,40.34869,0 Chersonesus ...the son of Cimon, who was the first of his house to rule in the Thracian Chersonesus. On the horn is an inscription in old Attic characters: "To Olympian Zeus was I...

Chersonesus

75 26.5,40.33333,0 Attica ...the theater and the circuit of the walls. The Megarians who are neighbors of Attica built a treasury and dedicated in it offerings, small cedar-wood figures inlaid...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Corinthians ...Argives are said to have helped the Megarians in the engagement with the Corinthians. The treasury at Olympia was made by the Megarians years after the battle, but...

Corinthians

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Eleans ...mother of the child but that she gave him, because of dreams, to fight for the Eleans. The Elean officers believed that the woman was to be trusted, and placed the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Ionian Sea ...themselves and by others. An army of them mustered and turned towards the Ionian Sea, dispossessed the Illyrian people, all who dwelt as far as Macedonia with the...

Ionian Sea

76 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 tomb ...Here there are also images of Aphrodite, Apollo, and Pan. Farther on is the tomb of Eurystheus. The story is that he fled from Attica after the battle with the...

tomb

79 Sipylus ...goddess and danced the cordax, a dance peculiar to the dwellers round Mount Sipylus. Not far from the sanctuary is a small building containing a bronze chest, in...

Sipylus

78 27.45394,38.5668,0 Athenian port ...for mariners, and had three harbors as against one at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks there, and near the largest harbor is the...

Athenian port

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elis ...of Gargettus, who migrated to this place from Athens. If you wish to go to Elis through the plain, you will travel one hundred and twenty stades to Letrini...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Letrini ...of a native woman by whom Artemis was reared. About six stades distant from Letrini is a lake that never dries up, being just about three stades across. One of...

Letrini

78 21.431292,37.672865,0 Lacedemonians ...and learning the exact position, again deserted from the Messenians to the Lacedemonians. The Kings were absent at the time from the Lacedemonian camp, but Emperamus...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...story seemed to be reliable, and he led the way for Emperamus and the Spartans. Their march was difficult, as it was dark and the rain never ceased...

Spartans

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...preferring to perish with their fatherland rather than be taken as slaves to Lacedemon, so that they might yet have been able to escape their fate. But the god...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...that he asked a passage and had resolved to depart. Emperamus and the Spartans present were pleased to let the Messenians pass, without further inflaming men...

Spartans

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...as leaders. Euergetidas too had retired to Mount Lycaeus with the rest of the Messenians. From there, when he saw that Aristomenes' plan to seize Sparta had failed, he...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eira ...lack of funds for journeying abroad. These remained here with the Arcadians. Eira was taken, and the second war between the Lacedemonians and Messenians...

Eira

80 21.927988,37.398271,0 Cyllene ...when Chionis the Laconian was victorious. When the Messenians assembled at Cyllene, they resolved to winter there for that season, the Eleians providing a market...

Cyllene

78 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Messenians ...Belus the son of Libya, Ammon from the shepherd-founder. Thus the exiled Messenians reached the end of their wanderings. After declining the leadership of the men...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...reduced by force to the position of serfs, were later moved to revolt from the Lacedemonians in the seventy-ninth Olympiad, when Xenophon the Corinthian was victorious...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ithome ...therefore with the Argives, and gave Naupactus to the Messenians besieged in Ithome, when they were allowed to depart under a truce. They had taken Naupactus from...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenian ...in surrounding the Messenians, except where prevented by the gates in the Messenian rear and by the zealous help of their men posted on the wall. Here they could...

Messenian

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...enveloped both their flanks and shot volleys at them from all sides. The Messenians, in close formation, whenever they charged the Acarnanians in a body, threw the...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Gauls ...his tomb in dishonor, as being that of an enemy. The greater number of the Gauls crossed over to Asia by ship and plundered its coasts. Some time after, the...

Gauls

78 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Acarnanians ...many of them, but they could not effect a complete rout. For wherever the Acarnanians saw a part of their own line being broken by the Messenians they went to the...

Acarnanians

76 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Messenians ...at this point and checked the Messenians, overwhelming them by numbers. The Messenians, beaten back and again attempting to pierce the massed troops of the...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...off in Sphacteria. When the Athenian reverse at Aegospotami took place, the Lacedemonians, having command of the sea, then drove the Messenians from Naupactus; they went...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...It was this, in my view, that roused the Dioscuri to their hatred of the Messenians. But now, as the dream declared to Epaminondas, the Dioscuri no longer opposed...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...in the accustomed manner, the Argives to Argive Hera and Nemean Zeus, the Messenians to Zeus of Ithome and the Dioscuri, and their priests to the Great Goddesses...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Leuctra ...Minyae, driven by the Thebans from Orchomenos after the battle of Leuctra, were restored to Boeotia by Philip the son of Amyntas, as were also the...

Leuctra

68 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenians ...Lacedemonians regained courage and could no longer refrain from attacking the Messenians. The Messenians maintained the war with the help of the Argives and Arcadians...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...Attica. They did not join the Greeks against the Gauls, as Cleonymus and the Lacedemonians refused to grant them a truce. Not long afterwards the Messenians occupied...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 city ...originally who emigrated to Acarnania. On descending, not to the lower city, but to just beneath the Gateway, you see a fountain and near it a sanctuary of...

city

74 Asia ...on friendly terms with Lysimachus. When however Demetrius crossed over into Asia and made war on Seleucus, the alliance between Pyrrhus and Lysimachus lasted...

Asia

78 27.5,37.5,0 Sellasia ...that they should capture Sparta. For they fought against Cleomenes at Sellasia and joined with Aratus and the Achaeans to capture Sparta. When the...

Sellasia

72 Asia ...to Dodonian Zeus. They too have an inscription: "These once ravaged golden Asia, and brought slavery upon the Greeks. Now ownerless they lie by the pillars of...

Asia

77 27.5,37.5,0 Messenians ...by occupying beforehand the passes from Arcadia into Messenia with the Messenians from the city and troops from the surrounding districts that came to their...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 city ...else, and merely wrote his name, his father's name, and the name of his city, and added that he had witnesses to his valor in the grove at Marathon and in...

city

74 Messenians ...from Abia. On the road is a salt spring. The Emperor Augustus caused the Messenians of Pharae to be incorporated in Laconia. The founder Pharis is said to have...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 city ...to a Roman and a Thracian. As you descend from here to the lower part of the city, is a sanctuary of Serapis, whose worship the Athenians introduced from...

city

80 Laconia ...The Emperor Augustus caused the Messenians of Pharae to be incorporated in Laconia. The founder Pharis is said to have been the son of Hermes and Phylodameia the...

Laconia

77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 city ...and here there is a sanctuary of the Eileithyiae. Such are the sights that the city had to show. When you have gone down to the port, which to the present day is...

city

81 Pharae ...far from Pharae is a grove of Apollo Carneius and a spring of water in it. Pharae is about six stades from the sea. Eighty stades on the road which leads thence...

Pharae

77 21.717095,38.093144,0 anchor ...the Phrygians, which Midas son of Gordius had founded in former time. And the anchor, which Midas found, was even as late as my time in the sanctuary of Zeus, as...

anchor

80 Messenians ...and confused manner, though not without heart. Polydorus did not pursue the Messenians when they gave way, nor Euphaes' men the Lacedemonians. It seemed better to him...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Cretans ...Peloponnesians were not good horsemen then. The Messenian light-armed and the Cretans on the Lacedemonian side did not engage at all; for on both sides according to...

Cretans

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Ithome ...from Ithome, the victims being auspicious, the Lacedemonians marched against Ithome. The Cretans were no longer with them. The allies of the Messenians also were...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Argos ...completed his fourth year. All the Messenians who had ties with Sicyon and Argos and among any of the Arcadians retired to these states, but those who belonged...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenia ...might bring happiness in all else. Of the young men who had grown up in Messenia the best and most numerous were round Andania, and among them was Aristomenes...

Messenia

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...among them was Aristomenes, who to this day is worshipped as a hero among the Messenians. They think that even the circumstances of his birth were notable, for they...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...their allies exceeding expectation (for now the hatred which the Argives and Arcadians felt for the Lacedemonians had blazed up openly), they revolted in the...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Spartans ...inscribed "The Gift of Aristomenes to the Goddess, taken from Spartans." The Spartans received an oracle from Delphi that they should procure the Athenian as...

Spartans

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...advise what they must do. The Athenians, who were not anxious either that the Lacedemonians should add to their possessions the best part of Peloponnese without great...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...and namesake of the Hecas who had come with the sons of Aristodemus to Sparta, on the Messenian side by Theoclus, who was descended from Eumantis, an Eleian...

Sparta

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Andania ...their ranks from the Helots to replace the slain. When Aristomenes returned to Andania, the women threw ribbons and flower blossoms over him, singing also a song...

Andania

81 21.938099,37.26217,0 Lebadeia ...also, going to Delphi and descending into the holy shrine of Trophonius at Lebadeia, as the Pythia bade. Afterwards he took the shield to Lebadeia and dedicated...

Lebadeia

77 22.87352,38.431063,0 Messenians ...and recovered it, he at once engaged in greater deeds. Collecting a force of Messenians, together with his own picked troop, he waited for night and went to a city of...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pharae ...of Laconia whose ancient name in Homer's Catalogue is Pharis, but is called Pharae by the Spartans and neighboring people. Arriving here he killed those who...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Messenian ...a matter of purchase. Before the Lacedemonians committed this crime in the Messenian war in the matter of the treachery of Aristocrates the Arcadian, the decision...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...To complete his work Aristocrates caused his men to fly through the Messenians. They were amazed at the unexpected state of affairs, and moreover were thrown...

Messenians

70 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...closed upon him and took him alive with some fifty of his followers. The Lacedemonians resolved to fling them all into the Ceadas, into which they throw men punished...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 city ...which they live is called after them. The most righteous of them inhabit the city Meroe and what is called the Aethiopian plain. These are they who show the...

city

79 city ...Cretan war and the capture of the city in the reign of Nisus. There is in the city a fountain, which was built for the citizens by Theagenes, whom I have...

city

81 city ...Rhus (Stream), for that water once flowed here from the mountains above the city. But Theagenes, who was tyrant at that time, turned the water into another...

city

78 city ...women hold a performance that is a mimic representation of the legend. In the city are graves of Megarians. They made one for those who died in the Persian...

city

81 Asia ...as being that of an enemy. The greater number of the Gauls crossed over to Asia by ship and plundered its coasts. Some time after, the inhabitants of Pergamus...

Asia

78 27.5,37.5,0 sea ...The greatest of his achievements was his forcing the Gauls to retire from the sea into the country which they still hold. After the statues of the eponymoi come...

sea

80 portico ...command his brother Cassander had entrusted his cavalry and mercenaries. This portico contains, first, the Athenians arrayed against the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in...

portico

80 Greece ...had been entrusted to Antipater, the Athenians now thought it intolerable if Greece should be for ever under the Macedonians, and themselves embarked on war...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...was first established among the Oropians, from whom afterwards all the Greeks received the cult. I can enumerate other men also born at this time who are...

Greeks

73 22.5,37.5,0 cities ...others adorned with offerings and furniture, and the bounties he gave to Greek cities, and sometimes even to foreigners who asked him, all these acts are inscribed...

cities

81 Libya ...who profess to know the measurements of the earth name the Lixitae, are the Libyans who live the farthest close to Mount Atlas, and they do not till the ground...

Libya

78 26.5,31.5,0 Sunium promontory ...the Greek mainland facing the Cyclades Islands and the Aegean Sea the Sunium promontory stands out from the Attic land. When you have rounded the promontory you see a...

Sunium promontory

72 24.125,37.625,0 market-place ...and shut them up there. The portrait is in the long portico, where stands a market-place for those living near the sea – those farther away from the harbor have another...

market-place

78 another ...for those living near the sea – those farther away from the harbor have another – but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of...

another

74 of the children of Theseus and Phalerus ...some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown, and of heroes, and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus; for this Phalerus is said by the Athenians to have sailed with Jason to...

of the children of Theseus and Phalerus

79 Thermodon ...gives the following account of her. Heracles was besieging Themiscyra on the Thermodon, but could not take it, but Antiope, falling in love with Theseus, who was...

Thermodon

79 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Corinth ...him Aethra to wife, but before the marriage took place he was banished from Corinth. Here there is also a Hermes called Polygius. Against this image, they say...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...He, too, was tyrant of Epidaurus, as Periander, his son-in-law, was tyrant of Corinth. The most noteworthy things which I found the city of Epidaurus itself had to...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...now called Phocis, but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained behind at Corinth. Thoas begat Damophon, Damophon begat Propodas, and Propodas begat Doridas and...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthian harbors ...rebuilt the honor was restored to the present inhabitants. The names of the Corinthian harbors were given them by Leches and Cenchrias, said to be the children of Poseidon...

Corinthian harbors

79 the sea ...descending from Celaenae through Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus. I remember hearing a...

the sea

79 the sea ...Up to this point it flows from Stymphalus in Arcadia, just as the Rheiti, near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus. At the places where the Erasinus gushes...

the sea

81 the sea ...and they buried it within the sacred enclosure, and after him they named the sea in these parts the Saronic instead of the Phoebaean lagoon. They know nothing...

the sea

75 the sea ...by it they buried Lysistratus. Distant from Argos forty stades and no more is the sea at Lerna. On the way down to Lerna the first thing on the road is the Erasinus...

the sea

81 the sea ...here to his fabled kingdom underground. Lerna is, I have already stated, by the sea, and here they celebrate mysteries in honor of Lernaean Demeter. There is a...

the sea

78 the sea ...another temple is a seated wooden image of Dionysus Saotes (Savior), while by the sea is a stone image of Aphrodite. They say that the daughters of Danaus dedicated...

the sea

80 the sea ...I pass over as trivial. From Lerna there is also another road, which skirts the sea and leads to a place called Genesium . By the sea is a small sanctuary of...

the sea

79 the gate ...flowing from a rock into the sea. As one goes up to Corinth are tombs, and by the gate is buried Diogenes of Sinope, whom the Greeks surname the Dog. Before the city...

the gate

81 the gate ...road from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as that to Tegea, but begins from the gate at the Ridge. On this road is a sanctuary built with two rooms, having an...

the gate

80 the gate ...to the legend of the Hermionians, Heracles brought up the Hound of Hell. At the gate through which there is a straight road leading to Mases, there is a sanctuary...

the gate

79 tombs ...before the celebration of the mysteries of Demeter the people look at these tombs and call Aras and his children to the libations. The Argives say that Phlias...

tombs

78 Attica ...fleeing from the lawless violence of his father migrated to the sea coast of Attica; that on the death of Epopeus he came to Peloponnesus, divided his kingdom...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athenians ...must have belonged to the army that strove in Attica against Theseus and the Athenians. As you make your way to the Psiphaean Sea you see a wild olive growing, which...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...they received from the Athenians, how the Epidaurians left off paying to the Athenians what they had agreed to pay, on the ground that the Aeginetans had the images...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...honors here, but the greatest honors are paid to him in Seriphus and among the Athenians, who have a precinct sacred to Perseus and an altar of Dictys and Clymene, who...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 the city ...the Isthmus and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helius the height above the city. Ever since, they say, the Isthmus has belonged to Poseidon. Worth seeing here...

the city

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...Creugas, a boxer, and a trophy that was set up to celebrate a victory over the Corinthians, you come to a seated image of Zeus Meilichius (Gracious), made of white marble...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...and after him Artemis hunting. Throughout the city are many wells, for the Corinthians have a copious supply of flowing water, besides the water which the emperor...

Corinthians

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Peloponnesus ...keep off hail by sacrifices and spells. Methana, then, is a peninsula of the Peloponnesus. Within it, bordering on the land of Troezen, is Hermione. The founder of the...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...to understand the oracle given him, and therefore failed to return to the Peloponnesus. As you walk from the temple of Dionysus to the market-place you see on the...

Peloponnesus

76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...migrated to the sea coast of Attica; that on the death of Epopeus he came to Peloponnesus, divided his kingdom among his sons, and returned to Attica; and that Asopia...

Peloponnesus

79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Ephyra ...epic poem, says in his Corinthian History (if indeed the history be his) that Ephyra, the daughter of Oceanus, dwelt first in this land; that afterwards Marathon...

Ephyra

80 Rome ...Procles affirmed that he had seen a man from them who had been brought to Rome. So he guessed that a woman wandered from them, reached Lake Tritonis, and...

Rome

76 12.4843457,41.89262,0 cities ...out a general disarmament of the Greeks and dismantled the walls of such cities as were fortified. Corinth was laid waste by Mummius, who at that time...

cities

75 Critolaus ...Corinthians, being members of it, joined in the war against the Romans, which Critolaus, when appointed general of the Achaeans, brought about by persuading to revolt...

Critolaus

80 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Achaeans ...Aratus being still leader of the Achaeans, he won the victory. In fear for the Achaeans and for Sicyon itself, Aratus was forced by this defeat to bring in Antigouus...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...for greater things and for supremacy over the Greeks, he first attacked the Achaeans, hoping if successful to have them as allies, and especially wishing that they...

Achaeans

78 Corinthian territory ...of Rome. Carthage, too, they say, was refounded in his reign. In the Corinthian territory is also the place called Cromyon from Cromus the son of Poseidon. Here they say...

Corinthian territory

72 Theseus ...the Lords is a sanctuary of Eilethyia, dedicated by Helen when, Theseus having gone away with Peirithous to Thesprotia, Aphidna had been captured by...

Theseus

66 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...in battle. These must have belonged to the army that strove in Attica against Theseus and the Athenians. As you make your way to the Psiphaean Sea you see a wild...

Theseus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Carthage ...refounded by Caesar, who was the author of the present constitution of Rome. Carthage, too, they say, was refounded in his reign. In the Corinthian territory is...

Carthage

79 10.327986,36.857569,0 Sinis ...was stretched equally in both, he was torn in two. This was the way in which Sinis himself was slain by Theseus. For Theseus rid of evildoers the road from...

Sinis

79 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 mainland ...called Aperopia, not far from which is another island, Hydrea. After it the mainland is skirted by a crescent-shaped beach and after the beach there is a spit of...

mainland

78 Where ...to make the Peloponnesus an island gave up before digging through the Isthmus. Where they began to dig is still to be seen, but into the rock they did not advance...

Where

81 Isthmus ...and giving to Helius the height above the city. Ever since, they say, the Isthmus has belonged to Poseidon. Worth seeing here are a theater and a white-marble...

Isthmus

76 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 the sea at Lechaeum ...Isthmus stretches on the one hand to the sea at Cenchreae, and on the other to the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to the south mainland. He who tried to make...

the sea at Lechaeum

81 Pythian priestess ...him, living as he was, limb from limb. Afterwards, as the Corinthians say, the Pythian priestess commanded them by an oracle to discover that tree and to worship it equally...

Pythian priestess

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...(Deliverer), brought from Thebes by the Theban Phanes at the command of the Pythian priestess. Phanes came to Sicyon when Aristomachus, the son of Cleodaeus, failed to...

Pythian priestess

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...disaster, gave way before the women. This fight had been foretold by the Pythian priestess in the oracle quoted by Herodotus, who perhaps understood to what it referred...

Pythian priestess

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Alexander ...call her Hebe, whom Homer mentions in the duel between Menelaus and Alexander, saying that she was the cup-bearer of the gods; and again he says, in the...

Alexander

70 22.5,42.5,0 Alexander ...married Menelaus. And on this matter the poets Euphorion of Chalcis and Alexander of Pleuron, and even before them, Stesichorus of Himera, agree with the Argives...

Alexander

75 22.5,42.5,0 on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae ...of Oebalus. In Lechaeum are a sanctuary and a bronze image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a...

on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae

78 a rock ...of grapes in the future, and how for this reason they have carved an ass on a rock, because he taught the pruning of vines – all this I pass over as...

a rock

78 Thessaly ...Lais, upon which is set a lioness holding a ram in her fore-paws. There is in Thessaly another tomb which claims to be that of Lais, for she went to that country also...

Thessaly

81 22.2,39.6,0 temple ...trees growing in a row, the greater number of them rising up straight. On the temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are images...

temple

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 theater ...to look at, are nevertheless distinguished by a kind of inspiration. Above the theater is a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed in the Latin tongue Capitolinus, which might be...

theater

81 theater ...which might be rendered into Greek "Coryphaeos". Not far from this theater is the ancient gymnasium, and a spring called Lerna. Pillars stand around it...

theater

69 theater ...Dioscuri. Their images and that of Fortune are of wood. On the stage of the theater built under the citadel is a statue of a man with a shield, who they say is...

theater

78 theater ...say Hypermnestra was brought to judgment by Danaus. Not far from this is a theater. In it are some noteworthy sights, including a representation of a man killing...

theater

77 theater ...to Sleep, saying that Sleep is the god that is dearest to the Muses. Near the theater a temple of Artemis Lycea (Wolfish) was made by Hippolytus. About this surname...

theater

81 race-course ...their honor that they call Stoning. In the other part of the enclosure is a race-course called that of Hippolytus, and above it a temple of Aphrodite Spy. For from...

race-course

79 fore-temple ...the one with the inscription, that it represents the Emperor Augustus. In the fore-temple are on the one side ancient statues of the Graces, and on the right a couch of...

fore-temple

80 Herodes ...which also is of bronze. The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by Herodes the Athenian, four horses, gilded except for the hoofs, which are of...

Herodes

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sea ...In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze. The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by...

Sea

79 precincts ...in other parts of Greece, and that some Greeks have even dedicated to them precincts by shores, where honors are also paid to Achilles. In Gabala is a holy...

precincts

77 a Sea ...ivory and gold. On the middle of the base on which the car is has been wrought a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the nymphs called...

a Sea

81 the enclosure ...at Titane. The neighbors are chiefly servants of the god, and within the enclosure are old cypress trees. One cannot learn of what wood or metal the image is, nor...

the enclosure

72 the enclosure ...they place their food before the entrance and take no further trouble. Within the enclosure is a bronze statue of a Sicyonian named Granianus, who won the following...

the enclosure

80 the enclosure ...rites which, they say, Orpheus the Thracian established among them. Within the enclosure is a temple; its wooden image is the work of Myron, and it has one face and one...

the enclosure

77 the enclosure ...by a maiden priestess until she reaches an age fit for marriage. Within the enclosure is also the tomb of Demosthenes. His fate, and that of Homer before him, have...

the enclosure

75 Poseidon ...the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself. There is also what is called his Holy of...

Poseidon

74 graves of Sisyphus and of Neleus ...the altar of the Cyclopes, and they sacrifice to the Cyclopes upon it. The graves of Sisyphus and of Neleus – for they say that Neleus came to Corinth, died of disease, and was buried...

graves of Sisyphus and of Neleus

78 Mummius ...Isthmian games were not interrupted even when Corinth had been laid waste by Mummius, but so long as it lay deserted the celebration of the games was entrusted to...

Mummius

79 12.4843457,41.89262,0 it ...interrupted even when Corinth had been laid waste by Mummius, but so long as it lay deserted the celebration of the games was entrusted to the Sicyonians, and...

it

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Isthmian games ...Sisyphus found him lying and gave him burial on the Isthmus, establishing the Isthmian games in his honor. At the beginning of the Isthmus is the place where the brigand...

Isthmian games

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Sicyonians ...so long as it lay deserted the celebration of the games was entrusted to the Sicyonians, and when it was rebuilt the honor was restored to the present...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 it ...the celebration of the games was entrusted to the Sicyonians, and when it was rebuilt the honor was restored to the present inhabitants. The names of...

it

73 22.878721,37.906045,0 sanctuary ...removed or how it was destroyed on the spot. Within the market-place is a sanctuary of Persuasion; this too has no image. The worship of Persuasion was established...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...the feast of Apollo, and having brought, as they pretend, the deities to the sanctuary of Persuasion, they say that they take them back again to the temple of Apollo...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...one to Helius (Sun) made of white marble. On the way down to the plain is a sanctuary of Demeter, said to have been founded by Plemnaeis as a thank-offering to the...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...twice, once without and once with the shield. In Titane there is also a sanctuary of Athena, into which they bring up the image of Coronis. In it is an old...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...the Port of Pellene, you see a little above the road on the left hand a sanctuary of Poseidon. Farther along the highway is a river called the Helisson, and...

sanctuary

74 sanctuary ...memory of the deed fresh among the Phliasians; it is built by the side of the sanctuary of Apollo, and it contains statues made of stone representing Cyathus holding...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...After this you will come to a gate named after the sanctuary near it. This sanctuary belongs to Eileithyia. The Argives are the only Greeks that I know of who have...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...shown in my account of Attica, his death occurred. At the entrance to this sanctuary of Demeter you can see a bronze shield of Pyrrhus hanging dedicated over the...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...anyone to do so who has not learnt the history of Epidaurus. The most famous sanctuary of Asclepius at Argos contains at the present day a white-marble image of the...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...of Xenophilus and Straton, who made the images. The original founder of the sanctuary was Sphyrus, son of Machaon and brother of the Alexanor who is honored among...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...becomes inspired by the god. Adjoining the temple of Apollo Deiradiotes is a sanctuary of Athena Oxyderces (Sharp-sighted), dedicated by Diomedes, because once when...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...as that to Tegea, but begins from the gate at the Ridge. On this road is a sanctuary built with two rooms, having an entrance on the west side and another on the...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...him the Argives name the place Oenoe. Above Oenoe is Mount Artemisius, with a sanctuary of Artemis on the top. On this mountain are also the springs of the river...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...and so, too, is Dionysus, who is, moreover, represented with a beard. The sanctuary of Asclepius is not here, but in another place, and his image is of stone, and...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...in the school of Dipoenus and Scyllis. On going down from here you come to a sanctuary of Pan Lyterius (Releasing), so named because he showed to the Troezenian...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...made by Theseus when he took Helen to wife. Outside the wall there is also a sanctuary of Poseidon Nurturer (Phytalmios). For they say that, being wroth with them...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...coast of which has been founded a little town called Methana. Here there is a sanctuary of Isis, and on the market-place is an image of Hermes, and also one of...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...the Peloponnesus, called Buporthmus (Oxford). On Buporthmus has been built a sanctuary of Demeter and her daughter, as well as one of Athena, surnamed Promachorma...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...in which legend says the sons of Tyndareus contended. There is also another sanctuary of Athena, of no great size, the roof of which has fallen in. There is a temple...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...another; it is of Ares, and has an image of the god, while to the right of the sanctuary of Chthonia is a portico, called by the natives the Portico of Echo. It is such...

sanctuary

81 Cenchreae ...other end of the harbor sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis. Right opposite Cenchreae is Helen's Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock...

Cenchreae

79 22.992532,37.88239,0 Cenchreae ...a bronze club. The Corinthian Isthmus stretches on the one hand to the sea at Cenchreae, and on the other to the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to...

Cenchreae

81 22.992532,37.88239,0 Lechaeum ...on the one hand to the sea at Cenchreae, and on the other to the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to the south mainland. He who tried to make...

Lechaeum

74 22.88807,37.93277,0 Cenchreae ...and a bronze image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a...

Cenchreae

78 22.992532,37.88239,0 sanctuary ...Asine to the ground and annexing its territory to their own, left the sanctuary of Apollo Pythaeus, which is still visible, and by it they buried...

sanctuary

72 stream ...Asclepius and of Isis. Right opposite Cenchreae is Helen's Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock into the sea. As one goes up to...

stream

81 grave of Lais ...Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the grave of Lais, upon which is set a lioness holding a ram in her fore-paws. There is in...

grave of Lais

80 tomb ...you have come from the Corinthian to the Sicyonian territory you see the tomb of Lycus the Messenian, whoever this Lycus may be; for I can discover no...

tomb

75 tomb ...he it was who gave to the place the name Celeae. I have already said that the tomb of Dysaules is here. So the grave of Aras was made earlier, for according to...

tomb

80 tomb ...Scyllis were his sons by this woman. Cleonae possesses this sanctuary and the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus. The story is that as they were going as ambassadors...

tomb

80 tomb ...and were murdered by Aegisthus after he had given them a banquet. As for the tomb of Cassandra, it is claimed by the Lacedemonians who dwell around Amyclae...

tomb

79 tomb ...of the sinner. A little beyond the Rams – this is the name they give to the tomb of Thyestes – there is on the left a place called Mysia and a sanctuary of...

tomb

79 tomb ...left there on the spot to be sacred to Hyrnetho. Not far from the city is the tomb of Melissa, who married Periander, the son of Cypselus, and another of Procles...

tomb

81 tomb ...of Hell, I will give my views in another place. Behind the temple is the tomb of Pittheus, on which are placed three seats of white marble. On them they say...

tomb

76 tomb ...its name was changed to Sacred Island for the following reason. In it is the tomb of Sphaerus, who, they say, was charioteer to Pelops. In obedience forsooth to...

tomb

79 the height above the city ...to Poseidon the Isthmus and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helius the height above the city. Ever since, they say, the Isthmus has belonged to Poseidon. Worth seeing here...

the height above the city

72 underground descent ...and Palaemon himself. There is also what is called his Holy of Holies, and an underground descent to it, where they say that Palaemon is concealed. Whosoever, whether Corinthian...

underground descent

80 the tomb of Neleus ...after reading Eumelus. For he says that not even to Nestor did Sisyphus show the tomb of Neleus, because it must be kept unknown to everybody alike, and that Sisyphus is...

the tomb of Neleus

79 Cyrene ...and his followers. Aristaeus is said to have been a son of Apollo and Cyrene, and they say that, deeply grieved by the fate of Actaeon, and vexed alike with...

Cyrene

72 21.856169,32.818736,0 Eleans ...on at the Olympic games, the priestess of Demeter Chamyne, which office the Eleans bestow from time to time on different women. Maidens are not debarred from...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...end of the stadium, where is the starting-place for the runners, there is, the Eleans say, the tomb of Endymion. When you have passed beyond the stadium, at the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Athens ...and he appears to have been proud of the discovery, as on the statue at Athens he wrote the inscription: "Who first invented the method of starting the horses...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cladeus ...of the athletes, turned towards the southwest. On the other side of the Cladeus is the grave of Oenomaus, a mound of earth with a stone wall built round it...

Cladeus

75 21.75,37.75,0 Pylians ...from the river Alpheius, that in broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians." The Eleans convinced me that they are right. For the Alpheius does flow...

Pylians

78 Alpheius ...the land of the Pylians." The Eleans convinced me that they are right. For the Alpheius does flow through this district, and the passage cannot refer to another Pylus...

Alpheius

81 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...has it that the goddess received the surname for the following reason. Alpheius fell in love with Artemis, and then, realizing that persuasive entreaties would...

Alpheius

73 21.451667,37.6125,0 Pergamus ...for there is a tomb of a Silenus in the land of the Hebrews, and of another at Pergamus. In the market-place of Elis I saw something else, a low structure in the form...

Pergamus

81 27.184167,39.1325,0 Triphylia ...to be of Poseidon, and to have been worshipped in ancient times at Samicum in Triphylia. Transferred to Elis it received still greater honor, but the Eleans call it...

Triphylia

80 21.75,37.75,0 Ionians ...tomb being in the deme of Potamus. The descendants of Ion became rulers of the Ionians, until they themselves as well as the people were expelled by the Achaeans. The...

Ionians

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Argos ...marrying Automate and Archander Scaea. A very clear proof that they settled in Argos is the fact that Archander named his son Metanastes (Settler). When the sons...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athens ...matter to the Delphic oracle, and the Pythian priestess gave the kingdom of Athens to Medon. So Neileus and the rest of the sons of Codrus set out to found a...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thespians ...was when Iolaus of Thebes, the nephew of Heracles, led the Athenians and Thespians to Sardinia. One generation before the Ionians set sail from Athens, the...

Thespians

75 23.154521,38.293384,0 Pelasgians ...Athens, the Lacedemonians and Minyans who had been expelled from Lemnos by the Pelasgians were led by the Theban Theras, the son of Autesion, to the island now called...

Pelasgians

81 22.25,39.75,0 Ionians ...on their mother's side, Athenians. Those who shared in the expedition of the Ionians were the following among the Greeks: some Thebans under Philotas, a descendant...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Athens ...that this sanctuary was founded by the Amazons during their campaign against Athens and Theseus. It is a fact that the women from the Thermodon, as they knew the...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Clarus ...and Smyrnaeans who fell in the battle is on the left of the road as you go to Clarus. The city of Lebedus was razed to the ground by Lysimachus, simply in order...

Clarus

80 27.19292,38.00466,0 Teians ...of Melanthus, who showed no hostility either to the Orchomenians or to the Teians. A few years later there came men from Athens and from Boeotia; the Attic...

Teians

77 26.785014,38.177262,0 Ionia ...Erythrae when Cleopus the son of Codrus gathered men from all the cities of Ionia, so many from each, and introduced them as settlers among the Erythraeans. The...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Olympia ...reasons; the other "amber" is an alloy of gold and silver. In the temple at Olympia are four offerings of Nero – three crowns representing wild-olive leaves, and...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delphi ...bone. Marvelling at its size he kept it hidden in the sand. At last he went to Delphi, to inquire whose the bone was, and what he ought to do with it. It happened...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleans ...sacrifice to Zeus Averter of Flies, to drive the flies out of Olympia. The Eleans are wont to use for the sacrifices to Zeus the wood of the white poplar and of...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Pisa ...did much grievous harm to the Eleans. But when he died, since the people of Pisa refused to participate as a people in their tyrant's sins, and the Eleans too...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Eleans ...guides. Some have said that they are the Aetolians with Oxylus and the ancient Eleans, and that they are meeting in remembrance of their original descent and as a...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Sicyon ...itself to me. Cypselus and his ancestors came originally from Gonussa above Sicyon, and one of their ancestors was Melas, the son of Antasus. But, as I have...

Sicyon

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Olympia ...must not omit the story told by Aristarchus, the guide to the sights at Olympia. He said that in his day the roof of the Heraeum had fallen into decay. When...

Olympia

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...time another incident took place, which I will relate. A Roman senator won an Olympic victory. Wishing to leave behind, as a memorial of his victory, a bronze statue...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...up, won other victories elsewhere, besides in the pancratium and wrestling at Olympia. Afterwards others were fined by the Eleans, among whom was an Alexandrian...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Apollonia ...are the work of Lycius, the son of Myron, and were dedicated by the people of Apollonia on the Ionian Sea. There are also elegiac verses written in ancient characters...

Apollonia

80 19.470413,40.720583,0 Apollonia ...Afterwards, however, they were conquered in war and expelled by the people of Apollonia, their neighbors. Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of...

Apollonia

80 19.470413,40.720583,0 Asopus ...was. The Phliasians also dedicated a Zeus, the daughters of Asopus, and Asopus himself. Their images have been ordered thus: Nemea is the first of the...

Asopus

75 22.75,37.75,0 Aegina ...thus: Nemea is the first of the sisters, and after her comes Zeus seizing Aegina; by Aegina stands Harpina, who, according to the tradition of the Eleans and...

Aegina

76 23.42372,37.74991,0 Triphylia ...mainland, the Tenians and the Lepreans, who were the only people from Triphylia, but from the Aegean and the Cyclades there came not only the Tenians but also...

Triphylia

72 21.75,37.75,0 Eleans ...but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of these...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Gereatis ...and are in the district of Catana. Greater Hybla is entirely uninhabited, but Gereatis is a village of Catana, with a sanctuary of the goddess Hyblaea which is held...

Gereatis

80 14.90091,37.567342,0 Phocian ...the Thessalians went to war with Phocis and dedicated the offering from Phocian plunder, this could not have been the so-called "Sacred War," 62 but must have...

Phocian

74 22.25,38.25,0 Egyptian ...entrance of the theater which they call the Odeum (Music Hall) are statues of Egyptian kings. They are all alike called Ptolemy, but each has his own surname. For...

Egyptian

80 cities ...the Laconian war was dragging on, Antigonus, having recovered the Macedonian cities, hastened to the Peloponnesus being well aware that if Pyrrhus were to reduce...

cities

79 city ...when the Athenians had gone on board their ships and the King captured the city emptied of its able-bodied inhabitants. There is also a boar-hunt (I do not...

city

77 city ...the Academy is an altar to Prometheus, and from it they run to the city carrying burning torches. The contest is while running to keep the torch still...

city

69 city ...won secure pos session until Philip gave it to them after taking Thebes. The city is on the coast and affords nothing remarkable to record. About twelve stades...

city

79 city ...Rock of Athena Aethyia (Gannet). He receives honors from the Megarians in the city as well. Near the shrine of the hero Pandion is the tomb of Hippolyte. I will...

city

80 Pessinus ...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. They...

Pessinus

79 31.58297,39.33149,0 sanctuary of Zeus ...king kept them prisoners at Cichyrus. Among the sights of Thesprotia are a sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona and an oak sacred to the god. Near Cichyrus is a lake called...

sanctuary of Zeus

78 land ...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...

land

77 Island of Patroclus ...in a dream. There are islands not far from Attica. Of the one called the Island of Patroclus I have already given an account. There is another when you have sailed past...

Island of Patroclus

76 23.875,37.625,0 Egypt ...just as a lyre does when struck. This made me marvel, but the colossus in Egypt made me marvel far more than anything else. In Egyptian Thebes, on crossing the...

Egypt

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 statues of the eponymoi ...to retire from the sea into the country which they still hold. After the statues of the eponymoi come statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Eirene (Peace) carrying the boy Plutus...

statues of the eponymoi

76 Eleusis ...that these people too were of those who had held of no account the rites at Eleusis. For the Greeks of an earlier period looked upon the Eleusinian mysteries as...

Eleusis

78 23.538311,38.041096,0 Tithoreans ...the holiest of all those made by the Greeks for the Egyptian goddess. For the Tithoreans think it wrong to dwell round about it, and no one may enter the shrine except...

Tithoreans

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Phoenicia ...he had seen he departed this life. I have heard a similar story from a man of Phoenicia, that the Egyptians hold the feast for Isis at a time when they say she is...

Phoenicia

81 35.25,33.25,0 Amphicleans ...this god is their prophet and their helper in disease. The diseases of the Amphicleans themselves and of their neighbors are cured by means of dreams. The oracles of...

Amphicleans

77 22.5813,38.6424,0 Elateia ...of the god, and with his army stayed behind in Phocis, becoming the founder of Elateia. Elateia must be numbered among the cities of the Phocians burnt by the...

Elateia

81 22.782061,38.645635,0 Athenians ...in relief a copy of what at Athens is wrought on the shield of her whom the Athenians call the Virgin. To reach Abae and Hyampolis from Elateia you may go along a...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...war some Phocians, overcome in battle, took refuge in Abae. Whereupon the Thebans gave them to the flames, and with the refugees the sanctuary, which was thus...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Parnassus ...of the creature serves as a dye for wool. Ambrossus lies at the foot of Mount Parnassus, on the side opposite to Delphi. They say that the city was named after...

Parnassus

81 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Thebans ...after Ambrossus, a hero. On going to war with Philip and his Macedonians the Thebans drew round Ambrossus a double wall. It is made of a local stone, black in color...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Medeon ...was a contemporary of Heracles. The city lies over against the ruins of Medeon. I have mentioned in the beginning of my account of Phocis that the people of...

Medeon

75 22.6827,38.36754,0 Anticyra ...I have mentioned in the beginning of my account of Phocis that the people of Anticyra were guilty of sacrilege against the sanctuary at Delphi. They were driven from...

Anticyra

79 22.626059,38.375439,0 Cirrhaeans ...the Amphictyons captured the city. They exacted punishment from the Cirrhaeans on behalf of the god, and Cirrha is the port of Delphi. Its notable sights...

Cirrhaeans

70 22.450621,38.428937,0 Adrasteia ...of Apollo, Artemis and Leto, with very large images of Attic workmanship. Adrasteia has been set up by the Cirrhaeans in the same place, but she is not so large as...

Adrasteia

76 27.191289,40.383655,0 Amphissa ...city is beautifully constructed, and its most notable objects are the tomb of Amphissa and the tomb of Andraemon. With him was buried, they say, his wife Gorge...

Amphissa

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Lacedemonians ...at Lacedemon, and how, after the Athenian disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians expelled the Messenians from Naupactus, all this I have fully related in my...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Clarus ...This Sibyl passed the greater part of her life in Samos, but she also visited Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi. Whenever she visited Delphi...

Clarus

80 27.19292,38.00466,0 Thebans ...stored the gold from Lydia. The image of Heracles is a votive offering of the Thebans, sent when they had fought what is called the Sacred War against the Phocians...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Taras ...as killed in the fighting, and on his prostrate body stand the hero Taras and Phalanthus of Lacedemon, near whom is a dolphin. For they say that before...

Taras

70 17.228553,40.476034,0 Tenedos ...who make a stern refusal: "So and so has cut whatever it may be with an axe of Tenedos." The Greeks say that while Tennes was defending his country he was killed by...

Tenedos

81 26.0497905,39.8278355,0 Plataeans ...by the Megarians to commemorate a victory over the Athenians at Nisaea. The Plataeans have dedicated an ox, an offering made at the time when, in their own...

Plataeans

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Attica ...oldest writer to describe the customs of the Athenians, says in his account of Attica that when the Athenians were preparing the Sicilian expedition a vast flock of...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Cyrenaeans ...other omens that told the Athenians to beware of sailing against Sicily. The Cyrenaeans have dedicated at Delphi a figure of Battus in a chariot; he it was who brought...

Cyrenaeans

79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Liparaeans ...thing that happened to the Liparaeans in a war with the Etruscans. For the Liparaeans were bidden by the Pythian priestess to engage the Etruscans with the fewest...

Liparaeans

77 14.95373,38.46708,0 Ilians ...at the height of their sea power, they overcame all in Sardinia except the Ilians and Corsicans, who were kept from slavery by the strength of the mountains...

Ilians

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sardinia ...which is the Cyrnian word for fugitives. These are the races that dwell in Sardinia, and such was the method of their settlement. The northern part of the island...

Sardinia

78 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Sardinia ...the ground here. Others say that the cause is Cyrnus, which is separated from Sardinia by no more than eight stades of sea, and is hilly and high all over. So they...

Sardinia

80 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Sicyonians ...victims of a certain kind and of a certain number. Well, they conquered the Sicyonians in battle. But finding the daily fulfillment of their vow a great expense and a...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aetolians ...Massiliots as firstfruits of their naval victory over the Carthaginians. The Aetolians have made a trophy and the image of an armed woman, supposed to represent...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Thrace ...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...

Thrace

76 27.5,42.5,0 Arcadia ...Tegeans five hundred, and five hundred from Mantineia; from Orchomenus in Arcadia a hundred and twenty; from the other cities in Arcadia one thousand; from...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...not even these remained all the time guarding the pass; for if we except the Lacedemonians, Thespians and Mycenaeans, the rest left the field before the conclusion of the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thermopylae ...to the camp at Thermopylae less than one half. Meantime the Greeks at Thermopylae were faring as follows. There are two paths across Mount Oeta: the one above...

Thermopylae

73 22.538294,38.796511,0 Boeotians ...took the field, and as they marched through Boeotia they were joined by the Boeotians. Thus the combined armies followed the barbarians, lying in wait and killing...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Olympia ...after the sacrifice they caught the fish, and dedicated their offerings at Olympia and at Delphi with a tithe of their catch. Next to this are offerings of the...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thebes ...Argives, likenesses of the captains of those who with Polyneices made war on Thebes: Adrastus, the son of Talaus, Tydeus, son of Oeneus, the descendants of...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argive ...people bordering on the territory of Tarentum, and are works of Ageladas the Argive. Tarentum is a colony of the Lacedemonians, and its founder was Phalanthus, a...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Delphi ...a Spartan. On setting out to found a colony Phalanthus received an oracle from Delphi, declaring that when he should feel rain under a cloudless sky (aethra), he...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sicyon ...the cities from which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says...

Sicyon

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Corinth ...Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that from the spoils taken in these sea-battles a...

Corinth

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Trojan ...was younger than she was, but nevertheless she too was clearly born before the Trojan war, as she foretold in her oracles that Helen would be brought up in Sparta to...

Trojan

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Marpessus ...eater of corn; On my mother's side of Idaean birth, but my fatherland was red Marpessus, sacred to the Mother, and the river Aedoneus. Even today there remain on...

Marpessus

80 26.520832,39.87918,0 Paeonian ...is long, and perhaps similar things may occur again. A bronze head of the Paeonian bull called the bison was sent to Delphi by the Paeonian king Dropion, son of...

Paeonian

77 21.75,41.75,0 Iapygians ...the Argive, and consist of statues of footmen and horsemen – Opis, king of the Iapygians, come to be an ally to the Peucetii. Opis is represented as killed in the...

Iapygians

81 16.75,40.75,0 Crisaean ...they say that before Phalanthus reached Italy, he suffered shipwreck in the Crisaean sea, and was brought ashore by a dolphin. The axes were dedicated by...

Crisaean

78 22.468944599999986,38.4753859,0 Delphi ...king, besides dedicating at Olympia a bronze Zeus, dedicated also an Apollo at Delphi, from spoils taken in the naval actions at Artemisium and Salamis. There is...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Attica ...of the population was the army of Iolaus, consisting of Thespians and men from Attica, which put in at Sardinia and founded Olbia; by themselves the Athenians...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Aeginetan ...but their shape is that of the wild ram which an artist would carve in Aeginetan style, except that their breasts are too shaggy to liken them to Aeginetan art...

Aeginetan

73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Delphi ...was not a short one, and being unable to take the city, they sent envoys to Delphi, to whom was given the following response: Dwellers in the land of Pelops and...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Molossians ...of Apollo. The Ambraciots dedicated also a bronze ass, having conquered the Molossians in a night battle. The Molossians had prepared an ambush for them by night. It...

Molossians

78 20.924639999999997,39.271716,0 Methymna ...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...

Methymna

81 26.489422,39.05495,0 Athenian ...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...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Smyrna ...used by the Smyrnaeans, to my knowledge, more than by any other Greeks. For at Smyrna also there is a sanctuary of Voices outside the wall and beyond the city. The...

Smyrna

81 27.1383,38.41905,0 Euripus ...by the movement of his whole body. He also composed for the Chalcidians on the Euripus a processional tune for their use in Delos. So the Thebans set up here a statue...

Euripus

81 23.58944,38.46276,0 Messene ...turned to the founding of Messene. Epaminondas, was the founder of the modern Messene, and the history of its foundation I have included in my account of the...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Thebes ...included in my account of the Messenians themselves. Meanwhile the allies of Thebes scattered and overran the Laconian territory, pillaging what it contained. This...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...Teiresias, about fifteen stades from the grave of the children of Oedipus. The Thebans themselves agree that Teiresias met his end in Haliartia, and admit that the...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Chalcis ...a torrent, they call the Thermodon. Returning to Teumessus and the road to Chalcis, you come to the tomb of Chalcodon, who was killed by Amphitryon in a fight...

Chalcis

77 23.602,38.464,0 Thebans ...to the tomb of Chalcodon, who was killed by Amphitryon in a fight between the Thebans and the Euboeans. Adjoining are the ruins of the cities Harma (Chariot) and...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tanagra ...(Chariot) and Mycalessus. The former got its name, according to the people of Tanagra, because the chariot of Amphiaraus disappeared here, and not where the Thebans...

Tanagra

80 23.587064,38.309371,0 Aulis ...mentioned by Homer in the Iliad. The story is that the Greeks were kept at Aulis by contrary winds, and when suddenly a favouring breeze sprang up, each...

Aulis

77 23.5925,38.4335,0 Tanagra ...and Harma, is tilled by the people of Tanagra. Within the territory of Tanagra is what is called Delium on Sea. In it are images of Artemis and Leto. The...

Tanagra

74 23.587064,38.309371,0 Tanagra ...driven to the sea. He used even to attack small vessels, until the people of Tanagra set out for him a bowl of wine. They say that, attracted by the smell, he came...

Tanagra

79 23.587064,38.309371,0 Hyettus ...stades from it is Olmones, and some seven stades distant from Olmones is Hyettus both right from their foundation to the present day have been villages. In my...

Hyettus

75 23.103304,38.55756,0 Delphi ...the son of Creon. He committed suicide in obedience to the oracle from Delphi, at the time when Polyneices and the host with him arrived from Argos. On the...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dirce ...to the burning pyre of Eteocles and threw him on it. There is a river called Dirce after the wife of Lycus. The story goes that Antiope was ill-treated by this...

Dirce

80 Thespiae ...accursed and hateful crimes against his wedded wives. The modern Love at Thespiae was made by the Athenian Menodorus, who copied the work of Praxiteles. Here...

Thespiae

75 23.154521,38.293384,0 Boeotians ...of Erythrae in Ionia and of Tyre possessed sanctuaries. Nevertheless, the Boeotians were not unacquainted with this name of Heracles, seeing that they themselves...

Boeotians

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Idaean ...say that the sanctuary of Demeter of Mycalessus has been entrusted to Idaean Heracles. Helicon is one of the mountains of Greece with the most fertile soil...

Idaean

72 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Thermopylae ...had befallen them, and at once with all speed removed their forces from Thermopylae and hastened to Aetolia, being exasperated at the sufferings of the Callians...

Thermopylae

74 22.538294,38.796511,0 Athenians ...envelopment of the Greek army was quite complete on all sides. Whereupon the Athenians with the fleet succeeded in withdrawing in time the Greek forces from...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aetolians ...and later on Philomelus brought one thousand two hundred. The flower of the Aetolians turned against the army of Acichorius, and without offering battle attacked...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Parnassus ...there came on a severe frost, and snow with it; and great rocks slipping from Parnassus, and crags breaking away, made the barbarians their target, the crash of which...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Delphi ...in groups, keeping guard or taking rest. At sunrise the Greeks came on from Delphi, making a frontal attack with the exception of the Phocians, who, being more...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...was victor in the footrace. In the following year, when Democles was archon at Athens, the Celts crossed back again to Asia. Such was the course of the war. In the...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lesbos ...were: from Ionia, Thales of Miletus and Bias of Priene; of the Aeolians in Lesbos, Pittacus of Mitylene; of the Dorians in Asia, Cleobulus of Lindus; Solon of...

Lesbos

77 26.10052,39.20874,0 Trojans ...the only one of the Greek army represented by Polygnotus as still killing the Trojans, the reason being that he intended the whole painting to be placed over the...

Trojans

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Tithorea ...people dwelling here fled up to the summit, and that the city's name was Neon, Tithorea being the name of the peak of Parnassus. It appears, then, that at first...

Tithorea

81 22.66931,38.58344,0 Maeander ...by inviting them in dreams. The same rule is observed in the cities above the Maeander by the gods of the lower world; for to all whom they wish to enter their...

Maeander

80 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Lilaea ...wells up. You could compare the roar of the water to the bellowing of a bull. Lilaea has a temperate climate in autumn, in summer, and in spring; but Mount...

Lilaea

80 22.50592,38.62687,0 Athenian ...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...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lamian ...foreigners on two sides. But the Athenians on the fleet suffered most, for the Lamian gulf is a swamp near Thermopylae – the reason being, I think, the hot water...

Lamian

81 22.43516,38.9046,0 Calydonia ...took refuge with Diomedes at Argos, who aided him by an expedition into Calydonia, but said that he could not remain with him, and urged Oeneus to accompany him...

Calydonia

74 21.533106,38.372423,0 Tiryns ...on from here and turning to the right, you come to the ruins of Tiryns. The Tirynthians also were removed by the Argives, who wished to make Argos...

Tiryns

66 22.80004,37.59918,0 Samos ...from Erythrae and from Teos. The cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and Chios opposite Mimas. Asius, the son of Amphiptolemus...

Samos

77 26.84,37.73,0 Chios ...there was a fall of snow (chion), and that accordingly Poseidon called his son Chios. Ion also says that Poseidon had intercourse with another nymph, by whom he had...

Chios

81 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Chios ...Melas; that in course of time Oenopion too sailed with a fleet from Crete to Chios, accompanied by his sons Talus, Euanthes, Melas, Salagus and Athamas. Carians...

Chios

79 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Abantes ...and Athamas. Carians too came to the island, in the reign of Oenopion, and Abantes from Euboea. Oenopion and his sons were succeeded by Amphiclus, who because of...

Abantes

78 23.75,38.75,0 Mesate ...that when the raft reached the Ionian Sea it came to rest at the cape called Mesate (Middle) which is on the mainland, just midway between the harbor of the...

Mesate

79 26.31361,38.37715,0 Clazomenians ...the clefts of the rock, filled by the tide, others made to display wealth. The Clazomenians have baths (incidentally they worship Agamemnon) and a cave called the cave of...

Clazomenians

81 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Olympia ...would surely have had their name inscribed on the offering of the Greeks at Olympia. My view is that they stayed at home to guard their several fatherlands, while...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Trojan ...they stayed at home to guard their several fatherlands, while because of the Trojan war they scorned to be led by Dorians of Lacedemon. This became plain in course...

Trojan

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Macedonians ...Greeks, the Achaeans took part in the battle of Chaeroneia against the Macedonians under Philip, but they say that they did not march out into Thessaly to what is...

Macedonians

73 21.75,41.25,0 Leuctra ...were still prevented from recovering their former prosperity by the reverse at Leuctra combined with the union of the Arcadians at Megalopolis and the settlement of...

Leuctra

81 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenians ...combined with the union of the Arcadians at Megalopolis and the settlement of Messenians on their border. Thebes had been brought so low by Alexander that when, a few...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pellene ...acted for itself alone, the Achaeans enjoyed their greatest power. For except Pellene no Achaean city had at any time suffered from tyranny, while the disasters of...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Sicyonians ...king of the other royal house, won a decisive victory at Dyme over the Sicyonians under Aratus, who attacked him, and afterwards concluded a peace with the...

Sicyonians

73 22.71135,37.98336,0 Arcadia ...where they were defeated by the Achaeans under Antigonus. In my account of Arcadia I shall again have occasion to mention Cleomenes. When Philip, the son of...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Euripus ...its citadel; to watch Euboea, the Boeotians and the Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the Thessalians themselves and the Aetolian people Philip occupied...

Euripus

79 23.58944,38.46276,0 Rome ...the Achaeans, fled to Metellus and the other commissioners who had come from Rome. They had come, not at all to bring war upon Philip and the Macedonians, as...

Rome

79 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Lacedemonians ...I referred Metellus and the other commissioners resolved not to overlook the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and asked the officers of the League to summon the Achaeans...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...of the Lacedemonians and opposed the Achaeans in everything, the plans of the Messenian and Achaean exiles were bound to enjoy an easy success. Despatches were at once...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Rome ...of the Macedonian empire. Perseus, the son of Philip, who was at peace with Rome in accordance with a treaty his father Philip had made, resolved to break the...

Rome

79 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaean ...to Perseus. I am therefore ready to submit to trial either before the Achaean diet or before the Romans themselves." This frank speech was prompted by a...

Achaean

72 Macedonian ...as the Athenians at the time suffered the direst poverty, because the Macedonian war had crushed them more than any other Greeks. So the Oropians appealed to...

Macedonian

72 21.75,41.25,0 Sicyonians ...them to Oropus. When the Athenians did not appear in time for the trial, the Sicyonians inflicted on them a fine of five hundred talents, which the Roman senate on the...

Sicyonians

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Oropians ...to give it out of friendship and respect for the Athenians. Thereupon the Oropians promised Menalcidas, a Lacedemonian who was then general of the Achaeans, a...

Oropians

76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Messene ...manner Eira would be captured, and this too is one of his oracles: "The men of Messene o'ercome by the thunder's roll and spouting rain. When the mysteries were...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Argives ...then sacrificed to Dionysus and Apollo Ismenius in the accustomed manner, the Argives to Argive Hera and Nemean Zeus, the Messenians to Zeus of Ithome and the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...had, and while praying continually to the gods for their return begged the Messenians to grant protection to themselves. The Messenians returned to Peloponnese and...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Plataeans ...of Thurii was victorious for the second time. It was no short time for the Plataeans that they were in exile from their country, and for the Delians when they...

Plataeans

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Argives ...the Messenians. The Messenians maintained the war with the help of the Argives and Arcadians, and asked the Athenians for help. They refused to join in an...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenia ...to render assistance in person if the Lacedemonians began war and invaded Messenia. Finally the Messenians formed an alliance with Philip the son of Amyntas and...

Messenia

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...effecting anything, by occupying beforehand the passes from Arcadia into Messenia with the Messenians from the city and troops from the surrounding districts...

Messenia

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Abia ...turn to a description of the country and cities. There is in our time a city Abia in Messenia on the coast, some twenty stades distant from the Choerius valley...

Abia

80 22.142494,36.964322,0 Smyrna ...temple-architect and carver of images, who made the statue of Fortune at Smyrna, was the first whom we know to have represented her with the heavenly sphere...

Smyrna

75 27.14781,38.440912,0 Pharae ...to Fortune, and it is he who called her Supporter of the City. Not far from Pharae is a grove of Apollo Carneius and a spring of water in it. Pharae is about six...

Pharae

79 21.717095,38.093144,0 Phocis ...nor have I heard the account of any eye-witness; but the walls at Ambrossos in Phocis, at Byzantium and at Rhodes, all of them the most strongly fortified places...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Messenians ...of Leucippus. I have already explained in an earlier passage that the Messenians argue that the sons of Tyndareus belong to them rather than to the...

Messenians

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ptoan ...oracles and to enquire of the god of Lebadeia. The replies of the Ismenian and Ptoan Apollo are recorded, also the responses given at Abae and at Delphi...

Ptoan

81 23.251,38.459,0 Abae ...of the Ismenian and Ptoan Apollo are recorded, also the responses given at Abae and at Delphi. Trophonius, they say, answered in hexameters: "Or ever ye join...

Abae

77 22.9154,38.58006,0 Messenian ...statue of Zeus is the work of Ageladas and was made originally for the Messenian settlers in Naupactus. The priest is chosen annually and keeps the image in his...

Messenian

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Colonides ...as the old Asine in Argive territory. It is a journey of forty stades from Colonides to Asine, and of an equal number from Asine to the promontory called Acritas...

Colonides

77 21.928788,36.836082,0 Cyzicos ...and water in a well mixed with pitch, in appearance very like the iris-oil of Cyzicos. Water can assume every color and scent. The bluest that I know from personal...

Cyzicos

80 27.874127,40.389806,0 Atarneus ...Astyra opposite Lesbos is the name of the hot baths in the district called Atarneus. It was this Atarneus, which the Chians received as a reward from the Persians...

Atarneus

77 26.92073,39.09127,0 Arcadians ...the remaining three to the Dorians. Of the races dwelling in Peloponnesus the Arcadians and Achaeans are aborigines. When the Achaeans were driven from their land by...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaeans ...underwent a nominal trial at Sparta, and were condemned to death. The Achaeans on their side despatched to Rome Callicrates and Diaeus to oppose the exiles...

Achaeans

72 Sparta ...the Achaeans before making the crossing. They were to order them not to attack Sparta, but to await the arrival from Rome of the envoys sent for the purpose of...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...of the arbitrators from Rome. But he invented another trick to embarrass the Lacedemonians. He induced the towns around Sparta to be friendly to the Achaeans, and even...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...poison. Such was the end of Menalcidas. At the time he was in command of the Lacedemonians, and previously he had commanded the Achaeans. In the former office he proved a...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...than ill-luck. But it was such a combination that overthrew Critolaus and the Achaeans. The Achaeans were also encouraged by Pytheas, who at that time was Boeotarch...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...Macedonia through Thessaly and along the gulf of Lamia. But Critolaus and the Achaeans would listen to no suggestions for an agreement, and sat down to besiege...

Achaeans

80 Heracleia ...would listen to no suggestions for an agreement, and sat down to besiege Heracleia, which refused to join the Achaean League. Then, when Critolaus was informed...

Heracleia

75 22.442503,38.790767,0 Heracleia ...in Locris, without daring even to draw up the Achaeans in the pass between Heracleia and Thermopylae, and to await Metellus there. To such a depth of terror did he...

Heracleia

77 22.442503,38.790767,0 Theban ...the gods or the destruction of buildings, and he forbade his men to kill any Theban or take prisoner any fugitive. If, however, Pytheas should be caught, he was to...

Theban

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...men under his command and seeking his own death. But Diaeus having ruined the Achaeans came to tell the tidings of disaster to the people of Megalopolis, killed his...

Achaeans

80 Corinthian ...he gave to Philopoemen, the general sent by Attalus; even in my day there were Corinthian spoils at Pergamus. The walls of all the cities that had made war against Rome...

Corinthian

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Patrae ...over Dyme to be sacked by his soldiery. Afterwards Augustus annexed it to Patrae. Its more ancient name was Paleia, but the Ionians changed this to its modern...

Patrae

76 21.738518,38.243265,0 Aetolians ...own account crossed into Aetolia; they did this out of friendship for the Aetolians, to help them in their war with the Gauls, and no other Achaeans joined them...

Aetolians

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Calydon ...after a man of Phocis, because the ancient image of Artemis was set up at Calydon by Laphrius, the son of Castalius, the son of Delphus. Others say that the...

Calydon

76 21.533106,38.372423,0 Delphi ...occurred of an unusually fatal character. When they appealed to the oracle at Delphi the Pythian priestess accused Melanippus and Comaetho. The oracle ordered that...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Patraeans ...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...

Patraeans

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Troy ...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...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Delphi ...his voyage to Thessaly, but made for the town and gulf of Cirrha. Going up to Delphi he inquired of the oracle about his illness. They say that the oracle given...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pharae ...is an altar of unshaped stones. I could not discover whether the founder of Pharae was Phares, son of Phylodameia, daughter of Danais, or someone else with the...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Sparta ...Peloponnesus, and having been caught by some Lacedemonians he was brought to Sparta, convicted of treachery by the Lacedemonians and sentenced to death. If...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Parrhasian ...Olympia, which runs: "This statue was dedicated by Damarchus, son of Dinytas, Parrhasian by birth from Arcadia." Here the inscription ends. Eubotas of Cyrene, when the...

Parrhasian

80 22.25,37.25,0 Cleitor ...an Azanian from Pellana, who beat the boys at boxing, and Critodamus from Cleitor, who like Philip was proclaimed victor in the boys' boxing match. The statue of...

Cleitor

76 22.103248,37.892704,0 Pellene ...the Azanian by Myron. The story of Promachus, son of Dryon, a pancratiast of Pellene, will be included in my account of the Achaeans. Not far from Promachus is set...

Pellene

79 22.5384,38.0446,0 Delphi ...chest, but found no Cleomedes, either alive or dead. So they sent envoys to Delphi to ask what had happened to Cleomedes. The response given by the Pythian...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Laconian ...in Greece to dedicate his statue at Olympia. For the offering of Evagoras the Laconian consists of the chariot without a figure of Evagoras himself; the offerings of...

Laconian

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Syracuse ...After the death of Agathocles, a former tyrant, tyranny again sprung up at Syracuse in the person of this Hiero, who came to power in the second year of the...

Syracuse

77 15.29382,37.05963,0 Olympia ...of Triteia, the son of Haemostratus, won the boxing-match for men at Olympia, Nemea, Pytho and the Isthmus; they also declare that the Tritaeans are...

Olympia

71 21.630126,37.637849,0 Nemea ...men's match and was proclaimed victor. He was afterwards proclaimed victor at Nemea also and at the Isthmus. But when he was twenty years old he met his death...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Lepreus ...and at the Isthmus. The statue of the boy runner Xenon, son of Calliteles from Lepreus in Triphylia, was made by Pyrilampes the Messenan; who made the statue of...

Lepreus

81 21.724777,37.439599,0 Eleans ...that it was dedicated by Achaeans, because he made peace between them and the Eleans, and procured the release of those who had been made prisoners by both sides...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Sardes ...Chios, victorious in the boys' boxing-match, the artist being Theomnestus of Sardes. The statue of Cleitomachus of Thebes was dedicated by his father Hermocrates...

Sardes

79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Olympic ...won his victory in the pancratium at the hundred and forty-first Olympic Festival. The next Festival saw this Cleitomachus a competitor in the...

Olympic

67 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elean ...father of Demetrius and the statue of Seleucus were dedicated by Tydeus the Elean. The fame of Seleucus became great among all men especially because of the...

Elean

78 21.25,37.75,0 Pytho ...inscription on his statue declares) a victory in the race run in armour, at Pytho a victory in the double race, and at Nemea in the race for boys in the...

Pytho

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argives ...had been omitted from the Nemean and Isthmian games, but was restored to the Argives for their winter Nemean games by the emperor Hadrian. Quite close to the...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pytho ...of his great renown, for he won at Olympia five victories in running, at Pytho four victories, at Nemea four, and at the Isthmus eleven. The statue of...

Pytho

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Leontini ...school. Gorgias, they say, lived to be one hundred and five years old. Leontini was once laid waste by the Syracusans, but in my time was again...

Leontini

73 15.002988,37.279759,0 Locrian ...Myanians on the shield are in my opinion the same folk as the Myonians on the Locrian mainland. The letters on the shield are a little distorted, a fault due to the...

Locrian

80 22.75,38.75,0 Syracusans ...a huge image of Zeus and three linen breast-plates, dedicated by Gelo and the Syracusans after overcoming the Phoenicians in either a naval or a land battle. The third...

Syracusans

80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Olympia ...resistance. He had previously been victorious in the long foot race at Olympia. Aristomenes collected the Messenian survivors after the battle and persuaded...

Olympia

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Messenians ...Pythia was this wild fig-tree, and that their fate had already come upon the Messenians. He kept it secret from the rest, but led Aristomenes to the fig-tree and...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pythia ...toil? The decree of fate stands fast that Messene should fall; long since the Pythia declared to us the disaster now before our eyes, and lately the fig-tree...

Pythia

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messenians ...resolved to depart. Emperamus and the Spartans present were pleased to let the Messenians pass, without further inflaming men who had reached the bounds of frenzy and...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...some fifty of the Messenians to go back with him to Eira and attack the Lacedemonians, and coming upon them while they were still plundering, he turned their...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Rhegium ...Anaxilas sent to the Messenians and summoned them to Italy. He was tyrant of Rhegium, third in descent from Alcidamidas, who had left Messene for Rhegium after the...

Rhegium

79 15.649244,38.111146,0 Rhegium ...tyrant of Rhegium, third in descent from Alcidamidas, who had left Messene for Rhegium after the death of king Aristodemus and the capture of Ithome. So now this...

Rhegium

81 15.649244,38.111146,0 Sardis ...coming to Rhodes with his daughter, purposed to go up from there to Sardis to Ardys the son of Gyges, and to Ecbatana of the Medes to king Phraortes. But...

Sardis

70 28.040278,38.488333,0 Messenians ...The enemy, being far superior in numbers, had no difficulty in surrounding the Messenians, except where prevented by the gates in the Messenian rear and by the zealous...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Naupactus ...took place between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians. For they offered Naupactus as a base against Peloponnese, and Messenian slingers from Naupactus helped to...

Naupactus

76 22.315807,38.41224,0 Naupactus ...offered Naupactus as a base against Peloponnese, and Messenian slingers from Naupactus helped to capture the Spartans cut off in Sphacteria. When the Athenian...

Naupactus

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Ephesians ...Coresus were to say that they had dedicated an offering independently of the Ephesians as a body. There is also by the wall of the Altis a Zeus turned towards the...

Ephesians

79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Messenians ...flautist. The old inscription declared that the offerings were those of the Messenians at the strait; but afterwards Hippias, called "a sage" by the Greeks, composed...

Messenians

78 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Olympia ...the Agrigentines, who, having taken from them plunder and spoils, dedicated at Olympia the bronze boys, who are stretching out their right hands in an attitude of...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Rome ...eight, for the ninth, the statue of Odysseus, they say that Nero carried to Rome, but Agamemnon's statue is the only one of the eight to have his name...

Rome

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Thasus ...by descent, and sailed from Tyre, and from Phoenicia generally, together with Thasus, the son of Agenor, in search of Europa, dedicated at Olympia a Heracles, the...

Thasus

80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Sphacteria ...their offering came from their exploit with the Athenians in the island of Sphacteria, and that the name of their enemy was omitted through dread of the...

Sphacteria

77 21.665725,36.930136,0 Euxine ...the Mariandynians, their foreign neighbors. Heracleia is a city built on the Euxine sea, a colony of Megara, though the people of Tanagra in Boeotia joined in the...

Euxine

79 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Mendeans ...thigh: "To Zeus, king of the gods, as first-fruits was I placed here By the Mendeans, who reduced Sipte by might of hand." Sipte seems to be a Thracian fortress and...

Mendeans

78 23.419,39.964,0 Nemea ...boys was won by this Damiscus, who afterwards won in the pentathlum both at Nemea and at the Isthmus. Nearest to Damiscus stands a statue of somebody; they do...

Nemea

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Achaia ...Pison of Calaureia, who was the teacher of Damocritus. Cratinus of Aegeira in Achaia was the most handsome man of his time and the most skilful wrestler, and when...

Achaia

81 Achaeans ...had decided in favour of Eupolemus. The statue of Oebotas was set up by the Achaeans by the command of the Delphic Apollo in the eightieth Olympiad, but Oebotas won...

Achaeans

79 Olympia ...for boys besides two in the men's race. Statues of him have been set up at Olympia equal in number to the races he won. When he was a boy he was proclaimed a...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Epeirots ...Romans, several cities in Italy were destroyed, either by the Romans or by the Epeirots, and these included Caulonia, whose fate it was to be utterly laid waste...

Epeirots

81 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Achaia ...is a statue of Xenophon, the son of Menephylus, a pancratiast of Aegium in Achaia, and likewise one of Pyrilampes of Ephesus after winning the long foot-race...

Achaia

77 Olympus ...and likewise one of Pyrilampes of Ephesus after winning the long foot-race. Olympus made the statue of Xenophon; that of Pyrilampes was made by a sculptor of the...

Olympus

78 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Cnidus ...when fortune changed again, and Conon had won the naval action off Cnidus and the mountain called Dorium, the Ionians likewise changed their views, and...

Cnidus

69 27.37404,36.686188,0 Macedonia ...The man's name is Lampus, and his native city was the last to be founded in Macedonia, named after its founder Philip, son of Amyntas. The statue of Cyniscus, the...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Pherae ...native city of Polydamas, has now no inhabitants, for Alexander the tyrant of Pherae seized it in time of truce. It happened that an assembly of the citizens was...

Pherae

80 22.737728,39.384163,0 Calydon ...from Parnassus, the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we know crossed over from Calydon and Aetolia generally. Their earlier history I found to be as follows. The...

Calydon

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Isthmian ...put to flight the allies under Heracles, until the Corinthians proclaimed the Isthmian truce, and the sons of Actor came as envoys to the meeting. Heracles set an...

Isthmian

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Corinthians ...Olympia. As Cypselus died before inscribing his own name on the offering, the Corinthians asked of the Eleans leave to inscribe the name of Corinth on it, but were...

Corinthians

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Eleans ...story goes that the Pythian priestess ordained that Iphitus himself and the Eleans must renew the Olympic games. Iphitus also induced the Eleans to sacrifice to...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...that his father was Praxonides and not Haemon, while the ancient records of Elis traced him to a father of the same name. The Eleans played their part in the...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Trojan ...traced him to a father of the same name. The Eleans played their part in the Trojan war, and also in the battles of the Persian invasion of Greece. I pass over...

Trojan

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sardis ...against their friend, the Persian king. Cyrus, in fact, with his seat at Sardis, had been providing Lysander, the son of Aristocritus, and the Lacedemonians...

Sardis

75 28.040278,38.488333,0 Eleans ...for accepting the land from the Lacedemonians, and, obtaining pardon from the Eleans, dwelt securely in Scillus. Moreover, at a little distance from the sanctuary...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...These come down into the Alpheius from Arcadia; the Cladeus comes from Elis to join it. The source of the Alpheius itself is in Arcadia, and not in...

Elis

73 21.37493,37.89131,0 Mycale ...of the Alpheius is shared by a river of Ionia. The source of it is on Mount Mycale, and having gone through the intervening sea the river rises again opposite...

Mycale

78 27.12558,37.66144,0 Elis ...have described them. As for the Olympic games, the most learned antiquaries of Elis say that Cronus was the first king of heaven, and that in his honor a temple...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Achaean ...Thersius of Thessaly won the race for mule-carts, while Pataecus, an Achaean from Dyme, won the trotting-race. The trotting-race was for mares, and in the...

Achaean

71 Altis ...is olive oil that keeps the ivory from being harmed by the marshiness of the Altis. On the Athenian Acropolis the ivory of the image they call the Maiden is...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...woman was to be trusted, and placed the child before the army naked. When the Arcadians came on, the child turned at once into a snake. Thrown into disorder at the...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Parian ...from the tree. There is also a temple of Fortune, with a standing image of Parian marble. Beside it is a sanctuary for all the gods. Hard by is built a fountain...

Parian

78 25.150728,37.08579,0 portico ...the Parishes often differ altogether from those of the city. As you go to the portico which they call painted, because of its pictures, there is a bronze statue of...

portico

81 Greeks ...and when the fleet of Xerxes was defeated, these also were killed after the Greeks had crossed over to Psyttalea. The island has no artistic statue, only some...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...of the Two Goddesses lies upon them even to this day, for they are the only Greeks that not even the emperor Hadrian could make more prosperous. After the...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...for Cephisus. That this habit has existed from ancient times among all the Greeks may be inferred from the poetry of Homer, who makes Peleus vow that on the safe...

Greeks

77 22.5,37.5,0 sanctuary of Artemis ...of that time. Not long after this Teleclus was murdered by Messenians in a sanctuary of Artemis. This sanctuary was built on the frontier of Laconia and Messenia, in a place...

sanctuary of Artemis

77 22.435,37.083,0 Italy ...cities two are said to have been founded by Aeneas when he was fleeing to Italy and had been driven into this gulf by storms. Etias, they allege, was a...

Italy

76 12.5,42.5,0 Greeks ...Perhaps it was from the Colchians that they heard the name Theritas, since the Greeks know of no Thero, nurse of Ares. My own belief is that the surname Theritas was...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Timocrates, a Rhodian ...by which to force the Lacedemonians to recall their army from Asia. He sent Timocrates, a Rhodian, to Greece with money, instructing him to stir up in Greece a war against the...

Timocrates, a Rhodian

78 28.15629,36.41451,0 sanctuary of Zeus Scotitas ...is not due to the unbroken woods but to Zeus surnamed Scotitas, and there is a sanctuary of Zeus Scotitas on the left of the road and about ten stades from it. If you go back from the...

sanctuary of Zeus Scotitas

81 Greece ...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...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...offerings and coined silver and gold. So he induced the Gauls to march against Greece. Among the officers he chose to be his colleagues was Acichorius. The muster...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...strongly urged a campaign against Greece, enlarging on the weakness of Greece at the time, on the wealth of the Greek states, and on the even greater wealth...

Greece

73 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...losses were heavy. But once more the Celts lacked courage to advance against Greece, and so the second expedition returned home. It was then that Brennus, both in...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...more because he was conscience-stricken at the calamities he had brought on Greece, he took his own life by drinking neat wine. After this the barbarians...

Greece

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...wetted by the waves, The first and only poet to sing of the woes of spacious Greece, For ever shall he be deathless and ageless." These things I have heard, and I...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...matters and legendary history. That there used to be many such places all over Greece is shown by Homer's words in the passage where Melantho abuses Odysseus: "And...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Rhoeus of Ambrossus ...commander of their cavalry was Daiphantes of Hyampolis, of their infantry Rhoeus of Ambrossus. But the office of commander-in-chief was held by Tellias, a seer of Elis, upon...

Rhoeus of Ambrossus

76 22.66763,38.42845,0 Greece ...and full brother of Dorieus. At this time Xerxes led his host against Greece, and Leonidas with three hundred Lacedemonians met him at Thermopylae. Now...

Greece

72 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...men he led to Thermopylae, and they would have prevented him from even seeing Greece at all, and from ever burning Athens, if the man of Trachis had not guided the...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...Spartan who was an ephor at the time, who was chiefly responsible for the war. Greece, that still stood firm, was shaken to its foundations by this war, and...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 temple of Zeus ...take part in the expedition to Asia, but considering it a bad omen that their temple of Zeus surnamed Olympian had been suddenly burnt down, they reluctantly remained...

temple of Zeus

80 Asia ...plundering the coastal districts. Among the ruins is a temple of Athena named Asia, made, it is said, by Polydeuces and Castor on their return home from Colchis...

Asia

81 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...became king, and the Lacedemonians resolved to cross with a fleet to Asia in order to put down Artaxerxes, son of Dareius. For they were informed by...

Asia

71 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Hieronymus of Andros ...Olympia, but came away defeated. And yet he was first in two events, beating Hieronymus of Andros in running and in jumping. But when he lost the wrestling bout to this...

Hieronymus of Andros

79 24.86222,37.8528,0 of Apollo ...Athena of the Market-place and of Poseidon surnamed Securer, and likewise one of Apollo and of Hera. There is also dedicated a colossal statue of the Spartan People...

of Apollo

80 Corinth ...that I found most worthy of mention among the Phliasians. On the road from Corinth to Argos is a small city Cleonae. They say that Cleones was a son of Pelops...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...from Iolcus and bestowed upon her the kingdom. Through her Jason was king in Corinth, and Medea, as her children were born, carried each to the sanctuary of Hera...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...who was emperor of the Romans after Caesar, the founder of the modern Corinth. On leaving the market-place along the road to Lechaeum you come to a gateway...

Corinth

72 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock into the sea. As one goes up to Corinth are tombs, and by the gate is buried Diogenes of Sinope, whom the Greeks...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...knew where the grave was. The Isthmian games were not interrupted even when Corinth had been laid waste by Mummius, but so long as it lay deserted the celebration...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...it. The graves of Sisyphus and of Neleus – for they say that Neleus came to Corinth, died of disease, and was buried near the Isthmus – I do not think that anyone...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Messenians ...their utmost to drag him into their own ranks, as he still breathed. But the Messenians were roused by the affection which they felt for their king and by the reproach...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicyonians ...weapons, and as the matter was urgent, posted them with the Argives and Sicyonians, extending the line that they might not be surrounded by the enemy. He also...

Sicyonians

74 22.71135,37.98336,0 Arcadian ...protected with the skins of goats and sheep, some of them, particularly the Arcadian mountaineers, having the hides of wild beasts, wolves and bears. Each carried...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenian ...and training were more able to maintain a lengthy resistance. Then the mobile Messenian force, when the signal was given to them, charged the Lacedemonians and...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...pursue not only the task of war with the hand, but by guile a people holds the Messenian land, and by the same arts as they first employed shall the people fall. At...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...the wooden tripods, which had already been made, round the altar of the god of Ithome. It happened also that Ophioneus, the seer who had been blind from birth...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Ithome ...they left their rich tilled lands, and fled from out the lofty mountains of Ithome. Tyrtaeus, unknown location. This war came to an end in the first year of the...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Arcadians ...the Messenians who had ties with Sicyon and Argos and among any of the Arcadians retired to these states, but those who belonged to the family of the Priests...

Arcadians

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eleusis ...family of the Priests and performed the mysteries of the Great Goddesses, to Eleusis. The majority of the common people were scattered in their native towns, as...

Eleusis

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Lepreans ...Corinthians came to fight on the side of the Lacedemonians, and some of the Lepreans owing to their hatred of the Eleians. But the people of Asine were bound by...

Lepreans

78 21.724777,37.439599,0 Messenia ...by oaths to both sides. This spot, the Boar's Tomb, lies in Stenyclerus of Messenia, and there, as is said, Heracles exchanged oaths with the sons of Neleus over...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonian ...showed the zeal that befitted their age and strength, but Anaxander, the Lacedemonian king, and his Spartan guard above all. On the Messenian side the descendants of...

Lacedemonian

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...a large ransom, maidens, as when he captured them. There is a place Aegila in Laconia, where is a sanctuary sacred to Demeter. Aristomenes and his men knowing that...

Laconia

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...engagement was about to take place at what is called The Great Trench, and the Messenians had been joined by Arcadians from all the cities, the Lacedemonians bribed...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...should be left uncultivated during the war. As a result scarcity arose in Sparta, and with it revolution. For those who had property here could not endure its...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...and Sidectus. And having plundered the generals' tent, he made it clear to the Spartans that it was Aristomenes and no other Messenian who had done this. He also made...

Spartans

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ithome ...also made the sacrifice called the Offering for the hundred slain to Zeus of Ithome. This was an old-established custom, all Messenians making it who had slain...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Pythia ...saw it, he guessed that the goat who drinks of the Neda foretold by the Pythia was this wild fig-tree, and that their fate had already come upon the...

Pythia

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lepreans ...built of unburnt brick, and contained no image. Not far from the city of the Lepreans is a spring called Arene, and they say that it derives its name from the wife...

Lepreans

79 21.724777,37.439599,0 Anigrus ...and still more travellers on foot are in danger of sinking into it. The Anigrus descends from the mountain Lapithus in Arcadia, and right from its source its...

Anigrus

75 Lacedemonians ...against her enemy, and for this reason the Eleans utterly destroyed it. The Lacedemonians afterwards separated Scillus from Elis and gave it to Xenophon, the son of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Scillus ...quarry. The neighbors say that it is the tomb of Xenophon. As you go from Scillus along the road to Olympia, before you cross the Alpheius, there is a mountain...

Scillus

77 21.602752,37.609552,0 Alpheius ...you go from Scillus along the road to Olympia, before you cross the Alpheius, there is a mountain with high, precipitous cliffs. It is called Mount Typaeum...

Alpheius

70 21.451667,37.6125,0 Olympic ...It is a law of Elis to cast down it any women who are caught present at the Olympic games, or even on the other side of the Alpheius, on the days prohibited to...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadia ...Cladeus comes from Elis to join it. The source of the Alpheius itself is in Arcadia, and not in Elis. There is another legend about the Alpheius. They say that...

Arcadia

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Branchidae ...and having gone through the intervening sea the river rises again opposite Branchidae at the harbor called Panormos. These things then are as I have described them...

Branchidae

77 27.256115,37.384829,0 Olympian ...about a generation later than Endymion, Pelops held the games in honor of Olympian Zeus in a more splendid manner than any of his predecessors. When the sons of...

Olympian

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Macedonia ...were: for the chariot and pair, Belistiche, a woman from the seaboard of Macedonia; for the ridden race, Tlepolemus of Lycia. Tlepolemus, they say, won at the...

Macedonia

75 21.75,41.25,0 Pisa ...for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleans, and with Pisa such of the subject peoples as conspired together with her. The image itself...

Pisa

77 21.653041,37.639535,0 Eleans ...the very edge lies Cladeus, the river which, in other ways also, the Eleans honor most after the Alpheius. On the left from Zeus are Pelops, Hippodameia...

Eleans

71 21.25,37.75,0 Parian ...but with black tiles. In a circle round the black stone runs a raised rim of Parian marble, to keep in the olive oil that is poured out. For olive oil is...

Parian

79 25.150728,37.08579,0 Olympian ...surnamed Underground. There are also altars of all gods, and of Hera surnamed Olympian, this too being made of ashes. They say that it was dedicated by Clymenus...

Olympian

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...they used the oracle in Libya, and in the temple of Ammon are altars which the Eleans dedicated. On them are engraved the questions of the Eleans, the replies of the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...to describe the temple of Hera and the noteworthy objects contained in it. The Elean account says that it was the people of Scillus, one of the cities in Triphylia...

Elean

81 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...at the spring Piera. You reach this spring as you go along the flat road from Olympia to Elis. These things, then, are as I have already described. In the temple of...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Acriae ...here are a temple and marble image of the Mother of the Gods. The people of Acriae say that this is the oldest sanctuary of this goddess in the Peloponnesus...

Acriae

78 22.785366,36.794176,0 Geronthrae ...On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea (Old), and in Geronthrae itself are a temple and grove of Ares. Every year they hold a festival in...

Geronthrae

81 Onugnathus ...it is a voyage of forty stades from a promontory on the mainland called Onugnathus. In Cythera is a port Scandeia on the coast, but the town Cythera is about ten...

Onugnathus

74 22.93279,36.46125,0 Smenus ...Dictynna on a promontory, in whose honor they hold an annual festival. A river Smenus reaches the sea to the left of the promontory; its water is extremely sweet to...

Smenus

81 22.25,36.75,0 Taenarum ...Taenarum Caenepolis is distant forty stades by sea. Its name also was formerly Taenarum. In it is a hall of Demeter, and a temple of Aphrodite on the shore, with a...

Taenarum

81 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Thalamae ...a wooden image of Apollo Carneius are worth seeing. From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an...

Thalamae

71 22.325671,36.786208,0 Lacedemonians ...their palace was built. Before the battle which the Thebans fought with the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, and the foundation of the present city of Messene under Ithome, I...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...Attic rite to wise Andania. This inscription shows that Caucon who came to Messene was a descendant of Phlyus, and proves my other statements with regard to...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Oechalia ...part of the country now called the Carnasium, but which then received the name Oechalia, derived, as they say, from the wife of Melaneus. Most matters of Greek...

Oechalia

81 Laconia ...her have already been given twice, in my account of the Argolid and of Laconia. Aphareus then founded the city of Arena in Messenia, and received into his...

Laconia

73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Sparta ...Androcles and his principal supporters, Antiochus, now sole king, sent to Sparta that he was ready to submit the matter to the courts which I have already...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...had happened. Those who escaped were few. This was the first attack which the Lacedemonians made on the Messenians, in the second year of the ninth Olympiad, when...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...of the ninth Olympiad, when Xenodocus of Messenia won the short foot-race. In Athens there were not as yet the archons appointed annually by lot for at first the...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenian ...not from the invaders like the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, but was called Messenian from their disasters, just as the name Trojan war, rather than Greek, came to...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Elean ...were dedicated because the god by an oracle expressed his approval of the Elean decision against the pentathletes; on the second image and likewise on the...

Elean

76 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...to have a surname. This man was the first Egyptian to be convicted by the Eleans of a misdemeanor. It was not for giving or taking a bribe that he was...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Plataea ...is turned towards the rising sun, and was dedicated by those Greeks who at Plataea fought against the Persians under Mardonius. On the right of the pedestal are...

Plataea

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thesprotian ...the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the Tenians and the Lepreans, who were the only people from...

Thesprotian

77 20.25,39.75,0 Euboea ...not only the Tenians but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the Chalcidians on the...

Euboea

77 Anactorians ...and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of these cities the following are...

Anactorians

74 20.84143,38.92237,0 Olympia ...is the inhabitants of this quarter who dedicated to Zeus the offerings at Olympia, just as if Ephesians living in what is called Coresus were to say that they...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Agrigentines ...and Phoenicians. Against these foreigners of Motye war was waged by the Agrigentines, who, having taken from them plunder and spoils, dedicated at Olympia the...

Agrigentines

74 13.75,37.25,0 Oeniadae ...the proceeds of enemy spoils, I think from the war with the Arcarnanians and Oeniadae. The Messenians themselves declare that their offering came from their exploit...

Oeniadae

79 21.1966,38.4077,0 Eretrians ...the bronze oxen one was dedicated by the Corcyraeans and the other by the Eretrians. Philesius of Eretria was the artist. Why the Corcyraeans dedicated the ox at...

Eretrians

76 22.607216,39.290562,0 Messenians ...hold that they were buried not here but in Messenia. But the disasters of the Messenians, and the length of their exile from the Peloponnesus, even after their return...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonian ...the Dorians of propitiating the Acarnanian seer. But this Carnus is not the Lacedemonian Carneus of the House, who was worshipped in the house of Crius the seer while...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thermopylae ...compete except Spartans. The bones of Leonidas were taken by Pausanias from Thermopylae forty years after the battle. There is set up a slab with the names, and their...

Thermopylae

78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Euxine ...the Tauric goddess has remained so high that the Cappadocians dwelling on the Euxine claim that the image is among them, a like claim being made by those Lydians...

Euxine

80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Susa ...of it becoming booty of the Persians. For the image at Brauron was brought to Susa, and afterwards Seleucus gave it to the Syrians of Laodicea, who still possess...

Susa

80 48.24854,32.19202,0 Pitane ...Secondly, the Spartan Limnatians, the Cynosurians, and the people of Mesoa and Pitane, while sacrificing to Artemis, fell to quarreling, which led also to bloodshed...

Pitane

81 Aphidna ...they say, was a native who joined the Dioscuri in their expedition against Aphidna. Being taken prisoner in the battle and sold into Crete, he lived as a slave...

Aphidna

77 23.362766,37.974359,0 Pellana ...on her head reappeared in another spring, Lancia. A hundred stades away from Pellana is the place called Belemina. It is naturally The best watered region of...

Pellana

80 22.325267,37.207648,0 Aegiae ...away to the right from the straight road to Gythium, you will reach a city Aegiae. They say that this is the city which Homer in his poem calls Augeae. Here is a...

Aegiae

77 22.512906,36.786285,0 Antagoras of Rhodes ...in Sicily had Philoxenus at his court, and Antigonus, ruler of Macedonia, had Antagoras of Rhodes and Aratus of Soli. But Hesiod and Homer either failed to win the society of...

Antagoras of Rhodes

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Democracy ...of the gods called the Twelve. On the wall opposite are painted Theseus, Democracy and Demos. The picture represents Theseus as the one who gave the Athenians...

Democracy

75 monument to Antiope the Amazon ...cannot have been damaged by the Persians. On entering the city there is a monument to Antiope the Amazon. This Antiope, Pindar says, was carried of by Peirithous and Theseus, but...

monument to Antiope the Amazon

77 the stronghold ...in love with Theseus, who was aiding Heracles in his campaign, surrendered the stronghold. Such is the account of Hegias. But the Athenians assert that when the Amazons...

the stronghold

77 36.967737,41.215176,0 Antiope ...Heracles was besieging Themiscyra on the Thermodon, but could not take it, but Antiope, falling in love with Theseus, who was aiding Heracles in his campaign...

Antiope

81 city ...know, but both horse and soldier were carved by Praxiteles. On entering the city there is a building for the preparation of the processions, which are held in...

city

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troy ...to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and before him Theseus, when he went to give satisfaction to Minos for the...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 united Greeks ...painted by Arcesilaus. This Leosthenes at the head of the Athenians and the united Greeks defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them...

united Greeks

78 Themiscyra ...Hegias of Troezen gives the following account of her. Heracles was besieging Themiscyra on the Thermodon, but could not take it, but Antiope, falling in love with...

Themiscyra

79 36.967737,41.215176,0 Megarid ...And Pandion is said to have fallen ill there and died, and on the coast of the Megarid is his tomb, on the rock called the rock of Athena the Gannet. But his...

Megarid

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Rhodians ...of reducing Egypt in the circumstances, and dispatched Demetrius against the Rhodians with a fleet and a large army, hoping, if the island were won, to use it as a...

Rhodians

79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Amphipolis ...and ruled the Macedonians in his stead. Therefore encountering Demetrius at Amphipolis he came near to being expelled from Thrace, but on Pyrrhus' coming to his aid...

Amphipolis

79 23.840418,40.818876,0 Athenians ...by Protogenes the Caunian, and Olbiades portrayed Callippus, who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to stop the incursion of the Gauls into Greece. These Gauls...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...dispossessed the Illyrian people, all who dwelt as far as Macedonia with the Macedonians themselves, and overran Thessaly. And when they drew near to Thermopylae, the...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Thermopylae ...the Macedonians themselves, and overran Thessaly. And when they drew near to Thermopylae, the Greeks in general made no move to prevent the inroad of the barbarians...

Thermopylae

79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Aetolians ...themselves and the Phocians of the cities around Parnassus; a force of Aetolians also joined the defenders, for the Aetolians at this time were pre-eminent for...

Aetolians

73 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Parnassus ...When the forces engaged, not only were thunderbolts and rocks broken off from Parnassus hurled against the Gauls, but terrible shapes as armed warriors haunted the...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Arcadia ...disturbances took place throughout the whole of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia, so that many of the cities received additional settlers from the Dorian race...

Arcadia

74 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Aetolia ...on some private matter. While he was staying there Oeneus came to him from Aetolia. He had already allied himself to the family of Heracles, and after his arrival...

Aetolia

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Apesas ...Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to Zeus of Apesas. Ascending to Tretus, and again going along the road to Argos, you see on the...

Apesas

81 22.74021,37.86195,0 Argives ...Perseus, so I will narrate the cause of its foundation and the reason why the Argives afterwards laid Mycenae waste. The oldest tradition in the region now called...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Larisa ...of his mother and to greet him with fair words and deeds, visited him at Larisa. Being in the prime of life and proud of his inventing the quoit, he gave...

Larisa

75 22.41474,39.64147,0 Troy ...the throne to Sthenelus, son of Capaneus his brother. After the capture of Troy, Amphilochus migrated to the people now called the Amphilochians, and...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argos ...that she was one of the women who joined Dionysus in his expedition against Argos, and that Perseus, being victorious in the battle, put most of the women to the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...seven only, although there were more chiefs than this in the expedition, from Argos, from Messene, with some even from Arcadia. But the Argives have adopted the...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...laid aside his enmity, and received great honors at the hands of the Argives, including this precinct set specially apart for himself. It was afterwards...

Argives

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...worth mentioning, besides a figure of Lyrcus upon a slab. The distance from Argos to Lyrcea is about sixty stades, and the distance from Lyrcea to Orneae is the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...of the city Lyrcea, because at the time of the Greek expedition against Troy it already lay deserted; Omeae, however, was inhabited, and in his poem he...

Troy

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sicyon ...was inhabited, and in his poem he places it on the list before Phlius and Sicyon, which order corresponds to the position of the towns in the Argive...

Sicyon

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Tirynthians ...on from here and turning to the right, you come to the ruins of Tiryns. The Tirynthians also were removed by the Argives, who wished to make Argos more powerful by...

Tirynthians

78 22.80004,37.59918,0 Epidaurus ...they sacrifice to them here. At Lessa the Argive territory joins that of Epidaurus. But before you reach Epidaurus itself you will come to the sanctuary of...

Epidaurus

76 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...to it I do not know, nor could I discover from the natives the descendants of Epidaurus either. But the last king before the Dorians arrived in the Peloponnesus was...

Epidaurus

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...for I find that the most famous sanctuaries of Asclepius had their origin from Epidaurus. In the first place, the Athenians, who say that they gave a share of their...

Epidaurus

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epeirus ...at Orchomenos to Scarphea among the Locri. From Peleus sprang the kings in Epeirus; but as for the sons of Telamon, the family of Ajax is undistinguished, because...

Epeirus

78 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Aeginetans ...the Greeks once dispatched to Aeacus. The reason for the embassy given by the Aeginetans is the same as that which the other Greeks assign. A drought had for some time...

Aeginetans

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troy ...who were guardians of the boy Cyanippus, son of Aegialeus, led the Argives to Troy. Sthenelus, as I have related above, came of a more illustrious family, called...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Athenians ...foreigners with a plough he was seen no more after the engagement. When the Athenians made enquiries at the oracle the god merely ordered them to honor Echetlaeus...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Tanagra ...the parish has its name. The land of Oropus, between Attica and the land of Tanagra, which originally belonged to Boeotia, in our time belongs to the Athenians...

Tanagra

79 23.587064,38.309371,0 Aeginetans ...mother Salamis, the daughter of Asopus, and afterwards it was colonized by the Aeginetans with Telamon. Philaeus, the son of Eurysaces, the son of Ajax, is said to have...

Aeginetans

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Cretans ...and, of the self-governing peoples, the Aetolians with the Rhodians and the Cretans among the islanders. As the reinforcements from Egypt, Mysia, and Crete were...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Lacedemonian ...The latter they say learned music from Apollo, but my opinion is that he was a Lacedemonian who came as a stranger to the land, and that after him is named Zarax, a town...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Attica ...turned from Eleusis to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which borders on Attica. Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary on the side towards Attica, but when...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Boeotians ...dead. But Adrastus having supplicated Theseus, the Athenians fought with the Boeotians, and Theseus being victorious in the fight carried the dead to the Eleusinian...

Boeotians

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Megara ...Athens. Having accomplished nothing brilliant, on their way home they took Megara from the Athenians, and gave it as a dwelling-place to such of the Corinthians...

Megara

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megara ...of Demeter were first made by them, and then that men used the name Megara (Chambers). This is their history according to the Megarians themselves. But...

Megara

70 15.18273,37.2038,0 Iolcus ...Jason is represented as having removed his home after the death of Pelias from Iolcus to Corcyra, and Mermerus, the elder of his children, to have been killed by a...

Iolcus

81 22.96886,39.366305,0 Argives ...Bellerophontes was not an absolute king, but was subject to Proetus and the Argives is the belief of myself and of all who have read carefully the Homeric poems...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Asopus ...itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus. I remember hearing a similar story from the Delians, that the stream which...

Asopus

73 22.75,37.75,0 Sicyonian ...flutes to the Maeander; reappearing in the Asopus they were cast ashore in the Sicyonian territory and given to Apollo by the shepherd who found them. I found none of...

Sicyonian

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Troezenians ...Aratus had liberated Corinth, the League was joined by the Epidaurians and Troezenians inhabiting Argolian Acte, and by the Megarians among those beyond the Isthmus...

Troezenians

77 Munychia ...thought it a shame to allow the Macedonians to hold unchallenged Peiraeus, Munychia, Salamis, and Sunium; but not expecting to be able to take them by force he...

Munychia

77 23.644901333333333,37.937560999999995,0 Lacedemonians ...and Lacedemon itself was captured. Antigonus and the Achaeans restored to the Lacedemonians the constitution of their fathers; but of the children of Leonidas, Epicleidas...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pherae ...of Artemis Pheraea. It is said that the wooden image was brought from Pherae. This gymnasium was built for the Sicyonians by Cleinias, and they still train...

Pherae

72 22.737728,39.384163,0 Plataea ...spoils, namely the breastplate of Masistius, who commanded the cavalry at Plataea, and a scimitar said to have belonged to Mardonius. Now Masistius I know was...

Plataea

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Athenian ...said to have belonged to Mardonius. Now Masistius I know was killed by the Athenian cavalry. But Mardonius was opposed by the Lacedemonians and was killed by a...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...I know was killed by the Athenian cavalry. But Mardonius was opposed by the Lacedemonians and was killed by a Spartan; so the Athenians could not have taken the scimitar...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argive ...what are called the Twelve Labours of Heracles. When he was let loose on the Argive plain he fled through the isthmus of Corinth, into the land of Attica as far as...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aeginetans ...the Argives. There is also the grave of the Athenians who fought against the Aeginetans before the Persian invasion. It was surely a just decree even for a democracy...

Aeginetans

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Boeotians ...this occasion overcome Corinthians and Athenians, and furthermore Argives and Boeotians, were afterwards at Leuctra so utterly overthrown by the Boeotians alone. After...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Areopagus ...who was chiefly responsible for the abolition of the privileges of the Areopagus, and Lycurgus, the son of Lycophron; Lycurgus provided for the state-treasury...

Areopagus

73 Athmonia ...the goddesses styled August. The wooden image at Myrrhinus is of Colaenis. Athmonia worships Artemis Amarysia. On inquiry I discovered that the guides knew nothing...

Athmonia

78 23.8115515,38.055127,0 Crete ...fact that Alcathous appears to have sent his daughter Periboea with Theseus to Crete in payment of the tribute. On the occasion of his building the wall, the...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Thebans ...it Memnon, who they say from Aethiopia overran Egypt and as far as Susa. The Thebans, however, say that it is a statue, not of Memnon, but of a native named...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Aetolia ...Ischepolis, whom his father sent to help Meleager to destroy the wild beast in Aetolia. There he died, and Callipolis was the first to hear of his death. Running up...

Aetolia

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Argives ...used to snatch the children from their mothers, until Coroebus to please the Argives slew Vengeance. Whereat as a second punishment plague fell upon them and stayed...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Minoa ...and of Libya, daughter of Epphus. Parallel to Nisaea lies the small island of Minoa, where in the war against Nisus anchored the fleet of the Cretans. The hilly...

Minoa

80 23.3622,37.9696,0 Megaris ...in the war against Nisus anchored the fleet of the Cretans. The hilly part of Megaris borders upon Boeotia, and in it the Megarians have built the city Pagae and...

Megaris

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Nestians ...he mastered Thrace and afterwards extended his empire at the expense of the Nestians and Macedonians. The greater part of Macedonia was under the control of Pyrrhus...

Nestians

78 23.75,41.75,0 Epeirus ...better of the struggle, conquered Macedonia and forced Pyrrhus to retreat to Epeirus. Love is wont to bring many calamities upon men. Lysimachus, although by this...

Epeirus

79 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Athenians ...the village of Cardia and Pactye. Such was the history of Lysimachus. The Athenians have also a statue of Pyrrhus. This Pyrrhus was not related to Alexander...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Epeirots ...and joined in her campaign against Aridaeus and the Macedonians, although the Epeirots refused to accompany him. Olympias on her victory behaved wickedly in the...

Epeirots

80 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Epeirots ...by his father. Immediately on his arrival he began to vent his fury on the Epeirots, until they rose up and put him and his children to death at night. After...

Epeirots

77 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Macedonia ...mercenaries he pursued them to the coast cities, and himself reduced upper Macedonia and the Thessalians. The extent of the fighting and the decisive character of...

Macedonia

77 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...ownerless they lie by the pillars of the temple of Zeus, spoils of boastful Macedonia." Pyrrhus came very near to reducing Macedonia entirely, but, being usually...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Argos ...her. Afterwards Trochilus, the priest of the mysteries, fled, they say, from Argos because of the enmity of Agenor, came to Attica and married a woman of Eleusis...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phoenician ...pushing one another into the morass, while at the end of the painting are the Phoenician ships, and the Greeks killing the foreigners who are scrambling into them. Here...

Phoenician

80 35.25,33.25,0 Phrygian ...common to all the gods, and, most famous of all, a hundred pillars of Phrygian marble. The walls too are constructed of the same material as the cloisters...

Phrygian

72 27.75,40.25,0 Olympian Zeus ...are a hundred in number from the Libyan quarries. Close to the temple of Olympian Zeus is a statue of the Pythian Apollo. There is further a sanctuary of Apollo...

Olympian Zeus

76 23.875,37.875,0 Peiraeus ...they drove in flight into the city, Archelaus and the foreigners into the Peiraeus. This Archelaus was another general of Mithridates, whom earlier than this the...

Peiraeus

76 23.644609,37.937222,0 Marathon ...much later than his death and than the painting which depicts the action at Marathon Aeschylus himself said that when a youth he slept while watching grapes in a...

Marathon

78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Sipylus ...the children of Niobe. This Niobe I myself saw when I had gone up to Mount Sipylus. When you are near it is a beetling crag, with not the slightest resemblance to...

Sipylus

77 27.45394,38.5668,0 Delphi ...of men, a title she refused to Anacharsis, although he desired it and came to Delphi to win it. Among the sayings of the Greeks is one that there were seven wise...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phliasians ...of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the...

Phliasians

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Boeotia ...too from his tyranny, who, on the capture of the fortifications, escaped to Boeotia. Lachares took golden shields from the Acropolis, and stripped even the statue...

Boeotia

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Carpasian ...the interval, although it is alight both day and night. The wick in it is of Carpasian flax, the only kind of flax which is fire-proof, and a bronze palm above the...

Carpasian

79 34.37319,35.62624,0 Tegeans ...The story goes on to say that he was set free without ransom, swore to the Tegeans that the Lacedemonians would never again attack Tegea, and then broke his oath...

Tegeans

77 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...altar of Zeus Teleius (Full-grown), with a square image, a shape of which the Arcadians seem to me to be exceedingly fond. There are also here tombs of Tegeates, the...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megalopolis ...chanced to be present at the competition of the harpists. Pylades, a man of Megalopolis, the most famous harpist of his time, who had won a Pythian victory, was then...

Megalopolis

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonians ...who had been elected general of the Achaeans, attacked Lacedemon, accusing the Lacedemonians of rebellion against the Romans. But Philopoemen, though at the time holding no...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaia ...in to him. Shortly afterwards Lycortas gathered a force from Arcadia and Achaia and marched against Messene. The Messenian populace at once went over to the...

Achaia

76 Spartan ...accomplished brilliant deeds, Codrus, the son of Melanthus, Polydorus the Spartan, Aristomenes the Messenian, and all the rest, will be seen to have helped each...

Spartan

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mycale ...Ariphron, with Leotychidaes the king of Sparta destroyed the Persian fleet at Mycale, and with Cimon accomplished many enviable achievements on behalf of the...

Mycale

80 27.12558,37.66144,0 Tegea ...the despots Of Sparta; the swelling flood of slavery he stayed. Wherefore did Tegea set up in stone the great-hearted son of Craugis, Author of blameless...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Alpheius ...the place has received the name Symbola (Meetings). It is known that the Alpheius differs from other rivers in exhibiting this natural peculiarity; it often...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Olympia ...by the Arcadians Pegae (Springs), and flowing past the land of Pisa and past Olympia, it falls into the sea above Cyllene, the port of Elis. Not even the Adriatic...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Asopus ...name comes from Plataea, whom they consider to be a daughter of the river Asopus. It is clear that the Plataeans too were of old ruled by kings; for everywhere...

Asopus

76 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Athenians ...when Xerxes came down to the sea, they bravely manned the fleet with the Athenians, and defended themselves in their own country against the general of Xerxes...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...assembly armed, and at once proceeded to lead them, not by the direct way from Thebes across the plain, but along the road to Hysiae in the direction of Eleutherae...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cithaeron ...bring the Thebans low was to restore the Plataeans to their homes. On Mount Cithaeron, within the territory of Plataea, if you turn off to the right for a little way...

Cithaeron

79 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Phocis ...at birth, nobody knows with the assurance with which we know the Cleft Road to Phocis, where Oedipus killed his father (Mount Cithaeron is sacred to Cithaeronian...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotians ...it the Little Daedala, but the Great Daedala, which is shared with them by the Boeotians, is a festival held at intervals of fifty-nine years, for that is the period...

Boeotians

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Glisas ...for the second time against Thebes. The Thebans encamped over against them at Glisas. When they joined in battle, Aegialeus, the son of Adrastus, was killed by...

Glisas

80 23.396935,38.391809,0 Caicus ...part of the market-place, is in the city Elaea on the way to the plain of the Caicus, and the natives say that they sacrifice to him as to a hero. On the death of...

Caicus

80 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Chaeroneia ...Sacred war. I have already said in my history of Attica that the defeat at Chaeroneia was a disaster for all the Greeks; but it was even more so for the Thebans, as...

Chaeroneia

78 22.840365,38.493361,0 Thebans ...gods with half of the Theban territory. Although by favour of the Romans the Thebans afterwards recovered the land of which they had been deprived, yet from this...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...name Homoloid is derived, they say, from the following circumstance. When the Thebans were beaten in battle by the Argives near Glisas, most of them withdrew along...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Branchidae ...by Scopas. The temple is built behind. The image is in size equal to that at Branchidae; and does not differ from it at all in shape. Whoever has seen one of these two...

Branchidae

79 27.256115,37.384829,0 Thebans ...the Lacedemonian reverse at Leuctra they seceded from them and joined the Thebans. Though they did not fight on the Greek side against Philip and the Macedonians...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadia ...I shall reserve for their proper place in my narrative. There is a pass into Arcadia on the Argive side in the direction of Hysiae and over Mount Parthenius into...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadia ...I was inclined to count these legends as foolishness, but on getting as far as Arcadia I grew to hold a more thoughtful view of them, which is this. In the days of...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Mantineans ...of divinity, therefore, I shall adopt the received tradition. The city of the Mantineans is about twelve stades farther away from this spring. Now there are plain...

Mantineans

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lacedemonians ...the ranks of Antonius, for no other reason, so it seems to me, except that the Lacedemonians favoured the cause of Augustus. Ten generations afterwards, when Hadrian became...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Maenalus ...the grave of Arcas, the son of Callisto. The bones of Arcas they brought from Maenalus, in obedience to an oracle delivered to them from Delphi: Maenalia is...

Maenalus

80 22.265891,37.549491,0 Cerameicus ...to look just like Dionysus. There is also a copy here of the painting in the Cerameicus which represented the engagement of the Athenians at Mantineia. In the...

Cerameicus

79 23.7188,37.978127,0 Mantineans ...to have Roman citizenship. In my time the elder Podares was honored by the Mantineans, who said that he who proved the bravest in the battle, of themselves and of...

Mantineans

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Alesium ...they celebrate the games in honor of Antinous. Above the race-course is Mount Alesium, so called from the wandering (ale) of Rhea, on which is a grove of...

Alesium

80 22.43409,37.65988,0 Lacedemonians ...The center was entrusted to Aratus, with the Sicyonians and the Achaeans. The Lacedemonians under Agis, who with the royal staff officers were in the center, extended...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineans ...grove of what is called the Ocean, and here the cavalry of the Athenians and Mantineans fought against the Boeotian horse. Epaminondas, the Mantineans say, was killed...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Phigalians ...of those called heroes. This man's daughter, Phialo, had connection, say the Phigalians, with Heracles. When Alcimedon realized that she had a child, he exposed her to...

Phigalians

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Anchisia ...Atlas. There still remains the road leading to Orchomenus, on which are Mount Anchisia and the tomb of Anchises at the foot of the mountain. For when Aeneas was...

Anchisia

81 22.37419,37.69921,0 Orchomenus ...Pheneus you will come to a mountain. On this mountain meet the boundaries of Orchomenus, Pheneus and Caphya. Over the boundaries extends a high crag, called the...

Orchomenus

79 22.31536,37.724716,0 Pheneus ...by Eurystheus from Tiryns he did not go at once to Thebes, but went first to Pheneus. Heracles dug a channel through the middle of the plain of Pheneus for the...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Hermaea ...of Pheneus worship most Hermes, in whose honor they celebrate the games called Hermaea; they have also a temple of Hermes, and a stone image, made by an Athenian...

Hermaea

81 24.00573,35.21337,0 Cyllene ...Damithales, had a temple of Demeter Thesmia (Law-goddess) built under Mount Cyllene, and they established for her rites also, which they celebrate even to this...

Cyllene

78 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Aroanius ...their lives in the fighting. They are Telamon, buried quite near the river Aroanius, a little farther away than is the sanctuary of Apollo, and Chalcodon, not far...

Aroanius

78 21.75,37.75,0 Euboeans ...in this battle the Chalcodon who was the father of the Elephenor who led the Euboeans to Troy, and the Telamon who was the father of Ajax and Teucer. For how could...

Euboeans

79 Aegae ...is the source of the river Crathis, which flows into the sea by the side of Aegae, now a deserted spot, though in earlier days it was a city of the Achaeans...

Aegae

78 22.3484,38.1478,0 Arcadians ...road to Nonacris and the water of the Styx. Of old Nonacris was a town of the Arcadians that was named after the wife of Lycaon. When I visited it, it was in ruins...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cleitor ...Pheneus, which go westward, remains, the one on the left. This road leads to Cleitor, and extends by the side of the work of Heracles, which made a course for the...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Arcadians ...Argive League, which they joined of their own accord. That they are by race Arcadians is testified by the verses of Homer, and Stymphalus their founder was a...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Stymphalus ...when for some cause or other she quarrelled with Zeus and came back to Stymphalus, Temenus named her Widow. This is the account which, to my own knowledge, the...

Stymphalus

73 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalian ...of rattles. The Arabian desert breeds among other wild creatures birds called Stymphalian, which are quite as savage against men as lions or leopards. These fly against...

Stymphalian

80 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalian ...gilded. Near the roof of the temple have been carved, among other things, the Stymphalian birds. Now it was difficult to discern clearly whether the carving was in wood...

Stymphalian

80 22.45931,37.85932,0 Lycaean ...Megalopolis. In the marketplace of that city, behind the enclosure sacred to Lycaean Zeus, is the figure of a man carved in relief on a slab, Polybius, the son of...

Lycaean

80 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Arcadians ...explained in my account of Messenia, and the Maid is called Saviour by the Arcadians. Carved in relief before the entrance are, on one side Artemis, on the other...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tiryns ...city of its time under the sun nothing remains but the wall. The case of Tiryns in the Argolid is the same. These places have been reduced by heaven to...

Tiryns

75 22.80004,37.59918,0 Nymphas ...to Nymphas, which is well supplied with water and covered with trees. From Nymphas it is twenty stades to the Hermaeum, where is the boundary between Messenia and...

Nymphas

77 Belemina ...will come to Phalaesiae. This place is twenty stades away from the Hermaeum at Belemina. The Arcadians say that Belemina belonged of old to Arcadia but was severed...

Belemina

81 22.286919,37.27848,0 Arcadians ...Calliste (Most Beautiful). I believe it was because he had learnt it from the Arcadians that Pamphos was the first in his poems to call Artemis by the name of...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...today there is on the hill a stone image of Acacesian Hermes, the story of the Arcadians about it being that here the child Hermes was reared, and that Acacus the son...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Acacesium ...the people of Tanagra, again, have a legend at variance with the Theban. From Acacesium it is four stades to the sanctuary of the Mistress. First in this place is a...

Acacesium

81 Delphi ...about the story of the two latter I will tell if I get as far as an account of Delphi in my history of Phocis. In the portico by the Mistress there is, between the...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympus ...left of the sanctuary of the Mistress is Mount Lycaeus. Some Arcadians call it Olympus, and others Sacred Peak. On it, they say, Zeus was reared. There is a place on...

Olympus

81 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Neda ...heroes. A river called the Lymax flowing just beside Phigalia falls into the Neda, and the river, they say, got its name from the cleansing of Rhea. For when she...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Arcadians ...assert that Demeter gave birth, not to a horse, but to the Mistress, as the Arcadians call her. Afterwards, they say, angry with Poseidon and grieved at the rape of...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phigalians ...man then, about two generations after the Persian invasion of Greece, made the Phigalians an image of bronze, guided partly by a picture or copy of the ancient wooden...

Phigalians

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Ionia ...to Greeks, and to such non-Greeks as needed it, and his buildings in Greece, Ionia, Carthage and Syria, others have written of them most exactly. But there is...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Carthage ...and to such non-Greeks as needed it, and his buildings in Greece, Ionia, Carthage and Syria, others have written of them most exactly. But there is also another...

Carthage

75 10.327986,36.857569,0 Tegeans ...Of the modern city Aleus was founder. Besides the exploits shared by the Tegeans with the Arcadians, which include the Trojan war, the Persian wars and the...

Tegeans

76 22.429,37.464,0 Carystus ...(demes). There is a parish called Marathon, equally distant from Athens and Carystus in Euboea. It was at this point in Attica that the foreigners landed, were...

Carystus

78 24.4204,38.0165,0 Samothrace ...of their settling there the name of the island was changed from Dardania to Samothrace. Others with Leogorus threw a wall round Anaea on the mainland opposite Samos...

Samothrace

78 25.5302283,40.5009431,0 Samos ...Ephesians and reoccupied the island. Some say that the sanctuary of Hera in Samos was established by those who sailed in the Argo, and that these brought the...

Samos

79 26.84,37.73,0 Crete ...on some charge he was thrown into prison along with his son. He escaped from Crete and came to Cocalus at Inycus, a city of Sicily. Thereby he became the cause of...

Crete

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Sicily ...to put him to death. It is plain that the renown of Daedalus spread over all Sicily and even over the greater part of Italy. But as for Smilis, it is not clear...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Athenians ...the Athenians, having been made an Athenian by them. Many years afterwards the Athenians drove out all the Salaminians, having discovered that they had been guilty of...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ionians ...given by Ion. However, he gives no reason why the Chians are classed with the Ionians. Smyrna, one of the twelve Aeolian cities, built on that site which even now...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Salamis ...to take part in the joint expedition of the Greeks. Those who dwell about Salamis say that it was when Ajax died that the flower first appeared in their country...

Salamis

77 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Athenians ...in two Nemeses instead of one, saying that their mother is Night, while the Athenians say that the father of the goddess in Rhamnus is Ocean. The land of the...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phoenicia ...there was such. There was a wooden raft, on which the god set out from Tyre in Phoenicia. The reason for this we are not told even by the Erythraeans themselves. They...

Phoenicia

81 35.25,33.25,0 Erythrae ...his sight and retained it for the rest of his life. There is also in Erythrae a temple of Athena Polias and a huge wooden image of her sitting on a throne...

Erythrae

72 26.48103,38.38122,0 Athens ...only some roughly carved wooden images of Pan. As you go to Eleusis from Athens along what the Athenians call the Sacred Way you see the tomb of Anthemocritus...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedon ...of the people and opposed to the utmost Philip, the son of Demetrius, king of Macedon. Cephisodorus induced to become allies of Athens two kings, Attalus the Mysian...

Macedon

80 21.75,41.25,0 Elis ...at least such as were known to all the Greek world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Plataea ...Laconian or in the Attic list of allies. They were absent from the action at Plataea, for otherwise the Achaeans would surely have had their name inscribed on the...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Athens ...the tombs, the largest and most beautiful are that of a Rhodian who settled at Athens, and the one made by the Macedonian Harpalus, who ran away from Alexander and...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...now is called after him Cephallenia, and that he resided till that time at Thebes, exiled from Athens because he had killed his wife Procris. In the tenth...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydians ...in bronze was dedicated in front of the sanctuary of Persian Artemis by the Lydians, who wrote an inscription to the effect that Adrastus died fighting for the...

Lydians

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lacedemonians ...the Greeks was as follows. No Greek state was preeminent in strength. For the Lacedemonians were still prevented from recovering their former prosperity by the reverse at...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonians ...Achaia, while at the time it enjoyed great power. Of the remaining Greeks the Sicyonians were the first to join the Achaean League, and after the Sicyonians there...

Sicyonians

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Hestiaea ...his orders up to a point, but displeased the Romans in certain of his acts. Hestiaea in Euboea and Anticyra in Phocis, which had been compelled to submit to Philip...

Hestiaea

78 Eleusis ...daughter of Ocean; there are poets, however, who have made Ogygus father of Eleusis. Ancient legends, deprived of the help of poetry, have given rise to many...

Eleusis

78 23.538311,38.041096,0 Corinthians ...Flamininus in besieging Corinth. On being delivered from the Macedonians the Corinthians at once joined the Achaean League; they had joined it on a previous occasion...

Corinthians

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Thebes ...is a sanctuary of Metaneira, and after it are graves of those who went against Thebes. For Creon, who at that time ruled in Thebes as guardian of Laodamas the son of...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...to take up and bury their dead. But Adrastus having supplicated Theseus, the Athenians fought with the Boeotians, and Theseus being victorious in the fight carried...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...and the Achaeans. This commission restored to Sparta those whom the Achaeans had exiled, and they remitted the penalties inflicted by the Achaeans on those...

Achaeans

70 Achaean ...and had been condemned in their absence. The Lacedemonian connection with the Achaean League was not broken, but foreign courts were established to deal with capital...

Achaean

80 Eleusis ...picked out of much material the things that deserve to be recorded. Next to Eleusis is the district called Megaris. This too belonged to Athens in ancient times...

Eleusis

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Corinth ...all the family, was himself made king of Megara and of the territory as far as Corinth. Even at the present day the port of the Megarians is called Nisaea after him...

Corinth

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...took Megara from the Athenians, and gave it as a dwelling-place to such of the Corinthians and of their other allies as wished to go there. In this way the Megarians...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Boeotia ...is confirmed by the following fact. The Athenians after the disaster in Boeotia did not become subjects of Philip, although they lost two thousand prisoners in...

Boeotia

74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...that Megareus, son of Poseidon, who dwelt in Onchestus, came with an army of Boeotians to help Nisus wage the war against Minos; that falling in the battle he was...

Boeotians

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Achaeans ...he declared that while Perseus was at war with Rome the most influential Achaeans, besides helping him generally, had supplied him with money. So he required the...

Achaeans

75 Athenians ...Solon wrote elegiac poems and encouraged them, and that thereupon the Athenians challenged their enemies, won the war and recovered Salamis. But the Megarians...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...both in word and deed, while he made a complete mock of the Lacedemonians and Argives. These states had reached the highest degree of renown, and in a famous war of...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...the tomb of Alcmena, near the Olympieum. They say that as she was walking from Argos to Thebes she died on the way at Megara, and that the Heracleidae fell to...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...too fragile to bear a blow. For they too were caught by the flames when the Athenians had gone on board their ships and the King captured the city emptied of its...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troezenian ...aside his lion's skin to eat his dinner, and there came in to see him some Troezenian children with Theseus, then about seven years of age. The story goes that when...

Troezenian

77 Caphyans ...sacrifice is made to heroes, because they had been wrongly put to death. The Caphyans still obey this oracle, and call the goddess at Condyleae, as they say the...

Caphyans

79 22.262624,37.766264,0 Psophis ...through Argeathae, Lycuntes, as it is called, and Scotane. Now the road to Psophis passes by way of Soron, which, like other Arcadian groves, breeds the...

Psophis

77 21.892903,37.871725,0 Aroanius ...Seirae it is thirty stades to Psophis, by the side of which runs the river Aroanius, and a little farther away the river Erymanthus. The Erymanthus has its source...

Aroanius

77 21.75,37.75,0 Psophis ...the natives. Alcmaeon, after killing his mother, fled from Argos and came to Psophis, which was still called Phegia after Phegeus, and married Alphesiboea, the...

Psophis

79 21.892903,37.871725,0 Psophis ...a short time the sea that once was between Priene and Miletus. The people of Psophis have also by the side of the Erymanthus a temple and image of Erymanthus. The...

Psophis

80 21.892903,37.871725,0 Argive ...some say by the relatives of the man who was trampled upon, others say by the Argive commonwealth. At Delphinium are tried those who claim that they have committed...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ladon ...alike. As you go from Psophis to Thelpusa you first reach on the left of the Ladon a place called Tropaea, adjoining which is a grove, Aphrodisium. Thirdly, there...

Ladon

80 21.75,37.75,0 Athenians ...Thebes with a force amounting at first to sixty men; he also persuaded the Athenians, who were torn by factions, to be reconciled, and to abide by their compact...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...to fall in battle, whether at sea or on land, except such of them as fought at Marathon. These, for their valor, have their graves on the field of battle, but the...

Marathon

81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lusia ...chest, and in her right hand a torch; her height I conjecture to be nine feet. Lusia seemed to be six feet high. Those who think the image to be Themis and not...

Lusia

81 23.691421,38.000521,0 Ladon ...says about Areion: "Adrastus was the third lord who tamed him." The Ladon, leaving on the left the sanctuary of the Fury, passes on the left the temple...

Ladon

71 21.75,37.75,0 Aliphera ...and that his grave was made at the end of Elean territory. There is a town, Aliphera, of no great size, for it was abandoned by many of its inhabitants at the union...

Aliphera

79 21.864,37.532,0 Melaeneae ...uninhabited, but there is plenty of water flowing over it. Forty stades above Melaeneae is Buphagium, and here is the source of the Buphagus, which flows down into the...

Melaeneae

80 Argives ...whereof I shall set forth when in the course of my narrative I come to the Argives. There is also the grave of the Athenians who fought against the Aeginetans...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in Argolis, the Argives had less to fear from the Lacedemonians, while they were in a stronger position...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebans ...gathered the Arcadians together for the union and despatched a thousand picked Thebans under Pammenes to defend the Arcadians, if the Lacedemonians should try to...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Perinthians ...by Arsites, satrap of Phrygia by the Hellespont, and saved their city for the Perinthians when Philip had invaded their territory with an army. He, then, is buried here...

Perinthians

80 27.95454,40.97089,0 Arcadians ...and Theoxenus of the Parrhasians. The following were the cities which the Arcadians were persuaded to abandon through their zeal and because of their hatred of the...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Peiraeus ...some attacked Lachares when he was tyrant, others planned the capture of the Peiraeus when in the hands of a Macedonian garrison, but before the deed could be...

Peiraeus

79 23.644609,37.937222,0 Athenians ...and among the private soldiers are included the Plataeans along with the Athenians. This is the reason why Nicias was passed over, and my account is identical...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megara ...another slab are the names of those who fought in the region of Thrace and at Megara, and when Alcibiades persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the Eleans to...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Macedonians ...those who fought in the sea-fights near the Hellespont, those who opposed the Macedonians at Charonea, those who were killed at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, the...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Thessaly ...were killed at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, the men Leosthenes led into Thessaly, those who sailed with Cimon to Cyprus, and of those who with Olympiodorus...

Thessaly

81 21.75,39.25,0 Peiraeus ...others had begun, while during his political life he built dockyards in the Peiraeus and the gymnasium near what is called the Lyceum. Everything made of silver or...

Peiraeus

78 23.644609,37.937222,0 Potami ...there, and at the present day there is a monument to Cranaus at Lamptrae. At Potami in Attica is also the grave of Ion the son of Xuthus – for he too dwelt among...

Potami

79 29.379823,40.798384,0 Eleusis ...too dwelt among the Athenians and was their commander-in-chief in the war with Eleusis. Such is the legend. Phlya and Myrrhinus have altars of Apollo Dionysodotus...

Eleusis

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Peneius ...a prize having been proposed for the winner of the duel, but near the river Peneius he was himself killed by Heracles. One of the Troezenian legends about Theseus...

Peneius

78 21.75,39.75,0 Cretans ...in an offering, and the story about it is as follows:– The land of the Cretans and especially that by the river Tethris was ravaged by a bull. It would seem...

Cretans

73 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Cithaeron ...they say. I am ready to believe that a lion was killed by Alcathous on Cithaeron, but what historian has recorded that Timalcus the son of Megareus came with...

Cithaeron

73 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Megarians ...that Alcathous arrived from Elis just at the time when Nisus had died and the Megarians had lost everything. Witness to the truth of my statements the fact that he...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Basilis ...gave his daughter in marriage to Cresphontes, the son of Aristomachus. Today Basilis is in ruins, among which remains a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. Going on...

Basilis

79 22.068131,37.444881,0 Acropolis ...said to have been built round it by the Pelasgians, who once lived under the Acropolis. The builders, they say, were Agrolas and Hyperbius. On inquiring who they were...

Acropolis

79 23.625,37.875,0 Megalopolis ...I found the head of the image still remaining. The river Helisson divides Megalopolis just as Cnidus and Mitylene are cut in two by their straits, and in the north...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Athenians ...Parthenius he had been met by Pan, who told him that he was friendly to the Athenians and would come to Marathon to fight for them. This deity, then, has been...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...died in Megara. Now I have heard another account of Iphigenia that is given by Arcadians and I know that Hesiod, in his poem A Catalogue of Women, says that Iphigenia...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megarian ...her daughter back when she was wandering in search of her. Even in our day the Megarian women hold a performance that is a mimic representation of the legend. In the...

Megarian

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...those of Pericles, Chabrias and Phormio. There is also a monument for all the Athenians whose fate it has been to fall in battle, whether at sea or on land, except...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegium ...not the means to pay, they left the images at Aegium. By the market-place at Aegium is a temple shared by Apollo and Artemis in common; and in the market-place...

Aegium

80 22.081952,38.252707,0 Troy ...empire of Priam. Among the claims of Agamemnon to renown is that he destroyed Troy and the cities around her with the forces that followed him originally, without...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Areopagus ...gone, and when the Athenians gathered against them, they took refuge in the Areopagus at the altars of the goddesses called August. On this occasion the Athenians...

Areopagus

78 Caria ...Olynthus, and Melesander who sailed with a fleet along the Maeander into upper Caria; also those who died in the war with Cassander, and the Argives who once...

Caria

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Crathis ...this Crathis the river too by Crotona in Italy has been named. By the Achaean Crathis once stood Aegae, a city of the Achaeans. In course of time, it is said, it was...

Crathis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Larisa ...was now a city of ruin, the Macedonians in Dium, according to my friend of Larisa, carried the bones of Orpheus to their own country. Whoever has devoted...

Larisa

77 22.41474,39.64147,0 Helicon ...than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. On Helicon tripods have been dedicated, of which the oldest is the one which it is said...

Helicon

80 22.82514,38.35217,0 Orchomenus ...became founder of Haliartus and Coroneia I cannot separate from my account of Orchomenus. At the Persian invasion the people of Haliartus sided with the Greeks, and so...

Orchomenus

80 22.31536,37.724716,0 Aegospotami ...and without stint. When the Athenian fleet of one hundred ships anchored at Aegospotami, waiting until the sailors were scattered to get water and provisions, he thus...

Aegospotami

78 26.61011,40.35074,0 Athenian ...credit of Lysander, but the following incidents are a reproach. Philocles, the Athenian commander-in-chief at Aegospotami, along with four thousand other Athenian...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Laconian ...the Lacedemonians by the Commissions of Ten he set over the cities and by the Laconian governors. Again, an oracle had warned the Lacedemonians that only love of...

Laconian

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Tilphusius ...is the tomb of Lysander and a hero-shrine of Cecrops the son of Pandion. Mount Tilphusius and the spring called Tilphusa are about fifty stades away from Haliartus. The...

Tilphusius

81 22.994538,38.371064,0 Orchomenus ...is what is called the pit of Agamedes, with a slab beside it. The kingdom of Orchomenus was taken by Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, said to be sons of Ares, while their...

Orchomenus

79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Thebans ...of Codrus in the expedition to Ionia. When expelled from their city by the Thebans they were restored again to Orchomenus by Philip the son of Amyntas. But...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cephisian ...itself, and not made by Heracles. Wherefore Homer says: "Sloping towards the Cephisian Lake." 5.709 It is not likely either that the Orchomenians would not have...

Cephisian

79 23.625,38.125,0 Mideia ...it is Lebadeia. Originally this city stood on high ground, and was called Mideia after the mother of Aspledon. But when Lebadus came to it from Athens, the...

Mideia

76 22.87352,38.431063,0 Athens ...called Mideia after the mother of Aspledon. But when Lebadus came to it from Athens, the inhabitants went down to the low ground, and the city was named Lebadeia...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thessaly ...said to have been a daughter of Aeolus, who gave her name also to a city in Thessaly. The present name of Chaeroneia, they say, is derived from Chaeron, reputed to...

Thessaly

78 21.75,39.25,0 Olympian ...wedded a daughter of famous Iolais, Leipephilene, like in form to the Olympian goddesses; She bore him in the halls a son Hippotes, And lovely Thero, like to...

Olympian

72 21.630126,37.637849,0 Chaeroneia ...just as he speaks of the river Egyptus, not the Nile. In the territory of Chaeroneia are two trophies, which the Romans under Sulla set up to commemorate their...

Chaeroneia

77 22.840365,38.493361,0 Thebans ...those he won in India. As you approach the city you see a common grave of the Thebans who were killed in the struggle against Philip. It has no inscription, but is...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...that the first to melt bronze were the Samians Theodorus and Rhoecus. The Achaeans of Patrae assert indeed that Hephaestus made the chest brought by Eurypylus...

Achaeans

77 Pylus ...in the speech of Eumaeus to Odysseus before Telemachus reaches the court from Pylus, he says: "There came a cunning man to the home of my father, With a necklace...

Pylus

80 Chaeroneia ...and there is a small image of Zeus on the summit of the mountain. Here in Chaeroneia they distil unguents from flowers, namely, the lily, the rose, the narcissus...

Chaeroneia

77 22.840365,38.493361,0 Delphi ...Phocis stretches to the sea, and touches it on one side at Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and on the other at the city of Anticyra. In the direction of the Lamian Gulf...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...will I give victory, but more to the mortal." On receiving this oracle, the Phocians sent three hundred picked men with Gelon in command to make an attack on the...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...heroes. The figures were the work of the Argive Aristomedon. Afterwards the Phocians discovered a stratagem quite as clever as their former ones. For when the...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to...

Phocian

75 22.25,38.25,0 Stiris ...Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the cities enumerated were razed...

Stiris

80 22.757,38.385,0 Athenians ...weakness and by their want of funds at the period of restoration. It was the Athenians and Thebans who brought back the inhabitants before the disaster of Chaeroneia...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphians ...sang in hexameter verse. Boeo, a native woman who composed a hymn for the Delphians, said that the oracle was established for the god by comers from the...

Delphians

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympia ...first time prizes for athletes, the competitions being the same as those at Olympia, except the four-horse chariot, and the Delphians themselves added to the...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phocis ...Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis. But when the Phocians seized the...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Argives ...send one each; there is also one from Euboea. Of the Peloponnesians, the Argives, Sicyonians, Corinthians and Megarians send one, as Nicopolis send deputies to...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Massiliots ...Of its two images the one in the fore-temple is a votive offering of the Massiliots, and is larger than the one inside the temple. The Massiliots are a colony of...

Massiliots

75 5.365307,43.299467,0 Messenian ...of the Hecas who had come with the sons of Aristodemus to Sparta, on the Messenian side by Theoclus, who was descended from Eumantis, an Eleian of the house of...

Messenian

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...thy name to be unforgotten and give thee glory. But do thou restore to the Messenians their fatherland and cities, for now the wrath of the Dioscuri against them...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athens ...appeared to Epiteles and Epaminondas in their sleep was Caucon, who came from Athens to Messene the daughter of Triopas at Andania. The wrath of the sons of...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Andania ...sleep was Caucon, who came from Athens to Messene the daughter of Triopas at Andania. The wrath of the sons of Tyndareus against the Messenians began before the...

Andania

79 21.938099,37.26217,0 Argive ...and the temples. They worked to the sound of music, but only from Boeotian and Argive flutes, and the tunes of Sacadas and Pronomus were brought into keen...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 promontory ...you see a harbor and a temple to Athena of Sunium on the peak of the promontory. Farther on is Laurium, where once the Athenians had silver mines, and a small...

promontory

71 24.125,37.625,0 Messenians ...Lacedemonians in the war against them. The men of Nauplia on the return of the Messenians to Peloponnese brought them such gifts as they had, and while praying...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...their return they had nothing to fear at first from the Lacedemonians. For the Lacedemonians, restrained by fear of the Thebans, submitted to the foundation of Messene and...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...when the Greeks had raised a second war against the Macedonians, the Messenians took part, as I have shown earlier in my account of Attica. They did not join...

Messenians

71 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...and made over the city to their own partisans. The trick is Homer's, but the Messenians plainly imitated it opportunely, for Homer represents Patroclus in the Iliad...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...are the vicissitudes of human affairs, that it was the will of heaven that the Messenians should in their turn preserve the Arcadians, and what is still more surprising...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...manner of Philopoemen's capture and death in my account of Arcadia later. The Messenians, who were responsible for his death, were punished and Messene was again...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pharis ...caused the Messenians of Pharae to be incorporated in Laconia. The founder Pharis is said to have been the son of Hermes and Phylodameia the daughter of Danaus...

Pharis

77 22.2805645,37.029321,0 Messenians ...describe her appearance in another place. The name Laphria spread only to the Messenians and to the Achaeans of Patrae. But all cities worship Artemis of Ephesus, and...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...and goats, but finally birds as well. There is a holy shrine of Demeter at Messene and statues of the Dioscuri, carrying the daughters of Leucippus. I have...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messene ...is of iron and the work of some other artist. There is also a temple of Messene the daughter of Triopas with a statue of gold and Parian marble. At the back of...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenian ...of Sarapis and Isis. On the ascent to the summit of Ithome, which is the Messenian acropolis, is a spring Clepsydra. It is a hopeless task, however zealously...

Messenian

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...driven thence by the Argives and lived in Messenia. This was the gift of the Lacedemonians, and when in the course of time the Messenians were restored, they were not...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Parnassus ...were carried by Heracles, they deserted the town and fled to the heights of Parnassus, and afterwards crossed the sea to Peloponnese and appealed to Eurystheus...

Parnassus

78 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Asine ...a journey of forty stades from Colonides to Asine, and of an equal number from Asine to the promontory called Acritas. Acritas projects into the sea and has a...

Asine

81 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Acritas ...to Asine, and of an equal number from Asine to the promontory called Acritas. Acritas projects into the sea and has a deserted island, Theganussa, lying off it...

Acritas

80 21.8764,36.72016,0 Sphacteria ...of the Persians there. In like manner the Lacedemonian reverse made Sphacteria known to all mankind. The Athenians dedicated a bronze statue of Victory also...

Sphacteria

70 21.665725,36.930136,0 Mases ...Hound of Hell. At the gate through which there is a straight road leading to Mases, there is a sanctuary of Eileithyia within the wall. Every day, both with...

Mases

80 23.142191,37.417868,0 Argos ...which is still visible, and by it they buried Lysistratus. Distant from Argos forty stades and no more is the sea at Lerna. On the way down to Lerna the...

Argos

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dorians ...For, having seized and strengthened the position, he waged therefrom with the Dorians the war against Tisamenus and the Achaeans. On the way to Temenium from Lerna...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Lerna ...the war against Tisamenus and the Achaeans. On the way to Temenium from Lerna the river Phrixus empties itself into the sea, and in Temenium is built a...

Lerna

74 22.71809,37.55107,0 Temenium ...to Temenium from Lerna the river Phrixus empties itself into the sea, and in Temenium is built a sanctuary of Poseidon, as well as one of Aphrodite; there is also...

Temenium

79 22.737804,37.581685,0 Lerna ...he taught the pruning of vines – all this I pass over as trivial. From Lerna there is also another road, which skirts the sea and leads to a place called...

Lerna

74 22.71809,37.55107,0 one ...was more conveniently situated for mariners, and had three harbors as against one at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks...

one

80 Lacedemonians ...Spartan and two Argives, and here were raised the graves for the dead. But the Lacedemonians, having fought against the Argives with all their forces, won a decisive...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laurium ...and a temple to Athena of Sunium on the peak of the promontory. Farther on is Laurium, where once the Athenians had silver mines, and a small uninhabited island...

Laurium

80 24.039891,37.712252,0 Sparta ...named after his wife a city, which even down to our own day has been called Sparta. Amyclas, too, son of Lacedemon, wished to leave some memorial behind him, and...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythian ...of Aristodemus were twins, there arose two royal houses; for they say that the Pythian priestess approved. Tradition has it that Aristodemus himself died at Delphi...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amyclae ...a son Teleclus. In his reign the Lacedemonians conquered in war and reduced Amyclae, Pharis, and Geranthrae, cities of the Perioeci, which were still in the...

Amyclae

78 24.76084,35.0133,0 Amyclae ...made an agreement to retire from the Peloponnesus under a truce, but those of Amyclae were not driven out at the first assault, but only after a long and stubborn...

Amyclae

80 24.76084,35.0133,0 Messene ...the son of Nicander, a king of the other house. When the war against Messene had been fought to a finish, and Messenia was enslaved to the Lacedemonians...

Messene

71 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenia ...the other house. When the war against Messene had been fought to a finish, and Messenia was enslaved to the Lacedemonians, Polydorus, who had a great reputation at...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Tegea ...on the throne the Lacedemonians were generally unsuccessful in the war with Tegea. But in the reign of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, the Lacedemonians won the war...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemonians ...in the war with Tegea. But in the reign of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, the Lacedemonians won the war with Tegea in the following manner. A Lacedemonian, by name Lichas...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...in the reign of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, the Lacedemonians won the war with Tegea in the following manner. A Lacedemonian, by name Lichas, came to Tegea when...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Scyros ...Miltiades, who displayed similar sharpness of wit, and shortly afterwards took Scyros. I have evidence that in the heroic age weapons were universally of bronze in...

Scyros

81 24.6099,38.82754,0 Dorians ...which from ancient times had been an established custom between Dorians and Dorians. But Agesipolis did not make the truce with the herald, but advancing with his...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 a Zeus ...away from the harbor have another – but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of...

a Zeus

80 Doritis ...great honor, and they have sanctuaries of the goddess; the oldest is to her as Doritis (Bountiful), the next in age as Acraea (Of the Height/Promontory), while the...

Doritis

81 sanctuaries ...peninsula. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very great honor, and they have sanctuaries of the goddess; the oldest is to her as Doritis (Bountiful), the next in age as...

sanctuaries

80 Sparta ...son of Agesicles, married a wife who, they say, was the ugliest maiden in Sparta, but became the most beautiful of her women, because Helen changed her; seven...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonians ...the Lacedemonians, after them the Athenians, third the Corinthians, fourth the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Tenians ...from Triphylia, but from the Aegean and the Cyclades there came not only the Tenians but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them...

Tenians

79 25.167742,37.577564,0 Styrians ...Cyclades there came not only the Tenians but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the...

Styrians

79 24.2607,38.1455,0 Laconians ...Aristo and Telestas, Own brothers and Laconians." I do not think that these Laconians were famous all over Greece, for had they been so the Eleans would have had...

Laconians

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Phocis ...of Sicyon. The inscription on it says that it is a tithe from the war between Phocis and Thessaly. If the Thessalians went to war with Phocis and dedicated the...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Themistocles ...he went to give satisfaction to Minos for the death of Androgeos. But when Themistocles became archon, since he thought that the Peiraeus was more conveniently...

Themistocles

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mimas ...of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and Chios opposite Mimas. Asius, the son of Amphiptolemus, a Samian, says in his epic that there were...

Mimas

81 26.5013,38.55674,0 Carians ...Chios, accompanied by his sons Talus, Euanthes, Melas, Salagus and Athamas. Carians too came to the island, in the reign of Oenopion, and Abantes from Euboea...

Carians

79 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Chians ...of the Chians that I found given by Ion. However, he gives no reason why the Chians are classed with the Ionians. Smyrna, one of the twelve Aeolian cities, built...

Chians

79 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Colophonians ...in Branchidae, in Milesian territory, and the one at Clarus in the land of the Colophonians. Besides these, two temples in Ionia were burnt down by the Persians, the one...

Colophonians

81 27.142222,38.115556,0 Ionia ...in my time between Mount Coryphe and a sea into which no other water flows. Ionia has other things to record besides its sanctuaries and its climate. There is...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ionia ...stretching into the sea, and on it are sea baths, the most useful baths in Ionia. The Smyrnaeans have the river Meles, with its lovely water, and at its springs...

Ionia

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Aegae ...it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of Sicyonia. In them, which had...

Aegae

78 22.3484,38.1478,0 Megara ...of Mardonius. This road leads to Plataea from Eleutherae. On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a little farther on a rock. It is called...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Euboea ...they say, was for some reason or other angry with Zeus, and had retreated to Euboea. Zeus, failing to make her change her mind, visited Cithaeron, at that time...

Euboea

79 Cithaeron ...had retreated to Euboea. Zeus, failing to make her change her mind, visited Cithaeron, at that time despot in Plataea, who surpassed all men for his cleverness. So...

Cithaeron

78 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Athenians ...of Athena surnamed Warlike; it was built from the spoils given them by the Athenians as their share from the battle of Marathon. It is a wooden image gilded, but...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...however, the Plataeans recovered the water. On the road from Plataea to Thebes is the river Oeroe, said to have been a daughter of the Asopus. Before crossing...

Thebes

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Encheleans ...which they came into being. When Cadmus migrated to the Illyrian tribe of the Encheleans, Polydorus his son got the kingdom. Now Pentheus the son of Echion was also...

Encheleans

80 20.5,41.5,0 Sicyonians ...Greeks the Sicyonians were the first to join the Achaean League, and after the Sicyonians there entered it yet other Peloponnesians, some forthwith and others after an...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Achaeans ...among the Greeks the Lacedemonians were the bitter enemies of the Achaeans and openly carried on war against them. Pellene, a city of the Achaeans, was...

Achaeans

68 Illyria ...with any Theban willing to accompany him, withdrew when night came to Illyria. The Argives captured Thebes and handed it over to Thersander, son of...

Illyria

72 19.5,41.5,0 Achaeans ...of the Achaeans and openly carried on war against them. Pellene, a city of the Achaeans, was captured by Agis, the son of Eudamidas, who was king at Sparta; but he was...

Achaeans

81 Troy ...Thersander, when a second expedition was being mustered to fight Alexander at Troy, Peneleos was chosen to command it, because Tisamenus, the son of Thersander...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Athenians ...the Athenians against Philip, and how the weakness of their allies urged the Athenians to seek help from Rome. A short time before, the Romans had sent a force...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinth ...with Corinth was involved in the war with Lacedemon. Overcome in battle at Corinth and Coroncia, they won on the other hand at Leuctra the most famous victory we...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenian ...Thebans, for no other reason, in my opinion, except their friendship for the Athenian people. But when Sulla invaded Boeotia, terror seized the Thebans; they at once...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aetolians ...Syrians they did because of their friendship to the Romans; but against the Aetolians they had a long standing private quarrel to settle. When the tyranny of Nabis...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Potniae ...the Asopus, about ten stades distant from the city, are the ruins of Potniae, in which is a grove of Demeter and the Maid. The images at the river that...

Potniae

71 23.311229,38.30383,0 Macedonian ...the Thessalians and certain Epeirots. In actual fact Philip himself and the Macedonian ascendancy had been put down by the Romans; Philip fighting against the Romans...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Megara ...by the Argives, Messenians and Arcadians, but also by allies from Corinth and Megara invited to help them. Thebes too was defended by their neighbors, and a battle...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Argive ...by the inspired Sibyl. This was her oracle: Ye Macedonians, boasting of your Argive kings, To you the reign of a Philip will be both good and evil. The first will...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...vassals taking the oath city by city." When the war between Lacedemon and Thebes had already broken out, and the Lacedemonians were advancing to attack the...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sparta ...had their previous experience, and their shame of lessening the reputation of Sparta; the Thebans realized that what was at stake was their country, their wives and...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...their wives and their children. But when king Cleombrotus with several Lacedemonian magistrates had fallen, the Spartans were bound by necessity not to give way...

Lacedemonian

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...a man of them had fallen; others had but slight loss to report. So when the Lacedemonians proceeded to bury their own, it was at once proved that the fallen were...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotians ...once proved that the fallen were Spartans. The loss of the Thebans and of such Boeotians as remained loyal amounted to forty-seven, but of the Lacedemonians themselves...

Boeotians

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thespians ...but at no other time." On the latter occasion Epaminondas captured the Thespians who had taken refuge in Ceressus, and immediately afterwards devoted his...

Thespians

74 23.154521,38.293384,0 Lacedemon ...hand over their countries to him. In the reign of Philip, the son of Amyntas, Lacedemon is the only Greek city to be found that was not betrayed; the other cities in...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...son of Timotheus, attacked the Thebans with a force of targeteers and other Athenians. Epaminondas put his assailants to flight and came right up to the very city...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thermopylae ...was serving in the ranks. When the force had reached the other side of Thermopylae, Alexander surprised and attacked it on difficult ground. As there appeared to...

Thermopylae

74 22.538294,38.796511,0 Macedonians ...country desolate. These Sapaeans Archilochus mentions in an iambic line. The Macedonians and Perseus were conquered because of this wrong done to the Sapaeans, and...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Sicyonian ...Boeotian fugitives; these they punished with death. So when he captured the Sicyonian town of Phoebia, in which were gathered most of the Boeotian fugitives, he...

Sicyonian

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Achaean ...so captivated that he actually persuaded him to attend the meeting of the Achaean League. When he entered the assembly he declared that while Perseus was at war...

Achaean

76 Athenian ...to the Thebans, the hands and face of the image were made by Xenophon the Athenian, the rest of it by Callistonicus, a native. It was a clever idea of these...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Alpheius ...the Alpheius, mostly upon a gentle slope, though a part descends right to the Alpheius. Walks have been made along the river, separated by myrtles and other...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Olympia ...has been Damaretus of Heraea, who was the first to win the race in armour at Olympia. As you go down to the land of Elis from Heraea, at a distance of about...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...commensurate with the unprovoked harm done by them to Oropus. When the Athenians did not appear in time for the trial, the Sicyonians inflicted on them a fine...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...by promises and bribes they beguiled the Oropians into an agreement that an Athenian garrison should enter Oropus, and that the Athenians should take hostages from...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...won. On the tomb is an inscription that Coroebus was the first man to win at Olympia, and that his grave was made at the end of Elean territory. There is a town...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Megalopolis ...the source of the Buphagus is the boundary between Megalopolis and Heraea. Megalopolis is the youngest city, not of Arcadia only, but of Greece, with the exception of...

Megalopolis

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Arcadians ...inhabitants have been removed by the accident of the Roman domination. The Arcadians united into it to gain strength, realizing that the Argives also were in...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...of them as were left and were not immediately massacred by the exasperated Arcadians. Those who escaped with their lives sailed away to Pontus and were welcomed by...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megalopolis ...it to utter destruction. The Agis whom the north wind prevented from taking Megalopolis is the man from whom was taken Pellene in Achaia by the Sicyonians under...

Megalopolis

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Messenians ...after none of the successors of Daedalus or of the Attic school. The Dorian Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians dedicated at Olympia the image of...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Megalopolis ...from a kingship to a tyranny. As I have already related, the boundary between Megalopolis and Heraea is at the source of the river Buphagus. The river got its name, they...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Theisoa ...them all in coldness, especially in the season of summer. It has its source in Theisoa, which borders on Methydrium. The place where its stream joins the Alpheius is...

Theisoa

81 22.093976,37.629132,0 Helisson ...beginning at a village of the same name – for the name of the village also is Helisson – passes through the lands of Dipaea and Lycaea, and then through Megalopolis...

Helisson

80 22.217753,37.612883,0 Erymanthus ...to the Nemean lion, the Hydra, the Hound of Hell, and the boar by the river Erymanthus. These were brought to Olympia by the people of Heracleia when they had overrun...

Erymanthus

78 21.75,37.75,0 Tanagra ...is a city built on the Euxine sea, a colony of Megara, though the people of Tanagra in Boeotia joined in the settlement. Opposite the offerings I have enumerated...

Tanagra

78 23.587064,38.309371,0 Athenians ...Artemis Saviour on the left. These are of Pentelic marble and were made by the Athenians Cephisodotus and Xenophon. At the other end, the western, of the portico is an...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delos ...are now less prosperous than a private individual of moderate means, while Delos, once the common market of Greece, has no Delian inhabitant, but only the men...

Delos

77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Chryse ...his accident from the water-snake. But the waves utterly overwhelmed it, and Chryse sank and disappeared in the depths. Another island called Hiera (Sacred) . . ...

Chryse

79 26.928091,39.585106,0 Corcyraeans ...it, and Gallon of Elis made it. Of the bronze oxen one was dedicated by the Corcyraeans and the other by the Eretrians. Philesius of Eretria was the artist. Why the...

Corcyraeans

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Tricoloni ...stades from Tricoloni, not lying on the straight road but to the left of Tricoloni, was founded, they say, by Zoeteus, the son of Tricolonus. Paroreus, the...

Tricoloni

75 22.165174,37.480046,0 Paroria ...the younger of the sons of Tricolonus, also founded a city, in this case Paroria, ten stades distant from Zoetia. Today both towns are without inhabitants. In...

Paroria

75 22.139365,37.484682,0 Methydrium ...in all from Tricoloni, there is on the Helisson, on the straight road to Methydrium, the only city left to be described on the road from Tricoloni, a place called...

Methydrium

75 22.168912,37.627412,0 Orchomenus ...there is a high knoll between the river Maloetas and the Mylaon, and on it Orchomenus built his city. Methydrium too had citizens victorious at Olympia before it...

Orchomenus

77 22.31536,37.724716,0 Helisson ...named the Gate to the Marsh, and proceeding by the side of the river Helisson towards Maenalus, there stands on the left of the road a temple of the Good...

Helisson

71 22.217753,37.612883,0 Syracuse ...Antipater of Miletus, son of Cleinopater, conqueror of the boy boxers. Men of Syracuse, who were bringing a sacrifice from Dionysius to Olympia, tried to bribe the...

Syracuse

80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Maenalus ...of a temple of Athena, one race-course for athletes and one for horses. Mount Maenalus is held to be especially sacred to Pan, so that those who dwell around it say...

Maenalus

80 22.265891,37.549491,0 Neda ...Theisoa today is a village in the district of Megalopolis. From Neda the river Neda takes its name; from Hagno a spring on Mount Lycaeus, which like the Danube...

Neda

81 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Naupactus ...Messene on the Strait, we know of no Messenian, either from Sicily or from Naupactus, who won a victory at Olympia. Even these two are said by the Sicilians to have...

Naupactus

77 22.315807,38.41224,0 Danube ...Neda takes its name; from Hagno a spring on Mount Lycaeus, which like the Danube flows with an equal volume of water in winter just as in the season of...

Danube

76 29.647293,45.16291,0 Glisas ...of my history that deals with Megara. On the straight road from Thebes to Glisas is a place surrounded by unhewn stones, called by the Thebans the Snake's Head...

Glisas

77 23.396935,38.391809,0 Isthmus ...this Damiscus, who afterwards won in the pentathlum both at Nemea and at the Isthmus. Nearest to Damiscus stands a statue of somebody; they do not give his name...

Isthmus

79 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Mycalessian ...the Euripus separates Euboea from Boeotia. On the right is the sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter, and a little farther on is Aulis, said to have been named after the...

Mycalessian

78 23.545847,38.415804,0 Nemean ...and Stomius won a victory in the pentathlum at Olympia and three at the Nemean games. The inscription on his statue adds that, when commander of the Elean...

Nemean

74 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Tanagra ...Apollo by Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon. It is said that Poemander married Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus. But in a poem of Corinna she is said to be a daughter of...

Tanagra

81 23.587064,38.309371,0 Pythian ...Eupolemus won the foot-race for men at Olympia, and that he also received two Pythian crowns for the pentathlum and another at the Nemean games. It is also said of...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Boeotians ...when Thebes rose to great power the citizens of their own accord joined the Boeotians. Here there is a temple of Dionysus with a standing image. The town has a...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Corseia ...image of Hermes stands in the open part of the grove. This is distant from Corseia about half a stade. On descending to the level you reach a river called the...

Corseia

77 23.08241,38.59375,0 Pentelic ...to arrive on that day, and I saw the image, which, like the throne, is of Pentelic marble. Along the road from the Neistan gate are three sanctuaries. There is a...

Pentelic

76 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Lycian ...Love to be the youngest of the gods and the son of Aphrodite. But Olen the Lycian, who composed the oldest Greek hymns, says in a hymn to Eileithyia that she was...

Lycian

77 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Achaeans ...and three at the Nemean games. He was buried at the public expense by the Achaeans, and his fate it was to lose his life on the field of battle. My statement is...

Achaeans

76 Helicon ...less deadly. Such is the truth about these things. The first to sacrifice on Helicon to the Muses and to call the mountain sacred to the Muses were, they say...

Helicon

80 22.82514,38.35217,0 Nemea ...only I alone conquered twice the men at Olympia and at Pytho, Thrice at Nemea, and four times at the Isthmus near the sea; Chilon of Patrae, son of Chilon...

Nemea

74 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Helicon ...and horses. The remaining three were made by Olympiosthenes. There is also on Helicon a bronze Apollo fighting with Hermes for the lyre. There is also a Dionysus by...

Helicon

80 22.82514,38.35217,0 Macedonians ...as nest on the grave of Orpheus sing more sweetly and louder than others. The Macedonians who dwell in the district below Mount Pieria and the city of Dium say that it...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Dium ...instead of Helicon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dium say that at first this river flowed on land throughout its course. But, they go...

Dium

76 22.491299,40.177012,0 Thrace ...city is the tomb of Orpheus. The Libethrians, it is said, received out of Thrace an oracle from Dionysus, stating that when the sun should see the bones of...

Thrace

76 27.5,42.5,0 Olympus ...the god sent heavy rain, and the river Sys (Boar), one of the torrents about Olympus, on this occasion threw down the walls of Libethra, overturning sanctuaries of...

Olympus

79 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Dium ...animals in the city. When Libethra was now a city of ruin, the Macedonians in Dium, according to my friend of Larisa, carried the bones of Orpheus to their own...

Dium

80 22.491299,40.177012,0 Athens ...mercenaries. This disaster befell Scotussa when Phrasicleides was archon at Athens, in the hundred and second Olympiad, when Damon of Thurii was victor for the...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegospotami ...incidents are a reproach. Philocles, the Athenian commander-in-chief at Aegospotami, along with four thousand other Athenian prisoners, were put to death by...

Aegospotami

74 26.61011,40.35074,0 Olympic ...of the Diagoridae. For he was the son of the daughter of Diagoras, and won an Olympic victory in the boxing-match for men. His statue is by Naucydes. Polycleitus of...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Argives ...are about fifty stades away from Haliartus. The Greeks declare that the Argives, along with the sons of Polyneices, after capturing Thebes, were bringing...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...declare that the Argives, along with the sons of Polyneices, after capturing Thebes, were bringing Teiresias and some other of the spoil to the god at Delphi, when...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Haliartus ...the oath rashly. The sanctuary of the goddesses is near Mount Tilphusius. In Haliartus are temples, with no images inside, and without roofs. I could not discover...

Haliartus

79 23.088416,38.379818,0 Olympian ...from the daughter of Aristomenes. Dorieus, son of Diagoras, besides his Olympian victories, won eight at the Isthmian and seven at the Nemean games. He is also...

Olympian

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Alexandria ...boy boxer. He was by birth, so the Guardian of the Laws at Elis told me, from Alexandria over against the island Pharos, and his name was Sarapion; arriving at Elis...

Alexandria

80 29.904133,31.195371,0 Mantinean ...Aeschylus among others calls the Inachus an Argive river. After crossing into Mantinean country over Mount Artemisius you will come to a plain called the Untilled...

Mantinean

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Dine ...in the earth. After disappearing here it rises again at Dine (Whirlpool). Dine is a stream of fresh water rising out of the sea by what is called Genethlium...

Dine

77 Corcyreans ...booty, but they themselves took many times as much booty from the land of the Corcyreans, and built the portico from the tithe of the spoils. The portico is in the...

Corcyreans

80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Sicyonia The land between Elis and Sicyonia, reaching down to the eastern sea, is now called Achaia after the inhabitants...

Sicyonia

26 22.71135,37.98336,0 Mantineans ...their territory. Agesipolis was victorious in the battle and shut up the Mantineans within their walls, capturing the city shortly after. He did not take it by...

Mantineans

75 22.393259,37.618138,0 Aegialus ...there, and there died. Of his sons, Achaeus with the assistance of allies from Aegialus and Athens returned to Thessaly and recovered the throne of his fathers: Ion...

Aegialus

81 22.3484,38.1478,0 Athenians ...when he was commander-in-chief of the Athenians. Another account is that the Athenians suspected that the Dorians would not keep their hands off them, and received...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonia ...became Emperor, he took away from the Mantineans the name imported from Macedonia, and gave back to their city its old name of Mantineia. The Mantineans possess...

Macedonia

74 21.75,41.25,0 Athenian ...the rest of the sons of Codrus set out to found a colony, taking with them any Athenian who wished to go with them, but the greatest number of their company was...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...from Bithynium beyond the river Sangarius, and the Bithynians are by descent Arcadians of Mantineia. For this reason the Emperor established his worship in Mantineia...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenians ...here of the painting in the Cerameicus which represented the engagement of the Athenians at Mantineia. In the market-place is a bronze portrait-statue of a woman, said...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Milesians ...with the Cretans. But to resume. When the Ionians had overcome the ancient Milesians they killed every male, except those who escaped at the capture of the city...

Milesians

78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Didymi ...of Neileus is on the left of the road, not far from the gate, as you go to Didymi. The sanctuary of Apollo at Didymi, and his oracle, are earlier than the...

Didymi

77 23.154194,37.500047,0 Didymi ...road, not far from the gate, as you go to Didymi. The sanctuary of Apollo at Didymi, and his oracle, are earlier than the immigration of the Ionians, while the...

Didymi

79 23.154194,37.500047,0 Lydians ...land were partly Leleges, a branch of the Carians, but the greater number were Lydians. In addition there were others who dwelt around the sanctuary for the sake of...

Lydians

81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Carians ...returned to their own land, Androclus helped the people of Priene against the Carians. The Greek army was victorious, but Androclus was killed in the battle. The...

Carians

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Athenians ...by the poets who have treated of the sufferings of heroes at Troy, and the Athenians relate in song how gods sided with them at Marathon and at the battle of...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Myus ...in Myus except a white marble temple of Dionysus. A similar fate to that of Myus happened to the people of Atarneus, under Mount Pergamus. The people of...

Myus

78 27.42788,37.59716,0 Pallantium ...because of his weapon. As you go along the road leading from Mantineia to Pallantium, at a distance of about thirty stades, the highway is skirted by the grove of...

Pallantium

77 22.336587,37.462155,0 images ...noteworthy sight in the Peiraeus is a precinct of Athena and Zeus. Both their images are of bronze; Zeus holds a staff and a Victory, Athena a spear. Here is a...

images

80 Carians ...the Cretans, as they came of old from Crete, having fled along with Sarpedon; Carians because of their ancient friendship with Minos; Pamphylians because they too...

Carians

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Clazomenae ...each, and introduced them as settlers among the Erythraeans. The cities of Clazomenae and Phocaea were not inhabited before the Ionians came to Asia. When the...

Clazomenae

78 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Colophonian ...Scyppium in the Colophonian territory. They left of their own free-will Colophonian territory also, and so occupied the land which they still hold, and built on...

Colophonian

75 27.142222,38.115556,0 Athenians ...the land under Parnassus still called Phocis, who crossed to Asia with the Athenians Philogenes and Damon. Their land they took from the Cymaeans, not by war but by...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cymaeans ...to Asia with the Athenians Philogenes and Damon. Their land they took from the Cymaeans, not by war but by agreement. When the Ionians would not admit them to the...

Cymaeans

81 26.936283,38.75953,0 Mantineia ...ruins of a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and at Anchisiae is the boundary between Mantineia and Orchomenus. In the territory of Orchomenus, on the left of the road from...

Mantineia

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Smyrna ...Ion. However, he gives no reason why the Chians are classed with the Ionians. Smyrna, one of the twelve Aeolian cities, built on that site which even now they call...

Smyrna

81 27.14781,38.440912,0 Ionians ...built on that site which even now they call the old city, was seized by Ionians who set out from Colophon and displaced the Aeolians; subsequently, however...

Ionians

74 27.508324,37.474596,0 Trachy ...The rain-water, flowing through a deep gully between the city and Mount Trachy, descends to another Orchomenian plain, which is very considerable in extent...

Trachy

74 22.36505,37.72491,0 Ephesian ...to be found nowhere else. First because of its size and wealth is that of the Ephesian goddess, and then come two unfinished sanctuaries of Apollo, the one in...

Ephesian

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Stymphalus ...once, they say, was a city. Here the road forks again, one way leading to Stymphalus, the other to Pheneus. On the road to Pheneus you will come to a mountain. On...

Stymphalus

76 22.45931,37.85932,0 Erythrae ...them a wonder. You would be delighted too with the sanctuary of Heracles at Erythrae and with the temple of Athena at Priene, the latter because of its image and...

Erythrae

79 26.48103,38.38122,0 Achaeans ...the Achaeans and their princes. Those who held the greatest power among the Achaeans were the sons of Tisamenus, Daimenes, Sparton, Tellis and Leontomenes; his...

Achaeans

79 Pheneus ...still sacrifice to Iphicles as to a hero, and of the gods the people of Pheneus worship most Hermes, in whose honor they celebrate the games called Hermaea...

Pheneus

74 22.30692,37.91045,0 Lydian ...Adrastus, a Lydian, helped the Greeks as a private individual, although the Lydian commonwealth held aloof. A likeness of this Adrastus in bronze was dedicated in...

Lydian

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Corinth ...Greek people he called these cities the keys of Greece. To watch Peloponnesus Corinth was fortified with its citadel; to watch Euboea, the Boeotians and the...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Aegeira ...one; for towards Pellene the boundary is the river called Porinas, and towards Aegeira the "road to Artemis." 26 Within the territory of the Pheneatians themselves...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Phocians ...Corinth was fortified with its citadel; to watch Euboea, the Boeotians and the Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the Thessalians themselves and the Aetolian...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Athens ...but really more to spy on the condition of Macedonia. At the appeal of Athens the Romans despatched an army under Otilius, to give him the name by which he...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Euboea ...up to a point, but displeased the Romans in certain of his acts. Hestiaea in Euboea and Anticyra in Phocis, which had been compelled to submit to Philip, he...

Euboea

79 Corinth ...it, while at the same time he sent to the Achaeans and bade them come to Corinth with an army, if they desired to be called allies of Rome and at the same time...

Corinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...of Arcadia. The Lacedemonians, deeply offended by the ordinances of the Achaeans, fled to Metellus and the other commissioners who had come from Rome. They had...

Achaeans

74 Styx ...down-flowing." These verses suggest that the poet had seen the water of the Styx trickling down. Again in the list of those who came with Guneus he makes the...

Styx

78 22.25,38.25,0 portico ...the sea – those farther away from the harbor have another – but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea...

portico

77 Lacedemonians ...Appius and his former colleagues in Greece, to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. This commission restored to Sparta those whom the Achaeans...

Lacedemonians

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...called the Cynaetheans, the same folk who dedicated the image of Zeus at Olympia with a thunderbolt in either hand. These Cynaetheans live more than forty...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ladon ...Forthwith Daphne and the other maidens conceived a longing to swim in the Ladon, and stripped Leucippus in spite of his reluctance. Then, seeing that he was no...

Ladon

76 21.75,37.75,0 Stymphalians ...Geronteium, as it is called, the boundary between Stymphalus and Pheneus. The Stymphalians are no longer included among the Arcadians, but are numbered with the Argive...

Stymphalians

80 22.45931,37.85932,0 Athenians ...and most other cities. My statement is confirmed by the following fact. The Athenians after the disaster in Boeotia did not become subjects of Philip, although they...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sapaeans ...their king Abrupolis, allies of the Romans, made their country desolate. These Sapaeans Archilochus mentions in an iambic line. The Macedonians and Perseus were...

Sapaeans

81 24.75,41.25,0 Oropians ...because the Macedonian war had crushed them more than any other Greeks. So the Oropians appealed to the Roman senate. It decided that an injustice had been committed...

Oropians

81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Arcadians ...the son of Ancaeus, the son of Lycurgus, who was king after Echemus, led the Arcadians to Troy. After the capture of Troy the storm that overtook the Greeks on their...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Trapezus ...life, except that he established as the capital of his kingdom not Tegea but Trapezus. Aepytus, the son of Hippothous, succeeded his father to the throne, and...

Trapezus

79 22.060685,37.456281,0 Olympia ...the inscription: "Who first invented the method of starting the horses at Olympia, He made me, Cleoetas the son of Aristocles." It is said that after Cleoetas...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Pylus ...flows into the Peneius. The Eleans declare that there is a reference to this Pylus in the passage of Homer: "And he was descended from the river Alpheius, that in...

Pylus

80 Elis ...the pentathlum and for such contests as are called heavy. The market-place of Elis is not after the fashion of the cities of Ionia and of the Greek cities near...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Sicily ...worker. Cyllene is one hundred and twenty stades distant from Elis; it faces Sicily and affords ships a suitable anchorage. It is the port of Elis, and received...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Cyllene ...of Cyllene, Comrade of Phyleides and ruler of the great-souled Epeans." In Cyllene is a sanctuary of Asclepius, and one of Aphrodite. But the image of Hermes...

Cyllene

77 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Argives ...towns came to be called Achaeans. The name Achaeans was common to them; the Argives had the special name of Danai. On the occasion referred to, being expelled by...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...name of Danai. On the occasion referred to, being expelled by the Dorians from Argos and Lacedemon, the Achaeans themselves and their king Tisamenus, the son of...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionians ...led the Athenians and Thespians to Sardinia. One generation before the Ionians set sail from Athens, the Lacedemonians and Minyans who had been expelled from...

Ionians

73 27.508324,37.474596,0 Samos ...Androclus also took Samos from the Samians, and for a time the Ephesians held Samos and the adjacent islands. But after that the Samians had returned to their own...

Samos

80 26.84,37.73,0 Myus ...at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The founder of Myus was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene, half Theban and half...

Myus

76 27.42788,37.59716,0 Carians ...her to inhabit the land. Mopsus, the son of Rhacius and of Manto, drove the Carians from the country altogether. The Ionians swore an oath to the Greeks in...

Carians

78 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Lebedus ...in the battle is on the left of the road as you go to Clarus. The city of Lebedus was razed to the ground by Lysimachus, simply in order that the population of...

Lebedus

77 26.964722,38.077883,0 Pamphylians ...along with Sarpedon; Carians because of their ancient friendship with Minos; Pamphylians because they too belong to the Greek race, being among those who after the...

Pamphylians

79 30.98638,36.990721,0 Erythrae ...taking of Troy wandered with Calchas. The peoples I have enumerated occupied Erythrae when Cleopus the son of Codrus gathered men from all the cities of Ionia, so...

Erythrae

79 26.48103,38.38122,0 Pergamus ...temple of Zeus. The same rule applies to those who sacrifice to Telephus at Pergamus on the river Caicus; these too may not go up to the temple of Asclepius before...

Pergamus

78 27.184167,39.1325,0 Euboea ...they were returning home, the ship carrying the bone of Pelops was wrecked off Euboea in the storm. Many years later than the capture of Troy, Damarmenus, a...

Euboea

81 Elean ...is of Artemis surnamed Coccoca, and the fifth is of Apollo Thermius. As to the Elean surname Thermius, the conjecture occurred to me that in the Attic dialect it...

Elean

81 21.25,37.75,0 Triphylia ...The Elean account says that it was the people of Scillus, one of the cities in Triphylia, who built the temple about eight years after Oxylus came to the throne of...

Triphylia

81 21.75,37.75,0 Argos ...what I myself chanced to learn about them I have set forth in my account of Argos. Besides the account already given they tell another story about the Sixteen...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Arcadians ...declare that the soldiers are meeting in battle, and that they are Pylians and Arcadians about to fight by the city Pheia and the river Iardanus. But it cannot for a...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athens ..."The sons of Tyndareus are carrying of Helen, and are dragging Aethra from Athens. Such is the way this line is constructed. Iphidamas, the son of Antenor, is...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...is in the Altis an altar near the entrance leading to the stadium. On it the Eleans do not sacrifice to any of the gods, but it is customary for the trumpeters and...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Boeotia ...and the Phocians . . . the general assembly. To Boulis from Thisbe in Boeotia is a journey of eighty stades; but I do not know if in Phocis there be a road...

Boeotia

72 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Cirrha ...there is a spring called Saunium. The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, is sixty stades. Descending to the plain you come to a...

Cirrha

75 22.450621,38.428937,0 Locrians ...opposite Cirrha. I have heard various stories about the surname of these Locrians, all of which I will tell my readers. Orestheus, son of Deucalion, king of the...

Locrians

75 21.75,38.25,0 Athenians ...it is said, giving to the place its name. My account of Naupactus, how the Athenians took it from the Locrians and gave it as a home to those who seceded to Ithome...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greece ...beyond Chaeronea, for in ancient times the greater part of what is now called Greece was inhabited by foreigners. When Tereus did what he did to Philomela and Itys...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Gauls ...meet the attack of Magas, he engaged mercenaries, including some four thousand Gauls. Discovering that they were plotting to seize Egypt, he led them through the...

Gauls

81 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 tomb ...have gotten honours immortal. Before you cross the Cephisus you come to the tomb of Theodorus, the best tragic actor of his day. By the river is a statue of...

tomb

79 Egypt ...he had children he took a fancy to Berenice, whom Antipater had sent to Egypt with Eurydice. He fell in love with this woman and had children by her, and...

Egypt

74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syria ...the revolt of Cyrene had called Ptolemy to Libya, he immediately reduced the Syrians and Phoenicians by a sudden inroad, handed them over to Demetrius, his son, a...

Syria

79 37.5,37.5,0 Syria ...against a benefactor. After the death of Antigonus, Ptolemy again reduced the Syrians and Cyprus, and also restored Pyrrhus to Thesprotia on the mainland. Cyrene...

Syria

81 37.5,37.5,0 Syria ...Sulla was smitten with the disease which I learn attacked Pherecydes the Syrian. Although Sulla's treatment of the Athenian people was so savage as to be...

Syria

75 37.5,37.5,0 Messene ...of Ortilochus." By the dwelling of Ortilochus he meant the city of Pherae in Messene, and explained this himself in the visit of Peisistratus to Menelaus: "They...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Athens ...the son of Pandion also came to Arene, when he too was driven from Athens by his brother Aegeus, and revealed the rites of the Great Goddesses to...

Athens

69 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenia ...married a daughter of Autesion, called Argeia. Cresphontes, wishing to obtain Messenia as his portion at all costs, approached Temenus, and having suborned him...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...common people of the old Messenians were not dispossessed by the Dorians, but agreed to be ruled by Cresphontes and to divide the land with the Dorians...

Dorians

67 22.25,38.75,0 Arcadians ...survivor of his house. When he reached manhood, he was brought back by the Arcadians to Messene, the other Dorian kings, the sons of Aristodemus and Isthmius, the...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Laconia ...Polychares should come with him to receive it. When on their way they reached Laconia, Euaephnus dared a deed more impious than the first; he murdered Polychares'...

Laconia

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...The gates being open and the town not garrisoned, they took it and killed the Messenians captured there, some still in their beds and others who had taken refuge at the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...regarding the age of a certain Messenian. This war was fought between the Lacedemonians with their allies and the Messenians with their supporters, but received its...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Stenyclerus ...at Ampheia from the actual survivors from the captured town, mustered in Stenyclerus from their cities. When the people had gathered in the assembly, first the...

Stenyclerus

75 21.75,37.25,0 Lacedemonians ...assembly and thereupon turned to sacrifices to the gods and feasting. But the Lacedemonians, when they heard the oracle given to the Messenians, were in despair, both they...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...bodyguard, received a number of mortal wounds. When he swooned and fell, the Lacedemonians did their utmost to drag him into their own ranks, as he still breathed. But...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...the Messenians by the full muster of' the Arcadians and by picked troops from Argos and Sicyon. The Lacedemonians entrusted their center to the Corinthians, Helots...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pythia ...by the two starting forth from the ambush and again meeting their doom the Pythia meant the eyes of Ophioneus. Then Aristodemus, reckoning up his private...

Pythia

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amyclae ...the second, of Kore or Demeter under the third. Dedicating these offerings at Amyclae, they gave to the people of Asine, who had been driven out by the Argives, that...

Amyclae

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Oropus ...he ran was extreme, Menalcidas gave three of the talents he received from Oropus to Diaeus of Megalopolis, who had succeeded him as general of the Achaeans, and...

Oropus

76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Achaean ...that all except capital cases should be under the jurisdiction of the Achaean League. Such was the senate's answer, but Diaeus did not tell the Achaeans the...

Achaean

72 Achaeans ...the Achaean League. Such was the senate's answer, but Diaeus did not tell the Achaeans the truth, but cajoled them by the declaration that the Roman senate had...

Achaeans

80 Achaean ...Lacedemonians into thinking that the Romans had entirely freed them from the Achaean League. So the result of the debate was that the Achaeans again came near to...

Achaean

79 Achaeans ...envoys sent for the purpose of arbitrating between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. They delivered their instructions to the Achaeans under Damocritus when these...

Achaeans

79 Achaeans ...prosecuting the siege with energy. So Damocritus withdrew his army, and the Achaeans sentenced him to pay a fine of fifty talents for his treachery. Being unable to...

Achaeans

79 Lacedemonians ...at the hands of his countrymen, and, failing to find a way of escape for the Lacedemonians from the peril that threatened them, he took his own life by poison. Such was...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...a fresh opportunity of deceiving the Achaeans and Menalcidas of deceiving the Lacedemonians. Diaeus misled the Achaeans into the belief that the Roman senate had decreed...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...the truce, and took by assault and sacked Iasus, a town on the borders of Laconia, but at that time subject to the Achaeans. Having again stirred up war between...

Laconia

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Chaeroneia ...they march that way. When the picked Arcadian troops had been overthrown near Chaeroneia, Metellus moved his army and marched against Thebes, for the Thebans had joined...

Chaeroneia

81 22.840365,38.493361,0 Achaeans ...came for Diaeus to relinquish his office, Critolaus was elected general by the Achaeans. This Critolaus was seized with a keen but utterly unthinking passion to make...

Achaeans

81 Rome ...When the envoys realized that they were being deceived, they departed for Rome but Critolaus summoned a meeting of the Achaeans at Corinth, and persuaded them...

Rome

76 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Thebes ...Achaeans were also encouraged by Pytheas, who at that time was Boeotarch at Thebes, and the Thebans promised to give enthusiastic support in the war. The Thebans...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Syracusan ...the order, were persuaded to undertake expeditions overseas, especially the Syracusan war. More examples could be found similar to those I have given. Just about a...

Syracusan

78 15.29382,37.05963,0 Thermopylae ...without daring even to draw up the Achaeans in the pass between Heracleia and Thermopylae, and to await Metellus there. To such a depth of terror did he sink that...

Thermopylae

80 22.538294,38.796511,0 Ephesians ...of the Ephesian Artemis live in a similar fashion, but for a year only, the Ephesians calling them Essenes. They also hold an annual festival in honor of Artemis...

Ephesians

78 27.339722,37.941944,0 Orchomenus ...also hold an annual festival in honor of Artemis Hymnia. The former city of Orchomenus was on the peak of a mountain, and there still remain ruins of a market-place...

Orchomenus

79 22.31536,37.724716,0 Spartans ...described when speaking of the image of Zeus Most High in my history of the Spartans. The first men to melt bronze and to cast images were the Samians Rhoecus the...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...the battle of Marathon, and enlisted from the cities of the Achaeans and Arcadians those who were of military age. The muster, including the slaves, amounted...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thebes ...who, according to trustworthy tradition, had before this been killed in Thebes by Amphitryon? And how would Teucer have founded the city of Salamis in Cyprus...

Thebes

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cyllenian ...mountain in Arcadia, Cyllene, on the top of which is a dilapidated temple of Cyllenian Hermes. It is clear that Cyllen, the son of Elatus, gave the mountain its name...

Cyllenian

79 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Pergamus ...archers and by Philopoemen, at the head of some troops sent by Attalus from Pergamus on the Caicus. Certain of the Italian troops along with the auxiliaries were...

Pergamus

78 27.184167,39.1325,0 Pheneus ...the beast, and to have made therefrom a harp. Here is the boundary between Pheneus and Pellene, and the greater part of Mount Chelydorea is inhabited by the...

Pheneus

77 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pergamus ...the general sent by Attalus; even in my day there were Corinthian spoils at Pergamus. The walls of all the cities that had made war against Rome Mummius...

Pergamus

78 27.184167,39.1325,0 Alpheius ...to him by which to get her. Leucippus was growing his hair long for the river Alpheius. Braiding his hair as though he were a maiden, and putting on woman's clothes...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Achaeans ...to acquire possessions in a foreign country. Racial confederacies, whether of Achaeans, or Phocians, or Boeotians, or of any other Greek people, were one and all put...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...to pay a hundred talents to the people of Heracleia and Euboea, and the Achaeans to pay two hundred to the Lacedemonians. Although the Romans granted the Greeks...

Achaeans

74 Cleitor ...spinner," clearly identifying her with fate, and makes her older than Cronus. Cleitor has also, at a distance of about four stades from the city, a sanctuary of the...

Cleitor

81 22.103248,37.892704,0 Pheneus ...and to Geronteium, as it is called, the boundary between Stymphalus and Pheneus. The Stymphalians are no longer included among the Arcadians, but are numbered...

Pheneus

74 22.30692,37.91045,0 Arcadians ...Stymphalus and Pheneus. The Stymphalians are no longer included among the Arcadians, but are numbered with the Argive League, which they joined of their own...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sardinia ...devolved upon Nero, he gave to the Roman people the very prosperous island of Sardinia in exchange for Greece, and then bestowed upon the latter complete freedom...

Sardinia

80 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Caphyae ...the water from the Orchomenian territory from doing harm to the tilled land of Caphyae. Inside the dyke flows along another stream, in size big enough to be called a...

Caphyae

81 22.262624,37.766264,0 Psophis ...son of Parthaon, the son of Periphetes, the son of Nyctimus. Others say that Psophis was the daughter of Xanthus, the son of Erymanthus, the son of Arcas. Such are...

Psophis

79 21.892903,37.871725,0 Lydians ...on to say that, on growing up, Attis migrated to Lydia and celebrated for the Lydians the orgies of the Mother; that he rose to such honor with her that Zeus, being...

Lydians

80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Achelous ...Thebes. That the Echinades islands have not been made mainland as yet by the Achelous is due to the Aetolian people, who have been driven from their homes and all...

Achelous

80 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Erymanthus ...Priene and Miletus. The people of Psophis have also by the side of the Erymanthus a temple and image of Erymanthus. The images of all rivers except the Nile in...

Erymanthus

74 21.75,37.75,0 Thelpusa ...there is ancient writing on a slab:– "The boundary between Psophis and Thelpusa." In the Thelpusian territory is a river called Arsen (Male). Cross this and go...

Thelpusa

73 21.87884,37.710489,0 Ladon ...was named after Thelpusa, a nymph, and that she was a daughter of Ladon. The Ladon rises in springs within the territory of Cleitor, as my account has already set...

Ladon

79 21.75,37.75,0 Ionians ...name Mesatis as they choose. When afterwards the Achaeans had driven out the Ionians, Patreus, the son of Preugenes, the son of Agenor, forbade the Achaeans to...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lusia ...to be six feet high. Those who think the image to be Themis and not Demeter Lusia are, I would have them know, mistaken in their opinion. Demeter, they say, had...

Lusia

78 23.691421,38.000521,0 Achaeans ...he razed to the ground. He granted freedom to the Patraeans, and to no other Achaeans; and he granted also all the other privileges that the Romans are accustomed to...

Achaeans

79 Pentelic ...of Asclepius, and elsewhere images of Serapis and of Isis, these too being of Pentelic marble. They worship most devoutly the Heavenly Goddess, but human beings must...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Patrae ...and from Acarnania were brought by Augustus' orders to Nicopolis, but to Patrae he gave, with other spoils from Calydon, the image of Laphria, which even in my...

Patrae

75 21.738518,38.243265,0 Aristonautae ...his colleagues perverted the name through ignorance. The port of Pellene is Aristonautae. Its distance from Aegeira on the sea is one hundred and twenty stades, and to...

Aristonautae

79 22.635738,38.076814,0 Lacedemon ...had as partner in his exploit the most devoted of his slaves. The image from Lacedemon is usually kept at Mesoa, because it was to this place that it was originally...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thessalians ...of Persia, he came for the second time to compete in the Olympic games. The Thessalians, however, refuse to admit that Polydamas was beaten; one of the pieces of...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Hermus ...river called Crius, which rises in Mount Sipylus and is a tributary of the Hermus. Where the territory of Pellene borders on that of Sicyon is a Pellenian river...

Hermus

77 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Tegeans The part of Arcadia that lies next to the Argive land is occupied by Tegeans and Mantineans, who with the rest of the Arcadians inhabit the interior of the...

Tegeans

69 22.429,37.464,0 Olenus ...Pierus, which in my opinion is the same as the one flowing past the ruins of Olenus, called by the men of the coast the Peirus. Near the river is a grove of...

Olenus

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Triteia ...this maiden was priestess to Athena, and that Melanippus, the son of Ares and Triteia, founded the city when he grew up, naming it after his mother. In Triteia is a...

Triteia

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Arcadian ...Thocnia, and Acacus Acacesium. It was after this Acacus, according to the Arcadian account, that Homer made a surname for Hermes. Helisson has given a name to...

Arcadian

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pytho ...at Olympia, besides beating all competitors in the men's wrestling match at Pytho. It is not said who made the statue of Socrates, but that of Amertes is from...

Pytho

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Methydrium ...after the sons of Lycaon. Orchomenus became founder of both the town called Methydrium and of Orchomenus, styled by Homer "rich in sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded...

Methydrium

78 22.168912,37.627412,0 Arcadia ...founded Maenalus, which was in ancient times the most famous of the cities of Arcadia, Tegeates founded Tegea and Mantineus Mantineia. Cromi was named after Cromus...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Elatus ...adjoining, and for this reason poets too call Tegea "the lot of Apheidas." Elatus got Mount Cyllene, which down to that time had received no name. Afterwards...

Elatus

78 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Acropolis ...the last, which caused his death. For when Isagoras the Athenian captured the Acropolis of the Athenians with a view to setting up a tyranny, Timasitheus took part in...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Stymphalus ...son Aleus, and that Elatus had five sons, Aepytus, Pereus, Cyllen, Ischys, and Stymphalus. On the death of Axan, the son of Arcas, athletic contests were held for the...

Stymphalus

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Parnassus ...child, but only a daughter, Neaera. She married Autolycus, who lived on Mount Parnassus, and was said to be a son of Hermes, although his real father was...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Troy ...Ancaeus, the son of Lycurgus, who was king after Echemus, led the Arcadians to Troy. After the capture of Troy the storm that overtook the Greeks on their return...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argos ...was the son of Cypselus, who, aided by the Heracleidae from Lacedemon and Argos, restored to Messene his sister's son Aepytus. Holaeas had a son Bucolion, and...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...are said by the inscription to be by Eutelidas and Chrysothemis, who were Argives. It does not, however, declare the name of their teacher, but runs as follows...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidamnus ...in elegiac verse is on the chariot: "Cleosthenes, son of Pontis, a native of Epidamnus, dedicated me After winning with his horses a victory in the glorious games of...

Epidamnus

79 19.44594,41.31497,0 Messenians ...achievements the oldest is the Trojan war; then comes the help they gave the Messenians in their struggle against Lacedemon, and they also took part in the action at...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Isthmus ...at Pytho. These were for boxing, while nine prizes at Nemea and ten at the Isthmus were won in some cases for the pancratium and in others for boxing. At Phthia...

Isthmus

77 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Macedonian ...may be supposed to have accomplished exploits greater than those of any Macedonian king who reigned either before or after. But nobody of sound mind would call...

Macedonian

74 21.75,41.25,0 Arcadians ...of Lycaon founded his city, which even today is called Ptolis (City) by the Arcadians. From here, in obedience to an oracle, Antinoe, the daughter of Cepheus, the...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...the Tritaeans were reckoned as Arcadians, just as nowadays too certain of the Arcadians themselves are reckoned as Argives. The statue of Agesarchus is the work of the...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonian ...who have supposed that Chionis himself dedicated the slab, and not the Lacedemonian people. Let us assume that, as the slab says, the race in armour had not yet...

Lacedemonian

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...statue standing by the slab is a portrait of Chionis, it being the work of the Athenian Myron. Similar in renown to Chionis was Hermogenes of Xanthus, a Lydian, who...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadia ...they give to Podares. There are roads leading from Mantineia into the rest of Arcadia, and I will go on to describe the most noteworthy objects on each of them. On...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...with the Arcadians, fell back with his command, as though the pressure of the Lacedemonians was too severe. As they gave way they gradually made their formation...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ionian ...Pollis, a Smyrnean by descent, and this Diallus declares that he was the first Ionian to receive at Olympia a crown for the boys' pancratium. There are statues of...

Ionian

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Argive ...and of Aristion of Epidaurus, the son of Theophiles, made by Polycleitus the Argive; Aristion won a crown for the men's boxing, Thersilochus for the...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Olympia ...to Tisander, the son of Cleocritus. He won the men's boxing-match at Olympia four times; he had the same number of victories at Pytho, but at this time...

Olympia

71 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lycaeus ...highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lycaeus, and from it most of the Peloponnesus can be seen. Before the altar on the east...

Lycaeus

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Lycian ...a statue of him made in Argos. It still stood in my time in the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo. In the market-place of Phigalia there is also a common tomb of the...

Lycian

79 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Oresthasium ...the market-place of Phigalia there is also a common tomb of the picked men of Oresthasium, and every year they sacrifice to them as to heroes. A river called the Lymax...

Oresthasium

80 22.206506,37.345994,0 Phigalians ...wooden image or how it caught fire. But the old image was destroyed, and the Phigalians gave the goddess no fresh image, while they neglected for the most part her...

Phigalians

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Pythian ...is a little man holding flutes, carved in relief upon a slab. This man won Pythian victories next after Sacadas of Argos. For Sacadas won in the games introduced...

Pythian

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Haemoniae ...are there. The surname of Artemis is Priestess. On the straight road from Haemoniae is a place called Aphrodisium, and after it another, called Athenaeum. On the...

Haemoniae

76 22.165741,37.390614,0 Dorians ...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...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Proconnesus ...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...

Proconnesus

81 27.55568,40.591686,0 Manthyrenses ...half a fathom long. The present image at Tegea was brought from the parish of Manthyrenses, and among them it had the surname of Hippia (Horse Goddess). According to...

Manthyrenses

81 22.397404,37.409589,0 Naupactus ...their expedition against the Thessalians and became leader of the garrison at Naupactus because of his friendship with the Aetolians. Not far from the statue of Timon...

Naupactus

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Olympia ...in the men's boxing-match, and a statue of Nicander, who won two victories at Olympia in the double course and six victories in foot-races of various kinds at the...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonians ...the Achaean forces. A battle took place at Mantineia. The light troops of the Lacedemonians overcame the light-armed of the Achaeans, and Machanidas pressed hard on the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...The light troops of the Lacedemonians overcame the light-armed of the Achaeans, and Machanidas pressed hard on the fugitives. Philopoemen, however, with the...

Achaeans

72 Megarians ...Megarians in battle, and were already climbing the wall of Megara, when the Megarians deceived them into thinking that Philopoemen had come to Megara. This made the...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Olynthian ...he delivered judgment on the matter. His statue is the work of Sthennis the Olynthian. Next is Ptolemy, mounted on a horse, and by his side is an Elean athlete...

Olynthian

78 23.354208,40.296525,0 Gortynians ...to be generals of the Achaeans, he again crossed to Crete and sided with the Gortynians, who were hard pressed in war. The Arcadians were wroth with him for his...

Gortynians

79 24.9469437222,35.0627201667,0 Calydon ...but died before this period came to an end, being assassinated by a man of Calydon, who pretended that he had come about an alliance, but was in reality an enemy...

Calydon

77 21.533106,38.372423,0 Myonians ...Myonians. So the Myanians on the shield are in my opinion the same folk as the Myonians on the Locrian mainland. The letters on the shield are a little distorted, a...

Myonians

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Epidamnians ...third of the treasuries, and the fourth as well, were dedicated by the Epidamnians . . . It shows the heavens upheld by Atlas, and also Heracles and the...

Epidamnians

73 19.44594,41.31497,0 Arcadians ...Eurotas, it sinks again into the earth. Coming up at the place called by the Arcadians Pegae (Springs), and flowing past the land of Pisa and past Olympia, it falls...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympia ...the disaster befell them the citizens made a treasury dedicated to Zeus of Olympia. There stands in it an image of Dionysus with face, feet and hands of...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Argos ...by which is an oak, like the sanctuary sacred to Pan. The road from Tegea to Argos is very well suited for carriages, in fact a first-rate highway. On the road...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Megarians ...above the pediment is dedicated a shield, the inscription declaring that the Megarians dedicated the treasury from spoils taken from the Corinthians. I think that the...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Elis ...benefactor. He made preparations himself to resist Heracles, should he attack Elis; more particularly he made friends with the sons of Actor and with Amarynceus...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Argives ...she discovered him, the Eleans demanded satisfaction for the crime from the Argives, for at the time Heracles had his home at Tiryns. When the Argives refused them...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...the Eleans as an alternative pressed the Corinthians entirely to exclude the Argive people from the Isthmian games. When they failed in this also, Moline is said...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aetolia ...image too was brought in from elsewhere. For after Calydon with the rest of Aetolia had been laid waste by the Emperor Augustus in order that the Aetolian people...

Aetolia

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Eleans ...before inscribing his own name on the offering, the Corinthians asked of the Eleans leave to inscribe the name of Corinth on it, but were refused. Wroth with the...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Argives ...Heracles afterwards took Elis and sacked it, with an army he had raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Achaeans ...weaving from it nets for the head as well as dresses. Pharae, a city of the Achaeans, belongs to Patrae, having been given to it by Augustus. The road from the city...

Achaeans

79 Panormus ...being fifteen stades farther from the cape. It is another fifteen stades from Panormus to what is known as the Fort of Athena. From the Fort of Athena to the harbor...

Panormus

80 21.81667,38.31667,0 Aegium ...to Talthybius, and both cities sacrifice to him as to a hero. By the sea at Aegium is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and after it one of Poseidon; there is also one of...

Aegium

79 22.081952,38.252707,0 Thermopylae ...time the Achaean assembly still meets at Aegium, just as the Amphictyons do at Thermopylae and at Delphi. Going on further you come to the river Selinus, and forty...

Thermopylae

81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Aegium ...of the people of Helice were left alive, the land is occupied by the people of Aegium. After Helice you will turn from the sea to the right and you will come to the...

Aegium

81 22.081952,38.252707,0 Tiryns ...could not take the wall of Mycenae by storm, built as it was like the wall of Tiryns by the Cyclopes, as they are called, yet the Mycenaeans were forced to leave...

Tiryns

81 22.80004,37.59918,0 Olympia ...Agis invaded the land, and Xenias turned traitor, the Eleans won a battle near Olympia, routed the Lacedemonians and drove them out of the sacred enclosure; but...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Macedonia ...being aided in his attempt by Antigonus, the son of Demetrius, who was king in Macedonia. After a despotism of six months Aristotimus was deposed, a rising against him...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Triphylia ...to the sea. It is called Samicum, and above it on the right is what is called Triphylia, in which is the city Lepreus. The citizens of this city wish to belong to the...

Triphylia

80 21.75,37.75,0 Alpheius ...a stream with the same name as the mountain. These come down into the Alpheius from Arcadia; the Cladeus comes from Elis to join it. The source of the...

Alpheius

72 21.451667,37.6125,0 Ortygia ...too was changed by his love into the river. This account of Alpheius . . . to Ortygia. But that the Alpheius passes through the sea and mingles his waters with the...

Ortygia

81 27.339225,37.829783,0 Alpheius ...Ortygia, lies on the misty ocean Over against Trinacria, where the mouth of Alpheius bubbles Mingling with the springs of broad Arethusa." For this reason...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Ionia ...their native element. The peculiarity of the Alpheius is shared by a river of Ionia. The source of it is on Mount Mycale, and having gone through the intervening...

Ionia

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Elis ...than any of his predecessors. When the sons of Pelops were scattered from Elis over all the rest of Peloponnesus, Amythaon, the son of Cretheus, and cousin of...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...and there is an ancient curse on the Eleans if this animal is even born in Elis. The order of the games in our own day, which places the sacrifices to the god...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Naxos ...is said to be that of Byzes of Naxos, who they say made the images in Naxos on which is the inscription: "To the offspring of Leto was I dedicated by...

Naxos

72 25.52001,37.127,0 a cenotaph of Euripides ...the road are very famous graves, that of Menander, son of Diopeithes, and a cenotaph of Euripides. He himself went to King Archelaus and lies buried in Macedonia; as to the...

a cenotaph of Euripides

76 Olympia ...the Lydian, when Astyages, the son of Cyaxares, reigned over the Medes. At Olympia a gilt caldron stands on each end of the roof, and a Victory, also gilt, is set...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...Lacedemonians and their allies dedicated it, a gift taken from the Argives, Athenians and Ionians, The tithe offered for victory in war." This battle I also...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cladeus ...be under orders from Oenomaus to attend to the horses. At the very edge lies Cladeus, the river which, in other ways also, the Eleans honor most after the Alpheius...

Cladeus

80 21.75,37.75,0 Alpheius ...Then the pediment narrows again, and in this part of it is represented the Alpheius. The name of the charioteer of Pelops is, according to the account of the...

Alpheius

77 21.451667,37.6125,0 Aratus of Soli ...at his court, and Antigonus, ruler of Macedonia, had Antagoras of Rhodes and Aratus of Soli. But Hesiod and Homer either failed to win the society of kings or else...

Aratus of Soli

79 32.8125385,35.1406719,0 grave ...and Agamemnon leave a poet with his wife. Not far from the gates is a grave, on which is mounted a soldier standing by a horse. Who it is I do not know...

grave

72 Charadrus ...cows, but in the case of other cattle the females are preferred. After the Charadrus you come to some ruins, not at all remarkable, of the city Argyra, to the...

Charadrus

78 21.25,38.75,0 Aegium ...Rhypes. Aegium is about thirty stades distant from Rhypes. The territory of Aegium is crossed by a river Phoenix, and by another called Meiganitas, both of which...

Aegium

79 22.081952,38.252707,0 promontory of Chelone ...Polybotes, concerning whom is prevalent among the Coans the story about the promontory of Chelone. But the inscription of our time assigns the statue to another, and not to...

promontory of Chelone

78 27.07748,36.76268,0 images ...year, in others at longer intervals. Hard by is a temple of Demeter, with images of the goddess herself and of her daughter, and of Iacchus holding a torch. On...

images

76 Helice ...Aegium is a place on the sea called Helice. Here used to be situated a city Helice, where the Ionians had a very holy sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon. Their...

Helice

78 22.14015,38.22257,0 Heliconian ...to be situated a city Helice, where the Ionians had a very holy sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon. Their worship of Heliconian Poseidon has remained, even after their...

Heliconian

79 22.82514,38.35217,0 Helice ...winter. The sea flooded a great part of the land, and covered up the whole of Helice all round. Moreover, the tide was so deep in the grove of Poseidon that only...

Helice

80 22.14015,38.22257,0 Delphi ...death of Codrus and of the manner of it, departed from Attica, the oracle from Delphi making them despair of success in the future; but certain Lacedemonians, who...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...and also their descendants were regarded as accursed to the goddess. The Lacedemonians too put to death men who had taken refuge in the sanctuary of Poseidon at...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Taenarum ...too put to death men who had taken refuge in the sanctuary of Poseidon at Taenarum. Presently their city was shaken by an earthquake so continuous and violent...

Taenarum

76 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Arcadia ...the Heracles you come to the mouth of a river that descends from a mountain in Arcadia and never dries up. The river itself is called the Crathis, which is also the...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Ionians ...in his poem calls the city Hyperesia. Its present name was given it while the Ionians were still dwelling there, and the reason for the name was as follows. A...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Sicyonians ...horns, and when the night was far advanced they set the torches alight. The Sicyonians, suspecting that allies were coming to the help of the Hyperesians, and that...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Phliasian ...that the Apollo in Aegeira was also a work of the same artist, Laphaes the Phliasian. There are in a temple standing images of Asclepius, and elsewhere images of...

Phliasian

77 22.649131,37.846299,0 Aristonautae ...and to Pellene from this port is half that distance. They say that the name of Aristonautae was given to that port because it was one of the habors into which the...

Aristonautae

81 22.635738,38.076814,0 Pellene ...nurse of unbeaten Polydamas." Be this as it may, the people of Pellene hold Promachus in the highest honor. But Chaeron, who carried off two prizes...

Pellene

66 22.5384,38.0446,0 Arcadians ...Argive land is occupied by Tegeans and Mantineans, who with the rest of the Arcadians inhabit the interior of the Peloponnesus. The first people within the peninsula...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Troezen ...their neighbors on the side sea-wards are the Epidaurians. Along Epidaurus, Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to Argolis...

Troezen

78 Pallantium ...while the other sons founded cities on the sites they considered best. Thus Pallantium was founded by Pallas, Oresthasium by Orestheus and Phigalia by...

Pallantium

78 22.336587,37.462155,0 Patroclus ...Patroclus. For a fortification was built on it and a palisade constructed by Patroclus, who was admiral in command of the Egyptian men-of-war sent by Ptolemy, son of...

Patroclus

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 pictures ...son of Xenophon, and in the Boeotian cavalry, Epaminondas the Theban. These pictures were painted for the Athenians by Euphranor, and he also wrought the Apollo...

pictures

78 Greeks ...I shall write, omitting from the story as much as relates to Deiope. The Greeks who dispute most the Athenian claim to antiquity and the gifts they say they...

Greeks

76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...the morass, while at the end of the painting are the Phoenician ships, and the Greeks killing the foreigners who are scrambling into them. Here is also a portrait of...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Europe ...for the Romans, he prepared to let loose against them his elephants. The first European to acquire elephants was Alexander, after subduing Porus and the power of the...

Europe

81 27.5,42.5,0 Greek mainland Pausanias DESCRIPTION OF GREECE, tr. W. H. S. JONES On the Greek mainland facing the Cyclades Islands and the Aegean Sea the Sunium promontory stands out...

Greek mainland

60 Attic land ...Cyclades Islands and the Aegean Sea the Sunium promontory stands out from the Attic land. When you have rounded the promontory you see a harbor and a temple to Athena...

Attic land

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 wall ...goddess herself and of her daughter, and of Iacchus holding a torch. On the wall, in Attic characters, is written that they are works of Praxiteles. Not far...

wall

78 Boeotians ...the taking of the Cadmea, the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, how the Boeotians invaded the Peloponnesus, and the contingent sent to the Lacedemonians from the...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 tiling ...where sits the king when holding the yearly office called the kingship. On the tiling of this portico are images of baked earthenware, Theseus throwing Sciron into...

tiling

81 portico ...king when holding the yearly office called the kingship. On the tiling of this portico are images of baked earthenware, Theseus throwing Sciron into the sea and Day...

portico

81 Conon ...told by Hesiod, among others, in his poem on women. Near the portico stand Conon, Timotheus his son and Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician...

Conon

78 Athenian ...men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes. This he did as an Athenian whose ancestry connected him with Salamis, for he traced his pedigree back to...

Athenian

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the son of Aesimides. Here is a picture of the exploit, near Mantinea, of the Athenians who were sent to help the Lacedemonians. Xenophon among others has written a...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...and devastated Phocis. Going to Lacedemon the Phocians inveighed against the Thebans, and set forth what they had suffered at their hands. The Lacedemonians...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sparta ...no move at the time, through their fear of Agesilaus but when he marched to Sparta, they too celebrated the Isthmian games along with the Argives. Agesilaus again...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...its wealth independent mercenaries, but they here also aided publicly by the Lacedemonians and Athenians, the latter calling to mind some old service rendered by the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Parnassus ...exile for the murder of Phocus, while the sons of Phocus made their home about Parnassus, in the land that is now called Phocis. This name had already been given to...

Parnassus

81 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Cretan ...composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the story of Aphaea is Cretan) that Carmanor, who purified Apollo alter he had killed Pytho, was the father...

Cretan

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Dorian ...I must add. On the return of the Heracleidae, the Troezenians too received Dorian settlers from Argos. They had been subject at even an earlier date to the...

Dorian

78 22.25,38.75,0 Troezen ...and the remarkable sights of their country. In the market-place of Troezen is a temple of Artemis Saviour, with images of the goddess. It was said that...

Troezen

70 Troezenians ...barrow near the myrtle. The image of Asclepius was made by Timotheus, but the Troezenians say that it is not Asclepius, but a likeness of Hippolytus. I remember, too...

Troezenians

80 Methana ...it, and it swarms with sharks. I will also relate what astonished me most in Methana. The wind called Lips, striking the budding vines from the Saronic Gulf...

Methana

80 23.34909,37.58672,0 Hermione ...peninsula of the Peloponnesus. Within it, bordering on the land of Troezen, is Hermione. The founder of the old city, the Hermionians say, was Hermion, the son of...

Hermione

81 23.243591,37.385218,0 Hermion ...be Zeus. Subsequently the Dorians from Argos settled, among other places, at Hermion, but I do not think there was war between the two peoples, or it would have...

Hermion

79 23.243591,37.385218,0 Tricrana ...Colyergia, jutting out from the mainland, and after it to an island, called Tricrana (Three Heads), and a mountain, projecting into the sea from the Peloponnesus...

Tricrana

78 23.28241,37.26444,0 Erasinus ...the sea between Temenium and Lerna. About eight stades to the left from the Erasinus is a sanctuary of the Lords Dioscuri (Sons of Zeus). Their wooden images have...

Erasinus

78 22.75,37.75,0 Eurotas ...when it had flowed away, as what was left formed a river-stream, he named it Eurotas. Having no male issue, he left the kingdom to Lacedemon, whose mother was...

Eurotas

79 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Pellana ...power, and forced him to retire in fear; the Lacedemonians say that he went to Pellana, but a Messenian legend about him is that he fled to Aphareus in Messenia...

Pellana

81 22.325267,37.207648,0 Argos ...with the sons of the third brother, Aristodemus, who had died. Their claim to Argos and to the throne of Argos was, in my opinion, most just, because Tisamenus was...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nemean ...in it their mother to the sanctuary of Hera. Opposite them is a sanctuary of Nemean Zeus, and an upright bronze statue of the god made by Lysippus. Going forward...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Lacedemonians ...an awful defeat at the hands of Cleomenes, the son of Anaxandrides, and the Lacedemonians. Some fell in the actual fighting; others, who had fled to the grove of Argus...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Peneus ...named two of the cities in Thessaly, the one by the sea and the one on the Peneus. As you go up the citadel you come to the sanctuary of Hera of the Height, and...

Peneus

77 21.75,39.75,0 Argives ...Ares. They say that the images are votive offerings of Polyneices and of the Argives who joined him in the campaign to redress his wrongs. Farther on from here...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lessa ...of it except the foundations. On the straight road to Epidaurus is a village Lessa, in which is a temple of Athena with a wooden image exactly like the one on the...

Lessa

80 22.9427,37.5969,0 Athens ...over the land to Deiphontes and the Argives without a struggle. He went to Athens with his people and dwelt there, while Deiphontes and the Argives took...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Epidaurians ...of which Telesilla made mention in an ode. On going down to the city of the Epidaurians, you come to a place where wild olives grow; they call it Hyrnethium. I will...

Epidaurians

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Asopus ...for beauty, and there was also a report that her father was not Nycteus but Asopus, the river that separates the territories of Thebes and Plataea. This woman...

Asopus

78 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Sicyon ...after him Sicyonia, and the city Sicyon instead of Aegiale. But they say that Sicyon was not the son of Marathon, the son of Epopeus, but of Metion the son of...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...Sicyon the son of Erechtheus, and Ibycus says that his father was Pelops. Sicyon had a daughter Chthonophyle, and they say that she and Hermes were the parents...

Sicyon

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sellasia ...So Antigonus crossed into the Peloponnesus and the Achaeans met Cleomenes at Sellasia. The Achaeans were victorious, the people of Sellasia were sold into slavery...

Sellasia

79 Sicyonians ...of Antiope. They say that her sons were Sicyonians, and because of them the Sicyonians will have it that Antiope herself is related to themselves. After this is the...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyonia ...plant in the open parts of the enclosure, and it grows nowhere else either in Sicyonia or in any other land. Its leaves are smaller than those of the esculent oak...

Sicyonia

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...by Phalces, son of Temenus, who asserted that Hera guided him on the road to Sicyon. On the direct road from Sicyon to Phlius, on the left of the road and just...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Dorian ...progresses it will become clear that they were Argive originally, and became Dorian later after the return of the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus. I know that most...

Dorian

79 22.25,38.75,0 Argos ...The Dorian Rhegnidas, the son of Phalces, the son of Temenus, attacked it from Argos and Sicyonia. Some of the Phliasians were inclined to accept the offer of...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phliasians ...of Pelops. These are the things that I found most worthy of mention among the Phliasians. On the road from Corinth to Argos is a small city Cleonae. They say that...

Phliasians

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Asopus ...Pelops, though there are some who say that Cleone was one of the daughters of Asopus, that flows by the side of Sicyon. Be this as it may, one or other of these two...

Asopus

80 22.75,37.75,0 Nemean ...they offer a prize for a race in armour at the winter celebration of the Nemean games. In this place is the grave of Opheltes; around it is a fence of stones...

Nemean

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Tanagra ...enemies of the Lacedemonians. Afterwards, when a battle was imminent at Tanagra, the Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced...

Tanagra

74 23.587064,38.309371,0 Argives ...at Tanagra, the Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians. For a time the Argives had the better, but night came...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...who with Olympiodorus expelled the garrison not more than thirteen men. The Athenians declare that when the Romans were waging a border war they sent a small force...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...is also pointed out a place called the Hill of Horses, the first point in Attica, they say, that Oedipus reached – this account too differs from that given by...

Attica

76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...at other times also ravaged the land of the Athenians. The small parishes of Attica, which were founded severally as chance would have it, presented the following...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athmonia ...no less splendid than the Euboean. The name of the goddess, I think, came to Athmonia in this fashion and the Colaenis in Myrrhinus is called after Colaenus. I have...

Athmonia

79 23.8115515,38.055127,0 Plataeans ...killed according to their tribes; and there is another grave for the Boeotian Plataeans and for the slaves, for slaves fought then for the first time by the side of...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Trachis ...fleeing from Eurystheus, he went to live with his friend Ceyx, who was king of Trachis. But when Heracles departed this life Eurystheus demanded his children...

Trachis

81 22.25,38.75,0 Athenian ...is said to have handed the island over to the Athenians, having been made an Athenian by them. Many years afterwards the Athenians drove out all the Salaminians...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...annexed some of the neighboring territory. My own opinion is that at Olympia he intentionally let the girdle slip off him, realizing that a naked man can...

Olympia

71 21.630126,37.637849,0 Megarians ...at the command of the oracle, it was adorned with mussel stone. The Megarians are the only Greeks to possess this stone, and in the city also they have made...

Megarians

70 15.18273,37.2038,0 Corinthian ...and her son from the Molurian Rock. The son, they say, was landed on the Corinthian Isthmus by a dolphin, and honors were offered to Melicertes, then renamed...

Corinthian

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Mycenae ...that the Corinthians none the less were subject to the despots at Argos or Mycenae. By themselves they provided no leader for the campaign against Troy, but...

Mycenae

77 22.756111,37.730833,0 Asopus ...with a bow. The spring, which is behind the temple, they say was the gift of Asopus to Sisyphus. The latter knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished...

Asopus

79 22.75,37.75,0 Sicyonian ...under-ground. This Asopus rises in the Phliasian territory, flows through the Sicyonian, and empties itself into the sea here. His daughters, say the Phliasians, were...

Sicyonian

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Gadeira ...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...

Gadeira

74 -6.294444,36.528381,0 Athenians ...of Neocles won for the Greeks. There is also a sanctuary of Cychreus. When the Athenians were fighting the Persians at sea, a serpent is said to have appeared in the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataean ...of heroes. When you have turned from Eleusis to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which borders on Attica. Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary on the...

Plataean

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Athens ...is a temple of Dionysus, from which the old wooden image was carried off to Athens. The image at Eleutherae at the present day is a copy of the old one. A little...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotians ...This is their history according to the Megarians themselves. But the Boeotians declare that Megareus, son of Poseidon, who dwelt in Onchestus, came with an...

Boeotians

71 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Gerania ...of Gerania. The mountain had not yet received this name, but was then named Gerania (Crane Hill) because cranes were flying and Megarus swam towards the cry of the...

Gerania

78 Themiscyra ...at her present situation and even more hopeless of reaching her home in Themiscyra, she died of a broken heart, and the Megarians gave her burial. The shape of...

Themiscyra

74 36.967737,41.215176,0 Susa ...many call it Memnon, who they say from Aethiopia overran Egypt and as far as Susa. The Thebans, however, say that it is a statue, not of Memnon, but of a native...

Susa

79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Euboea ...the city. Returning afterwards to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and Naxos and invaded Boeotia with an army. Having ravaged the greater part of...

Euboea

79 Pelasgians ...son of Miltiades, but all the rest is said to have been built round it by the Pelasgians, who once lived under the Acropolis. The builders, they say, were Agrolas and...

Pelasgians

80 22.25,39.75,0 Phalerum ...home with his fleet when night overtook them as in their voyage they were off Phalerum. The Argives landed, under the impression that it was hostile territory, the...

Phalerum

80 23.7062,37.9373,0 Macedonian ...produced a general despair which was chiefly responsible for the defeat. A Macedonian garrison was set over the Athenians, and occupied first Munychia and afterwards...

Macedonian

77 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...of strong Greek sympathies. But Cassander, inspired by a deep hatred of the Athenians, made a friend of Lachares, who up to now had been the popular champion, and...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acropolis ...fortifying the place called the Museum. This is a hill right opposite the Acropolis within the old city boundaries, where legend says Musaeus used to sing, and...

Acropolis

76 23.625,37.875,0 Macedonians ...forth with elected Olympiodorus to be their general. He led them against the Macedonians, both the old men and the youths, and trusted for military success more to...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Panopeus ...say that it was discovered on the border of their own country and of Panopeus in Phocis, that with it the Phocians discovered gold, and that they were glad...

Panopeus

71 22.79418,38.49551,0 Phlygonium ...times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the cities enumerated...

Phlygonium

79 22.740687,38.474777,0 Isthmus ...him on Mount Cithaeron in Plataean territory. Corinth and the land at the Isthmus were the scene of his upbringing. Phocis and the Cleft Road received the...

Isthmus

76 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Euboean ...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...

Euboean

80 Pythian ...of Argos for flute-playing. This same Sacadas won victories at the next two Pythian festivals. On that occasion they also offered for the first time prizes for...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aeolians ...Boeotians, who in more ancient days inhabited Thessaly and were then called Aeolians, the Phocians and the Delphians, each send two; ancient Doris sends one. The...

Aeolians

78 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Locrians ...and the Delphians, each send two; ancient Doris sends one. The Ozolian Locrians, and the Locrians opposite Euboea, send one each; there is also one from...

Locrians

74 21.75,38.25,0 Parnassus ...of Achelous. For about Heracles he says: "Crossing with swift feet snowy Parnassus he reached the immortal water of Castalia, daughter of Achelous. Panyassis...

Parnassus

75 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Lilaeans ...prelude to Apollo. The strongest confirmation of this view is a custom of the Lilaeans, who on certain specified days throw into the spring of the Cephisus cakes of...

Lilaeans

80 22.50592,38.62687,0 Delphi ...behind them I have set forth in my account of Elis. There is a statue at Delphi of Phaylus of Crotona. He won no victory at Olympia, but his victories at Pytho...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Marathon ...statues were dedicated from a tithe of the spoils taken in the engagement at Marathon. They represent Athena, Apollo, and Miltiades, one of the generals. Of those...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Thebans ...them are other statues, dedicated by the Argives who helped the Thebans under Epaminondas to found Messene. The statues are of heroes: Danaus, the most...

Thebans

66 23.255096,38.318092,0 Syracusan ...of Olympian Zeus at Syracuse; they moved none of the offerings, but left the Syracusan priest as their keeper. Datis the Persian too showed his piety in his address...

Syracusan

79 15.29382,37.05963,0 Persians ...by the Athenians after wars. There is first a bronze Athena, tithe from the Persians who landed at Marathon. It is the work of Pheidias, but the reliefs upon the...

Persians

78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...is an island called Psyttalea. Here they say that about four hundred of the Persians landed, and when the fleet of Xerxes was defeated, these also were killed after...

Persians

78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...unsuccessful in their battles, nevertheless set forth to Thermopylae with such Greeks as joined them, having made the Callippus I mentioned their general. Occupying...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...over whelmed the Phocians stationed there and crossed Oeta unperceived by the Greeks. Then it was that the Athenians put the Greeks under the greatest obligation...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Asia ...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...

Asia

81 27.5,37.5,0 Hyperboreans ...by is built a temple of Eileithyia, who they say came from the Hyperboreans to Delos and helped Leto in her labour; and from Delos the name spread to other...

Hyperboreans

65 city ...the temple was finished with the exception of the roof Theseus arrived in the city, a stranger as yet to everybody. When he came to the temple of the Delphinian...

city

80 coast ...are the only Greeks who say that the corpse of Ino was cast up on their coast, that Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleson, son of Lelex, found and...

coast

74 path ...keep the foreigners from entering Greece; but the Celts, having discovered the path by which Ephialtes of Trachis once led the Persians, over whelmed the Phocians...

path

81 tomb ...and deny that they engaged in battle. After the graves of the Argives is the tomb of Alope, who, legend says, being mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon was on this...

tomb

80 Syria ...He never voluntarily entered upon a war, but he reduced the Hebrews beyond Syria, who had rebelled. As for the sanctuaries of the gods that in some cases he...

Syria

77 37.5,37.5,0 Cynurian ...the Cynurians of military age, alleging as a reason that freebooters from the Cynurian territory were harrying Argolis, the Argives being their kinsmen, and that the...

Cynurian

80 22.75,37.25,0 Helos ...that were conveniently situated for the coasting voyage. They also laid waste Helos, an Achaean town on the coast, and won a battle against the Argives who came to...

Helos

80 22.60754,36.843247,0 Argives ...laid waste Helos, an Achaean town on the coast, and won a battle against the Argives who came to give aid to the Helots. On the death of Alcamenes, Polydorus his...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...of those in the towns on the coast. The incidents of the war which the Messenians waged after the revolt from the Lacedemonians it is not pertinent that I should...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonian ...of Leon, the Lacedemonians won the war with Tegea in the following manner. A Lacedemonian, by name Lichas, came to Tegea when there chanced to be a truce between the...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataea ...and the kingdom devolved on Pleistoanax, son of the Pausanias who commanded at Plataea. Pleistoanax had a son Pausanias; he was the Pausanias who invaded Attica...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Boeotian ...for them. But when his fellow citizens charged him with his slowness in this Boeotian campaign, he did not wait to stand his trial, but was received by the people of...

Boeotian

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Argives ...When he led his army from the territory of Tegea into that of Argos, the Argives sent a herald to make for them with Agesipolis a certain ancestral truce, which...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Spartans ...the son of Leonidas performed daring feats of valor, and how after him the Spartans ceased to be ruled by kings, I have already shown in my account of Aratus of...

Spartans

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...but none of them was more distinguished for their victories than she. The Spartans seem to me to be of all men the least moved by poetry and the praise of poets...

Spartans

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...is no poetic composition to commemorate the doings of the royal houses of the Lacedemonians. In the reign of Agis the son of Archidamus the Lacedemonians had several...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...too, repented afterwards; he was at the time being carried home sick from Arcadia, and when he reached Heraea, he not only called the people to witness that he...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Greeks ...It is said that on the occasion of the drought that once afflicted the Greeks Aeacus in obedience to an oracular utterance sacrificed in Aegina to Zeus God...

Greeks

73 22.5,37.5,0 pass ...them, having made the Callippus I mentioned their general. Occupying the pass where it was narrowest, they tried to keep the foreigners from entering Greece...

pass

75 Marmaridae ...attack of the Cyrenians. But while on the march Magas was in formed that the Marmaridae, a tribe of Libyan nomads, had revolted, and thereupon fell back upon Cyrene...

Marmaridae

79 23.5,31.5,0 Athenians ...Boeotian cavalry, Epaminondas the Theban. These pictures were painted for the Athenians by Euphranor, and he also wrought the Apollo surnamed Patroos (Paternal) in the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...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...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...many remarkable exploits, the women, they say, came on the scene and put the Lacedemonians to flight. Marpessa, surnamed Choera, surpassed, they say, the other women in...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...being suckled by a deer. This account is equally current among the people of Tegea. Close to the sanctuary of Eileithyia is an altar of Earth, next to which is a...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Mantineia ...the Achaeans, Philopoemen commanded the Achaean forces. A battle took place at Mantineia. The light troops of the Lacedemonians overcame the light-armed of the...

Mantineia

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Arcadians ...the verses of Homer, where in the Catalogue he remarks on the ignorance of the Arcadians of nautical matters. A few days after the sea-fight, Philopoemen and his band...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thermopylae ...from Greece, Themistocles by the two sea-fights, Leonidas by the action at Thermopylae. But Aristeides the son of Lysimachus, and Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus...

Thermopylae

77 22.538294,38.796511,0 Lacedemonians ...year. It is said that once at the time of the feast they were invaded by the Lacedemonians. As it was snowing, these were chilled, and thus distressed by their armour...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...by the cold they donned, they say, their armour, went out against the Lacedemonians, and had the better of the engagement. I also saw in Tegea:– the house of...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataeans ...made by the Spartan Antalcidas between the Persians and the Greeks, and the Plataeans returned from Athens. But a second disaster was destined to befall them. There...

Plataeans

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...a second disaster was destined to befall them. There was no open war between Plataea and Thebes; in fact the Plataeans declared that the peace with them still held...

Plataea

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Lacedemonians ...on Antiochus, the pilot of Alcibiades, to believe that he was a match for the Lacedemonians at sea, and when in the rashness of vainglory he put out to sea, Lysander...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...and Thebans; for at the time when Cassander, the son of Antipater, rebuilt Thebes, the Thebans wished to be reconciled with the Plataeans, to share in the common...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...by Onasias, is the former expedition of the Argives, under Adrastus, against Thebes. These paintings are on the walls of the fore-temple, while at the feet of the...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tilphusa ...of Cecrops the son of Pandion. Mount Tilphusius and the spring called Tilphusa are about fifty stades away from Haliartus. The Greeks declare that the...

Tilphusa

72 22.994538,38.371064,0 Colophonian ...Apollo by the Argives, and at the command of the god crossed with ships to the Colophonian land in what is now called Ionia. Manto there married Rhacius, a Cretan. The...

Colophonian

81 27.142222,38.115556,0 Alalcomenia ...an aboriginal, by whom Athena was brought up; others declare that Alalcomenia was one of the daughters of Ogygus. At some distance from the village on the...

Alalcomenia

68 23.00169,38.385259,0 Itonian ...the hound of Hades. On the way down from Mount Laphystius to the sanctuary of Itonian Athena is the river Phalarus, which runs into the Cephisian lake. Over against...

Itonian

80 22.050597,39.261599,0 Coroneia ...the territory round Mount Laphystius with what are now the territories of Coroneia and Haliartus. Athamas, thinking that none of his male children were left...

Coroneia

76 22.956902,38.392613,0 Argos ...the curses of the father should be brought to pass upon the sons. He went to Argos and married a daughter of Adrastus, but returned to Thebes, being fetched by...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phlegyans ...were arming themselves for war to go to the Ephyrians, Or to the great-hearted Phlegyans." By Ephyrians in this passage Homer means, I think, those in Thesprotis. The...

Phlegyans

81 22.569853,39.798151,0 Thebans ...to let everything depend on one man. Of the successes and failures of the Thebans in battle I found the most famous to be the following. They were overcome in...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocis ...The remnant were wasted by an epidemic of plague, but a few of them escaped to Phocis. Phlegyas had no sons, and Chryses succeeded to the throne, a son of Poseidon...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Delium ...Persia. Afterwards, however, the Thebans won a victory over the Athenians at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, where the Athenian general Hippocrates, son of...

Delium

80 23.661354,38.3462075,0 Athenian ...a victory over the Athenians at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, where the Athenian general Hippocrates, son of Ariphron, perished with the greater part of the...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...of the restoration of Thebes were the Athenians, and they were helped by Messenians and the Arcadians of Megalopolis. My own view is that in building Thebes...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Orchomenus ...on the grave of Hesiod. On the side towards the mountains the boundary of Orchomenus is Phocis, but on the plain it is Lebadeia. Originally this city stood on high...

Orchomenus

77 22.959486,38.495082,0 Eleusinians ...Greeks in what is called the heroic age. In the case of the war between the Eleusinians and the rest of the Athenians, and likewise in that between the Thebans and the...

Eleusinians

78 23.538311,38.041096,0 Macedonians ...or non-Greeks, as the Macedonians were not accustomed to raise trophies. The Macedonians say that Caranus, king of Macedonia, overcame in battle Cisseus, a chieftain in...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...not accustomed to raise trophies. The Macedonians say that Caranus, king of Macedonia, overcame in battle Cisseus, a chieftain in a bordering country. For his...

Macedonia

79 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...dwelling around, and so, they say, the rule was adopted that no king of Macedonia, neither Caranus himself nor any of his successors, should set up trophies, if...

Macedonia

74 21.75,41.25,0 Lycians ...art, but none is authentic except only the scepter of Agamemnon. However, the Lycians in Patara show a bronze bowl in their temple of Apollo, saying that Telephus...

Lycians

80 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Arcadians ...clear that they too were accompanied not only by the Argives, Messenians and Arcadians, but also by allies from Corinth and Megara invited to help them. Thebes too...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phocis ...the name established itself as the received title of what is today called Phocis, when the Aeginetans had disembarked on the land with Phocus the son of...

Phocis

76 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotia ...Phocus the son of Aeacus. Opposite the Peloponnesus, and in the direction of Boeotia, Phocis stretches to the sea, and touches it on one side at Cirrha, the port of...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thebans ...of women in relief, but the figures are by this time rather indistinct. The Thebans call them Witches, adding that they were sent by Hera to hinder the birth-pangs...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocian ...its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned exploits of the Phocian people were undertaken by the whole nation. They took part in the Trojan war...

Phocian

79 22.25,38.25,0 Thessalians ...out against them. Whereupon the Phocians, greatly terrified at the army of the Thessalians, especially at the number of their cavalry and the practised discipline of both...

Thessalians

81 21.75,39.25,0 Euripus ...it is said Hesiod received for winning the prize for song at Chalcis on the Euripus. Men too live round about the grove, and here the Thespians celebrate a...

Euripus

78 23.58944,38.46276,0 Thespians ...at Chalcis on the Euripus. Men too live round about the grove, and here the Thespians celebrate a festival, and also games called the Museia. They celebrate other...

Thespians

78 23.154521,38.293384,0 Delphi ...were named. Because of this engagement the Phocians sent as offerings to Delphi statues of Apollo, of Tellias the seer, and of all their other generals in the...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thessalians ...white armour. It is said that there then occurred a wholesale slaughter of the Thessalians, who thought this apparition of the night to be too unearthly to be an attack...

Thessalians

81 21.75,39.25,0 Phocians ...It is said that no sooner had this Phaylus come to rule over the Phocians when he saw the following vision in a dream. Among the votive offerings to...

Phocians

67 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...a temple of Athena with an ancient image of ivory. Sulla's treatment of the Athenians was savage and foreign to the Roman character, but quite consistent with his...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Itonian ...reaching Coroneia from Alalcomenae we come to the sanctuary of Itonian Athena. It is named after Itonius the son of Amphictyon, and here the Boeotians...

Itonian

65 22.050597,39.261599,0 Phocians ...the old crimes they had committed. Such were the memorable exploits of the Phocians. From Chaeroneia it is twenty stades to Panopeus, a city of the Phocians, if...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Chaeroneia ...they had committed. Such were the memorable exploits of the Phocians. From Chaeroneia it is twenty stades to Panopeus, a city of the Phocians, if one can give the...

Chaeroneia

78 22.840365,38.493361,0 Chryse ...the family of Almus. Almus himself had daughters born to him, Chrysogeneia and Chryse. Tradition has it that Chryse, daughter of Almus, had by Ares a son Phlegyas...

Chryse

81 26.928091,39.585106,0 Orchomenus ...name of Minyans, to distinguish them from the Orchomenians in Arcadia. To this Orchomenus during his kingship came Hyettus from Argos, who was an exile because of the...

Orchomenus

81 22.959486,38.495082,0 Plataean ...birth they pieced his ankles with goads and exposed him on Mount Cithaeron in Plataean territory. Corinth and the land at the Isthmus were the scene of his...

Plataean

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Delphi ...he had gathered riches, the desire seized him to have children. So going to Delphi he inquired of the oracle about children, and the Pythian priestess gave this...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian ...going to Delphi he inquired of the oracle about children, and the Pythian priestess gave this reply: "Erginus, son of Clymenus Presboniades, Late thou...

Pythian

68 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...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...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Orchomenus ...They also sacrifice every year to Actaeon as to a hero. Seven stades from Orchomenus is a temple of Heracles with a small image. Here is the source of the river...

Orchomenus

77 22.959486,38.495082,0 Orchomenian ...territory. The Thebans declare that the river Cephisus was diverted into the Orchomenian plain by Heracles, and that for a time it passed under the mountain and entered...

Orchomenian

80 22.959486,38.495082,0 Magnesians ...tribes of the Greek people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living...

Magnesians

75 22.75,39.75,0 Orchomenus ...replies to the envoys from Agamemnon: "Not even the wealth that comes to Orchomenus," a line that clearly shows that even then the revenues coming to Orchomenus...

Orchomenus

75 22.959486,38.495082,0 Dorians ...Macedonians managed to enter it, while the Phocian nation and a section of the Dorians, namely the Lacedemonians, lost their membership, the Phocians because of their...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Lebadeia ...Chaeron, tamer of horses. Homer, I think, though he knew that Chaeroneia and Lebadeia were already so called, yet uses their ancient names, just as he speaks of the...

Lebadeia

79 22.87352,38.431063,0 Lacedemonians ...of their catch. Next to this are offerings of the Tegeans from spoils of the Lacedemonians: an Apollo, a Victory, the heroes of the country, Callisto, daughter of Lycaon...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Calaureia ...The Dioscuri were made by Antiphanes of Argos; the soothsayer by Pison, from Calaureia, in the territory of Troezen; the Artemis, Poseidon and also Lysander by...

Calaureia

79 23.48041,37.52255,0 Itonian ...the watchword given in battle on every occasion by the Thessalian generals was Itonian Athena, and by the Phocian generals Phocus, from whom the Phocians were named...

Itonian

81 22.050597,39.261599,0 Sicily ...made by the Syracusan Antiochus, son of Xenophanes, in his history of Sicily. He says also that they built a city on Cape Pachynum in Sicily, but were hard...

Sicily

72 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Syracusans ...put an end to the trouble, and so they sent a bronze he-goat to Apollo. The Syracusans have a treasury built from the spoils taken in the great Athenian disaster, the...

Syracusans

78 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athens ...the Phocian War and the Sacred War, in the year when Theophilus was archon at Athens, which was the first of the hundred and eighth Olympiad at which Polycles of...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ida ...to the Mother, and the river Aedoneus. Even today there remain on Trojan Ida the ruins of the city Marpessus, with some sixty inhabitants. All the land...

Ida

76 26.85852,39.69936,0 Marpessus ...rises to sink once more, finally disappearing altogether beneath the earth. Marpessus is two hundred and forty stades distant from Alexandria in the Troad. The...

Marpessus

78 26.520832,39.87918,0 Delphi ...in Samos, but she also visited Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi. Whenever she visited Delphi, she would stand on this rock and sing her...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi. Whenever she visited Delphi, she would stand on this rock and sing her chants. However, death came upon...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...of Panopeus, I could not understand until I was taught by the women whom the Athenians call Thyiads. The Thyiads are Attic women, who with the Delphian women go to...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cadiz ...monsters had been as tradition says they were. He happened, he said, to be at Cadiz, and he, with the rest of the crowd, sailed forth from the island in accordance...

Cadiz

80 -6.294444,36.528381,0 Macedonians ...an Achilles on horseback, with Patroclus running beside his horse: the Macedonians living in Dium, a city at the foot of Mount Pieria, the Apollo who has taken...

Macedonians

73 21.75,41.25,0 Cadiz ...from the island in accordance with the command of Heracles; on their return to Cadiz they found cast ashore a man of the sea, who was about five roods in size, and...

Cadiz

81 -6.294444,36.528381,0 Daulians ...Athena with an ancient image. The wooden image, of an even earlier date, the Daulians say was brought from Athens by Procne. In the territory of Daulis is a place...

Daulians

79 22.72926,38.50665,0 Arcadia ...Delphi a bronze Zeus, and with the Zeus an image of Aegina. The Mantineans of Arcadia dedicated a bronze Apollo, which stands near the treasury of the...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...though not so difficult. Turning back from Daulis to the straight road to Delphi and going forwards, you see on the left of the road a building called the...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tenedos ...he was killed by Achilles. In course of time weakness compelled the people of Tenedos to merge themselves with the Alexandrians on the Troad mainland. The Greeks...

Tenedos

80 26.0497905,39.8278355,0 Olen ...enumerating others also of the Hyperboreans, at the end of the hymn she names Olen: "And Olen, who became the first prophet of Phoebus, And first fashioned a song...

Olen

80 21.640599,38.153707,0 Athens ...it was made of stone. It was burnt down in the archonship of Erxicleides at Athens, in the first year of the fifty-eighth Olympiad, when Diognetus of Crotona was...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphi ...were preparing the Sicilian expedition a vast flock of crows swooped on Delphi, pecked this image all over, and with their beaks tore away its gold. He says...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Chian ...except the iron stand of the bowl of Alyattes. This is the work of Glaucus the Chian, the man who discovered how to weld iron. Each plate of the stand is fastened...

Chian

81 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Pythian ...five Olympiads after Damaretus of Heraea was victorious. At the forty-eighth Pythian Festival they established a race for two-horse chariots, and the chariot won of...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian ...afterwards introduced from Elis. The first was brought in at the sixty-first Pythian Festival, and Iolaidas of Thebes was victorious. At the next Festival but one...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian ...Liparaeans in a war with the Etruscans. For the Liparaeans were bidden by the Pythian priestess to engage the Etruscans with the fewest possible ships. So they put...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pentelic ...on the right and an image of Artemis Saviour on the left. These are of Pentelic marble and were made by the Athenians Cephisodotus and Xenophon. At the other...

Pentelic

73 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Achaeans ...among the besieged, who had nothing else to quench their thirst. So the Achaeans, by filling up the spring, captured the town. By the side of this Athena the...

Achaeans

74 Ambraciots ...side of this Athena the Rhodians of Lindus set up their image of Apollo. The Ambraciots dedicated also a bronze ass, having conquered the Molossians in a night battle...

Ambraciots

79 20.95316,39.04107,0 Methymna ...into the sea. 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...

Methymna

77 26.489422,39.05495,0 Alpheius ...After this you will travel beside a river Theius, which is a tributary of the Alpheius, and some forty stades from the Alpheius leaving the Theius on the left you...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Athenian ...made some mention of the Gallic invasion of Greece in my description of the Athenian Council Chamber. But I have resolved to give a more detailed account of the...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thermopylae ...so wishes can compare the number of those who mustered to meet king Xerxes at Thermopylae with those who now mustered to oppose the Gauls. To meet the Persians there...

Thermopylae

80 22.538294,38.796511,0 Locrians ...should be added to the Greek total. Herodotus does not give the number of the Locrians under Mount Cnemis, but he does say that each of their cities sent a...

Locrians

81 22.75,38.75,0 Rhium ...inland. As you sail to Aegium from Patrae you come first to the cape called Rhium, fifty stades from Patrae, the harbor of Panormus being fifteen stades farther...

Rhium

78 21.7850004,38.3099987,0 Orchomenus ...is also thirty stades from Nymphasia to the common boundaries of Megalopolis, Orchomenus and Caphyae. Passing through the gate at Megalopolis named the Gate to the...

Orchomenus

80 22.31536,37.724716,0 Aegium ...the sea, saying that they send them to Arethusa at Syracuse. There are at Aegium other images made of bronze, Zeus as a boy and Heracles as a beardless youth...

Aegium

77 22.081952,38.252707,0 Arcadians ...the temple of the Mistress on the right is what is called the Hall, where the Arcadians celebrate mysteries, and sacrifice to the Mistress many victims in generous...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athens ...Poseidon has remained, even after their expulsion by the Achaeans to Athens, and subsequently from Athens to the coasts of Asia. At Miletus too on the way...

Athens

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lycosura ...also has been made. A little farther up is the circuit of the wall of Lycosura, in which there are a few inhabitants. Of all the cities that earth has ever...

Lycosura

73 22.030087,37.389509,0 Heliconian ...too on the way to the spring Biblis there is before the city an altar of Heliconian Poseidon, and in Teos likewise the Heliconian has a precinct and an altar, well...

Heliconian

75 22.82514,38.35217,0 Achaeans ...in Homer referring to Helice and the Heliconian Poseidon. But later on the Achaeans of the place removed some suppliants from the sanctuary and killed them. But...

Achaeans

77 Lycaeus ...clouds, and makes rain fall on the land of the Arcadians. There is on Mount Lycaeus a sanctuary of Pan, and a grove of trees around it, with a race-course in front...

Lycaeus

79 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Parrhasian ...and after the sacrifice here they at once carry the victim to the sanctuary of Parrhasian Apollo in procession to the music of the flute; cutting out the thigh-bones...

Parrhasian

81 22.25,37.25,0 Athenians ...advises us to respect suppliants. For about the time of Apheidas the Athenians received from Zeus of Dodona the following verses: "Consider the Areopagus, and...

Athenians

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pythian ...who escaped resolved to go to Delphi and ask the god about their return. The Pythian priestess said that if they made the attempt by themselves she saw no return...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phigalia ...is a part of Mount Lycaeus. At the place where the Neda approaches nearest to Phigalia the boys of the Phigalians cut off their hair in honor of the river. Near the...

Phigalia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Ionians ...to Phelloe, an obscure town, which was not always inhabited even when the Ionians still occupied the land. The district round Phelloe is well suited for the...

Ionians

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Aegeira ...through ignorance. The port of Pellene is Aristonautae. Its distance from Aegeira on the sea is one hundred and twenty stades, and to Pellene from this port is...

Aegeira

77 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pellene ...Its distance from Aegeira on the sea is one hundred and twenty stades, and to Pellene from this port is half that distance. They say that the name of Aristonautae...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Mysian ...sixty stades distant from Pellene is the Mysaeum, a sanctuary of the Mysian Demeter. It is said that it was founded by Mysius, a man of Argos, who...

Mysian

71 27.75,40.25,0 Mothone ...of Lacedemon, and these border on Messenia, which comes down to the sea at Mothone, Pylus and Cyparissiae. On the side of Lechaeum the Corinthians are bounded by...

Mothone

77 21.705,36.817,0 Arcadians ...on the land of Dyme. These that I have mentioned extend to the sea, but the Arcadians are shut off from the sea on every side and dwell in the interior. Hence, when...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sicily ...and to those who perished in the remote parts of the continent of Asia, or in Sicily. The names of the generals are inscribed with the exception of Nicias, and...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Attica ...at the present day there is a monument to Cranaus at Lamptrae. At Potami in Attica is also the grave of Ion the son of Xuthus – for he too dwelt among the...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Elis ...Peloponnesus, opposite the Echinadian islands, dwell the Eleans. The land of Elis, on the side of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Oresthasium ...his Geryoneid. Phigalia and Oresthasium in course of time changed their names, Oresthasium to Oresteium after Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, Phigalia to Phialia after...

Oresthasium

81 22.206506,37.345994,0 Pergamus ...suspicious of the treatment he would receive at the hands of Arsinoe, seized Pergamus on the Caicus, and sending a herald offered both the property and himself to...

Pergamus

79 27.184167,39.1325,0 Scyros ...capture Scyros, differing entirely from those who say that Achilles lived in Scyros with the maidens, as Polygnotus has re presented in his picture. He also...

Scyros

79 24.6099,38.82754,0 Lycoa ...Tricoloni after Tricolonus, Peraethenses after Peraethus, Asea after Aseatas, Lycoa after . . . 4 and Sumetia after Sumateus. Alipherus also and Heraeus both gave...

Lycoa

80 22.313916,37.529952,0 Syracuse ...who arrived too late to take part in the expedition of Demosthenes against Syracuse. He also put into the Chalcidic Euripus, where the Boeotians had an inland town...

Syracuse

77 15.29382,37.05963,0 Pelasgians ...called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians. His wife, according to the legend, was no mortal woman but a Dryad nymph. For...

Pelasgians

78 22.25,39.75,0 Troy ...are the Cretans. For the Opuntian Locrians, whom Homer represents as coming to Troy with bows and slings, we know were armed as heavy infantry by the time of the...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Cyllene ...his father's portion. Of the sons of Elatus, Cyllen gave his name to Mount Cyllene, and Stymphalus gave his to the spring and to the city Stymphalus near the...

Cyllene

78 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Carthaginians ...to raise the siege of Syracuse. In his self-conceit, although the Carthaginians, being Phoenicians of Tyre by ancient descent, were more experienced sea men...

Carthaginians

68 10.327986,36.857569,0 Arcadians ...Echemus, son of Aeropus, son of Cepheus, son of Aleus, became king of the Arcadians. In his time the Dorians, in their attempt to return to the Peloponnesus under...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenians ...away the islands and putting an end to her maritime empire. For a time the Athenians remained passive, during the reign of Philip and subsequently of Alexander. But...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonian ...prevented by Cleonymus. This Cleonymus, who persuaded Pyrrhus to abandon his Macedonian adventure and to go to the Peloponnesus, was a Lacedemonian who led an hostile...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Cyllene ...Pompus his son, in whose reign the Aeginetans made trading voyages as far as Cyllene, from which place they carried their cargoes up country on pack-animals to the...

Cyllene

79 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Sicyon ...cities that took part were, of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the...

Sicyon

71 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aeginetes ...the name Aeginetes to his son out of friendship for the Aeginetans. After Aeginetes his son Polymestor became king of the Arcadians, and it was then that Charillus...

Aeginetes

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Arcadians ...and also meeting with a death like his. For he too was stoned by the Arcadians, who discovered that he had received bribes from Lacedemon, and that the...

Arcadians

71 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thebes ...lest the Athenians should injure them by founding a settlement on the site of Thebes, refused to join the alliance and lent all their forces to furthering the...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...to death. If Androtion tells the truth, he appears to me to wish to put the Lacedemonians on a level with the Athenians, because they too are open to the charge of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...and the contrast between their present position and the ancient glory of Athens, and without more ado forth with elected Olympiodorus to be their general. He...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the Athenians escaped war with Cassander. Olympiodorus has not only honors at Athens, both on the Acropolis and in the town hall but also a portrait at Eleusis. The...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Azanian ...by Alypus; the statue of Damocritus was made by Cleon, and that of Philip the Azanian by Myron. The story of Promachus, son of Dryon, a pancratiast of Pellene, will...

Azanian

80 22.25,37.75,0 Athenians ...of the Market-place, and near it a gate. On it is a trophy erected by the Athenians, who in a cavalry action overcame Pleistarchus, to whose command his brother...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pytho ...This athlete won in the pancratium two victories at Olympia and three at Pytho. His achievements in war too are distinguished by their daring and by the good...

Pytho

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...had entrusted his cavalry and mercenaries. This portico contains, first, the Athenians arrayed against the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in the Argive territory. What is...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elatea ...and in the town hall but also a portrait at Eleusis. The Phocians too of Elatea dedicated at Delphi a bronze statue of Olympiodorus for help in their revolt...

Elatea

75 22.782061,38.645635,0 Lacedemonians ...mercenaries. This portico contains, first, the Athenians arrayed against the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in the Argive territory. What is depicted is not the crisis of the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Crete ...when Daedalus was in exile because of the death of Calos, followed him to Crete. Made by him is a statue of Athena seated, with an inscription that Callias...

Crete

76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Butadae ...to Hephaestus. On the walls are paintings representing members of the clan Butadae; there is also inside – the building is double – sea-water in a cistern. This...

Butadae

77 23.710394,37.987609,0 Lacedemonians ...pitch lest they should be worn by age and rust, are said to be those of the Lacedemonians who were taken prisoners in the island of Sphacteria. Here are placed bronze...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythian ...to Delphi to ask what had happened to Cleomedes. The response given by the Pythian priestess was, they say, as follows: "Last of heroes is Cleomedes of...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...statues, one, in front of the portico, of Solon, who composed the laws for the Athenians, and, a little farther away, one of Seleucus, whose future prosperity was...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Milesians ...of the kings. Firstly, it was Seleucus who sent back to Branchidae for the Milesians the bronze Apollo that had been carried by Xerxes to Ecbatana in Persia...

Milesians

77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Boeotia ...Glaucus of Carystus. Legend has it that he was by birth from Anthedon in Boeotia, being descended from Glaucus the sea-deity. This Carystian was a son of...

Boeotia

75 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Carystians ...was the best exponent of the art of all his contemporaries. When he died the Carystians, they say, buried him in the island still called the island of...

Carystians

79 24.4204,38.0165,0 Dyrrhachium ...the ancient one, being at a short distance from it. The modern city is called Dyrrhachium from its founder. Lycinus of Heraea, Epicradius of Mantineia, Tellon of...

Dyrrhachium

80 19.44594,41.31497,0 Athens ...Accordingly Lycomedes contrived his death. His close was built at Athens after the Persians landed at Marathon, when Cimon, son of Miltiades, ravaged...

Athens

68 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thasian ...say that Timosthenes was not the father of Theagenes, but a priest of the Thasian Heracles, a phantom of whom in the likeness of Timosthenes had intercourse with...

Thasian

76 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasians ...and kill a man. But in course of time, when the earth yielded no crop to the Thasians, they sent envoys to Delphi, and the god instructed them to receive back the...

Thasians

80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Olympian Zeus ...both the figures and the tripod are worth seeing. The ancient sanctuary of Olympian Zeus the Athenians say was built by Deucalion, and they cite as evidence that...

Olympian Zeus

77 23.875,37.875,0 Pythian ...the Libyan quarries. Close to the temple of Olympian Zeus is a statue of the Pythian Apollo. There is further a sanctuary of Apollo surnamed Delphinius. The story...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Nisaea ...the country, they captured the other cities of the Megarid by assault, but Nisaea, in which Nisus had taken refuge, they beleaguered. The story says how the...

Nisaea

77 23.362766,37.974359,0 Tritaeans ...in Greece. However, one may assume that at the time of the inscription the Tritaeans were reckoned as Arcadians, just as nowadays too certain of the Arcadians...

Tritaeans

77 21.687,37.959,0 Arcadians ...may assume that at the time of the inscription the Tritaeans were reckoned as Arcadians, just as nowadays too certain of the Arcadians themselves are reckoned as...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athens ...the history of Mithridates, and I shall confine my narrative to the capture of Athens. There was an Athenian, Aristion, whom Mithridates employed as his envoy to...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Magnetes ...This Archelaus was another general of Mithridates, whom earlier than this the Magnetes, who inhabit Sipylus, wounded when he raided their territory, killing most of...

Magnetes

80 22.75,39.75,0 Pytho ...won six victories for wrestling at Olympia, one of them among the boys; at Pytho he won six among the men and one among the boys. He came to Olympia to wrestle...

Pytho

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympic ...the only flute-player so to distinguish himself. It is also clear that at the Olympic Festival he fluted six times for the pentathlum. For these reasons the slab at...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...Philo of Corcyra; also Hieronymus of Andros, who defeated in the pentathlum at Olympia Tisamenus of Elis, who afterwards served as soothsayer in the Greek army that...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Nemea ...crown, when he was not more than twenty years old, at Olympia, at Pytho, at Nemea and at the Isthmus. The statue of the boy runner Xenon, son of Calliteles from...

Nemea

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Leuctra ...of Pleistoanax, he of Pausanias, and he of Cleombrotus, who was killed at Leuctra fighting against Epaminondas and the Thebans. Cleombrotus was the father of...

Leuctra

76 23.18095,38.25422,0 Argos ...to make war there again. When Antigonus was about to lead his army from Argos into Laconia, Pyrrhus himself reached Argos. Victorious once more he dashed...

Argos

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nemean ...is twice that of the double course; the event had been omitted from the Nemean and Isthmian games, but was restored to the Argives for their winter Nemean...

Nemean

74 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Olympia ...by the side of his statue. The inscription declares that the distance from Olympia to another slab at Lacedemon is six hundred and sixty furlongs. Theodorus...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...is further related that, when a dispute about boundaries occurred between the Arcadians and the Eleans, he delivered judgment on the matter. His statue is the work of...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cerameicus ...in the grove at Marathon and in the Persians who landed there. Above the Cerameicus and the portico called the King's Portico is a temple of Hephaestus. I was not...

Cerameicus

76 23.7188,37.978127,0 Eleans ...that, when a dispute about boundaries occurred between the Arcadians and the Eleans, he delivered judgment on the matter. His statue is the work of Sthennis the...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Athenians ...but nevertheless they came to Troy to fight all the Greeks as well as the Athenians them selves. After the Amazons come the Greeks when they have taken Troy, and...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Locrians ...to remember that Thucydides in his history mentions various cities of the Locrians near Phocis, and among them the Myonians. So the Myanians on the shield are in...

Locrians

76 22.75,38.75,0 Ancyra ...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...

Ancyra

78 32.858128,39.944387,0 Eleans ...seemed to them to go into the ground they made the sanctuary. With him the Eleans resolved to worship Eileithyia also, because this goddess to help them brought...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Paphlagonian ...who afterwards surrendered both himself and his property to Lysimachus, had a Paphlagonian eunuch called Philetaerus. All that Philetaerus did to further the revolt from...

Paphlagonian

80 32.5,42.5,0 Trojans ...in the war, as he was a descendant of Achilles making war upon a colony of Trojans. Pleased with this proposal, and being a man who never lost time when once he...

Trojans

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleans ...At the forty-eighth Festival, Damophon the son of Pantaleon gave the Eleans reasons for suspecting that he was intriguing against them, but when they...

Eleans

71 21.25,37.75,0 Macedonians ...he always treated him with respect, and honored him as much as the noblest Macedonians. After the death of Alexander, Lysimachus ruled such of the Thracians, who are...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Ister ...Dromicliaetes, yielding to the Getic king the parts of his empire beyond the Ister, and, chiefly under compulsion, giving him his daughter in marriage. Others say...

Ister

79 29.647293,45.16291,0 Pylus ...be crossed by the Alpheius, and, moreover, we know of no city in Arcadia named Pylus. Distant from Olympia about fifty stades is Heracleia, a village of the...

Pylus

81 Olympia ...and, moreover, we know of no city in Arcadia named Pylus. Distant from Olympia about fifty stades is Heracleia, a village of the Eleans, and beside it is a...

Olympia

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cardians ...had grievances against Lysimachus, especially his destroying the city of the Cardians and founding Lysimachia in its stead on the isthmus of the Thracian...

Cardians

79 21.338432,38.546722,0 Chersonesus ...Cardians and founding Lysimachia in its stead on the isthmus of the Thracian Chersonesus. As long as Aridaeus reigned, and after him Cassander and his sons, friendly...

Chersonesus

79 26.5,40.33333,0 Cyrene ...the half-brother of Ptolemy, who had been entrusted with the governorship of Cyrene by his mother Berenice--she had borne him to Philip, a Macedonians but of no...

Cyrene

79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Troezen ...Demosthenes, whom the Athenians forced to retire to Calauria, the island off Troezen, and then, after receiving him back, banished again after the disaster at...

Troezen

79 Athenians ...once dwelt about Thrace and on the isthmus of Pallene, the battle between the Athenians and the Amazons, the engagement with the Persians at Marathon and the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pylians ...was one of his allies. Now among those who came to fight on the side of the Pylians was Hades, who was the foe of Heracles but was worshipped at Pylus. Homer is...

Pylians

78 Mysia ...engagement with the Persians at Marathon and the destruction of the Gauls in Mysia. Each is about two cubits, and all were dedicated by Attalus. There stands too...

Mysia

79 27.75,40.25,0 Messene ...Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Macedonian ...refused to join the alliance and lent all their forces to furthering the Macedonian cause. Each city ranged under the alliance had its own general, but as...

Macedonian

75 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedemon ...I will give as soon as I have explained the reason why the inhabitants of Lacedemon and Argos were the only Peloponnesians to be called Achaeans before the return...

Lacedemon

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Dorians ...the special name of Danai. On the occasion referred to, being expelled by the Dorians from Argos and Lacedemon, the Achaeans themselves and their king Tisamenus, the...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Theban ...Minyans who had been expelled from Lemnos by the Pelasgians were led by the Theban Theras, the son of Autesion, to the island now called after him, but formerly...

Theban

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocians ...because they were related to the sons of Codrus. There also took part all the Phocians except the Delphians, and with them Abantes from Euboea. Ships for the voyage...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Ionians ...Olympieum to the Magnesian gate. On the tomb is a statue of an armed man. The Ionians who settled at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The...

Ionians

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Acropolis ...of the parishes, is the image of Athena which is on what is now called the Acropolis, but in early days the Polis (City). A legend concerning it says that it fell...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Lacedemonian ...to condemn a Spartan to death. So the Achaeans claimed the right to try a Lacedemonian on a capital charge, but the Lacedemonians would not admit that Diaeus spoke...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Rome ...senate. Callicrates died of disease on the journey, and even if he had reached Rome I do not know that he would have been of any assistance to the Achaeans –...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...were sending envoys to settle the disputes between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. The journey of the envoys from Rome proved rather slow, giving Diaeus a fresh...

Achaeans

79 Lacedemonians ...the complete subjection to them of the Lacedemonians; Menalcidas deceived the Lacedemonians into thinking that the Romans had entirely freed them from the Achaean...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...general of the Achaeans at this time, proceeded to mobilize an army against Sparta. But about this time there arrived in Macedonia a Roman force under Metellus...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...was hoodwinking the Romans. He urged them to wait for another meeting of the Achaeans, to take place five months later, declaring that he would not confer with them...

Achaeans

79 Amphissa ...the Euboeans for laying waste Euboea; at the third to compensate the people of Amphissa for ravaging their territory when the corn was ripe for harvest. The Romans...

Amphissa

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Achaeans ...moved his army and marched against Thebes, for the Thebans had joined the Achaeans in investing Heracleia, and had taken part in the engagement of Scarpheia. Then...

Achaeans

76 Olympia ...and, if they are successful, to place a wreath on the statue of Oebotas at Olympia. Some forty stades from Dyme the river Peirus flows down into the sea; on the...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Patrae ...from Patrae the river Glaucus flows into the sea. The historians of ancient Patrae say that it was an aboriginal, Eumelus, who first settled in the land, and that...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 Achaeans ...Apollo well worth seeing. It was made from the spoils taken when alone of the Achaeans the people of Patrae helped the Aetolians against the army of the Gauls. The...

Achaeans

80 Patrae ...wooden image to the precinct in the city. Near this precinct the people of Patrae have other sanctuaries. These are not in the open, but there is an entrance to...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 city ...Leucophryne, dedicated by the sons of Themistocles; for the Magnesians, whose city the King had given him to rule, hold Artemis Leucophryne in honor. But my...

city

80 city ...dispatched by Arsites, satrap of Phrygia by the Hellespont, and saved their city for the Perinthians when Philip had invaded their territory with an army. He...

city

78 city ...was not related to Epimenides in any way, and belonged to a different city. The latter was from Cnossus, but Thales was from Gortyn, according to...

city

72 city ...stone. The Megarians are the only Greeks to possess this stone, and in the city also they have made many things out of it. It is very white, and softer than...

city

77 Phocis ...and past Daulis and the Cleft Way, is not the only pass from Chaeroneia to Phocis. There is another road, rough and for the most part mountainous, that leads...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...Philip, son of Demetrius. Otilius had been despatched from Rome to help the Athenians against Philip. The mountains beyond Anticyra are very rocky, and on them...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boulis ...are fishers of the shell-fish that gives the purple dye. The buildings in Boulis are not very wonderful; among them is a sanctuary of Artemis and one of...

Boulis

76 22.802911,38.276455,0 Amphissa ...was buried, they say, his wife Gorge, daughter of Oeneus. On the citadel of Amphissa is a temple of Athena, with a standing image of bronze, brought, they say, from...

Amphissa

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Oeantheia ...disappeared before my time. These, then, live above Amphissa. On the coast is Oeantheia, neighbor to which is Naupactus. The others, but not Amphissa, are under the...

Oeantheia

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Achaeans ...is Naupactus. The others, but not Amphissa, are under the government of the Achaeans of Patrae, the emperor Augustus having granted them this privilege. In...

Achaeans

78 Oresteium ...Phigalia and Oresthasium in course of time changed their names, Oresthasium to Oresteium after Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, Phigalia to Phialia after Phialus, the son...

Oresteium

81 22.206506,37.345994,0 Athena Alea ...son of Apheidas, two generations. Aleus built the old sanctuary in Tegea of Athena Alea, and made Tegea the capital of his kingdom. Gortys the son of Stymphalus...

Athena Alea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Dorians ...son of Cepheus, son of Aleus, became king of the Arcadians. In his time the Dorians, in their attempt to return to the Peloponnesus under the leadership of Hyllus...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Cyprus ...the Greeks on their return home carried Agapenor and the Arcadian fleet to Cyprus, and so Agapenor became the founder of Paphos, and built the sanctuary of...

Cyprus

77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Neda ...Oenoe holding the baby Zeus. On either side are four figures: on one, Glauce, Neda, Theisoa and Anthracia; on the other Ide, Hagno, Alcinoe and Phrixa. There are...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Macedonians ...end nine years afterwards, there came a change in the Amphictyonic League. The Macedonians managed to enter it, while the Phocian nation and a section of the Dorians...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Megalopolis ...became his guardian. This man was an exile from Mantineia, resident in Megalopolis because of his misfortunes at home, and his house and that of Craugis had ties...

Megalopolis

73 22.126238,37.414256,0 Euboea ...two; ancient Doris sends one. The Ozolian Locrians, and the Locrians opposite Euboea, send one each; there is also one from Euboea. Of the Peloponnesians, the...

Euboea

81 Cirrha ...three stades, you come to a river named Pleistus. This Pleistus descends to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and flows into the sea there. Ascending from the...

Cirrha

78 22.450621,38.428937,0 Arcadians ...Lacedemonians at Gythium. Thereupon Nabis caught Philopoemen himself and the Arcadians with him in a disadvantageous position. The Arcadians, though few in number...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megalopolitan ...Titus, the Roman commander in Greece, and Diophanes, the son of Diaeus, a Megalopolitan who had been elected general of the Achaeans, attacked Lacedemon, accusing the...

Megalopolitan

76 22.126238,37.414256,0 Delphi ...they caught the fish, and dedicated their offerings at Olympia and at Delphi with a tithe of their catch. Next to this are offerings of the Tegeans from...

Delphi

72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cydonia ...of their own free will to Crete, and that after them were named the cities Cydonia, Gortyna and Catreus. The Cretans dissent from the account of the Tegeans...

Cydonia

77 24.019611,35.517333,0 Messene ...dedicated by the Argives who helped the Thebans under Epaminondas to found Messene. The statues are of heroes: Danaus, the most powerful king of Argos, and...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Cyllene ...flowing past the land of Pisa and past Olympia, it falls into the sea above Cyllene, the port of Elis. Not even the Adriatic could check its flowing onwards, but...

Cyllene

78 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Hiera ...these islands they dwell in Lipara, on which they built a city, but Hiera, Strongyle and Didymae they cultivate, crossing to them in ships. On Strongyle...

Hiera

70 25.38225,36.39633,0 Plataea Boeotia borders on Attica at several places, one of which is where Plataea touches Eleutherae. The Boeotians as a race got their name from Boeotus, who...

Plataea

67 23.273866,38.221019,0 Leuctra ...know, but the Theban treasury was made from the spoils taken at the battle of Leuctra, and the Athenian treasury from those taken from the army that landed with...

Leuctra

80 23.18095,38.25422,0 Hysiae ...to the right for a little way from the straight road, you reach the ruins of Hysiae and Erythrae. Once they were cities of Boeotia, and even at the present day...

Hysiae

79 23.362766,37.974359,0 Pharsalus ...except where the Epicnemidian Locrians come between. The Thessalians too of Pharsalus dedicated an Achilles on horseback, with Patroclus running beside his horse...

Pharsalus

79 22.385825,39.288053,0 Eleutherae ...spent some pains on the burial of Mardonius. This road leads to Plataea from Eleutherae. On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a little farther...

Eleutherae

80 23.37572,38.17934,0 Delphians ...works shared by Diyllus and Amyclaeus. They are said to be Corinthians. The Delphians say that when Heracles the son of Amphitryon came to the oracle, the prophetess...

Delphians

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Nisaea ...dedicated by the Megarians to commemorate a victory over the Athenians at Nisaea. The Plataeans have dedicated an ox, an offering made at the time when, in...

Nisaea

76 23.362766,37.974359,0 Phoenician ...and the Aones, who I think were Boeotian tribes and not foreigners. When the Phoenician army under Cadmus invaded the land these tribes were defeated; the Hyantes fled...

Phoenician

80 35.25,33.25,0 Lydian ...on the Phocians for their sin against the god. Of the offerings sent by the Lydian kings I found nothing remaining except the iron stand of the bowl of Alyattes...

Lydian

79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Thebes ...to accompany him, withdrew when night came to Illyria. The Argives captured Thebes and handed it over to Thersander, son of Polyneices. When the expedition under...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Troy ...to Thersander, son of Polyneices. When the expedition under Agamemnon against Troy mistook its course and the reverse in Mysia occurred, Thersander too met his...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Elaea ...his tomb, the stone in the open part of the market-place, is in the city Elaea on the way to the plain of the Caicus, and the natives say that they sacrifice...

Elaea

75 27.041,38.9416,0 Troy ...in Sardinia called Iolaia, and Iolaus is worshipped by the inhabitants. When Troy was taken, among those Trojans who fled were those who escaped with Aeneas. A...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argives ...from the following circumstance. When the Thebans were beaten in battle by the Argives near Glisas, most of them withdrew along with Laodamas, the son of Eteocles. A...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phocis ...impart any of its poison to the water. I have introduced into my history of Phocis this account of Sardinia, because it is an island about which the Greeks are...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Sicyonians ...in battle. The men of Orneae in Argolis, when hard pressed in war by the Sicyonians, vowed to Apollo that, if they should drive the host of the Sicyonians out of...

Sicyonians

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pergamus ...is marvellous. Very marvellous too are the heads of a lion and wild boar at Pergamus, also of iron, which were made as offerings to Dionysus. The Phocians who live...

Pergamus

78 27.184167,39.1325,0 Phocians ...boar at Pergamus, also of iron, which were made as offerings to Dionysus. The Phocians who live at Elateia, who held their city, with the help of Olympiodorus from...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Aetolians ...of an armed woman, supposed to represent Aetolia. These were dedicated by the Aetolians when they had punished the Gauls for their cruelty to the Callians. A gilt...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Arcadians ...the absence of their men of military age. As members of the Achaean League the Arcadians were more enthusiastic than any other Greeks. The fortunes of each individual...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Macedonian ...because of his recklessness. Ptolemy himself perished in the fighting, and the Macedonian losses were heavy. But once more the Celts lacked courage to advance against...

Macedonian

81 21.75,41.25,0 Megarians ...of Meidias; they numbered seven hundred, and no cavalry was with them. Of the Megarians came four hundred hoplites commanded by Hipponicus of Megara. The Aetolians...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Theban ...had famous ancestors, but his father had less wealth than a Theban of ordinary means. He was most thoroughly taught all the subjects of the...

Theban

62 23.255096,38.318092,0 Spartan ...familiar to everybody alike. But if Philip had taken to heart the fate of the Spartan Glaucus, and at each of his acts had bethought himself of the verse:– "If a man...

Spartan

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eion ...Miltiades, when he was besieging Boges and the other Persians who were holding Eion on the Strymon. Agesipolis only copied an established custom, and one...

Eion

81 23.89065,40.788754,0 Mantineans ...the inhabitants in villages. Fate decreed that the Thebans should restore the Mantineans from the villages to their own country after the engagement at Leuctra, but...

Mantineans

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Attica ...and urged that they should put wives and children safely out of the way in Attica, and prepare to undergo a siege themselves. So divergent were the views of the...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Lacedemonians ...who felt annoyed with the Thebans. When the battle joined, the allies of the Lacedemonians, who had hitherto been not the best of friends, now showed most clearly their...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Leuctra ...Spartans in the city were marching to a man to the help of their countrymen at Leuctra, Epaminondas allowed his enemy to depart under a truce, saying that it would be...

Leuctra

81 23.18095,38.25422,0 Mantineans ...the market-place is a bronze portrait-statue of a woman, said by the Mantineans to be Diomeneia, the daughter of Arcas, and a hero-shrine of Podares, who was...

Mantineans

71 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...willing support of Argos, while he collected again into their ancient city the Mantineans, who had been scattered into village communities by Agesipolis. He persuaded...

Mantineans

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Carians ...story is told by the Athenians about the wave on the Acropolis, and by the Carians living in Mylasa about the sanctuary of the god called in the native tongue...

Carians

77 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Mantineans ...of the battle was, it is said, after this wise. The right wing was held by the Mantineans themselves, who put into the field all of military age under the command of...

Mantineans

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Achaeans ...he overcame the Lacedemonians in a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led from Athens by Chabrias. The Thebans had a rule...

Achaeans

71 Delphi ...at the battle of Salamis. Very plainly the host of the Gauls was destroyed at Delphi by the god, and manifestly by demons. So there is precedent for the story of...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Trachy ...on the graves nor in Orchomenian tradition. Opposite the city is Mount Trachy (Rough). The rain-water, flowing through a deep gully between the city and...

Trachy

74 22.36505,37.72491,0 Tithorea ...so because of the oracles of Bacis, in which are the lines: "But when a man of Tithorea to Amphion and to Zethus Pours on the earth peace-offerings of libation and...

Tithorea

81 22.66931,38.58344,0 Caryae ...marks up to which, it is said, the water rose. Five stades distant from Caryae is a mountain called Oryxis, and another, Mount Sciathis. Under each mountain...

Caryae

74 22.515967,37.288734,0 Tiryns ...migrated to Pheneus, one might believe that when expelled by Eurystheus from Tiryns he did not go at once to Thebes, but went first to Pheneus. Heracles dug a...

Tiryns

79 22.80004,37.59918,0 Thebes ...earlier part of my history that deals with Megara. On the straight road from Thebes to Glisas is a place surrounded by unhewn stones, called by the Thebans the...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...themselves. For Naus, they assert, came to them because of an oracle from Delphi, being a grandson of Eumolpus. Beside the sanctuary of the Eleusinian has been...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pheneatians ...left of it, as you travel through the land of Pheneus, are mountains of the Pheneatians called Tricrena (Three Springs), and here are three springs. In them, says the...

Pheneatians

78 22.30692,37.91045,0 Tanagra ...Near by is a theater and by it a portico. I consider that the people of Tanagra have better arrangements for the worship of the gods than any other Greeks. For...

Tanagra

74 23.587064,38.309371,0 Euripus ...is the appearance of the blackbirds. Within Boeotia to the left of the Euripus is Mount Messapion, at the foot of which on the coast is the Boeotian city of...

Euripus

73 23.58944,38.46276,0 Anthedon ...city of Anthedon. Some say that the city received its name from a nymph called Anthedon, while others say that one Anthas was despot here, a son of Poseidon by...

Anthedon

81 23.448834,38.498583,0 Cyllene ...had been brought. I have made these few remarks concerning the blackbirds in Cyllene that nobody may disbelieve what has been said about their color. Adjoining...

Cyllene

79 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Styx ...they struck me as altogether spurious. Epimenides of Crete, also, represented Styx as the daughter of Ocean, not, however, as the wife of Pallas, but as bearing...

Styx

81 22.25,38.25,0 Delphians ...to a greater height of fame by an order of the Pythian priestess, who bade the Delphians give to Pindar one half of all the first-fruits they offered to Apollo. It is...

Delphians

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lesbian ...suffers just like all the other metals, and yet gold is immune to rust, as the Lesbian poetess bears witness and is shown by the metal itself. So heaven has assigned...

Lesbian

81 26.10052,39.20874,0 Copae ...which rises at Lilaea in Phocis, and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a town lying on the shore of the lake. Homer mentions it in the Catalogue...

Copae

72 23.160772,38.493128,0 Olmones ...pleasant to the palate. On the left of Copae about twelve stades from it is Olmones, and some seven stades distant from Olmones is Hyettus both right from their...

Olmones

79 23.105792,38.476052,0 Boeotia ...Then, again, certain men of the army of Xerxes left behind with Mardonius in Boeotia entered the sanctuary of the Cabeiri, perhaps in the hope of great wealth, but...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thebes ...the Athenians who with him put down the tyranny of the Thirty, set out from Thebes when they returned to Athens, and therefore they dedicated in the sanctuary of...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athens ...put down the tyranny of the Thirty, set out from Thebes when they returned to Athens, and therefore they dedicated in the sanctuary of Heracles colossal figures of...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pentelic ...colossal figures of Athena and Heracles, carved by Alcamenes in relief out of Pentelic marble. Adjoining the sanctuary of Heracles are a gymnasium and a race-course...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Smyrnaeans ...The customary mode of divination here is from voices, which is used by the Smyrnaeans, to my knowledge, more than by any other Greeks. For at Smyrna also there is a...

Smyrnaeans

77 27.1383,38.41905,0 Pentelic ...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...

Pentelic

73 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Mantineia ...in the philosophy of Pythagoras the Samian. When Lacedemon was at war with Mantineia, Epaminondas is said to have been sent with certain others from Thebes to help...

Mantineia

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Boeotian ...the Peace of Antalcidas, Agesilaus asked him whether they would allow each Boeotian city to swear to the peace separately. He replied: "No, Spartans, not before we...

Boeotian

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Ambrossus ...their invasion. But Cleombrotus, the king of the Lacedemonians, turned towards Ambrossus in Phocis. He massacred a Theban force under Chaereas, who was under orders to...

Ambrossus

81 22.66763,38.42845,0 Boeotia ...orders to guard the passes, crossed the high ground and reached Leuctra in Boeotia. Here heaven sent signs to the Lacedemonian people and to Cleombrotus...

Boeotia

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thebans ...experience, and their shame of lessening the reputation of Sparta; the Thebans realized that what was at stake was their country, their wives and their...

Thebans

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...to allow the body of a king to come into the hands of enemies. The victory of Thebes was the most famous ever won by Greeks over Greeks. The Lacedemonians on the...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Psophis ...a Psophidian who became its founder. From Seirae it is thirty stades to Psophis, by the side of which runs the river Aroanius, and a little farther away the...

Psophis

74 21.892903,37.871725,0 Lampeia ...farther away the river Erymanthus. The Erymanthus has its source in Mount Lampeia, which is said to be sacred to Pan. One might regard Lampeia as a part of Mount...

Lampeia

77 21.79369,37.88094,0 Erymanthus ...regard Lampeia as a part of Mount Erymanthus. Homer says that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . . hunter . . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing through...

Erymanthus

80 21.8489331,37.9816702,0 Psophis ...About it grow cypresses, reaching to such a height that even the mountain by Psophis was overshadowed by them. These the inhabitants will not cut down, holding them...

Psophis

79 21.892903,37.871725,0 Delphi ...The sons of Phegeus are said to have dedicated the necklace to the god in Delphi, and it is said that the expedition of the Greeks to Troy took place when they...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Troy ...to the god in Delphi, and it is said that the expedition of the Greeks to Troy took place when they were kings in the city that was still called Phegia. The...

Troy

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Echinades ...to Alcmaeon, and had joined him in his campaign against Thebes. That the Echinades islands have not been made mainland as yet by the Achelous is due to the...

Echinades

76 21.25,38.25,0 Thebes ...who made the image of Peace for the Athenians with Wealth in her arms. At Thebes are three wooden images of Aphrodite, so very ancient that they are actually...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thelpusa ...After the sanctuary of the Eleusinian goddess the Ladon flows by the city Thelpusa on the left, situated on a high hill, in modern times so deserted that the...

Thelpusa

76 21.87884,37.710489,0 Teumessus ...it was Periclymenus who killed him. On this highway is a place called Teumessus, where it is said that Europa was hidden by Zeus. There is also another legend...

Teumessus

73 23.382283,38.357554,0 Thelpusians ...Thelpusa the Ladon descends to the sanctuary of Demeter in Onceium. The Thelpusians call the goddess Fury, and with them agrees Antimachus also, who wrote a poem...

Thelpusians

74 21.87884,37.710489,0 Euboeans ...Chalcodon, who was killed by Amphitryon in a fight between the Thebans and the Euboeans. Adjoining are the ruins of the cities Harma (Chariot) and Mycalessus. The...

Euboeans

81 Tiryns ...Lacedemonians, but when they had increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns, Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in...

Tiryns

81 22.80004,37.59918,0 Thebes ...They say that originally the city formed part of the territory belonging to Thebes, and I learned that in later times men of Thebes escaped to it, at the time...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Paroreia ...Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni, Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. From the Aegytae: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the...

Paroreia

77 22.139365,37.484682,0 Parrhasians ...the Aegytae: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of...

Parrhasians

74 22.25,37.25,0 Eleusis ...the Boeotians there were once other inhabited towns near the lake, Athens and Eleusis, but there occurred a flood one winter which destroyed them. The fish of the...

Eleusis

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Megalopolis ...abandon their ancient cities, were, with the exception of the last, taken to Megalopolis by force against their will, while the inhabitants of Trapezus departed...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Cephisian ...but there occurred a flood one winter which destroyed them. The fish of the Cephisian Lake are in general no different from those of other lakes, but the eels there...

Cephisian

78 23.625,38.125,0 Hyettus ...of unwrought stone after the ancient fashion. About twenty stades away from Hyettus is Cyrtones. The ancient name of the town was, they say, Cyrtone. It is built...

Hyettus

79 23.103304,38.55756,0 Locrian ...last of the Boeotians in this part dwell in Halae-on-Sea, which separates the Locrian mainland from Euboea. Very near to the Neistan gate at Thebes is the tomb of...

Locrian

80 22.75,38.75,0 Thebes ...Pindar dedicated the image, and Aristomedes and Socrates, sculptors of Thebes, made it. Their custom is to open the sanctuary on one day in each year, and no...

Thebes

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...open stands Heracles, surnamed Nose-docker; the reason for the name is, as the Thebans say, that Heracles cut off the noses, as an insult, of the heralds who came...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megalopolis ...a son of Artylas, who had been adopted by Tritaeus, an influential citizen of Megalopolis. This Aristodemus, in spite of his being a tyrant, nevertheless won the surname...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Parium ...than any other god I do not know. He is worshipped equally by the people of Parium on the Hellespont, who were originally colonists from Erythrae in Ionia, but...

Parium

78 27.0670163,40.4259096,0 Achaean ...was securely established. At this time Megalopolis was already a member of the Achaean League, and Lydiades became so famous among not only the people of Megalopolis...

Achaean

81 Erythrae ...by the people of Parium on the Hellespont, who were originally colonists from Erythrae in Ionia, but today are subject to the Romans. Most men consider Love to be...

Erythrae

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Ascra ...sacred to the Muses were, they say, Ephialtes and Otus, who also founded Ascra. To this also Hegesinus alludes in his poem Atthis: "And again with Ascra lay...

Ascra

75 23.074249,38.327032,0 Side ...of the Cydnus which passes through Tarsus, and of the Melas which flows past Side in Pamphylia. The coldness of the Ales in Colophon has even been celebrated in...

Side

79 31.390552,36.768137,0 Thebans ...the epic poetry of Pamphos, sang of both Adonis and Oetolinus together. The Thebans assert that Linus was buried among them, and that after the Greek defeat at...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Theisoa ...where its stream joins the Alpheius is called Rhaeteae. Adjoining the land of Theisoa is a village called Teuthis, which in old days was a town. In the Trojan war...

Theisoa

81 22.093976,37.629132,0 Trojan ...of Theisoa is a village called Teuthis, which in old days was a town. In the Trojan war the inhabitants supplied a general of their own. His name according to some...

Trojan

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Teuthis ...inhabitants supplied a general of their own. His name according to some was Teuthis, according to others Ornytus. When the Greeks failed to secure favorable winds...

Teuthis

78 22.041285,37.597441,0 Megalopolitans ...the tomb of those who were killed in the fight with Cleomenes. This tomb the Megalopolitans call Paraebasium (Transgression) because Cleomenes broke his truce with them...

Megalopolitans

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Alpheius ...rises a river Brentheates, which some five stades farther on falls into the Alpheius. After crossing the Alpheius you come to what is called Trapezuntian territory...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...of Dipaea and Lycaea, and then through Megalopolis itself, descending into the Alpheius twenty stades away from the city of Megalopolis. Near the city is a temple of...

Alpheius

81 21.451667,37.6125,0 Phigalia ...the Phigalians is named Bassae. The surname of the god has followed him from Phigalia, but why he received the name of Helper will be set forth in my account of...

Phigalia

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalia ...but why he received the name of Helper will be set forth in my account of Phigalia. On the right of the Apollo is a small image of the Mother of the Gods, but of...

Phigalia

76 21.8391,37.3963,0 Methydrium ...the river Maloetas and the Mylaon, and on it Orchomenus built his city. Methydrium too had citizens victorious at Olympia before it belonged to...

Methydrium

74 22.168912,37.627412,0 Phocians ...of the offerings in the temple in passing. [This path was defended by the Phocians under Telesarchus.] They overcame the barbarians in the engagement, but...

Phocians

76 22.25,38.25,0 Thermopylae ...forty thousand eight hundred, there escaped of the barbarians to the camp at Thermopylae less than one half. Meantime the Greeks at Thermopylae were faring as follows...

Thermopylae

79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Aenianians ...and for the most part precipitous; the other, through the territory of the Aenianians, is easier for an army to cross. It was through this that on a former occasion...

Aenianians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Delphi ...several homes. Brennus, without delaying any longer, began his march against Delphi without waiting for the army with Acichorius to join up. In terror the...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lycosura ...(nomai) of Pan, but the Arcadians themselves derive the name from a nymph. By Lycosura to the west passes the river Plataniston. No traveller can possibly avoid...

Lycosura

81 22.030087,37.389509,0 Phigalians ...to shine. It is said to be found by the Iberians along with the gold. XL. The Phigalians have on their market-place a statue of the pancratiast Arrhachion; it is...

Phigalians

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalia ...goddess. The second mountain, Mount Elaius, is some thirty stades away from Phigalia, and has a cave sacred to Demeter surnamed Black. The Phigalians accept the...

Phigalia

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Olympian ...The one over the offering is this: "Having won victories in thy grand games, Olympian Zeus, Once with the four-horse chariot, twice with the race-horse, Hieron...

Olympian

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aegina ...is: "Onatas, son of Micon, fashioned me, Who had his home in the island of Aegina." Onatas was contemporary with Hegias of Athens and Ageladas of Argos. It was...

Aegina

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Eleusinian ...the rites at Eleusis. For the Greeks of an earlier period looked upon the Eleusinian mysteries as being as much higher than all other religious acts as gods are...

Eleusinian

76 23.538311,38.041096,0 Troy ...in honor of Athena Saviour and Poseidon by Odysseus after his return from Troy. What is called the Dyke is the boundary between Megalopolis on the one hand...

Troy

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pallantium ...plain of Pallantium you reach by turning aside to the left from the Dyke. In Pallantium is a temple with two stone images, one of Pallas, the other of Evander. There...

Pallantium

79 22.336587,37.462155,0 Arcadians ...with Hyllus, and overcame him in the fight. The Tegeans again were the first Arcadians to overcome Lacedemonians; when invaded they defeated their enemies and took...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tithoreans ...of Asclepius, called Archagetas (Founder). He receives divine honors from the Tithoreans, and no less from the other Phocians. Within the precincts are dwellings for...

Tithoreans

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Athena Alea ...their enemies and took most of them prisoners. The ancient sanctuary of Athena Alea was made for the Tegeans by Aleus. Later on the Tegeans set up for the goddess...

Athena Alea

75 22.429,37.464,0 Ledon ...send it to the Emperor. Another road from Tithorea is the one that leads to Ledon. Once Ledon also was considered a city, but in my day the Ledontians owing to...

Ledon

79 22.680539,38.654801,0 Miletus ...it fell through the outrage that Alexander committed against Menelaus, and Miletus through the lack of control shown by Histiaeus, and his passionate desire, now...

Miletus

77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Edonians ...and his passionate desire, now to possess the city in the land of the Edonians, now to be admitted to the councils of Dareius, and now to go back to Ionia...

Edonians

72 23.848889,40.785833,0 Cyzicus ...the other is kept in the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo. Again, the people of Cyzicus, compelling the people of Proconnesus by war to live at Cyzicus, took away from...

Cyzicus

77 27.874127,40.389806,0 Alea ...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. Here then it has been set...

Alea

76 22.429,37.464,0 Rome ...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. Here then it has been set up, made...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Phocis ...to be local heroes. The land beside the Cephisus is distinctly the best in Phocis for planting, sowing and pasture. This part of the district, too, is the one...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Theban ...is said that Iasius won a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Caphyae ...the gully, and afterwards to the left of the flood water. On the plain of Caphyae has been made a dyke of earth, which prevents the water from the Orchomenian...

Caphyae

76 22.262624,37.766264,0 Troy ...by Menelaus, who came to the spot when he was collecting his army against Troy. Today they give the name Menelais to the spring as well as to the plane. If I...

Troy

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Psophis ...the sons of Heracles and the Sicanian woman, changed the name of Phegia to Psophis, the name of their mother. Psophis is also the name of the Zacynthian...

Psophis

77 21.892903,37.871725,0 Erymanthus ...runs the river Aroanius, and a little farther away the river Erymanthus. The Erymanthus has its source in Mount Lampeia, which is said to be sacred to Pan. One might...

Erymanthus

80 21.75,37.75,0 Elateia ...called the Costoboes, who overran Greece in my day, visited among other cities Elateia. Whereupon a certain Mnesibulus gathered round him a company of men and put to...

Elateia

81 22.782061,38.645635,0 Thelpusa ...passing through Arcadia, with Mount Pholoe on the right and the district of Thelpusa on the left, flows into the Alpheius. There is also a legend that Heracles at...

Thelpusa

78 21.87884,37.710489,0 Cumae ...a boar that surpassed all others in size and in strength. The people of Cumae among the Opici say that the boar's tusks dedicated in their sanctuary of...

Cumae

74 26.936283,38.75953,0 Abae ...is wrought on the shield of her whom the Athenians call the Virgin. To reach Abae and Hyampolis from Elateia you may go along a mountain road on the right of the...

Abae

80 22.9154,38.58006,0 Erycine ...is probable, for in Sicily too, in the territory of Eryx, is a sanctuary of Erycine, which from the remotest times has been very holy, and quite as rich as the...

Erycine

78 Priene ...year, has turned to mainland in a short time the sea that once was between Priene and Miletus. The people of Psophis have also by the side of the Erymanthus a...

Priene

77 27.298333,37.66,0 Phalerum ...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...

Phalerum

81 23.7062,37.9373,0 Abae ...at the present day. Such, I suppose, was the appearance of the sanctuary at Abae also, after the Persian invasion, until in the Phocian war some Phocians...

Abae

79 22.9154,38.58006,0 Alpheius ...Heraea was Heraeeus the son of Lycaon, and the city lies on the right of the Alpheius, mostly upon a gentle slope, though a part descends right to the Alpheius...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Lacedemonians ...towns of little importance in Argolis, the Argives had less to fear from the Lacedemonians, while they were in a stronger position to deal with their vassal...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Alea ...of the Lacedemonians, in spite of the fact that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium...

Alea

81 22.456205,37.757857,0 Eutaea ...in spite of the fact that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these...

Eutaea

77 22.285257,37.371704,0 Macaria ...the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea...

Macaria

79 22.076211,37.405021,0 Phrygia ...Ionians, as well as the rest of the Greeks, call kokkos, and the Gauls above Phrygia call it in their native speech hys. This kokkos grows to the size of what is...

Phrygia

79 27.75,40.25,0 Anticyra ...root of the hellebore which is used as a purging drug. In the market-place at Anticyra are bronze statues, and at the harbor is a small sanctuary of Poseidon, built...

Anticyra

81 22.626059,38.375439,0 Delphi ...Zeus. At Boulis there is a spring called Saunium. The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, is sixty stades. Descending to the plain you...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Megalopolitans ...were massacred by Cleomenes, who razed it to the ground and burnt it. How the Megalopolitans restored their city, and their achievements on their return, will be set forth...

Megalopolitans

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Cirrha ...winedark sea." So Solon induced them to consecrate to the god the territory of Cirrha, in order that the sea might become neighbor to the precinct of Apollo. Solon...

Cirrha

81 22.450621,38.428937,0 Cirrhaeans ...a channel to the city, and Solon diverted it in another direction. When the Cirrhaeans still held out against the besiegers, drinking well-water and rain-water, Solon...

Cirrhaeans

78 22.450621,38.428937,0 Delphi ...punishment from the Cirrhaeans on behalf of the god, and Cirrha is the port of Delphi. Its notable sights include a temple of Apollo, Artemis and Leto, with very...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Helisson ...the city on the hill. The river Aminius, flowing by the hill, falls into the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson falls into the Alpheius. This Helisson...

Helisson

79 22.217753,37.612883,0 Helisson ...the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson falls into the Alpheius. This Helisson, beginning at a village of the same name – for the name of the village also is...

Helisson

77 22.217753,37.612883,0 Bassae ...place where the image was originally set up by the Phigalians is named Bassae. The surname of the god has followed him from Phigalia, but why he received the...

Bassae

73 21.900415,37.429653,0 Achaean ...the man who first united the whole Peloponnesus into what was named the Achaean League. The portico of the marketplace, called the Philippeium, was not made...

Achaean

74 Heracleia ...just as much as to the Heracleots. Brennus did not trouble himself much about Heracleia, but directed his efforts to driving away those opposed to him at the pass, in...

Heracleia

80 22.442503,38.790767,0 Heracleia ...city mustered at Thermopylae. So despising the Greek army he advanced from Heracleia, and began the battle at sun-rise on the next day. He had no Greek soothsayer...

Heracleia

77 22.442503,38.790767,0 Phocians ...that the mist rolled thick down the mountain, darkening the sun, so that the Phocians who were guarding the path found the barbarians upon them before they were...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...defend his own. The Greeks who came in defence of the god were as follow: the Phocians, who came from all their cities; from Amphissa four hundred hoplites; from the...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Spercheius ...the Spercheius, pressed hotly by the Aetolians. But after their arrival at the Spercheius, during the rest of the retreat the Thessalians and Malians kept lying in wait...

Spercheius

81 22.25,38.75,0 Himera ...holding the stand in both hands. If we are to believe the ode of the poet of Himera, Medusa should be reckoned as one of the daughters of Priam. Beside Medusa is a...

Himera

79 13.82184,37.96884,0 Catanians ...the fire passed on, doing no hurt to either young men or their parents. These Catanians even at the present day receive honors from their fellow countrymen. Near to...

Catanians

80 15.0878345,37.5024825,0 Corycian ...it to be sacred to the Corycian nymphs, and especially to Pan. From the Corycian cave it is difficult even for an active walker to reach the heights of...

Corycian

74 22.52073,38.51526,0 Tithorea ...of unguents from the oil, and also send it to the Emperor. Another road from Tithorea is the one that leads to Ledon. Once Ledon also was considered a city, but in...

Tithorea

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Phocians ...the Panopeans, have the right to be represented at the general assembly of the Phocians. The ruins of the ancient Ledon are forty stades farther up from these dwellers...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Pythian ...with the history of Herodotus as well as with the records of victories at the Pythian games. For the Pythian games were first held by the Amphictyons, and at this...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amphicleia ...road from Lilaea to Amphicleia is sixty stades. The name of this Amphicleia has been corrupted by the native inhabitants. Herodotus, following the most...

Amphicleia

67 22.5813,38.6424,0 Amphicleia ...who utters them when under the divine inspiration. Fifteen stades away from Amphicleia is Tithronium, lying on a plain. It contains nothing remarkable. From...

Amphicleia

79 22.5813,38.6424,0 Byzantium ...also says that Amphion's songs drew even stones and beasts after him. Myro of Byzantium, a poetess who wrote epic and elegiac poetry, states that Amphion was the first...

Byzantium

80 28.975926,41.012379,0 Lacedemonians ...of gained by Greeks over Greeks. They put down the boards of ten, which the Lacedemonians had set up in the cities, and drove out the Spartan governors. Afterwards they...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...When Philip died, and the kingship of Macedonia devolved on Alexander, the Thebans succeeded in destroying the garrison. But as soon as they had done so, heaven...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...For when Mithridates had begun the war with the Romans, he was joined by the Thebans, for no other reason, in my opinion, except their friendship for the Athenian...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cadmeia ...and the people live on the citadel, which they call Thebes and not Cadmeia. Across the Asopus, about ten stades distant from the city, are the ruins of...

Cadmeia

69 Potniae ...of the country are said on drinking this water to become mad. On the way from Potniae to Thebes there is on the right of the road a small enclosure with pillars in...

Potniae

81 23.311229,38.30383,0 Thebans ...Eleusinians and the rest of the Athenians, and likewise in that between the Thebans and the Minyans, the attackers had but a short distance through which to pass...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...named both the island and the sea around it. The carvings on the gables at Thebes are by Praxiteles, and include most of what are called the twelve labours. The...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elis ...The slaughter of the Stymphalian birds and the cleansing of the land of Elis by Heracles are omitted; in their place is represented the wrestling with...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...the Lacedemonians at Dipaea, but in the Peloponnesian war they rose with the Eleans against the Lacedemonians, and joined in battle with them after the arrival of...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Athenians ...after the arrival of reinforcements from Athens. Their friendship with the Athenians led them to take part also in the Sicilian expedition. Later on a Lacedemonian...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Strymon ...he was besieging Boges and the other Persians who were holding Eion on the Strymon. Agesipolis only copied an established custom, and one celebrated among the...

Strymon

77 23.848889,40.785833,0 Mantineia ...an established custom, and one celebrated among the Greeks. After taking Mantineia, he left a small part of it inhabited, but by far the greater part he razed to...

Mantineia

75 22.393259,37.618138,0 Thebans ...to the ground, settling the inhabitants in villages. Fate decreed that the Thebans should restore the Mantineans from the villages to their own country after the...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaean ...king of Sparta, in defence of their own country, with the help of an Achaean army under the leadership of Aratus. They also joined the Achaeans in their...

Achaean

71 Arcadians ...is a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Charmon. The oaks in the groves of the Arcadians are of different sorts; some of them are called "broad-leaved," others "edible...

Arcadians

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Troy ...with this saying. For in it the poet says that when Odysseus returned from Troy he had a son Ptoliporthes by Penelope. But the Mantinean story about Penelope...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Tegean ...grave of Maera, if it be really the case that Maera was buried here and not in Tegean land. For probably the Tegeans, and not the Mantineans, are right when they say...

Tegean

81 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...which were piled over men who fell in war. With what Peloponnesians, whether Arcadians or other, the war was fought, was set forth neither by inscriptions on the...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Trachy ...after you have crossed the water flowing through the gully, goes under Mount Trachy. On this road the first thing is the tomb of Aristocrates, who once outraged...

Trachy

79 22.36505,37.72491,0 Pheneus ...will come to a mountain. On this mountain meet the boundaries of Orchomenus, Pheneus and Caphya. Over the boundaries extends a high crag, called the Caphyatic Rock...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Samos ...Theodorus also made the emerald signet, which Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, constantly wore, being exceedingly proud of it. As you go down from the...

Samos

74 26.84,37.73,0 Achaeans ...of Aegae, now a deserted spot, though in earlier days it was a city of the Achaeans. After this Crathis is named the river in Bruttium in Italy. On Mount Crathis...

Achaeans

77 Pellene ...and to have made therefrom a harp. Here is the boundary between Pheneus and Pellene, and the greater part of Mount Chelydorea is inhabited by the Achaeans. As you...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Titaresius ...down. Again in the list of those who came with Guneus he makes the river Titaresius receive its water from the Styx. He also represents the Styx as a river in...

Titaresius

75 22.25,39.75,0 Delians ...no number for them. The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to Eileithyia, styles her "the clever spinner," clearly...

Delians

77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Argolis ...This river descends into a chasm in the earth, and reappearing once more in Argolis it changes its name, and is called Erasinus instead of Stymphalus. There is a...

Argolis

78 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Stymphalian ...also of the same breed, I do not know. But if there have been from all time Stymphalian birds, just as there have been hawks and eagles, I should call these birds of...

Stymphalian

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalus ...birds of the Arabian desert being called Stymphalian even in modern times. In Stymphalus there is also an old sanctuary of Stymphalian Artemis, the image being of wood...

Stymphalus

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Rhypes ...this reason they call the cape Drepanum. Beyond the high road are the ruins of Rhypes. Aegium is about thirty stades distant from Rhypes. The territory of Aegium is...

Rhypes

81 22.01219,38.2198,0 Achaean ...for beauty passed to another boy. Such were the customs. Even in my time the Achaean assembly still meets at Aegium, just as the Amphictyons do at Thermopylae and...

Achaean

79 Helice ...Damon of Thurii was victorious for the first time. As none of the people of Helice were left alive, the land is occupied by the people of Aegium. After Helice...

Helice

78 22.14015,38.22257,0 Ceryneia ...of the population came to Ceryneia, and the addition of the Mycenaeans made Ceryneia more powerful, through the increase of the population, and more renowned for...

Ceryneia

78 22.143425,38.158659,0 Aegeira ...fires, set off home again. The Hyperesians gave their city its present name of Aegeira from the goats (aiges), and where the most beautiful goat, which led the...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Sicyon ...give the name of the artist, but anyone who has already seen the Heracles at Sicyon would be led to conjecture that the Apollo in Aegeira was also a work of the...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pellene ...of citizens before he has been on the register of youths. Here stands a man of Pellene called Promachus, the son of Dryon, who won prizes in the pancratium, one at...

Pellene

81 22.5384,38.0446,0 Isthmian ...highest honor. But Chaeron, who carried off two prizes for wrestling at the Isthmian games and four at the Olympian, they will not even mention by name. This I...

Isthmian

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Sicyonian ...a Pellenian river Sythas, the last of the Achaean rivers, which flows into the Sicyonian sea.

Sicyonian

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Messenia ...of Argolis; next to Argolis come the vassals of Lacedemon, and these border on Messenia, which comes down to the sea at Mothone, Pylus and Cyparissiae. On the side of...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicyon ...the Sicyonians, who dwell in the extreme part of Argolis on this side. After Sicyon come the Achaeans who live along the coast at the other end of the...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Messenia ...land of Elis, on the side of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on the side of Achaia it borders on the land of Dyme. These that I have...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athenian ...in the time of Theseus, because it was then established by the whole Athenian people gathered together in a single city. The Olympic games I leave out of...

Athenian

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Maenalus ...and also the Thyrean gulf were named after this Thyraeus. Maenalus founded Maenalus, which was in ancient times the most famous of the cities of Arcadia, Tegeates...

Maenalus

78 22.265891,37.549491,0 Lycosura ...speak positively about other contests. Now Cleitor the son of Azan dwelt in Lycosura, and was the most powerful of the kings, founding Cleitor, which he named after...

Lycosura

78 22.030087,37.389509,0 Cleitor ...of Azan dwelt in Lycosura, and was the most powerful of the kings, founding Cleitor, which he named after himself; Aleus held his father's portion. Of the sons of...

Cleitor

78 22.103248,37.892704,0 Tegea ...says that this Auge used to have intercourse with Heracles when he came to Tegea. At last it was discovered that she had borne a child to Heracles, and Aleus...

Tegea

77 22.429,37.464,0 Mycenae ...in obedience to an oracle of the Delphic Apollo, moved his home from Mycenae to Arcadia. Aepytus, the son of Hippothous, dared to enter the sanctuary of...

Mycenae

71 22.756111,37.730833,0 Aeginetes ...for this Pompus honored the Arcadians greatly, and furthermore gave the name Aeginetes to his son out of friendship for the Aeginetans. After Aeginetes his son...

Aeginetes

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Messenians ...Aechmis came to the throne occurred the war between the Lacedemonians and the Messenians. The Arcadians had from the first been friendly to the Messenians, and on this...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...to the Messenians, and on this occasion they openly fought against the Lacedemonians on the side of Aristodemus, the king of Messenia. Aristocrates, the son of...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Leuctra ...crossing over to Asia with Agesilaus; they also followed the Lacedemonians to Leuctra in Boeotia. Their distrust of the Lacedemonians was shown on many occasions; in...

Leuctra

80 23.18095,38.25422,0 Lacedemonians ...also followed the Lacedemonians to Leuctra in Boeotia. Their distrust of the Lacedemonians was shown on many occasions; in particular, immediately after the Lacedemonian...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...at the greatest risk to his own. Later on, when Epaminondas had come to Sparta as an envoy, what time the Lacedemonians said they were concluding with the...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...own, it was at once proved that the fallen were Spartans. The loss of the Thebans and of such Boeotians as remained loyal amounted to forty-seven, but of the...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sparta ...disregarding the law as out of date, remained in office, marched to Sparta with his army, and when Agesilaus did not come out to meet him, turned to the...

Sparta

70 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...up the sleeping Thracians to be put to death. One of the two images here the Thebans say is Semele. Once in each year, they say, they open the sanctuary on stated...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...Greek legends generally have for the most part different versions. Here too at Thebes are the tombs of the children of Amphion. The boys lie apart; the girls are...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...pointed out the grave of Melanippus, one of the very best of the soldiers of Thebes. When the Argive invasion occurred this Melanippus killed Tydeus, as well as...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...proof of their assertion they quoted a line of the Iliad: "Of Tydeus, who at Thebes is covered by a heap of earth." 14.114 Adjoining are the tombs of the children...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Teumessus ...Boeotia and established a sanctuary of Telchinian Athena. Seven stades from Teumessus on the left are the ruins of Glisas, and before them on the right of the way a...

Teumessus

79 23.382283,38.357554,0 Pegae ...Adrastus, in the expedition against Thebes. That the tomb of Aegialeus is at Pegae I have already stated in an earlier part of my history that deals with...

Pegae

79 23.362766,37.974359,0 Graea ...they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue: "Thespeia, Graea, and wide Mycalessus." Later, however, it recovered its old name. There is in...

Graea

80 23.630098,38.387159,0 Tanagra ...with wings exactly like those of locusts. Beside the sanctuary of Dionysus at Tanagra are three temples, one of Themis, another of Aphrodite, and the third of...

Tanagra

81 23.587064,38.309371,0 Anthedon ...doom overtook them in Naxos, which lies off Paros. Their tombs then are in Anthedon, and by the sea is what is called the Leap of Glaucus. That Glaucus was a...

Anthedon

77 23.448834,38.498583,0 Cephisian ...city wild boars can be hunted. On the straight road from Acraephnium to the Cephisian, or as it is also called, the Copaic Lake, is what is styled the Athamantian...

Cephisian

79 23.625,38.125,0 Argos ...from Delphi, at the time when Polyneices and the host with him arrived from Argos. On the tomb of Menoeceus grows a pomegranate-tree. If you break through the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebans ...of the Mother. But there is nothing to prevent my declaring to all what the Thebans say was the origin of the ritual. They say that once there was in this place a...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...story goes on to say) had sons by concubines, and the oracle delivered from Delphi applied only to Epicaste and her sons. So when any of her brothers came in...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Onchestus ...fifteen stades are the ruins of the city Onchestus. They say that here dwelt Onchestus, a son of Poseidon. In my day there remained a temple and image of Onchestian...

Onchestus

79 23.146959,38.364863,0 Ionia ...of Parium on the Hellespont, who were originally colonists from Erythrae in Ionia, but today are subject to the Romans. Most men consider Love to be the...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Phoenicia ...that the roots they eat make more venomous the vipers in the highland of Phoenicia. He said that he had himself seen a man trying to escape from the rush of a...

Phoenicia

75 35.25,33.25,0 Chaeroneia ...assert that Linus was buried among them, and that after the Greek defeat at Chaeroneia, Philip the son of Amyntas, in obedience to a vision in a dream, took up the...

Chaeroneia

78 22.840365,38.493361,0 Lampsacus ...goats and sheep pasture or there are swarms of bees; but by the people of Lampsacus he is more revered than any other god, being called by them a son of Dionysus...

Lampsacus

76 26.68998,40.34869,0 Eleans ...because Pelops was very angry with her over the death of Chrysippus. The Eleans declare that subsequently, because of an oracle, they brought the bones of...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Olympic ...is an altar of white marble; seated on this altar a woman looks on at the Olympic games, the priestess of Demeter Chamyne, which office the Eleans bestow from...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...paid him here. The time of his crown at Olympia and of his benefaction to the Eleans was the two hundred and seventeenth Festival. In this gymnasium is also the...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...that Petra was a township in ancient times. The most notable things that the Eleans have in the open part of the market-place are a temple and image of Apollo...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Troy ...him over to pains." If in the expedition of Agamemnon and Menelaus against Troy Poseidon was according to Homer an ally of the Greeks, it cannot be unnatural...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleans ...in the belief that the god was their friend but the enemy of Heracles that the Eleans made the sanctuary for him. The reason why they are wont to open it only once...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...have been worshipped in ancient times at Samicum in Triphylia. Transferred to Elis it received still greater honor, but the Eleans call it Satrap and not...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elean ...I did not myself arrive at the time of the festival, but the most respected Elean citizens, and with them strangers also, swore that what I have said is the...

Elean

78 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...to Athena the worker. Cyllene is one hundred and twenty stades distant from Elis; it faces Sicily and affords ships a suitable anchorage. It is the port of...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Cyllene ...in the list of the Eleans, but in a later part of the poem he has shown that Cyllene was one of the towns he knew. "Polydamas stripped Otus of Cyllene, Comrade of...

Cyllene

79 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Achaia ...and Indians. Such are the accounts that are given. As you go from Elis to Achaia you come after one hundred and fifty-seven stades to the river Larisus, and in...

Achaia

77 Eleusinians ...Aegialus and about wide Helice." 2.575 At that time in the reign of Ion the Eleusinians made war on the Athenians, and these having invited Ion to be their leader in...

Eleusinians

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Achaeans ...until they themselves as well as the people were expelled by the Achaeans. The Achaeans at that time had themselves been expelled from Lacedemon and Argos by the...

Achaeans

81 Ionians ...been expelled from Lacedemon and Argos by the Dorians. The history of the Ionians in relation to the Achaeans I will give as soon as I have explained the reason...

Ionians

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ionians ...Achaeans and came out to fight them; in the battle Tisamenus was killed, the Ionians were overcome by the Achaeans, fled to Helice, where they were besieged, and...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lacedemonians ...by the Achaeans, but afterwards at the command of the Delphic oracle the Lacedemonians carried his bones to Sparta, and in my own day his grave still existed in the...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ionians ...to strengthen themselves rather than for any good-will they felt towards the Ionians. A few years afterwards Medon and Neileus, the oldest of the sons of Codrus...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Athenians ...Codrus and Melanthus, Messenians of Pylus, and, on their mother's side, Athenians. Those who shared in the expedition of the Ionians were the following among the...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...greater part of the country continued in the possession of the Carians. When Thebes was taken by Thersander, the son of Polyneices, and the Argives, among the...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lycians ...with the Cretans there dwelt in the city Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians; Lycians because of their kinship with the Cretans, as they came of old from Crete...

Lycians

77 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Ionia ...Mount Ida a city which shortly afterwards they abandoned, and returning to Ionia they founded Scyppium in the Colophonian territory. They left of their own...

Ionia

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ionians ...Their land they took from the Cymaeans, not by war but by agreement. When the Ionians would not admit them to the Ionian confederacy until they accepted kings of the...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Sicily ...with his son. He escaped from Crete and came to Cocalus at Inycus, a city of Sicily. Thereby he became the cause of war between Sicilians and Cretans, because when...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Samos ...of Italy. But as for Smilis, it is not clear that he visited any places save Samos and Elis. But to these he did travel, and he it was who made the image of Hera...

Samos

79 26.84,37.73,0 Patrae ...the war with the Athenians, the Achaeans were eager for the alliance with Patrae, and were no less well disposed towards Athens. Of the wars waged afterwards...

Patrae

76 21.738518,38.243265,0 Euboea ...Greece. To watch Peloponnesus Corinth was fortified with its citadel; to watch Euboea, the Boeotians and the Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the...

Euboea

81 Achaeans ...views were put forward, but at last the Roman party prevailed, and the Achaeans joined Flamininus in besieging Corinth. On being delivered from the...

Achaeans

73 Achaean ...of the Achaeans. At this time the Achaeans brought the Lacedemonians into the Achaean confederacy, exacted from them the strictest justice, and razed the walls of...

Achaean

81 Achaeans ...they had been strengthened to the greatest possible degree of safety. So the Achaeans destroyed the walls of Sparta, and also repealed the laws of Lycurgus that...

Achaeans

79 Sparta ...the greatest possible degree of safety. So the Achaeans destroyed the walls of Sparta, and also repealed the laws of Lycurgus that dealt with the training of the...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...by vast expenditure he secured from the Romans a nominal peace. The history of Macedonia, the power she won under Philip the son of Amyntas, and her fall under the...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Sparta ...a welcome when exiled by Nabis, and on the tyrant's death restored them to Sparta against the will of the Lacedemonian people. On this occasion, therefore, they...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...Alcimachua. When Xerxes invaded Greece, Thessaly was betrayed by Aleuades, and Thebes by Attaginus and Timegenidas, who were the foremost citizen of Thebes. After...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...After the Peloponnesian war, Xenias of Elis attempted to betray Elis to the Lacedemonians under Agis, and the so-called "friends" of Lysander at no time relaxed their...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonian ...towards the Greeks, and by frightening the Athenian people were the cause of Macedonian garrisons being brought into Athens and most other cities. My statement is...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...Never before had Greeks been so treated, for not even the most powerful of the Macedonians, Philip, the son of Amyntas, and Alexander, despatched by force to Macedonia...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Achaean ...the Achaean League. The senate also commissioned Gallus to separate from the Achaean confederacy as many states as he could. While he was carrying out his...

Achaean

79 Oropians ...was persuaded to adopt the plan of Menalcidas, and it was decided to help the Oropians against the Athenians. News of this was brought to the Athenians, who, with all...

Oropians

80 23.846116,38.291099,0 Achaeans ...had overlooked in the previous raids, and brought away the garrison. As the Achaeans were too late to render help, Menalcidas and Callicrates urged them to invade...

Achaeans

78 Lacedemonians ...Achaeans claimed the right to try a Lacedemonian on a capital charge, but the Lacedemonians would not admit that Diaeus spoke the truth, and wished to refer the point to...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mycenae ...Fortune, who drives them with imperious necessity according to her whim. For Mycenae, the leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war, and Nineveh, where was the royal...

Mycenae

80 22.756111,37.730833,0 Orchomenus ...Of the opulent places in the ancient world, Egyptian Thebes and Minyan Orchomenus are now less prosperous than a private individual of moderate means, while...

Orchomenus

73 22.31536,37.724716,0 Gatheae ...beneath the sanctuary of Apollo Cereatas; that of the Gatheatas is at Gatheae in Cromitian territory. The Cromitian territory is about forty stades up from...

Gatheae

72 22.061019,37.298673,0 Tricoloni ...are a few memorials of the city Charisiae, and the journey from Charisiae to Tricoloni is another ten stades. Once Tricoloni also was a city, and even today there...

Tricoloni

79 22.165174,37.480046,0 Tricoloni ...had as founders the sons of Lycaon; but Zoetia, some fifteen stades from Tricoloni, not lying on the straight road but to the left of Tricoloni, was founded, they...

Tricoloni

75 22.165174,37.480046,0 Hypsus ...also other ruins of cities: of Thyraeum, fifteen stades from Paroria, and of Hypsus, lying above the plain on a mountain which is also called Hypsus. The district...

Hypsus

79 22.080985,37.554985,0 Arcadia ...Adjoining is . . . in my opinion called, and they say that the land here is Arcadia to all. From this point nothing remains to be recorded except Methydrium...

Arcadia

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...of the sacrifice, just that which happens to come to hand. This Mistress the Arcadians worship more than any other god, declaring that she is a daughter of Poseidon...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cretan ...of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The Arcadians claim that the Crete, where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared, was this place and not the island. The...

Cretan

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Lycaeus ...From Neda the river Neda takes its name; from Hagno a spring on Mount Lycaeus, which like the Danube flows with an equal volume of water in winter just as in...

Lycaeus

72 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Lycaeus ...long as the sun is in the constellation of the Crab, but the precinct on Mount Lycaeus affects shadows in the same way always and at every season. On the highest...

Lycaeus

81 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Parrhasian ...the east side of the mountain there is a sanctuary of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. They also give him the name Pythian. They hold every year a festival in honor...

Parrhasian

72 22.25,37.25,0 Echinadian ...Arcadia, and more famous than it. One Achelous, falling into the sea by the Echinadian islands, flows through Acarnania and Aetolia, and is said by Homer in the Iliad...

Echinadian

79 21.25,38.25,0 Lycosura ...third river called the Achelous is the one by Mount Lycaeus. On the right of Lycosura are the mountains called Nomian, and on them is a sanctuary of Nomian Pan; the...

Lycosura

80 22.030087,37.389509,0 Phigalians ...let them come out under a truce. The taking of Phigalia and the flight of the Phigalians from it took place when Miltiades was Archon at Athens, in the second year of...

Phigalians

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Neda ...of the Phigalians cut off their hair in honor of the river. Near the sea the Neda is navigable for small ships. Of all known rivers the Maeander descends with...

Neda

79 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Ladoceia ...takes us as far as what is called the Dyke. On this road is a suburb named Ladoceia after Ladocus, the son of Echemus, and after it is the site of what was in old...

Ladoceia

77 22.165741,37.390614,0 Alpheius ...roof, and two lions made of stone. The waters of the Eurotas mingle with the Alpheius, and the united streams flow on for some twenty stades. Then they fall into a...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Athena Saviour and Poseidon ...are traces of a sanctuary. It is said that the sanctuary was built in honor of Athena Saviour and Poseidon by Odysseus after his return from Troy. What is called the Dyke is the...

Athena Saviour and Poseidon

81 Arcadians ...city Aleus was founder. Besides the exploits shared by the Tegeans with the Arcadians, which include the Trojan war, the Persian wars and the battle at Dipaea with...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Calydonian ...and some besides in Ionia and Caria. On the front gable is the hunting of the Calydonian boar. The boar stands right in the center. On one side are Atalanta, Meleager...

Calydonian

81 21.533106,38.372423,0 Lacedemonians ...other Halotia (Capture Festival) because they captured the greater part of the Lacedemonians alive in the battle. To the north of the temple is a fountain, and at this...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythian ...done this, a malady befell their women, whose babies were stillborn, until the Pythian priestess bade them bury the children, and sacrifice to them every year as...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Psophis ...what is called Seirae; this Seirae forms a boundary between Cleitor and Psophis. The founder of Psophis, according to some, was Psophis, the son of Arrhon...

Psophis

74 21.892903,37.871725,0 Arcadia .... . . hunter . . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing through Arcadia, with Mount Pholoe on the right and the district of Thelpusa on the left, flows...

Arcadia

74 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pholoe .... . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing through Arcadia, with Mount Pholoe on the right and the district of Thelpusa on the left, flows into the...

Pholoe

81 21.7408,37.75407,0 Eryx ...of Psophis. Their account is probable, for in Sicily too, in the territory of Eryx, is a sanctuary of Erycine, which from the remotest times has been very holy...

Eryx

80 12.5919,38.03528,0 Phrygians ...is confirmed by the fact that the Maeander, flowing through the land of the Phrygians and Carians, which is ploughed up each year, has turned to mainland in a short...

Phrygians

78 27.75,40.25,0 Elis ...the first to win the race in armour at Olympia. As you go down to the land of Elis from Heraea, at a distance of about fifteen stades from Heraea you will cross...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Argive ...of a dog lying by his side. On the seat are wrought in relief the exploits of Argive heroes, that of Bellerophontes against the Chimaera, and Perseus, who has cut...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argolis ...I cannot say whether he set it to be a boundary mark against the Asinaeans in Argolis, since in no land, which has been depopulated, is it easy to discover the truth...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Tithorea ...previously. In the time, then, of this Phocus only the district about Tithorea and Parnassus was called Phocis, but in the time of Aeacus the name spread to...

Tithorea

72 22.66931,38.58344,0 Aeginetans ...established in the island Dorian manners and the Dorian dialect. Although the Aeginetans rose to great power, so that their navy was superior to that of Athens, and in...

Aeginetans

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezenians ...say, made these, and, moreover, was the first to sacrifice to Hippolytus. The Troezenians have a priest of Hippolytus, who holds his sacred office for life, and annual...

Troezenians

80 Sphaeria ...Aethra set up here a temple of Athena Apaturia, and changed the name from Sphaeria to Sacred Island. She also established a custom for the Troezenian maidens of...

Sphaeria

76 Athens ...of the statement made subsequently. Shortly after Harpalus ran away from Athens and crossed with a squadron to Crete, he was put to death by the servants who...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Calaurea ...is honored in many parts of Greece, and especially by the dwellers in Calaurea. Stretching out far into the sea from Troezenia is a peninsula, on the coast...

Calaurea

72 23.48041,37.52255,0 Troezen ...then, is a peninsula of the Peloponnesus. Within it, bordering on the land of Troezen, is Hermione. The founder of the old city, the Hermionians say, was Hermion...

Troezen

80 Scyllaeum ...the sea birds were allowed to tear the corpse to pieces. As you sail from Scyllaeum in the direction of the city, you reach another headland, called Bucephala...

Scyllaeum

77 23.523,37.435,0 Colyergia ...third they call Aristerae. On sailing past these you come to another headland, Colyergia, jutting out from the mainland, and after it to an island, called Tricrana...

Colyergia

81 23.20032,37.29085,0 Hermionian ...than all else, I never saw, nor yet has any other man, whether stranger or Hermionian. The old women may keep their knowledge of its nature to themselves. There is...

Hermionian

77 23.243591,37.385218,0 Epidaurian ...too, had inhabitants, and there is mention made of citizens of Halice on the Epidaurian slabs on which are inscribed the cures of Asclepius. I know, however, no other...

Epidaurian

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Asinaeans ...home, the Argives under their king Eratus attacked Asine. For a time the Asinaeans defended themselves from their wall, and killed among others Lysistratus, one...

Asinaeans

76 22.87403,37.52659,0 Erasinus ...to those in the city. On returning to the straight road, you will cross the Erasinus and reach the river Cheimarrus (Winter-torrent). Near it is a circuit of...

Erasinus

79 22.75,37.75,0 Nauplia ...by the Dorians in Argos. Fifty stades, I conjecture, from Temenium is Nauplia, which at the present day is uninhabited; its founder was Nauplius, reputed to...

Nauplia

73 22.796,37.565,0 Lacedemonian ...from the neighbours. Above the villages extends Mount Parnon, on which the Lacedemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and Tegeatae. On the borders stand...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thyrea ...Parnon, flows through the Argive territory and empties itself into the Gulf of Thyrea.

Thyrea

81 Laconia After the figures of Hermes we reach Laconia on the west. According to the tradition of the Lacedemonians themselves, Lelex...

Laconia

37 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argos ...in the reign of Tisamenus, son of Orestes, both districts, Messene and Argos, had kings put over them; Argos had Temenus and Messene Cresphontes. In...

Argos

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Scyros ...afterwards given to the Athenians, that they were to bring back Theseus from Scyros to Athens otherwise they could not take Scyros. Now the bones of Theseus were...

Scyros

79 24.6099,38.82754,0 Athens ...given to the Athenians, that they were to bring back Theseus from Scyros to Athens otherwise they could not take Scyros. Now the bones of Theseus were discovered...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pythian ...began to intrigue for the deposition of king Demaratus. He bribed the Pythian prophetess to frame responses about Demaratus according to his instructions...

Pythian

72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Plataea ...of Leonidas, who was a child when his father died, he led the Lacedemonians to Plataea, and afterwards with their fleet to the Hellespont. I cannot praise too highly...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Tegea ...whom he waged war were the Argives. When he led his army from the territory of Tegea into that of Argos, the Argives sent a herald to make for them with Agesipolis...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemonians ...exile, he went to Arcadia, whence not many years later he was recalled by the Lacedemonians, who made him king again. Now how Cleomenes the son of Leonidas performed...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...addition to the works I have mentioned, there are two tithes dedicated by the Athenians after wars. There is first a bronze Athena, tithe from the Persians who landed...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotians ...as soon as Sunium is passed. Then there is a bronze chariot, tithe from the Boeotians and the Chalcidians in Euboea. There are two other offerings, a statue of...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Acarnania ...discover nothing except that they were Sicilians originally who emigrated to Acarnania. On descending, not to the lower city, but to just beneath the Gateway, you...

Acarnania

79 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Hill of Ares ...suffice for those who are interested to learn about the law courts. Near the Hill of Ares is shown a ship built for the procession of the Panathenaea. This ship, I...

Hill of Ares

80 Athenians ...course of my narrative I come to the Argives. There is also the grave of the Athenians who fought against the Aeginetans before the Persian invasion. It was surely a...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phrygia ...of the mercenaries, who was an Athenian dispatched by Arsites, satrap of Phrygia by the Hellespont, and saved their city for the Perinthians when Philip had...

Phrygia

75 27.75,40.25,0 Arcadians ...in the region of Thrace and at Megara, and when Alcibiades persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the Eleans to revolt from the Lacedemonians, and of those who...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lyceum ...he built dockyards in the Peiraeus and the gymnasium near what is called the Lyceum. Everything made of silver or gold became part of the plunder Lachares made...

Lyceum

79 Zoster ...features. At Alimus is a sanctuary of Demeter Lawgiver and of the Maid, and at Zoster (Girdle) on the coast is an altar to Athena, as well as to Apollo, to Artemis...

Zoster

81 23.77335,37.800717,0 Apollo Proopsios ...one of Zeus Hymettius. There are altars both of Zeus Ombrios (Rainy) and of Apollo Proopsios (Foreseer). On Parnes is a bronze Zeus Parnethius, and an altar to Zeus...

Apollo Proopsios

78 Euboea ...There is a parish called Marathon, equally distant from Athens and Carystus in Euboea. It was at this point in Attica that the foreigners landed, were defeated in...

Euboea

81 Athenians ...to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus. The Athenians too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and there is at Mallos in Cilicia...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mallos ...The Athenians too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and there is at Mallos in Cilicia an oracle of his which is the most trustworthy of my day. The...

Mallos

78 35.4852,36.756188,0 Athenians ...comes the grave of Molottus, who was deemed worthy of commanding the Athenians when they crossed into Euboea to reinforce Plutarch, and also a place called...

Athenians

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...was not because they were reduced by war, but because they desired to share Athenian citizenship and hated the Thebans. In this plain is a temple of Dionysus, from...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megara ...plain close to Cithaeron. There is another road from Eleusis, which leads to Megara. As you go along this road you come to a well called Anthium (Flowery Well)...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thebes ...graves of those who went against Thebes. For Creon, who at that time ruled in Thebes as guardian of Laodamas the son of Eteocles, refused to allow the relatives to...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Nisaea ...as far as Corinth. Even at the present day the port of the Megarians is called Nisaea after him. Subsequently in the reign of Codrus the Peloponnesians made an...

Nisaea

81 23.362766,37.974359,0 Megara ...that falling in the battle he was buried on the spot, and the city was named Megara from him, having previously been called Nisa. In the twelfth generation after...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Salamis ...dedicated a bronze ram of a galley. This ship they say that they captured off Salamis in a naval action with the Athenians. The Athenians too admit that for a time...

Salamis

80 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Phliasians ...which from ancient times has been held to be peculiarly holy. The earliest Phliasians named the goddess to whom the sanctuary belongs Ganymeda; but later authorities...

Phliasians

77 22.649131,37.846299,0 Tretus ...one is direct and only for active men, the other goes along the pass called Tretus (Pierced), is narrow like the other, being surrounded by mountains, but is...

Tretus

78 Lacedemonians ...I discovered that it was made for the following reason. Ever since the Lacedemonians began to make war upon the Argives there was no cessation of hostilities until...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...although there were more chiefs than this in the expedition, from Argos, from Messene, with some even from Arcadia. But the Argives have adopted the number seven...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Argives ...and the Lacedemonians tried to restore him to power, but were defeated by the Argives, who killed the greater part of them and Laphaes as well. Not far from the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...from Pherae in Thessaly. But I cannot agree with them when they say that in Argos are the tombs of Deianeira, the daughter of Oeneus, and of Helenus, son of...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Arcadia ...various parts of the Peloponnesus, including one to Tegea on the side towards Arcadia. On the right is Mount Lycone, which has trees on it, chiefly cypresses. On the...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Caria ...and took from them many of their famous sights. It damaged also the cities of Caria and Lycia, and the island of Rhodes was very violently shaken, so that it was...

Caria

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Rhodes ...sights. It damaged also the cities of Caria and Lycia, and the island of Rhodes was very violently shaken, so that it was thought that the Sibyl had had her...

Rhodes

75 28.15629,36.41451,0 Pellene ...on from here is the grave of the Sicyonians who were killed at Pellene, at Dyme of the Achaeans, in Megalopolis and at Sellasia. Their story I will...

Pellene

65 22.5384,38.0446,0 Thebes ...and this is followed by the one called Lysius (Deliverer), brought from Thebes by the Theban Phanes at the command of the Pythian priestess. Phanes came to...

Thebes

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Pellene ...Aratus and his army arrived they were defeated in an engagement, evacuated Pellene, and returned home under a truce. After his success in the Peloponnesus...

Pellene

77 22.5384,38.0446,0 Peiraeus ...Aratus thought it a shame to allow the Macedonians to hold unchallenged Peiraeus, Munychia, Salamis, and Sunium; but not expecting to be able to take them by...

Peiraeus

74 23.644609,37.937222,0 Sicyonian ...now describe the ritual at the festival. The story is that on coming to the Sicyonian land Phaestus found the people giving offerings to Heracles as to a hero...

Sicyonian

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Ismenian ...Canachus, who also fashioned the Apollo at Didyma of the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans. It is made of gold and ivory, having on its head a...

Ismenian

78 Titane ...borders on Sicyonia. The city is just about forty stades distant from Titane, and there is a straight road to it from Sicyon. That the Phliasians are in no...

Titane

72 22.62501,37.92049,0 Phliasians ...is called the Arantine Hill, not far distant from a second hill on which the Phliasians have their citadel and their sanctuary of Hebe. Here, then, he founded a city...

Phliasians

79 22.649131,37.846299,0 Orneae ...This is why Homer, in making a list of Agamemnon's subjects, has the verse: "Orneae was their home and Araethyrea the delightful." The graves of the children of...

Orneae

79 22.557292,37.713973,0 Megara ...of Polyidus, son of Coeranus, son of Abas, son of Melampus, who came to Megara to purify Alcathous when he had killed his son Callipolis. Polyidus also built...

Megara

74 15.18273,37.2038,0 Pagae ...arrows stuck all over it, into which the Persians once shot in the night. In Pagae a noteworthy relic is a bronze image of Artemis surnamed Saviour, in size equal...

Pagae

79 23.362766,37.974359,0 Clarius ...Poseidon is a dolphin spouting water. There is also a bronze Apollo surnamed Clarius and a statue of Aphrodite made by Hermogenes of Cythera. There are two bronze...

Clarius

79 27.19292,38.00466,0 Daulis ...but my opinion, which is confirmed by extant evidence, is that he ruled over Daulis beyond Chaeronea, for in ancient times the greater part of what is now called...

Daulis

79 22.72926,38.50665,0 Aeginetan ...Egyptian wooden images, but the one surnamed Archegetes (Founder) resembles Aeginetan works. They are all alike made of ebony. I have heard a man of Cyprus, who was...

Aeginetan

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Acrocorinthus ...Asclepius and of Health are of white marble, that of Zeus is of bronze. The Acrocorinthus is a mountain peak above the city, assigned to Helius by Briareos when he acted...

Acrocorinthus

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delians ...Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus. I remember hearing a similar story from the Delians, that the stream which they call Inopus comes to them from the Nile. Further...

Delians

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Messenians .... the women were inspired by the goddess to defend themselves, and most of the Messenians were wounded with the knives with which the women sacrificed the victims and...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...profitable to the men at Eira than to themselves, accordingly resolved that Messenia and the neighboring part of Laconia should be left uncultivated during the...

Messenia

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eira ...when he wedded her. But in the eleventh year of the siege it was fated that Eira should be taken and the Messenians dispersed, and the god fulfilled for them an...

Eira

79 21.927988,37.398271,0 Messenians ...and the seer knew that there was no putting off destruction for the Messenians, for they knew the riddle of the oracle which the Pythia had uttered concerning...

Messenians

70 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...were scouring Messenia for booty and plunder. "If we can capture and occupy Sparta," said Aristomenes, "we can give back to the Lacedemonians what is theirs and...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...his information on the present occasion. When this was declared to all, the Arcadians themselves stoned Aristocrates and urged the Messenians to join them. They...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenians ...capture of Eira to Cyllene, the port of the Eleians. Thence they sent to the Messenians in Arcadia, proposing to unite their forces and seek a new country to dwell in...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Argives ...to the men of Nauplia, who had recently been driven from their town by the Argives. The Messenians who were captured in the country, reduced by force to the...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...was secured by the strength of the place; also the Pythia announced to the Lacedemonians that assuredly they would be punished if they committed a crime against the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Acarnanians ...threw the enemy into confusion and drove them a short distance, but as the Acarnanians again streamed eagerly to this point, they were driven back against their will...

Acarnanians

77 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Aegospotami ...to capture the Spartans cut off in Sphacteria. When the Athenian reverse at Aegospotami took place, the Lacedemonians, having command of the sea, then drove the...

Aegospotami

79 26.61011,40.35074,0 Messene ...would be restored to Naupactus. But the dream really indicated the recovery of Messene. Not long afterwards the Lacedemonians suffered at Leuctra the disaster that...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Theban ...shalt conquer whomsoever thou dost assail; and when thou dost pass from men, Theban, I will cause thy name to be unforgotten and give thee glory. But do thou...

Theban

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ithome ...He was bidden by the dream, wherever he found yew and myrtle growing on Ithome, to dig between them and recover the old woman, for, shut in her brazen...

Ithome

74 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...left prophecies regarding others of the Greeks as well as the return of the Messenians: "Then indeed shall the bright bloom of Sparta perish and Messene again shall...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Isthmus ...the long race, for he won two victories at Olympia, two at Pytho, three at the Isthmus and five at Nemea. He is said to have also conceived the idea of a flesh diet...

Isthmus

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Olympia ...When he was made an umpire he joined the ranks of those who have recorded at Olympia the names of the victors. As to the boxer, by name Damarchus, an Arcadian of...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Epidamnians ...he dedicated at Olympia, I will describe in another part of my story. The Epidamnians occupy the same territory today as they did at first, but the modern city is...

Epidamnians

76 19.44594,41.31497,0 Altis ...and receives honors from the natives. The statue of Theagenes is in the Altis, being the work of Glaucias of Aegina. Hard by is a bronze chariot with a man...

Altis

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...beside the chariot, and on the horses are seated boys. They are memorials of Olympic victories won by Hiero the son of Deinomenes, who was tyrant of Syracuse after...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Caria ...also you will consider a great marvel. This Polites was from Ceramus in Caria, and showed at Olympia every excellence in running. For from the longest race...

Caria

74 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Elis ...are statues to Agathinus, son of Thrasybulus, and to Telemachus, both men of Elis. Telemachus won the race for four-horse chariots; the statue of Agathinus was...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Crotona ...was killed by wild beasts. The story has it that he came across in the land of Crotona a tree-trunk that was drying up; wedges were inserted to keep the trunk apart...

Crotona

81 17.205128,39.028864,0 Olympia ...a statue of Epitherses, son of Metrodorus, who won two boxing prizes at Olympia, two at Pytho, and also victories at Nemea and the Isthmus; the Syracusans...

Olympia

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elean ...pancratium I have already mentioned; in wrestling the man he overcame was the Elean Paeanius, who at the previous Festival had won a victory for wrestling, while...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Olympic ...his statue was made by Andreas of Argos. Demosthenes the Lacedemonian won an Olympic victory in the men's foot-race, and he dedicated in the Altis a slab by the...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Altis ...won an Olympic victory in the men's foot-race, and he dedicated in the Altis a slab by the side of his statue. The inscription declares that the distance...

Altis

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Heraea ...foot-race, and Alexibius in the pentathlum. The native place of Alexibius was Heraea in Arcadia, and Acestor made his statue. The inscription on the statue of...

Heraea

80 21.863791,37.613569,0 Syracusans ...to be one hundred and five years old. Leontini was once laid waste by the Syracusans, but in my time was again inhabited. There is also a bronze statue of...

Syracusans

76 15.29382,37.05963,0 Lampsacus ...and bound by the compulsion of his oath, unwillingly pardoned the people of Lampsacus. Anaximenes is also known to have retaliated on a personal enemy in a very...

Lampsacus

78 26.68998,40.34869,0 Athens ...Megarians won this victory when Phorbas, who held a life office, was archon at Athens. At this time Athenian offices were not yet annual, nor had the Eleans begun to...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argolis ...do her honor in other ways. The story is that Hippodameia withdrew to Midea in Argolis, because Pelops was very angry with her over the death of Chrysippus. The...

Argolis

81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Messene ...the rites and revealed them there, as it was there that Caucon initiated Messene. Of the children born to Aphareus Idas was the elder and more brave, Lynceus...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Argives ...but that they offered to stand trial at the meeting of the league before the Argives, kinsmen of both parties, and to submit the matter to the court at Athens...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Spartan ...when the Phocian leaders had seized the temple at Delphi, the kings and every Spartan of repute privately, and the board of ephors and senate publicly, had a share...

Spartan

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Troy ...Trojan war, rather than Greek, came to be universally applied to the war at Troy. An account of this war of the Messenians has been given by Rhianus of Bene in...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messenians ...touch this first war at all. He described the events that in time befell the Messenians after their revolt from the Lacedemonians, not indeed the whole of them, but...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ampheia ...and all the cultivated land round Taygetos. Three years after the capture of Ampheia, being eager to put to use the spirit of the Messenians, now at the height of...

Ampheia

80 22.075138,37.264193,0 Lacedemonians ...in their wrath, each one of them eager to be the first to join battle. The Lacedemonians also advanced to meet them eagerly, but were careful not to break their...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...himself and routed the Lacedemonian troops opposed to them. But the other Messenian wing was in difficulties, for the general Pytharatus had been killed, and the...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...men were as follows: he selected the most serviceable of the arms for all the Arcadians and Messenians who were physically strong and stout hearted but did not possess...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sparta ...enough to make them of bronze. But one of the Delphians reported the oracle to Sparta. When they heard it, no plan occurred to them in public, but Oebalus, a man of...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...them to revolt. This was not done openly at first, but they sent secretly to Argos and to the Arcadians, to ask if they were ready to help unhesitatingly and no...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sparta ...was considered of poor intellect and was lame in one foot. Him they sent to Sparta. On his arrival he recited his poems in elegiacs and anapaests to the nobles in...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...middle of Stenyclerus' plain and to the hilltop Aristomenes followed after the Lacedemonians. Unknown. He recovered his shield also, going to Delphi and descending into...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythia ...Delphi and descending into the holy shrine of Trophonius at Lebadeia, as the Pythia bade. Afterwards he took the shield to Lebadeia and dedicated it, and I myself...

Pythia

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messene ...who offered resistance and surrounding the cattle started to drive them off to Messene. On the way he was attacked by Lacedemonian troops under king Anaxander, but...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Nauplia ...itself was given the name Messene, but they founded other towns. The men of Nauplia were not disturbed at Mothone, and they allowed the people of Asine to remain...

Nauplia

78 22.796,37.565,0 Adramyttium ...were in exile from their country, and for the Delians when they settled in Adramyttium after being expelled from their island by the Athenians. The Minyae, driven by...

Adramyttium

77 26.55,39.43,0 Thebans ...one city. But when the Phocian or, as it is called, the Sacred War caused the Thebans to withdraw from Peloponnese, the Lacedemonians regained courage and could no...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Messenian ...being organized in squadrons and distributed in companies, a thousand picked Messenian troops arrived hurriedly at Elis with Laconian blazons on their...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...vast wealth in a short time and with it raised an army. This Nabis seized Messene, but when Philopoemen and the people of Megalopolis arrived during the same...

Messene

76 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenia ...country. On a second occasion they mustered when the corn was ripe to invade Messenia. But Deinocrates, the head of the government, who had been chosen to command...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadia ...to retire without effecting anything, by occupying beforehand the passes from Arcadia into Messenia with the Messenians from the city and troops from the surrounding...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaeans ...promised to Achilles. When Hyllus and the Dorians were defeated by the Achaeans, it is said that Abia, nurse of Glenus the son of Heracles, withdrew to Ire...

Achaeans

73 Pharae ...On the road is a salt spring. The Emperor Augustus caused the Messenians of Pharae to be incorporated in Laconia. The founder Pharis is said to have been the son...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Messenians ...to the left from the springs, and after some forty stades is the city of the Messenians under Ithome. It is enclosed not only by Mount Ithome, but on the side towards...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Naupactus ...above all the gods, had the title Laphria, and the Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians, being at that time close neighbors of the Aetolians...

Naupactus

77 22.315807,38.41224,0 Lebadeia ...Leuctra was imminent, they sent to other oracles and to enquire of the god of Lebadeia. The replies of the Ismenian and Ptoan Apollo are recorded, also the responses...

Lebadeia

80 22.87352,38.431063,0 Lebadeia ...could be seen by the Lacedemonians. Those of them who had seen the shield at Lebadeia in peace-time knew it, and all knew it by repute. After their victory the...

Lebadeia

79 22.87352,38.431063,0 Ithome ...theater is a sanctuary of Sarapis and Isis. On the ascent to the summit of Ithome, which is the Messenian acropolis, is a spring Clepsydra. It is a hopeless...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Athenian ...to Megalopolis is a Herm of Attic style; for the square form of Herm is Athenian, and the rest adopted it thence. After a descent of thirty stades from the gate...

Athenian

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corone ...flows through Thesprotia, are not river beasts but migrants from the sea. Corone is a city to the right of the Pamisus, on the sea-coast under Mount Mathia. On...

Corone

77 21.927944,36.954171,0 Messenians ...water flows to Corone. The old name of Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese by the Thebans, it is said that Epimelides, who...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...of Apollo on the coast, venerated because it is very ancient according to Messenian tradition, and the god cures illnesses. They call him Apollo Corynthus. His...

Messenian

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Euboeans ...pride themselves on the name to this day. The case is very different with the Euboeans of Styra. They too are Dryopes in origin, who took no part in the battle with...

Euboeans

80 Illyrians ...to sell wine and trade with the barbarians. Thereupon by a bold stroke the Illyrians carried off a number of men and still more of the women. Carrying them on board...

Illyrians

77 19.5,41.5,0 Thessaly ...daughter from her suitors, and it was on their account that Melampus went to Thessaly to gratify his brother Bias. He was put in bonds by the herdsmen of Iphiclus...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Athenians ...or of the Attic school. The Dorian Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians dedicated at Olympia the image of Victory upon the pillar. It is the work of...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Maenalian ...the precinct which is sacred to Pelops. Among them are those dedicated by the Maenalian Phormis. He crossed to Sicily from Maenalus to serve Gelon the son of...

Maenalian

80 22.265891,37.549491,0 Eleans ...broke it against the bronze, and died a few days later from the wound. So the Eleans were purposing to remove the ox from out the Altis as being guilty of...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Nemea ...inscription on him says, also won the chariot-race at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The statue of a pancratiast was made by Lysippus. The athlete was the first...

Nemea

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Messenian ...but it tells us nothing at all about the boxer himself. Beside this is the Messenian Damiscus, who won an Olympic victory at the age of twelve. I was exceedingly...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicily ...who came from Messene on the Strait, we know of no Messenian, either from Sicily or from Naupactus, who won a victory at Olympia. Even these two are said by the...

Sicily

76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Elis ...disaster at Leuctra. Next stands the statue of a boxer from Lepreus in Elis, whose name was Labax son of Euphron, and also that of Aristodemus, son of...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...of Antiochus was made by Nicodamus. A native of Lepreus, Antiochus won once at Olympia the pancratium for men, and the pentathlum twice at the Isthmian games and...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aegium ...to Dicon is a statue of Xenophon, the son of Menephylus, a pancratiast of Aegium in Achaia, and likewise one of Pyrilampes of Ephesus after winning the long...

Aegium

76 22.081952,38.252707,0 Ionians ...had a strong fleet of Athenian triremes along the coast of Ionia, most of the Ionians paid court to him, and there is a bronze statue of Alcibiades dedicated by the...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Pytho ...games combined twelve victories, three victories at Olympia and two at Pytho. The hundred and fourth Festival, when Sostratus won his first victory, is not...

Pytho

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sicily ...Sostratus is a statue of Leontiscus, a man wrestler, a native of Sicily from Messene on the Strait. He was crowned, they say, by the Amphictyons and...

Sicily

67 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Olympia ...life on the field of battle. My statement is borne out by the inscription at Olympia: "In wrestling only I alone conquered twice the men at Olympia and at Pytho...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Achaeans ...fell, that plainly either he marched to Chaeroneia with the whole of the Achaeans, or else his personal courage and daring led him alone of the Achaeans to fight...

Achaeans

75 Ida ...date with Alexander. Sodamas from Assos in the Troad, a city at the foot of Ida, was the first of the Aeolians in this district to win at Olympia the foot-race...

Ida

79 26.85852,39.69936,0 Himera ...a Cretan from Cnossus. Expelled from Cnossus by a political party he came to Himera, was given citizenship and won many honors besides. It was accordingly natural...

Himera

79 13.82184,37.96884,0 Temesa ...to flee from Italy for good, the Pythian priestess forbad them to leave Temesa, and ordered them to propitiate the Hero, setting him a sanctuary apart and...

Temesa

74 16.1315,39.03644,0 Athens ...ships, until he was taken prisoner by Attic men-of-war and brought alive to Athens. Before he was brought to them the Athenians were wroth with Dorieus and used...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...truth, he appears to me to wish to put the Lacedemonians on a level with the Athenians, because they too are open to the charge of precipitous action in their...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...Festival and Theantus at the next. All have their statues set up at Olympia. Next to the sons of Alcaenetus stand Gnathon, a Maenalian of Dipaea, and...

Olympia

70 21.630126,37.637849,0 Pytho ...true to it in the long race, for he won two victories at Olympia, two at Pytho, three at the Isthmus and five at Nemea. He is said to have also conceived the...

Pytho

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...But this story too proves on examination to be silly. For Timon, a man of Elis, won victories in the pentathlum at the Greek games, and at Olympia there is...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Troy ...because of his friendship with Amphimachus, the son of Cteatus, who died at Troy. Amphimachus begat Eleius, and it was while Eleius was king in Elis that the...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Elis ...Oxylus. He suspected that, when the sons of Aristomachus saw that the land of Elis was a goodly one, and cultivated throughout, they would be no longer willing to...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...The reason for this interruption I will set forth when my narrative deals with Olympia. At this time Greece was grievously worn by internal strife and plague, and it...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...join the alliance. When Agis invaded the land, and Xenias turned traitor, the Eleans won a battle near Olympia, routed the Lacedemonians and drove them out of the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Anigrus ...Aristophanes in a comedy calls Lepreus a town of the Eleans. Leaving the river Anigrus on the left there is a road leading to Lepreus; from Samicum another leads to...

Anigrus

81 Arcadia ...danger of sinking into it. The Anigrus descends from the mountain Lapithus in Arcadia, and right from its source its water does not smell sweet but actually stinks...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samicum ...seemed to me that of those who held that in the heroic age and even earlier Samicum was called Arene. These quoted too the words of the Iliad: "There is a river...

Samicum

78 21.59852,37.53384,0 Alpheius ...from Arcadia; the Cladeus comes from Elis to join it. The source of the Alpheius itself is in Arcadia, and not in Elis. There is another legend about the...

Alpheius

74 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...opposite Syracuse called Ortygia, and there turned from a woman to a spring. Alpheius too was changed by his love into the river. This account of Alpheius . . . to...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Panormos ...intervening sea the river rises again opposite Branchidae at the harbor called Panormos. These things then are as I have described them. As for the Olympic games, the...

Panormos

81 27.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...Iphitus. But at the fiftieth Festival two men, appointed by lot from all the Eleans, were entrusted with the management of the Olympic games, and for a long time...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Amyclae ...to go under the throne, in the way we enter the inner part of the throne at Amyclae. At Olympia there are screens constructed like walls which keep people out. Of...

Amyclae

78 24.76084,35.0133,0 Olympic ...tell a silly story about the mule. I know that the height and breadth of the Olympic Zeus have been measured and recorded; but I shall not praise those who made the...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenian ...that keeps the ivory from being harmed by the marshiness of the Altis. On the Athenian Acropolis the ivory of the image they call the Maiden is benefited, not by...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rome ...a building for horse-races which is actually two stades long, and the Forum at Rome, worth seeing not only for its general beauty but especially for its roof made...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Nicomedeia ...king of Bithynia. After him the greatest city in Bithynia was renamed Nicomedeia; before him it was called Astacus, and its first founder was Zypoetes, a...

Nicomedeia

72 29.923486,40.76445,0 Amyclae ...for the Graces here, and gave them their names. The things worth seeing in Amyclae include a victor in the pentathlon, named Aenetus, on a slab. The story is that...

Amyclae

78 24.76084,35.0133,0 Lacedemon ...of Artemis Leucophryene. Whose pupil this Bathycles was, and who was king of Lacedemon when he made the throne, I pass over; but I saw the throne and will describe...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Crotona ...of Helen of the Tree. A story too I will tell which I know the people of Crotona tell about Helen. The people of Himera too agree with this account. In the...

Crotona

76 17.205128,39.028864,0 Himera ...I will tell which I know the people of Crotona tell about Helen. The people of Himera too agree with this account. In the Euxine at the mouths of the Ister is an...

Himera

81 13.82184,37.96884,0 Aegiae ...turns into the fish called the fisher. Gythium is thirty stades distant from Aegiae, built by the sea in the territory of the Free Laconians, whom the emperor...

Aegiae

80 22.512906,36.786285,0 Lacedemonians ...whom the emperor Augustus freed from the bondage in which they had been to the Lacedemonians in Sparta. All the Peloponnesus, except the Isthmus of Corinth, is surrounded...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconians ...those of the Phoenician sea are to be found on the coast of Laconia. The Free Laconians have eighteen cities; the first as you go down from Aegiae to the sea is...

Laconians

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Acriae ...gymnasium and the wall by the harbor. A hundred and twenty stades inland from Acriae is Geronthrae. It was inhabited before the Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus...

Acriae

81 22.785366,36.794176,0 Onugnathus ...stades from Asopus there juts out into the sea a headland, which they call Onugnathus (Jaw of an Ass). Here is a sanctuary of Athena, having neither image nor roof...

Onugnathus

77 22.93279,36.46125,0 Laconians ...gushed forth. Brasiae is the last town on the coast belonging to the Free Laconians in this direction. It is distant two hundred stades by sea from Cyphanta. The...

Laconians

77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartan ...Carneius. Some thirty stades from the Apollo is a place Hypsoi, within the Spartan frontier. Here is a sanctuary of Asclepius and of Artemis called Daphnaea (of...

Spartan

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oetylus ...name, was an Argive by descent, son of Amphianax, the son of Antimachus. In Oetylus the sanctuary of Sarapis, and in the market-place a wooden image of Apollo...

Oetylus

78 22.3848,36.705058,0 Leuctra ...to them rather than to the Lacedemonians. Twenty stades from Pephnus is Leuctra. I do not know why the city has this name. If indeed it is derived from...

Leuctra

75 22.26501,36.84279,0 Messenians ...this name. If indeed it is derived from Leucippus the son of Perieres, as the Messenians say, it is for this reason, I think, that the inhabitants honor Asclepius most...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...more clear when speaking about the bow of Iphitus: "They met one another in Messene in the dwelling of Ortilochus." By the dwelling of Ortilochus he meant the city...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lacedemonians ...neighbors, to dismantle the fortifications of their city, and to allow the Lacedemonians to sacrifice to the god and to compete in the games at Olympia. Agis used also...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...grievances to a court of arbitration instead of appealing to arms, but the Lacedemonians dismissed the envoys in anger. The sequel, how the Lacedemonians set forth and...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Itonia ...put to flight, certain of them took refuge in the sanctuary of Athena surnamed Itonia. Agesilaus, although suffering from a wound received in the battle, did not sin...

Itonia

81 Acarnanians ...to give assistance to the Aetolians, who were hard pressed in a war with, the Acarnanians; these he compelled to put an end to the war, although they had come very near...

Acarnanians

80 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Phocians ...given to any other king. In the reign of Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, the Phocians seized the sanctuary at Delphi. To help in a war with Thebes the Phocians hired...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Lacedemonians ...most worthy of mention – an excellent rule which I will never violate. The Lacedemonians who live in Sparta have a market-place worth seeing; the council-chamber of the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...market-place. The senate is the council which has the supreme control of the Lacedemonian constitution, the other officials form the executive. Both the ephors and the...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...the second was at Tegea, when the Lacedemonians had engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all the Arcadians...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...the Iamidae. There is also a sanctuary of Maron and of Alpheius. Of the Lacedemonians who served at Thermopylae they consider that these men distinguished themselves...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Dorians ...The sanctuary of Zeus Tropaean (He who turns to flight) was made by the Dorians, when they had conquered in war the Amyclaeans, as well as the other Achaeans...

Dorians

74 22.25,38.75,0 Attica ...the fetters. The legend about this I have already related in my history of Attica. There are also represented nymphs bestowing upon Perseus, who is starting on...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Aphytis ...more than any other Greeks. It is said also that when Lysander was besieging Aphytis in Pallene Ammon appeared by night and declared that it would be better for him...

Aphytis

79 23.436606,40.099366,0 Idaean ...sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both. Some say that it was built by Idaean Heracles, others by the local heroes two generations later than Heracles. It...

Idaean

79 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Athenians ...is an ashen altar of Samian Hera not a bit grander than what in Attica the Athenians call "improvised hearths." The first stage of the altar at Olympia, called...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympic ...and for this reason the Alpheius is thought to be of all rivers the dearest to Olympic Zeus. There is also an altar at Didyma of the Milesians, which Heracles the...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Didyma ...to be of all rivers the dearest to Olympic Zeus. There is also an altar at Didyma of the Milesians, which Heracles the Theban is said by the Milesians to have...

Didyma

77 27.256115,37.384829,0 Milesians ...rivers the dearest to Olympic Zeus. There is also an altar at Didyma of the Milesians, which Heracles the Theban is said by the Milesians to have made from the blood...

Milesians

78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Thesprotia ...found the white poplar growing on the banks of the Acheron, the river in Thesprotia, and for this reason Homer calls it "Acheroid." So from the first down to the...

Thesprotia

75 20.25,39.75,0 Alpheius ...I give it in my account of Letrini. Not far from it stands another altar of Alpheius, and by it one of Hephaestus. This altar of Hephaestus some Eleans call the...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Altis ...an altar of the Muses, and next to these an altar of the Nymphs. Outside the Altis there is a building called the workshop of Pheidias, where he wrought the image...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Altis ...is outside the sacred enclosure, but at the processional entrance to the Altis, which is the only way open to those who take part in the processions. It was...

Altis

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...pour libations to all heroes and wives of heroes who are honored either in Elis or among the Aetolians. The songs sung in the Town Hall are in the Doric...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Troy ...He is probably the father of the Protesilaus who joined in the war against Troy. Tripods too are set here, prizes of course for the winners; and there are the...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleans ...of Hippodameia. The quoit of Iphitus has inscribed upon it the truce which the Eleans proclaim at the Olympic festivals; the inscription is not written in a straight...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Abantes ...home from Troy, Locrians from Thronium, a city on the river Boagrius, and Abantes from Euboea, with eight ships altogether, were driven on the Ceraunian...

Abantes

76 23.75,38.75,0 Potidaeans ...at the hands of the Athenians. Afterwards, however, Cassander restored the Potidaeans to their homes, but the name of the city was changed from Potidaea to...

Potidaeans

77 23.3278,40.1937,0 Arcadians ...with the Lacedemonians under Cleomenes at Sellasia, in which Achaeans and Arcadians from all the cities took part, along with Antigonus at the head of a Macedonian...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemon ...Diaeus, a Megalopolitan who had been elected general of the Achaeans, attacked Lacedemon, accusing the Lacedemonians of rebellion against the Romans. But Philopoemen...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...to their country, having neither suffered great harm nor inflicted it on the Messenians. Philopoemen, wounded in the head during the battle, fell from his horse and...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...gathered a force from Arcadia and Achaia and marched against Messene. The Messenian populace at once went over to the side of the Arcadians, and those responsible...

Messenian

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Megalopolis ...Deinocrates, who perished by his own hand. The Arcadians also brought back to Megalopolis the bones of Philopoemen. After this Greece ceased to bear good men. For...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Tegea ...have different forms, and this is particularly true of genealogy. At Tegea the images of the Lord of Streets are four in number, one set up by each of the...

Tegea

72 22.429,37.464,0 Plataeans ...and then broken it, all alike, in their view, were freed from its terms. The Plataeans, therefore, looked upon the attitude of the Thebans with suspicion, and...

Plataeans

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Attica ...the plain, but along the road to Hysiae in the direction of Eleutherae and Attica, where not even a scout had been placed by the Plataeans, being due to reach...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Cithaeronian ...Road to Phocis, where Oedipus killed his father (Mount Cithaeron is sacred to Cithaeronian Zeus), as I shall tell of at greater length when this place in my story has...

Cithaeronian

80 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Athenians ...Of the Greeks generally there is a common tomb, but the Lacedemonians and Athenians who fell have separate graves, on which are written elegiac verses by...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataea ...legends about her, and my own conjectures, I have already stated. There is at Plataea a temple of Hera, worth seeing for its size and for the beauty of its images...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thebans ...for at the time when Cassander, the son of Antipater, rebuilt Thebes, the Thebans wished to be reconciled with the Plataeans, to share in the common assembly...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phoenicians ...begged for mercy, and were allowed by Cadmus to remain and unite with the Phoenicians. The Aones still lived in village communities, but Cadmus built the city which...

Phoenicians

76 35.25,33.25,0 Rhodian ...reply that was given to Aristomenes is not recorded, but when Damagetus the Rhodian, who reigned at Ialysos, came to Apollo and asked whence he should take a wife...

Rhodian

79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Egyptian ...a large army, hoping, if the island were won, to use it as a base against the Egyptians. But the Rhodians displayed daring and ingenuity in the face of the besiegers...

Egyptian

80 Lacedemonians ...in the open, and being Messenians, who had not been surpassed in valor even by Lacedemonians, but in fortune only, were determined not to be dismayed at the horde which had...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...the Athenians. For they offered Naupactus as a base against Peloponnese, and Messenian slingers from Naupactus helped to capture the Spartans cut off in...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Gauls ...Callippus, who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to stop the incursion of the Gauls into Greece. These Gauls inhabit the most remote portion of Europe, near a...

Gauls

79 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Persians ...marble has been erected. Although the Athenians assert that they buried the Persians, because in every case the divine law applies that a corpse should be laid...

Persians

78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 cities ...to it as settlers people of Lebedos and Colophon, after destroying their cities, so that the iambic poet Phoenix com posed a lament for the capture of...

cities

75 cities ...troops of Antigonus an his Gallic mercenaries he pursued them to the coast cities, and himself reduced upper Macedonia and the Thessalians. The extent of the...

cities

77 cities ...was an Athenian, Aristion, whom Mithridates employed as his envoy to the Greek cities. He induced the Athenians to join Mithridates rather than the Romans, although...

cities

81 Phocian ...of Messene and to the gathering of the Arcadians into one city. But when the Phocian or, as it is called, the Sacred War caused the Thebans to withdraw from...

Phocian

79 22.25,38.25,0 towns ...but also the women and children. I have evidence to bring. All the Boeotian towns which the Thebans sacked were inhabited in my time, as the people escaped just...

towns

78 cities ...the god. They were opposed by the Delphians themselves and the Phocians of the cities around Parnassus; a force of Aetolians also joined the defenders, for the...

cities

81 Chaeroneia ...that prevented them from taking part in the battle which the Greeks fought at Chaeroneia. They refused, however, to bear arms against the Greeks. After the death of...

Chaeroneia

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 city ...he was laying waste the country, he put them to flight and chased them to the city. Returning afterwards to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and...

city

80 Lacedemonians ...the danger that beset them, they were at first under the impression that the Lacedemonians had forced an entry into the town, and attacked them more recklessly owing to...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 city ...against Minos; that falling in the battle he was buried on the spot, and the city was named Megara from him, having previously been called Nisa. In the twelfth...

city

79 Lacedemonians ...the events that in time befell the Messenians after their revolt from the Lacedemonians, not indeed the whole of them, but those subsequent to the battle which they...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Egypt ...plotting to take from Ptolemy his kingdom in Egypt. But being expelled from Egypt, and having lost his reputation as a soldier, and being in other respects...

Egypt

78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Lacedemonians ...history. For he has made Aristomenes kill Theopompus, the king of the Lacedemonians, shortly before the death of Aristodemus but we know that Theopompus was not...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...an engagement, but had a deep ravine in front of it. Here Euphaes drew up the Messenians and appointed Cleonnis general; the cavalry and light-armed, together amounting...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Syria ...dying of old age, was buried. Afterwards a monument also was erected here to a Syrian. At the time to which I refer Demetrius fortified and held it. But afterwards...

Syria

81 37.5,37.5,0 Dryopes ...the neighboring peoples already reduced and serving in their ranks, and the Dryopes of Asine, who a generation earlier had been driven out of their own country by...

Dryopes

78 24.25,38.25,0 Greeks ...which had so grown that they surpassed in wealth the richest of the Greeks, the sanctuary of Delphi and the Orchomenians. Shortly after this Ptolemy met...

Greeks

70 22.5,37.5,0 Here ...at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance away...

Here

80 Lacedemonians ...who stood their ground, until he threw into confusion the whole line of the Lacedemonians themselves and of their allies. They were now running without shame and without...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Colias ...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...

Colias

80 23.625,37.875,0 Corinthian ...Corinth, Argos, Athens and Thebes as the result of this bribery the so-called Corinthian war broke out, compelling Agesilaus to abandon his conquests in Asia. Thus it...

Corinthian

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lacedemonian ...overrun the country afterwards, until in an engagement with more than half the Lacedemonian infantry and both the kings he received various wounds while defending himself...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...of the pledge, and not to put their only hope of return into the power of the Lacedemonians. After this, as formerly for the Trojans, the beginning of the Messenian...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...merchant from Cephallenia, who was a friend of Aristomenes and was bringing to Eira all that they needed, had been captured by the Lacedemonians and archers from...

Eira

81 21.927988,37.398271,0 Lydians ...their valor and courage they had driven out Cyges the son of Dascylus and the Lydians, when they were in occupation of their town. The Messenians, when they heard...

Lydians

80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Messenia ...at the Lacedemonians. "Yet not for all time shall you enjoy the fruits of Messenia with impunity." Then falling upon the men who faced him he killed them and...

Messenia

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lycaeus ...and also to be their guides on the way. After their safe arrival at Mount Lycaeus, the Arcadians entertained them and treated them kindly in every way, offering...

Lycaeus

76 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Laconia ...Cephallenia, becoming islanders instead of mainlanders, and raid the coasts of Laconia with their ships and ravage the land. But Manticlus bade them forget Messene...

Laconia

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Peloponnesian War. ...he stayed the pestilence which afflicted the Athenians at the time of the Peloponnesian War. Here is built also a sanctuary of the Mother of the gods; the image is by...

Peloponnesian War.

76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Elatea ...was invested. Taxilus, a general of Mithridates, was at the time besieging Elatea in Phocis, but on receiving the news he withdrew his troops towards Attica...

Elatea

78 22.782061,38.645635,0 Mycalessus ...He also put into the Chalcidic Euripus, where the Boeotians had an inland town Mycalessus, marched up to this town from the coast and took it. Of the inhabitants the...

Mycalessus

81 23.545847,38.415804,0 Sicily ...envoys he abandoned Tarentum and the Italiots on the coast, and crossing into Sicily forced the Carthaginians to raise the siege of Syracuse. In his self-conceit...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Itonian ...of Pyrrhus are shown best by the Celtic armour dedicated in the sanctuary of Itonian Athena between Pherae and Larisa, with this inscription on them: "Pyrrhus the...

Itonian

79 22.050597,39.261599,0 Messenians ...the fourth time, they arrayed themselves to meet it along with the Argives and Messenians who had come as their allies. Pyrrhus won the day, and came near to capturing...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sphacteria ...to be those of the Lacedemonians who were taken prisoners in the island of Sphacteria. Here are placed bronze statues, one, in front of the portico, of Solon, who...

Sphacteria

77 21.665725,36.930136,0 Macedonia ...was foreshadowed by unmistakable signs. When he was about to set forth from Macedonia with Alexander, and was sacrificing at Pella to Zeus, the wood that lay on the...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...and Pandrosus, and a son Erysichthon. This son did not become king of the Athenians, but happened to die while his father lived, and the kingdom of Cecrops fell to...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphi ...by Calamis. They say that the god received this name because by an oracle from Delphi he stayed the pestilence which afflicted the Athenians at the time of the...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cyrene ...a Macedonians but of no note and of lowly origin--induced the people of Cyrene to revolt from Ptolemy and marched against Egypt. Ptolemy fortified the...

Cyrene

74 21.856169,32.818736,0 Alexandria ...and that he had treated the eunuchs in such a fashion. The people of Alexandria rushed to kill Ptolemy, and when he escaped on board a ship, made Alexander...

Alexandria

71 29.904133,31.195371,0 Patrae ...that they should not hinder his activities. Engaging them at Dyme beyond Patrae, Aratus being still leader of the Achaeans, he won the victory. In fear for the...

Patrae

76 21.738518,38.243265,0 Sicyonians ...The first thing inside is a statue of Antiope. They say that her sons were Sicyonians, and because of them the Sicyonians will have it that Antiope herself is...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Arcadians ...road to it from Sicyon. That the Phliasians are in no way related to the Arcadians is shown by the passage in Homer that deals with the list of the Arcadians, in...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Oropians ...Thebes to Chalcis. The divinity of Amphiaraus was first established among the Oropians, from whom afterwards all the Greeks received the cult. I can enumerate other...

Oropians

80 23.846116,38.291099,0 of Amphiaraus ...because of his treatment of Eriphyle, is honored neither in the temple of Amphiaraus nor yet with Amphilochus. The fourth portion of the altar is to Aphrodite and...

of Amphiaraus

73 23.846116,38.291099,0 Helene ...after the capture of Troy, and for this reason the name of the island is Helene. Salamis lies over against Eleusis, and stretches as far as the territory of...

Helene

76 24.116,37.678,0 Athenians ...a temple of Ajax and his statue in ebony. Even at the present day the Athenians pay honors to Ajax himself and to Eurysaces, for there is an altar of Eurysaces...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Euboea ...who was deemed worthy of commanding the Athenians when they crossed into Euboea to reinforce Plutarch, and also a place called Scirum, which received its name...

Euboea

75 Attica ...to Athens. He ordered them first to sacrifice to Apollo in that spot in Attica where they should see a man-of-war running on the land. When they reached the...

Attica

75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Thrace ...agreed in identifying the tomb of Eumolpus. This Eumolpus they say came from Thrace, being the son of Poseidon and Chione. Chione they say was the daughter of the...

Thrace

79 27.5,42.5,0 Megara ...They say that as she was walking from Argos to Thebes she died on the way at Megara, and that the Heracleidae fell to disputing, some wishing to carry the corpse...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thebes ...to carry the corpse of Alcmena back to Argos, others wishing to take it to Thebes, as in Thebes were buried Amphitryon and the children of Heracles by Megara...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cithaeronian ...and of Artemis. They say that Alcathous made it after killing the lion called Cithaeronian. By this lion they say many were slain, including Euippus, the son of Megareus...

Cithaeronian

80 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Thesprotia ...Theseus made their pact before setting forth to Lacedemon and afterwards to Thesprotia. Hard by is built a temple of Eileithyia, who they say came from the...

Thesprotia

78 20.25,39.75,0 Cretans ...peoples. The Delians sacrifice to Eileithyia and sing a hymn of Olen. But the Cretans suppose that Eileithyia was born at Amnisus in the Cnossian territory, and that...

Cretans

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Olympian Zeus ...Erysichthon brought from Delos. Before the entrance to the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus – Hadrian the Roman emperor dedicated the temple and the statue, one worth...

Olympian Zeus

75 23.875,37.875,0 Athens ...sanctuary of Athena, where he had taken refuge, and killed him. Such wise was Athens sorely afflicted by the war with Rome, but she flourished again when Hadrian...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...There is a legend that after the death of Sophocles the Lacedemonians invaded Attica, and their commander saw in a vision Dionysus, who bade him honor, with all the...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Crete ...himself down to his death. For the ship that carried the young people to Crete began her voyage with black sails; but Theseus, who was sailing on an adventure...

Crete

76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Scyros ...act. I think too that he showed poetic insight in making Achilles capture Scyros, differing entirely from those who say that Achilles lived in Scyros with the...

Scyros

76 24.6099,38.82754,0 Athenians ...As a recompense, when the tyranny of the Peisistratidae was at an end, the Athenians put up a bronze lioness in memory of the woman, which they say Callias...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonia ...Corcyra, in his war with Lysimachus, how he expelled Demetrius and ruled Macedonia until he was in turn expelled by Lysimachus, the most important of his...

Macedonia

75 21.75,41.25,0 Sicily ...striking a blow, he contrived in the following manner. On his return from Sicily and his defeat, he first sent various dispatches to Asia and to Antigonus...

Sicily

76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Boeotia ...was no victory, but only a trick in war. Their first reverse took place in Boeotia, and they afterwards suffered a severe defeat at the hands of Antipater and the...

Boeotia

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Macedonia ...the greater part of the Peloponnesus, he would not return to Epeirus but to Macedonia to make war there again. When Antigonus was about to lead his army from Argos...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Syracuse ...the most wicked deeds of Dionysius, because he expected his return to Syracuse, surely Hieronymus may be fully forgiven for writing to please Antigonus. So...

Syracuse

72 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athenian ...still extant is of Parian marble and is the work of Pheidias. One of the Athenian parishes is that of the Athmoneis, who say that Porphyrion, an earlier king...

Athenian

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Soli. Hard by the gymnasium is a sanctuary of Theseus, where are pictures of Athenians fighting Amazons. This war they have also represented on the shield of their...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Locrians ...Greeks whose custom it is to use that weapon are the Cretans. For the Opuntian Locrians, whom Homer represents as coming to Troy with bows and slings, we know were...

Locrians

81 22.75,38.75,0 Attica ...only with such as concern the Athenians. He seized the fort of Panactum in Attica and also Salamis, and established as tyrant in Athens Demetrius the son of...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Aetolians ...Cassander had invaded Attica, Olympiodorus sailed to Aetolia and induced the Aetolians to help. This allied force was the main reason why the Athenians escaped war...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Polis ...of Athena which is on what is now called the Acropolis, but in early days the Polis (City). A legend concerning it says that it fell from heaven; whether this is...

Polis

80 22.068915,38.385636,0 Rhodians ...if the island were won, to use it as a base against the Egyptians. But the Rhodians displayed daring and ingenuity in the face of the besiegers, while Ptolemy...

Rhodians

77 28.15629,36.41451,0 Cyprus ...the death of Antigonus, Ptolemy again reduced the Syrians and Cyprus, and also restored Pyrrhus to Thesprotia on the mainland. Cyrene rebelled; but...

Cyprus

64 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Macedonians ...governorship of Cyrene by his mother Berenice--she had borne him to Philip, a Macedonians but of no note and of lowly origin--induced the people of Cyrene to revolt from...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...these statues also among the spoils, but they were afterwards restored to the Athenians by Antiochus. Before the entrance of the theater which they call the Odeum...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cyprus ...the people offered opposition, she dispatched Alexander for the second time to Cyprus, ostensibly as general, but really because she wished by his means to make...

Cyprus

81 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Messene ...Laconia with their ships and ravage the land. But Manticlus bade them forget Messene and their hatred of the Lacedemonians, and sail to Sardinia and win an island...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lacedemonians ...overtaken by illness and death, for no further misfortune was to befall the Lacedemonians at the hands of Aristomenes. On his death Damagetus and the Rhodians built him...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthian ...revolt from the Lacedemonians in the seventy-ninth Olympiad, when Xenophon the Corinthian was victorious. Archimedes was archon at Athens. The occasion which they found...

Corinthian

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Acarnania ...only, were determined not to be dismayed at the horde which had come from Acarnania. They recalled the achievement of the Athenians at Marathon, how thirty myriad...

Acarnania

76 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Spartans ...Peloponnese, and Messenian slingers from Naupactus helped to capture the Spartans cut off in Sphacteria. When the Athenian reverse at Aegospotami took place...

Spartans

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...neighbors and were inviting any Greek to join them. So the majority of the Messenians went to them, their leader being Comon, who had commanded them in...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Leuctra ...had commanded them in Sphacteria. A year before the victory of the Thebans at Leuctra, heaven foretold their return to Peloponnese to the Messenians. It is said that...

Leuctra

81 23.18095,38.25422,0 Thebans ...Aristomelidas, the father of the mother of Agesilaus, a close friend of the Thebans who, when the wall of Plataea had been taken, had been one of the judges voting...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...the remnant of the garrison should be put to death. Now the Thebans like the Athenians refused, saying that they would give no help. When Agesilaus had assembled his...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...his arrival at Sardes he at once thought out a plan by which to force the Lacedemonians to recall their army from Asia. He sent Timocrates, a Rhodian, to Greece with...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Amphissa ...Timolaus. But those who first openly started the war were the Locrians from Amphissa. For there happened to be a piece of land the ownership of which was a matter...

Amphissa

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Locrians ...be a piece of land the ownership of which was a matter of dispute between the Locrians and the Phocians. Egged on by Ismenias and his party at Thebes, the Locrians...

Locrians

80 21.75,38.25,0 Thebans ...all their forces, and laid waste the land. So the Locrians brought in the Thebans as allies, and devastated Phocis. Going to Lacedemon the Phocians inveighed...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...war against Thebes, chief among their grievances being the outrageous way the Thebans behaved towards Agesilaus when he was sacrificing at Aulis. The Athenians...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...which continually became more serious, had its origin in the expedition of the Lacedemonians into Boeotia. So these circumstances compelled Agesilaus to lead his army back...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocians ...and Athenians, the latter calling to mind some old service rendered by the Phocians, the former, too, pretending to be friends when their real reason was, I think...

Phocians

77 22.25,38.25,0 Sparta ...Pythaeus. Farther on from Thornax is the city, which was originally named Sparta, but in course of time came to be called Lacedemon as well, a name which till...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...for them was at Tanagra, an engagement taking place with the Argives and Athenians. Such I learned was the history of Tisamenus. On their market-place the...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Tarentum ...of Athena, which is said to have been dedicated by the colonists who left for Tarentum in Italy. As to the place they call the Hellenium, it has been stated that...

Tarentum

81 17.228553,40.476034,0 Spartans ...speeches over them, and hold a contest in which none may compete except Spartans. The bones of Leonidas were taken by Pausanias from Thermopylae forty years...

Spartans

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Brauron ...Athenians. For what could have induced Iphigenia to leave the image behind at Brauron? Or why did the Athenians, when they were preparing to abandon their land, fail...

Brauron

80 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Thebes ...have no citadel rising to a conspicuous height like the Cadmea at Thebes and the Larisa at Argos. There are, however, hills in the city, and the highest...

Thebes

68 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenian ...off Ephesus, when he conquered Antiochus, the captain of Alcibiades, and the Athenian warships and the second occurred later, when he destroyed the Athenian fleet at...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegospotami ...and the second occurred later, when he destroyed the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami. On the left of the Lady of the Bronze House they have set up a sanctuary of...

Aegospotami

73 26.61011,40.35074,0 Eleusis ...he cares to do so, a wife. In this respect their custom differs from that at Eleusis, but the actual celebration is modelled on the Eleusinian rites. The Phliasians...

Eleusis

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Phliasians ...them all her mystery telling. At all events, this Dysaules, according to the Phliasians, established the mysteries here, and he it was who gave to the place the name...

Phliasians

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Argos ...them with being his adversaries in the war against Augeas. From Cleonae to Argos are two roads; one is direct and only for active men, the other goes along the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tiryns ...remained where he was at Argos, and Proetus took over the Heraeum, Midea, Tiryns, and the Argive coast region. Traces of the residence of Proetus in Tiryns...

Tiryns

76 22.80004,37.59918,0 Argive ...he was at Argos, and Proetus took over the Heraeum, Midea, Tiryns, and the Argive coast region. Traces of the residence of Proetus in Tiryns remain to the...

Argive

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...accept, because the Lacedemonians themselves do not accept it either. For the Lacedemonians have at Amyclae a portrait statue of a woman named Sparte, but they would be...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mycenae ...of the Cyclopes, who made for Proetus the wall at Tiryns. In the ruins of Mycenae is a fountain called Persea; there are also underground chambers of Atreus and...

Mycenae

77 22.756111,37.730833,0 Asterion ...part of Euboea. Euboea is the name they give to the hill here, saying that Asterion the river had three daughters, Euboea, Prosymna, and Acraea, and that they were...

Asterion

77 22.75,37.75,0 Argives ...wood, and was dedicated in Tiryns by Peirasus, son of Argus, and when the Argives destroyed Tiryns they carried it away to the Heraeum. I myself saw it, a small...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tiryns ...dedicated in Tiryns by Peirasus, son of Argus, and when the Argives destroyed Tiryns they carried it away to the Heraeum. I myself saw it, a small, seated...

Tiryns

80 22.80004,37.59918,0 Messenia ...given the land in trust to Tyndareus. They gave the same kind of account about Messenia also, that it had been given in trust to Nestor by Heracles after he had taken...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pylus ...also, that it had been given in trust to Nestor by Heracles after he had taken Pylus. So they expelled Tisamenus from Lacedemon and Argos, and the descendants of...

Pylus

81 Argos ...after he had taken Pylus. So they expelled Tisamenus from Lacedemon and Argos, and the descendants of Nestor from Messenia, namely Alcmaeon, son of Sillus...

Argos

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Arcadia ...than this in the expedition, from Argos, from Messene, with some even from Arcadia. But the Argives have adopted the number seven from the drama of Aeschylus, and...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Argives ...of white marble in just about the middle of the marketplace is not, as the Argives declare, a trophy in honor of a victory over Pyrrhus of Epeirus, but it can be...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thesprotia ...dedicated by Helen when, Theseus having gone away with Peirithous to Thesprotia, Aphidna had been captured by the Dioscuri and Helen was being brought to...

Thesprotia

71 20.25,39.75,0 Lacedemon ...Aphidna had been captured by the Dioscuri and Helen was being brought to Lacedemon. For it is said that she was with child, was delivered In Argos, and founded...

Lacedemon

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...the son of Heracles for which homicide Tleptolemus was banished from Argos. On turning a little aside from the road to Cylarabis and to the gate there...

Argos

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 porticoes ...statues of such as had some title to fame, both men and women. One of the porticoes contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes. In it is the...

porticoes

77 Caphereus ...when the Greeks, as they were returning from Troy, met with the shipwreck at Caphereus, those of the Argives who were able to escape to land suffered from cold and...

Caphereus

79 24.58816,38.15888,0 Epidaurus ...cannot credit it, and leave anyone to do so who has not learnt the history of Epidaurus. The most famous sanctuary of Asclepius at Argos contains at the present day a...

Epidaurus

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 images ...principle as they call Apollo Musegetes (Leader of the Muses). Here there are images of Athena Paeonia (Healer), of Zeus, of Mnemosyne (Memory) and of the Muses, an...

images

80 Pheraea ...in Titane. The Argives, like the Athenians and Sicyonians, worship Artemis Pheraea, and they, too, assert that the image of the goddess was brought from Pherae in...

Pheraea

78 21.794283,37.696919,0 Pherae ...Pheraea, and they, too, assert that the image of the goddess was brought from Pherae in Thessaly. But I cannot agree with them when they say that in Argos are the...

Pherae

80 22.737728,39.384163,0 Lerna ...here are the heads apart from the bodies, which are at Lerna. For it was at Lerna that the youths were murdered, and when they were dead their wives cut off...

Lerna

78 22.71809,37.55107,0 Aphytis ...and induced the Lacedemonians to worship the god still more. The people of Aphytis honor Ammon no less than the Ammon Libyans. The story of Artemis Cnagia is as...

Aphytis

77 23.436606,40.099366,0 building ...only a face of him worked into the wall. After the precinct of Dionysos is a building that contains clay images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and...

building

79 images ...the yearly office called the kingship. On the tiling of this portico are images of baked earthenware, Theseus throwing Sciron into the sea and Day carrying...

images

75 Arcadia ...is Harpleia, which extends as far as the plain. On the road from Sparta to Arcadia there stands in the open an image of Athena surnamed Pareia, and after it is a...

Arcadia

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Croceae ...of Croceae in marble, and the Dioscuri in bronze are at the quarry. After Croceae, turning away to the right from the straight road to Gythium, you will reach a...

Croceae

77 22.548448,36.884856,0 Caenepolis ...is Gythium; after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the...

Caenepolis

78 22.442714,36.460433,0 portico ...Such is the tale told by Hesiod, among others, in his poem on women. Near the portico stand Conon, Timotheus his son and Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the...

portico

81 Cranae ...was named in the Dorian tongue Zeus Cappotas. Before Gythium lies the island Cranae, and Homer says that when Alexander had carried off Helen he had intercourse...

Cranae

79 22.57391,36.75398,0 Marius ...The rest of the image was destroyed by fire along with the former temple. Marius is another town of the Free Laconians, distant from Geronthrae one hundred...

Marius

77 22.819373,37.042584,0 Boeatae ...a hundred stades, you reach a place on the coast within the frontier of the Boeatae, which is sacred to Apollo and called Epidelium. For the wooden image which is...

Boeatae

78 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Leuctra ...the whole war – the taking of the Cadmea, the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, how the Boeotians invaded the Peloponnesus, and the contingent sent to the...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messene ...first rulers then in this country were Polycaon, the son of Lelex, and Messene his wife. It was to her that Caucon, the son of Celaenus, son of Phlyus...

Messene

73 21.920439,37.175491,0 Mantinea ...to Cleidicus the son of Aesimides. Here is a picture of the exploit, near Mantinea, of the Athenians who were sent to help the Lacedemonians. Xenophon among...

Mantinea

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lacedemonians ...of the exploit, near Mantinea, of the Athenians who were sent to help the Lacedemonians. Xenophon among others has written a history of the whole war – the taking of...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Taenarum ...Artemis Issoria most of the Gods, and have a spring Naia. The promontory of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius...

Taenarum

78 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Troy ...home by Nestor, but that Podaleirius, as they were returning after the sack of Troy, was carried out of his course and reached Syrnus on the Carian mainland in...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lacedemonians ...with Cresphontes. They say that they did not surrender Polychares to the Lacedemonians for punishment because they also had not surrendered Euaephnus, but that they...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...until he took to wife Messene, the daughter of Triopas, son of Phorbas, from Argos. Messene, being proud of her origin, for her father was the chief of the...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...could not introduce into the present account the reasons why the Messenians have come to regard this as so bitter a reproach. Although the courage of the...

Messenians

67 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ampheia ...limited their tenure of office to ten years. At the time of the seizure of Ampheia, Aesimides the son of Aeschylus was holding his fifth year office at...

Ampheia

77 22.075138,37.264193,0 Messenians ...of the second war, and I will relate his history when I come to this. The Messenians, when they heard of the events at Ampheia from the actual survivors from the...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ampheia ...history when I come to this. The Messenians, when they heard of the events at Ampheia from the actual survivors from the captured town, mustered in Stenyclerus from...

Ampheia

81 22.075138,37.264193,0 Lacedemonians ...encourage their men. The words of encouragement addressed by Theopompus to the Lacedemonians were few, according to their native custom. He reminded them of their oath...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...against mass, especially on the Lacedemonian side, and man attacking man. The Lacedemonians were far superior both in tactics and training, and also in numbers, for they...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyon ...father of Lacestades. Phalces the son of Temenus, with the Dorians, surprised Sicyon by night, but did Lacestades no harm, because he too was one of the...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Ithome ...an unseen quarter, "Let the bearer of the oracle go free." Tisis, reaching Ithome with all speed, delivered the oracle to the king, and soon afterwards died of...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenian ...from the Corinthian to the Sicyonian territory you see the tomb of Lycus the Messenian, whoever this Lycus may be; for I can discover no Messenian Lycus who practised...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pythia ...dead; for the father had murdered her, not offered her to the gods whom the Pythia ordained. When the seer said this, the multitude of the Messenians rushed on...

Pythia

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messenians ...gods whom the Pythia ordained. When the seer said this, the multitude of the Messenians rushed on the girl's lover to kill him, since he had fixed the guilt of...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartans ...were no longer with them. The allies of the Messenians also were late, for the Spartans had now incurred the suspicion of others of the Peloponnesians, especially of...

Spartans

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...troops from Argos and Sicyon. The Lacedemonians entrusted their center to the Corinthians, Helots and all the neighboring peoples who were serving with them; they...

Corinthians

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sicyonians ...in making his escape. Aratus restored equality of political rights to the Sicyonians, striking a bargain for those in exile; he restored to them their houses and...

Sicyonians

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Messenian ...the light troops advancing and hotly extended the pursuit as they retired. The Messenian light troops maintained their original tactics, striking and shooting at them...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...things befell the Messenians at that time: while Lyciscus was living abroad in Sparta, death overtook the daughter whom he carried with him on his flight from...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyon ...leader of the Achaeans, he won the victory. In fear for the Achaeans and for Sicyon itself, Aratus was forced by this defeat to bring in Antigouus as an ally...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Thebans ...the Apollo at Didyma of the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans. It is made of gold and ivory, having on its head a polos, and carrying in one...

Thebans

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sparta ...(he had a daughter, who with her children had fled at his death and come to Sparta) they assigned the part called Hyamia. The Messenians themselves were treated...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...readiness of their allies exceeding expectation (for now the hatred which the Argives and Arcadians felt for the Lacedemonians had blazed up openly), they revolted...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Titane ...the double-course foot-race twice, once without and once with the shield. In Titane there is also a sanctuary of Athena, into which they bring up the image of...

Titane

80 22.62501,37.92049,0 Sparta ...after the first war, and the sequence of time shows that the kings of Sparta at that time were Anaxander the son of Eurycrates, son of Polydorus, and of the...

Sparta

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...allies, they prepared to join battle at the Boar's Tomb, as it is called. The Messenians had the Eleians and Arcadians and also succors from Argos and from Sicyon. They...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Asine ...some of the Lepreans owing to their hatred of the Eleians. But the people of Asine were bound by oaths to both sides. This spot, the Boar's Tomb, lies in...

Asine

79 22.87403,37.52659,0 Lacedemonian ...was offered by the seers on both sides before the battle; on the Lacedemonian side by Hecas, descendant and namesake of the Hecas who had come with the sons...

Lacedemonian

67 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...a ruin; there are also the foundations of a house of Hippomedon, who went to Thebes to redress the wrongs of Polyneices, son of Oedipus. At this mountain begins...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argos ...there is also the tomb of Temenus, which is worshipped by the Dorians in Argos. Fifty stades, I conjecture, from Temenium is Nauplia, which at the present...

Argos

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argolis ...place, called Apobathmi (Steps). The story is that this is the first place in Argolis where Danaus landed with his daughters. From here we pass through what is...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Pergamus ...after spraining himself while hunting about Pindasus, he brought the cult to Pergamus. From the one at Pergamus has been built in our own day the sanctuary of...

Pergamus

79 27.184167,39.1325,0 Parian ...and of Epione. Epione, they say, was the wife of Asclepius. These are of Parian marble, and are set up in the open. There is also in the city a temple of...

Parian

75 25.150728,37.08579,0 Cnossus ...refers in riddling words to the legislation of Minos in the following verses: "Cnossus too, great city, among them, where Minos for nine years Ruled as king, and...

Cnossus

81 25.163106,35.297847,0 Salamis ...as implicated in the murder of Phocus, sailed away a second time and came to Salamis. Not far from the Secret Harbor is a theater worth seeing; it is very similar...

Salamis

79 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Troezen ...incorporating both Hyperea and Anthea into the modern city, which he named Troezen after his brother. Many years afterwards the descendants of Aetius, son of...

Troezen

77 Lacedemonians ...Demaratus was born, denying that he was his child. On the present occasion the Lacedemonians, according to their wont, referred to the oracle at Delphi the claim against...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Troezenia ...especially by the dwellers in Calaurea. Stretching out far into the sea from Troezenia is a peninsula, on the coast of which has been founded a little town called...

Troezenia

80 Thebans ...led his army against Thebes and purposed to take the offensive. Thereupon the Thebans offered battle, and Thrasybulus was reported to be not far away with the...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...was reported to be not far away with the Athenians. He was waiting for the Lacedemonians to take the offensive, on which his intention was to launch an attack himself...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Troezenia ...have also been built of Demeter Thermasia (Warmth), one at the border towards Troezenia, as I have stated above, while there is another in Hermione itself. Near the...

Troezenia

80 Hermionians ...reason paid honors to Apollo Horius. The sanctuary of Fortune is said by the Hermionians to be the newest in their city; a colossus of Parian marble stands there. Of...

Hermionians

80 23.243591,37.385218,0 Lacedemonians ...came the Egyptian expedition with Patroclus, and every available man of the Lacedemonians with Areus their king at their head. Antigonus invested Athens and prevented...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...son Zeuxidamus, whose son Anaxidamus succeeded to the throne. In his reign the Messenians were expelled from the Peloponnesus, being vanquished for the second time by...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartans ...expelled from the Peloponnesus, being vanquished for the second time by the Spartans. Anaxidamus begat Archidamus, and Archidamus begat Agesicles. It was the lot of...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...king of good repute at Sparta, particularly for his helping Cleomenes to free Athens from the Peisistratidae, became a private citizen through the thoughtlessness...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lycia ...son of Menelaus, and Nicostratus. Bellerophontes is destroying the beast in Lycia, and Heracles is driving off the cows of Geryones. At the upper edge of the...

Lycia

78 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Rhodians ...they say that Menelaus and Helen were buried here. The account of the Rhodians is different. They say that when Menelaus was dead, and Orestes still a...

Rhodians

72 28.15629,36.41451,0 Rhodes ...a wanderer, Helen was driven out by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and came to Rhodes, where she had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus. For Polyxo, they...

Rhodes

78 28.15629,36.41451,0 Lacedemon ...Penelope in marriage to Odysseus, he tried to make Odysseus himself settle in Lacedemon, but failing in the attempt, he next besought his daughter to remain behind...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Troy ...had taken Ilium and had returned safe home eight years after the sack of Troy, he set up near the sanctuary of Migonitis an image of Thetis and the goddesses...

Troy

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Boeae ...the peak there runs into the land the Gulf of Boeae, and the city of Boeae is at the head of the gulf. This was founded by Boeus, one of the Heracleidae...

Boeae

71 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Platanistus ...of Asclepius and Health. Cythera lies opposite Boeae; to the promontory of Platanistus, the point where the island lies nearest to the mainland, it is a voyage of...

Platanistus

78 22.9502,36.38578,0 Pyrrhichus .... . . further from an altar of Zeus. Inland, forty stades from the river, lies Pyrrhichus, the name of which is said to be derived from Pyrrhus the son of Achilles; but...

Pyrrhichus

81 22.432959,36.659054,0 Taenarum ...if he had called a real serpent the hound of Hades. Among other offerings on Taenarum is a bronze statue of Arion the harper on a dolphin. Herodotus has told the...

Taenarum

80 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Messenians ...bare, a statue of Zeus of Ithome was found to have been dedicated there. The Messenians say that this is evidence that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...The Messenians say that this is evidence that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Laconia ...between Messenia and that part of it which was incorporated by the emperor in Laconia towards Gerenia is formed in our time by the valley called Choerius. They say...

Laconia

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenians ...was not eager that war should be declared between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, but to the utmost of his power tried to keep the truce between them unbroken...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocians ...the ownership of which was a matter of dispute between the Locrians and the Phocians. Egged on by Ismenias and his party at Thebes, the Locrians cut the ripe corn...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Abydos ...Agesilaus to lead his army back from Asia. Crossing with his fleet from Abydos to Sestos he passed through Thrace as far as Thessaly, where the Thessalians...

Abydos

74 26.41122,40.19406,0 Aetolians ...under Iphicrates. Agesilaus went also to Aetolia to give assistance to the Aetolians, who were hard pressed in a war with, the Acarnanians; these he compelled to...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Thebans ...pretending to be friends when their real reason was, I think, hatred of the Thebans. Theopompus, son of Damasistratus, said that Archidamus himself had a share of...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenian ...statue of Agias. This Agias, they say, by divining for Lysander captured the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami with the exception of ten ships of war. These made their...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troy ...against Troy to please Menelaus deliberated here how they could sail out to Troy and exact satisfaction from Alexander for carrying off Helen. Near the...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lacedemonians ...discovered the melting of iron and the moulding of images from it. Here the Lacedemonians hung the harp of Timotheus of Miletus, to express their disapproval of his...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...into conversation with her, visited Crius and learned from him how to capture Sparta. The cult of Apollo Carneus has been established among all the Dorians ever...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ida ...Leto being his nurses. There is also another account of the name; in Trojan Ida there grew in a grove of Apollo cornel-trees, which the Greeks cut down to make...

Ida

78 26.85852,39.69936,0 Olympian ...of Serapis, the newest sanctuary in the city, and one of Zeus surnamed Olympian. The Lacedemonians give the name Running Course to the place where it is the...

Olympian

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonians ...the newest sanctuary in the city, and one of Zeus surnamed Olympian. The Lacedemonians give the name Running Course to the place where it is the custom for the young...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Epidaurus ...Lessa the Argive territory joins that of Epidaurus. But before you reach Epidaurus itself you will come to the sanctuary of Asclepius. Who dwelt in this land...

Epidaurus

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Titane ...themselves or a stranger, are entirely consumed within the bounds. At Titane too, I know, there is the same rule. The image of Asclepius is, in size, half...

Titane

72 22.62501,37.92049,0 Sphettus ...from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons of Troezen, migrated to Attica, and the parishes are named after them. As...

Sphettus

79 23.8384225,37.917244,0 Ionia ...was set up by Pittheus; it is the oldest I know of. Now the Phocaeans, too, in Ionia have an old temple of Athena, which was once burnt by Harpagus the Persian, and...

Ionia

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Hermione ...by the people of Troezen. On the road that leads through the mountains to Hermione is a spring of the river Hyllicus, originally called Taurius (Bull-like), and a...

Hermione

77 23.243591,37.385218,0 Hermion ...of Troezen, is Hermione. The founder of the old city, the Hermionians say, was Hermion, the son of Europs. Now Europs, whose father was certainly Phoroneus...

Hermion

81 23.243591,37.385218,0 Argos ...child, whose father was supposed to be Zeus. Subsequently the Dorians from Argos settled, among other places, at Hermion, but I do not think there was war...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Rhodian ...he is said to have been one of those who sailed on the Argo. The verses of the Rhodian poet confirm me in my opinion: "Came after these Phlias from Araethyrea to the...

Rhodian

81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Dorians ...remain on their own estates and receive Rhegnidas as their king, giving the Dorians with him a share in the land. Hippasus and his party, on the other hand, urged...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Cleonae ...among the Phliasians. On the road from Corinth to Argos is a small city Cleonae. They say that Cleones was a son of Pelops, though there are some who say that...

Cleonae

74 22.75372,37.81708,0 Mycenae ...the cause of its foundation and the reason why the Argives afterwards laid Mycenae waste. The oldest tradition in the region now called Argolis is that when...

Mycenae

77 22.756111,37.730833,0 Mycene ...gave to the place the name of Mycenae. Homer in the Odyssey mentions a woman Mycene in the following verse: "Tyro and Alcmene and the fair-crowned lady Mycene."...

Mycene

80 22.756111,37.730833,0 Argives ...mere mention of a Sparton, son of Phoroneus. It was jealousy which caused the Argives to destroy Mycenae. For at the time of the Persian invasion the Argives made no...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Trojan ...to the birth of Zeus and the battle between the gods and the giants, or to the Trojan war and the capture of Ilium. Before the entrance stand statues of women who...

Trojan

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Mysia ...name they give to the tomb of Thyestes – there is on the left a place called Mysia and a sanctuary of Mysian Demeter, so named from a man Mysius who, say the...

Mysia

79 22.726959,37.725449,0 Titane ...of Machaon and brother of the Alexanor who is honored among the Sicyonians in Titane. The Argives, like the Athenians and Sicyonians, worship Artemis Pheraea, and...

Titane

80 22.62501,37.92049,0 Argos ...rules in all the three "allotments" of the Universe, as they are called. From Argos are roads to various parts of the Peloponnesus, including one to Tegea on the...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lycone ...including one to Tegea on the side towards Arcadia. On the right is Mount Lycone, which has trees on it, chiefly cypresses. On the top of the mountain is built...

Lycone

76 22.67728,37.63187,0 Tenea ...road you see the Teneatic gate and a sanctuary of Eilethyia. The town called Tenea is just about sixty stades distant. The inhabitants say that they are Trojans...

Tenea

79 22.834379,37.798572,0 Cadmea ...first founders of Thebes, in my opinion distinguishing the lower city from the Cadmea. When Lamedon became king he took to wife an Athenian woman, Pheno, the...

Cadmea

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Epeirus ...also went to war with Pyrrhus, son of Aeacides. Waiting for his departure from Epeirus (Pyrrhus was of a very roving disposition) he ravaged Epeirus until he reached...

Epeirus

81 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Teuthrania ...river Thyamis, while Pergamus crossed into Asia and killed Areius, despot in Teuthrania, who fought with him in single combat for his kingdom, and gave his name to the...

Teuthrania

79 27.054771,39.035223,0 Epeirus ...son of Neoptolemus, died among the Leucani, and Olympias returned to Epeirus through fear of Antipater, Aeacides, son of Arybbas, continued in allegiance to...

Epeirus

71 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Argives ...no further battle, it is said, took place between Aeneas and Diomedes with his Argives. One of the many ambitions of the Athenians was to reduce all Italy, but the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...him and was joined by the Messenians and the rest of the Greeks, because the Lacedemonians were on the side of Augustus. For this reason Augustus punished the Messenians...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Odrysian ...for Philammon refused to take her into his house. Thamyris is called an Odrysian and Thracian on these grounds. The watercourses Leucasia and Amphitos unite to...

Odrysian

74 25.33686355,42.61977194999999,0 Eleusinian ...they celebrate in the Carnasian grove, and I regard them as second only to the Eleusinian in sanctity. But my dream did not prevent me from making known to all that the...

Eleusinian

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Andania ...the grove; about eight stades along the road to the left are the ruins of Andania. The guides agree that the city got its name from a woman Andania, but I can...

Andania

77 21.938099,37.26217,0 Dorium ...Electra is crossed, there is a spring called Achaia, and the ruins of a city Dorium. Homer states that the misfortune of Thamyris took place here in Dorium...

Dorium

79 21.88255,37.26708,0 Hermion ...according to the god's instructions to Heracles, they first occupied Asine by Hermion. They were driven thence by the Argives and lived in Messenia. This was the...

Hermion

80 23.243591,37.385218,0 Asine ...Being at feud with Heracles, he gave them Asine in the Argolid. The men of Asine are the only members of the race of the Dryopes to pride themselves on the name...

Asine

78 22.87403,37.52659,0 Styra ...on the name to this day. The case is very different with the Euboeans of Styra. They too are Dryopes in origin, who took no part in the battle with Heracles...

Styra

75 24.2607,38.1455,0 Laconian ...the Nauplians in the reign of Damocratidas in Argos were expelled for their Laconian sympathies, the Lacedemonians gave them Mothone, and that no change was made...

Laconian

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedemonians ...of Damocratidas in Argos were expelled for their Laconian sympathies, the Lacedemonians gave them Mothone, and that no change was made regarding them on the part of...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lydian ...from the Persians as a reward for surrendering the suppliant, Pactyas the Lydian. This water then has a black color; but the Romans have a white water, above...

Lydian

76 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Ionians ...by the Dorians, they did not retire from Peloponnesus, but they cast out the Ionians and occupied the land called of old Aegialus, but now called Achaea from these...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Pallantium ...and convicted him of unintentional homicide. For Apis, the son of Jason, from Pallantium in Arcadia, was run over and killed by the chariot of Aetolus at the games held...

Pallantium

80 22.336587,37.462155,0 Elis ...on Aristotimus, the son of Damaretus, the son of Etymon, became despot of Elis, being aided in his attempt by Antigonus, the son of Demetrius, who was king in...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Samicum ...you go from Elis there is a district stretching down to the sea. It is called Samicum, and above it on the right is what is called Triphylia, in which is the city...

Samicum

80 21.59852,37.53384,0 Lepreus ...the Eleans. Leaving the river Anigrus on the left there is a road leading to Lepreus; from Samicum another leads to it from Olympia and a third from Elis. The...

Lepreus

79 21.724777,37.439599,0 Isthmus ...as the inscription on him says, also won the chariot-race at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The statue of a pancratiast was made by Lysippus. The athlete was...

Isthmus

74 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Lacedemonians ...Lichas, the father won two Olympic victories; his son, because in his time the Lacedemonians were excluded from the games, entered his chariot in the name of the Theban...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Milesian ...But Antipater, thinking naught of the tyrant's gifts, proclaimed himself a Milesian and wrote upon his statue that he was of Milesian descent and the first Ionian...

Milesian

77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Messenians ...at the age of twelve. I was exceedingly surprised to learn that while the Messenians were in exile from the Peloponnesus, their luck at the Olympic games failed...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Olympia ...The inscription on it informs us that Eupolemus won the foot-race for men at Olympia, and that he also received two Pythian crowns for the pentathlum and another at...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...and one declared the winner to be Leon the Ambraciot. Leon, they say, got the Olympic Council to fine each of the umpires who had decided in favour of...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Samians ...precinct of Zeus, ruler on high, I stand, dedicated at public expense by the Samians." So this inscription informs us who dedicated the statue; the next is in...

Samians

79 26.84,37.73,0 Ephesians ...at Aegospotami, the Samians set up a statue of Lysander at Olympia, and the Ephesians set up in the sanctuary of Artemis not only a statue of Lysander himself but...

Ephesians

78 27.339722,37.941944,0 Ephesian ...both in the sanctuary of Hera in Samos and also in the sanctuary of the Ephesian goddess at Ephesus. It is always the same; the Ionians merely follow the...

Ephesian

74 27.339722,37.941944,0 Pytho ...Olympia: "In wrestling only I alone conquered twice the men at Olympia and at Pytho, Thrice at Nemea, and four times at the Isthmus near the sea; Chilon of Patrae...

Pytho

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympia ...of Sparta. Euanthes of Cyzicus won prizes for boxing, one among the men at Olympia, and also among the boys at the Nemean and at the Isthmian games. By the side...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Maenalian ...by the Athenian painter Micon. Nicodamus the Maenalian made the statue of the Maenalian pancratiast Androsthenes, the son of Lochaeus, who won two victories among the...

Maenalian

80 22.265891,37.549491,0 Phocian ...statue of a boy wrestler, Agenor of Thebes. The statue was dedicated by the Phocian Commonwealth, for Theopompus, the father of Agenor, was a state friend of their...

Phocian

78 22.25,38.25,0 Maenalus ...of Agenor, was a state friend of their nation. Nicodamus, the sculptor from Maenalus, made the statue of the boxer Damoxenidas of Maenalus. There stands also the...

Maenalus

79 22.265891,37.549491,0 Olympia ...and stands by the father of his mother. The story goes that Diagoras came to Olympia in the company of his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus. The youths on defeating...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Corinthians ...statue of Areus on horseback. The statue of Aratus was dedicated by the Corinthians, that of Areus by the people of Elis. I have already given some account of...

Corinthians

74 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenian ...Olympia. Pherias of Aegina, whose statue stands by the side of Aristophon the Athenian, at the seventy-eighth Festival was considered very young, and, being judged to...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Damaretus, another Messenian, who won the boys' boxing-match, was made by the Athenian Silanion. Anauchidas, the son of Philys, an Elean, won a crown in the boys'...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Egyptian ...Pythian and the one called Decatephorus (Bringer of Tithes) are very like the Egyptian wooden images, but the one surnamed Archegetes (Founder) resembles Aeginetan...

Egyptian

80 Olympia ...a victory with a race-horse, and there is a memorial of his victory also at Olympia. The statue of Olidas, of Elis, was dedicated by the Aetolian nation, and...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Isthmus ...boxing prizes at Olympia, two at Pytho, and also victories at Nemea and the Isthmus; the Syracusans dedicated two statues of Hiero at the public charge, while a...

Isthmus

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Syracusans ...at Olympia, two at Pytho, and also victories at Nemea and the Isthmus; the Syracusans dedicated two statues of Hiero at the public charge, while a third is the gift...

Syracusans

77 15.29382,37.05963,0 Byzantines ...of Antigonus the son of Demetrius; they are offerings, you may be sure, of the Byzantines. At the thirty-eighth Festival Eutelidas the Spartan won two victories among...

Byzantines

81 28.975926,41.012379,0 Aetolians ...from competing. The inscription on his statue adds that he joined the Aetolians in their expedition against the Thessalians and became leader of the garrison...

Aetolians

72 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Olympia ...of Herodotus because he was the first Clazomenian to be proclaimed victor at Olympia, his victory being in the boys' foot-race. The Coans dedicated a statue of...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sicyonians ...for Apollo. There is at Olympia a treasury called the treasury of the Sicyonians, dedicated by Myron, who was tyrant of Sicyon. Myron built it to commemorate a...

Sicyonians

72 22.71135,37.98336,0 Greeks ...the Greeks as well as the Athenians them selves. After the Amazons come the Greeks when they have taken Troy, and the kings assembled on account of the outrage...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...to see the statue of Diitrephes pierced with arrows, because the only Greeks whose custom it is to use that weapon are the Cretans. For the Opuntian...

Greeks

72 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...But legend says of that horse that it contained the most valiant of the Greeks, and the design of the bronze figure fits in well with this story. Menestheus...

Greeks

74 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...of the statue, having made this preface for the sake of clearness. The Greeks say that Nemesis was the mother of Helen, while Leda suckled and nursed her...

Greeks

73 22.5,37.5,0 Arcadians ...this goddess to help them brought her son forth unto men. The tomb of the Arcadians who were killed in the battle is on the hill across the Cladeus to the west...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Midea ...and do her honor in other ways. The story is that Hippodameia withdrew to Midea in Argolis, because Pelops was very angry with her over the death of...

Midea

76 22.842,37.65,0 Pisa ...was a man of Pisa who opposed Pantaleon, the son of Omphalion and despot at Pisa, when he plotted to revolt from Elis; Pantaleon, they say, put him to death...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Elis ...the son of Omphalion and despot at Pisa, when he plotted to revolt from Elis; Pantaleon, they say, put him to death, and from his property was built the...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 tomb ...the Megarians in the city as well. Near the shrine of the hero Pandion is the tomb of Hippolyte. I will record the account the Megarians give of her. When the...

tomb

81 tomb ...died of a broken heart, and the Megarians gave her burial. The shape of her tomb is like an Amazonian shield. Not far from this is the grave of Tereus, who...

tomb

78 Pisa ...the south, just opposite the Erymanthus, is the boundary between the land of Pisa and Arcadia; it is called the Diagon. Forty stades beyond the ridge of Saurus...

Pisa

79 21.653041,37.639535,0 tomb ...of a very roving disposition) he ravaged Epeirus until he reached the royal tombs. The next part of the story is incredible to me, but Hieronymus the Cardian...

tomb

78 tomb ...head bowed down. On the way to the Athenian Acropolis from the theater is the tomb of Calos. Daedalus murdered this Calos, who was his sister's son and a student...

tomb

81 Crete ...say, by Clymenus, a descendant of Idaean Heracles, and he came from Cydonia in Crete and from the river Jardanus. The Eleans say that Pelops too sacrificed to...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Eleans ...Heracles, and he came from Cydonia in Crete and from the river Jardanus. The Eleans say that Pelops too sacrificed to Cydonian Athena before he set about his...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...and twenty stades to Letrini, and one hundred and eighty from Letrini to Elis. Originally Letrini was a town, and Letreus the son of Pelops was its founder...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Letrini ...as his bride, he dared to plot violence against her. Artemis was holding at Letrini an all-night revel with the nymphs who were her playmates, and to it came...

Letrini

78 21.431292,37.672865,0 Messenia ...the hand of each, to defend the fatherland that alone was left to them of all Messenia. The first to realize that the enemy were within and to go against them were...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...as the victims were unfavorable, but on the following day they learnt that the Lacedemonians had been forewarned of their secret, and that they themselves had been a second...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...an unjust king and with the help of Zeus hath easily declared the betrayer of Messene. Hard it is for a man forsworn to hide from God. Hail, king Zeus, and keep...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Arcadia ...Hard it is for a man forsworn to hide from God. Hail, king Zeus, and keep Arcadia safe. All the Messenians, who were captured about Eira or anywhere else in...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenians ...forsworn to hide from God. Hail, king Zeus, and keep Arcadia safe. All the Messenians, who were captured about Eira or anywhere else in Messenia, were reduced by the...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pylos ...else in Messenia, were reduced by the Lacedemonians to serfdom. The people of Pylos and Mothone and all who occupied the maritime district retired in ships on the...

Pylos

80 Mothone ...were reduced by the Lacedemonians to serfdom. The people of Pylos and Mothone and all who occupied the maritime district retired in ships on the capture of...

Mothone

72 21.705,36.817,0 Sparta ...of the Messenians. From there, when he saw that Aristomenes' plan to seize Sparta had failed, he persuaded some fifty of the Messenians to go back with him to...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Menestheus ...for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and before him Theseus, when he went to give...

Menestheus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and before him Theseus, when he went to give satisfaction to Minos for the death of Androgeos. But...

Theseus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 goddesses Genetyllides ...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 Genetyllides

78 Athenian ...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...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...Macedonians and Illyrians, and engaged in a struggle with Ptolemy, king of the Macedonians at that time. It was this Ptolemy who, though he had taken refuge as a...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Arcadia ...from Orchomenus in Arcadia a hundred and twenty; from the other cities in Arcadia one thousand; from Mycenae eighty; from Phlius two hundred, and from Corinth...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Spercheius ...detach the cavalry and a thousand light armed troops and to send them to the Spercheius, so that even the crossing of the river could not be effected by the barbarians...

Spercheius

79 22.25,38.75,0 Boeotia ...blow down from the mountains. Sailing from Creusis, not out to sea, but along Boeotia, you reach on the right a city called Thisbe. First there is a mountain by the...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Sparta ...an oracle had warned the Lacedemonians that only love of money could destroy Sparta, and so they were not used to acquiring wealth, yet Lysander aroused in the...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tilphusius ...they do not make the oath rashly. The sanctuary of the goddesses is near Mount Tilphusius. In Haliartus are temples, with no images inside, and without roofs. I could...

Tilphusius

81 22.994538,38.371064,0 Delians ...Angelion and Tectaus, sons of Dionysus, who made the image of Apollo for the Delians, set three Graces in his hand. Again, at Athens, before the entrance to the...

Delians

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Orchomenus ...of Molurus, son of Arisbas, whom he caught with his wedded wife and killed. Orchomenus assigned to him such of the land as is now around the village Hyettus, and the...

Orchomenus

78 22.959486,38.495082,0 Delphi ...ghost, they say, carrying a rock was ravaging the land. When they inquired at Delphi, the god bade them discover the remains of Actaeon and bury them in the earth...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lebadeia ...there are these two in Boeotia, a Heracles in Thebes and the Trophonius at Lebadeia. There are also two wooden images in Crete, a Britomartis at Olus and an Athena...

Lebadeia

77 22.87352,38.431063,0 Arcadia ...the sons of Phegeus (how they got it I have already related in my history of Arcadia),43 but it was carried off by the tyrants of Phocis. However, I do not think...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thessalians ...of Greece, when they accomplished some noteworthy deeds. Expecting that the Thessalians would invade their land at Hyampolis, they buried there earthen water-pots...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Thessalians ...into them the horses were lamed, and threw or killed their riders. The Thessalians, more enraged than ever against the Phocians, gathered levies from all their...

Thessalians

74 21.75,39.25,0 Phocian ...of the sanctuary, Philip put an end to the war, which was called both the Phocian War and the Sacred War, in the year when Theophilus was archon at Athens, which...

Phocian

76 22.25,38.25,0 Phocis ...maintain that they are not Phocians, but were originally Phlegyans who fled to Phocis from the land of Orchomenus. A survey of the ancient circuit of Panopeus led...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Panopeus ...former passage, in which Homer speaks of the beautiful dancing-floors of Panopeus, I could not understand until I was taught by the women whom the Athenians call...

Panopeus

75 22.79418,38.49551,0 Parnassus ...consume on the spot. There is also an ascent through Daulis to the summit of Parnassus, a longer one than that from Delphi, though not so difficult. Turning back from...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Thebes ...and the Cleft Road received the pollution of his murdered father's blood. Thebes is even more notorious for the marriage of Oedipus and for the sin of...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Plataea ...piled unhewn stones. According to the story, it was Damasistratus, king of Plataea, who found the bodies lying and buried them. From here the high road to Delphi...

Plataea

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Olen ...others also of the Hyperboreans, at the end of the hymn she names Olen: "And Olen, who became the first prophet of Phoebus, And first fashioned a song of ancient...

Olen

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Delphi ...of Cephisus. Afterwards the dwellers around called the city Pytho, as well as Delphi, just as Homer so calls it in the list of the Phocians. Those who would find...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Heracleots ...defended a city which they considered to belong to them just as much as to the Heracleots. Brennus did not trouble himself much about Heracleia, but directed his efforts...

Heracleots

81 22.442503,38.790767,0 Troy ..."Polygnotus, a Thasian by birth, son of Aglaophon, Painted a picture of Troy's citadel being sacked. The other part of the picture, the one on the left...

Troy

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Catana ...in the greatest respect, as we may infer, among other instances, from those in Catana called the Pious, who, when the fire flowed down on Catana from Aetna, held of...

Catana

81 15.0878345,37.5024825,0 Delians ...as their keeper. Datis the Persian too showed his piety in his address to the Delians, and in this act as well, when having found an image of Apollo in a Phoenician...

Delians

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Corycian ...the cave. The dwellers around Parnassus believe it to be sacred to the Corycian nymphs, and especially to Pan. From the Corycian cave it is difficult even for...

Corycian

73 22.52073,38.51526,0 Delphi ...a truce. In return for this good deed the Lilaeans dedicated his statue at Delphi. In Lilaea are also a theater, a market-place and baths. There is also a...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Charadra ...but Mount Parnassus prevents the winter from being correspondingly mild. Charadra is twenty stades distant, situated on the top of a lofty crag. The inhabitants...

Charadra

76 22.489574,38.640939,0 Parapotamii ...few in number, were distributed among the other cities. I found no ruins of Parapotamii left, nor is the site of the city remembered. The road from Lilaea to...

Parapotamii

78 22.806,38.554,0 Amphicleia ...left, nor is the site of the city remembered. The road from Lilaea to Amphicleia is sixty stades. The name of this Amphicleia has been corrupted by the native...

Amphicleia

73 22.5813,38.6424,0 Amphicleia ...also been made a temple, but no image. Drymaea is eighty stades distant from Amphicleia, on the left . . . according to the account in Herodotus, but in earlier days...

Amphicleia

79 22.5813,38.6424,0 Amphicleia ...with the exception of Delphi, the largest city in Phocis. It lies over against Amphicleia, and the road to it from Amphicleia is one hundred and eighty stades long...

Amphicleia

81 22.5813,38.6424,0 Amphicleia ...city in Phocis. It lies over against Amphicleia, and the road to it from Amphicleia is one hundred and eighty stades long, level for the most part, but with an...

Amphicleia

75 22.5813,38.6424,0 Arcadia ...taxation. They claim to be of foreign stock, saying that of old they came from Arcadia. For they say that when the Phlegyans marched against the sanctuary at Delphi...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Elateia ...from Rome to give all Greeks their freedom, promised to give back to Elateia its ancient constitution, and by messengers made overtures to its citizens to...

Elateia

71 22.782061,38.645635,0 Anticyra ...the sanctuary of the Dictynnaean goddess the road is downhill all the way to Anticyra. They say that in days of old the name of the city was Cyparissus, and that...

Anticyra

79 22.626059,38.375439,0 Cirrha ...city. They exacted punishment from the Cirrhaeans on behalf of the god, and Cirrha is the port of Delphi. Its notable sights include a temple of Apollo, Artemis...

Cirrha

78 22.450621,38.428937,0 Cirrhaeans ...with very large images of Attic workmanship. Adrasteia has been set up by the Cirrhaeans in the same place, but she is not so large as the other images. The territory...

Cirrhaeans

80 22.450621,38.428937,0 Phocis ...as the other images. The territory of the Locrians called Ozolian adjoins Phocis opposite Cirrha. I have heard various stories about the surname of these...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Ozolians ...Locris. The people hold that they are Aetolians, being ashamed of the name of Ozolians. Support is given to this view by the fact that, when the Roman emperor drove...

Ozolians

80 21.75,38.25,0 Cynurians ...Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those...

Cynurians

76 22.75,37.25,0 Lycaeus ...Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium...

Lycaeus

72 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Teuthis ...Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium, Teuthis. These were joined by Tripolis, as it is called, Callia, Dipoena...

Teuthis

74 22.041285,37.597441,0 Methydrium ...of Megalopolis as villages, namely Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson. Only one of them, Pallantium, was destined to meet...

Methydrium

80 22.168912,37.627412,0 Lacedemonians ...city in the same year, but a few months later, as occurred the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, when Phrasicleides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Chaeroneia ...and of the Macedonian empire, and the Arcadians did not help the Greeks at Chaeroneia or again in the struggle in Thessaly. After a short time a tyrant arose at...

Chaeroneia

77 22.840365,38.493361,0 Lusius ...Gortys flows a river called by those who live around its source the Lusius (Bathing River), because Zeus after his birth was bathed in it; those farther...

Lusius

70 22.25,37.75,0 Megalopolitans ...was not made by Philip, the son of Amyntas, but as a compliment to him the Megalopolitans gave his name to the building. Near it I found a temple of Hermes Acacesius in...

Megalopolitans

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Helisson ...which is within the walls, and from a spring on it a stream descends to the Helisson. Behind the government offices is a temple of Fortune with a stone image not...

Helisson

78 22.217753,37.612883,0 Achaeans ...he was in command of the Lacedemonians, and previously he had commanded the Achaeans. In the former office he proved a most stupid general, in the latter an...

Achaeans

78 Argos ...nor yet Corinth itself should belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus should be released from...

Argos

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Achaean ...by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus should be released from the Achaean confederacy. For they were not, he said, related at all to the Achaeans, and...

Achaean

72 Achaeans ...conclude, but while he was yet speaking ran out of the house and summoned the Achaeans to an assembly. When the Achaeans heard the decision of the Romans, they at...

Achaeans

80 Lacedemonians ...against the Romans. A few days afterwards the Achaeans shut up in prison the Lacedemonians they held under arrest, but separated from them the foreigners and let them go...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Scarpheia ...scouts that the Romans under Metellus had crossed the Spercheius, he fled to Scarpheia in Locris, without daring even to draw up the Achaeans in the pass between...

Scarpheia

79 22.68341970000006,38.81072,0 Lacedemonian ...brighter hopes were not suggested even by the spot itself, the site of the Lacedemonian effort to save Greece, and of the no less glorious exploit of the Athenians...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotia ...of both sexes and of all ages, abandoned the city and wandered about Boeotia, or took refuge on the tops of the mountains. But Metellus would not allow...

Boeotia

71 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athens ...head of the Greek nation. This war came to an end when Antitheus was archon at Athens, in the hundred and sixtieth Olympiad, at which Diodorus of Sicyon was...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Larisus ...into Achaean history. The boundary between Achaia and Elis is the river Larisus, and by the river is a temple of Larisaean Athena; about thirty stades distant...

Larisus

74 21.413649227506795,38.130572873364734,0 Phrygian ...the elegiac poet, says in a poem that he was the son of Galaus the Phrygian, and that he was a eunuch from birth. The account of Hermesianax goes on to say...

Phrygian

69 27.75,40.25,0 Dyme ...are the most popular forms of the legend of Attis. In the territory of Dyme is also the grave of Oebotas the runner. Although this Oebotas was the first...

Dyme

73 21.551425,38.144625,0 Achaeans ...back again to Patrae the men from the other towns, and united with them the Achaeans also from Rhypes, which town he razed to the ground. He granted freedom to the...

Achaeans

78 Aetolia ...people of Patrae thus secured the image of Laphria. Most of the images out of Aetolia and from Acarnania were brought by Augustus' orders to Nicopolis, but to Patrae...

Aetolia

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Patrae ...than Canachus of Sicyon and Callon of Aegina. Every year too the people of Patrae celebrate the festival Laphria in honor of their Artemis, and at it they employ...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 Ameilichus ...of this sacrifice the river flowing by the sanctuary of Triclaria was called Ameilichus (relentless). Previously the river had no name. The innocent youths and...

Ameilichus

79 21.75,38.25,0 Patrae ...looks into the spring all the things that he wants to behold. By the grove in Patrae are also two sanctuaries of Serapis. In one is the tomb of Egyptus, the son of...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Locrians ...each send two; ancient Doris sends one. The Ozolian Locrians, and the Locrians opposite Euboea, send one each; there is also one from Euboea. Of the...

Locrians

73 22.75,38.75,0 Aegospotami ...statues of those who, whether Spartans or Spartan allies, assisted Lysander at Aegospotami. They are these:– Aracus of Lacedemon, Erianthes a Boeotian . . . above Mimas...

Aegospotami

81 26.61011,40.35074,0 Athenians ...the Potidaeans in Thrace built one to show their piety to the god. The Athenians also built a portico out of the spoils they took in their war against the...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Erythraeans ...verse about Marpessus and the river Aedoneus is cut out of the oracles by the Erythraeans. The next woman to give oracles in the same way, according to Hyperochus of...

Erythraeans

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Delphians ...the bison is a statue of a man wearing a breastplate, on which is a cloak. The Delphians say that it is an offering of the Andrians, and a portrait of Andreus, their...

Delphians

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phliasians ...they had put to flight the Thessalian cavalry in the second engagement. The Phliasians brought to Delphi a bronze Zeus, and with the Zeus an image of Aegina. The...

Phliasians

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Delphi ...the Thessalian cavalry in the second engagement. The Phliasians brought to Delphi a bronze Zeus, and with the Zeus an image of Aegina. The Mantineans of Arcadia...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argolis ...two images of Apollo, one dedicated from Persian spoils by the Epidaurians of Argolis, the other dedicated by the Megarians to commemorate a victory over the...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Phocians ...Amphictyons have set up yet another Apollo from the fine they inflicted on the Phocians for their sin against the god. Of the offerings sent by the Lydian kings I...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Delphians ...so forming a seat for the bowl. What is called the Omphalus (Navel) by the Delphians is made of white marble, and is said by the Delphians to be the center of all...

Delphians

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Carystus ...Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha. The Euboeans of Carystus too set up in the sanctuary of Apollo a bronze ox, from spoils taken in the...

Carystus

77 24.4204,38.0165,0 Thebes ...But it is nonsense to think that Daedalus, a contemporary of Oedipus, king of Thebes, had a part in a colony or anything else along with Aristaeus, who married...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sardinia ...were they capable of the task. After Aristaeus the Iberians crossed to Sardinia, under Norax as leader of the expedition, and they founded the city of Nora...

Sardinia

74 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Sardinia ...to the water. I have introduced into my history of Phocis this account of Sardinia, because it is an island about which the Greeks are very ignorant. The horse...

Sardinia

76 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Achaia ...whom was given the following response: Dwellers in the land of Pelops and in Achaia, who to Pytho Have come to inquire how ye shall take a city, Come, consider...

Achaia

80 Altis ...on this side of the temple. The largest of the bronze images of Zeus in the Altis is twenty-seven feet high, and was dedicated by the Eleans themselves from the...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aeginetan ...me, He who has his dwelling in Aegina." This Onatas, though belonging to the Aeginetan school of sculpture, I shall place after none of the successors of Daedalus or...

Aeginetan

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Sicily ...Pelops. Among them are those dedicated by the Maenalian Phormis. He crossed to Sicily from Maenalus to serve Gelon the son of Deinomenes. Distinguishing himself in...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Pheneatians ...who I think was a pupil or son of Onatas. Not far from the offering of the Pheneatians is another image, Hermes with a herald's wand. An inscription on it says that...

Pheneatians

77 22.30692,37.91045,0 Theban ...were excluded from the games, entered his chariot in the name of the Theban people, and with his own hands bound the victorious charioteer with a ribbon...

Theban

71 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ionian ...and wrote upon his statue that he was of Milesian descent and the first Ionian to dedicate his statue at Olympia. The artist who made this statue was...

Ionian

74 27.508324,37.474596,0 Achaeans ...to proclaim himself a Syracusan. Caulonia was a colony in Italy founded by Achaeans, and its founder was Typhon of Aegium. When Pyrrhus son of Aeacides and the...

Achaeans

78 Stageira ...bears no inscription, but tradition says that it represents Aristotle from Stageira in Thrace, and that it was set up either by a pupil or else by some soldier...

Stageira

77 23.795769,40.592218,0 Susa ...with the promise of gifts and persuaded him to come before his presence at Susa. There he challenged three of the Persians called Immortals to fight him – one...

Susa

77 48.24854,32.19202,0 Elean ...of the boxer Damoxenidas of Maenalus. There stands also the statue of the Elean boy Lastratidas, who won the crown for wrestling. He won a victory at Nemea...

Elean

76 21.25,37.75,0 Nemea ...Elean boy Lastratidas, who won the crown for wrestling. He won a victory at Nemea also among the boys, and another among the beardless striplings. Paraballon...

Nemea

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Sybaris ...with the subject. It was a copy of an ancient picture. There were a stripling, Sybaris, a river, Calabrus, and a spring, Lyca. Besides, there were a hero-shrine and...

Sybaris

81 16.771002,39.590607,0 Olympia ...boxing in the men's class; Dorieus, the youngest, who won the pancratium at Olympia on three successive occasions. Even before Dorieus, Damagetus beat all those...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Megarian ...victory for boxing in the men's class. The statue of Diagoras was made by the Megarian Callicles, the son of the Theocosmus who made the image of Zeus at Megara. The...

Megarian

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Messene ...restrained by fear of the Thebans, submitted to the foundation of Messene and to the gathering of the Arcadians into one city. But when the Phocian or...

Messene

68 21.920439,37.175491,0 Arcadians ...Thebans, submitted to the foundation of Messene and to the gathering of the Arcadians into one city. But when the Phocian or, as it is called, the Sacred War caused...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eleians ...to Greece that has been related, he also bribed the leading men in Elis; the Eleians were divided by factions for the first time and came to blows, it is...

Eleians

79 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...ideas have proved useful to men in every matter. Not long after the affair at Elis, the Macedonians and Demetrius the son of Philip, son of Demetrius, captured...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Ithome ...the wall unnoticed at a point where it lay between the city and the peak of Ithome. When day dawned and the inhabitants had realized the danger that beset them...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Sparta ...poems. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedemonians of Sparta. For when Augustus was emperor of the Romans, Antony, himself a Roman, made war...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...of "Evoe" was first uttered here by Dionysus and his attendant women. Round Messene is a wall, the whole circuit of which is built of stone, with towers and...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenian ...and with them Arsinoe. Asclepius too is represented, being according to the Messenian account a son of Arsinoe, also Machaon and Podaleirius, as they also took part...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebans ...in peace-time knew it, and all knew it by repute. After their victory the Thebans restored the offering to Trophonius. There is also a bronze statue of...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Naupactus ...is the work of Ageladas and was made originally for the Messenian settlers in Naupactus. The priest is chosen annually and keeps the image in his house. They keep an...

Naupactus

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Stenyclerus ...form one stream. When these are crossed, there is a plain called the plain of Stenyclerus. Stenyclerus was a hero, it is said. Facing the plain is a site anciently...

Stenyclerus

81 21.75,37.25,0 Asine ...Colonides lies on high ground, a short distance from the sea. The people of Asine originally adjoined the Lycoritae on Parnassus. Their name, which they...

Asine

79 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Delphi ...were conquered in battle by Heracles and brought as an offering to Apollo at Delphi. When brought to Peloponnese according to the god's instructions to Heracles...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argolid ...appealed to Eurystheus. Being at feud with Heracles, he gave them Asine in the Argolid. The men of Asine are the only members of the race of the Dryopes to pride...

Argolid

81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Dryopes ...in the Argolid. The men of Asine are the only members of the race of the Dryopes to pride themselves on the name to this day. The case is very different with...

Dryopes

76 24.25,38.25,0 Delphians ...the city. Yet the people of Styra disdain the name of Dryopes, just as the Delphians have refused to be called Phocians. But the men of Asine take the greatest...

Delphians

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Asine ...just as the Delphians have refused to be called Phocians. But the men of Asine take the greatest pleasure in being called Dryopes, and clearly have made the...

Asine

75 22.87403,37.52659,0 Nauplians ...was made regarding them on the part of the Messenians when they returned. The Nauplians in my view were Egyptians originally, who came by sea with Danaus to the...

Nauplians

80 22.796,37.565,0 Athenians ...have yet to hear of a democracy bringing prosperity to a nation other than the Athenians; the Athenians attained to greatness by its means, for they surpassed the Greek...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pylos ...and there occupied the Pylos in Elis. When Neleus became king, he raised Pylos to such renown that Homer in his epics calls it the city of Neleus. It...

Pylos

75 Lacedemonian ...Salamis we know from the destruction of the Persians there. In like manner the Lacedemonian reverse made Sphacteria known to all mankind. The Athenians dedicated a bronze...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...of Methapus, who made certain improvements in the mysteries. Methapus was an Athenian by birth, an expert in the mysteries and founder of all kinds of rites. It was...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Stenyclerus ...had the palace, which he and his children were to occupy, built in Stenyclerus. Originally Perieres and the other kings dwelt at Andania, but when Aphareus...

Stenyclerus

69 21.75,37.25,0 Lacedemonians ...-- the mutual hatred of the Lacedemonians and Messenians was aroused, and the Lacedemonians began war, obtaining a pretext which was not only sufficient for them, eager...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...Polychares' son. Polychares, when he heard of this new misfortune, went to Lacedemon and plagued the kings and ephors, loudly lamenting his son and recounting the...

Lacedemon

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 city ...left the ruins of the wall and of the houses. From these it is clear that the city was built a little above the plain close to Cithaeron. There is another road...

city

80 city ...work of Antenor. When Xerxes took Athens after the Athenians had abandoned the city he took away these statues also among the spoils, but they were afterwards...

city

81 city ...after him. To Andromache, who accompanied him, there is still a shrine in the city. Pielus remained behind in Epeirus, and to him as ancestor Pyrrhus, the son of...

city

80 Egyptian ...lives were too important to form a mere digression in another story. Now the Egyptians had their honors bestowed upon them out of genuine respect and because they...

Egyptian

79 Egyptian ...the entrance, I say, stand statues of Hadrian, two of Thasian stone, two of Egyptian. Before the pillars stand bronze statues which the Athenians call "colonies."...

Egyptian

78 Egyptian ...uninhabited because of the cold; these people, the Cabares, are no bigger than Egyptian corpses. But I will relate all that appeared to me worth seeing. For the...

Egyptian

81 Gauls ...the fate that befell their brother Phaethon. It was late before the name "Gauls" came into vogue; for anciently they were called Celts both amongst themselves...

Gauls

76 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Greece ...an experienced soldier. He had already proved himself a general benefactor of Greece. All the Greeks that were serving as mercenaries in the armies of Darius and...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in honor of the victory which Themistocles the son of Neocles won for the Greeks. There is also a sanctuary of Cychreus. When the Athenians were fighting the...

Greeks

76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...is a fencing of stones, and beside it grow olives. The Megarians are the only Greeks who say that the corpse of Ino was cast up on their coast, that Cleso and...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...the son of Xanthippus, and one of Xanthippus himself, who fought against the Persians at the naval battle of Mycale. But that of Pericles stands apart, while near...

Persians

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Trachis ...Greece; but the Celts, having discovered the path by which Ephialtes of Trachis once led the Persians, over whelmed the Phocians stationed there and crossed...

Trachis

74 22.442503,38.790767,0 Spring of Midas ...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...

Spring of Midas

78 Libya ...of the issue; but on learning that the revolt of Cyrene had called Ptolemy to Libya, he immediately reduced the Syrians and Phoenicians by a sudden inroad, handed...

Libya

80 26.5,31.5,0 palisade ...called the Island of Patroclus. For a fortification was built on it and a palisade constructed by Patroclus, who was admiral in command of the Egyptian men-of-war...

palisade

76 23.875,37.625,0 Ampheia ...end, but only of the part which each selected: Myron narrated the capture of Ampheia and subsequent events down to the death of Aristodemus; Rhianus did not touch...

Ampheia

79 22.075138,37.264193,0 Ampheia ...men and finally the king exhorted them not to be panic-stricken at the sack of Ampheia, or to suppose that the issue of the whole war had already been decided...

Ampheia

81 22.075138,37.264193,0 Lacedemonians ...be afraid of the power of the Lacedemonians as superior to their own. For the Lacedemonians had longer practice in warfare, but they themselves had a stronger necessity to...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...and without effecting anything, and finally gave up attempting the towns. The Messenians also ravaged the Laconian coast and all the cultivated land round...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...their country, and exaggerating their achievements and the consequences to the Lacedemonians. Some of them leapt forth from the ranks, displaying glorious deeds of valor...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...refrained from exhorting one another, and were less inclined than the Messenians to engage in striking deeds of valor. As they were versed in warfare from...

Messenians

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...the Argolid or by Sicyon, in either case it was through enemy country. The Lacedemonians were distressed by the reverse that had befallen them. Their losses in the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Troy ...eager to invent stratagems, but failed. They imitated that deed of Odysseus at Troy, and sent a hundred men to Ithome to observe what the enemy were planning, but...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messenian ...in their attempt, the Lacedemonians next attempted to break up the Messenian alliance. But when repulsed by the Arcadians, to whom their ambassadors came...

Messenian

69 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Andania ...young men who had grown up in Messenia the best and most numerous were round Andania, and among them was Aristomenes, who to this day is worshipped as a hero among...

Andania

79 21.938099,37.26217,0 Sicyonians ...Heracles or of Zeus, as the Macedonians do with Alexander and Ammon, and the Sicyonians with Aratus and Asclepius. Most of the Greeks say that Pyrrhus was the father...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aphidna ...taken from the conquerors, especially as the victory was overwhelming, so that Aphidna itself was captured. I must now end my criticisms. As you go down to Amyclae...

Aphidna

81 23.362766,37.974359,0 Therapne ...things worth mentioning about Amyclae. Another road from the city leads to Therapne, and on this road is a wooden image of Athena Alea. Before the Eurotas is...

Therapne

78 22.454127,37.066091,0 Argive ...had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus. For Polyxo, they say, was an Argive by descent, and when she was already married to Tlepolemus shared his flight to...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Delphi ...front line. Now he was wounded in the breast, and weak with his hurt came to Delphi. When he arrived the Pythian priestess sent Leonynius to White Island, telling...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pharis ...Amyclae along a road leading straight towards the sea, you come to the site of Pharis, which was once a city of Laconia. Turning away from the Phellia to the right...

Pharis

81 22.2805645,37.029321,0 Helos ...know also of the following rite which is performed here. By the sea was a city Helos, which Homer too has mentioned in his list of the Lacedemonians: "These had...

Helos

81 22.60754,36.843247,0 Palaea ...the Free Laconians. On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea (Old), and in Geronthrae itself are a temple and grove of Ares. Every year...

Palaea

80 22.802548,36.875634,0 Epidelium ...coast within the frontier of the Boeatae, which is sacred to Apollo and called Epidelium. For the wooden image which is now here, once stood in Delos. Delos was then a...

Epidelium

81 23.029361,36.630631,0 Boeae ...misfortune will befall the man to whom this happens. By the road leading from Boeae to Epidaurus Limera is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the Lake) in the...

Boeae

81 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Minoa ...of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor. A promontory called Minoa projects into the sea near the town. The bay has nothing to distinguish it from...

Minoa

78 23.0502,36.68818,0 Teuthrone ...spring Naia. The promontory of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius and Psamathus. On the promontory is a temple like...

Teuthrone

80 22.489063,36.621145,0 Taenarum ...for good and all by a woman washing dirty clothes in it. From the point of Taenarum Caenepolis is distant forty stades by sea. Its name also was formerly Taenarum...

Taenarum

78 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Lacedemonians ...is mentioned by Homer in the Gifts promised by Agamemnon, is subject to the Lacedemonians of Sparta, having been separated from Messenia by the emperor Augustus. It is...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...is subject to the Lacedemonians of Sparta, having been separated from Messenia by the emperor Augustus. It is eight stades from the sea and sixty from...

Messenia

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pharis ...night and went to a city of Laconia whose ancient name in Homer's Catalogue is Pharis, but is called Pharae by the Spartans and neighboring people. Arriving here he...

Pharis

81 22.2805645,37.029321,0 Lacedemonians ...and the Messenians had been joined by Arcadians from all the cities, the Lacedemonians bribed Aristocrates the son of Hicetas of Trapezus, who was then king and...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...were captured, they were consumed, but movable property and men were sold. The Lacedemonians, as their labours were more profitable to the men at Eira than to themselves...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Amyclae ...and his troop, starting in the late evening and by rapid movement reaching Amyclae before sunrise, captured and plundered the town, retiring before a force from...

Amyclae

77 24.76084,35.0133,0 Messenians ...the eleventh year of the siege it was fated that Eira should be taken and the Messenians dispersed, and the god fulfilled for them an oracle given to Aristomenes and...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Neda ...man of repute in Sparta. This herdsman, who kept his cattle not far from the Neda, saw the wife of one of the Messenians, who had their dwellings outside the...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Messenians ...all, they exhorted those whom they encountered, when they saw that they were Messenians, to be brave men, and summoned from the houses those who still...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...declared the sign of good omen. It was he who devised the following plan. The Lacedemonians far outnumbered the Messenians, but as the battle was not being fought on open...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...of bribes from Lacedemon, refused to lead them, and said that he knew that no Messenian survived for them to help. When they obtained more certain news, that they...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...to be their guides on the way. After their safe arrival at Mount Lycaeus, the Arcadians entertained them and treated them kindly in every way, offering to distribute...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eira ...and all who occupied the maritime district retired in ships on the capture of Eira to Cyllene, the port of the Eleians. Thence they sent to the Messenians in...

Eira

80 21.927988,37.398271,0 Messenians ...defeated the Zanclaeans, when they put to sea to oppose him, and the Messenians did the like by land, and the Zanclaeans, blockaded on land by the Messenians...

Messenians

71 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Aetolia ...to depart under a truce. They had taken Naupactus from the Locrians adjoining Aetolia, called the Ozolian. The retirement of the Messenians from Ithome was secured...

Aetolia

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Acarnanians ...would show such desperate courage as to fight against the full levy of the Acarnanians. The Messenians had previously prepared food and all else that was requisite...

Acarnanians

77 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Acarnanians ...from all sides. The Messenians, in close formation, whenever they charged the Acarnanians in a body, threw the enemy at that point into confusion, killing and wounding...

Acarnanians

81 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Messenians ...the Acarnanians received reinforcements from their cities, the blockade of the Messenians was formed. They had no fear of the wall being taken by assault, either by the...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sphacteria ...Messenian slingers from Naupactus helped to capture the Spartans cut off in Sphacteria. When the Athenian reverse at Aegospotami took place, the Lacedemonians...

Sphacteria

78 21.665725,36.930136,0 Lacedemonians ...their country and through the hatred which had ever remained with them for the Lacedemonians, assembled quicker than could have been expected. To Epaminondas it seemed in...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Paeonia ...exile possible, and that the region beyond the river Axius was named after him Paeonia. As to the death of Endymion, the people of Heracleia near Miletus do not agree...

Paeonia

81 21.75,41.75,0 Miletus ...after him Paeonia. As to the death of Endymion, the people of Heracleia near Miletus do not agree with the Eleans for while the Eleans show a tomb of Endymion, the...

Miletus

79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Pisa ...from Asia. On the death of Oenomaus, Pelops took possession of the land of Pisa and its bordering country Olympia, separating it from the land of Epeius. The...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Eleans ...of Poseidon. It was Eleius who gave the inhabitants their present name of Eleans in place of Epeans. Eleius had a son Augeas. Those who exaggerate his glory...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Isthmian ...said to have laid curses on her countrymen, should they refuse to boycott the Isthmian festival. The curses of Moline are respected right down to the present day, and...

Isthmian

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Isthmian ...Wroth with the Eleans, they proclaimed that they must keep away from the Isthmian games. But how could the Corinthians themselves take part in the Olympic games...

Isthmian

75 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Pisa ...Pisa was stopped by an oracle from Delphi to this effect "My father cares for Pisa, but to me in the hollows of Pytho." This oracle proved the salvation of Pisa...

Pisa

80 21.653041,37.639535,0 Aetolia ...of Heracles, were sisters. It fell to the lot of Oxylus to be an outlaw from Aetolia. The story goes that as he was throwing the quoit he missed the mark and...

Aetolia

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Elean ...chanced to find favour with both sides, and the champions chosen were the Elean Degmenus, an archer, and Pyraechmes, a slinger, to represent the Aetolians...

Elean

76 21.25,37.75,0 Achaeans ...He brought Agorius himself from Helice in Achaia, and with him a small body of Achaeans. The wife of Oxylus they say was called Pieria, but beyond this nothing more...

Achaeans

81 Eleans ...himself and the Eleans must renew the Olympic games. Iphitus also induced the Eleans to sacrifice to Heracles as to a god, whom hitherto they had looked upon as...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...9 When Philip the son of Amyntas would not let Greece alone, the Eleans, weakened by civil strife, joined the Macedonian alliance, but they could not...

Eleans

68 21.25,37.75,0 Macedonians ...of Alexander they fought on the side of the Greeks against Antipater and the Macedonians. Later on Aristotimus, the son of Damaretus, the son of Etymon, became despot...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Olympia ...water, coming up sound and of one color. Crossing the Anigrus and going to Olympia by the straight road, not far away on the right of the road you reach a high...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Anigrus ...whether Samicum was called Arene, yet the Arcadians are agreed that of old the Anigrus was called the Minyeius. One might well hold that the Neda near the sea was...

Anigrus

81 Arcadia ...with the same name as the mountain. These come down into the Alpheius from Arcadia; the Cladeus comes from Elis to join it. The source of the Alpheius itself is...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Syracuse ...all who entered for the pancratium. Lygdamis has his tomb near the quarries at Syracuse, and according to the Syracusans he was as big as Heracles of Thebes, though I...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Eleans ...for boys have no authority in old tradition, but were established by the Eleans themselves because they approved of them. The prizes for running and wrestling...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...in the earlier ones of Dareius against the Scythians and against Athens. The Lacedemonians, admiring the energy of Agesilaus, added to his command the control of the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Locrians ...side invaded Locris with all their forces, and laid waste the land. So the Locrians brought in the Thebans as allies, and devastated Phocis. Going to Lacedemon the...

Locrians

78 21.75,38.25,0 Athenians ...mercenaries, but they here also aided publicly by the Lacedemonians and Athenians, the latter calling to mind some old service rendered by the Phocians, the...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sellasia ...dance. On returning, as you go along the highway, you come to the ruins of Sellasia. The people of this city, as I have stated already, were sold into slavery by...

Sellasia

77 Salamis ...of Xerxes against Greece and distinguished herself at the naval engagement off Salamis. On the market-place are temples; there is one of Caesar, the first Roman to...

Salamis

81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Aegospotami ...This Agias, they say, by divining for Lysander captured the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami with the exception of ten ships of war. These made their escape to Cyprus; all...

Aegospotami

80 26.61011,40.35074,0 Tanagra ...and of the oracle at Delphi. The last time Tisamenus divined for them was at Tanagra, an engagement taking place with the Argives and Athenians. Such I learned was...

Tanagra

79 23.587064,38.309371,0 Lacedemonians ...other suitors arrived and competed in another foot-race. On this road the Lacedemonians have, as I have already said, what is called the Booneta, which once was the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...will see a slab, on which are written the victories in the foot-race won, at Olympia and elsewhere, by Chionis, a Lacedemonian. The Olympian victories were seven...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonians ...sanctuary of Thetis was set up, they say, for the following reason. The Lacedemonians were making war against the Messenians, who had revolted, and their king...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...the hero-shrine of Teleclus. I shall mention him again later in my history of Messenia. A little farther on is a small hill, on which is an ancient temple with a...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Erycine ...out for Sicily. The reason of their setting out was that they held that the Erycine district belonged to the descendants of Heracles and not to the foreigners who...

Erycine

78 Cynosurians ...the image straightway became insane. Secondly, the Spartan Limnatians, the Cynosurians, and the people of Mesoa and Pitane, while sacrificing to Artemis, fell to...

Cynosurians

77 24.0581,38.12699,0 Delphi ...it, and came to worship Eileithyia as a goddess, because of an oracle from Delphi. The Lacedemonians have no citadel rising to a conspicuous height like the...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mases ...the priestesses. Proceeding about seven stades along the straight road to Mases, you reach, on turning to the left, a road to Halice. At the present day Halice...

Mases

77 23.142191,37.417868,0 Asine ...to the Argives, that once was called Asinaea, and by the sea are ruins of Asine. When the Lacedemonians and their king Nicander, son of Charillus, son of...

Asine

76 22.87403,37.52659,0 Lacedemonians ...that once was called Asinaea, and by the sea are ruins of Asine. When the Lacedemonians and their king Nicander, son of Charillus, son of Polydectes, son of Eunomus...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lernaean ...have already stated, by the sea, and here they celebrate mysteries in honor of Lernaean Demeter. There is a sacred grove beginning on the mountain they call Pontinus...

Lernaean

81 22.71809,37.55107,0 Argives ...the graves for the dead. But the Lacedemonians, having fought against the Argives with all their forces, won a decisive victory; at first they themselves enjoyed...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messene ...of the Heracleidae in the reign of Tisamenus, son of Orestes, both districts, Messene and Argos, had kings put over them; Argos had Temenus and Messene Cresphontes...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Achaea ...the Agiadae. In his time, when Patreus the son of Preugenes was founding in Achaea a city which even at the present day is called Patrae from this Patreus, the...

Achaea

78 Messenia ...sanctuary of Artemis. This sanctuary was built on the frontier of Laconia and Messenia, in a place called Limniae (Lakes). After the death of Teleclus, Alcamenes his...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...incidents of the war which the Messenians waged after the revolt from the Lacedemonians it is not pertinent that I should set forth in the present part of my...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...to the oracle about the bones of Orestes was the one afterwards given to the Athenians, that they were to bring back Theseus from Scyros to Athens otherwise they...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...of the Lacedemonians themselves and of their allies, and invaded Argolis. The Argives came out under arms to meet them, but Cleomenes won the day. Near the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Delphi ...occasion the Lacedemonians, according to their wont, referred to the oracle at Delphi the claim against Demaratus, and the prophetess gave them a response which...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thebes ...and of the death of Lysander himself, he nevertheless led his army against Thebes and purposed to take the offensive. Thereupon the Thebans offered battle, and...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...more than any other Greeks were the Lacedemonians (in this respect like the Athenians) frightened by signs from heaven. By the time that he was encamping under the...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...a move it was not fair for Egyptian sailors to attack Macedonians on land. The Lacedemonians were eager to make the venture, both because of their friendship for Athens and...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argolis ...of Polydectes devastated the land of the Argives – for he it was who invaded Argolis – and not many years afterwards, under the leadership of Charillus, took place...

Argolis

79 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Mycale ...and the Athenian general Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, in the engagement of Mycale, and afterwards undertook a campaign against the Aleuadae in Thessaly. Although...

Mycale

81 27.12558,37.66144,0 Olympia ...the Eleans too sacrifice to Zeus Averter of Flies, to drive the flies out of Olympia. The Eleans are wont to use for the sacrifices to Zeus the wood of the white...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Letrini ...of this Pindar, I think, intimates in an ode, and I give it in my account of Letrini. Not far from it stands another altar of Alpheius, and by it one of Hephaestus...

Letrini

79 21.431292,37.672865,0 Troy ...and carrying a sword, is advancing to kill Helen, so it is plain that Troy has been captured. Medeia is seated upon a throne, while Jason stands on her...

Troy

72 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleans ...fine imposed on wrestlers. As to their names, neither I nor the guides of the Eleans knew them. On these images too are inscriptions; one says that the Rhodians...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Rhodians ...the Eleans knew them. On these images too are inscriptions; one says that the Rhodians paid money to Olympian Zeus for the wrongdoing of a wrestler; the other that...

Rhodians

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Eleans ...connection with the games. He did not arrive by the prescribed time, and the Eleans, if they followed their rule, had no option but to exclude him from the games...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Corinthians ...the engagement: first the Lacedemonians, after them the Athenians, third the Corinthians, fourth the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the...

Corinthians

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Plataeans ...dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and...

Plataeans

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Argives ...are at the present day uninhabited: Mycenae and Tiryns were destroyed by the Argives after the Persian wars. The Ambraciots and Anactorians, colonists of Corinth...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Egyptian ...from the gods are the Argives, just as among those who are not Greeks the Egyptians compete with the Phrygians. It is said, then, that when Demeter came to Argos...

Egyptian

76 Egyptian ...of Serapis, whose worship the Athenians introduced from Ptolemy. Of the Egyptian sanctuaries of Serapis the most famous is at Alexandria, the oldest at Memphis...

Egyptian

74 Egyptian ...but the colossus in Egypt made me marvel far more than anything else. In Egyptian Thebes, on crossing the Nile to the so called Pipes, I saw a statue, still...

Egyptian

75 Europe ...of the Gauls into Greece. These Gauls inhabit the most remote portion of Europe, near a great sea that is not navigable to its extremities, and possesses ebb...

Europe

76 27.5,42.5,0 river Sangarius ...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...

river Sangarius

80 30.592850650000003,40.99129035,0 city ...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...

city

77 stone statue of Aphrodite ...a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at...

stone statue of Aphrodite

80 the city ...the gate is buried Diogenes of Sinope, whom the Greeks surname the Dog. Before the city is a grove of cypresses called Craneum. Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes...

the city

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Theseus ...torn in two. This was the way in which Sinis himself was slain by Theseus. For Theseus rid of evildoers the road from Troezen to Athens, killing those whom I have...

Theseus

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lechaeum ...founder of the modern Corinth. On leaving the market-place along the road to Lechaeum you come to a gateway, on which are two gilded chariots, one carrying Phaethon...

Lechaeum

80 22.88807,37.93277,0 Isthmus ...a sanctuary and a bronze image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a...

Isthmus

79 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 honors are also paid to Achilles ...and that some Greeks have even dedicated to them precincts by shores, where honors are also paid to Achilles. In Gabala is a holy sanctuary of Doto, where there was still remaining the...

honors are also paid to Achilles

78 the robe by which the Greeks say that Eriphyle was bribed to wrong her son Alcmaeon. ...In Gabala is a holy sanctuary of Doto, where there was still remaining the robe by which the Greeks say that Eriphyle was bribed to wrong her son Alcmaeon. Among the reliefs on the base of the statue of Poseidon are the sons of...

the robe by which the Greeks say that Eriphyle was bribed to wrong her son Alcmaeon.

73 Ino ...are images of Calm and of Sea, a horse like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasus. Within the enclosure is on the left...

Ino

78 horse Pegasus ...a horse like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasus. Within the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it...

horse Pegasus

79 grave ...Isthmus, but that few Corinthians, even those of his own day, knew where the grave was. The Isthmian games were not interrupted even when Corinth had been laid...

grave

79 sanctuary ...a temple of Fortune, with a standing image of Parian marble. Beside it is a sanctuary for all the gods. Hard by is built a fountain, on which is a bronze Poseidon...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...a work of Lysippus, and by the side of it a gilded Artemis. Hard by is a sanctuary of Apollo Lycius (Wolf-god), now fallen into ruins and not worth any attention...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...leaves. Ascending from here to the gymnasium you see in the right a sanctuary of Artemis Pheraea. It is said that the wooden image was brought from Pherae...

sanctuary

71 sanctuary ...are wont to do in order to avert misfortunes. They say that the neighboring sanctuary of Artemis and Apollo was also made by Epopeus, and that of Hera after it by...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...god are being sacrificed a bull, a lamb, and a pig, they remove Coronis to the sanctuary of Athena and honor her there. The parts of the victims which they offer as a...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...figure of Athena, and I was told that it, too, was struck by lightning. The sanctuary is built upon a hill, at the bottom of which is an Altar of the Winds, and on...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...hill opposite the Heraeum they name after Acraea, the environs of the sanctuary they name after Euboea, and the land beneath the Heraeum after Prosymna. This...

sanctuary

72 sanctuary ...give to the tomb of Thyestes – there is on the left a place called Mysia and a sanctuary of Mysian Demeter, so named from a man Mysius who, say the Argives, was one of...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...altar of Helius (the Sun). After this you will come to a gate named after the sanctuary near it. This sanctuary belongs to Eileithyia. The Argives are the only Greeks...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...especially Egyptian images, were made of wood. The reason why Danaus founded a sanctuary of Apollo Lycius was this. On coming to Argos he claimed the kingdom against...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...from the kingship. The most famous building in the city of Argos is the sanctuary of Apollo Lycius (Wolf-god). The modern image was made by the Athenian Attalus...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...the greater part of them and Laphaes as well. Not far from the trophy is the sanctuary of Leto; the image is a work of Praxiteles. The statue of the maiden beside...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...they are surnamed Haliae (Women of the Sea). Facing the tomb of the women is a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Pelasgian from Pelasgus, son of Triopas, its founder, and...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...is said that she was with child, was delivered In Argos, and founded there the sanctuary of Eilethyia, giving the daughter she bore to Clytaemnestra, who was already...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...the house of Adrastus, farther on a sanctuary of Amphiaraus, and opposite the sanctuary the tomb of Eriphyle. Next to these is a precinct of Asclepius, and after them...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...by the sea and the one on the Peneus. As you go up the citadel you come to the sanctuary of Hera of the Height, and also a temple of Apollo, which is said to have been...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...has trees on it, chiefly cypresses. On the top of the mountain is built a sanctuary of Artemis Orthia (of the Steep), and there have been made white-marble images...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...building. Within the grove are a temple of Artemis, an image of Epione, a sanctuary of Aphrodite and Themis, a race-course consisting, like most Greek...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...grove are the Nipple and another mountain called Cynortium; on the latter is a sanctuary of Maleatian Apollo. The sanctuary itself is an ancient one, but among the...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...into utter ruin after it had lost its roof. As the Epidaurians about the sanctuary were in great distress, because their women had no shelter in which to be...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...discover the truth about the boundaries. On the Top of the mountain there is a sanctuary of Artemis Coryphaea (of the Peak), of which Telesilla made mention in an...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...it is Dictynna (Goddess of Nets). The Mount of all the Greeks, except for the sanctuary of Zeus, has, I found, nothing else worthy of mention. This sanctuary, they...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...Athena. After Althepus, Saron became king. They said that this man built the sanctuary for Saronian Artemis by a sea which is marshy and shallow, so that for this...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...the wild olive by the Saronic Sea, cut a club from it. There is also a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Saviour, which, they say, was made by Aetius, the son of...

sanctuary

73 sanctuary ...Troezenia, and the Athenians more than any other people. Having crossed the sanctuary, you can see a temple of Isis, and above it one of Aphrodite of the Height. The...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...in it that the chariot of Hippolytus was upset. Not far from this stands the sanctuary of Saronian Artemis, and I have already given an account of it. I must add that...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...object most worthy of mention is a sanctuary of Demeter on Pron. This sanctuary is said by the Hermionians to have been founded by Clymenus, son of Phoroneus...

sanctuary

72 sanctuary ...with his house, while Chthonia was brought to Hermion by Demeter, and made the sanctuary for the Hermionians. At any rate, the goddess herself is called Chthonia, and...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...place, called Twins, is twenty stades distant from here. There is here a sanctuary of Apollo, a sanctuary of Poseidon, and in addition one of Demeter. The images...

sanctuary

75 the gate ...else that is worth seeing. There is another road, that leads to Lyrcea from the gate at the Ridge. The story is that to this place came Lynceus, being the only one...

the gate

78 tomb ...comic poet. Farther on, if you turn in the direction of the city, you see the tomb of Xenodice, who died in childbirth. It has not been made after the native...

tomb

80 tomb ...goat on the market-place and adorn the image with gold. Here also is the tomb of Aristias, the son of Pratinas. This Aristias and his father Pratinas...

tomb

75 tomb ...descended thence, and having turned again to the market-place, we come to the tomb of Cerdo, the wife of Phoroneus, and to a temple of Asclepius. The sanctuary of...

tomb

80 tomb ...and near is the tomb of Hypermnestra, the mother of Amphiaraus, the other tomb being that of Hypermnestra, the daughter of Danaus, with whom is also buried...

tomb

76 tomb ...which is raised but a little from the ground. That this altar is also the tomb of Aeacus is told as a holy secret. Beside the shrine of Aeacus is the grave...

tomb

76 the sea ...to an island, called Tricrana (Three Heads), and a mountain, projecting into the sea from the Peloponnesus, called Buporthmus (Oxford). On Buporthmus has been built...

the sea

79 the sea ...a district, belonging to the Argives, that once was called Asinaea, and by the sea are ruins of Asine. When the Lacedemonians and their king Nicander, son of...

the sea

77 the sea ...is the Erasinus, which empties itself into the Phrixus, and the Phrixus into the sea between Temenium and Lerna. About eight stades to the left from the Erasinus is...

the sea

79 the sea ...another road, which skirts the sea and leads to a place called Genesium . By the sea is a small sanctuary of Poseidon Genesius. Next to this is another place...

the sea

79 the sea ...and difficult road, until we reach a tract on the left which stretches down to the sea; it is fertile in trees, especially the olive. As you go up inland from this...

the sea

81 where ...yet a girl by Nicias and the Athenians, she was sold and brought to Corinth, where she surpassed in beauty the courtesans of her time, and so won the admiration...

where

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...in beauty the courtesans of her time, and so won the admiration of the Corinthians that even now they claim Lais as their own. The things worthy of mention in...

Corinthians

73 22.878721,37.906045,0 the mole running into the sea ...In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbor sanctuaries of...

the mole running into the sea

73 Cyrene ...which was the first of the hundred and eighth Olympiad at which Polycles of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race. The cities of Phocis were captured and razed...

Cyrene

78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...foot of Mount Pieria, the Apollo who has taken hold of the deer; the people of Cyrene, a Greek city in Libya, the chariot with an image of Ammon in it. The Dorians...

Cyrene

81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Hyampolis ...to attack the Thessalians. The commander of their cavalry was Daiphantes of Hyampolis, of their infantry Rhoeus of Ambrossus. But the office of commander-in-chief...

Hyampolis

79 22.905228,38.596346,0 Peloponnesus ...originally, and became Dorian later after the return of the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus. I know that most of the traditions concerning the Phliasians are...

Peloponnesus

81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...treaty, especially in laying waste Megalopolis. So Antigonus crossed into the Peloponnesus and the Achaeans met Cleomenes at Sellasia. The Achaeans were victorious, the...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Rome ...refounded by Caesar, who was the author of the present constitution of Rome. Carthage, too, they say, was refounded in his reign. In the Corinthian...

Rome

73 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaean League ...the son of Demetrius, he induced the Sicyonians, who were Dorians, to join the Achaean League. He was immediately elected general by the Achaeans, and leading them against...

Achaean League

81 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Achaeans ...he waged therefrom with the Dorians the war against Tisamenus and the Achaeans. On the way to Temenium from Lerna the river Phrixus empties itself into the...

Achaeans

72 Achaeans ...among those beyond the Isthmus, while Ptolemy made an alliance with the Achaeans. The Lacedemonians and king Agis, the son of Eudamidas, surprised and took...

Achaeans

74 Achaeans ...here is the grave of the Sicyonians who were killed at Pellene, at Dyme of the Achaeans, in Megalopolis and at Sellasia. Their story I will relate more fully...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...general of the Achaeans, brought about by persuading to revolt both the Achaeans and the majority of the Greeks outside the Peloponnesus. When the Romans won...

Achaeans

74 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Theseus ...Athens and married Aegeus, but subsequently she was detected plotting against Theseus and fled from Athens also; coming to the land then called Aria she caused its...

Theseus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...so much, in my opinion, because Asterion was the bravest of those killed by Theseus, but because his success in unravelling the difficult Maze and in escaping...

Theseus

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...called Celenderis, you come to a place called Birthplace (Genethlion), where Theseus is said to have been born. Before this place is a temple of Ares, for here also...

Theseus

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...but afterwards Theseus took up the tokens, and people now call it the Rock of Theseus. As you go, then, along a mountain road by way of this rock, you reach a temple...

Theseus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Isthmus ...ashore by a dolphin; Sisyphus found him lying and gave him burial on the Isthmus, establishing the Isthmian games in his honor. At the beginning of the Isthmus...

Isthmus

75 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 Isthmus ...drought had for some time afflicted Greece, and no rain fell either beyond the Isthmus or in the Peloponnesus, until at last they sent envoys to Delphi to ask what...

Isthmus

81 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 Isthmus ...inhabiting Argolian Acte, and by the Megarians among those beyond the Isthmus, while Ptolemy made an alliance with the Achaeans. The Lacedemonians and king...

Isthmus

72 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 Isthmus ...be kept unknown to everybody alike, and that Sisyphus is indeed buried on the Isthmus, but that few Corinthians, even those of his own day, knew where the grave was...

Isthmus

80 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 mainland ...to be seen, but into the rock they did not advance at all. So it still is mainland as its nature is to be. Alexander the son of Philip wished to dig through...

mainland

76 Cnidians ...Mimas, and his attempt to do this was his only unsuccessful project. The Cnidians began to dig through their isthmus, but the Pythian priestess stopped them. So...

Cnidians

75 27.37404,36.686188,0 Athenians ...it to the Aeginetans, when they were expelled from their island by the Athenians. In my time Thyreatis was inhabited by the Argives, who say that they recovered...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...which supplied a cure for the epidemic that had afflicted Troezenia, and the Athenians more than any other people. Having crossed the sanctuary, you can see a temple...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Alexanor who is honored among the Sicyonians in Titane. The Argives, like the Athenians and Sicyonians, worship Artemis Pheraea, and they, too, assert that the image...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...expelled from Eleusis by Ion, when Ion, the son of Xuthus, was chosen by the Athenians to be commander-in-chief in the Eleusinian war. Now I cannot possibly agree...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and there is still in that city the hero-shrine of Aratus. Philip treated two Athenians, Eurycleides and Micon, in a similar way. These men also, who were orators...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinthians ...Afterwards, when Corinthus, the son of Marathon, died childless, the Corinthians sent for Medea from Iolcus and bestowed upon her the kingdom. Through her...

Corinthians

71 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...Glauce. But as their death was violent and illegal, the young babies of the Corinthians were destroyed by them until, at the command of the oracle, yearly sacrifices...

Corinthians

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...the image of Hermes come Poseidon, Leucothea, and Palaemon on a dolphin. The Corinthians have baths in many parts of the city, some put up at the public charge and one...

Corinthians

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...alike, and that Sisyphus is indeed buried on the Isthmus, but that few Corinthians, even those of his own day, knew where the grave was. The Isthmian games were...

Corinthians

73 22.878721,37.906045,0 here ...Ever since, they say, the Isthmus has belonged to Poseidon. Worth seeing here are a theater and a white-marble race-course. Within the sanctuary of the god...

here

76 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 theater ...of the Corinthian kings. Now the sanctuary of Athena Chalinitis is by their theater, and near is a naked wooden image of Heracles, said to be a work of Daedalus...

theater

79 theater ...of a man with a shield, who they say is Aratus, the son of Cleinias. After the theater is a temple of Dionysus. The god is of gold and ivory, and by his side are...

theater

81 theater ...Polycleitus in symmetry and beauty? For it was Polycleitus who built both this theater and the circular building. Within the grove are a temple of Artemis, an image...

theater

81 race-course ...at Troy the goddess removed the mist from his eyes. Adjoining it is the race-course, in which they hold the games in honor of Nemean Zeus and the festival of Hera...

race-course

74 four horses ...The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by Herodes the Athenian, four horses, gilded except for the hoofs, which are of ivory, and two gold Tritons beside...

four horses

75 sanctuary of Doto ...by shores, where honors are also paid to Achilles. In Gabala is a holy sanctuary of Doto, where there was still remaining the robe by which the Greeks say that Eriphyle...

sanctuary of Doto

73 two gold Tritons ...Athenian, four horses, gilded except for the hoofs, which are of ivory, and two gold Tritons beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand...

two gold Tritons

79 dolphin ...stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. These too are made of ivory and gold. On the middle of the base on which the...

dolphin

78 Nereids ...a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the nymphs called Nereids. I know that there are altars to these in other parts of Greece, and that some...

Nereids

81 the enclosure ...from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasus. Within the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea...

the enclosure

81 Holy of Holies ...of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself. There is also what is called his Holy of Holies, and an underground descent to it, where they say that Palaemon is concealed...

Holy of Holies

80 Leucothea ...enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself. There is also what is called his Holy of Holies, and an...

Leucothea

80 an ancient sanctuary ...swears falsely here, can by no means escape from his oath. There is also an ancient sanctuary called the altar of the Cyclopes, and they sacrifice to the Cyclopes upon...

an ancient sanctuary

75 Isthmian games ...that few Corinthians, even those of his own day, knew where the grave was. The Isthmian games were not interrupted even when Corinth had been laid waste by Mummius, but so...

Isthmian games

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Athenians ...Molpadia was killed by Theseus. To Molpadia also there is a monument among the Athenians. As you go up from the Peiraeus you see the ruins of the walls which Conon...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Samos ...of kings, as earlier still Anacreon consorted with Polycrates, despot of Samos, and Aeschylus and Simonides journeyed to Hiero at Syracuse. Dionysius...

Samos

75 26.84,37.73,0 gymnasium called that of Hermes ...both men and women. One of the porticoes contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes. In it is the house of Poulytion, at which it is said that a mystic rite was...

gymnasium called that of Hermes

76 Minos ...fleet for Troy, and before him Theseus, when he went to give satisfaction to Minos for the death of Androgeos. But when Themistocles became archon, since he...

Minos

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Peiraeus ...an army, and at the same time was blockading them by sea with a fleet. The Peiraeus was a parish from early times, though it was not a port before Themistocles...

Peiraeus

78 23.644609,37.937222,0 sanctuary of Demeter ...and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance...

sanctuary of Demeter

74 it ...of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and...

it

79 the road ...the Persians were destroyed during the rule of those named the Thirty. Along the road are very famous graves, that of Menander, son of Diopeithes, and a cenotaph of...

the road

79 Sicily ...and Simonides journeyed to Hiero at Syracuse. Dionysius, afterwards despot in Sicily had Philoxenus at his court, and Antigonus, ruler of Macedonia, had Antagoras...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Peiraeus ...on which is a portrait of Themistocles. The most noteworthy sight in the Peiraeus is a precinct of Athena and Zeus. Both their images are of bronze; Zeus holds a...

Peiraeus

76 23.644609,37.937222,0 Royal Portico ...reputed son of Dionysus and Ariadne. First on the right is what is called the Royal Portico, where sits the king when holding the yearly office called the kingship. On the...

Royal Portico

80 Persians ...battle off Cnidus. For those built by Themistocles after the retreat of the Persians were destroyed during the rule of those named the Thirty. Along the road are...

Persians

78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 this place ...became an archon of the Athenians. Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail...

this place

69 23.625,37.875,0 here ...port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and before him...

here

81 23.625,37.875,0 Ionia ...fortress and city. The Mendeans themselves are of Greek descent, coming from Ionia, and they live inland at some distance from the sea that is by the city of...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lacedemonians ...relating to Cynisca. Next to her also have been erected statues of Lacedemonians. They gained victories in chariot-races. Anaxander was the first of his family...

Lacedemonians

70 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinth ...succeeded in winning other victories, at Delphi, at Argos and at Corinth. Lycinus brought foals to Olympia, and when one of them was disqualified...

Corinth

67 22.878721,37.906045,0 Altis ...invaded Elis in the reign of King Agis, when a battle took place within the Altis. When the war was over Lichas set up the statue in this place, but the Elean...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Zanclean ...these two are said by the Sicilians to have been not Messenians but of old Zanclean blood. However, when the Messenians came back to the Peloponnesus their luck...

Zanclean

77 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Messenians ...to have been not Messenians but of old Zanclean blood. However, when the Messenians came back to the Peloponnesus their luck in the Olympic games came with them...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Plataea ...How, therefore, could Oebotas have taken part in the Greek victory at Plataea? For it was in the seventy-fifth Olympiad that the Persians under Mardonius...

Plataea

72 23.273866,38.221019,0 Caulonia ...in number to the races he won. When he was a boy he was proclaimed a native of Caulonia, as in fact he was. But afterwards he was bribed to proclaim himself a...

Caulonia

81 16.578476,38.445422,0 Tarentines ...and its founder was Typhon of Aegium. When Pyrrhus son of Aeacides and the Tarentines were at war with the Romans, several cities in Italy were destroyed, either by...

Tarentines

77 17.228553,40.476034,0 Sicyonian ...and his mode of wrestling was similar to the pancratium of Sostratus the Sicyonian. For they say that Leontiscus did not know how to throw his opponents, but won...

Sicyonian

75 22.71135,37.98336,0 Olympia ...the Iamidae, won five victories at Nemea for boxing, two at Pytho, and two at Olympia. The artist who made the statue was Silanion, an Athenian. Polycles, another...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...is that of a man named Molpion, who, says the inscription, was crowned by the Eleans. The other statue bears no inscription, but tradition says that it represents...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Temesa ...building a temple, and to give him every year as wife the fairest maiden in Temesa. So they performed the commands of the god and suffered no more terrors from...

Temesa

78 16.1315,39.03644,0 Parnassus ...two hundred and seventeen years. The Dryopians reached the Peloponnesus from Parnassus, the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we know crossed over from Calydon and...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Eleans ...Dryopians reached the Peloponnesus from Parnassus, the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we know crossed over from Calydon and Aetolia generally. Their earlier history...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Aetolia ...the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we know crossed over from Calydon and Aetolia generally. Their earlier history I found to be as follows. The first to rule in...

Aetolia

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Latmus ...show a tomb of Endymion, the folk of Heracleia say that he retired to Mount Latmus and give him honor, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmus. Epeius married...

Latmus

78 27.58931,37.51644,0 Arcadians ...took Elis and sacked it, with an army he had raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Elis ...through Arcadia and not through Elis. Oxylus was anxious to get the kingdom of Elis without a battle, but Dius would not give way; he proposed that, instead of...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Athenian ...games. Against their will they joined the Lacedemonians in their invasion of Athenian territory, and shortly afterwards they rose up with the Mantineans and Argives...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Chaeroneia ...alliance, but they could not bring themselves to fight against the Greeks at Chaeroneia. They joined Philip's attack on the Lacedemonians because of their old hatred...

Chaeroneia

79 22.840365,38.493361,0 Scillus ...sandy and grows wild pines, you will see behind you on the left the ruins of Scillus. It was one of the cities of Triphylia but in the war between Pisa and Elis the...

Scillus

79 21.602752,37.609552,0 Lacedemonians ...that Xenophon was tried by the Olympic Council for accepting the land from the Lacedemonians, and, obtaining pardon from the Eleans, dwelt securely in Scillus. Moreover, at...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...herself exactly like a gymnastic trainer, and brought her son to compete at Olympia. Peisirodus, for so her son was called, was victorious, and Callipateira, as...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Clitorians ...of Megalopolis and Heraea, comes the Buphagus; from the land of the Clitorians the Ladon; from Mount Erymanthus a stream with the same name as the mountain...

Clitorians

70 22.103248,37.892704,0 Ortygia ...unwilling to marry, crossed, they say, to the island opposite Syracuse called Ortygia, and there turned from a woman to a spring. Alpheius too was changed by his...

Ortygia

80 27.339225,37.829783,0 Ortygia ...Archias the Corinthian to found Syracuse he uttered this oracle: "An isle, Ortygia, lies on the misty ocean Over against Trinacria, where the mouth of Alpheius...

Ortygia

77 27.339225,37.829783,0 Trinacria ...uttered this oracle: "An isle, Ortygia, lies on the misty ocean Over against Trinacria, where the mouth of Alpheius bubbles Mingling with the springs of broad...

Trinacria

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Lacedemon ...prize of wild olive in the double race, and at the next Festival Acanthus of Lacedemon won in the long course. At the eighteenth Festival they remembered the...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cnossus ...girdle from the Amazon; and there are the affairs of the deer, of the bull at Cnossus, of the Stymphalian birds, of the hydra, and of the Argive lion. As you enter...

Cnossus

80 25.163106,35.297847,0 Theban ...and two others at the base of each foot. On each of the two front feet are set Theban children ravished by sphinxes, while under the sphinxes Apollo and Artemis are...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadia ...mares. The boundaries which now separate Arcadia and Elis originally separated Arcadia from Pisa, and are thus situated. On crossing the river Erymanthus at what is...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delos ...came from the Hyperboreans to Delos and helped Leto in her labour; and from Delos the name spread to other peoples. The Delians sacrifice to Eileithyia and sing...

Delos

78 25.268194,37.397274,0 Athens ...say was built by Deucalion, and they cite as evidence that Deucalion lived at Athens a grave which is not far from the present temple. Hadrian constructed other...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ilisus ...the Eridanus, whose name is the same as that of the Celtic river. This Ilisus is the river by which Oreithyia was playing when, according to the story, she...

Ilisus

73 23.6959733,37.9582581,0 Carian ...the Satyrs are I have inquired from many about this very point. Euphemus the Carian said that on a voyage to Italy he was driven out of his course by winds and was...

Carian

79 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Acropolis ...most shocking manner. I remember looking at other things also on the Athenian Acropolis, a bronze boy holding the sprinkler, by Lycius son of Myron, and Myron's...

Acropolis

81 23.625,37.875,0 Areopagus ...up out of the head of Zeus, and also a bull dedicated by the Council of the Areopagus on some occasion or other, about which, if one cared, one could make many...

Areopagus

78 Argives ...is said that his death was caused by a blow from a tile thrown by a woman. The Argives however declare that it was not a woman who killed him but Demeter in the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Eleusinium ...story, and to describe the contents of the sanctuary at Athens, called the Eleusinium, I was stayed by a vision in a dream. I shall therefore turn to those things it...

Eleusinium

77 23.375,37.875,0 Artemisium ...won such renown for his poetry and for his share in the naval battles before Artemisium and at Salamis, recorded at the prospect of death nothing else, and merely...

Artemisium

79 23.220954,39.017832,0 Delphians ...eager to sack Delphi and the treasures of the god. They were opposed by the Delphians themselves and the Phocians of the cities around Parnassus; a force of...

Delphians

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...treasures of the god. They were opposed by the Delphians themselves and the Phocians of the cities around Parnassus; a force of Aetolians also joined the defenders...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Sangarius ...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...

Sangarius

81 30.592850650000003,40.99129035,0 Ancyra ...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...

Ancyra

76 32.858128,39.944387,0 Megara ...his children expelled the Metionidae, and returned from banishment at Megara, and Aegeus, as the eldest, became king of the Athenians. But in rearing...

Megara

72 15.18273,37.2038,0 Aegae ...who had been entrusted with the task of carrying the corpse of Alexander to Aegae, he persuaded to hand it over to him. And he proceeded to bury it with...

Aegae

78 22.324777,40.479304,0 Athenians ...the Greeks and Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes. Here also is Demosthenes, whom the Athenians forced to retire to Calauria, the island off Troezen, and then, after receiving...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Epeirots ...and Aeacides, Aeacides was wounded and shortly after met his fate. The Epeirots accepted Alcetas as their king, being the son of Arybbas and the elder brother...

Epeirots

74 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Calamae ...called Aris flows past the town in the plain. In the interior is a village Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the lake)...

Calamae

78 22.1797,37.0434,0 Messenians ...most strongly fortified places, are not so strong as the Messenian wall. The Messenians possess a statue of Zeus the Saviour in the market-place and a fountain...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...Messenians argue that the sons of Tyndareus belong to them rather than to the Lacedemonians. The most numerous statues and the most worth seeing are to be found in the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Rhodes ...manner they recovered the bones of Aristomenes, they said that they sent to Rhodes for them, and that it was the god of Delphi who ordered it. They also...

Rhodes

78 28.15629,36.41451,0 Ithome ...they too say that the god was brought up among them and that his nurses were Ithome and Neda, the river having received its name from the latter, while the former...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Pamisus ...Messene to the mouth of the Pamisus is a journey of eighty stades. The Pamisus is a pure stream flowing through cultivated lands, and is navigable some ten...

Pamisus

73 21.75,37.25,0 Messenians ...city of Corone is adjoined by Colonides. The inhabitants say that they are not Messenians but settlers from Attica brought by Colaenus, who followed a bird known as the...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Coryphasium ...is a journey of about a hundred stades from Mothone to the promontory of Coryphasium, on which Pylos lies. This was founded by Pylos the son of Cleson, bringing...

Coryphasium

75 21.65716,36.95811,0 Pylians ...pastured for the most part across the border, I think. For the country of the Pylians in general is sandy and unable to provide so much grazing. Homer testifies to...

Pylians

80 Psyttaleia ...storm that here befell the Greeks with Agamemnon on their voyage from Troy. Psyttaleia by Salamis we know from the destruction of the Persians there. In like manner...

Psyttaleia

78 23.625,37.875,0 Arcadians ...has five, and only five, divisions must agree that Arcadia contains both Arcadians and Eleans, that the second division belongs to the Achaeans, and the remaining...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Elis ...of Epeius. Actor named after her the city of Hyrmina, which he founded in Elis. Heracles accomplished no brilliant feat in the war with Augeas. For the sons...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Corinthians ...manhood, and always put to flight the allies under Heracles, until the Corinthians proclaimed the Isthmian truce, and the sons of Actor came as envoys to the...

Corinthians

73 22.878721,37.906045,0 Elean ...from the Isthmian games? The other account is this. Prolaus, a distinguished Elean, had two sons, Philanthus and Lampus, by his wife Lysippe. These two came to...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...oracle proved the salvation of Pisa. To Phyleus Heracles gave up the land of Elis and all the rest, more out of respect for Phyleus than because he wanted to do...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...a god, whom hitherto they had looked upon as their enemy. The inscription at Olympia calls Iphitus the son of Haemon, but most of the Greeks say that his father was...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonians ...and Xenias turned traitor, the Eleans won a battle near Olympia, routed the Lacedemonians and drove them out of the sacred enclosure; but shortly afterwards the war was...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonian ...would not let Greece alone, the Eleans, weakened by civil strife, joined the Macedonian alliance, but they could not bring themselves to fight against the Greeks at...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Eleans ...of them as have won Olympic victories have been announced by the herald as Eleans from Lepreus, and Aristophanes in a comedy calls Lepreus a town of the Eleans...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...Eleans from Lepreus, and Aristophanes in a comedy calls Lepreus a town of the Eleans. Leaving the river Anigrus on the left there is a road leading to Lepreus; from...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Olympic ...war was over Lichas set up the statue in this place, but the Elean records of Olympic victors give as the name of the victor, not Lichas, but the Theban...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Calaureia ...Ptolichus of Corcyra, Amphion was the pupil of Ptolichus, and taught Pison of Calaureia, who was the teacher of Damocritus. Cratinus of Aegeira in Achaia was the most...

Calaureia

80 23.48041,37.52255,0 Eleans ...at the Nemean. For the Lepreans are not afraid of the Isthmian games as the Eleans themselves are. For example, Hysmon of Elis, whose statue stands near that of...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Ephesus ...of Hera in Samos and also in the sanctuary of the Ephesian goddess at Ephesus. It is always the same; the Ionians merely follow the example of all the world...

Ephesus

72 27.339722,37.941944,0 Eleans ...fourth Festival, when Sostratus won his first victory, is not reckoned by the Eleans, because the games were held by the Pisans and Arcadians and not by...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Spartans ...kept the Lacedemonians cooped up in Leuctra. But when reports came that the Spartans in the city were marching to a man to the help of their countrymen at Leuctra...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotia ...what it contained. This persuaded Epaminondas to lead the Thebans back to Boeotia. In his advance with the army he came over against Lechaeum, and was about to...

Boeotia

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Sparta ...him the Greeks won freedom. The elegiac verses are these: "By my counsels was Sparta shorn of her glory, And holy Messene received at last her children. By the arms...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...verses are these: "By my counsels was Sparta shorn of her glory, And holy Messene received at last her children. By the arms of Thebes was Megalopolis encircled...

Messene

76 21.920439,37.175491,0 Achaeans ...no notice was taken of the petitions. Sixteen years later, when the number of Achaeans in Italy was reduced to three hundred at most, the Romans set them free...

Achaeans

81 Rome ...Achaean confederacy. Gallus allowed them to send on their own an embassy to Rome, and the Romans allowed them to secede from the Achaean League. The senate also...

Rome

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Athenians ...subject to them. The act was one of necessity rather than of free-will, as the Athenians at the time suffered the direst poverty, because the Macedonian war had crushed...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...into an agreement that an Athenian garrison should enter Oropus, and that the Athenians should take hostages from the Oropians. If in the future the Oropians should...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aliphera ...mountain for some thirty stades more you will come to the town. The city of Aliphera has received its name from Alipherus, the son of Lycaon, and there are...

Aliphera

79 21.864,37.532,0 Buphagium ...but there is plenty of water flowing over it. Forty stades above Melaeneae is Buphagium, and here is the source of the Buphagus, which flows down into the Alpheius...

Buphagium

80 21.997485,37.549082,0 Lacedemonians ...persuaded to abandon through their zeal and because of their hatred of the Lacedemonians, in spite of the fact that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lycaea ...Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni, Zoetium...

Lycaea

72 22.313916,37.529952,0 Charisia ...these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni, Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. From the Aegytae: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea...

Charisia

77 Sicily ...on them. The artist of the statues was Callon of Elis. At the headland of Sicily that looks towards Libya and the south, called Pachynum, there stands the city...

Sicily

77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Arcadians ...But the people of Lycaea, Tricoloni, Lycosura and Trapezus, but no other Arcadians, repented and, being no longer ready to abandon their ancient cities, were...

Arcadians

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Zanclaean ...Amazon, a woman on horseback, for her girdle. It was dedicated by Evagoras, a Zanclaean by descent, and made by Aristocles of Cydonia. Aristocles should be included...

Zanclaean

80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Lacedemonians ..."the Good." During his tyranny the territory of Megalopolis was invaded by the Lacedemonians under Acrotatus, the eldest of the sons of King Cleomenes, whose lineage I have...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineia ...Pellene in Achaia by the Sicyonians under Aratus, and later he met his end at Mantineia. Shortly afterwards Cleomenes the son of Leonidas seized Megalopolis during a...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Megalopolis ...his end at Mantineia. Shortly afterwards Cleomenes the son of Leonidas seized Megalopolis during a truce. Of the Megalopolitans some fell at once on the night of the...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Messenia ...of those of military age along with the women and children, escaped to Messenia with Philopoemen the son of Craugis. But those who were caught in the city...

Messenia

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Gortynius ...in Colophon has even been celebrated in the verse of elegiac poets. But the Gortynius surpasses them all in coldness, especially in the season of summer. It has its...

Gortynius

78 22.25,37.75,0 Acarnanians ...for, they say, they are not in the least afraid of Oeniadae and the Acarnanians. The offerings of Micythus I found were numerous and not together. Next after...

Acarnanians

70 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Messene ...the father of Micythus, and as his fatherland the Greek cities of Rhegium and Messene on the Strait. The inscriptions say that he lived at Tegea, and he dedicated...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Teuthis ...in a vision with a wound in her thigh. After this a wasting disease fell on Teuthis, and its people, alone of the Arcadians, suffered from famine. Later, oracles...

Teuthis

78 22.041285,37.597441,0 Tegea ...of Rhegium and Messene on the Strait. The inscriptions say that he lived at Tegea, and he dedicated the offerings at Olympia in fulfillment of a vow made for the...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Mantineans ...was dedicated by the Eleans. Beside the Athena has been set up a Victory. The Mantineans dedicated it, but they do not mention the war in the inscription. Calamis is...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lycaea ...name of the village also is Helisson – passes through the lands of Dipaea and Lycaea, and then through Megalopolis itself, descending into the Alpheius twenty...

Lycaea

80 22.313916,37.529952,0 Achaean ...instructions they made mistakes. All the Greek cities that were members of the Achaean League got permission from the Itomans that Polybius should draw up...

Achaean

81 Boeotian ...was the royal palace of the Assyrians, are utterly ruined and desolate; while Boeotian Thebes, once deemed worthy to be the head of the Greek people, why, its name...

Boeotian

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Altis ...from the wound. So the Eleans were purposing to remove the ox from out the Altis as being guilty of bloodshed. But the god at Delphi gave an oracle that they...

Altis

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delphi ...remove the ox from out the Altis as being guilty of bloodshed. But the god at Delphi gave an oracle that they were to let the offering stay where it was, after...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pheneus ...He was an Elean by birth. Beside him is Neolaidas, son of Proxenus, from Pheneus in Arcadia, who won a victory in the boys' boxing-match. Next comes Archedamus...

Pheneus

75 22.30692,37.91045,0 Hypsus ...and of Hypsus, lying above the plain on a mountain which is also called Hypsus. The district between Thyraeum and Hypsus is all mountainous and full of wild...

Hypsus

74 22.080985,37.554985,0 Hypsus ...on a mountain which is also called Hypsus. The district between Thyraeum and Hypsus is all mountainous and full of wild beasts. My narrative has already pointed...

Hypsus

79 22.080985,37.554985,0 Olympia ...for full-grown horses, winning with them. He also dedicated two statues at Olympia, works of Myron the Athenian. As for Arcesilaus and his son Lichas, the father...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...boy boxers. Men of Syracuse, who were bringing a sacrifice from Dionysius to Olympia, tried to bribe the father of Antipater to have his son proclaimed as a...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Maenalus ...Callisto, at the bidding of the Delphic oracle. There are still left ruins of Maenalus itself: traces of a temple of Athena, one race-course for athletes and one for...

Maenalus

80 22.2798987,37.643755,0 Olympic ...when the Messenians came back to the Peloponnesus their luck in the Olympic games came with them. For at the festival celebrated by the Eleans in the year...

Olympic

70 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thermodon ...on it a temple and image of Supreme Zeus. The river, a torrent, they call the Thermodon. Returning to Teumessus and the road to Chalcis, you come to the tomb of...

Thermodon

80 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Thebans ...with the force from Boeotia attacked Sicyon out of friendship to the Thebans. So the attack of the Eleans and Thebans against Sicyon apparently took place...

Thebans

71 23.255096,38.318092,0 Paros ...the latter adding that their doom overtook them in Naxos, which lies off Paros. Their tombs then are in Anthedon, and by the sea is what is called the Leap of...

Paros

75 25.150728,37.08579,0 Thebes ...died at once, before ten days had passed since the dream. But there was in Thebes an old woman related by birth to Pindar who had practised singing most of his...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Acraephnium ...– a clear reference to the rape of Persephone. From this point to Acraephnium is mainly flat. They say that originally the city formed part of the territory...

Acraephnium

69 23.219541,38.451533,0 Isthmian ...Olympia and at Nemea, but clearly kept away, just like other Eleans, from the Isthmian games. It is said that when Hysmon was still a boy he was attacked by a flux...

Isthmian

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Pytho ...and Aristocles of Sicyon. Dicon, the son of Callibrotus, won five footraces at Pytho, three at the Isthmian games, four at Nemea, one at Olympia in the race for...

Pytho

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ptoan ...fifteen stades away from the city on the right is the sanctuary of Ptoan Apollo. We are told by Asius in his epic that Ptous, who gave a surname to...

Ptoan

69 23.251,38.459,0 Thebans ...upon which is a stone shield. There is shown a place where according to the Thebans Hera was deceived by Zeus into giving the breast to Heracles when he was a...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argives ...and the taking of Thebes, the Cabeiri were expelled from their homes by the Argives and the rites for a while ceased to be performed. But they go on to say that...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Libethra ...manslaughter. In Larisa I heard another story, how that on Olympus is a city Libethra, where the mountain faces, Macedonia, not far from which city is the tomb of...

Libethra

80 22.53438,40.02458,0 Isthmus ...won two victories in the long foot-race at Olympia, and two at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The inscription on the statue states that he came originally from...

Isthmus

76 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Nemea ...victories in the long foot-race at Olympia, and two at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The inscription on the statue states that he came originally from Himera; but...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Scotussa ...But this man, Polydamas the son of Nicias, is the tallest of our own era. Scotussa, the native city of Polydamas, has now no inhabitants, for Alexander the tyrant...

Scotussa

77 22.5403,39.38533,0 Molycria ...of the murder of Hesiod, that here they sinned against Poseidon, and that in Molycria their punishment was inflicted. The sister of the young men had been ravished...

Molycria

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Macedonia ...to leave the city, when Heaven brought a second calamity in the war with Macedonia. Others have won glorious victories in the pancratium, but Polydamas, besides...

Macedonia

75 21.75,41.25,0 Alalcomenae ...but quite consistent with his treatment of Thebes and Orchomenus. But in Alalcomenae he added yet another to his crimes by stealing the image of Athena itself...

Alalcomenae

75 23.00169,38.385259,0 Coroneia ...Libya, which flows into the Libyan sea out of lake Tritonis. Before reaching Coroneia from Alalcomenae we come to the sanctuary of Itonian Athena. It is named after...

Coroneia

80 22.956902,38.392613,0 Coroneia ...they say) and made crowns for themselves out of them. Some forty stades from Coroneia is Mount Libethrius, on which are images of the Muses and Nymphs surnamed...

Coroneia

80 22.956902,38.392613,0 Isthmian ...son of Diagoras, besides his Olympian victories, won eight at the Isthmian and seven at the Nemean games. He is also said to have won a Pythian victory...

Isthmian

68 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Thessaly ...the Greek side against Philip and the Macedonians at Chaeroneia, nor later in Thessaly against Antipater, yet they did not actually range themselves against the...

Thessaly

80 21.75,39.25,0 Elis ...one hand holding the horn of Amaltheia. In the most thickly-populated part of Elis is a statue of bronze no taller than a tall man; it represents a beardless...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Patrae ...the name Satrap, which is a surname of Corybas, after the enlargement of Patrae. Between the market-place and the Menius is an old theater and a shrine of...

Patrae

75 21.738518,38.243265,0 Araxus ...the boundary between Elis and Achaia, though of old the boundary was Cape Araxus on the coast.

Araxus

76 21.377,38.212,0 Aegialus ...eastern sea, is now called Achaia after the inhabitants, but of old was called Aegialus and those who lived in it Aegialians. According to the Sicyonians the name is...

Aegialus

81 22.3484,38.1478,0 Ionians ...city he founded in Aegialus Helice after his wife, and called the inhabitants Ionians after himself. This, however, was not a change of name, but an addition to it...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Dorians ...were the only Peloponnesians to be called Achaeans before the return of the Dorians. Archander and Architeles, sons of Achaeus, came from Phthiotis to Argos, and...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Ionians ...Ionians, offering to settle among them without warfare. But the kings of the Ionians were afraid that, if the Achaeans united with them, Tisamenus would be chosen...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Dorians ...of the Athenians. Another account is that the Athenians suspected that the Dorians would not keep their hands off them, and received the Ionians to strengthen...

Dorians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Mantineans ...dedicated by Nicippe, the daughter of Paseas. This sanctuary was made by the Mantineans to remind posterity of their fighting on the side of the Romans at the battle...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Phalerum ...conveniently situated for mariners, and had three harbors as against one at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks there, and...

Phalerum

78 23.7062,37.9373,0 Cretans ...of Europa; the Carians, the former inhabitants of the land, united with the Cretans. But to resume. When the Ionians had overcome the ancient Milesians they...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 his relations ...said that the Athenians repented of their treatment of Themistocles, and that his relations took up his bones and brought them from Magnesia. And the children of...

his relations

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegean Sea ...tr. W. H. S. JONES On the Greek mainland facing the Cyclades Islands and the Aegean Sea the Sunium promontory stands out from the Attic land. When you have rounded the...

Aegean Sea

80 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Phliasians ...Of these Clazomenians the greater part were not Ionians, but Cleonaeans and Phliasians, who abandoned their cities when the Dorians had returned to Peloponnesus. The...

Phliasians

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Messenians ...and feasting. But the Lacedemonians, when they heard the oracle given to the Messenians, were in despair, both they and their kings, and for the future shrank from...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...the mobile Messenian force, when the signal was given to them, charged the Lacedemonians and enveloping them threw javelins on their flanks. All who were of higher...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...together and howled every night, and at last fled together to the camp of the Lacedemonians. Aristodemus was alarmed by this and by the following dream which came to him...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ithome ...scattered in their native towns, as before. The Lacedemonians first razed Ithome to the ground, then attacked and captured the remaining towns. Of the spoils...

Ithome

77 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...own sides. As to Aristomenes himself he had with him eighty picked men of the Messenians of the same age as himself, each one of them thinking it the highest honor that...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athenians ...when they settled in Adramyttium after being expelled from their island by the Athenians. The Minyae, driven by the Thebans from Orchomenos after the battle of...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sparta ...Cleomenes at Sellasia and joined with Aratus and the Achaeans to capture Sparta. When the Lacedemonians were rid of Cleomenes there rose to power a tyrant...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Antheia ...interior of Messenia is the city of the Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's poems. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedemonians...

Antheia

81 Arcadian ...he wrote the lines because he knew that they held a musical contest. At the Arcadian gate leading to Megalopolis is a Herm of Attic style; for the square form of...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Andania ...but I can say nothing as to her parents or her husband. On the road from Andania towards Cyparissiae is Polichne, as it is called, and the streams of Electra...

Andania

75 21.938099,37.26217,0 Echinades ...run of fish is up the stream of the Achelous, which discharges opposite the Echinades islands. But the fish that enter the Pamisus are of quite a different kind, as...

Echinades

78 21.25,38.25,0 Dryopes ...Phocians. But the men of Asine take the greatest pleasure in being called Dryopes, and clearly have made the most holy of their sanctuaries in memory of those...

Dryopes

76 24.25,38.25,0 Acritas ...into the sea and has a deserted island, Theganussa, lying off it. After Acritas is the harbor Phoenicus and the Oenussae islands lying opposite. Before the...

Acritas

74 21.8764,36.72016,0 Argolid ...in my view were Egyptians originally, who came by sea with Danaus to the Argolid, and two generations later were settled in Nauplia by Nauplius the son of...

Argolid

75 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Epirus ...of Messenia on the coast to suffer a disaster like the following: Thesprotian Epirus was ruined by anarchy. For Deidameia the daughter of Pyrrhus, being without...

Epirus

80 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Atarneus ...is the name of the hot baths in the district called Atarneus. It was this Atarneus, which the Chians received as a reward from the Persians as a reward for...

Atarneus

76 26.92073,39.09127,0 Delos ...of Sphacteria lies in front of the harbor just as Rheneia off the anchorage at Delos. It seems that places hitherto unknown have been raised to fame by the fortunes...

Delos

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Sphacteria ...bronze statue of Victory also on the acropolis as a memorial of the events at Sphacteria. When Cyparissiae is reached from Pylos, there is a spring below the city near...

Sphacteria

80 21.665725,36.930136,0 Mases ...inside. The temple was said to be Apollo's. by the side of it runs a road to Mases for those who have turned aside from the straight road. Mases was in old days a...

Mases

79 23.142191,37.417868,0 Argives ...a sanctuary of Poseidon, harbors, and a spring called Canathus. Here, say the Argives, Hera bathes every year and recovers her maidenhood. This is one of the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Genesium ...there is also another road, which skirts the sea and leads to a place called Genesium . By the sea is a small sanctuary of Poseidon Genesius. Next to this is another...

Genesium

79 22.732834,37.513986,0 painting ...the children of Themistocles certainly returned and set up in the Parthenon a painting, on which is a portrait of Themistocles. The most noteworthy sight in the...

painting

80 Aeginetans ...an arbitration. As you go from these common graves you come to Athene, where Aeginetans once made their home, another village Neris, and a third Eua, the largest of...

Aeginetans

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Thalamae ...of Tyndareus on his mother's side. The story goes on to say that he settled at Thalamae in Messenia, and that his children were born to him when he was living...

Thalamae

81 22.325671,36.786208,0 Thermopylae ...and the united Greeks defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against Oeta, and shut them up there. The portrait...

Thermopylae

78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Patrae ...was founding in Achaea a city which even at the present day is called Patrae from this Patreus, the Lacedemonians took part in the settlement. They also...

Patrae

72 21.738518,38.243265,0 Sparta ...of respect from the Lacedemonians. However, Polemarchus too has a tomb in Sparta; either he had been considered a good man before this murder, or perhaps his...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...sacred to Argus, son of Niobe, and on being routed some five thousand of the Argives took refuge therein. Cleomenes was subject to fits of mad excitement, and on...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sphacteria ...between two enemy forces, and the defeats at Thermopylae and on the island of Sphacteria made him afraid lest he himself should prove the occasion of a third misfortune...

Sphacteria

80 21.665725,36.930136,0 Sparta ...in particular that when a boy he had sworn to his father Cleonymus to ruin Sparta. So Leonidas ceased to be king and Cleombrotus came to the throne in his...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argolis ...Lady of the Lake, Teleclus the king of the other house. Nicander also invaded Argolis with an army, and laid waste the greater part of the land. The Asinaeans took...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Lacedemonians ...the greater part of the land. The Asinaeans took part in this action with the Lacedemonians, and shortly after were punished by the Argives, who inflicted great...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 of heroes ...and one of Zeus some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown, and of heroes, and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus; for this Phalerus is said by the...

of heroes

80 Athenian ...when they were at the height of their power after the destruction of the Athenian fleet, and Agesilaus had already reduced the greater part of Asia, they were...

Athenian

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Colchis ...for this Phalerus is said by the Athenians to have sailed with Jason to Colchis. There is also an altar of Androgeos, son of Minos, though it is called that of...

Colchis

74 42.5,42.5,0 Messenia ...the time just before harvest. Settling on Eira and cut off from the rest of Messenia, except in so far as the people of Pylos and Mothone maintained the coastal...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eira ...not large enough to let him through, with his hands and reached his home at Eira in safety, having undergone a remarkable chance in the matter of his capture...

Eira

78 21.927988,37.398271,0 Cretans ...at him understood what she had been bidden to do. Accordingly she plied the Cretans with wine, and when they were overcome with drunkenness she stole away the...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messenia ...the majority of the Lacedemonians was away at Eira, and others were scouring Messenia for booty and plunder. "If we can capture and occupy Sparta," said Aristomenes...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...declared to all, the Arcadians themselves stoned Aristocrates and urged the Messenians to join them. They looked to Aristomenes. But he was weeping, with his eyes...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lycaeus ...their borders without burial, and set up a tablet in the precinct of Zeus Lycaeus with the words: "Truly time hath declared justice upon an unjust king and with...

Lycaeus

76 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Ithome ...Messene for Rhegium after the death of king Aristodemus and the capture of Ithome. So now this Anaxilas summoned the Messenians. When they came, he said that the...

Ithome

77 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...to the altars of the gods and to the temples. Anaxilas, however, advised the Messenians to put to death the suppliant Zanclaeans and to enslave the rest together with...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Naupactus ...Lacedemonians towards them, made friends therefore with the Argives, and gave Naupactus to the Messenians besieged in Ithome, when they were allowed to depart under a...

Naupactus

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Aetolians ...part of them got through the Acarnanians, and reaching the territory of the Aetolians, who were their friends, arrived safely at Naupactus. Afterwards, as at all...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Athenian ...from Naupactus helped to capture the Spartans cut off in Sphacteria. When the Athenian reverse at Aegospotami took place, the Lacedemonians, having command of the...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ithome ...in a dream: it seemed that Heracles Manticlus was bidden by Zeus as a guest to Ithome. Also among the Euesperitae Comon dreamt that he lay with his dead mother, but...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Lacedemonians ...the dream really indicated the recovery of Messene. Not long afterwards the Lacedemonians suffered at Leuctra the disaster that had long been due. For at the end of the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Attica ...in the games at Olympia. Agis used also to make continual incursions into Attica, and established the fortified post at Decelea to annoy the Athenians. When the...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Arcadians ...the minds of the Lacedemonians what Agis once said about Leotychides. But the Arcadians from Heraea arrived and bore witness for Leotychides, stating what they had...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Troy ...too had propitiated the goddess here before leading the expedition to Troy. Agesilaus, then, claimed to be king of a more prosperous city than was...

Troy

72 26.23873,39.9577,0 Ionia ...on the plain of the Hermus with Tissaphernes, satrap of the parts around Ionia, in which Agesilaus conquered the cavalry of the Persians and the infantry, of...

Ionia

75 27.508324,37.474596,0 Aulis ...way the Thebans behaved towards Agesilaus when he was sacrificing at Aulis. The Athenians receiving early intimation of the Lacedemonians' intentions...

Aulis

71 23.5925,38.4335,0 Lacedemonians ...and the Macedonians, but while the younger son, Eudamidas, was king, the Lacedemonians enjoyed peace. The history of Agis, son of Eudamidas, and of Eurydamidas, son...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...– an excellent rule which I will never violate. The Lacedemonians who live in Sparta have a market-place worth seeing; the council-chamber of the senate, and the...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...of ten ships of war. These made their escape to Cyprus; all the rest the Lacedemonians captured along with their crews. Agias was a son of Agelochus, a son of...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...to Tisamenus, persuaded him to migrate from Elis and to be state-diviner at Sparta. And Tisamenus won them five contests in war. The first was at Plataea against...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...Lacedemonians had engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all the Arcadians except the Mantineans were arrayed...

Arcadian

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tegea ...of Orestes, son of Agamemnon. For when the bones of Orestes were brought from Tegea in accordance with an oracle they were buried here. Beside the grave of Orestes...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Thermopylae ...also a sanctuary of Maron and of Alpheius. Of the Lacedemonians who served at Thermopylae they consider that these men distinguished themselves in the fighting more than...

Thermopylae

80 22.538294,38.796511,0 Dorians ...capture Sparta. The cult of Apollo Carneus has been established among all the Dorians ever since Carnus, an Acarnanian by birth, who was a seer of Apollo. When he...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Dorians ...of the bloodguilt, and from this time the custom was established among the Dorians of propitiating the Acarnanian seer. But this Carnus is not the Lacedemonian...

Dorians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Colophon ...no other Greeks who are accustomed to sacrifice puppies except the people of Colophon; these too sacrifice a puppy, a black bitch, to the Wayside Goddess. Both the...

Colophon

79 27.142222,38.115556,0 Artemisium ...who commanded the Lacedemonian warships that fought the Persians at Artemisium and Salamis. Near is what is called the hero-shrine of Astrabacus. The place...

Artemisium

70 23.220954,39.017832,0 Asopus ...his father / Cared for him well, and his home was near to the springs of Asopus." The account goes on to say that the mother of Phlias was Araethyrea and not...

Asopus

75 22.75,37.75,0 Phlius ...race, and their inhabitants suffered yet more revolutions. The history of Phlius is as follows. The Dorian Rhegnidas, the son of Phalces, the son of Temenus...

Phlius

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Eleusinian ...the son of Xuthus, was chosen by the Athenians to be commander-in-chief in the Eleusinian war. Now I cannot possibly agree with the Phliasians in supposing that an...

Eleusinian

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Eleusis ...that he was related to Celeus, or that he was in any way distinguished at Eleusis, otherwise Homer would never have passed him by in his poems. For Homer is one...

Eleusis

76 23.538311,38.041096,0 Elis ...Eurytus and Cteatus. The story is that as they were going as ambassadors from Elis to the Isthmian contest they were here shot by Heracles, who charged them with...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Cleonae ...who charged them with being his adversaries in the war against Augeas. From Cleonae to Argos are two roads; one is direct and only for active men, the other goes...

Cleonae

79 22.75372,37.81708,0 Nemea ...was named, they say, after Nemea, who was another daughter of Asopus. Above Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to Zeus of...

Nemea

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Apesas ...say, after Nemea, who was another daughter of Asopus. Above Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to Zeus of Apesas. Ascending to...

Apesas

77 22.74021,37.86195,0 Mycenae ...and again going along the road to Argos, you see on the left the ruins of Mycenae. The Greeks are aware that the founder of Mycenae was Perseus, so I will...

Mycenae

76 22.756111,37.730833,0 Argos ...divided the kingdom between themselves; Acrisius remained where he was at Argos, and Proetus took over the Heraeum, Midea, Tiryns, and the Argive coast region...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tiryns ...Tiryns, and the Argive coast region. Traces of the residence of Proetus in Tiryns remain to the present day. Afterwards Acrisius, learning that Perseus himself...

Tiryns

77 22.80004,37.59918,0 Argos ...in front of the burnt temple. By the side of the road from Mycenae to Argos there is on the left hand a hero-shrine of Perseus. The neighboring folk, then...

Argos

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sparta ...his rule over the greater part of Arcadia and had succeeded to the throne of Sparta; he also had a contingent of Phocian allies always ready to help him. When...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...and fought with the bull that was the leader of the herd. It occurred to the Argives that Gelanor was like the bull and Danaus like the wolf, for as the wolf will...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...the following reason. Ever since the Lacedemonians began to make war upon the Argives there was no cessation of hostilities until Philip, the son of Amyntas, forced...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Antiope ...entering the city there is a monument to Antiope the Amazon. This Antiope, Pindar says, was carried of by Peirithous and Theseus, but Hegias of Troezen...

Antiope

68 Troy ...Priam, and that there is among them the image of Athena that was brought from Troy, thus causing the capture of that city. For the Palladium, as it is called, was...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Trachis ...to Italy by Aeneas. As to Deianeira, we know that her death took place near Trachis and not in Argos, and her grave is near Heraclea, at the foot of Mount...

Trachis

78 22.78885,38.35274,0 Oeta ...Trachis and not in Argos, and her grave is near Heraclea, at the foot of Mount Oeta. The story of Helenus, son of Priam, I have already given: that he went to...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Mardonius ...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 today is, as report goes, the...

Mardonius

80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Deiradiotes ...came from Delphi. The present image is a bronze standing figure called Apollo Deiradiotes, because this place, too, is called Deiras (Ridge). Oracular responses are...

Deiradiotes

80 24.0412725,37.8241815,0 Lacedemonians ...that Cnageus came to Crete in some other way, and not in the manner the Lacedemonians state; for I do not think there was a battle at Aphidna at all, Theseus being...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Amyclaean ...with a lyre, supposed to be Sparta, the latter an Aphrodite called "beside the Amyclaean." These tripods are larger than the others, and were dedicated from the spoils...

Amyclaean

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Dorians ...although perhaps they are not true history. Amyclae was laid waste by the Dorians, and since that time has remained a village; I found there a sanctuary and...

Dorians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Pythian ...in the breast, and weak with his hurt came to Delphi. When he arrived the Pythian priestess sent Leonynius to White Island, telling him that there Ajax would...

Pythian

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Taygetus ...of Poseidon surnamed Earth-embracer. Going on from here in the direction of Taygetus you come to a place called Alesiae (Place of Grinding) they say that Myles...

Taygetus

78 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Aegium ...is stated in the Elean records of Olympic victors to have been a native of Aegium in Achaia. Farther on in the direction of Pellana is what is called Characoma...

Aegium

77 22.081952,38.252707,0 Belemina ...spring, Lancia. A hundred stades away from Pellana is the place called Belemina. It is naturally The best watered region of Laconia, seeing that The river...

Belemina

74 22.286919,37.27848,0 Pegasus of Eleutherae ...Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods. Here also is Pegasus of Eleutherae, who introduced the god to the Athenians. Herein he was helped by the oracle at...

Pegasus of Eleutherae

77 23.37572,38.17934,0 Phoenician men-of-war ...stand Conon, Timotheus his son and Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes. This he did as an Athenian whose...

Phoenician men-of-war

77 35.25,33.25,0 Trinasus ...which lie off the coast here, three in number. About eighty stades beyond Trinasus I came to the ruins of Helos, and some thirty stades farther is Acriae, a city...

Trinasus

76 22.606891,36.797636,0 Helos ...three in number. About eighty stades beyond Trinasus I came to the ruins of Helos, and some thirty stades farther is Acriae, a city on the coast. Well worth...

Helos

78 22.60754,36.843247,0 pictures of the gods called the Twelve ...and especially to the city of the Athenians. A portico is built behind with pictures of the gods called the Twelve. On the wall opposite are painted Theseus, Democracy and Demos. The picture...

pictures of the gods called the Twelve

79 Nymphaeum ...wood. On the voyage from Boeae towards the point of Malea is a harbor called Nymphaeum, with a statue of Poseidon standing, and a cave close to the sea; in it is a...

Nymphaeum

80 23.13984,36.43983,0 Scyros ...so called, because Pyrrhus the son of Achilles put in here when he sailed from Scyros to wed Hermione. Across the river is an ancient shrine . . . further from an...

Scyros

81 24.6099,38.82754,0 Iolcos ...son of Aeolus (he was also called a son of Poseidon), when he was driven from Iolcos by Pelias. He gave him the maritime part of the land, where with other towns...

Iolcos

80 22.96886,39.366305,0 Pylos ...Pelias. He gave him the maritime part of the land, where with other towns was Pylos, in which Neleus settled and established his palace. Lycus the son of Pandion...

Pylos

80 Mothone ...which is in Pharae. Isthmius had a son Dotadas, who constructed the harbor at Mothone, though Messenia contained others. Sybotas the son of Dotadas established the...

Mothone

80 21.705,36.817,0 Dorian ...town is a sanctuary of Athena, and an Apollo Carneius according to the local Dorian custom. A city, called in Homer's poems Enope, with Messenian inhabitants but...

Dorian

79 22.25,38.75,0 Gerenia ...but belonging to the league of the Free Laconians, is called in our time Gerenia. One account states that Nestor was brought up in this city, another that he...

Gerenia

75 22.208656,36.927195,0 Pylos ...Nestor was brought up in this city, another that he took refuge here, when Pylos was captured by Heracles. Here in Gerenia is a tomb of Machaon, son of...

Pylos

77 Tenedos ...distant. The inhabitants say that they are Trojans who were taken prisoners in Tenedos by the Greeks, and were permitted by Agamemnon to dwell in their present home...

Tenedos

81 26.0497905,39.8278355,0 Lacedemonian ...taunts they come to deeds, mass thrusting against mass, especially on the Lacedemonian side, and man attacking man. The Lacedemonians were far superior both in...

Lacedemonian

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Asine ...peoples already reduced and serving in their ranks, and the Dryopes of Asine, who a generation earlier had been driven out of their own country by the...

Asine

73 22.87403,37.52659,0 Lacedemonians ...force, for darkness had already descended on the field; moreover, the Lacedemonians were prevented from following the retiring force further not least by their...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonians ...of the Heracleidae, and made him partner in the kingdom. From that time the Sicyonians became Dorians and their land a part of the Argive territory. The city built by...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lacedemonian ...be fully versed in divination. While he was returning from Delphi men from the Lacedemonian garrison at Ampheia laid an ambush for him. Though trapped, he did not submit...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Crete ...coming upon them at the place now named Fear, they turned aside to Carmanor in Crete, and the people of Aegialea were smitten by a plague. When the seers bade them...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Lacedemonians ...full muster of' the Arcadians and by picked troops from Argos and Sicyon. The Lacedemonians entrusted their center to the Corinthians, Helots and all the neighboring...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...he selected the most serviceable of the arms for all the Arcadians and Messenians who were physically strong and stout hearted but did not possess powerful...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Macedonians ...buyers out of his own purse. Moreover, as all the Greeks were afraid of the Macedonians and of Antigonus, the guardian of Philip, the son of Demetrius, he induced the...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Spartans ...are apt to be most annoyed by what they regard as beneath them. So then the Spartans who had already been wounded and all who after the fall of their comrades were...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...their democracy and to join the Achaean League; he captured Mantinea from the Lacedemonians who held it. But no man finds all his plans turn out according to his liking...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...up tripods ten times ten to Zeus of Ithome, heaven grants glory in war and the Messenian land. For thus hath Zeus ordained. Deceit raised thee up and punishment follows...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Phliasian ...is the sanctuary, and in it is an old wooden figure carved by Laphaes the Phliasian. I will now describe the ritual at the festival. The story is that on coming to...

Phliasian

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Messenians ...as a ten years' office, Hippomenes having completed his fourth year. All the Messenians who had ties with Sicyon and Argos and among any of the Arcadians retired to...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicyon ...having completed his fourth year. All the Messenians who had ties with Sicyon and Argos and among any of the Arcadians retired to these states, but those who...

Sicyon

74 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...asserted that Hera guided him on the road to Sicyon. On the direct road from Sicyon to Phlius, on the left of the road and just about ten stades from it, is a...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Asopus ...it, in my opinion, of twenty stades, to the left on the other side of the Asopus, is a grove of holm oaks and a temple of the goddesses named by the Athenians...

Asopus

76 22.75,37.75,0 Sicyonians ...was Proetus, the son of Abas. When you have gone down to the harbor called the Sicyonians' and turned towards Aristonautae, the Port of Pellene, you see a little above...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Athens ...they should procure the Athenian as counsellor. So they sent messengers to Athens to announce the oracle, asking for a man to advise what they must do. The...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleians ...to join battle at the Boar's Tomb, as it is called. The Messenians had the Eleians and Arcadians and also succors from Argos and from Sicyon. They were joined by...

Eleians

77 21.25,37.75,0 Tegea ...their reverse. The road from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as that to Tegea, but begins from the gate at the Ridge. On this road is a sanctuary built with...

Tegea

77 22.429,37.464,0 Argos ...driven from his throne by the sons of Agrius, took refuge with Diomedes at Argos, who aided him by an expedition into Calydonia, but said that he could not...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phlius ...Omeae, however, was inhabited, and in his poem he places it on the list before Phlius and Sicyon, which order corresponds to the position of the towns in the Argive...

Phlius

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Dorians ...of Aphrodite; there is also the tomb of Temenus, which is worshipped by the Dorians in Argos. Fifty stades, I conjecture, from Temenium is Nauplia, which at the...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Lessa ...Athena with a wooden image exactly like the one on the citadel Larisa. Above Lessa is Mount Arachnaeus, which long ago, in the time of Inachus, was named...

Lessa

79 22.9427,37.5969,0 Epidauria ...gave a share of their mystic rites to Asclepius, call this day of the festival Epidauria, and they allege that their worship of Asclepius dates from then. Again, when...

Epidauria

81 23.02637,36.731301,0 Crete ...From the one at Cyrene was founded the sanctuary of Asclepius at Lebene, in Crete. There is this difference between the Cyreneans and the Epidaurians, that...

Crete

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Amyclae ...and most beautiful of his sons, died before his father, and his tomb is in Amyclae below the image of Apollo. On the death of Amyclas the empire came to Aegalus...

Amyclae

77 24.76084,35.0133,0 Delos ...place within the enclosure the same custom prevails also in the island of Delos. All the offerings, whether the offerer be one of the Epidaurians themselves or...

Delos

76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Lacedemonians ...he had surpassed Tyndareus in power, and forced him to retire in fear; the Lacedemonians say that he went to Pellana, but a Messenian legend about him is that he fled...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocis ...then, of this Phocus only the district about Tithorea and Parnassus was called Phocis, but in the time of Aeacus the name spread to all from the borders of the...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Cynurians ...and that the Cynurians themselves openly made forays into the land. The Cynurians are said to be Argives by descent, and tradition has it that their founder was...

Cynurians

74 22.75,37.25,0 Panopeus ...Asius the epic poet says that to Phocus were born Panopeus and Crisus. To Panopeus was born Epeus, who made, according to Homer, the wooden horse; and the...

Panopeus

76 22.79418,38.49551,0 Sparta ...many years afterwards Labotas, son of Echestratus, became king in Sparta. This Labotas Herodotus, in his history of Croesus, says was in his childhood...

Sparta

68 22.42454,37.08149,0 Samians ...an old temple of Athena, which was once burnt by Harpagus the Persian, and the Samians also have an old one of Pythian Apollo; these, however, were built much later...

Samians

81 26.84,37.73,0 Plataea ...Persian, Pharandates the son of Teaspis. When Mardonius fell in the battle of Plataea, and the foreigners were destroyed, Pausanias sent the lady back to Cos, and...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Athens ...by increasing the despotic power of wicked men. When he returned from Athens with only a fruitless battle to his credit, he was brought to trial by his...

Athens

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hermione ...merges into Pron, for so they name this mountain. A wall stands all round Hermione, a city which I found afforded much to write about, and among the things which...

Hermione

76 23.243591,37.385218,0 Sparta ...of Aeacides to invade Laconia. While Areus the son of Acrotatus was king in Sparta, Antigonus the son of Demetrius attacked Athens with an army and a fleet. To...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...in rear; but before such a move it was not fair for Egyptian sailors to attack Macedonians on land. The Lacedemonians were eager to make the venture, both because of...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Argives ...at peace, but Charillus the son of Polydectes devastated the land of the Argives – for he it was who invaded Argolis – and not many years afterwards, under the...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenia ...after him, I shall have more to say later on, when I come to the history of Messenia. While Theopompus was still king in Sparta there also took place the struggle...

Messenia

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Attica ...This Archidamus did terrible damage to the land of the Athenians, invading Attica with an army every year, on each occasion carrying destruction from end to end...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athenians ...at Aphidna at all, Theseus being detained among the Thesprotians and the Athenians not being unanimous, their sympathies inclining towards Menestheus. Moreover...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Crotona ...son of Oileus to help them in battle. So Leonymus the general of the people of Crotona attacked his enemy at that point where he heard that Ajax was posted in the...

Crotona

81 17.205128,39.028864,0 Laconia ...towards the sea, you come to the site of Pharis, which was once a city of Laconia. Turning away from the Phellia to the right is the road that leads to Mount...

Laconia

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lapithaeum ...is Lapithaeum, named after Lapithus, a native of the district. So this Lapithaeum is on Taygetus, and not far off is Dereium, where is in the open an image of...

Lapithaeum

73 22.43012,36.989577,0 Thalamae ...and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea...

Thalamae

75 22.325671,36.786208,0 Ilium ...sanctuary, they say, was made by Alexander. But when Menelaus had taken Ilium and had returned safe home eight years after the sack of Troy, he set up near...

Ilium

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Etis ...and he is said to have collected inhabitants for it from three cities, Etis, Aphrodisias and Side. Of the ancient cities two are said to have been founded...

Etis

73 Cythera ...Among the ruins is a not insignificant sanctuary of Asclepius and Health. Cythera lies opposite Boeae; to the promontory of Platanistus, the point where the...

Cythera

77 22.97822,36.26229,0 Boeae ...a not insignificant sanctuary of Asclepius and Health. Cythera lies opposite Boeae; to the promontory of Platanistus, the point where the island lies nearest to...

Boeae

80 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Lacedemonians ...stades from Epidelium. The people say that they are not descended from the Lacedemonians but from the Epidaurians of the Argolid, and that they touched at this point in...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...a statue of Heracles outside the walls, and a trophy for a victory over the Macedonians. These formed a detachment of Philip's army, when he invaded Laconia, but were...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Teuthrone ...the women from Thermodon. From Pyrrhichus the road comes down to the sea at Teuthrone. The inhabitants declare that their founder was Teuthras, an Athenian. They...

Teuthrone

79 22.489063,36.621145,0 Messenia The frontier between Messenia and that part of it which was incorporated by the emperor in Laconia towards...

Messenia

21 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athens ...of Xerxes and in the earlier ones of Dareius against the Scythians and against Athens. The Lacedemonians, admiring the energy of Agesilaus, added to his command the...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocians ...Deinicha the wife of Archidamus, receiving a bribe from the chief men of the Phocians, made Archidamus more ready to bring them reinforcements. To accept sacred...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...the intercession of Archidamus that they escaped this fate at the hands of the Phocians. Archidamus afterwards also crossed over into Italy to help the Tarentines to...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Achaeans ...people of this city, as I have stated already, were sold into slavery by the Achaeans after they had conquered in battle the Lacedemonians under their king...

Achaeans

79 Plataea ...at Sparta. And Tisamenus won them five contests in war. The first was at Plataea against the Persians; the second was at Tegea, when the Lacedemonians had...

Plataea

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Arcadian ...After it come the hero-shrines of Hippolytus, son of Theseus, and of the Arcadian Aulon, son of Tlesimenes. Some say that Tlesimenes was a brother, others a son...

Arcadian

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympian ...the foot-race won, at Olympia and elsewhere, by Chionis, a Lacedemonian. The Olympian victories were seven, four in the single-stade race and three in the...

Olympian

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cyrene ...the Dioscuri in the likeness of strangers. They said that they had come from Cyrene, and asked to lodge with him, requesting to have the chamber which had pleased...

Cyrene

79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Lacedemonians ...and the greater part of his army were destroyed by the Egestaeans. The Lacedemonians have also made a sanctuary for Lycurgus, who drew up the laws, looking upon him...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Limnatians ...when they found the image straightway became insane. Secondly, the Spartan Limnatians, the Cynosurians, and the people of Mesoa and Pitane, while sacrificing to...

Limnatians

77 22.253477,36.96028,0 Ephesus ...Lysander dedicated them to commemorate both his exploits; the one was off Ephesus, when he conquered Antiochus, the captain of Alcibiades, and the Athenian...

Ephesus

76 27.339722,37.941944,0 Rheiti ...the surface. Up to this point it flows from Stymphalus in Arcadia, just as the Rheiti, near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus. At the places where the...

Rheiti

81 23.625,38.125,0 Argives ...to give a father's father, and on his death buried him here. After him the Argives name the place Oenoe. Above Oenoe is Mount Artemisius, with a sanctuary of...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Chimaera ...in relief the exploits of Argive heroes, that of Bellerophontes against the Chimaera, and Perseus, who has cut off the head of Medusa. Over against the temple is...

Chimaera

78 19.729321,40.116152,0 Argos ...accusations against Deiphontes, and besought her much that she would return to Argos, promising, among other things, to give her to a husband in every respect...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 grave of Themistocles ...Even up to my time there were docks there, and near the largest harbor is the grave of Themistocles. For it is said that the Athenians repented of their treatment of Themistocles...

grave of Themistocles

80 portrait of Leosthenes and of his sons ...are of bronze; Zeus holds a staff and a Victory, Athena a spear. Here is a portrait of Leosthenes and of his sons, painted by Arcesilaus. This Leosthenes at the head of the Athenians and the...

portrait of Leosthenes and of his sons

77 harbor ...(Fair Voyage) by the Cnidians themselves. The Athenians have also another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at...

harbor

77 23.644901333333333,37.937560999999995,0 Phalerum ...harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is...

Phalerum

80 23.7062,37.9373,0 image of the Coliad Aphrodite ...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...

image of the Coliad Aphrodite

77 Lacedemonians ...images of Apollo Carneius according to the same custom that prevails among the Lacedemonians of Sparta. On the acropolis is a sanctuary and image of Athena, and there is a...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Leuctra ...record an event which I know to have taken place in my time on the coast of Leuctra. A fire carried by the wind into a wood destroyed most of the trees, and when...

Leuctra

78 22.26501,36.84279,0 Messene ...of the present city of Messene under Ithome, I think that no city had the name Messene. I base this conclusion principally on Homer's lines. In the catalogue of those...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Troy ...conclusion principally on Homer's lines. In the catalogue of those who came to Troy he enumerated Pylos, Arene and other towns, but called no town Messene. In the...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pylos ...on Homer's lines. In the catalogue of those who came to Troy he enumerated Pylos, Arene and other towns, but called no town Messene. In the Odyssey he shows...

Pylos

77 Messenian ...of Perseus, Aphareus and Leucippus, and after his death they inherited the Messenian kingdom. But Aphareus had the greater authority. On his accession he founded a...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...Cresphontes took to wife Merope the daughter of Cypselus, then king of the Arcadians, by whom with other children was born to him Aepytus his youngest. He had the...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenian ...to the Lacedemonians their maidens coming to the festival were violated by Messenian men and their king was killed in trying to prevent it. He was Teleclus the son...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...of himself, dared to murder every Lacedemonian whom he could capture. The Lacedemonians say that they went to war because Polychares was not surrendered to them, and...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Areopagus ...of both parties, and to submit the matter to the court at Athens called the Areopagus, as this court was held to exercise an ancient jurisdiction in cases pertaining...

Areopagus

78 Ephesian ...of a most repulsive woman. Another figure of Strife is in the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis; Calliphon of Samos included it in his picture of the battle at the...

Ephesian

77 27.339722,37.941944,0 Locris ...from the image of Athena, and by him is also an inscription: "Ajax of Locris is dragging Cassandra from Athena." Polyneices, the son of Oedipus, has fallen...

Locris

72 22.75,38.75,0 Athenians ...the fine had been imposed by the Eleans on Callippus and his antagonists, the Athenians commissioned Hypereides to persuade the Eleans to remit them the fine. The...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Alexandrians ...with the surname of Rhantes – it is a sort of national characteristic for Alexandrians to have a surname. This man was the first Egyptian to be convicted by the...

Alexandrians

76 29.904133,31.195371,0 Corcyra ...Corcyra, with Thebe next; last of all comes Aesopus. There is a legend about Corcyra that she mated with Poseidon, and the same thing is said by Pindar of Thebe and...

Corcyra

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Melos ...alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the Tenians and the Lepreans, who were...

Melos

76 24.41997,36.73537,0 Laconians ...had reduced by force. The sculptors were Aristo and Telestas, Own brothers and Laconians." I do not think that these Laconians were famous all over Greece, for had they...

Laconians

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...dedicated, they say, by the Lacedemonians, when they entered on a war with the Messenians after their second revolt. On it is an elegiac couplet: "Accept, king, son of...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Caicus ...live in the first city of Aeolis you reach on descending from the plain of the Caicus to the sea. Yet another image of Zeus comes next, and the inscription on it...

Caicus

81 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Sicels ...tradition about them. Sicily is inhabited by the following races: Sicanians, Sicels, and Phrygians; the first two crossed into it from Italy, while the Phrygians...

Sicels

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Phrygians ...them. Sicily is inhabited by the following races: Sicanians, Sicels, and Phrygians; the first two crossed into it from Italy, while the Phrygians came from the...

Phrygians

76 27.75,40.25,0 Naupactus ...of Daedalus or of the Attic school. The Dorian Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians dedicated at Olympia the image of Victory upon the pillar...

Naupactus

74 22.315807,38.41224,0 Athenians ...themselves declare that their offering came from their exploit with the Athenians in the island of Sphacteria, and that the name of their enemy was omitted...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...The inscriptions say that he lived at Tegea, and he dedicated the offerings at Olympia in fulfillment of a vow made for the recovery of a son, who fell ill of a...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonians ...Helots. These events I shall relate presently. On the occasion I mention the Lacedemonians allowed the rebels to depart under a truce, in accordance with the advice of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pitanatans ...and near is what is called the lounge of the Crotani, who form a part of the Pitanatans. Not far from the lounge is a sanctuary of Asclepius, called "in the place of...

Pitanatans

79 26.934063,38.934089,0 Hermione ...on to them by Orpheus, but in my opinion it was because of the sanctuary in Hermione that the Lacedemonians also began to worship Demeter Chthonia. The Spartans...

Hermione

78 23.243591,37.385218,0 Spartans ...there is also a hero-shrine of Cynisca, daughter of Archidamus king of the Spartans. She was the first woman to breed horses, and the first to win a chariot race...

Spartans

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...was the first woman to breed horses, and the first to win a chariot race at Olympia. Behind the portico built by the side of Plane-tree Grove are other...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...also Orestes was king. I think their story more probable than that of the Athenians. For what could have induced Iphigenia to leave the image behind at Brauron? Or...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Orthia ...of Laodicea, who still possess it. I will give other evidence that the Orthia in Lacedemon is the wooden image from the foreigners. Firstly, Astrabacus and...

Orthia

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cadmea ...The Lacedemonians have no citadel rising to a conspicuous height like the Cadmea at Thebes and the Larisa at Argos. There are, however, hills in the city, and...

Cadmea

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tiasa ...criticisms. As you go down to Amyclae from Sparta you come to a river called Tiasa. They hold that Tiasa was a daughter of Eurotas, and by it is a sanctuary of...

Tiasa

79 22.25,37.25,0 Gythium ...quarry. After Croceae, turning away to the right from the straight road to Gythium, you will reach a city Aegiae. They say that this is the city which Homer in...

Gythium

78 22.562341,36.763663,0 Greeks ...were sailing away to Aulis to take part in the joint expedition of the Greeks. Those who dwell about Salamis say that it was when Ajax died that the flower...

Greeks

73 22.5,37.5,0 Pergamus ...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...

Pergamus

80 27.184167,39.1325,0 Tegea ...ransom, swore to the Tegeans that the Lacedemonians would never again attack Tegea, and then broke his oath; that the women offered to Ares a sacrifice of victory...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemonians ...to refuse to negotiate or make a truce. When the battle had joined with the Lacedemonians under Cleomenes at Sellasia, in which Achaeans and Arcadians from all the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Crete ...Philopoemen was not likely to care much about Antigonus. Sailing across to Crete, where a civil war was raging, he put himself at the head of a band of...

Crete

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Eleans ...with their allies and the Eleans with the Aetolians, who were helping the Eleans on grounds of kinship, Philopoemen first killed with his own hand Demophantus...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Arcadians ...himself and the Arcadians with him in a disadvantageous position. The Arcadians, though few in number, were good soldiers, and Philopoemen, by changing the...

Arcadians

72 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaean ...At this time Philopoemen flung himself into Sparta and forced her to join the Achaean League. Shortly afterwards Titus, the Roman commander in Greece, and Diophanes...

Achaean

80 Messenian ...deeds, Codrus, the son of Melanthus, Polydorus the Spartan, Aristomenes the Messenian, and all the rest, will be seen to have helped each his own country and not...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Tegeans ...at Tegea on Philopoemen. The images of Apollo, Lord of Streets, the Tegeans say they set up for the following reason. Apollo and Artemis, they say...

Tegeans

70 22.429,37.464,0 Ortygia ...onwards, but passing through it, so large and stormy a sea, it shows in Ortygia, before Syracuse, that it is the Alpheius, and unites its water with...

Ortygia

74 27.339225,37.829783,0 Plataeans ...of the river. Before the battle that the Athenians fought at Marathon, the Plataeans had no claim to renown. But they were present at the battle of Marathon, and...

Plataeans

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Ephesian ...admitted that Artontes, son of Mardonius, gave many gifts to Dionysophanes the Ephesian, but also that he gave them to others of the Ionians, in recognition that they...

Ephesian

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Cithaeron ...which we know the Cleft Road to Phocis, where Oedipus killed his father (Mount Cithaeron is sacred to Cithaeronian Zeus), as I shall tell of at greater length when this...

Cithaeron

81 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Plataeans ...but that it was a surname afterwards given him from the daedala. So the Plataeans hold the festival of the Daedala every six years, according to the local guide...

Plataeans

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Daedala ...celebrate by themselves, calling it the Little Daedala, but the Great Daedala, which is shared with them by the Boeotians, is a festival held at intervals of...

Daedala

72 28.976568,36.749409,0 Lacedemonians ...and judge by the Persian law, and decide that Lysander brought on the Lacedemonians more harm than benefit. In Haliartus too there is the tomb of Lysander and a...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...spring. They say that the daughter of Teiresias was given to Apollo by the Argives, and at the command of the god crossed with ships to the Colophonian land in...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...what Homer says in the Odyssey: "Who first laid the foundation of seven-gated Thebes, And built towers about it, for without towers they could not Dwell in...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydians ...to the music of his harp. Amphion won fame for his music, learning from the Lydians themselves the Lydian mode, because of his relationship to Tantalus, and adding...

Lydians

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Thebans ...Zethus himself died of a broken heart, and so Laius was restored by the Thebans to the kingdom. When Laius was king and married to Iocasta, an oracle came...

Thebans

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Theban ...Laodamas but the Argives were victorious in the fight, and Laodamas, with any Theban willing to accompany him, withdrew when night came to Illyria. The Argives...

Theban

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadia ...the additional name of Minyans, to distinguish them from the Orchomenians in Arcadia. To this Orchomenus during his kingship came Hyettus from Argos, who was an...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Theban ...to have chosen the cause of King Xerxes rather than that of Greece. The Theban people are in no way responsible for this choice, as at that time an oligarchy...

Theban

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...for the gods and palaces for men. For they built the temple for Apollo at Delphi and the treasury for Hyrieus. One of the stones in it they made so that they...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...of favouring Persia. Afterwards, however, the Thebans won a victory over the Athenians at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, where the Athenian general Hippocrates...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Orchomenian ...into the Cephisian Lake. The lake at all times covers the greater part of the Orchomenian territory, but in the winter season, after the south-west wind has generally...

Orchomenian

80 22.959486,38.495082,0 Trojan ...have given back to the Gephisus its ancient passage, since right down to the Trojan war they were a wealthy people. There is evidence in my favour in the passage...

Trojan

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thebes ...this point they sank into the greatest depths of weakness. The lower city of Thebes is all deserted today, except the sanctuaries, and the people live on the...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Crete ...in Thebes and the Trophonius at Lebadeia. There are also two wooden images in Crete, a Britomartis at Olus and an Athena at Cnossus, at which latter place is also...

Crete

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Olus ...at Lebadeia. There are also two wooden images in Crete, a Britomartis at Olus and an Athena at Cnossus, at which latter place is also Ariadne's Dance...

Olus

75 25.738816,35.257679,0 Illyria ...Laodamas, the son of Eteocles. A portion of them shrank from the journey to Illyria, and turning aside to Thessaly they seized Homole, the most fertile and...

Illyria

78 19.5,41.5,0 Electran gate ...the Homoloid gate after Homole. The entry into Thebes from Plataea is by the Electran gate. At this, so they say, Capaneus, the son of Hipponous, was struck by lightning...

Electran gate

79 Argive ...war, immediately after which hostilities ceased and peace was made. But the Argive army marched from mid-Peloponnesus to mid-Boeotia, while Adrastus collected his...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Crete ...himself, as a thank-offering for a benefit. For when he was fleeing from Crete in small vessels which he had made for himself and his son Icarus, he devised...

Crete

75 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Delphi ...the practised discipline of both mounts and riders, despatched a mission to Delphi, praying the god that they might escape the danger that threatened them. The...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thessalians ...themselves, either by each other's hands or by charging the cavalry of the Thessalians. Hence all forlorn hopes are called by the Greeks "Phocian despair." On this...

Thessalians

77 21.75,39.25,0 Thespiae ...they say Argo anchored on her return from Colchis. As you go inland from Thespiae you come to Haliartus. The question who became founder of Haliartus and...

Thespiae

76 23.154521,38.293384,0 Delphi ...or because their nature was to put gain before religion. The seizure of Delphi by the Phocians occurred when Heracleides was president at Delphi and...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...ten successive years, and during this long time victory often fell to the Phocians and their mercenaries, and often the Thebans proved the better. An engagement...

Phocians

76 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris...

Phocian

81 22.25,38.25,0 Delos ...heights of prosperity, it too was fated to fall almost as low as Mycenae and Delos. Its ancient history is confined to the following traditions. They say that...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Phlegyans ...of Epeius, and they maintain that they are not Phocians, but were originally Phlegyans who fled to Phocis from the land of Orchomenus. A survey of the ancient...

Phlegyans

79 22.569853,39.798151,0 Thebes ...was Azeus. Clymenus was murdered at the feast of Onchestian Poseidon by men of Thebes, whom a trivial cause had thrown into a violent passion. So Erginus, the eldest...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Olen ...that the oracle was established for the god by comers from the Hyperboreans, Olen and others, and that he was the first to prophesy and the first to chant the...

Olen

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 country ...to help the Athenians, when Antigonus, son of Demetrius, was ravaging their country, which he had invaded with an army, and at the same time was blockading them by...

country

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Aegium ...Argos. The Argives say it is because they were made in Argos; the people of Aegium themselves say that the images were deposited by the Argives with them on...

Aegium

78 22.081952,38.252707,0 Drabescus ...First were buried those who in Thrace, after a victorious advance as far as Drabescus, were unexpectedly attacked by the Edonians and slaughtered. There is also a...

Drabescus

78 23.871851,40.923361,0 Argives ...by sheepdogs of Crotopus, and Apollo sent Vengeance to the city to punish the Argives. They say that she used to snatch the children from their mothers, until...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sipylus ...in it. A similar fate, though different in type, came upon a city on Mount Sipylus, so that it vanished into a chasm. The mountain split, water welled up from the...

Sipylus

78 27.45394,38.5668,0 Lacedemon ...city was shaken by an earthquake so continuous and violent that no house in Lacedemon could resist it. The destruction of Helice occurred while Asteius was still...

Lacedemon

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...Cleonae, but more than half of the population took refuge with Alexander in Macedonia, to whom Mardonius, the son of Gobryas, entrusted the message to be given to...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Crotona ...mountain where the river has its source. From this Crathis the river too by Crotona in Italy has been named. By the Achaean Crathis once stood Aegae, a city of...

Crotona

78 17.205128,39.028864,0 Aegeira ...that the trick against the Sicyonians was an inspiration of Artemis. The name Aegeira, however, did not supersede Hyperesia at once, just as even in my time there...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Chios ...that one and the same slab has been erected to those who died in Euboea and Chios, and to those who perished in the remote parts of the continent of Asia, or in...

Chios

78 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Phelloe ...parts are covered with oaks, the home of deer and wild boars. You may reckon Phelloe one of the towns in Greece best supplied with flowing water. There are...

Phelloe

80 22.413941,38.077545,0 Lechaeum ...which comes down to the sea at Mothone, Pylus and Cyparissiae. On the side of Lechaeum the Corinthians are bounded by the Sicyonians, who dwell in the extreme part of...

Lechaeum

81 22.88807,37.93277,0 Lycaeus ...He founded the city Lycosura on Mount Lycaeus, gave to Zeus the surname Lycaeus and founded the Lycaean games. I hold that the Panathenian festival was not...

Lycaeus

74 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Pentelicus ...Ivy, saying that the plant ivy first appeared there. The Attic mountains are Pentelicus, where there are quarries, Parnes, where there is hunting of wild boars and of...

Pentelicus

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Athenians ...which you cannot separate either wax or honey. Such then is its nature. The Athenians have also statues of gods on their mountains. On Pentelicus is a statue of...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thessaly ...Now Pyrrhus was the first who after the capture of Troy disdained to return to Thessaly, but sailing to Epeirus dwelt there because of the oracles of Helenus. By...

Thessaly

81 21.75,39.25,0 Athenians ...shot through by arrows. Among the acts reported of this Diitrephes by the Athenians is his leading back home the Thracian mercenaries who arrived too late to take...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotians ...against Syracuse. He also put into the Chalcidic Euripus, where the Boeotians had an inland town Mycalessus, marched up to this town from the coast and took...

Boeotians

70 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Cleitor ...and became the founder of the city Elateia. It is said that Azan had a son Cleitor, Apheidas a son Aleus, and that Elatus had five sons, Aepytus, Pereus, Cyllen...

Cleitor

77 22.103248,37.892704,0 Macedonians ...crafts all men obviously have known from of old, the actual beasts, before the Macedonians crossed into Asia, nobody had seen at all except the Indians themselves, the...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Carthaginians ...was brought over to Sicily by an embassy of the Syracusans. The Carthaginians had crossed over and were destroying the Greek cities, and had sat down to...

Carthaginians

66 10.327986,36.857569,0 Gortys ...motion, as do crabs. After Aepytus Aleus came to the throne. For Agamedes and Gortys, the sons of Stymphalus, were three generations removed from Arcas, and Aleus...

Gortys

81 22.041,37.534,0 Caicus ...a chest, sent them out to sea. She came to Teuthras, lord of the plain of the Caicus, who fell in love with her and married her. The tomb of Auge still exists at...

Caicus

80 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Boeotia ...Sphinx – the tale of the Sphinx I will give when I come to my description of Boeotia – and on either side of the helmet are griffins in relief. These griffins...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Tarentine ...dispatches were delivered, he summoned those in authority, whether Epeirot or Tarentine, and without reading any of the dispatches declared that reinforcements would...

Tarentine

80 17.228553,40.476034,0 Macedonians ...reinforcements would come. A report spread quickly even to the Romans that Macedonians and Asiatic tribes also were crossing to the aid of Pyrrhus. The Romans, on...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...of Zeus, spoils of boastful Macedonia." Pyrrhus came very near to reducing Macedonia entirely, but, being usually readier to do what came first to hand, he was...

Macedonia

77 21.75,41.25,0 Laconian ...vulnerable points with buildings as well. Just about this time, while the Laconian war was dragging on, Antigonus, having recovered the Macedonian cities...

Laconian

77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenians ...territory now that there were no Thebans left to dwell there, in fear lest the Athenians should injure them by founding a settlement on the site of Thebes, refused to...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pythia ...by Alexander, son of Priam, and by Apollo, if the Delphians were bidden by the Pythia to slay Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, and if the end of the son of Aeacides was...

Pythia

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dipaea ...up at Olympia. Next to the sons of Alcaenetus stand Gnathon, a Maenalian of Dipaea, and Lucinus of Elis. These too succeeded in beating the boys at boxing at...

Dipaea

79 22.254905,37.541156,0 Phrygians ...Argives, just as among those who are not Greeks the Egyptians compete with the Phrygians. It is said, then, that when Demeter came to Argos she was received by Pelasgus...

Phrygians

81 27.75,40.25,0 Acropolis ...the fortifications, escaped to Boeotia. Lachares took golden shields from the Acropolis, and stripped even the statue of Athena of its removable ornament; he was...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Cnossus ...Epimenides in any way, and belonged to a different city. The latter was from Cnossus, but Thales was from Gortyn, according to Polymnastus of Colophon, who composed...

Cnossus

79 25.163106,35.297847,0 Eleans ...won the chariot-race at that Festival which, according to the account of the Eleans, was not genuine because the Arcadians presided at it. The statue of Timanthes...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Aeginetans ...cultivated pine and a pomegranate I could not conjecture; perhaps some of the Aeginetans may have a local story about it. After the statue of the man who the Eleans...

Aeginetans

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Marathon ...foreigners who are scrambling into them. Here is also a portrait of the hero Marathon, after whom the plain is named, of Theseus represented as coming up from the...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athens ...was tyrant of Sicily took possession of Syracuse when Hybrilides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the seventy-second Olympiad, when Tisicrates of Croton...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cichyrus ...are a sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona and an oak sacred to the god. Near Cichyrus is a lake called Acherusia, and a river called Acheron. There is also Cocytus...

Cichyrus

71 20.53143,39.242391,0 Acherusia ...of Zeus at Dodona and an oak sacred to the god. Near Cichyrus is a lake called Acherusia, and a river called Acheron. There is also Cocytus, a most unlovely stream. I...

Acherusia

81 20.75,39.25,0 Carystian ...from Anthedon in Boeotia, being descended from Glaucus the sea-deity. This Carystian was a son of Demylus, and they say that to begin with he worked as a farmer...

Carystian

77 24.4204,38.0165,0 Acheron ...to the god. Near Cichyrus is a lake called Acherusia, and a river called Acheron. There is also Cocytus, a most unlovely stream. I believe it was because Homer...

Acheron

75 20.4831346,39.2348296,0 Olympic ...from those who lived before." Iccus the son of Nicolaidas of Tarentum won the Olympic crown in the pentathlum, and afterwards is said to have become the best trainer...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thasian ...into account – before the entrance, I say, stand statues of Hadrian, two of Thasian stone, two of Egyptian. Before the pillars stand bronze statues which the...

Thasian

78 24.717535,40.78201,0 Chaeronea ...of liberty in dying a voluntary death, distressed at the news of the battle at Chaeronea. There are also statues in Phrygian marble of Persians supporting a bronze...

Chaeronea

81 22.840365,38.493361,0 Megara ...him. Behind the Lyceum is a monument of Nisus, who was killed while king of Megara by Minos, and the Athenians carried him here and buried him. About this Nisus...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...is a monument of Nisus, who was killed while king of Megara by Minos, and the Athenians carried him here and buried him. About this Nisus there is a legend. His hair...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Athenians he helped them by destroying most of the foreigners' warships. The Athenians hold that the Ilisus is sacred to other deities as well, and on its bank is an...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...Nemea, Pytho and the Isthmus; they also declare that the Tritaeans are Arcadians, but I found this statement to be untrue. For the founders of the Arcadian...

Arcadians

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenians ...whom Mithridates employed as his envoy to the Greek cities. He induced the Athenians to join Mithridates rather than the Romans, although he did not induce all, but...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...just as nowadays too certain of the Arcadians themselves are reckoned as Argives. The statue of Agesarchus is the work of the sons of Polycles, of whom we shall...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Olympia ...is the work of Pythagoras; this athlete won three successive victories at Olympia, in the short race and in the double race. But because on the two latter...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athens ...troops towards Attica. Learning this, the Roman general entrusted the siege of Athens to a portion of his army, and with the greater part of his forces advanced in...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...an escape to Delphi, and asked if the time were now come when it was fated for Athens also to be made desolate, receiving from the Pythia the response about the wine...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Smyrna ...youth. When, however, the time arrived for the contest held by the Ionians of Smyrna, his strength had so increased that he beat in the pancratium on the same day...

Smyrna

81 27.1383,38.41905,0 Crete ...who was his sister's son and a student of his craft, and therefore he fled to Crete; afterwards he escaped to Cocalus in Sicily. The sanctuary of Asclepius is...

Crete

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Thessalians ...his statue adds that he joined the Aetolians in their expedition against the Thessalians and became leader of the garrison at Naupactus because of his friendship with...

Thessalians

79 21.75,39.25,0 Epeirus ...Lacedemon and the greater part of the Peloponnesus, he would not return to Epeirus but to Macedonia to make war there again. When Antigonus was about to lead his...

Epeirus

77 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Phoenicians ...cult were the Assyrians, after the Assyrians the Paphians of Cyprus and the Phoenicians who live at Ascalon in Palestine; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the...

Phoenicians

78 35.25,33.25,0 Argive ...first, the Athenians arrayed against the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in the Argive territory. What is depicted is not the crisis of the battle nor when the action...

Argive

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Macedonia ...and against Pyrrhus himself, had much the better of the struggle, conquered Macedonia and forced Pyrrhus to retreat to Epeirus. Love is wont to bring many...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Chersonesus ...interceding long with Lysandra, won his body and afterwards carried it to the Chersonesus and buried it, where his grave is still to be seen between the village of...

Chersonesus

80 26.5,40.33333,0 Troy ...are fifteen generations. Now Pyrrhus was the first who after the capture of Troy disdained to return to Thessaly, but sailing to Epeirus dwelt there because of...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Hermione ...but sailing to Epeirus dwelt there because of the oracles of Helenus. By Hermione Pyrrhus had no child, but by Andromache he had Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus...

Hermione

75 23.243591,37.385218,0 Achelous ...cedar-wood figures inlaid with gold, representing the fight of Heracles with Achelous. The figures include Zeus, Deianeira, Achelous, Heracles, and Ares helping...

Achelous

79 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Achelous ...the fight of Heracles with Achelous. The figures include Zeus, Deianeira, Achelous, Heracles, and Ares helping Achelous. There once stood here an image of Athena...

Achelous

76 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Megarians ...Eleans begun to record the Olympiads. The Argives are said to have helped the Megarians in the engagement with the Corinthians. The treasury at Olympia was made by the...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Epeirus ...traced their descent, and not to Molossus. Down to Alcetas, son of Tharypus, Epeirus too was under one king. But the sons of Alcetas after a quarrel agreed to rule...

Epeirus

80 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Mysian ...later date than these they have tribes named after the following, Attalus the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and within my own time the emperor Hadrian, who was...

Mysian

80 27.75,40.25,0 Arcadians ...the child turned at once into a snake. Thrown into disorder at the sight, the Arcadians turned and fled, and were attacked by the Eleans, who won a very famous...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tarentines ...from Greece to attack the Romans. And even he crossed on the invitation of the Tarentines. For they were already involved in a war with the Romans, but were no match for...

Tarentines

81 17.228553,40.476034,0 Tarentines ...unaware of his presence; it was only when the Romans made an attack upon the Tarentines that he appeared on the scene with his army, and his unexpected assault...

Tarentines

79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Pisa ...sacrificed every year to them as heroes, when he had won the sovereignty of Pisa. Going forward about a stade from the grave one sees traces of a sanctuary of...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Carthaginians ...Tarentum and the Italiots on the coast, and crossing into Sicily forced the Carthaginians to raise the siege of Syracuse. In his self-conceit, although the...

Carthaginians

78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Thessaly ...who had opposed the Macedonians before the Greeks met with their defeat in Thessaly. Such was Demosthenes' reward for his great devotion to Athens. I heartily...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Eleans ...an army from the neighborhood, and held the Olympic games instead of the Eleans. These Festivals, as well as the hundred and fourth, which was held by the...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Troy ...employing the Epeirots, the majority of whom, even after the capture of Troy, knew no thing of the sea nor even as yet how to use salt. Witness the words of...

Troy

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Macedonians ...his reputation as a soldier, and being in other respects unpopular with the Macedonians, he was put to death by his body guard. The death of Perdiccas immediately...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...fell in love with Arsinoe, his full sister, and married her, violating herein Macedonian custom, but following that of his Egyptian subjects. Secondly he put to death...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Athens ...About Phormio, however, I have a detail to add. Quite one of the best men at Athens and distinguished for the fame of his ancestors he chanced to be heavily in...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of silver, and an image of Earth beseeching Zeus to rain upon her; perhaps the Athenians them selves needed showers, or may be all the Greeks had been plagued with a...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mycale ...of Xanthippus himself, who fought against the Persians at the naval battle of Mycale. But that of Pericles stands apart, while near Xanthippus stands Anacreon of...

Mycale

80 27.12558,37.66144,0 Pylus ...of the Pylians was Hades, who was the foe of Heracles but was worshipped at Pylus. Homer is quoted in support of the story, who says in the Iliad: "And among...

Pylus

78 Eleans ...and a shrine of Dionysus. The image is the work of Praxiteles. Of the gods the Eleans worship Dionysus with the greatest reverence, and they assert that the god...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Delphi ...that they surpassed in wealth the richest of the Greeks, the sanctuary of Delphi and the Orchomenians. Shortly after this Ptolemy met with his appointed fate...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Achaia ...between Elis and Sicyonia, reaching down to the eastern sea, is now called Achaia after the inhabitants, but of old was called Aegialus and those who lived in it...

Achaia

77 Achaeans ...referred to, being expelled by the Dorians from Argos and Lacedemon, the Achaeans themselves and their king Tisamenus, the son of Orestes, sent heralds to the...

Achaeans

75 Cretans ...aboriginal, and of Asterius his son; but when Miletus landed with an army of Cretans both the land and the city changed their name to Miletus. Miletus and his men...

Cretans

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Ephesus ...the Amazons that the sanctuary was founded, but by Coresus, an aboriginal, and Ephesus, who is thought to have been a son of the river Cayster, and from Ephesus the...

Ephesus

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Samians ...a time the Ephesians held Samos and the adjacent islands. But after that the Samians had returned to their own land, Androclus helped the people of Priene against...

Samians

80 26.84,37.73,0 Myus ...gate. On the tomb is a statue of an armed man. The Ionians who settled at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The founder of Myus was...

Myus

77 27.42788,37.59716,0 Theban ...founder of Myus was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene, half Theban and half Ionian, had as their founders Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonians ...to Ephesus only the people of Colophon fought against Lysimachus and the Macedonians. The grave of those Colophonians and Smyrnaeans who fell in the battle is on...

Macedonians

75 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...son Antiochus all his empire in Asia, and himself proceeded rapidly towards Macedonia, having with him an army both of Greeks and of foreigners. But Ptolemy, brother...

Macedonia

78 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...assassinated Seleucus, allowed the kings to seize his wealth, and ruled over Macedonia until, being the first of the kings to my knowledge to dare to meet the Gauls...

Macedonia

79 21.75,41.25,0 Achaean ...against the Achaeans and had done all he could to separate Sparta from the Achaean League. Thereupon, as the danger he ran was extreme, Menalcidas gave three of...

Achaean

77 Rome ...between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. The journey of the envoys from Rome proved rather slow, giving Diaeus a fresh opportunity of deceiving the Achaeans...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...the Achaeans and Menalcidas of deceiving the Lacedemonians. Diaeus misled the Achaeans into the belief that the Roman senate had decreed the complete subjection to...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...with the Lacedemonians, and Damocritus, who had been elected general of the Achaeans at this time, proceeded to mobilize an army against Sparta. But about this time...

Achaeans

78 Rome ...They were to order them not to attack Sparta, but to await the arrival from Rome of the envoys sent for the purpose of arbitrating between the Lacedemonians and...

Rome

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Rome ...them both to take up arms against Sparta and also to declare war openly on Rome. For a king or state to undertake a war and be unlucky is due to the jealousy...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Euboeans ...the territory of Phocis with an armed force; at the second to compensate the Euboeans for laying waste Euboea; at the third to compensate the people of Amphissa for...

Euboeans

79 Thebes ...been overthrown near Chaeroneia, Metellus moved his army and marched against Thebes, for the Thebans had joined the Achaeans in investing Heracleia, and had taken...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...Orestes, the commissioner sent earlier to deal with the dispute between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, reached the Roman army at early dawn, and sending Metellus...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...boys. It is still today a custom for the Achaeans who are going to compete at Olympia to sacrifice to Oebotas as to a hero, and, if they are successful, to place a...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Antheia ...the son of Preugenes, the son of Agenor, forbade the Achaeans to settle in Antheia and Mesatis, but built at Aroe a wall of greater circumference so as to include...

Antheia

77 harbor ...a market-place for those living near the sea – those farther away from the harbor have another – but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos...

harbor

77 23.644609,37.937222,0 Persians ...work of Alcamenes. So that this, at any rate, cannot have been damaged by the Persians. On entering the city there is a monument to Antiope the Amazon. This Antiope...

Persians

80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 city ...this, at any rate, cannot have been damaged by the Persians. On entering the city there is a monument to Antiope the Amazon. This Antiope, Pindar says, was...

city

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Malians ...of the Greek people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the...

Malians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Orchomenus ...Orchomenus," a line that clearly shows that even then the revenues coming to Orchomenus were large. They say that Aspledon was left by the inhabitants because of a...

Orchomenus

79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Orchomenus ...Their view is confirmed by some verses composed by Chersias, a man of Orchomenus: "To Poseidon and glorious Mideia was born Aspledon in the spacious city. The...

Orchomenus

72 22.959486,38.495082,0 Lacedemonians ...lost their membership, the Phocians because of their rash crime, the Lacedemonians as a penalty for allying themselves with the Phocians. When Brennus led the...

Lacedemonians

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Orchomenus ...in my day, but these verses are quoted by Callippus in the same history of Orchomenus. The Orchomenians have a tradition that this Chersias wrote also the...

Orchomenus

77 22.959486,38.495082,0 Lebadeia ...the mountains the boundary of Orchomenus is Phocis, but on the plain it is Lebadeia. Originally this city stood on high ground, and was called Mideia after the...

Lebadeia

77 22.87352,38.431063,0 Delphians ...days inhabited Thessaly and were then called Aeolians, the Phocians and the Delphians, each send two; ancient Doris sends one. The Ozolian Locrians, and the...

Delphians

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Heraeum ...of Daedalus still in existence. For the images dedicated by the Argives in the Heraeum and those brought from Omphace to Gela in Sicily have disappeared in course of...

Heraeum

81 22.774722,37.691944,0 Patara ...is authentic except only the scepter of Agamemnon. However, the Lycians in Patara show a bronze bowl in their temple of Apollo, saying that Telephus dedicated it...

Patara

77 29.35379,36.25418,0 Elateia ...these is Phocis bounded in this direction, by Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned...

Elateia

79 22.782061,38.645635,0 Argives ...The struggle for the district called Thyrea between the Lacedemonians and the Argives was also foretold by the Sibyl, who said that the battle would be drawn. But...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phocian ...these with earth, and so waited for the Thessalian cavalry. Ignorant of the Phocian stratagem, the Thessalians without knowing it drove their horses on to the...

Phocian

78 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...in any other of the treasuries. The Cnidians brought the following images to Delphi: Triopas, founder of Cnidus, standing by a horse, Leto, and Apollo and Artemis...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Abae ...their people scattered in villages. The one exception to this treatment was Abae, whose citizens were free from impiety, and had had no share in the seizure of...

Abae

78 22.9154,38.58006,0 Panopeus ...to Phocis from the land of Orchomenus. A survey of the ancient circuit of Panopeus led me to guess it to be about seven stades. I was reminded of Homer's verses...

Panopeus

77 22.79418,38.49551,0 Athenians ...is said that the men who uttered oracles were Euclus of Cyprus, the Athenians Musaeus, son of Antiophemus, and Lycus, son of Pandion, and also Bacis, a...

Athenians

70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Panopeus ...including Panopeus, along the road from Athens. The epithet Homer applies to Panopeus is thought to refer to the dance of the Thyiads. At Panopeus there is by the...

Panopeus

79 22.79418,38.49551,0 Daulis ...a longer one than that from Delphi, though not so difficult. Turning back from Daulis to the straight road to Delphi and going forwards, you see on the left of the...

Daulis

81 22.72926,38.50665,0 Megarians ...from Persian spoils by the Epidaurians of Argolis, the other dedicated by the Megarians to commemorate a victory over the Athenians at Nisaea. The Plataeans have...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Delphians ...the Phocians for tilling the territory of the god. The second Apollo the Delphians call Sitalcas, and he is thirty-five cubits high. The Aetolians have statues of...

Delphians

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pergamus ...bring a day of destruction." By the son of a bull she meant Attalus, king of Pergamus, who was also styled bull-horned by an oracle. Statues of cavalry leaders...

Pergamus

79 27.184167,39.1325,0 Delphians ...Omphalus (Navel) by the Delphians is made of white marble, and is said by the Delphians to be the center of all the earth. Pindar in one of his odes supports their...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...in one of his odes supports their view. There is here an offering of the Lacedemonians, made by Calamis, depicting Hermione, daughter of Menelaus, who married...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thessalians ...common assembly the following tribes of the Greek people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Arcadian ...too are carved on the table: Neda carrying an infant Zeus, Anthracia, another Arcadian nymph, holding a torch, and Hagno with a water-pot in one hand and a bowl in...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaeans ...by Callias himself from spoils he had taken in the Persian war. The Achaeans dedicated an image of Athena after reducing by siege one of the cities of...

Achaeans

70 Rhodians ...by filling up the spring, captured the town. By the side of this Athena the Rhodians of Lindus set up their image of Apollo. The Ambraciots dedicated also a bronze...

Rhodians

79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Molossians ...also a bronze ass, having conquered the Molossians in a night battle. The Molossians had prepared an ambush for them by night. It chanced that an ass, being driven...

Molossians

76 20.924639999999997,39.271716,0 Athens ...who live at Elateia, who held their city, with the help of Olympiodorus from Athens, when besieged by Cassander, sent to Apollo at Delphi a bronze lion. The...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenia ...Nymphas it is twenty stades to the Hermaeum, where is the boundary between Messenia and Megalopolis. Here they have made a Hermes also on a slab. This road leads...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Alpheius ...Carnasium in Messenia. The first thing you come to on the latter road is the Alpheius at the place where it is joined by the Malus and the Scyrus, whose waters have...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...Theius, which is a tributary of the Alpheius, and some forty stades from the Alpheius leaving the Theius on the left you will come to Phalaesiae. This place is...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Lacedemonians ...say that Belemina belonged of old to Arcadia but was severed from it by the Lacedemonians. This account struck me as improbable on various grounds, chiefly because the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...justice. There are also roads from Megalopolis leading to the interior of Arcadia; to Methydrium it is one hundred and seventy stades, and thirteen stades from...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Helisson ...stades from here, a hundred stades in all from Tricoloni, there is on the Helisson, on the straight road to Methydrium, the only city left to be described on the...

Helisson

76 22.217753,37.612883,0 Schoenus ...Schoeneus emigrated to Arcadia, the race-courses of Atalanta, which are near Schoenus, probably got their name from his daughter. Adjoining is . . . in my opinion...

Schoenus

79 23.00641,37.91918,0 Patrae ...about forty stades less than the number here given. Not far from the city of Patrae is the river Meilichus, and the sanctuary of Triclaria, which no longer has an...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Megalopolitans ...right of the road there has been made a precinct to the North Wind, and the Megalopolitans offer sacrifices every year, holding none of the gods in greater honor than the...

Megalopolitans

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Elaphus ...a place named Paliscius. Going on from Paliscius and leaving on the left the Elaphus, an intermittent stream, after an advance of some twenty stades you reach ruins...

Elaphus

79 22.25,37.25,0 Argos ...representing Poseidon, Heracles, Zeus and Athena. They are called gods from Argos. The Argives say it is because they were made in Argos; the people of Aegium...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Megalopolis ...him playing on his pipes. From the sanctuary of the Mistress to the city of Megalopolis it is forty stades. From Megalopolis to the stream of the Alpheius is half this...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Aegium ...last the Argives asked for the images to be returned, whereupon the people of Aegium asked for the cost of the sacrifices. As the Argives had not the means to pay...

Aegium

80 22.081952,38.252707,0 Theban ...and the people of Tanagra, again, have a legend at variance with the Theban. From Acacesium it is four stades to the sanctuary of the Mistress. First in...

Theban

71 23.255096,38.318092,0 Theisoa ...of it worship most the nymph Theisoa. There flow through the land of Theisoa the following tributaries of the Alpheius, the Mylaon, Nus, Achelous, Celadus...

Theisoa

71 21.96367,37.50665,0 Lacedemonians ..."Consider the Areopagus, and the smoking altars Of the Eumenides, where the Lacedemonians are to be thy suppliants, When hard-pressed in war. Kill them not with the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sipylus ...the Iliad to be the prince of all rivers. Another Achelous, flowing from Mount Sipylus, along with the mountain also, he takes occasion to mention in connection with...

Sipylus

81 27.45394,38.5668,0 Athens ...it. The destruction of Helice occurred while Asteius was still archon at Athens, in the fourth year of the hundred and first Olympiad, whereat Damon of Thurii...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phigalians ...and sat down to besiege the city. When the walls were in danger of capture the Phigalians ran away, or perhaps the Lacedemonians let them come out under a truce. The...

Phigalians

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Bura ...high road, if you go along it for a short distance you may turn aside again to Bura, which is situated on a mountain to the right of the sea. It is said that the...

Bura

81 22.231166,38.142006,0 Laconian ...at Athens, in the second year of the thirtieth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian was victorious for the third time. The Phigalians who escaped resolved to go...

Laconian

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argives ...crowned and proclaimed victor the corpse of Arrhachion. I know that the Argives acted similarly in the case of Creugas, a boxer of Epidamnus. For the Argives...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phigalia ...But there could be no probable connection between such a shape and Artemis. Phigalia is surrounded by mountains, on the left by the mountain called Cotilius, while...

Phigalia

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Pellene ...but divided into two parts by the peak that rises up between. As you go to Pellene there is, by the roadside, an image of Hermes, who, in spite of his surname of...

Pellene

77 22.5384,38.0446,0 Athenians ...of the temple at Phigalia, was a contemporary of Pericles, and built for the Athenians what is called the Parthenon. My narrative has already said that the tile image...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rhodes ...a Roman dependency. The cities of Lycia and of Caria, along with Cos and Rhodes, were overthrown by a violent earthquake that smote them. These cities also...

Rhodes

75 28.15629,36.41451,0 Pythian ...have followed this diet so closely since the time of Pelasgus that even the Pythian priestess, when she forbade the Lacedemonians to touch the land of the...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonian ...Then they fall into a chasm, and the Eurotas comes again to the surface in the Lacedemonian territory, the Alpheius at Pegae (Sources) in the land of Megalopolis. From...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lycaean ...Athenians still call pelanoi. But Lycaon brought a human baby to the altar of Lycaean Zeus, and sacrificed it, pouring out its blood upon the altar, and according to...

Lycaean

80 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Helisson ...of Bucolion. Cities were founded by Trapezeus also, and by Daseatas, Macareus, Helisson, Acacus and Thocnus. The last founded Thocnia, and Acacus Acacesium. It was...

Helisson

81 22.217753,37.612883,0 Sumetia ...Peraethenses after Peraethus, Asea after Aseatas, Lycoa after . . . 4 and Sumetia after Sumateus. Alipherus also and Heraeus both gave their names to...

Sumetia

76 Brauronian ...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...

Brauronian

79 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Paphos ...founder of Paphos, and built the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos (Old Paphos). Up to that time the goddess had been worshipped by the Cyprians in the...

Paphos

78 32.573711,34.707147,0 Rhium ...before, across the Corinthian Isthmus, but by sea to the place called Rhium. Cypselus, learning about the expedition, married his daughter to the son of...

Rhium

72 21.7850004,38.3099987,0 Olympia ...when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Spartan ...they say, the other women in daring, while Charillus himself was one of the Spartan prisoners. The story goes on to say that he was set free without ransom, swore...

Spartan

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aetolians ...river Larisus between the Achaeans with their allies and the Eleans with the Aetolians, who were helping the Eleans on grounds of kinship, Philopoemen first killed...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Phocaea ...in Ionia, and their city was founded by some of those who ran away from Phocaea when attacked by Harpagus the Persian. They proved superior to the...

Phocaea

74 26.75261,38.6684,0 Megara ...had defeated the Megarians in battle, and were already climbing the wall of Megara, when the Megarians deceived them into thinking that Philopoemen had come to...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Delphians ...gold shield given to Athena Forethought by Croesus the Lydian was said by the Delphians to have been stolen by Philomelus. Near the sanctuary of Forethought is a...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...ordained by use, and it is said that these reappear in Castalia. The city of Delphi, both the sacred enclosure of Apollo and the city generally, lies altogether on...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...He overcame Nabis in the battle and massacred during the night many of the Lacedemonians, so raising yet higher his reputation among the Greeks. After this Nabis...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pytho ...of Phaylus of Crotona. He won no victory at Olympia, but his victories at Pytho were two in the pentathlum and one in the foot-race. He also fought at sea...

Pytho

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonian ...son of Timotheus, and of Epaminondas, the son of Polymnis, who drove out the Lacedemonian garrisons and governors, and put down the boards of ten, Conon from the islands...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...much for this belief. The struggle for the district called Thyrea between the Lacedemonians and the Argives was also foretold by the Sibyl, who said that the battle would...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...that they inspired. Near the horse are also other votive offerings of the Argives, likenesses of the captains of those who with Polyneices made war on Thebes...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Syracuse ...but passing through it, so large and stormy a sea, it shows in Ortygia, before Syracuse, that it is the Alpheius, and unites its water with Arethusa. The straight...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Cnidus ...a naval victory over the Etruscans. These people were colonists from Cnidus, and the leader of the colony is said to have been a Cnidian, whose name was...

Cnidus

71 27.37404,36.686188,0 Athenians ...Thebans have a treasury built from the spoils of war, and so have the Athenians. Whether the Cnidians built to commemorate a victory or to display their...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...was destined to befall them. There was no open war between Plataea and Thebes; in fact the Plataeans declared that the peace with them still held, because...

Thebes

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...their lands at their leisure. But Neocles, who was at the time Boeotarch at Thebes, not being unaware of the Plataean trick, proclaimed that every Theban should...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Marpessus ...men of those days called idai places that were thickly wooded. The verse about Marpessus and the river Aedoneus is cut out of the oracles by the Erythraeans. The next...

Marpessus

81 26.520832,39.87918,0 Plataeans ...the sanctuaries, but the method of its capture saved the lives of all the Plataeans alike, and on their expulsion they were again received by the Athenians. When...

Plataeans

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thebans ...introduced a garrison into Thebes, one of the means he employed to bring the Thebans low was to restore the Plataeans to their homes. On Mount Cithaeron, within...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Hysiae ...they were cities of Boeotia, and even at the present day among the ruins of Hysiae are a half-finished temple of Apollo and a sacred well. According to the...

Hysiae

78 23.362766,37.974359,0 Phocians ...Thebans, sent when they had fought what is called the Sacred War against the Phocians. There are also bronze statues, which the Phocians dedicated when they had put...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Thessalian ...bronze statues, which the Phocians dedicated when they had put to flight the Thessalian cavalry in the second engagement. The Phliasians brought to Delphi a bronze...

Thessalian

79 21.75,39.25,0 Plataea ...image which have been made to Zeus of Freedom, you come to a hero-shrine of Plataea. The legends about her, and my own conjectures, I have already stated. There is...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Argive ...people. The offerings are the work of Onatas the Aeginetan, and Ageladas the Argive, and consist of statues of footmen and horsemen – Opis, king of the Iapygians...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pentelic ...of Marathon. It is a wooden image gilded, but the face, hands and feet are of Pentelic marble. In size it is but little smaller than the bronze Athena on the...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Eleusinian ...that at Marathon. There is also at Plataea a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Eleusinian, and a tomb of Leitus, who was the only one to return home of the chiefs who...

Eleusinian

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Boeotian ...them there settled in the land the Hyantes and the Aones, who I think were Boeotian tribes and not foreigners. When the Phoenician army under Cadmus invaded the...

Boeotian

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Cadmeia ...at the present day is called Cadmeia. Afterwards the city grew, and so the Cadmeia became the citadel of the lower city of Thebes. Cadmus made a brilliant...

Cadmeia

77 Athenians ...fruit on the palm-tree. Cleitodemus describes other omens that told the Athenians to beware of sailing against Sicily. The Cyrenaeans have dedicated at Delphi a...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Illyrian ...result from the way in which they came into being. When Cadmus migrated to the Illyrian tribe of the Encheleans, Polydorus his son got the kingdom. Now Pentheus the...

Illyrian

81 19.5,41.5,0 Plataea ...of the poem called the Oedipodia; and moreover, Onasias painted a picture at Plataea of Euryganeia bowed with grief because of the fight between her...

Plataea

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Delphi ...and Libyans. Maceris himself was celebrated chiefly for his journey to Delphi, but Sardus it was who led the Libyans to Ichnussa, and after him the island...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympia ...war against Mithridates, he was short of funds. So he collected offerings from Olympia, those at Epidaurus, and all those at Delphi that had been left by the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Trojans ...Greeks. The Greeks were utterly destroyed, or only a few of them survived. The Trojans made their escape to the high parts of the island, and occupied mountains...

Trojans

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thebes ...are said on drinking this water to become mad. On the way from Potniae to Thebes there is on the right of the road a small enclosure with pillars in it. Here...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...the Persians. It was compulsion rather than sympathy that made them join the Lacedemonians in their war against Athens and in crossing over to Asia with Agesilaus; they...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...statue of Hydna completed the number of the statues that Nero carried off from Delphi. Only those of the female sex who are pure virgins may dive into the sea. I am...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mycenaeans ...the time guarding the pass; for if we except the Lacedemonians, Thespians and Mycenaeans, the rest left the field before the conclusion of the fighting. To meet the...

Mycenaeans

80 22.756111,37.730833,0 Mantineia ...the mountain, is the boundary between the territory of Argos and that of Mantineia. But when it turns away from the road the stream flows through Argolis from...

Mantineia

75 22.393259,37.618138,0 Dine ...into a chasm in the earth. After disappearing here it rises again at Dine (Whirlpool). Dine is a stream of fresh water rising out of the sea by what is...

Dine

72 Lacedemonians ...the war between Lacedemon and Thebes had already broken out, and the Lacedemonians were advancing to attack the Thebans with a force of their own men and of their...

Lacedemonians

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineans ...After the ruins of Nestane is a holy sanctuary of Demeter, and every year the Mantineans hold a festival in her honor. By Nestane there lies, on lower ground, about . ...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Thebans ...had already broken out, and the Lacedemonians were advancing to attack the Thebans with a force of their own men and of their allies, Epaminondas with a part of...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athens ...and joined in battle with them after the arrival of reinforcements from Athens. Their friendship with the Athenians led them to take part also in the Sicilian...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...the battle would be to avenge them no less than to secure the salvation of Thebes. The Boeotarchs were not agreed, but differed widely in their opinions. For...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...dead, and sent a herald to the Thebans. But Epaminondas, knowing that the Lacedemonians were always inclined to cover up their disasters, said that he permitted their...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...territory, pillaging what it contained. This persuaded Epaminondas to lead the Thebans back to Boeotia. In his advance with the army he came over against Lechaeum...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elean ...of the Podares who fought against the Thebans. They had with them also the Elean seer Thrasybulus, the son of Aeneas, one of the Iamids. This man foretold a...

Elean

77 21.25,37.75,0 Mantineia ...by Grylus. Similar is the story on the picture portraying the battle of Mantineia. All can see that the Mantineans gave Grylus a public funeral and dedicated...

Mantineia

74 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lacedemonians ...he fell his likeness on a slab in honor of the bravest of their allies. The Lacedemonians also speak of Machaerion as the slayer, but actually at Sparta there is no...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineia ...size, and on the plain is a mountain whereon still stand the ruins of old Mantineia. Today the place is called Ptolis. Advancing a little way to the north of it...

Mantineia

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...was buried here and not in Tegean land. For probably the Tegeans, and not the Mantineans, are right when they say that Maera, the daughter of Atlas, was buried in their...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Orchomenians ...to have been dedicated by Heracles after he had conquered in the battle the Orchomenians and their king, Erginus son of Clymenus. Near it is Apollo surnamed Rescuer...

Orchomenians

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Pheneus ...first to Pheneus. Heracles dug a channel through the middle of the plain of Pheneus for the river Olbius, which some Arcadians call, not Olbius but Aroanius. The...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneatians ...arrived the wanderings of Demeter brought her to their city also. To those Pheneatians who received her with hospitality into their homes the goddess gave all sorts...

Pheneatians

77 22.30692,37.91045,0 Thebes ...because the cow lowed (emykesato) here that was guiding Cadmus and his host to Thebes. How Mycalessus was laid waste I have related in that part of my history that...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tanagra ...saw another Triton among the curiosities at Rome, less in size than the one at Tanagra. The Tritons have the following appearance. On their heads they grow hair like...

Tanagra

81 23.587064,38.309371,0 Tanagra ...Champion is said, on the occasion when an Eretrian fleet put into Tanagra from Euboea, to have led out the youths to the battle; he himself, armed with a...

Tanagra

68 23.587064,38.309371,0 Euboea ...Champion is said, on the occasion when an Eretrian fleet put into Tanagra from Euboea, to have led out the youths to the battle; he himself, armed with a scraper...

Euboea

81 Styx ...– for there are some who assign this hexameter poem to Hesiod – speaks of Styx as the daughter of Ocean and the wife of Pallas. Men say that Linus too gives a...

Styx

76 22.25,38.25,0 Epidaurus ...of Iolaus and also a race-course, a bank of earth like those at Olympia and Epidaurus. Here there is also shown a hero-shrine of Iolaus. That Iolaus himself died at...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Aroanian ...but I do know that there is a story to this effect. Above Nonacris are the Aroanian Mountains, in which is a cave. To this cave, legend says, the daughters of...

Aroanian

78 22.19903,37.98841,0 Lusi ...festival held by the Amphictyons; but when I was there not even ruins of Lusi remained. Well, the daughters of Proetus were brought down by Melampus to Lusi...

Lusi

75 22.1121,37.9719,0 Cynaetheans ...the image of Zeus at Olympia with a thunderbolt in either hand. These Cynaetheans live more than forty stades from . . . and in their marketplace have been made...

Cynaetheans

72 22.1099,38.030042,0 Ladon ...into the chasms in the mountains, rises here and forms the source of the Ladon, but I cannot say for certain whether this is true or not. The Ladon is the...

Ladon

75 21.75,37.75,0 Olmones ...Olmus, the son of Sisyphus, I shall include in my history of Orchomenus. In Olmones they did not show me anything that was in the least worth seeing, but in...

Olmones

78 23.105792,38.476052,0 Aroanius ...the road from the source of the Ladon is a narrow gorge alongside the river Aroanius. Near the city you will cross the river called the Cleitor. The Cleitor flows...

Aroanius

78 21.75,37.75,0 Aroanius ...at a point not more than seven stades from the city. Among the fish in the Aroanius is one called the dappled fish. These dappled fish, it is said, utter a cry...

Aroanius

78 21.75,37.75,0 Thebes ...to the Cabeiri. At the time of the invasion of the Epigoni and the taking of Thebes, the Cabeiri were expelled from their homes by the Argives and the rites for a...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...The following story also is current among the Thebans. As Cadmus was leaving Delphi by the road to Phocis, a cow, it is said, guided him on his way. This cow was...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ionia ...called one of the Idaean Dactyls, to whom I found the people of Erythrae in Ionia and of Tyre possessed sanctuaries. Nevertheless, the Boeotians were not...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ascra ...Ascra. To this also Hegesinus alludes in his poem Atthis: "And again with Ascra lay Poseidon Earth-shaker, Who when the year revolved bore him a son Oeoclus...

Ascra

76 23.074249,38.327032,0 Macedonians ...For the Thracians had the reputation of old of being more clever than the Macedonians, and in particular of being not so careless in religious matters. There are...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Thebans ...on it, vanished, they say, with the lapse of time. Other tales are told by the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, called the son of...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Caphyae ...derived from Cepheus, the son of Aleus, but its form in the Arcadian dialect, Caphyae, is the one that has survived. The inhabitants say that originally they were...

Caphyae

80 22.262624,37.766264,0 Cnacalus ...of the goddess Artemis, surnamed Cnacalesia. They have also a mountain called Cnacalus, where every year they celebrate mysteries in honor of their Artemis. A little...

Cnacalus

81 22.23977,37.73637,0 Thebans ...way wherever the enemy attacked them. The Lacedemonians themselves and the Thebans were not badly matched adversaries. The former had their previous experience...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Erymanthian ...that the boar's tusks dedicated in their sanctuary of Apollo are those of the Erymanthian boar, but the saying is altogether improbable. In Psophis there is a sanctuary...

Erymanthian

80 21.8489331,37.9816702,0 Arcadians ...had been scattered into village communities by Agesipolis. He persuaded the Arcadians to destroy all their weak towns, and built them a home where they could live...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thaliades ...through Nasi to Oryx, also called Halous, and from Halous it descends to Thaliades and a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. This sanctuary is on the borders of...

Thaliades

75 21.947446,37.782355,0 Thelpusa ...gods; the greater part of this, I found, lay level with the ground. After Thelpusa the Ladon descends to the sanctuary of Demeter in Onceium. The Thelpusians call...

Thelpusa

77 21.87884,37.710489,0 Anthedon ...is Mount Messapion, at the foot of which on the coast is the Boeotian city of Anthedon. Some say that the city received its name from a nymph called Anthedon, while...

Anthedon

80 23.448834,38.498583,0 Thespians ...of Iolaus. That Iolaus himself died at Sardis along with the Athenians and Thespians who made the crossing with him is admitted even by the Thebans...

Thespians

77 23.154521,38.293384,0 Trapezus ...Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia...

Trapezus

73 22.060685,37.456281,0 Lilaea ...Athamas made his home. Into the lake flows the river Cephisus, which rises at Lilaea in Phocis, and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a town lying on the...

Lilaea

80 22.50592,38.62687,0 Argive ...to the district of Orchomenus. All the stories I heard about Hyettus the Argive and Olmus, the son of Sisyphus, I shall include in my history of Orchomenus. In...

Argive

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...was accomplished by either side. But the hatred felt by the Arcadians for the Lacedemonians was not a little responsible for the rise of Philip, the son of Amyntas, and of...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Anthedon ...say that roving with a force of ships on a piratical expedition she put in at Anthedon, seized the mountain I mentioned, and used it for plundering raids until...

Anthedon

80 23.448834,38.498583,0 Thespians ...a very ancient image of him, an unwrought stone. Who established among the Thespians the custom of worshipping Love more than any other god I do not know. He is...

Thespians

77 23.154521,38.293384,0 Orchomenus ...no longer extant when I was born. But Callippus of Corinth in his history of Orchomenus uses the verses of Hegesinus as evidence in support of his own views, and I too...

Orchomenus

79 22.31536,37.724716,0 Lydians ...who composed elegiac verses about the battle between the Smyrnaeans and the Lydians under Gyges, says in the preface that the elder Muses are daughters of Uranus...

Lydians

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Danube ...The water of this Gortynius is colder than that of any other river. The Danube, Rhine, Hypanis, Borysthenes, and all rivers the streams of which freeze in...

Danube

74 29.647293,45.16291,0 Messenia ...are Demeter and the Maid, as I have already explained in my account of Messenia, and the Maid is called Saviour by the Arcadians. Carved in relief before the...

Messenia

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...by a violent gale, Teuthis quarrelled with Agamemnon and was about to lead the Arcadians under his command back home again. Whereupon, they say, Athena in the guise of...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Helisson ...is a spring called Bathyllus, which is one of the tributaries that swell the Helisson. Such are the notable things on this site. The southern portion, on the other...

Helisson

79 22.217753,37.612883,0 Attica ...and Pan. Farther on is the tomb of Eurystheus. The story is that he fled from Attica after the battle with the Heracleidae and was killed here by Iolaus. When you...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Spartan ...Hadrian. The most famous of them is near the Poseidon. It was made by the Spartan Eurycles, who beautified it with various kinds of stone, especially the one...

Spartan

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Caicus ...the treatment he would receive at the hands of Arsinoe, seized Pergamus on the Caicus, and sending a herald offered both the property and himself to...

Caicus

81 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Lacedemon ...hastened to the Peloponnesus being well aware that if Pyrrhus were to reduce Lacedemon and the greater part of the Peloponnesus, he would not return to Epeirus but to...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...who had landed at Marathon. This is the victory of which I am of opinion the Athenians were proudest; while Aeschylus, who had won such renown for his poetry and for...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...was taken by Heracles, and afterwards the army which they dispatched to Athens was destroyed, but nevertheless they came to Troy to fight all the Greeks as...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troy ...Athenians them selves. After the Amazons come the Greeks when they have taken Troy, and the kings assembled on account of the outrage committed by Ajax against...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Marathonians ...represented as coming up from the under-world, of Athena and of Heracles. The Marathonians, according to their own account, were the first to regard Heracles as a god. Of...

Marathonians

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Euboea ...account of the children of Theseus, who had secretly withdrawn to Elephenor in Euboea, but he was aware that Theseus, if ever he returned from Thesprotia, would be a...

Euboea

81 Delos ...by is built a temple of Eileithyia, who they say came from the Hyperboreans to Delos and helped Leto in her labour; and from Delos the name spread to other peoples...

Delos

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delians ...Leto in her labour; and from Delos the name spread to other peoples. The Delians sacrifice to Eileithyia and sing a hymn of Olen. But the Cretans suppose that...

Delians

75 25.268194,37.397274,0 Olen ...to other peoples. The Delians sacrifice to Eileithyia and sing a hymn of Olen. But the Cretans suppose that Eileithyia was born at Amnisus in the Cnossian...

Olen

75 21.640599,38.153707,0 Athenians ...the engagement that ensued the Romans won a decisive victory; Aristion and the Athenians they drove in flight into the city, Archelaus and the foreigners into the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...of Medusa, the legend about whom I am unwilling to relate in my description of Attica. Included among the paintings – I omit the boy carrying the water-jars and the...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Malians ...as heavy infantry by the time of the Persian wars. Neither indeed did the Malians continue the practice of the bow; in fact, I believe that they did not know it...

Malians

76 22.25,38.75,0 Athenian ...in a most shocking manner. I remember looking at other things also on the Athenian Acropolis, a bronze boy holding the sprinkler, by Lycius son of Myron, and...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...murdered by some men of Coronea for the sake of this wealth. After freeing the Athenians from tyrants Demetrius the son of Antigonus did not restore the Peiraeus to...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleusis ...at Athens, both on the Acropolis and in the town hall but also a portrait at Eleusis. The Phocians too of Elatea dedicated at Delphi a bronze statue of Olympiodorus...

Eleusis

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Megalopolis ...was raging, he put himself at the head of a band of mercenaries. Going back to Megalopolis, he was at once chosen by the Achaeans to command the cavalry, and he turned...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Achaean ...between that city under Machanidas and the Achaeans, Philopoemen commanded the Achaean forces. A battle took place at Mantineia. The light troops of the Lacedemonians...

Achaean

81 Arcadians ...caught and punished, all except Deinocrates, who perished by his own hand. The Arcadians also brought back to Megalopolis the bones of Philopoemen. After this Greece...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megalopolis ...the interior. By founding cities too, of no small fame, Messene and Arcadian Megalopolis, Epaminondas made Greece more famous. I reckon Leosthenes also and Aratus...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Gortys ...said that all the surviving sons of Tegeates, namely, Cydon, Archedius and Gortys, migrated of their own free will to Crete, and that after them were named the...

Gortys

77 22.041,37.534,0 Clarius ...on which are most of the altars of the Tegeans, is called the place of Zeus Clarius (Of Lots), and it is plain that the god got his surname from the lots cast for...

Clarius

78 27.19292,38.00466,0 Tegea ...is the Alpheius, and unites its water with Arethusa. The straight road from Tegea to Thyrea and to the villages its territory contains can show a notable sight...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Thebans ...being due to reach the walls about noon. The Plataeans, thinking that the Thebans were holding an assembly, were afield and cut off from their gates. With those...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Plataea ...they too had spent some pains on the burial of Mardonius. This road leads to Plataea from Eleutherae. On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...armour before the altar. The trophy which the Greeks set up for the battle at Plataea stands about fifteen stades from the city. Advancing in the city itself from...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Daedala ...interval. I wanted very much to calculate exactly the interval between one Daedala and the next, but I was unable to do so. In this way they celebrate the...

Daedala

77 28.976568,36.749409,0 Asopus ...towns of less account pool their funds for images. Bringing the image to the Asopus, and setting it upon a wagon, they place a bridesmaid also on the wagon. They...

Asopus

80 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Plataeans ...while at the feet of the image is a portrait of Arimnestus, who commanded the Plataeans at the battle against Mardonius, and yet before that at Marathon. There is...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Marathon ...the Plataeans at the battle against Mardonius, and yet before that at Marathon. There is also at Plataea a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Eleusinian, and a...

Marathon

72 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Megalopolis ...were the Athenians, and they were helped by Messenians and the Arcadians of Megalopolis. My own view is that in building Thebes Cassander was mainly influenced by...

Megalopolis

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Thebes ...except the sanctuaries, and the people live on the citadel, which they call Thebes and not Cadmeia. Across the Asopus, about ten stades distant from the city...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Homole ...the gate, through which they passed on their return, the Homoloid gate after Homole. The entry into Thebes from Plataea is by the Electran gate. At this, so they...

Homole

79 22.62858,39.89498,0 Arcadia ...to mid-Boeotia, while Adrastus collected his allied forces out of Arcadia and from the Messenians, and likewise mercenaries came to the help of the...

Arcadia

68 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thebans ...from that in the poems of Panyassis and of Stesichorus of Himera. But the Thebans add that Heracles in his madness was about to kill Amphitryon as well, but...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Melangeia ...drinking water of the Mantineans flows down to their city. Farther off from Melangeia, about seven stades distant from Mantineia, there is a well called the Well of...

Melangeia

79 22.42534,37.64991,0 Delphi ...Philip fulfilled the oracle that it is said was given him when he inquired of Delphi about the Persians: "The bull is crowned; the consummation is at hand; the...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Arcadians ...also was a dragon. The Mantineans did not fight on the side of the other Arcadians against the Lacedemonians at Dipaea, but in the Peloponnesian war they rose...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thebans ...and when the battle took place at Mantineia between the Lacedemonians and the Thebans under Epaminondas, the Mantineans joined the ranks of the...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Mantineans ...the Mantineans joined the ranks of the Lacedemonians. Subsequently the Mantineans quarrelled with the Lacedemonians, and seceded from them to the Achaean League...

Mantineans

74 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lacedemonians ...of Poseidon is a trophy made of stone commemorating the victory over the Lacedemonians under Agis. The course of the battle was, it is said, after this wise. The...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...and Leocydes. The center was entrusted to Aratus, with the Sicyonians and the Achaeans. The Lacedemonians under Agis, who with the royal staff officers were in the...

Achaeans

80 Lycosura ...of the Megalopolitans, is said by the Arcadians to have seen, when dwelling in Lycosura, the sacred deer, enfeebled with age, of the goddess called Lady. This deer...

Lycosura

81 22.030087,37.389509,0 Methydrium ...by Hermesianax, the elegiac poet. From Mantineia there is a road leading to Methydrium, which today is not a city, but only a village belonging to Megalopolis. Thirty...

Methydrium

79 22.168912,37.627412,0 Megalopolis ...to Methydrium, which today is not a city, but only a village belonging to Megalopolis. Thirty stades farther is a plain called Alcimedon, and beyond the plain is...

Megalopolis

76 22.126238,37.414256,0 Laconia ...mountain. For when Aeneas was voyaging to Sicily, he put in with his ships to Laconia, becoming the founder of the cities Aphrodisias and Etis; his father Anchises...

Laconia

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Aroanius ...of Pheneus for the river Olbius, which some Arcadians call, not Olbius but Aroanius. The length of the cutting is fifty stades, its depth, where it has not fallen...

Aroanius

77 21.75,37.75,0 Argive ...are no longer included among the Arcadians, but are numbered with the Argive League, which they joined of their own accord. That they are by race Arcadians...

Argive

72 22.719464,37.631561,0 Arcadia ...of Arabian origin, and a section of them might have flown on some occasion to Arcadia and reached Stymphalus. Originally they would be called by the Arabians, not...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Idaean ...high. This Heracles, says Onomacritus in his poem, is one of those called Idaean Dactyls. Before it stands a table, on which are carved in relief two seasons...

Idaean

76 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Arcadians ...down from which is received by the Helisson. Megalopolis was founded by the Arcadians with the utmost enthusiasm amidst the highest hopes of the Greeks, but it has...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Gatheatas ...Gatheatas falls into the Alpheius, and before this the Carnion flows into the Gatheatas. The source of the Carnion is in Aegytian territory beneath the sanctuary of...

Gatheatas

80 22.061019,37.298673,0 Cromitian ...the sanctuary of Apollo Cereatas; that of the Gatheatas is at Gatheae in Cromitian territory. The Cromitian territory is about forty stades up from the Alpheius...

Cromitian

75 22.75,37.75,0 Alpheius ...territory. The Cromitian territory is about forty stades up from the Alpheius, and in it the ruins of the city Cromi have not entirely disappeared. From...

Alpheius

72 21.451667,37.6125,0 Cromi ...is about forty stades up from the Alpheius, and in it the ruins of the city Cromi have not entirely disappeared. From Cromi it is about twenty stades to Nymphas...

Cromi

78 22.75,37.75,0 Megalopolis ...also on a slab. This road leads to Messene, and there is another leading from Megalopolis to Carnasium in Messenia. The first thing you come to on the latter road is the...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Arcadians ...This place is twenty stades away from the Hermaeum at Belemina. The Arcadians say that Belemina belonged of old to Arcadia but was severed from it by the...

Arcadians

71 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...grounds, chiefly because the Thebans, I think, would never have allowed the Arcadians to suffer even this loss, if they could have brought about restitution with...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Maenalus ...Gate to the Marsh, and proceeding by the side of the river Helisson towards Maenalus, there stands on the left of the road a temple of the Good God. If the gods are...

Maenalus

78 22.265891,37.549491,0 Lycaeus ...to make them cities. On the left of the sanctuary of the Mistress is Mount Lycaeus. Some Arcadians call it Olympus, and others Sacred Peak. On it, they say, Zeus...

Lycaeus

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Lycaean ...there were of old gilded eagles. On this altar they sacrifice in secret to Lycaean Zeus. I was reluctant to pry into the details of the sacrifice; let them be as...

Lycaean

77 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Lacedemonians ...Others have said that Phigalia was one of the nymphs called Dryads. When the Lacedemonians attacked the Arcadians and invaded Phigalia, they overcame the inhabitants in...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oresthasians ...but through them the Phigalians would be restored to their city. When the Oresthasians heard of the oracle delivered to the Phigalians, all vied with one another in...

Oresthasians

76 22.206506,37.345994,0 Asea ...a stone image in it. About twenty stades away from Athenaeum are ruins of Asea, and the hill that once was the citadel has traces of fortifications to this...

Asea

77 22.283,37.405,0 Pallantium ...the Dyke is the boundary between Megalopolis on the one hand and Tegea and Pallantium on the other. The plain of Pallantium you reach by turning aside to the left...

Pallantium

77 22.336587,37.462155,0 Manthyrenses ...in parishes, Gareatae, Phylacenses, Caryatae, Corythenses, Potachidae, Oeatae, Manthyrenses , Echeuethenses. But in the reign of Apheidas a ninth parish was added to them...

Manthyrenses

81 22.397404,37.409589,0 Athenians ...as a hero. A trophy too of white marble has been erected. Although the Athenians assert that they buried the Persians, because in every case the divine law...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Crete ...origin of the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm...

Crete

70 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Tegea ...daughter of Alcinous. There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea. Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas (He who entertains...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Ionians ...as settlers more of necessity than through good.will. The leader of the Ionians was Procles, the son of Pityreus, Epidaurian himself like the greater part of...

Ionians

74 27.508324,37.474596,0 Thrace ...Ionians. The Samians fled and some of them made their home in an island near Thrace, and as a result of their settling there the name of the island was changed...

Thrace

80 27.5,42.5,0 Cretans ...a city of Sicily. Thereby he became the cause of war between Sicilians and Cretans, because when Minos demanded him back, Cocalus refused to give him up. He was...

Cretans

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Chians ...gave him a tripod as a prize for valor. Such was the account of the Chians that I found given by Ion. However, he gives no reason why the Chians are...

Chians

70 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Eleusis ...artistic statue, only some roughly carved wooden images of Pan. As you go to Eleusis from Athens along what the Athenians call the Sacred Way you see the tomb of...

Eleusis

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Miletus ...Cenchrius, the strange mountain of Pion and the spring Halitaea. The land of Miletus has the spring Biblis, of whose love the poets have sung. In the land of...

Miletus

79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Colophon ...has the spring Biblis, of whose love the poets have sung. In the land of Colophon is the grove of Apollo, of ash-trees, and not far from the grove is the river...

Colophon

75 27.142222,38.115556,0 Ionia ...ash-trees, and not far from the grove is the river Ales, the coldest river in Ionia. In the land of Lebedus are baths, which are both wonderful and useful. Teos...

Ionia

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Heraeum ...whose exploits they tell certain legends. The Samians have on the road to the Heraeum the tomb of Rhadine and Leontichus, and those who are crossed in love are wont...

Heraeum

80 26.84,37.73,0 Ionia ...and those who are crossed in love are wont to go to the tomb and pray. Ionia, in fact, is a land of wonders that are but little inferior to those of...

Ionia

73 27.508324,37.474596,0 Achaeans ...are but little inferior to those of Greece. When the Ionians were gone the Achaeans divided their land among themselves and settled in their cities. These were...

Achaeans

78 Spercheus ...of Achilles from Troy he will cut off the young man's hair as a gift for the Spercheus. Across the Cephisus is an ancient altar of Zeus Meilichius (Gracious). At...

Spercheus

79 22.25,38.75,0 Athens ...its hole. In this place they sacrificed to Apollo; afterwards they came to Athens and the Athenians made them citizens. After this is a temple of Aphrodite...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Chalcidians ...a reasonable belief that they flow beneath the ground from the Euripus of the Chalcidians, and fall into a sea of a lower level. They are said to be sacred to the Maid...

Chalcidians

80 23.602,38.464,0 Achaean ...great power. Of the remaining Greeks the Sicyonians were the first to join the Achaean League, and after the Sicyonians there entered it yet other Peloponnesians...

Achaean

81 Pellene ...the bitter enemies of the Achaeans and openly carried on war against them. Pellene, a city of the Achaeans, was captured by Agis, the son of Eudamidas, who was...

Pellene

77 22.5384,38.0446,0 Aetolians ...Magnesia at the foot of Mount Pelium. The Athenians especially and the Aetolians he harried with continual attacks and raids of bandits. Already, in my account...

Aetolians

73 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Eretria ...to succeed Otilius in his command. On his arrival Flamininus sacked Eretria, defeating the Macedonians who were defending it. He then marched against...

Eretria

71 22.607216,39.290562,0 Sicyonians ...joined the Achaean League; they had joined it on a previous occasion, when the Sicyonians under Aratus drove all the garrison out of Acrocorinth, killing Persaeus, who...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Achaeans ...Alcibiadas, Lacedemonians of great distinction at Sparta but ungrateful to the Achaeans. For the Achaeans gave them a welcome when exiled by Nabis, and on the tyrant's...

Achaeans

81 Athens ...bound to enjoy an easy success. Despatches were at once sent by the senate to Athens and Aetolia, with instructions to bring back the Messenians and Achaeans to...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lamia ...need worth mentioning of traitors. But when the Greeks suffered defeat at Lamia, Antipater, in his eagerness to cross over to the war in Asia, wished to patch...

Lamia

77 22.43516,38.9046,0 Athens ...to patch up a peace quickly, and it mattered nothing to him if he left free Athens and the whole of Greece. But Demades and the other traitors at Athens persuaded...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Dorians ...there. In this way the Megarians changed their customs and dialect and became Dorians, and they say that the city received its name when Car the son of Phoroneus was...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Sapaeans ...Macedonians and Perseus were conquered because of this wrong done to the Sapaeans, and afterwards ten Roman senators were sent to arrange the affairs of...

Sapaeans

75 24.75,41.25,0 Leleges ...that Lelex arrived from Egypt and became king, and that in his reign the tribe Leleges received its name. Lelex they say begat Cleson, Cleson Pylas and Pylas Sciron...

Leleges

81 26.75,39.75,0 Argives ...and his instructions were to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Argives in the case of a disputed piece of territory. This Gallus on many occasions...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Gythium ...upon the Peloponnesians who dwell along the coast, burnt the dock-yards at Gythium and captured Boeae, belonging to the "provincials," and the island of Cythera...

Gythium

77 22.562341,36.763663,0 Parnassus ...were much more formidable to men, for example the Nemean lion, the lion of Parnassus, the serpents in many parts of Greece, and the boars of Calydon, Eryrmanthus...

Parnassus

77 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Corinth ...of Greece, and the boars of Calydon, Eryrmanthus and Crommyon in the land of Corinth, so that it was said that some were sent up by the earth, that others were...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Acropolis ...But the bull at Marathon Theseus is said to have driven afterwards to the Acropolis and to have sacrificed to the goddess; the offering commemorating this deed was...

Acropolis

76 23.625,37.875,0 Achelous ...their land has been laid waste. Accordingly, as Aetolia remains untilled, the Achelous does not bring as much mud upon the Echinades as it otherwise would do. My...

Achelous

80 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Thrace ...secondly to what is now Ionia, and thirdly on the present occasion to Thrace. Before the monument is a slab on which are horsemen fighting. Their names are...

Thrace

72 27.5,42.5,0 Argives ...of war with the Athenians. Here too lie the men of Cleone, who came with the Argives into Attica; the occasion whereof I shall set forth when in the course of my...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Alpheius ...Buphagium, and here is the source of the Buphagus, which flows down into the Alpheius. Near the source of the Buphagus is the boundary between Megalopolis and...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Athens ...in the war with Cassander, and the Argives who once fought as the allies of Athens. It is said that the alliance between the two peoples was brought about thus...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...a thousand picked Thebans under Pammenes to defend the Arcadians, if the Lacedemonians should try to prevent the union. There were chosen as founders by the...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegys ...Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. From the Aegytae: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura...

Aegys

71 22.165456,37.246287,0 Leuctra ...those who fell near Corinth. Heaven showed most distinctly here and again at Leuctra that those whom the Greeks call brave are as nothing if Good Fortune be not...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Thocnia ...Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in...

Thocnia

76 22.077856,37.41772,0 Arcadians ...removed bodily the Megalopolitans and the other Arcadians besides; but as the Arcadians of the day put up a vigorous defence, while their vassal neighbors gave them...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Boeae ...who dwell along the coast, burnt the dock-yards at Gythium and captured Boeae, belonging to the "provincials," and the island of Cythera. He made a descent...

Boeae

74 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Athenians ...Attica is also the grave of Ion the son of Xuthus – for he too dwelt among the Athenians and was their commander-in-chief in the war with Eleusis. Such is the legend...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Gortys ...The breastplate and the head of the spear are still there today. Through Gortys flows a river called by those who live around its source the Lusius (Bathing...

Gortys

76 22.041,37.534,0 Megalopolis ...is Helisson – passes through the lands of Dipaea and Lycaea, and then through Megalopolis itself, descending into the Alpheius twenty stades away from the city of...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megaris ...that Tereus was king of the region around what is called Pagae (Springs) of Megaris, but my opinion, which is confirmed by extant evidence, is that he ruled over...

Megaris

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Creusa ...sanctuary of Apollo in a cave. It is here that Apollo is believed to have met Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus . . . when the Persians had landed in Attica...

Creusa

80 23.110281,38.20809,0 Lacedemon ...the Persians had landed in Attica Philippides was sent to carry the tidings to Lacedemon. On his return he said that the Lacedacmonians had postponed their departure...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Meiganitas ...territory of Aegium is crossed by a river Phoenix, and by another called Meiganitas, both of which flow into the sea. A portico near the city was made for Straton...

Meiganitas

75 22.25,38.25,0 Peiraeus ...of Cambyses affords the best and most famous instance. Near the sea at the Peiraeus is Phreattys. Here it is that men in exile, when a further charge has been...

Peiraeus

77 23.644609,37.937222,0 Sidon ...the artist was Damophon the Messenian. In this sanctuary of Asclepius a man of Sidon entered upon an argument with me. He declared that the Phoenicians had better...

Sidon

81 35.371208,33.560243,0 Athenians ...that of Thrasybulus son of Lycus, in all respects the greatest of all famous Athenians, whether they lived before him or after him. The greater number of his...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megarians ...In the temple hard by are Muses and a bronze Zeus by Lysippus. The Megarians have also the grave of Coroebus. The poetical story of him, although it equally...

Megarians

70 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thesprotian ...I have heard is this. Theseus invaded Thesprotia to carry off the wife of the Thesprotian king, and in this way lost the greater part of his army, and both he and...

Thesprotian

80 20.25,39.75,0 Marathon ...his death. His close was built at Athens after the Persians landed at Marathon, when Cimon, son of Miltiades, ravaged Scyros, thus avenging Theseus' death...

Marathon

72 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Cynosarges ...one of the most note worthy things in Athens. There is also the place called Cynosarges, sacred to Heracles; the story of the white dog may be known by reading the...

Cynosarges

80 Cretans ...was red, and it was fated that he should die on its being cut off. When the Cretans attacked the country, they captured the other cities of the Megarid by assault...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Delos ...(the Huntress). They say that Artemis first hunted here when she came from Delos, and for this reason the statue carries a bow. A marvel to the eyes, though not...

Delos

77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Athenians ...but only the lower orders, and only the turbulent among them. The respectable Athenians fled to the Romans of their own accord. In the engagement that ensued the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicily ...his craft, and therefore he fled to Crete; afterwards he escaped to Cocalus in Sicily. The sanctuary of Asclepius is worth seeing both for its paintings and for the...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Acropolis ...their names by conversing with the priests. There is but one entry to the Acropolis. It affords no other, being precipitous throughout and having a strong wall...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Leuctra ...took steps to induce Pyrrhus to enter the country. Before the battle of Leuctra the Lacedemonians had suffered no disaster, so that they even refused to admit...

Leuctra

74 23.18095,38.25422,0 Sphacteria ...Persians; the achievement of Demosthenes and the Athenians on the island of Sphacteria was no victory, but only a trick in war. Their first reverse took place in...

Sphacteria

78 21.665725,36.930136,0 Marathon ...name of his city, and added that he had witnesses to his valor in the grove at Marathon and in the Persians who landed there. Above the Cerameicus and the portico...

Marathon

81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Pella ...was about to set forth from Macedonia with Alexander, and was sacrificing at Pella to Zeus, the wood that lay on the altar advanced of its own accord to the image...

Pella

79 22.75,40.75,0 Brauron ...derives her name from the parish of Brauron. The old wooden image is in Brauron, the Tauric Artemis as she is called. There is the horse called Wooden set up...

Brauron

74 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Paeania ...his ancestors he chanced to be heavily in debt. So he withdrew to the parish Paeania and lived there until the Athenians elected him to command a naval expedition...

Paeania

79 23.8552995,37.958506,0 Corinthian ...Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians...

Corinthian

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Thebans ...The Boeotians, who occupied the Thebaid territory now that there were no Thebans left to dwell there, in fear lest the Athenians should injure them by founding...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenian ...the alliance had its own general, but as commander-in-chief was chosen the Athenian Leosthenes, both because of the fame of his city and also because he had the...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicyonia ...to the "provincials," and the island of Cythera. He made a descent on Sicyonia, and, attacked by the citizens as he was laying waste the country, he put them...

Sicyonia

72 22.71135,37.98336,0 Acropolis ...to avenge her. There is another statue, well worth seeing, of Pandion on the Acropolis. These are the Athenian eponymoi who belong to the ancients. And of later date...

Acropolis

79 23.625,37.875,0 Cyprians ...son of Eurydice, on discovering that he was creating disaffection among the Cyprians. Then Magas, the half-brother of Ptolemy, who had been entrusted with the...

Cyprians

78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Athenian ...is pertinent to add here an account of Attalus, because he too is one of the Athenian eponymoi. A Macedonian of the name of Docimus, a general of Antigonus, who...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lamia ...and then, after receiving him back, banished again after the disaster at Lamia. Exiled for the second time Demosthenes crossed once more to Calauria, and...

Lamia

75 22.43516,38.9046,0 Thrace ...encountering Demetrius at Amphipolis he came near to being expelled from Thrace, but on Pyrrhus' coming to his aid he mastered Thrace and afterwards extended...

Thrace

75 27.5,42.5,0 Eleusis ...son of Celaenus, son of Phlyus, brought the rites of the Great Goddesses from Eleusis. Phlyus himself is said by the Athenians to have been the son of Earth, and the...

Eleusis

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athenians ...the rites of the Great Goddesses from Eleusis. Phlyus himself is said by the Athenians to have been the son of Earth, and the hymn of Musaeus to Demeter made for the...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the oaths which the Lacedemonians as a state had sworn by the gods to the Athenians, and it was on their own initiative, and without the approval of the Spartan...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Heraea ...he was at the time being carried home sick from Arcadia, and when he reached Heraea, he not only called the people to witness that he sincerely believed...

Heraea

79 21.863791,37.613569,0 Lacedemonians ...him king at all costs. So Agesilaus, son of Archidamus, became king, and the Lacedemonians resolved to cross with a fleet to Asia in order to put down Artaxerxes, son of...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hermus ...as Susa had been to the king himself. A battle was fought on the plain of the Hermus with Tissaphernes, satrap of the parts around Ionia, in which Agesilaus...

Hermus

81 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Sparta ...Athenians receiving early intimation of the Lacedemonians' intentions, sent to Sparta begging them to submit their grievances to a court of arbitration instead of...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotia ...cavalry to flight and passed through Thessaly, and again made his way through Boeotia, winning a victory over Thebes and the allies at Coronea. When the Boeotians...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Corinthians ...in the battle, did not sin against the suppliants. Not long afterwards the Corinthians in exile for pro-Spartan sympathies held the Isthmian games. The Corinthians in...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...and Hyacinthus. This battalion was attacked on the way and annihilated by the Athenians under Iphicrates. Agesilaus went also to Aetolia to give assistance to the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all the Arcadians except the Mantineans were arrayed against them. His fourth contest was...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cretan ...of the Ephors, as they are called, in which are the tombs of Epimenides the Cretan and of Aphareus the son of Perieres. As to Epimenides, I think the Lacedemonian...

Cretan

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Attica ...the death at the hands of the Athenians of those of the heralds who came to Attica. The Lacedemonians have an altar of Apollo Acritas, and a sanctuary, surnamed...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Alpheius ...from Elis, called the Iamidae. There is also a sanctuary of Maron and of Alpheius. Of the Lacedemonians who served at Thermopylae they consider that these men...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Argives ...set up by Epimenides, but their account of him does not agree with that of the Argives, for the Lacedemonians deny that they ever fought with the Cnossians. Hard by...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Therapne ...sacrifice in the Phoebaeum, which is outside the city, not far distant from Therapne. Here each company of youths sacrifices a puppy to Enyalius, holding that the...

Therapne

78 22.454127,37.066091,0 Colophonians ...a puppy, a black bitch, to the Wayside Goddess. Both the sacrifice of the Colophonians and that of the youths at Sparta are appointed to take place at night. At the...

Colophonians

76 27.142222,38.115556,0 Spartan ...of Agis, when they found the image straightway became insane. Secondly, the Spartan Limnatians, the Cynosurians, and the people of Mesoa and Pitane, while...

Spartan

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...of the sacrifices has not made the altar excessively large. The altar at Olympia shows another strange peculiarity, which is this. The kite, the bird of prey...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...and they bare the right shoulder as far as the breast. These too have the Olympic stadium reserved for their games, but the course of the stadium is shortened...

Olympic

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aeginetan ...The figures of Seasons next to them, seated upon thrones, were made by the Aeginetan Smilis. Beside them stands an image of Themis, as being mother of the Seasons...

Aeginetan

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Corinth ...Melas, the son of Antasus. But, as I have already related in my account of Corinth, Aletes refused to admit as settlers Melas and the host with him, being nervous...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delphi ...the host with him, being nervous about an oracle which had been given him from Delphi; but at last Melas, using every art of winning favours, and returning with...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Alexandria ...repeated by the echo seven or even more times. They say that a pancratiast of Alexandria, by name Sarapion, at the two hundred and first Festival, was so afraid of his...

Alexandria

81 29.904133,31.195371,0 Athenians ...of the Thirty-years Peace between the Lacedemonians and the Athenians. The Athenians made this peace after they had reduced Euboea for the second time, in the third...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thessaly ...The inscription on it says that it is a tithe from the war between Phocis and Thessaly. If the Thessalians went to war with Phocis and dedicated the offering from...

Thessaly

80 21.75,39.25,0 Psophidians ...Zeus, which, as is declared by the verse inscribed on it, was dedicated by the Psophidians for a success in war. On the right of the great temple is a Zeus facing the...

Psophidians

81 21.892903,37.871725,0 Achaia ...before Mummius, and he dedicated at Olympia a bronze Zeus from the spoils of Achaia. It stands on the left of the offering of the Lacedemonians by the side of the...

Achaia

79 Messenians ...two-thirds of the men of military age, along with the women and children, the Messenians being at that time friendly allies. To some of those who made good their escape...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Elis ...cavalry, and then turned to flight all the mounted troops of Aetolia and Elis. L. As the Achaeans now turned their gaze on Philopoemen and placed in him all...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Achaeans ...Lacedemon, and war began once again between that city under Machanidas and the Achaeans, Philopoemen commanded the Achaean forces. A battle took place at Mantineia...

Achaeans

81 Lacedemonians ...of the Achaean youths. The Romans, in course of time, were to restore to the Lacedemonians the discipline of their native land. When the Romans under Manius defeated at...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataea ...the son of Lysimachus, and Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, commanders at Plataea, were debarred from being called benefactors of Greece, Pausanias by his...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Tegea ...among his sons, and after Hippothous, the son of Cercyon. There is also at Tegea a temple of Demeter and the Maid, whom they surname the Fruit-bringers, and...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Phylace ...territories of Lacedemon and Tegea is the river Alpheius. Its water begins in Phylace, and not far from its source there flows down into it another water from...

Phylace

80 22.450723,37.331323,0 Plataeans ...whom they consider to be a daughter of the river Asopus. It is clear that the Plataeans too were of old ruled by kings; for everywhere in Greece in ancient times...

Plataeans

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Theban ...at Thebes, not being unaware of the Plataean trick, proclaimed that every Theban should attend the assembly armed, and at once proceeded to lead them, not by...

Theban

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Plataeans ...one of the means he employed to bring the Thebans low was to restore the Plataeans to their homes. On Mount Cithaeron, within the territory of Plataea, if you...

Plataeans

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Ionians ...to Dionysophanes the Ephesian, but also that he gave them to others of the Ionians, in recognition that they too had spent some pains on the burial of...

Ionians

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Alalcomenae ...but I was unable to do so. In this way they celebrate the feast. Not far from Alalcomenae is a grove of oaks. Here the trunks of the oaks are the largest in Boeotia. To...

Alalcomenae

81 23.00169,38.385259,0 Plataeans ...is the period during which, they say, the festival could not be held, as the Plataeans were in exile. There are fourteen wooden images ready, having been provided...

Plataeans

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...battle against Mardonius, and yet before that at Marathon. There is also at Plataea a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Eleusinian, and a tomb of Leitus, who was the...

Plataea

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thebes ...ended with the war between Athens and the Peloponnesus, the relations between Thebes and the Lacedemonians were friendly. But when the war was fought out and the...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athens ...the web was black. It is also said that there was a shower of ashes at Athens the year before the war waged against them by Sulla, which brought on them such...

Athens

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...house of Alexander to the bitter end. Olympias he threw to the exasperated Macedonians to be stoned to death; and the sons of Alexander, Heracles by Barsina and...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Thebans ...and Eubius were the artists. But the ancient wooden image is thought by the Thebans to be by Daedalus, and the same opinion occurred to me. It was dedicated, they...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Inachus ...that on it are a temple and image of Artemis, and also the springs of the Inachus. The river Inachus, so long as it flows by the road across the mountain, is the...

Inachus

76 22.75,37.75,0 Argos ...by the road across the mountain, is the boundary between the territory of Argos and that of Mantineia. But when it turns away from the road the stream flows...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Achaeans ...the father of Perseus, before he came of age, was an ardent supporter of the Achaeans, and so the Mantineans, among other honors, changed the name of their city to...

Achaeans

79 Mantineans ...was about to fight the naval engagement off the cape of Actian Apollo, the Mantineans fought on the side of the Romans, while the rest of Arcadia joined the ranks of...

Mantineans

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...from Macedonia, and gave back to their city its old name of Mantineia. The Mantineans possess a temple composed of two parts, being divided almost exactly at the...

Mantineans

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mylasa ...by the Athenians about the wave on the Acropolis, and by the Carians living in Mylasa about the sanctuary of the god called in the native tongue Osogoa. But the sea...

Mylasa

81 27.789697,37.316871,0 Sicyonians ...led by Lydiades and Leocydes. The center was entrusted to Aratus, with the Sicyonians and the Achaeans. The Lacedemonians under Agis, who with the royal staff...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Mantineans ...just about five stades, the graves of the daughters of Pelias. These, the Mantineans say, came to live with them when they were fleeing from the scandal at their...

Mantineans

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...story on the picture portraying the battle of Mantineia. All can see that the Mantineans gave Grylus a public funeral and dedicated where he fell his likeness on a slab...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Athenians ...Places with the same name misled Hannibal the Carthaginian, and before him the Athenians also. Hannibal received an oracle from Ammon that when he died he would be...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sparta ...by him she went away at first to Lacedemon, but afterwards she removed from Sparta to Mantineia, where she died. Adjoining this grave is a plain of no great...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegeans ...the case that Maera was buried here and not in Tegean land. For probably the Tegeans, and not the Mantineans, are right when they say that Maera, the daughter of...

Tegeans

79 22.429,37.464,0 Aeolians ...Anchises. The probability of this story is strengthened by the fact that the Aeolians who today occupy Troy nowhere point out a tomb of Anchises in their own land...

Aeolians

80 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Pheneus ...and they say that once the water rose on it and flooded the ancient city of Pheneus, so that even today there remain on the mountains marks up to which, it is...

Pheneus

78 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pellene ...is just about fifteen stades away from the city. As you go from Pheneus to Pellene and Aegeira, an Achaean city, after about fifteen stades you come to a temple...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Troy ...the Chalcodon who was the father of the Elephenor who led the Euboeans to Troy, and the Telamon who was the father of Ajax and Teucer. For how could Heracles...

Troy

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pellene ...borders of Pheneus and Achaia meet in more places than one; for towards Pellene the boundary is the river called Porinas, and towards Aegeira the "road to...

Pellene

74 22.5384,38.0446,0 Acropolis ...Samian sanctuary of Hera, after which come the oak in Dodona, the olive on the Acropolis and the olive in Delos. The third place in respect of age the Syrians would...

Acropolis

81 23.625,37.875,0 Pentelic ...drapery; it is of wood except the face, hands and feet, which are made of Pentelic marble. One hand is stretched out straight; the other holds up a torch. One...

Pentelic

77 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Phoenicians ...a man of Sidon entered upon an argument with me. He declared that the Phoenicians had better notions about the gods than the Greeks, giving as an instance that...

Phoenicians

72 35.25,33.25,0 Miletus ...the Achaeans to Athens, and subsequently from Athens to the coasts of Asia. At Miletus too on the way to the spring Biblis there is before the city an altar of...

Miletus

81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ceryneia ...potentate or by the river Cerynites, which, flowing from Arcadia and Mount Ceryneia, passes through this part of Achaia. To this part came as settlers Mycenaeans...

Ceryneia

77 22.143425,38.158659,0 Ceryneia ...are portraits of the former priestesses of the Eumenides. On returning from Ceryneia to the high road, if you go along it for a short distance you may turn aside...

Ceryneia

79 22.143425,38.158659,0 Bura ...of the sea. It is said that the name was given to the city from a woman called Bura, who was the daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and of Helice. When the god wiped...

Bura

81 22.231166,38.142006,0 Helice ...from a woman called Bura, who was the daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and of Helice. When the god wiped off Helice from the face of the earth, Bura too suffered a...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Crathis ...is also the name of the mountain where the river has its source. From this Crathis the river too by Crotona in Italy has been named. By the Achaean Crathis once...

Crathis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Aegae ...too by Crotona in Italy has been named. By the Achaean Crathis once stood Aegae, a city of the Achaeans. In course of time, it is said, it was abandoned...

Aegae

77 22.3484,38.1478,0 Euboea ...at once, just as even in my time there were still some who called Oreus in Euboea by its ancient name of Hestiaea. The sights of Aegeira worth recording include...

Euboea

77 Aegeira ...one of the Fates, and more powerful than her sisters. In this building at Aegeira is also an old man in the attitude of a mourner, three women taking off their...

Aegeira

77 22.3782,38.12855,0 Corinth ...latter is of stone, not bronze. It is said too that when a war arose between Corinth and Pellene, Promachus killed a vast number of the enemy. It is said that he...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Pellene ...stands the image of Asclepius. Rivers come down from the mountains above Pellene, the one on the side nearest Aegeira being called Crius, after, it is said, a...

Pellene

75 22.5384,38.0446,0 Sicyonians ...and Cyparissiae. On the side of Lechaeum the Corinthians are bounded by the Sicyonians, who dwell in the extreme part of Argolis on this side. After Sicyon come the...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Euboea ...was who first thought of coats of sheep-skins, such as poor folk still wear in Euboea and Phocis. He too it was who checked the habit of eating green leaves...

Euboea

81 Lacedemonians ...the time of Pelasgus that even the Pythian priestess, when she forbade the Lacedemonians to touch the land of the Arcadians, uttered the following verses: "In Arcadia...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Azania ...divided the land between them into three parts, and one district was named Azania after Azan; from Azania, it is said, settled the colonists who dwell about the...

Azania

77 22.25,37.75,0 Phocis ...time had received no name. Afterwards Elatus migrated to what is now called Phocis, helped the Phocians when hard pressed in war by the Phlegyans, and became the...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Arcadia ...obedience to an oracle of the Delphic Apollo, moved his home from Mycenae to Arcadia. Aepytus, the son of Hippothous, dared to enter the sanctuary of Poseidon at...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tegea ...that Charillus and the Lacedemonians for the first time invaded the land of Tegea with an army. They were defeated in battle by the people of Tegea, who, men and...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...the son of Aechmis, may have been guilty of outrages against the Arcadians of his most impious acts, however, against the gods I have sure knowledge, and...

Arcadians

67 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Mantineia ...surnamed Hymnia, standing on the borders of Orchomenus, near the territory of Mantineia. Artemis Hymnia has been worshipped by all the Arcadians from the most remote...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Arcadians ...him near the image of Artemis. When the crime came to be generally known, the Arcadians stoned the culprit, and also changed the rule for the future; as priestess of...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phoenician ...opinion contradicted by the name of this Athena, because she is called by the Phoenician name of Onga, and not by the Egyptian name of Sais. The Thebans assert that on...

Phoenician

80 35.25,33.25,0 Chalcidians ...of his face and by the movement of his whole body. He also composed for the Chalcidians on the Euripus a processional tune for their use in Delos. So the Thebans set...

Chalcidians

78 23.602,38.464,0 Lacedemon ...shame of their violation, immediately hanged themselves. Scedasus repaired to Lacedemon, but meeting with no justice returned to Leuctra and committed suicide. Well...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Leuctra ...god at Delphi, and received the following response: "A care to me is shady Leuctra, and so is the Alesian soil; A care to me are the two sorrowful girls of...

Leuctra

78 23.18095,38.25422,0 Orchomenians ...For when Heracles and the Thebans were about to engage in battle with the Orchomenians, an oracle was delivered to them that success in the war would be theirs if...

Orchomenians

76 22.31536,37.724716,0 Thebans ...will yield a harvest, but that of Thebes be less fertile. For this reason the Thebans at that time keep watch over the tomb. Both these cities hold this belief, and...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Pioniae ...a similar wonder. It was this. In Mysia beyond the Caicus is a town called Pioniae, the founder of which according to the inhabitants was Pionis, one of the...

Pioniae

78 27.579568,39.626196,0 Thebes ...agree that Teiresias met his end in Haliartia, and admit that the monument at Thebes is a cenotaph. There is also at Thebes the grave of Hector, the son of Priam...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Troy ...Fountain of Oedipus, and the Thebans say that they brought Hector's bones from Troy because of the following oracle: "Ye Thebans who dwell in the city of Cadmus...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Glisas ...Telchinian Athena. Seven stades from Teumessus on the left are the ruins of Glisas, and before them on the right of the way a small mound shaded by cultivated...

Glisas

79 23.396935,38.391809,0 Athenians ...was laid waste I have related in that part of my history that deals with the Athenians. On the way to the coast of Mycalessus is a sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mycalessus ...so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue: "Thespeia, Graea, and wide Mycalessus." Later, however, it recovered its old name. There is in Tanagra the tomb of...

Mycalessus

76 23.545847,38.415804,0 Helicon ...advancing about fifty stades, you come to Thespiae, built at the foot of Mount Helicon. They say that Thespia was a daughter of Asopus, who gave her name to the city...

Helicon

81 22.82514,38.35217,0 Athenian ...crimes against his wedded wives. The modern Love at Thespiae was made by the Athenian Menodorus, who copied the work of Praxiteles. Here too are statues made by...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...horses, when Acastus held his contests in honor of his father. At Nemea of the Argives there was no hero who harmed the horses, but above the turning-point of the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Diagon ...is the boundary between the land of Pisa and Arcadia; it is called the Diagon. Forty stades beyond the ridge of Saurus is a temple of Asclepius, surnamed...

Diagon

73 21.75,37.75,0 Boeotia ...the son of Leucon, the son of Athamas, after whom was named Erythrae in Boeotia, and Eioneus, the son of Magnes the son of Aeolus. These are the men whose...

Boeotia

74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Pisa ...they say, was Pisus, the son of Perieres, the son of Aeolus. The people of Pisa brought of themselves disaster on their own heads by their hostility to the...

Pisa

77 21.653041,37.639535,0 Arcadians ...Festivals, as well as the hundred and fourth, which was held by the Arcadians, are called "Non-Olympiads" by the Eleans, who do not include them in a list of...

Arcadians

70 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Macistus ...against Elis, and were joined in their revolt from the Eleans by the people of Macistus and Scillus, which are in Triphylia, and by the people of Dyspontium, another...

Macistus

81 21.6758,37.6047,0 Peneius ...in time to be without inhabitants. Beside it the river Ladon flows into the Peneius. The Eleans declare that there is a reference to this Pylus in the passage of...

Peneius

78 21.25,37.75,0 Pylus ...does flow through this district, and the passage cannot refer to another Pylus. For the land of the Pylians over against the island Sphacteria simply cannot...

Pylus

75 Olympia ...For this reason these honors were paid him here. The time of his crown at Olympia and of his benefaction to the Eleans was the two hundred and seventeenth...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...reason. Men of the army of Oxylus were sent to spy out what was happening in Elis. On the way they exhorted each other, when they should be near the wall...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...once each year is, I suppose, because men too go down only once to Hades. The Eleans have also a sanctuary of Fortune. In a portico of the sanctuary has been...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...it faces Sicily and affords ships a suitable anchorage. It is the port of Elis, and received its name from a man of Arcadia. Homer does not mention Cyllene in...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Cyllene ...of Elis, and received its name from a man of Arcadia. Homer does not mention Cyllene in the list of the Eleans, but in a later part of the poem he has shown that...

Cyllene

79 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Achaia ...Larisus, and in modern days this river forms the boundary between Elis and Achaia, though of old the boundary was Cape Araxus on the coast.

Achaia

77 Sicyonia ...the Sicyonians the name is derived from Aegialeus, who was king in what is now Sicyonia; others say that it is from the land, the greater part of which is coast...

Sicyonia

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Thessaly ...Achaeus with the assistance of allies from Aegialus and Athens returned to Thessaly and recovered the throne of his fathers: Ion, while gathering an army against...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Aegialus ...Homer is content to mention the ancient name of the land: Throughout all Aegialus and about wide Helice." 2.575 At that time in the reign of Ion the Eleusinians...

Aegialus

75 22.3484,38.1478,0 Phthiotis ...return of the Dorians. Archander and Architeles, sons of Achaeus, came from Phthiotis to Argos, and after their arrival became sons-in-law of Danaus, Architeles...

Phthiotis

78 22.55625075,38.9967985,0 Argos ...named his son Metanastes (Settler). When the sons of Achaeus came to power in Argos and Lacedemon, the inhabitants of these towns came to be called Achaeans. The...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sparta ...at the command of the Delphic oracle the Lacedemonians carried his bones to Sparta, and in my own day his grave still existed in the place where the Lacedemonians...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pylus ...not related to them, but were, through Codrus and Melanthus, Messenians of Pylus, and, on their mother's side, Athenians. Those who shared in the expedition of...

Pylus

77 Miletus ...with an army of Cretans both the land and the city changed their name to Miletus. Miletus and his men came from Crete, fleeing from Minos, the son of Europa...

Miletus

75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Carians ...and his men came from Crete, fleeing from Minos, the son of Europa; the Carians, the former inhabitants of the land, united with the Cretans. But to...

Carians

74 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Ionians ...But Androclus the son of Codrus (for he it was who was appointed king of the Ionians who sailed against Ephesus) expelled from the land the Leleges and Lydians who...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Priene ...On the tomb is a statue of an armed man. The Ionians who settled at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The founder of Myus was Cyaretus the...

Priene

80 27.298333,37.66,0 Argives ...Carians. When Thebes was taken by Thersander, the son of Polyneices, and the Argives, among the prisoners brought to Apollo at Delphi was Manto. Her father...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Carians ...than any others on the coast. Originally Lebedus also was inhabited by the Carians, until they were driven out by Andraemon the son of Codrus and the Ionians. The...

Carians

77 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Erythraeans ...Both parties were received by Apoecus and the Teians as fellow-settlers. The Erythraeans say that they came originally from Crete with Erythrus the son of Rhadamanthus...

Erythraeans

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Phocis ...Phocaeans are by birth from the land under Parnassus still called Phocis, who crossed to Asia with the Athenians Philogenes and Damon. Their land they...

Phocis

68 22.25,38.25,0 Samians ...in Samos after his father, and after conquering them in a battle drove the Samians out of their island, accusing them of conspiring with the Carians against the...

Samians

77 26.84,37.73,0 Anaea ...changed from Dardania to Samothrace. Others with Leogorus threw a wall round Anaea on the mainland opposite Samos, and ten years after crossed over, expelled the...

Anaea

79 27.2703,37.79147,0 Euboea ...too came to the island, in the reign of Oenopion, and Abantes from Euboea. Oenopion and his sons were succeeded by Amphiclus, who because of an oracle...

Euboea

69 Dyme ...were twelve in number, at least such as were known to all the Greek world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium...

Dyme

77 21.551425,38.144625,0 Thessaly ...the Macedonians under Philip, but they say that they did not march out into Thessaly to what is called the Lamian war, for they had not yet recovered from the...

Thessaly

78 21.75,39.25,0 Patrae ...for they had not yet recovered from the reverse in Boeotia. The local guide at Patrae used to say that the wrestler Chilon was the only Achaean who took part in the...

Patrae

81 21.738518,38.243265,0 Athenians ...brought back her people, they were too weak even to hold their own. The Athenians had indeed the goodwill of Greece, especially for their later exploits, but...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lemnos ...than is shown by the disasters and prosperity of cities. No long sail from Lemnos was once an island Chryse, where, it is said, Philoctetes met with his accident...

Lemnos

77 25.25,39.916667,0 Alpheius ...which some five stades farther on falls into the Alpheius. After crossing the Alpheius you come to what is called Trapezuntian territory and to the ruins of a city...

Alpheius

81 21.451667,37.6125,0 Phalaesiae ...forty stades from the Alpheius leaving the Theius on the left you will come to Phalaesiae. This place is twenty stades away from the Hermaeum at Belemina. The Arcadians...

Phalaesiae

81 22.171428,37.288997,0 Athenian ...seven thousand. Their leaders were Polyarchus, Polyphron and Lacrates. The Athenian general was Callippus, the son of Moerocles, as I have said in an earlier part...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Methydrium ...here is Arcadia to all. From this point nothing remains to be recorded except Methydrium itself, which is distant from Tricoloni one hundred and thirty-seven stades. It...

Methydrium

81 22.168912,37.627412,0 Megalopolis ...sanctuary of the Mistress to the city of Megalopolis it is forty stades. From Megalopolis to the stream of the Alpheius is half this distance. After crossing the river...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Alpheius ...city of Megalopolis it is forty stades. From Megalopolis to the stream of the Alpheius is half this distance. After crossing the river it is two stades from the...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Phocis ...latter I will tell if I get as far as an account of Delphi in my history of Phocis. In the portico by the Mistress there is, between the reliefs I have...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Aenianians ...in the rear the Greeks under Leonidas. By this road the Heracleots and the Aenianians promised to lead Brennus, not that they were ill-disposed to the Greek cause...

Aenianians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Lycaeus ...and that Astyanax was of the race of Arceas. Among the marvels of Mount Lycaeus the most wonderful is this. On it is a precinct of Lycaean Zeus, into which...

Lycaeus

75 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Heracleia ...It was chiefly for this reason that their march proved slow. Futhermore, at Heracleia Acichorius had left a part of his army, who were to guard the baggage of the...

Heracleia

78 22.442503,38.790767,0 Oeta ...is not Periander, the son of Cypselus, but Myson of Chenae, a village on Mount Oeta. These sages, then, came to Delphi and dedicated to Apollo the celebrated...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Cyprus ...shall bear in the fields, A man of renown, far from rich Salamis. Leaving Cyprus, tossed and wetted by the waves, The first and only poet to sing of the woes of...

Cyprus

76 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Argos ...They gave the victory to the dead Creugas, and had a statue of him made in Argos. It still stood in my time in the sanctuary of Lycian Apollo. In the...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicily ...Europe, Gelon the son of Deinomenes was despot of Syracuse and of the rest of Sicily besides. When Gelon died, the kingdom devolved on his brother Hieron. Hieron...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Phigalia ...and Ageladas of Argos. It was mainly to see this Demeter that I came to Phigalia. I offered no burnt sacrifice to the goddess, that being a custom of the...

Phigalia

75 21.8391,37.3963,0 Thebes ...to death by her husband. Farther within from Clymene you will see Megara from Thebes. This Megara married Heracles, but was divorced by him in course of time, on...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Caria ...war on the province of Genunia, a Roman dependency. The cities of Lycia and of Caria, along with Cos and Rhodes, were overthrown by a violent earthquake that smote...

Caria

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Tegea ...Leuconian. They say that Apheidas was the father of Leucone, and not far from Tegea is her tomb. The Tegeans say that in the time of Tegeates, son of Lycaon, only...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Tegeans ...most of them prisoners. The ancient sanctuary of Athena Alea was made for the Tegeans by Aleus. Later on the Tegeans set up for the goddess a large temple, worth...

Tegeans

81 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadia ...as is called Leader, is as follows. Aristomelidas, despot of Orchomenus in Arcadia, fell in love with a Tegean maiden, and, getting her somehow or other into his...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pythian ...as well as with the records of victories at the Pythian games. For the Pythian games were first held by the Amphictyons, and at this first meeting a...

Pythian

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amphicleia ...At the place where this road joins at the Cephisus the straight road from Amphicleia to Drymaea, the Tithronians have a grove and altars of Apollo. There has also...

Amphicleia

76 22.5813,38.6424,0 Caphyae ...Of the others this plane-tree is the oldest. About a stade distant from Caphyae is a place called Condylea, where there are a grove and a temple of Artemis...

Caphyae

75 22.262624,37.766264,0 Elateans ...and the most common bird to live along its banks is the bustard. The Elateans were successful in repelling the Macedonian army under Cassander, and they...

Elateans

72 22.782061,38.645635,0 Caphyae ...the Strangled Lady from that day to this. Going up about seven stades from Caphyae you will go down to what is called Nasi. Fifty stades farther on is the Ladon...

Caphyae

78 22.262624,37.766264,0 Taygetus ...One might regard Lampeia as a part of Mount Erymanthus. Homer says that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . . hunter . . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing...

Taygetus

77 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Elis ...land of Elis is according to the Arcadians the Erymanthus, but the people of Elis say that the grave of Coroebus bounds their territory. But when the Olympic...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elean ...was the first man to win at Olympia, and that his grave was made at the end of Elean territory. There is a town, Aliphera, of no great size, for it was abandoned...

Elean

81 21.25,37.75,0 Arcadians ...size, for it was abandoned by many of its inhabitants at the union of the Arcadians into Megalopolis. As you go to this town from Heraea you will cross the...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Maenalus ...Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni, Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum...

Maenalus

76 22.265891,37.549491,0 Opus ...market-place, both of ancient construction. Returning to the straight road to Opus, you come next to Hyampolis. Its mere name tells you who the inhabitants...

Opus

81 22.999964,38.653678,0 Arcadia ...Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Stiris ...Peteus came from the parish of Stiria, the city received the name of Stiris. The people of Stiris have their dwellings on a high and rocky site. For this...

Stiris

71 22.757,38.385,0 Nonacris ...Teuthis. These were joined by Tripolis, as it is called, Callia, Dipoena, Nonacris. The Arcadians for the most part obeyed the general resolution and assembled...

Nonacris

76 22.241203,38.014421,0 Megalopolis ...when Damon of Thurii was victor in the foot-race. When the citizens of Megalopolis had been enrolled in the Theban alliance they had nothing to fear from the...

Megalopolis

74 22.126238,37.414256,0 Troy ...to hand. Here they say are buried the sons of Iphitus; one returned safe from Troy and died in his native land; the other, Schedius, died, they say, in the Troad...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pholoe ...call her in Laconia also. They also say that Artemis shot Buphagus on Mount Pholoe because he attempted an unholy sin against her godhead. As you go from the...

Pholoe

78 21.7408,37.75407,0 Colophon ...of the Melas which flows past Side in Pamphylia. The coldness of the Ales in Colophon has even been celebrated in the verse of elegiac poets. But the Gortynius...

Colophon

79 27.142222,38.115556,0 Locrians ...same place, but she is not so large as the other images. The territory of the Locrians called Ozolian adjoins Phocis opposite Cirrha. I have heard various stories...

Locrians

81 21.75,38.25,0 Amphissa ...as badly as did the hides. One hundred and twenty stades away from Delphi is Amphissa, the largest and most renowned city of Locris. The people hold that they are...

Amphissa

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Thrace ...fabled battle between giants and gods took place here and not at Pellene in Thrace, and at this spot sacrifices are offered to lightnings, hurricanes and...

Thrace

78 27.5,42.5,0 Alpheius ...a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. Going on from here you will cross the Alpheius again and reach Thocnia, which is named after Thocnus, the son of Lycaon, and...

Alpheius

75 21.451667,37.6125,0 Aminius ...uninhabited. Thocnus was said to have built the city on the hill. The river Aminius, flowing by the hill, falls into the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson...

Aminius

78 22.25,37.25,0 Helisson ...Aminius, flowing by the hill, falls into the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson falls into the Alpheius. This Helisson, beginning at a village of the same...

Helisson

78 22.217753,37.612883,0 Miletus ...in giving the name of Naupactia to a poem about women composed by an author of Miletus? Here there is on the coast a temple of Poseidon with a standing image made of...

Miletus

81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Aetolians ...Megarians came four hundred hoplites commanded by Hipponicus of Megara. The Aetolians sent a large contingent, including every class of fighting men; the number of...

Aetolians

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Magnesia ...learned that the army of the Gauls was already in the neighborhood of Magnesia and Phthiotis, they resolved to detach the cavalry and a thousand light armed...

Magnesia

72 22.75,39.75,0 Malian ...forthwith retreated to the main army. Brennus ordered the dwellers round the Malian Gulf to build bridges across the Spercheius, and they proceeded to accomplish...

Malian

79 22.6337672,38.8678937,0 Athenians ...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...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Trachinian ...ruins of Trachis. There was also at that time a sanctuary of Athena above the Trachinian territory, and in it were votive offerings. So they hoped to ascend Oeta by...

Trachinian

80 22.25,38.75,0 Thessaly ...making their way back by way of the bridges over the Spercheius and across Thessaly again, invaded Aetolia. The fate of the Callians at the hands of Combutis and...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Aetolia ...by way of the bridges over the Spercheius and across Thessaly again, invaded Aetolia. The fate of the Callians at the hands of Combutis and Orestorius is the most...

Aetolia

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Phocians ...youth, physical strength, and a stout heart, to slaying the barbarians. The Phocians made a statue of Aleximachus and sent it to Delphi as an offering to...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...as likewise did those who were starved to death. Athenian scouts arrived at Delphi to gather information, after which they returned and reported what had happened...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cyprians ...part to that of Clymene, who was, they say, the mother of Homer. But the Cyprians, who also claim Homer as their own, say that Themisto, one of their native...

Cyprians

76 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Ionians ...Polygnotus has painted a parable about the wife of Ocnus. I know also that the Ionians, whenever they see a man labouring at nothing profitable, say that such an one...

Ionians

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Neon ...migrated from the villages, the city too came to be called Tithorea, and not Neon any longer. The natives say that Tithorea was so called after a nymph of the...

Neon

79 22.66931,38.58344,0 Drymaea ...plain. It contains nothing remarkable. From Tithronium it is twenty stades to Drymaea. At the place where this road joins at the Cephisus the straight road from...

Drymaea

80 22.54128,38.70507,0 Phocis ...Thesmophoria. Elateia is, with the exception of Delphi, the largest city in Phocis. It lies over against Amphicleia, and the road to it from Amphicleia is one...

Phocis

79 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...from banishment at Megara, and Aegeus, as the eldest, became king of the Athenians. But in rearing daughters Pandion was unlucky, nor did they leave any sons to...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...him a friend of Perdiccas, and therefore not faithful to himself; and the Macedonians who had been entrusted with the task of carrying the corpse of Alexander to...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Thesprotia ...Ptolemy again reduced the Syrians and Cyprus, and also restored Pyrrhus to Thesprotia on the mainland. Cyrene rebelled; but Magas, the son of Berenice (who was at...

Thesprotia

77 20.25,39.75,0 Argives ...This eagerness for distinction brought ruin upon them by exasperating the Argives. There still remain, however, parts of the city wall, including the gate, upon...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Heraeum ...and the land beneath the Heraeum after Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraeum, and falling into a cleft disappears. On its banks grows a plant, which also is...

Heraeum

81 22.774722,37.691944,0 Argive ...Clymene, who are called the saviours of Perseus. Advancing a little way in the Argive territory from this hero-shrine one sees on the right the grave of Thyestes. On...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...disgrace of the contriver of the deed. On her trial she was acquitted by the Argives, and to commemorate her escape she dedicated an image of Aphrodite, the Bringer...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...business outside the Peloponnesus, they were always trying to annex a piece of Argive territory; or if they were busied with a war beyond their borders it was the...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Spartan ...killing another, namely the Argive Perilaus, the son of Alcenor, killing the Spartan Othryadas. Before this, Perilaus had succeeded in winning the prize for...

Spartan

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...they then put him to death for not prophesying good luck to them, and the Argives taking his body buried it here. The building of white marble in just about the...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Meliboea ...(Pale), saying that she was a daughter of Niobe, and that she was called Meliboea at the first. When the children of Amphion were destroyed by Apollo and...

Meliboea

75 Argives ...that even her name was accordingly changed from Meliboea to Chloris. Now the Argives say that these two built originally the temple to Leto, but I think that none...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicily ...grave of those Argives who sailed with the Athenians to enslave Syracuse and Sicily. As you go from here along a road called Hollow there is on the right a temple...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Arcadia ...Erasinus rises to the surface. Up to this point it flows from Stymphalus in Arcadia, just as the Rheiti, near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus. At the...

Arcadia

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tiryns ...who wished to make Argos more powerful by adding to the population. The hero Tiryns, from whom the city derived its name, is said to have been a son of Argus, a...

Tiryns

79 22.80004,37.59918,0 Epidaurus ...you will come to the sanctuary of Asclepius. Who dwelt in this land before Epidaurus came to it I do not know, nor could I discover from the natives the descendants...

Epidaurus

77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...it respected Deiphontes and Hyrnetho more than Ceisus and his brothers. Epidaurus, who gave the land its name, was, the Eleans say, a son of Pelops but...

Epidaurus

74 23.079167,37.596111,0 Pergamus ...hunting about Pindasus, he brought the cult to Pergamus. From the one at Pergamus has been built in our own day the sanctuary of Asclepius by the sea at Smyrna...

Pergamus

76 27.184167,39.1325,0 Epidaurians ...I will relate the story of it, which is probable enough, as given by the Epidaurians. Ceisus and the other sons of Temenus knew that they would grieve Deiphontes...

Epidaurians

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Aegina ...there were no men in it; but after Zeus brought to it, when uninhabited, Aegina, daughter of Asopus, its name was changed from Oenone to Aegina; and when...

Aegina

75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...you reach a sanctuary of Aphaea, in whose honor Pindar composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the story of Aphaea is Cretan) that Carmanor, who purified...

Aeginetans

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezen ...For before he was cleansed for shedding his mother's blood, no citizen of Troezen would receive him into his home; so they lodged him here and gave him...

Troezen

76 Troezenians ...to hold the Pythian games in honor of Apollo. Of Damia and Auxesia (for the Troezenians, too, share in their worship) they do not give the same account as the...

Troezenians

78 Aeginetans ...in their worship) they do not give the same account as the Epidaurians and Aeginetans, but say that they were maidens who came from Crete. A general insurrection...

Aeginetans

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Delians ...was a pupil of Tectaeus and Angelion, who made the image of Apollo for the Delians. Angelion and Tectaeus were trained in the school of Dipoenus and Scyllis. On...

Delians

77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Rhodes ...was assassinated by Pausanias, a Macedonian. The steward of his money fled to Rhodes, and was arrested by a Macedonian, Philoxenus, who also had demanded Harpalus...

Rhodes

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Bucephala ...Scyllaeum in the direction of the city, you reach another headland, called Bucephala (Ox-head), and, after the headland, islands, the first of which is Haliussa...

Bucephala

77 23.06608,37.35211,0 Argive ...and they sacrifice to Clymenus here. I do not believe that Clymenus was an Argive who came to Hermion "Clymenus" is the surname of the god, whoever legend says...

Argive

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...the Tauri; leaving the image there she came to Athens also and afterwards to Argos. There is indeed an old wooden image of Artemis here, but who in my opinion...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...did not happen here, the place called the Chariot being on the road from Thebes to Chalcis. The divinity of Amphiaraus was first established among the...

Thebes

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Attica ...to sleep and await enlightenment in a dream. There are islands not far from Attica. Of the one called the Island of Patroclus I have already given an account...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Macedonians ...in the war with Cassander, and mainly of set purpose had surrendered to the Macedonians. They sentenced to death Aeschetades, who on this occasion had been elected...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Athens ...to Ajax himself and to Eurysaces, for there is an altar of Eurysaces also at Athens. In Salamis is shown a stone not far from the harbor, on which they say that...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...from Alexander and crossed with a fleet from Asia to Europe. On his arrival at Athens he was arrested by the citizens, but ran away after bribing among others the...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Scambonidae ...Celeus. Not all of them say this, but only those who belong to the parish of Scambonidae. I could not find the grave of Crocon, but Eleusinians and Athenians agreed in...

Scambonidae

79 23.728879,37.98286,0 Eleusis ...a native Athenian hero called Zarex, I have nothing to say concerning him. At Eleusis flows a Cephisus which is more violent than the Cephisus I mentioned above, and...

Eleusis

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athens ...to Eleusis is the district called Megaris. This too belonged to Athens in ancient times, Pylas the king having left it to Pandion. My evidence is...

Athens

66 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megarians ...Corinthians and of their other allies as wished to go there. In this way the Megarians changed their customs and dialect and became Dorians, and they say that the...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...the Athenians, in which the Athenians every year ravaged the land of the Megarians with a fleet and an army, damaging public revenues and bringing private...

Megarians

75 15.18273,37.2038,0 Salamis ...thereupon the Athenians challenged their enemies, won the war and recovered Salamis. But the Megarians say that exiles from themselves, whom they call Dorycleans...

Salamis

78 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Dorians ...and Propodas begat Doridas and Hyanthidas. While these were kings the Dorians took the field against Corinth, their leader being Aletes, the son of Hippotas...

Dorians

72 22.25,38.75,0 Lerna ...Not far from this theater is the ancient gymnasium, and a spring called Lerna. Pillars stand around it, and seats have been made to refresh in summer time...

Lerna

74 22.71809,37.55107,0 Asopus ...to the seeker before he had a spring given him on the Acrocorinthus. When Asopus granted this request Sisyphus turned informer, and on this account he receives...

Asopus

76 22.75,37.75,0 Sicyon ...to Polybus at Sicyon, and afterwards on the death of Polybus he became king at Sicyon. When Adrastus returned to Argos, Ianiscus, a descendant of Clytius the...

Sicyon

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Epidaurus ...pine in the other. The Sicyonians say that the god was carried to them from Epidaurus on a carriage drawn by two mules, that he was in the likeness of a serpent, and...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Helisson ...hand a sanctuary of Poseidon. Farther along the highway is a river called the Helisson, and after it the Sythas, both emptying themselves into the sea. Phliasia...

Helisson

80 22.217753,37.612883,0 Lacedemonians ...Athenians could not have taken the scimitar to begin with, and furthermore the Lacedemonians would scarcely have suffered them to carry it off. About the olive they have...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...she contended for their land. Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troezenian ...but near the river Peneius he was himself killed by Heracles. One of the Troezenian legends about Theseus is the following. When Heracles visited Pittheus at...

Troezenian

76 Cretan ...Archidamus invaded Attica with an army for the first time, and hard by that of Cretan bowmen. Again there are monuments to Athenians: to Cleisthenes, who invented...

Cretan

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Academy ...aliens worshipped as Anteros the avenging spirit of Timagoras. In the Academy is an altar to Prometheus, and from it they run to the city carrying burning...

Academy

73 Athenians ...when he invaded Attica, who at other times also ravaged the land of the Athenians. The small parishes of Attica, which were founded severally as chance would...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...bring them to Sinope, thence they are carried by Greeks to Prasiae, and the Athenians take them to Delos. The first-fruits are hidden in wheat straw, and they are...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Zeus Ombrios ...statue of Athena, on Hymettus one of Zeus Hymettius. There are altars both of Zeus Ombrios (Rainy) and of Apollo Proopsios (Foreseer). On Parnes is a bronze Zeus...

Zeus Ombrios

80 23.819769,37.947938,0 Megarians ...Agrotera (Huntress) and Apollo Agraeus (Hunter). Such is the account of the Megarians; but although I wish my account to agree with theirs, yet I cannot accept...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megara ...her father's house. The tomb of Autonoe is in this village. On the road from Megara to Corinth are graves, including that of the Samian flute-player Telephanes...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Isthmian ...offered to Melicertes, then renamed Palaemon, including the celebration of the Isthmian games. The Molurian rock they thought sacred to Leucothea and Palaemon; but...

Isthmian

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Athenians ...to mention this Music Hall in my history of Attica is that my account of the Athenians was finished before Herodes began the building. As you leave the market-place...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Calydon ...Dionysus surnamed Calydonian, for the image of Dionysus too was brought from Calydon. When Calydon was still inhabited, among the Calydonians who became priests of...

Calydon

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Pharae ...a similar method of divination practised at the sanctuary of Apis in Egypt. At Pharae there is also a water sacred to Hermes. The name of the spring is Hermes'...

Pharae

81 21.717095,38.093144,0 Triteia ...and Triteia, founded the city when he grew up, naming it after his mother. In Triteia is a sanctuary of the gods called Almighty, and their images are made of clay...

Triteia

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Cabeiri ...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...

Cabeiri

77 Dictynnaean ...a level place, and on the right of the road is a sanctuary of Artemis surnamed Dictynnaean, a goddess worshipped with great reverence by citizens. The image is of...

Dictynnaean

81 23.767831,35.663634,0 Phocis ...the ruins of Medeon. I have mentioned in the beginning of my account of Phocis that the people of Anticyra were guilty of sacrilege against the sanctuary at...

Phocis

74 22.25,38.25,0 Olympic ...The inscription on it says that Xenodamus of Anticyra, a pancratiast, won an Olympic victory in the match for men. If the inscription speaks the truth, it would...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...compete. I have told in my account of Elis the story of the Taraxippus at Olympia, and it is likely that the race-course of Apollo too may possibly harm here and...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Naupactus ...then, live above Amphissa. On the coast is Oeantheia, neighbor to which is Naupactus. The others, but not Amphissa, are under the government of the Achaeans of...

Naupactus

77 22.315807,38.41224,0 Naupactus ...Peloponnesus, thus, it is said, giving to the place its name. My account of Naupactus, how the Athenians took it from the Locrians and gave it as a home to those who...

Naupactus

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Athens ...gave as offerings the golden aegis with the Gorgon on it above the theater at Athens. This curtain is not drawn upwards to the roof as is that in the temple of...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Caicus ...same rule applies to those who sacrifice to Telephus at Pergamus on the river Caicus; these too may not go up to the temple of Asclepius before they have...

Caicus

80 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Eleans ...Damarmenus to give back to the Eleans what he had found. He did so, and the Eleans repaid him by appointing him and his descendants to be guardians of the bone...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Acheron ...water of the Nile. So it is no wonder that the white poplar grew first by the Acheron and the wild olive by the Alpheius, and that the dark poplar is a nursling of...

Acheron

80 20.4831346,39.2348296,0 Altis ...giving to the building the name of its architect. After re-entering the Altis by the processional gate there are behind the Heraeum altars of the river...

Altis

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Corinthian ...the chest made as a possession for himself, of his own accord passed over all Corinthian story, and had carved on the chest foreign events which were not famous. The...

Corinthian

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Alexandrian ...at Olympia. Afterwards others were fined by the Eleans, among whom was an Alexandrian boxer at the two hundred and eighteenth Festival. The name of the man fined was...

Alexandrian

77 29.904133,31.195371,0 Asopus ...who his teacher was. The Phliasians also dedicated a Zeus, the daughters of Asopus, and Asopus himself. Their images have been ordered thus: Nemea is the first of...

Asopus

79 22.75,37.75,0 Argolid ...them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of...

Argolid

77 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Euboea ...and the Athenians. The Athenians made this peace after they had reduced Euboea for the second time, in the third year of the eighty-third Olympiad, when...

Euboea

74 Argives ...has no part in the treaty between Athens and Sparta, yet the Athenians and the Argives may privately, if they wish, be at peace with each other. Such are the terms of...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Olympia ...honor by the Sicilians. The people of Gereatis, I think, brought the image to Olympia. For Philistus, the son of Archomenides, says that they were interpreters of...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cleitorians ...feet high. The donors and sculptors are set forth in elegiac verse: "The Cleitorians dedicated this image to the god, a tithe From many cities that they had reduced...

Cleitorians

75 22.103248,37.892704,0 Achaeans ...of the Achaeans, or else his personal courage and daring led him alone of the Achaeans to fight against the Macedonians under Antipater at the battle of Lamia in...

Achaeans

80 Troad ...Antipater and at an earlier date with Alexander. Sodamas from Assos in the Troad, a city at the foot of Ida, was the first of the Aeolians in this district to...

Troad

77 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Nemean ...for boxing, one among the men at Olympia, and also among the boys at the Nemean and at the Isthmian games. By the side of Euanthes is the statue of a...

Nemean

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Abdera ...part of Thrace, on this side the river Nestus, which runs through the land of Abdera, breeds among other wild beasts lions, which once attacked the army of Xerxes...

Abdera

80 24.97363,40.93119,0 Sicily ...the capture of Troy was carried down by gales to various cities of Italy and Sicily, and among them he came with his ships to Temesa. Here one of his sailors got...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Astypalaeans ...him with sacrifices as being no longer a mortal." So from this time have the Astypalaeans paid honors to Cleomedes as to a hero. By the side of the chariot of Gelon is...

Astypalaeans

79 26.35528,36.54413,0 Thasians ...on him, but the sons of the dead man prosecuted the statue for murder. So the Thasians dropped the statue to the bottom of the sea, adopting the principle of Draco...

Thasians

80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Eleans ...race in armour had not yet been introduced; how could Chionis know whether the Eleans would at some future time add it to the list of events? But those are simpler...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Chalcidians ...on it shows that he was born at Argos. Naxos was founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of the city not even the ruins are now to be seen, and that the...

Chalcidians

77 23.602,38.464,0 Nemea ...in the race run in armour, at Pytho a victory in the double race, and at Nemea in the race for boys in the horse-course. The length of the horse-course is...

Nemea

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Crete ...along with Philonides son of Zotes, who was a native of Chersonesus in Crete, and a courier of Alexander the son of Philip. After him comes Brimias of Elis...

Crete

73 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messenian ...Eleans the statue of the latter was made by Daippus, that of Asamon by the Messenian Pyrilampes. Eualcidas of Elis won victories in the boys' boxing-match...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadia ...and Alexibius in the pentathlum. The native place of Alexibius was Heraea in Arcadia, and Acestor made his statue. The inscription on the statue of Enation does not...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cronius ...north of the Heraeum a terrace of conglomerate, and behind it stretches Mount Cronius. On this terrace are the treasuries, just as at Delphi certain of the Greeks...

Cronius

80 Greeks ...after giving the descent of Cleonymus. Pausanias, who was in command of the Greeks at Plataea, was the father of Pleistoanax, he of Pausanias, and he of...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Sicyonian ...the bronze is five hundred talents, and that the dedicators were Myron and the Sicyonian people. In this chamber are kept three quoits, being used for the contest of...

Sicyonian

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Greeks ...of the oracle, it was adorned with mussel stone. The Megarians are the only Greeks to possess this stone, and in the city also they have made many things out of...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Olympia ...terrified the horses, just as though it had been fire. But the Taraxippus at Olympia is much worse for terrifying the horses. On one turning-post is a bronze statue...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 tomb ...of Alcathous before he married Euaechme, the daughter of Megareus, and the tomb of Iphinoe, the daughter of Alcathous; she died, they say, a maid. It is...

tomb

77 coast ...damage upon the enemy, especially upon the Peloponnesians who dwell along the coast, burnt the dock-yards at Gythium and captured Boeae, belonging to the...

coast

80 Erythrae ...Erythras, the son of Leucon, the son of Athamas, after whom was named Erythrae in Boeotia, and Eioneus, the son of Magnes the son of Aeolus. These are the men...

Erythrae

72 26.48103,38.38122,0 Alpheius ...the island Sphacteria simply cannot in the nature of things be crossed by the Alpheius, and, moreover, we know of no city in Arcadia named Pylus. Distant from...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Letrini ...go to Elis through the plain, you will travel one hundred and twenty stades to Letrini, and one hundred and eighty from Letrini to Elis. Originally Letrini was a...

Letrini

81 21.431292,37.672865,0 Eleans ...called the goddess Alpheian because of the love of Alpheius for her. But the Eleans, who from the first had been friends of Letrini, transferred to that city the...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...and was bringing to Eira all that they needed, had been captured by the Lacedemonians and archers from Aptera, commanded by Euryalus the Spartan; Aristomenes rescued...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythia ...for the Messenians, for they knew the riddle of the oracle which the Pythia had uttered concerning the goat. Nevertheless they would not declare it, and...

Pythia

71 22.501169,38.482289,0 Arcadians ...with some suspicion. Having intercepted the slave they brought him before the Arcadians and made known to the people the answer from Lacedemon. Anaxander was writing...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cyllene ...who occupied the maritime district retired in ships on the capture of Eira to Cyllene, the port of the Eleians. Thence they sent to the Messenians in Arcadia...

Cyllene

80 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Messenians ...Arcadians. Eira was taken, and the second war between the Lacedemonians and Messenians completed in the archonship of Autosthenes at Athens, and in the first year of...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...twenty-eighth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian was victorious. When the Messenians assembled at Cyllene, they resolved to winter there for that season, the...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Rhodians ...the Lacedemonians at the hands of Aristomenes. On his death Damagetus and the Rhodians built him a splendid tomb and paid honor to him thenceforward. I omit what is...

Rhodians

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Athenians ...of Oeniadae possessed a good land and were continually at war with the Athenians, they marched against them. They had no numerical advantage, but defeating them...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Gauls ...by arms and men. So they tried to save Greece in the way described, but the Gauls, now south of the Gates, cared not at all to capture the other towns, but were...

Gauls

79 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Naupactus ...that as the Athenians had recovered their seapower, they would be restored to Naupactus. But the dream really indicated the recovery of Messene. Not long afterwards...

Naupactus

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Nemean ...and Apollo Ismenius in the accustomed manner, the Argives to Argive Hera and Nemean Zeus, the Messenians to Zeus of Ithome and the Dioscuri, and their priests to...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 cities ...fortieth year, and afterwards he wrote verses and purified Athens and other cities. But Thales who stayed the plague for the Lacedemonians was not related to...

cities

78 cities ...being cut off. When the Cretans attacked the country, they captured the other cities of the Megarid by assault, but Nisaea, in which Nisus had taken refuge, they...

cities

80 Elis ...the harm to Greece that has been related, he also bribed the leading men in Elis; the Eleians were divided by factions for the first time and came to blows, it...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 city ...coast and affords nothing remarkable to record. About twelve stades from the city is a sanctuary of Amphiaraus. Legend says that when Amphiaraus was exiled from...

city

79 city ...shoulders to the smallest ribs, those called by doctors bastard. Before the city of the Milesians is an island called Lade, and from it certain islets are...

city

78 Trojans ...to be a deserter but actually is to find out their secrets. Again, the Trojans who, through youth or years were not of fighting age, he posted as garrison of...

Trojans

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 city ...changed their customs and dialect and became Dorians, and they say that the city received its name when Car the son of Phoroneus was king in this land. It was...

city

78 Achaeans ...arrived during the same night, the Spartan tyrant retired on terms. But the Achaeans after this, having some quarrel with the Messenians, invaded them with all...

Achaeans

79 Thuria ...Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's poems. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedemonians of Sparta. For when Augustus was...

Thuria

81 22.05141,37.11343,0 Messenians ...to be universally applied to the war at Troy. An account of this war of the Messenians has been given by Rhianus of Bene in his epic, and by Myron of Priene. Myron's...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Hyperboreans ...Apollo. Hither they say are sent the first-fruits of the Hyperboreans, and the Hyperboreans are said to hand them over to the Arimaspi, the Arimaspi to the Issedones, from...

Hyperboreans

81 Libya ...But while on the march Magas was in formed that the Marmaridae, a tribe of Libyan nomads, had revolted, and thereupon fell back upon Cyrene. Ptolemy resolved to...

Libya

77 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...Athena had blue eyes I found out that the legend about them is Libyan. For the Libyans have a saying that the Goddess is the daughter of Poseidon and Lake Tritonis...

Libya

81 26.5,31.5,0 Egypt ...after Car the son of Phoroneus the Megarians say that Lelex arrived from Egypt and became king, and that in his reign the tribe Leleges received its name...

Egypt

75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Delphi ...point was most difficult to climb. They also resolved to send an envoy to Delphi, and despatched Tisis the son of Alcis, a man of the highest reputation...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messene ...a river hides a pebble; for when Aristodemus was striving his utmost to save Messene, fate set this obstacle in his path. A Messenian, whose name is not recorded...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Argives ...possess powerful weapons, and as the matter was urgent, posted them with the Argives and Sicyonians, extending the line that they might not be surrounded by the...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyon ...to be difficult, for whether they tried to retire through the Argolid or by Sicyon, in either case it was through enemy country. The Lacedemonians were...

Sicyon

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pythia ...they resolved to send again to Delphi to ask concerning victory. The Pythia made answer to their question: "To those who first around the altar set up...

Pythia

71 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messenians ...his sight. Next, as fate was already inclining towards the conquest of the Messenians, the god revealed to them the future. For the armed statue of Artemis, which...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...shield fall. And as Aristodemus was about to sacrifice the victims to Zeus of Ithome, the rams of their own accord leapt towards the altar, and dashing their horns...

Ithome

80 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...tomb of his child. He had done all that human calculation could do to save the Messenians, but fortune brought to naught both his achievements and his plans. He had...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Asine ...the third. Dedicating these offerings at Amyclae, they gave to the people of Asine, who had been driven out by the Argives, that part of Messenia on the coast...

Asine

80 22.87403,37.52659,0 Lacedemonians ...location. In these straits the Messenians, foreseeing no kindness from the Lacedemonians, and thinking death in battle or a complete migration from Peloponnese...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...united with his mother, Nicoteleia, in the form of a serpent. I know that the Macedonians tell a similar story about Olympias, and the Sicyonians about Aristodama, but...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Athens ...the twenty-third Olympiad, when Icarus of Hyreresia won the short footrace. At Athens the archonship was now of annual tenure, and Tlesias held office. Tyrtaeus has...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Caryae ...by day for the maidens who were performing the dances in honor of Artemis at Caryae, and capturing those who were wealthiest and of noblest birth, carried them off...

Caryae

79 22.515967,37.288734,0 Lacedemonians ...date, when they were lying opposite the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians bought Adeimantus and other Athenian generals. However in course of time the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...Athenian fleet at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians bought Adeimantus and other Athenian generals. However in course of time the punishment of Neoptolemus, as it is...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Andania ...the Messenian survivors after the battle and persuaded them to desert Andania and most of the other towns that lay in the interior and to settle on Mount...

Andania

72 21.938099,37.26217,0 Lacedemonians ...and to settle on Mount Eira. When they had been driven to this spot, the Lacedemonians sat down to besiege them, thinking that they would soon reduce them...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...sold. The Lacedemonians, as their labours were more profitable to the men at Eira than to themselves, accordingly resolved that Messenia and the neighboring part...

Eira

79 21.927988,37.398271,0 Lacedemonians ...of Aristomenes himself. The Corinthians were sending a force to assist the Lacedemonians in the reduction of Eira. Learning from his scouts that their march discipline...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...to them was this. Some of the Greeks call the wild fig-tree olynthe, but the Messenians themselves tragos (he-goat). Now at that time a wild fig-tree growing on the...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lepreans ...that the city received its name from the misfortune of the inhabitants. The Lepreans told me that in their city once was a temple of Zeus Leucaeus (Of the White...

Lepreans

78 21.724777,37.439599,0 Samicum ...say that it derives its name from the wife of Aphareus. Returning again to Samicum, and passing through the district, we reach the mouth of the Anigrus. The...

Samicum

78 21.59852,37.53384,0 Aetolian ...a high district with a city called Samia on it. This they say Polysperchon the Aetolian used as a fortified post against the Arcadians. As to the ruins of Arene, no...

Aetolian

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Elean ...post against the Arcadians. As to the ruins of Arene, no Messenian and no Elean could point them out to me with certainty. Those who care to do so may make all...

Elean

77 21.25,37.75,0 Ephesian ...was banished and having made Scillus his home he built in honor of Ephesian Artemis a temple with a sanctuary and a sacred enclosure. Scillus is also a...

Ephesian

69 27.339722,37.941944,0 Ladon ...and Heraea, comes the Buphagus; from the land of the Clitorians the Ladon; from Mount Erymanthus a stream with the same name as the mountain. These come...

Ladon

70 21.75,37.75,0 Olympic ...means a grove. Pindar too calls the place Altis in an ode composed for an Olympic victor. The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was...

Olympic

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lydian ...first made tiles of stone." This Byzes lived about the time of Alyattes the Lydian, when Astyages, the son of Cyaxares, reigned over the Medes. At Olympia a gilt...

Lydian

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Olympia ...the throne, in the way we enter the inner part of the throne at Amyclae. At Olympia there are screens constructed like walls which keep people out. Of these...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...gods, in that they imported ivory from India and Aethiopia to make images. In Olympia there is a woollen curtain, adorned with Assyrian weaving and Phoenician...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Achaean ...statues of emperors: Hadrian, of Parian marble dedicated by the cities of the Achaean confederacy, and Trajan, dedicated by all the Greeks. This emperor subdued the...

Achaean

80 Eleans ...for deliverance from a pestilence. So the Pythian priestess ordered the Eleans to recover the bones of Pelops, and Damarmenus to give back to the Eleans what...

Eleans

74 21.25,37.75,0 Samian ...to Zeus, as is also the altar at Pergamus. There is an ashen altar of Samian Hera not a bit grander than what in Attica the Athenians call "improvised...

Samian

72 26.84,37.73,0 Olympia ...There is a story that when Heracles the son of Alcmena was sacrificing at Olympia he was much worried by the flies. So either on his own initiative or at...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...altar of Alpheius, and by it one of Hephaestus. This altar of Hephaestus some Eleans call the altar of Warlike Zeus. These same Eleans also say that Oenomaus used...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Magnesians ...Coddinus the most ancient of all the images of the Mother of the gods. The Magnesians say that it was made by Broteas the son of Tantalus. The people of Acriae once...

Magnesians

77 22.75,39.75,0 Acriae ...Magnesians say that it was made by Broteas the son of Tantalus. The people of Acriae once produced an Olympian victor, Nicocles, who at two Olympian festivals...

Acriae

81 22.785366,36.794176,0 Hyperteleatum ...about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum. Two hundred stades from Asopus there juts out into the sea a headland, which...

Hyperteleatum

76 Delos ...and called Epidelium. For the wooden image which is now here, once stood in Delos. Delos was then a Greek market, and seemed to offer security to traders on...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...Epidelium. For the wooden image which is now here, once stood in Delos. Delos was then a Greek market, and seemed to offer security to traders on account of...

Delos

75 25.268194,37.397274,0 Boeatae ...of his mercenaries. This was the reward of their impiety. The country of the Boeatae is adjoined by Epidaurus Limera, distant some two hundred stades from...

Boeatae

80 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Argolid ...they are not descended from the Lacedemonians but from the Epidaurians of the Argolid, and that they touched at this point in Laconia when sailing on public business...

Argolid

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Epidaurus ...will befall the man to whom this happens. By the road leading from Boeae to Epidaurus Limera is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the Lake) in the country of the...

Epidaurus

79 23.02637,36.731301,0 Gythium ...They are three in number; a statue of Athena makes a fourth. To the right of Gythium is Las, ten stades from the sea and forty from Gythium. The site of the present...

Gythium

80 22.562341,36.763663,0 Gythium ...the right of Gythium is Las, ten stades from the sea and forty from Gythium. The site of the present town extends over the ground between the mountains...

Gythium

70 22.562341,36.763663,0 Thermodon ...represented by wooden images, said to have been dedicated by the women from Thermodon. From Pyrrhichus the road comes down to the sea at Teuthrone. The inhabitants...

Thermodon

78 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Hippola ...stades distant is Thyrides, a headland of Taenarum, with the ruins of a city Hippola; among them is a sanctuary of Athena Hippolaitis. A little further are the town...

Hippola

79 22.362287,36.503959,0 Olympia ...Philip the son of Amyntas and the subsequent deeds of Alexander. His honor at Olympia was due to the people of Lampsacus. Anaximenes bequeathed to posterity the...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...quarrel with Theopompus the son of Damasistratus, he wrote a treatise abusing Athenians, Lacedemonians and Thebans alike. He imitated the style of Theopompus with...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadian ...worked Many achievements by might and many by his counsels, Philopoemen, the Arcadian spearman, whom great renown attended, When he commanded the lances in war...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tegea ...her when she came to their land. So when the divinities came to the land of Tegea, Scephrus, they say, the son of Tegeates, came to Apollo and had a private...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Ephesian ...at the next Festival he made himself an Ephesian, being bribed to do so by the Ephesian people. For this act he was banished by the Cretans. The first athletes to...

Ephesian

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Tegeans ...the god got his surname from the lots cast for the sons of Arcas. Here the Tegeans celebrate a feast every year. It is said that once at the time of the feast...

Tegeans

77 22.429,37.464,0 Isthmus ...dawn, and sending Metellus and his forces to Macedonia, himself waited at the Isthmus for his whole force to assemble. There came three thousand five hundred...

Isthmus

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Megarians ...is left of Metapontum but the theater and the circuit of the walls. The Megarians who are neighbors of Attica built a treasury and dedicated in it offerings...

Megarians

75 15.18273,37.2038,0 Lacedemonians ...the people of Heracleia and Euboea, and the Achaeans to pay two hundred to the Lacedemonians. Although the Romans granted the Greeks remission of these payments, yet down...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...Macedonia. From Macedonia the wrath of Alexander swooped like a thunderbolt on Thebes of Boeotia. The Lacedemonians suffered injury through Epaminondas of Thebes and...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Larisus ...river is a temple of Larisaean Athena; about thirty stades distant from the Larisus is Dyme, an Achaean city. This was the only Achaean city that in his wars...

Larisus

78 21.413649227506795,38.130572873364734,0 Dyme ...to him, and for this reason Sulpicius, another Roman governor, handed over Dyme to be sacked by his soldiery. Afterwards Augustus annexed it to Patrae. Its...

Dyme

77 21.551425,38.144625,0 Cleonae ...of Actor came as envoys to the meeting. Heracles set an ambush for then, at Cleonae and murdered them. As the murderer was unknown, Moline, more than any of the...

Cleonae

78 22.75372,37.81708,0 Achaeans ...of Pellene won the footrace for boys. It is still today a custom for the Achaeans who are going to compete at Olympia to sacrifice to Oebotas as to a hero, and...

Achaeans

75 Achaeans ...out the Ionians, Patreus, the son of Preugenes, the son of Agenor, forbade the Achaeans to settle in Antheia and Mesatis, but built at Aroe a wall of greater...

Achaeans

81 Rhypes ...the men from the other towns, and united with them the Achaeans also from Rhypes, which town he razed to the ground. He granted freedom to the Patraeans, and to...

Rhypes

76 22.01219,38.2198,0 Isthmian ...if the Eleans against their will were shut out by the Corinthians from the Isthmian games? The other account is this. Prolaus, a distinguished Elean, had two...

Isthmian

77 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Delphi ...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...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thessaly ...lucid intervals. Being in this condition he did not proceed on his voyage to Thessaly, but made for the town and gulf of Cirrha. Going up to Delphi he inquired of...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Athens ...Music Hall is in every way the finest in Greece, except, of course, the one at Athens. This is unrivalled in size and magnificence, and was built by Herodes, an...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Dulichium ...this being a word of their native dialect. When Phyleus had returned to Dulichium after organizing the affairs of Elis, Augeas died at an advanced age, and the...

Dulichium

75 21.15177,38.32079,0 Dorians ...they would be no longer willing to give it to him. He accordingly led the Dorians through Arcadia and not through Elis. Oxylus was anxious to get the kingdom of...

Dorians

76 22.25,38.75,0 Argos ...are called gods from Argos. The Argives say it is because they were made in Argos; the people of Aegium themselves say that the images were deposited by the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sparta ...an arrow, and also the grave of Talthybius the herald. There is also at Sparta a barrow serving as a tomb to Talthybius, and both cities sacrifice to him as...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...still meets at Aegium, just as the Amphictyons do at Thermopylae and at Delphi. Going on further you come to the river Selinus, and forty stades away from...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympian ...over their struggles with the Pisans and Arcadians for the management of the Olympian games. Against their will they joined the Lacedemonians in their invasion of...

Olympian

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athens ...holy. The Greeks were reminded of these words when Peloponnesians arrived at Athens at the time when the Athenian king was Codrus, the son of Melanthus. Now the...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mantineans ...invasion of Athenian territory, and shortly afterwards they rose up with the Mantineans and Argives against the Lacedemonians, inducing Athens too to join the...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Arcadians ...in which is the city Lepreus. The citizens of this city wish to belong to the Arcadians, but it is plain that from the beginning they have been subject to the Eleans...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samicum ...into it the means he used to purify the daughters of Proetus. There is in Samicum a cave not far from the river, and called the Cave of the Anigrid Nymphs...

Samicum

77 21.59852,37.53384,0 Selinus ...for wild boars and deer, and the land is crossed by a river called the Selinus. The guides of Elis said that the Eleans recovered Scillus again, and that...

Selinus

73 22.25,38.25,0 Eleans ...is crossed by a river called the Selinus. The guides of Elis said that the Eleans recovered Scillus again, and that Xenophon was tried by the Olympic Council for...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Alpheius ...should strip before entering the arena. By the time you reach Olympia the Alpheius is a large and very pleasant river to see, being fed by several tributaries...

Alpheius

77 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...flee back to the water which is their native element. The peculiarity of the Alpheius is shared by a river of Ionia. The source of it is on Mount Mycale, and having...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Antiope the Amazon ...been damaged by the Persians. On entering the city there is a monument to Antiope the Amazon. This Antiope, Pindar says, was carried of by Peirithous and Theseus, but...

Antiope the Amazon

77 Macedonia ...despot in Sicily had Philoxenus at his court, and Antigonus, ruler of Macedonia, had Antagoras of Rhodes and Aratus of Soli. But Hesiod and Homer either failed...

Macedonia

72 21.75,41.25,0 Stymphalian ...Amazon; and there are the affairs of the deer, of the bull at Cnossus, of the Stymphalian birds, of the hydra, and of the Argive lion. As you enter the bronze doors you...

Stymphalian

80 22.45931,37.85932,0 Olympia ...the olive oil that is poured out. For olive oil is beneficial to the image at Olympia, and it is olive oil that keeps the ivory from being harmed by the marshiness...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Capua ...sanctuary of Artemis in Campania. The sanctuary is about thirty stades from Capua, which is the capital of Campania. So the elephant differs from all other...

Capua

78 14.2130486,41.1061258,0 Triteia ...to Rome. The people here are accustomed to sacrifice both to Ares and to Triteia. These cities are at some distance from the sea and completely inland. As you...

Triteia

75 22.315807,38.41224,0 Alpheius ...Selemnus continued to love Argyra even when he was turned into water, just as Alpheius in the legend continued to love Arethusa, Aphrodite bestowed on him a further...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Argives ...whereupon the people of Aegium asked for the cost of the sacrifices. As the Argives had not the means to pay, they left the images at Aegium. By the market-place...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Acratus ...and of the Muses, an Apollo, the votive offering and work of Eubulides, and Acratus, a daemon attendant upon Dionysos; it is only a face of him worked into the...

Acratus

78 Helice ...an altar, well worth seeing. There are also passages in Homer referring to Helice and the Heliconian Poseidon. But later on the Achaeans of the place removed...

Helice

78 22.14015,38.22257,0 Helice ...Helice were left alive, the land is occupied by the people of Aegium. After Helice you will turn from the sea to the right and you will come to the town of...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Helice ...Helice and to Aegae." Hence it is plain that Poseidon was equally honored at Helice and at Aegae. At no great distance from the Crathis you will find a tomb on...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Bura ...city, it is seventy-two stades from the Heracles that stands on the road to Bura. The coast town of Aegeira presents nothing worth recording; from the port to...

Bura

78 22.231166,38.142006,0 Zeus ...he traced his pedigree back to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras. Here stands Zeus, called Zeus of Freedom, and the Emperor Hadrian, a benefactor to all his...

Zeus

81 city of the Athenians ...the Emperor Hadrian, a benefactor to all his subjects and especially to the city of the Athenians. A portico is built behind with pictures of the gods called the Twelve. On the...

city of the Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pylus ...and these border on Messenia, which comes down to the sea at Mothone, Pylus and Cyparissiae. On the side of Lechaeum the Corinthians are bounded by the...

Pylus

72 Lycosura ...plans, which were more clever than those of his father. He founded the city Lycosura on Mount Lycaeus, gave to Zeus the surname Lycaeus and founded the Lycaean...

Lycosura

78 22.030087,37.389509,0 Lycaean ...Lycosura on Mount Lycaeus, gave to Zeus the surname Lycaeus and founded the Lycaean games. I hold that the Panathenian festival was not founded before the Lycaean...

Lycaean

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Oresthasium ...is mentioned by Stesichorus of Himera in his Geryoneid. Phigalia and Oresthasium in course of time changed their names, Oresthasium to Oresteium after Orestes...

Oresthasium

71 22.206506,37.345994,0 Melaeneae ...and of Orchomenus, styled by Homer "rich in sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and Hypsus, and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that...

Melaeneae

81 Argolis ...Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that both the Thyrea in Argolis and also the Thyrean gulf were named after this Thyraeus. Maenalus founded...

Argolis

79 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Stymphalus ...portion. Of the sons of Elatus, Cyllen gave his name to Mount Cyllene, and Stymphalus gave his to the spring and to the city Stymphalus near the spring. The story of...

Stymphalus

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 Palaepaphos ...Agapenor became the founder of Paphos, and built the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos (Old Paphos). Up to that time the goddess had been worshipped by the Cyprians...

Palaepaphos

81 32.573711,34.707147,0 Tegea ...of his life, except that he established as the capital of his kingdom not Tegea but Trapezus. Aepytus, the son of Hippothous, succeeded his father to the...

Tegea

76 22.429,37.464,0 Erymanthus ...robber, a river, falling into the Alpheius from the south, just opposite the Erymanthus, is the boundary between the land of Pisa and Arcadia; it is called the Diagon...

Erymanthus

79 21.75,37.75,0 Arcadia ...just opposite the Erymanthus, is the boundary between the land of Pisa and Arcadia; it is called the Diagon. Forty stades beyond the ridge of Saurus is a temple...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympic ...by their hostility to the Eleans, and by their keenness to preside over the Olympic games instead of them. At the eighth Festival they brought in Pheidon of Argos...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...Pylus. Distant from Olympia about fifty stades is Heracleia, a village of the Eleans, and beside it is a river Cytherus. A spring flows into the river, and there is...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Letrini ...to pick her out, went away without bringing off his attempt. The people of Letrini called the goddess Alpheian because of the love of Alpheius for her. But the...

Letrini

78 21.431292,37.672865,0 Eleans ...who care to guess. The sacred enclosure of Hades and its temple (for the Eleans have these among their possessions) are opened once every year, but not even on...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...inhabitants, is merely the male member upright on the pedestal. The land of Elis is fruitful, being especially suited to the growth of fine flax. Now while hemp...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis The land between Elis and Sicyonia, reaching down to the eastern sea, is now called Achaia after the...

Elis

17 21.37493,37.89131,0 Sicyonians ...old was called Aegialus and those who lived in it Aegialians. According to the Sicyonians the name is derived from Aegialeus, who was king in what is now Sicyonia...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Achaeans ...them; in the battle Tisamenus was killed, the Ionians were overcome by the Achaeans, fled to Helice, where they were besieged, and afterwards were allowed to...

Achaeans

77 Pythian ...foot. The disputants agreed to refer the matter to the Delphic oracle, and the Pythian priestess gave the kingdom of Athens to Medon. So Neileus and the rest of the...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Leleges ...Ephesus the city received its name. The inhabitants of the land were partly Leleges, a branch of the Carians, but the greater number were Lydians. In addition...

Leleges

79 26.75,39.75,0 Ephesus ...Codrus (for he it was who was appointed king of the Ionians who sailed against Ephesus) expelled from the land the Leleges and Lydians who occupied the upper city...

Ephesus

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Carians ...Ionians who settled at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The founder of Myus was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene...

Carians

72 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Carians ...ships, but the greater part of the country continued in the possession of the Carians. When Thebes was taken by Thersander, the son of Polyneices, and the Argives...

Carians

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Delphi ...son of Polyneices, and the Argives, among the prisoners brought to Apollo at Delphi was Manto. Her father Teiresias had died on the way, in Haliartia, and when...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ephesus ...already related in my account of Lysimachus. Of those who were transported to Ephesus only the people of Colophon fought against Lysimachus and the Macedonians. The...

Ephesus

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Boeotians ...Attic contingent was under Damasus and Naoclus, the sons of Codrus, while the Boeotians were led by Geres, a Boeotian. Both parties were received by Apoecus and the...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Pamphylians ...city. Along with the Cretans there dwelt in the city Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians; Lycians because of their kinship with the Cretans, as they came of old from...

Pamphylians

76 30.98638,36.990721,0 Chians ...slew some in battle, and forced others to surrender and depart. When the Chians were rid of war, it occurred to Hector that they ought to unite with the...

Chians

76 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Tyre ...if ever there was such. There was a wooden raft, on which the god set out from Tyre in Phoenicia. The reason for this we are not told even by the Erythraeans...

Tyre

81 35.209358,33.268071,0 Sicyonia ...Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of Sicyonia. In them, which had previously been inhabited by Ionians, settled the Achaeans...

Sicyonia

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Athens ...occurred two years before the battle of Leuctra, when Asteius was Archon at Athens. The Thebans destroyed all the city except the sanctuaries, but the method of...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataea ...when this place in my story has been reached. Roughly at the entrance into Plataea are the graves of those who fought against the Persians. Of the Greeks...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Euboea ...nor in the naval actions fought by the Athenians with Themistocles off Euboea and at Salamis, and they are not included in the Laconian or in the Attic list...

Euboea

73 Coronaeans ...each year at the Little Daedala. Lots are cast for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for...

Coronaeans

77 22.956902,38.392613,0 Thespians ...at the Little Daedala. Lots are cast for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for at the...

Thespians

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Achaean ...The local guide at Patrae used to say that the wrestler Chilon was the only Achaean who took part in the action at Lamia. I myself know that Adrastus, a Lydian...

Achaean

78 Orchomenians ...for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for at the time when Cassander, the son of Antipater...

Orchomenians

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Thebes ...Arcadians at Megalopolis and the settlement of Messenians on their border. Thebes had been brought so low by Alexander that when, a few years later, Cassander...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaean ...Achaia less than any other part of Greece. So we have what was called the Achaean League, and the Achaeans had a concerted policy and carried out concerted...

Achaean

76 Achaeans ...other part of Greece. So we have what was called the Achaean League, and the Achaeans had a concerted policy and carried out concerted actions. As a place of...

Achaeans

79 Cadmeia ...of Antiope. When they succeeded to the throne they added the lower city to the Cadmeia, giving it, because of their kinship to Thebe, the name of Thebes. What I have...

Cadmeia

81 Thebes ...the sons. He went to Argos and married a daughter of Adrastus, but returned to Thebes, being fetched by Eteocles after the death of Oedipus. On his return he...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Dorians ...on his son Autesion, so that, at the bidding of the oracle, he migrated to the Dorians. On the departure of Autesion, Damasichthon was chosen to be king, who was a...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Attica ...with continual attacks and raids of bandits. Already, in my account of Attica I have described the alliances of Greeks and barbarians with the Athenians...

Attica

74 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...that began with the departure of the Persians and ended with the war between Athens and the Peloponnesus, the relations between Thebes and the Lacedemonians were...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemon ...after a brief interval Thebes along with Corinth was involved in the war with Lacedemon. Overcome in battle at Corinth and Coroncia, they won on the other hand at...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...help the Aetolians against Philip, but really more to spy on the condition of Macedonia. At the appeal of Athens the Romans despatched an army under Otilius, to give...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Rome ...bade them come to Corinth with an army, if they desired to be called allies of Rome and at the same time to show their goodwill to Greece. But the Achaeans...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Lacedemon ...in Sparta was put down, a tyranny marked by extreme ferocity, the affairs of Lacedemon at once caught the attention of the Achaeans. At this time the Achaeans...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Epeirots ...at haphazard at the time of the invasion of Demetrius, and afterwards of the Epeirots under Pyrrhus, but under the tyranny of Nabis they had been strengthened to the...

Epeirots

79 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Arcadia ...after the Achaean method. I shall treat of this more fully in my account of Arcadia. The Lacedemonians, deeply offended by the ordinances of the Achaeans, fled to...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Argos ...he was making a more furious attack upon the fortifications. This war between Argos and Thebes was, in my opinion, the most memorable of all those waged by Greeks...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phlegyans ...and likewise mercenaries came to the help of the Thebans from Phocis, and the Phlegyans from the Minyan country. When the battle took place at the Ismenian sanctuary...

Phlegyans

80 22.569853,39.798151,0 Thebans ...the Minyan country. When the battle took place at the Ismenian sanctuary, the Thebans were worsted in the encounter, and after the rout took refuge within their...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Rome ...that the conduct of the Achaeans was very insolent, on their arrival at Rome made before the senate many accusations against the Achaeans, not all of which...

Rome

74 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Icarus ...still stands to Icarus on a promontory jutting out into the Aegean. After this Icarus are named both the island and the sea around it. The carvings on the gables at...

Icarus

81 26.2536135,37.6136166,0 Thebes ...with Mantineia, Epaminondas is said to have been sent with certain others from Thebes to help the Lacedemonians. In the battle Pelopidas received wounds, but his...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...with all their forces, as did any other Boeotians who felt annoyed with the Thebans. When the battle joined, the allies of the Lacedemonians, who had hitherto...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...to stand their ground, and by giving way wherever the enemy attacked them. The Lacedemonians themselves and the Thebans were not badly matched adversaries. The former had...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...victory of Thebes was the most famous ever won by Greeks over Greeks. The Lacedemonians on the following day were minded to bury their dead, and sent a herald to the...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Asia ...Now the grounds on which he made war against the Romans, how he crossed into Asia, and the cities he took by force of arms or made his friends, I must leave for...

Asia

79 27.5,37.5,0 Asia ...and Chios, and to those who perished in the remote parts of the continent of Asia, or in Sicily. The names of the generals are inscribed with the exception of...

Asia

79 27.5,37.5,0 Asia ...Macedonian Harpalus, who ran away from Alexander and crossed with a fleet from Asia to Europe. On his arrival at Athens he was arrested by the citizens, but ran...

Asia

81 27.5,37.5,0 cities ...and themselves embarked on war besides inciting others to join them. The cities that took part were, of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen...

cities

76 Idaean ...sanctuary was founded for the goddess, they say, by Clymenus, a descendant of Idaean Heracles, and he came from Cydonia in Crete and from the river Jardanus. The...

Idaean

80 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Acriae ...to be killed, one might guess to have been a Lacedemonian and the founder of Acriae. After Acrias they say that Oenomaus slew Capetus, Lycurgus, Lasius, Chalcodon...

Acriae

79 22.785366,36.794176,0 Eleans ...called Pylon, the son of Cleson. Destroyed by Heracles and refounded by the Eleans, the city was doomed in time to be without inhabitants. Beside it the river...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Sphacteria ...refer to another Pylus. For the land of the Pylians over against the island Sphacteria simply cannot in the nature of things be crossed by the Alpheius, and...

Sphacteria

78 21.665725,36.930136,0 Letrini ...stades to Letrini, and one hundred and eighty from Letrini to Elis. Originally Letrini was a town, and Letreus the son of Pelops was its founder; but in my time were...

Letrini

81 21.431292,37.672865,0 Ionians ...king of the combined people because of his manliness and noble lineage. The Ionians rejected the proposal of the Achaeans and came out to fight them; in the battle...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lacedemonians ...to Sparta, and in my own day his grave still existed in the place where the Lacedemonians take the dinner called Pheiditia. The Ionians went to Attica, and they were...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ionians ...of Apollo at Didymi, and his oracle, are earlier than the immigration of the Ionians, while the cult of Ephesian Artemis is far more ancient still than their...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Atarneus ...temple of Dionysus. A similar fate to that of Myus happened to the people of Atarneus, under Mount Pergamus. The people of Colophon suppose that the sanctuary at...

Atarneus

79 26.92073,39.09127,0 Cretans ...that while the Carians still held the land, the first Greeks to arrive were Cretans under Rhacius, who was followed by a great crowd also; these occupied the shore...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Colophon ...where Damasichthon is buried is called Polyteichides. How it befell that Colophon was laid waste I have already related in my account of Lysimachus. Of those who...

Colophon

76 27.142222,38.115556,0 Athens ...to the Orchomenians or to the Teians. A few years later there came men from Athens and from Boeotia; the Attic contingent was under Damasus and Naoclus, the sons...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Asopus ...Tamarisks grow best and in the greatest numbers by the Maeander; the Boeotian Asopus can produce the tallest reeds; the persea tree flourishes only in the water of...

Asopus

80 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Eleans ...in a corner of which has been set up an altar of Pan. The Town Hall of the Eleans is within the Altis, and it has been built beside the exit beyond the...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Aetolians ...to all heroes and wives of heroes who are honored either in Elis or among the Aetolians. The songs sung in the Town Hall are in the Doric dialect, but they do not say...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Pisa ...the women were Elis, . . . The women from these cities made peace between Pisa and Elis. Later on they were entrusted with the management of the Heraean...

Pisa

76 21.653041,37.639535,0 Elis ...Piera. You reach this spring as you go along the flat road from Olympia to Elis. These things, then, are as I have already described. In the temple of Hera is...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lacedemonians ...This soldier took part in the battle in the Altis between the Eleans and the Lacedemonians. The Eleans in fact climbed to defend themselves on to all high places alike...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phrygia ...in name. This Nicostratus while still a baby was stolen from Prymnessus in Phrygia by robbers, being a child of a noble family. Conveyed to Aegeae he was bought...

Phrygia

78 27.75,40.25,0 Alexandrian ...by contrary winds, was proved to be an untruth by Heracleides, himself an Alexandrian by birth. He showed that Apollonius was late because he had been picking up...

Alexandrian

76 29.904133,31.195371,0 Athenians ...are the terms of the Thirty-years Peace between the Lacedemonians and the Athenians. The Athenians made this peace after they had reduced Euboea for the second...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Catana ...of Catana. Greater Hybla is entirely uninhabited, but Gereatis is a village of Catana, with a sanctuary of the goddess Hyblaea which is held in honor by the...

Catana

81 15.0878345,37.5024825,0 Phocis ...from the war between Phocis and Thessaly. If the Thessalians went to war with Phocis and dedicated the offering from Phocian plunder, this could not have been the...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Egyptian ...to become allies of Athens two kings, Attalus the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and, of the self-governing peoples, the Aetolians with the Rhodians and the...

Egyptian

75 Gauls ...who handed it over. The greatest of his achievements was his forcing the Gauls to retire from the sea into the country which they still hold. After the...

Gauls

75 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 river Eridanus ...creatures quite unlike those of other seas. Through their country flows the river Eridanus, on the bank of which the daughters of Helius (Sun) are supposed to lament the...

river Eridanus

78 12.432028,44.952389,0 city ...current among the Parishes often differ altogether from those of the city. As you go to the portico which they call painted, because of its pictures...

city

71 city ...underground passage that goes across the adjacent precincts, within the city, of Aphrodite in the Gardens. They leave down below what they carry and receive...

city

74 city ...the vessel at Delos, with its nine banks of oars below the deck. Outside the city, too, in the parishes and on the roads, the Athenians have sanctuaries of the...

city

80 Syrians ...death of Perdiccas immediately raised Ptolemy to power, who both reduced the Syrians and Phoenicia, and also welcomed Seleucus, son of Antiochus, who was in exile...

Syrians

79 37.5,37.5,0 tomb ...and at Corinth. His love for her was so great that when she died he made her a tomb which is the most noteworthy of all the old Greek tombs. There is a sanctuary...

tomb

81 Council Chamber of the Five Hundred ...it Trojan territory. Now I will return from my digression. Near to the Council Chamber of the Five Hundred is what is called Tholos (Round House); here the presidents sacrifice, and...

Council Chamber of the Five Hundred

74 Amphictyon, king of Athens ...wall. After the precinct of Dionysos is a building that contains clay images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods. Here also is Pegasus of Eleutherae, who...

Amphictyon, king of Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cerameicus ...father, but that his parents were Hephaestus and Earth. The district of the Cerameicus has its name from the hero Ceramus, he too being the reputed son of Dionysus...

Cerameicus

79 23.7188,37.978127,0 Attica ...had daughters, and among them Atthis; and from her they call the country Attica, which before was named Actaea. And Amphictyon, rising up against Cranaus...

Attica

75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Cyprus ...women. Near the portico stand Conon, Timotheus his son and Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes...

Cyprus

79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Stymphalus ...the water of the Erasinus rises to the surface. Up to this point it flows from Stymphalus in Arcadia, just as the Rheiti, near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus...

Stymphalus

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Epidaurians ...the Great Eoeae, the father of Epidaurus was Argus, son of Zeus, while the Epidaurians maintain that Epidaurus was the child of Apollo. That the land is especially...

Epidaurians

77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...enjoyed with Phlegyas' daughter, Lovely Coronis, who bare thee in rugged land Epidaurus." This oracle makes it quite certain that Asclepius was not a son of Arsinoe...

Epidaurus

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Cyreneans ...of Asclepius at Lebene, in Crete. There is this difference between the Cyreneans and the Epidaurians, that whereas the former sacrifice goats, it is against the...

Cyreneans

73 21.856169,32.818736,0 Thebans ...he asked for her hand or adopted a bolder policy from the beginning. The Thebans came against him in arms, and in the battle Nycteus was wounded. Epopeus also...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sicyonia ...his daughter to wife. This man became king, and the land was named after him Sicyonia, and the city Sicyon instead of Aegiale. But they say that Sicyon was not the...

Sicyonia

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aegiale ...and the land was named after him Sicyonia, and the city Sicyon instead of Aegiale. But they say that Sicyon was not the son of Marathon, the son of Epopeus, but...

Aegiale

76 25.9854,36.90498,0 Crete ...children of Heracles. After Phaestus in obedience to an oracle migrated to Crete, the next king is said to have been Zeuxippus, the son of Apollo and the nymph...

Crete

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Sicyonians ...women they say are sacred to Dionysus and maddened by his inspiration. The Sicyonians have also some images which are kept secret. These one night in each year they...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aristonautae ...you have gone down to the harbor called the Sicyonians' and turned towards Aristonautae, the Port of Pellene, you see a little above the road on the left hand a...

Aristonautae

77 22.635738,38.076814,0 Eleusis ...rites. The Phliasians themselves admit that they copy the "performance" at Eleusis. They say that it was Dysaules, the brother of Celeus, who came to their land...

Eleusis

77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Eleusis ...in a treaty before it was fought out, and Eumolpus himself remained at Eleusis. But it is possible that Dysaules came to Phlius for some other reason than...

Eleusis

73 23.538311,38.041096,0 Phliasians ...that Dysaules came to Phlius for some other reason than that given by the Phliasians. I do not believe either that he was related to Celeus, or that he was in any...

Phliasians

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Inachus ...waste. The oldest tradition in the region now called Argolis is that when Inachus was king he named the river after himself and sacrificed to Hera. There is...

Inachus

76 22.75,37.75,0 Argives ...the Argives to destroy Mycenae. For at the time of the Persian invasion the Argives made no move, but the Mycenaeans sent eighty men to Thermopylae who shared in...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Academy ...sanctuaries of the gods, and graves of heroes and of men. The nearest is the Academy, once the property of a private individual, but in my time a gymnasium. As you...

Academy

79 Ionia ...Athenians sent armies, first with Iolaus to Sardinia, secondly to what is now Ionia, and thirdly on the present occasion to Thrace. Before the monument is a slab...

Ionia

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Athenian ...Anteros (Love Avenged) they say was dedicated by resident aliens, because the Athenian Meles, spurning the love of Timagoras, a resident alien, bade him ascend to the...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Academy ...an olive tree, accounted to be the second that appeared. Not far from the Academy is the monument of Plato, to whom heaven foretold that he would be the prince...

Academy

77 Marathon ...worship both those who died in the fighting, calling them heroes, and secondly Marathon, from whom the parish derives its name, and then Heracles, saying that they...

Marathon

81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Thebes ...of Aegialeus, son of Adrastus. When the Argives made their second attack on Thebes he died at Glisas early in the first battle, and his relatives carried him to...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megarians ...any other way. Here is something else that I heard in Erenea, a village of the Megarians. Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus, left Thebes to live here owing to her great grief...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Orchomenians ...her children unbridled rage when he learned that the famine which befell the Orchomenians and the supposed death of Phrixus were not accidents from heaven, but that Ino...

Orchomenians

79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Stymphalus ...flowing water, besides the water which the emperor Hadrian brought from Lake Stymphalus, but the most noteworthy is the one by the side of the image of Artemis. Over...

Stymphalus

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Acrocorinthus ...handed over, the Corinthians say, by Helius to Aphrodite. As you go up this Acrocorinthus you see two precincts of Isis, one if Isis surnamed Pelagian (Marine) and the...

Acrocorinthus

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Boeotian ...Cadmea. The Thebans do not agree, but say that Thebe was the daughter of the Boeotian, and not of the Phliasian, Asopus. The other stories about the river are...

Boeotian

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Caria ...not native, in that the Maeander, descending from Celaenae through Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the Peloponnesus and...

Caria

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Sicyonians ...and that suddenly fire from some quarter fell on it and destroyed it. The Sicyonians, the neighbours of the Corinthians at this part of the border, say about their...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aegialus ...and aboriginal inhabitant, that the district of the Peloponnesus still called Aegialus was named after him because he reigned over it, and that he founded the city...

Aegialus

80 22.3484,38.1478,0 Phalerum ...when there came from Dodona a seer called Scirus, who also set up at Phalerum the ancient sanctuary of Athena Sciras. When he fell in the fighting the...

Phalerum

71 23.7062,37.9373,0 Delphi ...generation afterwards Chalcinus and Daetus, descendants of Cephalus, sailed to Delphi and asked the god for permission to return to Athens. He ordered them first to...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleusinians ...about the family of Eumolpus, but in his poems styles him "manly." When the Eleusinians fought with the Athenians, Erechtheus, king of the Athenians, was killed, as...

Eleusinians

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Thebans ...by war, but because they desired to share Athenian citizenship and hated the Thebans. In this plain is a temple of Dionysus, from which the old wooden image was...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megarians ...called Nisa. In the twelfth generation after Car the son of Phoroneus the Megarians say that Lelex arrived from Egypt and became king, and that in his reign the...

Megarians

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Delphi ...were buried Amphitryon and the children of Heracles by Megara. But the god in Delphi gave them an oracle that it was better for them to bury Alcmena in...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aphidna ...this been killed by Theseus while on a campaign with the Dioscuri against Aphidna. Megareus they say promised that he who killed the Cithaeronian lion should...

Aphidna

76 23.362766,37.974359,0 Elis ...respective fathers-in-law as king. It is evident that Alcathous arrived from Elis just at the time when Nisus had died and the Megarians had lost everything...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Cretans ...from the beginning, the old one round the city having been destroyed by the Cretans. Let so much suffice for Alcathous and for the lion, whether it was on...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Athenian ...not loiter, as my task is a general description of all Greece. Endoeus was an Athenian by birth and a pupil of Daedalus, who also, when Daedalus was in exile because...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Calydonian ...There is also a boar-hunt (I do not know for certain whether it is the Calydonian boar) and Cycnus fighting with Heracles. This Cycnus is said to have killed...

Calydonian

73 21.533106,38.372423,0 Athens ...and a sword under a rock as tokens for the child, and then sailed away to Athens; Theseus, when sixteen years old, pushed the rock away and departed, taking...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...position. So Athens was delivered from the Macedonians, and though all the Athenians fought memorably, Leocritus the son of Protarchus is said to have displayed...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aspledon ...that even then the revenues coming to Orchomenus were large. They say that Aspledon was left by the inhabitants because of a shortage of water. They say also that...

Aspledon

78 22.957728,38.534199,0 Phocis ...that it was discovered on the border of their own country and of Panopeus in Phocis, that with it the Phocians discovered gold, and that they were glad themselves...

Phocis

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...on the border of their own country and of Panopeus in Phocis, that with it the Phocians discovered gold, and that they were glad themselves to get the scepter instead...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Phocis ...are between Phocis and the sea only the Hypocnemidian Locrians. By these is Phocis bounded in this direction, by Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Thebans ...command to Onomarchus, while Philip, son of Amyntas, made an alliance with the Thebans. Philip had the better of the encounter, and Onomarchus fleeing to the coast...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Daulis ...renowned even to this day. They say that the name of the city is derived from Daulis, a nymph, the daughter of the Cephisus. Others say that the place, on which the...

Daulis

80 22.72926,38.50665,0 Athens ...The wooden image, of an even earlier date, the Daulians say was brought from Athens by Procne. In the territory of Daulis is a place called Tronis. Here has been...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinth ...ankles with goads and exposed him on Mount Cithaeron in Plataean territory. Corinth and the land at the Isthmus were the scene of his upbringing. Phocis and the...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Pytho ...Pythes was a son of Delphus, and that because he was king the city was called Pytho. But the most widespread tradition has it that the victim of Apollo's arrows...

Pytho

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Actium ...The emperor Augustus willed that the Nicopolitans, whose city is near Actium, should be members of the Amphictyonic League, that the Magnesians moreover and...

Actium

72 Magnesians ...city is near Actium, should be members of the Amphictyonic League, that the Magnesians moreover and the Malians, together with the Aenianians and Phthiotians, should...

Magnesians

78 22.75,39.75,0 Nicopolis ...the Argives, Sicyonians, Corinthians and Megarians send one, as Nicopolis send deputies to every meeting of the Amphictyonic League; but each city of the...

Nicopolis

66 20.735953,39.023389,0 Athenians ...city. 15 Opposite these are offerings of the Lacedemonians from spoils of the Athenians: the Dioscuri, Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, and beside these Poseidon, Lysander, son...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...this assertion they quote the following oracle of the Sibyl: "And then on the Athenians will be laid grievous troubles By Zeus the high-thunderer, whose might is the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...the spoils of the victory which they and their Athenian allies won over the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in Argive territory. From spoils of the same action, it seems to me...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...treasury was made from the spoils taken at the battle of Leuctra, and the Athenian treasury from those taken from the army that landed with Datis at Marathon. The...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...that landed with Datis at Marathon. The inhabitants of Cleonae were, like the Athenians, afflicted with the plague, and obeying an oracle from Delphi sacrificed a...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocis ...Phocus, the son of Aeacus, had crossed from Aegina into what is now called Phocis, and wished to gain the rule over the men living on that part of the mainland...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Parnassus ...highest part of their city. It was made of the stone that is most common about Parnassus, until Herodes the Athenian rebuilt it of Pentelic marble. Such in my day the...

Parnassus

81 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Neon ...the people dwelling here fled up to the summit, and that the city's name was Neon, Tithorea being the name of the peak of Parnassus. It appears, then, that at...

Neon

79 22.66931,38.58344,0 Panopeans ...the name of Ledon is given to their dwellings, and the citizens, like the Panopeans, have the right to be represented at the general assembly of the Phocians. The...

Panopeans

76 22.79418,38.49551,0 Parapotamii ...And they who dwelt beside the divine river Cephisus, alludes, not to a city Parapotamii (Riverside), but to the farmers beside the Cephisus. The saying, however, is...

Parapotamii

78 22.806,38.554,0 Parapotamian ...Pythian games were first held by the Amphictyons, and at this first meeting a Parapotamian of the name of Aechmeas won the prize in the boxing match for boys. Similarly...

Parapotamian

80 22.806,38.554,0 Phocis ...boys. Similarly Herodotus, enumerating the cities that King Xerxes burnt in Phocis, includes among them the city of Parapotamii. However, Parapotamii was not...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Parapotamii ...Xerxes burnt in Phocis, includes among them the city of Parapotamii. However, Parapotamii was not restored by the Athenians and Boeotians, but the inhabitants, being...

Parapotamii

80 22.806,38.554,0 Elateia ...made of stone. Every year they hold a feast in her honor, the Thesmophoria. Elateia is, with the exception of Delphi, the largest city in Phocis. It lies over...

Elateia

79 22.782061,38.645635,0 Elateans ...to be faithful to Philip, and the Romans reduced them by siege. Later on the Elateans held out when besieged by the barbarians of Pontus under the command of...

Elateans

79 22.782061,38.645635,0 Abae ...until in the Phocian war some Phocians, overcome in battle, took refuge in Abae. Whereupon the Thebans gave them to the flames, and with the refugees the...

Abae

77 22.9154,38.58006,0 Delphi ...grow up immune to disease and fatter than other cattle. The straight road to Delphi that leads through Panopeus and past Daulis and the Cleft Way, is not the only...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocian ...rough and for the most part mountainous, that leads from Chaeroneia to the Phocian city of Stiris. The length of the road is one hundred and twenty stades. The...

Phocian

77 22.25,38.25,0 Stiris ...is in a hole dug into the rocks, and they go down to it to fetch water. In Stiris is a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Stiria. It is of unburnt brick; the image is...

Stiris

78 22.757,38.385,0 Troy ...and ten under Polyxenus, the son of Agasthenes. Polyxenus came back safe from Troy and begat a son, Amphimachus. This name I think Polyxenus gave his son because...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Aetolian ...the Epeans, to keep their possessions, except that he introduced among them Aetolian colonists, giving them a share in the land. He assigned privileges to Dius, and...

Aetolian

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Elis ...near the wall, and by increasing the number of the inhabitants to have made Elis larger and generally more prosperous. There also came to him an oracle from...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Pisans ...of the Persian invasion of Greece. I pass over their struggles with the Pisans and Arcadians for the management of the Olympian games. Against their will they...

Pisans

74 21.653041,37.639535,0 Elis ...is as fine as that of the Hebrews, but it is not so yellow. As you go from Elis there is a district stretching down to the sea. It is called Samicum, and above...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Samicum ...are very near to the Anigrus; and, although it might be questioned whether Samicum was called Arene, yet the Arcadians are agreed that of old the Anigrus was...

Samicum

77 21.59852,37.53384,0 Pisa ...but in the war between Pisa and Elis the citizens of Scillus openly helped Pisa against her enemy, and for this reason the Eleans utterly destroyed it. The...

Pisa

77 21.653041,37.639535,0 Scillus ...honor of Ephesian Artemis a temple with a sanctuary and a sacred enclosure. Scillus is also a hunting-ground for wild boars and deer, and the land is crossed by a...

Scillus

79 21.602752,37.609552,0 Argives ...The Lacedemonians and their allies dedicated it, a gift taken from the Argives, Athenians and Ionians, The tithe offered for victory in war." This battle I...

Argives

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...houses of the Lacedemonians. In the reign of Agis the son of Archidamus the Lacedemonians had several grievances against the people of Elis, being especially exasperated...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympic ...of Elis, being especially exasperated because they were debarred from the Olympic games and the sanctuary at Olympia. So they dispatched a herald commanding the...

Olympic

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lepreans ...portion of his forces, along with the Elean refugees, that they might help the Lepreans to ravage the land. In the third year of the war the Lacedemonians under Agis...

Lepreans

81 21.724777,37.439599,0 Lacedemonians ...might help the Lepreans to ravage the land. In the third year of the war the Lacedemonians under Agis again prepared to invade the territory of Elis. So Thrasydaeus and...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...and established the fortified post at Decelea to annoy the Athenians. When the Athenian navy was destroyed at Aegospotami, Lysander, the son of Aristocritus, and Agis...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Olympian had been suddenly burnt down, they reluctantly remained behind. The Athenians excused themselves on the ground that their city was returning to its former...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...Thessaly, and again made his way through Boeotia, winning a victory over Thebes and the allies at Coronea. When the Boeotians were put to flight, certain of...

Thebes

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elis ...a son of Tisamenus. Tisamenus belonged to the family of the Iamidae at Elis, and an oracle was given to him that he should win five most famous contests...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Isthmus ...them. His fourth contest was against the Helots who had rebelled and left the Isthmus for Ithome. Not all the Helots revolted, only the Messenian element, which...

Isthmus

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Delphi ...under a truce, in accordance with the advice of Tisamenus and of the oracle at Delphi. The last time Tisamenus divined for them was at Tanagra, an engagement taking...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argives ...Tisamenus divined for them was at Tanagra, an engagement taking place with the Argives and Athenians. Such I learned was the history of Tisamenus. On their...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...As to Epimenides, I think the Lacedemonian story is more probable than the Argive. Here, where the Fates are, the Lacedemonians also have a sanctuary of Hestia...

Argive

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...should resist. The other story is that those who made the expedition against Troy to please Menelaus deliberated here how they could sail out to Troy and exact...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Acarnanian ...this time the custom was established among the Dorians of propitiating the Acarnanian seer. But this Carnus is not the Lacedemonian Carneus of the House, who was...

Acarnanian

77 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Eurotas ...a sanctuary of Hera Hyperchemia (she whose hand is above) at a time when the Eurotas was flooding a great part of the land. An old wooden image they call that of...

Eurotas

79 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Taenarus ...of Asclepius, called "in the place of the Agiadae." Farther on is the tomb of Taenarus, after whom they say the headland was named that juts out into the sea. Here...

Taenarus

80 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Thera ...son of Thersander, when he was leading a colony to the island now called Thera after him, the name of which in ancient times was Calliste (Fairest). Near is...

Thera

75 25.478129,36.36399,0 Eryx ...than it was afterwards to Dorieus the son of Anaxandrides; Heracles killed Eryx, but Dorieus himself and the greater part of his army were destroyed by the...

Eryx

77 12.5919,38.03528,0 Lacedemonians ...is that which once Orestes and Iphigenia stole out of the Tauric land, and the Lacedemonians say that it was brought to their land because there also Orestes was king. I...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lydians ...Euxine claim that the image is among them, a like claim being made by those Lydians also who have a sanctuary of Artemis Anaeitis. But the Athenians, we are asked...

Lydians

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lacedemonians ...came to worship Eileithyia as a goddess, because of an oracle from Delphi. The Lacedemonians have no citadel rising to a conspicuous height like the Cadmea at Thebes and...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aphidna ...the building, and the resources they intended to use were the spoils of Aphidna. They too left it unfinished, and it was many years afterwards that the...

Aphidna

74 23.362766,37.974359,0 Dorian ...of Athena. The builder was Gitiadas, a native of Sparta, who also composed Dorian lyrics, including a hymn to the goddess. On the bronze are wrought in relief...

Dorian

77 22.25,38.75,0 Lacedemonians ...of the Bronze House they have set up a sanctuary of the Muses, because the Lacedemonians used to go out to fight, not to the sound of the trumpet, but to the music of...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...wives and children on board their vessels and abandoned their own country; the Argives, while levelling Asine to the ground and annexing its territory to their own...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...Mount Parnon, on which the Lacedemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and Tegeatae. On the borders stand stone figures of Hermes, from which the name...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thera ...island, renaming it after himself, and even at the present day the people of Thera every year offer to him as their founder the sacrifices that are given to a...

Thera

79 25.478129,36.36399,0 Cynurian ...upon the Argives, bringing as charges against them that they were annexing the Cynurian territory which they themselves had captured, and were causing revolts among...

Cynurian

81 22.75,37.25,0 Messenians ...memorable exploit of that time. Not long after this Teleclus was murdered by Messenians in a sanctuary of Artemis. This sanctuary was built on the frontier of Laconia...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...the death of Teleclus, Alcamenes his son succeeded to the throne, and the Lacedemonians sent to Crete Charmidas the son of Euthys, who was a distinguished Spartan, to...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...my narrative. For the present I must state thus much; the chief leader of the Lacedemonians in the first war against the Messenians was Theopompus the son of Nicander, a...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...with Tegea in the following manner. A Lacedemonian, by name Lichas, came to Tegea when there chanced to be a truce between the cities. When Lichas arrived the...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Argolis ...an army, both of the Lacedemonians themselves and of their allies, and invaded Argolis. The Argives came out under arms to meet them, but Cleomenes won the day. Near...

Argolis

81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Lacedemonians ...and won a good report among the Greeks both for himself personally and for the Lacedemonians; while the second campaign was to please an Athenian, Isagoras, by helping him...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megarians ...illustrious than Argus, punished at Elaeus Artayctes, a Persian; while the Megarians never succeeded in propitiating the deities at Eleusis for having encroached...

Megarians

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thebes ...his acquittal. Shortly after this the Lacedemonians gathered an army against Thebes; the reason for so doing will be given in my account of Agesilaus. On this...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...After they had held out as long as they could, Antigonus made peace with the Athenians, on condition that he brought a garrison into the Museum to be a guard over...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...of Charillus, Nicander his son succeeded to the throne, in whose reign the Messenians murdered, in the sanctuary of the Lady of the Lake, Teleclus the king of the...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Troy ...bathed. The following tale too is told. When the war of the Greeks against Troy was prolonged, the soothsayers prophesied to them that they would not take the...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Olympic ...wont to sacrifice on the altars. They sacrifice to Hestia first, secondly to Olympic Zeus, going to the altar within the temple, thirdly to Zeus Laoetas and to...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympian ...account of the great altar I gave a little way back; it is called the altar of Olympian Zeus. By it is an altar of Unknown Gods, and after this an altar of Zeus...

Olympian

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...entrance and the Leonidaeum is a street, for the Eleans call streets what the Athenians call lanes. Well, there is in the Altis, when you are about to pass to the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...of the men who came to Ammon from Elis. These are in the temple of Ammon. The Eleans also pour libations to all heroes and wives of heroes who are honored either in...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...part in the battle in the Altis between the Eleans and the Lacedemonians. The Eleans in fact climbed to defend themselves on to all high places alike, including the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Acropolis ...it would be wrong to mix up the accounts of them. For whereas on the Athenian Acropolis statues are votive offerings like everything else, in the Altis some things...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Athenians ...the images, while that on the sixth commemorates the oracle given to the Athenians by Delphi. The images next to those I have enumerated are two in number, and...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marion ...of Magnesia on the Lethaeus, were earlier than Strato; after him came Marion his compatriot, Aristeas of Stratoniceia (anciently both land and city were...

Marion

72 32.4254347,35.0389664,0 Altis ...also images of Zeus dedicated by States and by individuals. There is in the Altis an altar near the entrance leading to the stadium. On it the Eleans do not...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phliasians ...by Aegina stands Harpina, who, according to the tradition of the Eleans and Phliasians, mated with Ares and was the mother of Oenomaus, king around Pisa; after her is...

Phliasians

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Athenians ...which took part in the engagement: first the Lacedemonians, after them the Athenians, third the Corinthians, fourth the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cythnians ...and the Cyclades there came not only the Tenians but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and...

Cythnians

76 24.40173,37.41179,0 Celts ...part of Thrace. If race be compared with race no nation of men except the Celts are more numerous than the Thracians taken all together, and for this reason no...

Celts

76 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Greeks ...Alexander and Philip. Further, Antipater and Cassander afterwards crushed the Greeks, so that through weakness each state thought no shame of itself taking no part...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 he ...situated for mariners, and had three harbors as against one at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks there, and near...

he

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 picture ...these, the kings from Melanthus to Cleidicus the son of Aesimides. Here is a picture of the exploit, near Mantinea, of the Athenians who were sent to help the...

picture

80 Aeginetans ...had seized Epidaurus, crossed to Aegina, and, settling among the old Aeginetans, established in the island Dorian manners and the Dorian dialect. Although the...

Aeginetans

71 23.42372,37.74991,0 Epidaurians ...they say, was made for Zeus by Aeacus. The story of Auxesia and Damia, how the Epidaurians suffered from drought, how in obedience to an oracle they had these wooden...

Epidaurians

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Delos ...two gods exchanged the two places. They still say this, and quote an oracle: "Delos and Calaurea alike thou lovest to dwell in, Pytho, too, the holy, and Taenarum...

Delos

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Dorians ...against Niobe's child, whose father was supposed to be Zeus. Subsequently the Dorians from Argos settled, among other places, at Hermion, but I do not think there...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Araethyrea ...first, and Aoris, in memory of his sister, changed the name of the land to Araethyrea. This is why Homer, in making a list of Agamemnon's subjects, has the verse...

Araethyrea

77 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasian ...will now add an account of the most remarkable of their famous sights. On the Phliasian citadel is a grove of cypress trees and a sanctuary which from ancient times...

Phliasian

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasians ...the Seasons, and that her children were Ares and Hebe. Of the honors that the Phliasians pay to this goddess the greatest is the pardoning of suppliants. All those who...

Phliasians

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasians ...Eleusis, but the actual celebration is modelled on the Eleusinian rites. The Phliasians themselves admit that they copy the "performance" at Eleusis. They say that it...

Phliasians

79 22.649131,37.846299,0 Nemea ...of the famous lion, and the place Nemea is distant some fifteen stades. In Nemea is a noteworthy temple of Nemean Zeus, but I found that the roof had fallen in...

Nemea

77 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Cephisus ...father of Phoroneus, was not a man but the river. This river, with the rivers Cephisus and Asterion, judged concerning the land between Poseidon and Hera. They...

Cephisus

80 23.625,38.125,0 Troy ...grave of Atreus, along with the graves of such as returned with Agamemnon from Troy, and were murdered by Aegisthus after he had given them a banquet. As for the...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argos ...son of Sthenelus, became sole king. However, he too left no offspring, and Argos was seized by Orestes, son of Agamemnon, who was a neighbor. Besides his...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...a man carrying a bull on his shoulders. According to the poet Lyceas, when the Argives were holding a sacrifice to Zeus at Nemea, Biton by sheer physical strength...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tenedos ...dolphin. The axes were dedicated by Periclytus, son of Euthymachus, a man of Tenedos, and allude to an old story. Cycnus, they say, was a son of Poseidon, and ruled...

Tenedos

80 26.0497905,39.8278355,0 Acarnanians ...a land free to plough. The Aetolian nation, having subdued their neighbors the Acarnanians, sent statues of generals and images of Apollo and Artemis. I learnt a very...

Acarnanians

81 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Corsicans ...height of their sea power, they overcame all in Sardinia except the Ilians and Corsicans, who were kept from slavery by the strength of the mountains. These...

Corsicans

81 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Molossians ...detecting the trap prepared for them, attacked in the night and overcame the Molossians in battle. The men of Orneae in Argolis, when hard pressed in war by the...

Molossians

79 20.924639999999997,39.271716,0 Phocians ...mustered seven hundred from Thespiae and four hundred from Thebes. A thousand Phocians guarded the path on Mount Oeta, and the number of these should be added to the...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Thermopylae ...meet the barbarians who came from the Ocean the following Greek forces came to Thermopylae. Of the Boeotians ten thousand hoplites and five hundred cavalry, the...

Thermopylae

81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Boeotians ...who came from the Ocean the following Greek forces came to Thermopylae. Of the Boeotians ten thousand hoplites and five hundred cavalry, the Boeotarchs being...

Boeotians

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Phocis ...the Boeotarchs being Cephisodotus, Thearidas, Diogenes and Lysander. From Phocis came five hundred cavalry with footmen three thousand in number. The generals...

Phocis

76 22.25,38.25,0 Thebans ...Chalcidians on the Euripus a processional tune for their use in Delos. So the Thebans set up here a statue of this man, and like-wise one of Epaminondas, son of...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Theban ...king of the Lacedemonians, turned towards Ambrossus in Phocis. He massacred a Theban force under Chaereas, who was under orders to guard the passes, crossed the...

Theban

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...on the following day were minded to bury their dead, and sent a herald to the Thebans. But Epaminondas, knowing that the Lacedemonians were always inclined to cover...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemon ...that it would be better for the Boeotians to shift the war from Boeotia to Lacedemon. The Thespians, apprehensive because of the ancient hostility of Thebes and...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...is an inscription in elegiac verse relating among other things that he founded Messene, and that through him the Greeks won freedom. The elegiac verses are these: "By...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Megarian ...from human form to a stone, but the Theban account does not agree with the Megarian. The Greek legends generally have for the most part different versions. Here...

Megarian

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Tithorea ...shared by Zethus and Amphion is a small mound of earth. The inhabitants of Tithorea in Phocis like to steal earth from it when the sun is passing through the...

Tithorea

77 22.66931,38.58344,0 Chalcis ...wild creatures followed him as he played the harp. The road from Thebes to Chalcis is by this Proetidian gate. On the highway is pointed out the grave of...

Chalcis

78 23.602,38.464,0 Thebes ...who joined with Aegialeus, the son of Adrastus, in the expedition against Thebes. That the tomb of Aegialeus is at Pegae I have already stated in an earlier...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Glisas ...off the head with his sword. This then is how the place got its name. Above Glisas is a mountain called Supreme, and on it a temple and image of Supreme Zeus. The...

Glisas

78 23.396935,38.391809,0 Tanagra ...This land, and that about Mycalessus and Harma, is tilled by the people of Tanagra. Within the territory of Tanagra is what is called Delium on Sea. In it are...

Tanagra

77 23.587064,38.309371,0 Parian ...heaven." In the temple of Dionysus the image too is worth seeing, being of Parian marble and a work of Calamis. But a greater marvel still is the Triton. The...

Parian

78 25.150728,37.08579,0 Messapion ...of the blackbirds. Within Boeotia to the left of the Euripus is Mount Messapion, at the foot of which on the coast is the Boeotian city of Anthedon. Some say...

Messapion

72 Thebans ...Athenians and Thespians who made the crossing with him is admitted even by the Thebans themselves. Crossing over the right side of the course you come to a...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonians ...the mountain, was a son of Athamas by Themisto. Before the expedition of the Macedonians under Alexander, in which Thebes was destroyed, there was here an oracle that...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Phocis ...his home. Into the lake flows the river Cephisus, which rises at Lilaea in Phocis, and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a town lying on the shore of the...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Orchomenus ...the Argive and Olmus, the son of Sisyphus, I shall include in my history of Orchomenus. In Olmones they did not show me anything that was in the least worth seeing...

Orchomenus

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Thespiae ...from the Cabeirian sanctuary, and advancing about fifty stades, you come to Thespiae, built at the foot of Mount Helicon. They say that Thespia was a daughter of...

Thespiae

78 23.154521,38.293384,0 Thespiae ...came from Athens and was the man after whom the city was called. In Thespiae is a bronze image of Zeus Saviour. They say about it that when a dragon once...

Thespiae

71 23.154521,38.293384,0 Thespiae ...it is said, was Gaius the Roman Emperor; Claudius, they say, sent it back to Thespiae, but Nero carried it away a second time. At Rome the image perished by fire...

Thespiae

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Helicon ...who first with the children of Aloeus founded Ascra, which lies at the foot of Helicon, rich in springs." This poem of Hegesinus I have not read, for it was no...

Helicon

81 22.82514,38.35217,0 Olympus ...waters to cleanse manslaughter. In Larisa I heard another story, how that on Olympus is a city Libethra, where the mountain faces, Macedonia, not far from which...

Olympus

80 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Thermopylae ...the forces that Antiochus sent from Asia. When the Greeks assembled at Thermopylae learned that the army of the Gauls was already in the neighborhood of Magnesia...

Thermopylae

74 22.538294,38.796511,0 Patraeans ...and having fired Callium, were returning by the same way, they were met by the Patraeans, who alone of the Achaeans were helping the Aetolians. Being trained as...

Patraeans

81 21.738518,38.243265,0 Oeta ...Greeks at Thermopylae were faring as follows. There are two paths across Mount Oeta: the one above Trachis is very steep, and for the most part precipitous; the...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Thermopylae ...with the fleet succeeded in withdrawing in time the Greek forces from Thermopylae, which disbanded and returned to their several homes. Brennus, without delaying...

Thermopylae

72 22.538294,38.796511,0 Parnassus ...with the district, descended through the snow down the precipitous parts of Parnassus, and surprised the Celts in their rear, shooting them down with arrows and...

Parnassus

78 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Delphians ...in which is the grave of Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. Every year the Delphians sacrifice to him as to a hero. Ascending from the tomb you come to a stone of...

Delphians

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Troy ...here." Inside this building the whole of the painting on the right depicts Troy taken and the Greeks sailing away. On the ship of Menelaus they are preparing...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Attica ...his craft, and how he came to his end when he was already rounding Sunium in Attica. Up to this point Menelaus had been sailing along with Nestor, but now he was...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Creusa ...know of no poet, and of no prose-writer, who makes mention of Xenodice. About Creusa the story is told that the mother of the gods and Aphrodite rescued her from...

Creusa

80 23.110281,38.20809,0 Trojan ...names of the others. Epeius is painted naked; he is razing to the ground the Trojan wall. Above the wall rises the head only of the Wooden Horse. There is...

Trojan

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Phrygian ...sufficient safety even without a shield. Wherefore Homer speaks of Phorcys the Phrygian as without a shield, because he wore a two-piece corselet. Not only have I seen...

Phrygian

81 27.75,40.25,0 Aetna ...in Catana called the Pious, who, when the fire flowed down on Catana from Aetna, held of no account gold or silver, but when they fled took up, one his mother...

Aetna

76 Milesian ...them the names of Cameiro and Clytie. I must tell you that Pandareos was a Milesian from Miletus in Crete, and implicated in the theft of Tantalus and in the trick...

Milesian

77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Parnassus ...cave it is difficult even for an active walker to reach the heights of Parnassus. The heights are above the clouds, and the Thyiad women rave there in honor of...

Parnassus

73 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Tithorea ...when the people migrated from the villages, the city too came to be called Tithorea, and not Neon any longer. The natives say that Tithorea was so called after a...

Tithorea

77 22.66931,38.58344,0 Tithorea ...out of oaks. One generation before I was born heaven made the fortunes of Tithorea decay. There are the buildings of a theater, and the enclosure of a rather...

Tithorea

77 22.66931,38.58344,0 Troy ...cities have incurred incurable harm through the sin of their own citizens, hut Troy's ruin was complete when it fell through the outrage that Alexander committed...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lilaeans ...and forced them to withdraw under a truce. In return for this good deed the Lilaeans dedicated his statue at Delphi. In Lilaea are also a theater, a market-place...

Lilaeans

78 22.50592,38.62687,0 Phocians ...burnt by the Persians. Some disasters were shared by Elateia with the other Phocians, but she had peculiar calamities of her own, inflicted by fate at the hands of...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotia ...ruin begun by the Persian incendiaries was completed by the incendiaries of Boeotia. Beside the large temple there is another, but smaller in size, made for...

Boeotia

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Ambrossus ...a hero. On going to war with Philip and his Macedonians the Thebans drew round Ambrossus a double wall. It is made of a local stone, black in color and very hard...

Ambrossus

81 22.66763,38.42845,0 Anticyra ...to cross are the mountains between Anticyra and Boulis. To the harbor from Anticyra is a sail of one hundred stades, and the road by land from the harbor to Boulis...

Anticyra

77 22.626059,38.375439,0 Cirrha ...they know that the ground is useless for growing trees. It is said that to Cirrha . . . and they say that from Cirrha the place received its modern name. Homer...

Cirrha

77 22.450621,38.428937,0 Naupactus ...When the Messenians were forced to leave, the Locrians gathered again at Naupactus. The epic poem called the Naupactia by the Greeks is by most people assigned...

Naupactus

75 22.315807,38.41224,0 Miletus ...called the Naupactia by the Greeks is by most people assigned to a poet of Miletus, while Charon, the son of Pythes, says that it is a composition of Carcinus of...

Miletus

77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 tomb ...flooded the side of the grave facing the beach and made it easy a enter the tomb, and he bade me form an estimate of the size of the corpse in the following...

tomb

78 Libya ...named after Hadrian; of this too the pillars are a hundred in number from the Libyan quarries. Close to the temple of Olympian Zeus is a statue of the Pythian...

Libya

80 26.5,31.5,0 Leuctra ...built. Before the battle which the Thebans fought with the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, and the foundation of the present city of Messene under Ithome, I think that...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Ithome ...at Leuctra, and the foundation of the present city of Messene under Ithome, I think that no city had the name Messene. I base this conclusion principally...

Ithome

70 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenian ...shows that the Messenians were a tribe and not a city by the following: "For Messenian men carried away sheep from Ithaca." 21.18 He is still more clear when...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...winning in this way, chose Messenia. The common people of the old Messenians were not dispossessed by the Dorians, but agreed to be ruled by Cresphontes and...

Messenians

69 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arene ...Perieres and the other kings dwelt at Andania, but when Aphareus founded Arene, he and his sons settled there. In the time of Nestor and his descendants the...

Arene

75 21.59852,37.53384,0 Limnatis ...but is said to have been as follows: There is a sanctuary of Artemis called Limnatis (of the Lake) on the frontier of Messenian, in which the Messenians and the...

Limnatis

79 22.253477,36.96028,0 Messenians ...called Limnatis (of the Lake) on the frontier of Messenian, in which the Messenians and the Lacedemonians alone of the Dorians shared. According to the...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartan ...land of his own to provide them with sufficient grazing, gave them to a Spartan Euaephnus to feed on his own land, Euaephnus to have a share of the...

Spartan

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...then came from the Lacedemonians to demand the surrender of Polychares. The Messenian kings replied to the ambassadors that after deliberation with the people they...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athens ...Ampheia, Aesimides the son of Aeschylus was holding his fifth year office at Athens. Before I wrote the history of the war and all the sufferings and actions that...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...war and the trained men to undergo a more rigorous discipline than before. The Lacedemonians carried out raids into Messenia, but did no harm to the country, regarding it...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...and disregard of their oath, they made a second expedition openly against the Messenians. Both kings were in command, Theopompus the son of Nicander and Polydorus the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...according to their native custom. He reminded them of their oath against the Messenians, and said how noble was their ambition, to prove themselves to have done a deed...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Acrocorinth ...occasion, when the Sicyonians under Aratus drove all the garrison out of Acrocorinth, killing Persaeus, who had been placed in command of the garrison by Antigonus...

Acrocorinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...of Lacedemon. The officers replied that they would call a meeting of the Achaeans neither for them nor for anyone else who had not a decree of the Roman senate...

Achaeans

75 Lusi ...belongs to Pheneus, but Lusi is on the borders of Cleitor. They say that Lusi was once a city, and Agesilas was proclaimed as a man of Lusi when victor in...

Lusi

76 22.1121,37.9719,0 Lusi ...say that Lusi was once a city, and Agesilas was proclaimed as a man of Lusi when victor in the horse-race at the eleventh Pythian festival held by the...

Lusi

73 22.1121,37.9719,0 Achaeans ...of the Achaean League to send a deputation privately. A deputation of the Achaeans was sent to oppose the Lacedemonians, and after speeches had been delivered by...

Achaeans

77 Cynaetheans ...the Styx, a thing made to be a mischief to man, while the spring among the Cynaetheans is a boon to make up for the bane in the other place. One of the roads from...

Cynaetheans

77 22.1099,38.030042,0 Achaeans ...restored Lacedemonian exiles carried on various intrigues against the Achaeans, hoping to vex them most by the following plot. They persuaded to go up to Rome...

Achaeans

72 Pheneus ...source of the Ladon. I heard that the water making a lake in the territory of Pheneus, descending into the chasms in the mountains, rises here and forms the source...

Pheneus

80 22.30692,37.91045,0 Cleitorians ...a level spot surrounded by low hills. The most celebrated sanctuaries of the Cleitorians are those of Demeter, Asclepius and, thirdly, Eileithyia . . . to be, and gave...

Cleitorians

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Stymphalian ...the foreigner, has resulted in the birds of the Arabian desert being called Stymphalian even in modern times. In Stymphalus there is also an old sanctuary of...

Stymphalian

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 Alea ...greater zeal into the festival in honor of Artemis. After Stymphalus comes Alea, which too belongs to the Argive federation, and its citizens point to Aleus...

Alea

78 22.456205,37.757857,0 Athenians ...had been committed, and instructed the Sicyonians to inflict a fine on the Athenians commensurate with the unprovoked harm done by them to Oropus. When the...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argive ...in honor of Artemis. After Stymphalus comes Alea, which too belongs to the Argive federation, and its citizens point to Aleus, the son of Apheidas, as their...

Argive

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Achaeans ...was then general of the Achaeans, a gift of ten talents if he would induce the Achaeans to help them. Menalcidas promised half of the money to Callicrates, who on...

Achaeans

81 Sparta ...to Rome, had worked against the Achaeans and had done all he could to separate Sparta from the Achaean League. Thereupon, as the danger he ran was extreme...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...spoke the truth, and wished to refer the point to the Roman senate. But the Achaeans seized another pretext, that no state belonging to the Achaean League had the...

Achaeans

78 Achaean ...But the Achaeans seized another pretext, that no state belonging to the Achaean League had the right to send an embassy on its own to the Roman senate, but...

Achaean

74 Sparta ...their side despatched to Rome Callicrates and Diaeus to oppose the exiles from Sparta before the senate. Callicrates died of disease on the journey, and even if he...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...another trick to embarrass the Lacedemonians. He induced the towns around Sparta to be friendly to the Achaeans, and even introduced garrisons into them, to be...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...Rome proved rather slow, giving Diaeus a fresh opportunity of deceiving the Achaeans and Menalcidas of deceiving the Lacedemonians. Diaeus misled the Achaeans into...

Achaeans

78 Spartans ...the Achaeans heard the decision of the Romans, they at once turned against the Spartans who happened to be then residing in Corinth, and arrested every one, not only...

Spartans

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...Thebes, and the Thebans promised to give enthusiastic support in the war. The Thebans had been sentenced, at the first ruling given by Metellus, to pay a fine for...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elateia ...had joined Critolaus in his enterprise, took the field and advanced as far as Elateia in Phocis, into which city they were received by the inhabitants on the ground...

Elateia

80 22.782061,38.645635,0 Chaeroneia ...retreating to the Peloponnesus the Romans under Metellus fell upon them near Chaeroneia. It was then that the vengeance of the Greek gods overtook the Arcadians, who...

Chaeroneia

79 22.840365,38.493361,0 Spartan ...by Machaerion, a man of Mantineia. The Lacedemonians on their part say that a Spartan killed Epaminondas, but they too give Machaerion as the name of the man. The...

Spartan

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineia ...as the slayer, but actually at Sparta there is no Machaerion, nor is there at Mantineia, who has received honors for bravery. When Epaminondas was wounded, they...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Athenians ...third day. The place where lie died is called Libyssa by the Nicomedians. The Athenians received an oracle from Dodona ordering them to colonize Sicily, and Sicily is...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemon ...paramours to his home, and being cast out by him she went away at first to Lacedemon, but afterwards she removed from Sparta to Mantineia, where she...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicily ...tomb of Anchises at the foot of the mountain. For when Aeneas was voyaging to Sicily, he put in with his ships to Laconia, becoming the founder of the cities...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Anchisia ...to this place and died there, where Aeneas buried him. This mountain they call Anchisia after Anchises. The probability of this story is strengthened by the fact that...

Anchisia

81 22.37419,37.69921,0 Caphya ...Orchomenus, after about three stades, the straight road leads you to the city Caphya, along the side of the gully and afterwards along the water of the lake on the...

Caphya

80 22.262624,37.766264,0 Arcadians ...Phocians heard of the disaster to Critolaus and the Achaeans, they ordered the Arcadians to depart from Elateia. As they were retreating to the Peloponnesus the Romans...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenians ...He proceeded to set free slaves, following the example of Miltiades and the Athenians before the battle of Marathon, and enlisted from the cities of the Achaeans and...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Euboea ...is obviously not named after Myrtilus, the son of Hermes, as it begins at Euboea and reaches the Aegaean by way of the uninhabited island of Helene. I think...

Euboea

76 Scarpheia ...the Achaeans in investing Heracleia, and had taken part in the engagement of Scarpheia. Then the inhabitants, of both sexes and of all ages, abandoned the city and...

Scarpheia

79 22.68341970000006,38.81072,0 Achaeans ...Alcamenes and his men did not face it, but straightway fled to the camp of the Achaeans at Corinth. The Megarians surrendered their city to the Romans without a blow...

Achaeans

81 Pheneus ...Pheneus and Stymphalus. On the left of it, as you travel through the land of Pheneus, are mountains of the Pheneatians called Tricrena (Three Springs), and here are...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Cyllene ...down. After the grave of Aepytus you come to the highest mountain in Arcadia, Cyllene, on the top of which is a dilapidated temple of Cyllenian Hermes. It is clear...

Cyllene

81 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Cretan ...infantry amounted to twenty-three thousand. They were joined by a company of Cretan archers and by Philopoemen, at the head of some troops sent by Attalus from...

Cretan

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Boeotians ...marvel. On it the blackbirds are entirely white. The birds so called by the Boeotians are a somewhat different breed, which does not sing. Eagles called swan-eagles...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Pheneus ...greater part of Mount Chelydorea is inhabited by the Achaeans. As you go from Pheneus to the west, the left road leads to the city Cleitor, while on the right is the...

Pheneus

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Corinth ...them most of the Corinthians themselves. At first Mummius hesitated to enter Corinth, although the gates were open, as he suspected that an ambush had been laid...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Cleitor ...goes down to a place called Lycuria, which is the boundary between Pheneus and Cleitor. Advancing about fifty stades from Lycuria, you will come to the source of the...

Cleitor

81 22.103248,37.892704,0 Stymphalus ...site, and not on that of the modern city. The story has it that in the old Stymphalus dwelt Temenus, the son of Pelasgus, and that Hera was reared by this Temenus...

Stymphalus

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 Dyme ...inscription should mislead nobody, although it calls the city Paleia and not Dyme. For it is the custom of Greek poets to use ancient names instead of more...

Dyme

79 21.551425,38.144625,0 Psophis ...of it remaining, but the people said that it was established by the sons of Psophis. Their account is probable, for in Sicily too, in the territory of Eryx, is a...

Psophis

78 21.892903,37.871725,0 Lydians ...her that Zeus, being wroth at it, sent a boar to destroy the tillage of the Lydians. Then certain Lydians, with Attis himself, were killed by the boar, and it is...

Lydians

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Psophis ...the sons of Psophis, were no longer distinguished when I saw them. In Psophis is buried Alcmaeon also, the son of Amphiaraus, and his tomb is a building...

Psophis

72 21.892903,37.871725,0 Maeander ...as it otherwise would do. My reasoning is confirmed by the fact that the Maeander, flowing through the land of the Phrygians and Carians, which is ploughed up...

Maeander

75 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Olenus ...Peirus flows down into the sea; on the Peirus once stood the Achaean city of Olenus. The poets who have sung of Heracles and his labours have found a favorite...

Olenus

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Peirus ...and migrated to Peirae and Euryteiae. About eighty stades from the river Peirus is the city of Patrae. Not far from Patrae the river Glaucus flows into the...

Peirus

76 21.75,38.25,0 Aphrodisium ...on the left of the Ladon a place called Tropaea, adjoining which is a grove, Aphrodisium. Thirdly, there is ancient writing on a slab:– "The boundary between Psophis...

Aphrodisium

79 22.218216,37.387375,0 Ladon ...all alike of stone. After the sanctuary of the Eleusinian goddess the Ladon flows by the city Thelpusa on the left, situated on a high hill, in modern...

Ladon

72 21.75,37.75,0 Thelpusa ...the extremity of it, was originally, they say, right in the very middle of it. Thelpusa has a temple of Asclepius and a sanctuary of the twelve gods; the greater part...

Thelpusa

81 21.87884,37.710489,0 Ladon ...had happened, but later on she laid aside her wrath and wished to bathe in the Ladon. So the goddess has obtained two surnames, Fury because of her avenging anger...

Ladon

81 21.75,37.75,0 Patrae ...and Arba. But Augustus, for some reason, perhaps because he thought that Patrae was a convenient port of call, brought back again to Patrae the men from the...

Patrae

76 21.738518,38.243265,0 Olenus ...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...

Olenus

78 21.640599,38.153707,0 Nemea ...won prizes in the pancratium, one at Olympia, three at the Isthmus and two at Nemea. The Pellenians made two statues of him, dedicating one at Olympia and one in...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Argos ...of the Mysian Demeter. It is said that it was founded by Mysius, a man of Argos, who according to Argive tradition gave Demeter a welcome in his home. There is...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive The part of Arcadia that lies next to the Argive land is occupied by Tegeans and Mantineans, who with the rest of the Arcadians...

Argive

42 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dyme ...Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on the side of Achaia it borders on the land of Dyme. These that I have mentioned extend to the sea, but the Arcadians are shut off...

Dyme

81 21.551425,38.144625,0 Hypsus ...the town called Methydrium and of Orchomenus, styled by Homer "rich in sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and Hypsus, and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The...

Hypsus

81 22.080985,37.554985,0 Maenalus ...of courage. After Baucis are statues of Arcadian athletes: Euthymenes from Maenalus itself, who won the men's and previously the boys' wrestling-match; Philip, an...

Maenalus

78 22.265891,37.549491,0 Arcadia ...learned the art of spinning from Adristas. After this king the land was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians. His...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Azanian ...itself, who won the men's and previously the boys' wrestling-match; Philip, an Azanian from Pellana, who beat the boys at boxing, and Critodamus from Cleitor, who...

Azanian

81 22.25,37.75,0 Pergamus ...who fell in love with her and married her. The tomb of Auge still exists at Pergamus above the Calcus; it is a mound of earth surrounded by a basement of stone and...

Pergamus

78 27.184167,39.1325,0 Sicily ...who hold that the chariot is an offering of the Gelon who became tyrant in Sicily. Now there is an inscription on the chariot that it was dedicated by Gelon of...

Sicily

77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Astypalaea ...and being deprived of the prize he became mad through grief and returned to Astypalaea. Attacking a school there of about sixty children he pulled down the pillar...

Astypalaea

78 26.35528,36.54413,0 Arcadians ...he found without a wife, and so winning over Cresphontes he himself and the Arcadians had nothing at all to fear. Holaeas was the son of Cypselus, who, aided by the...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenia ...fought against the Lacedemonians on the side of Aristodemus, the king of Messenia. Aristocrates, the son of Aechmis, may have been guilty of outrages against...

Messenia

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eleans ...Who made the statue of Tellon is not related. Next to these are offerings of Eleans, representing Philip the son of Amyntas, Alexander the son of Philip, Seleucus...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Syracuse ...of Olympic victories won by Hiero the son of Deinomenes, who was tyrant of Syracuse after his brother Gelo. But the offerings were not sent by Hiero; it was...

Syracuse

77 15.29382,37.05963,0 Chaeroneia ...they did not fight on the Greek side against Philip and the Macedonians at Chaeroneia, nor later in Thessaly against Antipater, yet they did not actually range...

Chaeroneia

77 22.840365,38.493361,0 Syracusan ...and more reliable friends. He met his end at the hands of Deinomenes, a Syracusan by birth and an inveterate enemy of tyranny, who afterwards, when Hippocrates...

Syracusan

75 15.29382,37.05963,0 Lacedemonian ...Athenians led them to take part also in the Sicilian expedition. Later on a Lacedemonian army under Agesipolis, the son of Pausanias, invaded their territory...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...very reason into Megalopolis, being included in the decree then made by the Arcadian confederacy; no other city Triteia, except the one in Achaia, is to be found...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...to them from Delphi: Maenalia is storm-swept, where lies Arcas, from whom all Arcadians are named, In a place where meet three, four, even five roads; Thither I bid...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Marathon ...heroes at Troy, and the Athenians relate in song how gods sided with them at Marathon and at the battle of Salamis. Very plainly the host of the Gauls was destroyed...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Mantineans ...the god, and manifestly by demons. So there is precedent for the story of the Mantineans that they won their victory by the aid of Poseidon. Arcesilaus, an ancestor...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Elean ...house of the sons of Pheidolas." But the inscription is at variance with the Elean records of Olympic victors. These records give a victory to the sons of...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Pellene ...four-horse chariots; the statue of Agathinus was dedicated by the Achaeans of Pellene. The Athenian people dedicated a statue of Aristophon, the son of Lysinus, who...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Athenians ...from them. It was at the time of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians that he also saved the Phigalians, and at no other time; the evidence is that...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Crotona ...the trunk until the wolves – a beast that roves in vast packs in the land of Crotona – made him their prey. Such was the fate that overtook Milo. Pyrrhus, the son...

Crotona

79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Phigaleia ...and received this response: Azanian Arcadians, acorn-eaters, who dwell In Phigaleia, the cave that hid Deo, who bare a horse, You have come to learn a cure for...

Phigaleia

77 21.8391,37.3963,0 Olympia ...Festival he fluted six times for the pentathlum. For these reasons the slab at Olympia was erected in honor of Pythocritus, with the inscription on it: "This is the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Pallantium ...my account of Arcadia I have only to describe the road from Megalopolis to Pallantium and Tegea, which also takes us as far as what is called the Dyke. On this road...

Pallantium

77 22.336587,37.462155,0 Paleans ...name as the son of Deinomenes, and, like him, was despot of Syracuse. The Paleans, who form one of the four divisions of the Cephallenians, dedicated a statue of...

Paleans

77 20.437481,38.222555,0 Caria ...made images in many places of ancient Greece, and some besides in Ionia and Caria. On the front gable is the hunting of the Calydonian boar. The boar stands...

Caria

78 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Mantineans ...of Antonius and his allies, among whom were all the Arcadians except the Mantineans. It is clear that Augustus was not the first to carry away from the vanquished...

Mantineans

75 22.393259,37.618138,0 Pythian ...who at the previous Festival had won a victory for wrestling, while at the Pythian games he won a crown in the boys' boxing-match, and again in the men's...

Pythian

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tegea ...by rust, worn by the Lacedemonian prisoners when they dug the plain of Tegea. There have been dedicated a sacred couch of Athena, a portrait painting of...

Tegea

73 22.429,37.464,0 Orchomenus ...Artemis, the same as is called Leader, is as follows. Aristomelidas, despot of Orchomenus in Arcadia, fell in love with a Tegean maiden, and, getting her somehow or...

Orchomenus

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Chersonesus ...in the pentathlum, along with Philonides son of Zotes, who was a native of Chersonesus in Crete, and a courier of Alexander the son of Philip. After him comes Brimias...

Chersonesus

77 25.390563,35.321428,0 Argives ...defeat, for they were delivered from their despot. Not long afterwards the Argives celebrated the Nemean games, and Philopoemen chanced to be present at the...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Macedonia ...there rose to do him honor. But Philip, the son of Demetrius, king of Macedonia, who poisoned Aratus of Sicyon, sent men to Megalopolis with orders to murder...

Macedonia

73 21.75,41.25,0 Arcadians ...to Crete and sided with the Gortynians, who were hard pressed in war. The Arcadians were wroth with him for his absence; so he returned from Crete and found that...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Actaea ...them Atthis; and from her they call the country Attica, which before was named Actaea. And Amphictyon, rising up against Cranaus, although he had his daughter to...

Actaea

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Gauls ...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...

Gauls

76 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Gauls ...on them: "Pyrrhus the Molossian hung these shields / taken from the bold Gauls as a gift to Itonian Athena, when he had destroyed all the host of Antigonus...

Gauls

76 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Persians ...There is also a sanctuary of Cychreus. When the Athenians were fighting the Persians at sea, a serpent is said to have appeared in the fleet, and the god in an...

Persians

78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...I can enumerate other men also born at this time who are worshipped among the Greeks as gods; some even have cities dedicated to them, such as Eleus in Chersonesus...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Asia ...was married to Lagus by Philip. And among the distinguished acts of Ptolemy in Asia they mention that it was he who, of Alexander's companions, was foremost in...

Asia

81 27.5,37.5,0 city ...found and destroyed by sheepdogs of Crotopus, and Apollo sent Vengeance to the city to punish the Argives. They say that she used to snatch the children from their...

city

81 Pergameni ...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...

Pergameni

79 27.184167,39.1325,0 tomb ...is incredible to me, but Hieronymus the Cardian relates that he destroyed the tombs and cast out the bones of the dead. But this Hieronymus has a reputation...

tomb

80 Egypt ...gave out a sound. The many call it Memnon, who they say from Aethiopia overran Egypt and as far as Susa. The Thebans, however, say that it is a statue, not of...

Egypt

81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 tomb ...is named after Alcathous. As you ascend this citadel you see on the right the tomb of Megareus, who at the time of the Cretan invasion came as an ally from...

tomb

80 river ...Discovering that they were plotting to seize Egypt, he led them through the river to a deserted island. There they perished at one another's hands or by...

river

78 Lacedemonians ...a city which even at the present day is called Patrae from this Patreus, the Lacedemonians took part in the settlement. They also joined in an expedition overseas to...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cretans ...who was a distinguished Spartan, to put down the civil strife among the Cretans, to persuade them to abandon the weak, inland towns, and to help them to people...

Cretans

74 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Lacedemonians ...After his death Polydorus received many signal marks of respect from the Lacedemonians. However, Polemarchus too has a tomb in Sparta; either he had been considered a...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...this time Xerxes led his host against Greece, and Leonidas with three hundred Lacedemonians met him at Thermopylae. Now although the Greeks have waged many wars, and so...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Coan ...Hellespont. I cannot praise too highly the way in which Pausanias treated the Coan lady, who was the daughter of a man of distinction among the Coans, Hegetorides...

Coan

80 27.257012,36.875681,0 Lacedemonians ...these came out and offered battle before the wall, and there fell here several Lacedemonians, including Lysander himself. Pausanias was too late for the fight, having been...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argive ...then senses by the thunder. In this circumstance he reluctantly withdrew from Argive territory, and began another campaign, attacking Olynthus. Victorious in the...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Boeotians ...upon Cleombrotus, who was general in the battle at Leuctra against the Boeotians. Cleombrotus showed personal bravery, but fell when the battle was only just...

Boeotians

73 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Spartans ...afterwards, under the leadership of Charillus, took place the campaign of the Spartans against Tegea, when lured on by a deceptive oracle the Lacedemonians hoped to...

Spartans

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thessaly ...of Mycale, and afterwards undertook a campaign against the Aleuadae in Thessaly. Although his uninterrupted victories in the fighting might have enabled him to...

Thessaly

73 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...of Sparta, they would without delay set free their own subjects; whereupon the Lacedemonians under king Agis invaded the territory of Elis. On this occasion there occurred...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Elis ...devastated the country and carried off most of the booty. Xenias, a man of Elis who was a personal friend of Agis and the state-friend of the Lacedemonians...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Athenians ...into Attica, and established the fortified post at Decelea to annoy the Athenians. When the Athenian navy was destroyed at Aegospotami, Lysander, the son of...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphi ...Agesilaus and Leotychides was supplied by the oracle that was delivered at Delphi to this effect: "Sparta beware! though haughty, pay heed to the warning I give...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sardes ...schemer who had some grudge against the Lacedemonians. On his arrival at Sardes he at once thought out a plan by which to force the Lacedemonians to recall...

Sardes

76 28.040278,38.488333,0 Lacedemon ...the Locrians brought in the Thebans as allies, and devastated Phocis. Going to Lacedemon the Phocians inveighed against the Thebans, and set forth what they had...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sestos ...to lead his army back from Asia. Crossing with his fleet from Abydos to Sestos he passed through Thrace as far as Thessaly, where the Thessalians, to please...

Sestos

74 26.38916,40.21343,0 Phocians ...hold praiseworthy, but the following incident does redound to his praise. The Phocians were contemplating the cruel course of killing the Delphians of vigorous age...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Delphians ...to his praise. The Phocians were contemplating the cruel course of killing the Delphians of vigorous age, enslaving the women and children, and levelling the city...

Delphians

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argives ...departed from the beginning to other lands. Subsequently a division of the Argives who, under Deiphontes, had seized Epidaurus, crossed to Aegina, and, settling...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aegina ...the Aeginetans had the images, how the Athenians perished who crossed over to Aegina to fetch them – all this, as Herodotus has described it accurately and in...

Aegina

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Caria ...dispatched as colonists from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons of Troezen, migrated to Attica, and the...

Caria

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Troezenian ...to a sanctuary of Pan Lyterius (Releasing), so named because he showed to the Troezenian magistrates dreams which supplied a cure for the epidemic that had afflicted...

Troezenian

80 Nauplia ...which they celebrate in honor of Hera. The story told by the people in Nauplia about the ass, how by nibbling down the shoots of a vine he caused a more...

Nauplia

73 22.796,37.565,0 Ilium ...between the gods and the giants, or to the Trojan war and the capture of Ilium. Before the entrance stand statues of women who have been priestesses to Hera...

Ilium

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sipylus ...I know because I saw it. Moreover, no constraint came upon him to flee from Sipylus, such as afterwards forced Pelops to run away when Ilus the Phrygian launched...

Sipylus

78 27.45394,38.5668,0 Sicyonians ...honored among the Sicyonians in Titane. The Argives, like the Athenians and Sicyonians, worship Artemis Pheraea, and they, too, assert that the image of the goddess...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Epeirus ...story of Helenus, son of Priam, I have already given: that he went to Epeirus with Pyrrhus, the son of. Achilles; that, wedded to Andromache, he was guardian...

Epeirus

72 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Argives ...a victory over an Argive Laphaes. When this man was tyrant I write what the Argives themselves say concerning themselves – the people rose up against him and cast...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...who set out against Troy swore to hold out in the war until they either took Troy or met their end fighting. Others have said that in the bronze vessel lie the...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argives ...opinion, for it is not easy to make the multitude change their views. The Argives have other things worth seeing; for instance, an underground building over...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cretan ...set specially apart for himself. It was afterwards called the precinct of the Cretan god, because, when Ariadne died, Dionysus buried her here. But Lyceas says that...

Cretan

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Larisa ...to prove to their father that they had done the dreadful deed. On the top of Larisa is a temple of Zeus, surnamed Larisaean, which has no roof; the wooden image I...

Larisa

80 Scheria ...Aegina, and Thebe. Corcyra and Aegina gave new names to the islands called Scheria and Oenone, while from Thebe is named the city below the Cadmea. The Thebans do...

Scheria

77 19.92178,39.60733,0 Asopus ...beyond Aethiopia and becomes the Nile. Such is the account I heard of the Asopus. When you have turned from the Acrocorinthus into the mountain road you see the...

Asopus

77 22.75,37.75,0 Mycenaeans ...was attacking him, Hippolytus agreed to become subject to Agamemnon and the Mycenaeans. This Hippolytus was the father of Lacestades. Phalces the son of Temenus, with...

Mycenaeans

78 22.756111,37.730833,0 Dorians ...and made him partner in the kingdom. From that time the Sicyonians became Dorians and their land a part of the Argive territory. The city built by Aegialeus on...

Dorians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Lycia ...from them many of their famous sights. It damaged also the cities of Caria and Lycia, and the island of Rhodes was very violently shaken, so that it was thought...

Lycia

81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Arcadian ...the list of the Arcadians, in which the Sicyonians are not included among the Arcadian confederates. As my narrative progresses it will become clear that they were...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Marathon ...that the wrath of this goddess fell also upon the foreigners who landed at Marathon. For thinking in their pride that nothing stood in the way of their taking...

Marathon

77 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lade ...by doctors bastard. Before the city of the Milesians is an island called Lade, and from it certain islets are detached. One of these they call the islet of...

Lade

75 27.25,37.75,0 Cephisus ...he will cut off the young man's hair as a gift for the Spercheus. Across the Cephisus is an ancient altar of Zeus Meilichius (Gracious). At this altar Theseus...

Cephisus

80 23.625,38.125,0 Eleusis ...built a little above the plain close to Cithaeron. There is another road from Eleusis, which leads to Megara. As you go along this road you come to a well called...

Eleusis

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athenians ...of body. Such in my opinion are the most famous legends and sights among the Athenians, and from the beginning my narrative has picked out of much material the things...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Onchestus ...But the Boeotians declare that Megareus, son of Poseidon, who dwelt in Onchestus, came with an army of Boeotians to help Nisus wage the war against Minos; that...

Onchestus

73 23.146959,38.364863,0 Thebes ...army of Mardonius, having overrun Megaris, wished to return to Mardonius at Thebes, but that by the will of Artemis night came on them as they marched, and...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...This ship they say that they captured off Salamis in a naval action with the Athenians. The Athenians too admit that for a time they evacuated the island before the...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the bird called the hoopoe appeared here for the first time. The women came to Athens, and while lamenting their sufferings and their revenge, perished through their...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megarians ...Ino, about which is a fencing of stones, and beside it grow olives. The Megarians are the only Greeks who say that the corpse of Ino was cast up on their coast...

Megarians

74 15.18273,37.2038,0 Argives ...in shape. There is also a hero-shrine of Aegialeus, son of Adrastus. When the Argives made their second attack on Thebes he died at Glisas early in the first battle...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aegosthena ...in Megaris and buried him, the shrine being still called the Aegialeum. In Aegosthena is a sanctuary of Melampus, son of Amythaon, and a small figure of a man carved...

Aegosthena

78 23.22874,38.14719,0 Megarians ...day and named after Sciron, was made by him when he was war minister of the Megarians, and originally they say was constructed for the use of active men. But the...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Aegina ...the Greeks Aeacus in obedience to an oracular utterance sacrificed in Aegina to Zeus God of all the Greeks, and Zeus rained and ended the drought, gaining...

Aegina

72 23.42372,37.74991,0 Arcadian ...where legend says that Hyllus, son of Heracles, fought a duel with the Arcadian Echemus.

Arcadian

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Trojans ...flocks, as Homer puts it in the Iliad: "Son was he of Phorbas, the dearest of Trojans to Hermes, Rich in flocks, for the god vouchsafed him wealth in abundance." The...

Trojans

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Aphrodite ...next in age as Acraea (Of the Height/Promontory), while the newest is to the Aphrodite called Cnidian by men generally, but Euploia (Fair Voyage) by the Cnidians...

Aphrodite

79 25.17619,37.10146,0 Greeks ...also for the Athenians: a temple of Hera and Zeus Panellenios (Common to all Greeks), a sanctuary common to all the gods, and, most famous of all, a hundred...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...upon her; perhaps the Athenians them selves needed showers, or may be all the Greeks had been plagued with a drought. There also are set up Timotheus the son of...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...mother of Helen, while Leda suckled and nursed her. The father of Helen the Greeks like everybody else hold to be not Tyndareus but Zeus. Having heard this...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...obedience to an oracular utterance sacrificed in Aegina to Zeus God of all the Greeks, and Zeus rained and ended the drought, gaining thus the name Aphesius. Here...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Cyparissus ...all the way to Anticyra. They say that in days of old the name of the city was Cyparissus, and that Homer in the list of Phocians was determined to call it by this name...

Cyparissus

81 21.681159,37.248527,0 Amphissa ...found the new city of Nicopolis, the greater part of the people went away to Amphissa. Originally, however, they came of Locrian race. It is said that the name of...

Amphissa

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Troy ...a temple of Athena, with a standing image of bronze, brought, they say, from Troy by Thoas, being part of the spoils of that city. But I cannot accept the...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Amphissa ...Locrians also possess the following cities. Farther inland from Amphissa, and above it, is Myonia, thirty stades distant from it. Its people are those...

Amphissa

66 22.315807,38.41224,0 Myonia ...possess the following cities. Farther inland from Amphissa, and above it, is Myonia, thirty stades distant from it. Its people are those who dedicated the shield...

Myonia

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Naupactus ...gather that the city got its name from a woman or a nymph, while as for Naupactus, I have heard it said that the Dorians under the sons of Aristomachus built...

Naupactus

74 22.315807,38.41224,0 Epidaurus ...For he had a complaint of the eyes, and when he was almost blind the god at Epidaurus sent to him the poetess Anyte, who brought with her a sealed tablet. The woman...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Marpessus ...ruins of the city Marpessus, with some sixty inhabitants. All the land around Marpessus is reddish and terribly parched, so that the light and porous nature of Ida in...

Marpessus

80 26.520832,39.87918,0 Colophon ...part of her life in Samos, but she also visited Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi. Whenever she visited Delphi, she would stand on this rock...

Colophon

77 27.142222,38.115556,0 Delos ...her life in Samos, but she also visited Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi. Whenever she visited Delphi, she would stand on this rock and sing...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Idaean ...a shepherd of the district, and of a nymph. They add that the surname Idaean was given to the nymph simply because the men of those days called idai places...

Idaean

72 26.85852,39.69936,0 Troad ...they say, was a son of Poseidon, and ruled as king in Colonae, a city in the Troad situated opposite the island Leucophrys. He had a daughter, by name Hemithea...

Troad

79 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Delphi ...at Artemisium and Salamis. There is also a story that Themistocles came to Delphi bringing with him for Apollo some of the Persian spoils. He asked whether he...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pheraeans ...leaders, mounted on horses, were dedicated in Apollo's sanctuary by the Pheraeans after routing the Attic cavalry. The bronze palm-tree, as well as a gilt image...

Pheraeans

74 22.737728,39.384163,0 Hermione ...is here an offering of the Lacedemonians, made by Calamis, depicting Hermione, daughter of Menelaus, who married Orestes, son of Agamemnon, having previously...

Hermione

71 23.243591,37.385218,0 Aetolians ...having previously been wedded to Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. The Aetolians have dedicated a statue of Eurydamus, general of the Aetolians, who was their...

Aetolians

73 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Crete ...their leader in the war against the army of the Gauls. On the mountains of Crete there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi...

Crete

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Carystians ...the sanctuary of Apollo a bronze ox, from spoils taken in the Persian war. The Carystians and the Plataeans dedicated oxen, I believe, because, having repulsed the...

Carystians

81 24.4204,38.0165,0 Liparaeans ...the Liparaeans, went out to meet them with an equal number of ships. These the Liparaeans captured, as they did a second five that came out against them, overcoming too...

Liparaeans

81 14.95373,38.46708,0 Boeotia ...and they say that, deeply grieved by the fate of Actaeon, and vexed alike with Boeotia and the whole of Greece, he migrated to Sardinia. Others think that Daedalus...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Cyrnus ...they are like the Libyans. Not far distant from Sardinia is an island, called Cyrnus by the Greeks, but Corsica by the Libyans who inhabit it. A large part of the...

Cyrnus

81 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Delphi ...the sea, worshipping it with sacrifices and prayers, but sent a bronze copy to Delphi. The carvings in the pediments are: Artemis, Leto, Apollo, Muses, a setting...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thespiae ...Corinth twice this number; of the Boeotians there mustered seven hundred from Thespiae and four hundred from Thebes. A thousand Phocians guarded the path on Mount...

Thespiae

80 23.154521,38.293384,0 Athenian ...inscription remained until Sulla and his army took away, among other Athenian treasures, the shields in the porch of Zeus, God of Freedom. After this battle...

Athenian

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Amphissa ...of the god were as follow: the Phocians, who came from all their cities; from Amphissa four hundred hoplites; from the Aetolians a few came at once on hearing of the...

Amphissa

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Athenians ...to the barbarians, and all that the god had inflicted upon them. Whereupon the Athenians took the field, and as they marched through Boeotia they were joined by the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Trojans ...he says that he was wounded by Admetus, son of Augeias, in the battle that the Trojans fought in the night. Beside Meges is also painted Lycomedes the son of Creon...

Trojans

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Greeks ...an inscription: "These once ravaged golden Asia, and brought slavery upon the Greeks. Now ownerless they lie by the pillars of the temple of Zeus, spoils of...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Celts ...late before the name "Gauls" came into vogue; for anciently they were called Celts both amongst themselves and by others. An army of them mustered and turned...

Celts

79 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 city ...alliance and lent all their forces to furthering the Macedonian cause. Each city ranged under the alliance had its own general, but as commander-in-chief was...

city

79 city ...appeared as evidence in support of Poseidon's claim to the land. Both the city and the whole of the land are alike sacred to Athena; for even those who in...

city

77 Asia ...of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, and of Eurydice. He also crossed with a fleet to Asia and helped to overthrow the empire of Antigonus. He founded also the modern...

Asia

78 27.5,37.5,0 Asia ...would come. A report spread quickly even to the Romans that Macedonians and Asiatic tribes also were crossing to the aid of Pyrrhus. The Romans, on hearing...

Asia

78 27.5,37.5,0 Macedonia ...his empire at the expense of the Nestians and Macedonians. The greater part of Macedonia was under the control of Pyrrhus himself, who came from Epeirus with an army...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Epidaurus ...to please the Messenians. There is other evidence that the god was born in Epidaurus for I find that the most famous sanctuaries of Asclepius had their origin from...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...at Lebene, in Crete. There is this difference between the Cyreneans and the Epidaurians, that whereas the former sacrifice goats, it is against the custom of the...

Epidaurians

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurian ...reply the youths seized her, placed her in the chariot, and drove away. An Epidaurian told Deiphontes that Cerynes and Phalces had gone, taking with them Hyrnetho...

Epidaurian

77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...and another of Procles, the father of Melissa. He, too, was tyrant of Epidaurus, as Periander, his son-in-law, was tyrant of Corinth. The most noteworthy...

Epidaurus

72 23.079167,37.596111,0 Athens ...the Aeginetans rose to great power, so that their navy was superior to that of Athens, and in the Persian war supplied more ships than any state except Athens, yet...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegina ...given them to rise again to their old wealth or power. Of the Greek islands, Aegina is the most difficult of access, for it is surrounded by sunken rocks and reefs...

Aegina

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezen ...of Pythian Apollo; these, however, were built much later than the sanctuary at Troezen. The modern image was dedicated by Auliscus, and made by Hermon of Troezen...

Troezen

81 Athens ...gave to the Troezenians to be kept safe, when they had resolved to evacuate Athens and not to await the attack of the Persians by land. They are said to have...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Saronic ...and is still alive; Heracles, they say, discovering the wild olive by the Saronic Sea, cut a club from it. There is also a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Saviour...

Saronic

76 23.46300815833333,37.77606943333334,0 Calaurea ...exchanged the two places. They still say this, and quote an oracle: "Delos and Calaurea alike thou lovest to dwell in, Pytho, too, the holy, and Taenarum swept by the...

Calaurea

81 23.48041,37.52255,0 Methana ...is a peninsula, on the coast of which has been founded a little town called Methana. Here there is a sanctuary of Isis, and on the market-place is an image of...

Methana

78 23.34909,37.58672,0 Hermionians ...is also another temple of Aphrodite. Among the honors paid her by the Hermionians is this custom: maidens, and widows about to remarry, all sacrifice to her...

Hermionians

72 23.243591,37.385218,0 Hermion ...to Clymenus here. I do not believe that Clymenus was an Argive who came to Hermion "Clymenus" is the surname of the god, whoever legend says is king in the...

Hermion

77 23.243591,37.385218,0 Nauplia ...be a son of Poseidon and Amymone. Of the walls, too, ruins still remain and in Nauplia are a sanctuary of Poseidon, harbors, and a spring called Canathus. Here, say...

Nauplia

81 22.796,37.565,0 Lacedemonian ...picked Argives fought for this land with an equal number of specially chosen Lacedemonian warriors. All were killed except one Spartan and two Argives, and here were...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pharis ...which were still in the possession of the Achaeans. The inhabitants of Pharis and Geranthrae, panic-stricken at the onslaught of the Dorians, made an...

Pharis

73 22.2805645,37.029321,0 Lacedemonians ...the death of Alcamenes, Polydorus his son succeeded to the throne, and the Lacedemonians sent colonies to Croton in Italy and to the Locri by the Western headland. The...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegina ...house, was slandering him to the Lacedemonian populace. On his return from Aegina, Cleomenes began to intrigue for the deposition of king Demaratus. He bribed...

Aegina

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Pythian ...he had devastated Orgas; the Delphians put it down to the bribes he gave the Pythian prophetess, persuading her to give lying responses about Demaratus. It may...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elaeus ...wrong Protesilaus, a hero not a whit more illustrious than Argus, punished at Elaeus Artayctes, a Persian; while the Megarians never succeeded in propitiating the...

Elaeus

80 26.220385,40.051661,0 Peloponnesus ...aware that if Pyrrhus were to reduce Lacedemon and the greater part of the Peloponnesus, he would not return to Epeirus but to Macedonia to make war there again. When...

Peloponnesus

77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Gauls ...Agdistis, where they say that Attis lies buried. They have spoils from the Gauls, and a painting which portrays their deed against them. The land they dwell in...

Gauls

78 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Greeks ...These are the oldest stone images I am aware of having seen among the Greeks. Near Coroebus is buried Orsippus who won the footrace at Olympia by running...

Greeks

72 22.5,37.5,0 coast ...the road by the sea to Oropus stands Rhamnus. The dwelling houses are on the coast, but a little way inland is a sanctuary of Nemesis, the most implacable deity...

coast

79 tomb ...said to have fallen ill there and died, and on the coast of the Megarid is his tomb, on the rock called the rock of Athena the Gannet. But his children expelled...

tomb

81 Egypt ...and afterwards Ptolemy himself, who had crossed to bring help. Ptolemy fled to Egypt, where he was besieged by Antigonus on land and by Demetrius with a fleet. In...

Egypt

81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 tomb ...of Demeter Thesmophorus (Lawgiver). On going down from it you see the tomb of Callipolis, son of Alcathous. Alcathous had also an elder son, Ischepolis...

tomb

72 tomb ...is told in legend, and at the general misfortune of her father's house. The tomb of Autonoe is in this village. On the road from Megara to Corinth are graves...

tomb

78 Libya ...crossed into Asia, nobody had seen at all except the Indians themselves, the Libyans, and their neighbours. This is proved by Homer, who describes the couches and...

Libya

79 26.5,31.5,0 Acarnanians ...Works and Days. These same Boeotians say that Hesiod learnt seercraft from the Acarnanians, and there are extant a poem called Mantica (Seercraft), which I myself have...

Acarnanians

81 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Molycria ...agree that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled from Naupactus to Molycria because of the murder of Hesiod, that here they sinned against Poseidon, and...

Molycria

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Lacedemonian ...both their territory and their city. In Haliartus is the tomb of Lysander the Lacedemonian. For having attacked the walls of Haliartus, in which were troops from Thebes...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...of making unjust statements, as the rule of the Thirty was then supreme at Athens, and Lysander had not yet departed, Eteonicus was encouraged to make an...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...a thing which even the Persians who landed at Marathon received from the Athenians, and the Lacedemonians themselves who fell at Thermopylae received from King...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ionia ...of the god crossed with ships to the Colophonian land in what is now called Ionia. Manto there married Rhacius, a Cretan. The rest of the history of Teiresias is...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Mycenae ...the greatest heights of prosperity, it too was fated to fall almost as low as Mycenae and Delos. Its ancient history is confined to the following traditions. They...

Mycenae

80 22.756111,37.730833,0 Tiryns ...not made even the briefest mention of the treasury of Minyas and the walls of Tiryns, though these are no less marvellous. Minyas had a son Orchomenus, in whose...

Tiryns

80 22.80004,37.59918,0 Boeotians ...given in a former part of my work. XL. This oracle was once unknown to the Boeotians, but they learned of it in the following way. As there had been no rain for a...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Delos ...Dance, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, carved in relief on white marble. At Delos, too, there is a small wooden image of Aphrodite, its right hand defaced by...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Phocians ...generals was Itonian Athena, and by the Phocian generals Phocus, from whom the Phocians were named. Because of this engagement the Phocians sent as offerings to Delphi...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Plataea ...the Persian cause and ranged themselves with the Greeks at the battle of Plataea. Subsequently it happened that a fine was inflicted on them by the Amphictyons...

Plataea

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Phocis ...at which Polycles of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race. The cities of Phocis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotia ...lived here was fear of the Boeotians; at this point is the easiest pass from Boeotia into Phocis, so the king used Panopeus as a fortified post. The former...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Daulis ...flesh they are wont to consume on the spot. There is also an ascent through Daulis to the summit of Parnassus, a longer one than that from Delphi, though not so...

Daulis

79 22.72926,38.50665,0 Lycoreia ...a son Lycorus by a nymph, Corycia, and that after Lycorus was named the city Lycoreia, and after the nymph the Corycian cave. It is also said that Celaeno was...

Lycoreia

79 Delphi ...the renown shall never die. 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...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thessalians ...together with the Aenianians and Phthiotians, should be numbered with the Thessalians, and that all their votes, together with those of the Dolopes, who were no...

Thessalians

76 21.75,39.25,0 Corinthians ...there is also one from Euboea. Of the Peloponnesians, the Argives, Sicyonians, Corinthians and Megarians send one, as Nicopolis send deputies to every meeting of the...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Phocaea ...and is larger than the one inside the temple. The Massiliots are a colony of Phocaea in Ionia, and their city was founded by some of those who ran away from Phocaea...

Phocaea

79 26.75261,38.6684,0 Delphians ...is a precinct of the hero Phylacus. This Phylacus is reported by the Delphians to have defended them at the time of the Persian invasion. They say that in...

Delphians

71 22.501169,38.482289,0 Castalia ...the way to the sanctuary you reach, on the right of the way, the water of Castalia, which is sweet to drink and pleasant to bathe in. Some say that the spring was...

Castalia

76 22.505528,38.483082,0 Corcyra ...offering of the Corcyraeans made by Theopropus of Aegina. The story is that in Corcyra a bull, leaving the cows, would go down from the pasture and bellow on the...

Corcyra

81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Euboeans ...Alypus of Sicyon, namely:– Theopompus the Myndian, Cleomedes of Samos, the two Euboeans Aristocles of Carystus and Autonomus of Eretria, Aristophantus of Corinth...

Euboeans

81 Athenians ...of his son Demetrius, and of Ptolemy the Egyptian, were sent to Delphi by the Athenians afterwards. The statue of the Egyptian they sent out of good-will; those of the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotian ...Musaeus, son of Antiophemus, and Lycus, son of Pandion, and also Bacis, a Boeotian who was possessed by nymphs. I have read the oracles of all these except those...

Boeotian

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Tegea ...Mantineia to Tegea leads through the oaks. The boundary between Mantineia and Tegea is the round altar on the highroad. If you will turn aside to the left from the...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Ephesus ...was razed to the ground by Lysimachus, simply in order that the population of Ephesus might be increased. The land around Lebedus is a happy one; in particular its...

Ephesus

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Lebedus ...are more numerous and more pleasant than any others on the coast. Originally Lebedus also was inhabited by the Carians, until they were driven out by Andraemon the...

Lebedus

79 26.964722,38.077883,0 Ionians ...of Aeolus. Here too there was a Carian element combined with the Greek, while Ionians were introduced into Teos by Apoecus, a great-grandchild of Melanthus, who...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Teians ...were led by Geres, a Boeotian. Both parties were received by Apoecus and the Teians as fellow-settlers. The Erythraeans say that they came originally from Crete...

Teians

79 26.785014,38.177262,0 Boeotia ...at the head of the Athenians and the united Greeks defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against Oeta, and...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Colophonian ...afterwards they abandoned, and returning to Ionia they founded Scyppium in the Colophonian territory. They left of their own free-will Colophonian territory also, and so...

Colophonian

81 27.142222,38.115556,0 Erythrae ...of the race of the Codridae, they accepted Deoetes, Periclus and Abartus from Erythrae and from Teos. The cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against...

Erythrae

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Samos ...Others with Leogorus threw a wall round Anaea on the mainland opposite Samos, and ten years after crossed over, expelled the Ephesians and reoccupied the...

Samos

73 26.84,37.73,0 Sicilians ...at Inycus, a city of Sicily. Thereby he became the cause of war between Sicilians and Cretans, because when Minos demanded him back, Cocalus refused to give him...

Sicilians

74 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Troy ...of this story is strengthened by the fact that the Aeolians who today occupy Troy nowhere point out a tomb of Anchises in their own land. Near the grave of...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Ionians ...were rid of war, it occurred to Hector that they ought to unite with the Ionians in sacrificing at Panionium. It is said that the Ionian confederacy gave him a...

Ionians

75 27.508324,37.474596,0 Pheneus ...the boundaries of the cities I have mentioned lies a ravine, and the road to Pheneus leads through it. Just about the middle of the ravine water rises up from a...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneus ...who say that the sea is named after a woman called Myrto. The people of Pheneus have also a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Eleusinian, and they perform a...

Pheneus

75 22.30692,37.91045,0 Elis ...Artemis, and they say that the sanctuary was made by Heracles after capturing Elis. Here also are tombs of heroes, those who joined the campaign of Heracles...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Crathis ...road that leads to Mount Crathis. On this mountain is the source of the river Crathis, which flows into the sea by the side of Aegae, now a deserted spot, though in...

Crathis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...given to each man. Otilius had received orders from the Romans to protect Athenians and Aetolians from war with Philip. Otilius carried out his orders up to a...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaean ...being delivered from the Macedonians the Corinthians at once joined the Achaean League; they had joined it on a previous occasion, when the Sicyonians under...

Achaean

74 Sparta ...after the battle he resolved to lead his army back home, and not to bring upon Sparta the most disgraceful of reproaches by increasing the despotic power of wicked...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olynthus ...withdrew from Argive territory, and began another campaign, attacking Olynthus. Victorious in the war, having captured most of the cities in Chalcidice, and...

Olynthus

72 23.354208,40.296525,0 Athens ...son of Acrotatus was king in Sparta, Antigonus the son of Demetrius attacked Athens with an army and a fleet. To the help of the Athenians there came the Egyptian...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Areus their king at their head. Antigonus invested Athens and prevented the Athenian reinforcements from entering the city; so Patroclus dispatched messengers...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...be a guard over them. After a time Antigonus himself removed the garrison from Athens of his own accord while Areus begat Acrotatus, and Acrotatus Areus, who died of...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemon ...Thessaly, he accepted bribes from the Aleuadae. Or, being brought to trial in Lacedemon he voluntarily went into exile to Tegea, where he sought sanctuary as a...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...because they were debarred from the Olympic games and the sanctuary at Olympia. So they dispatched a herald commanding the people of Elis to grant home-rule...

Olympia

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Marathon ...Minotaur that was said to dwell in the Labyrinth at Cnossus. But the bull at Marathon Theseus is said to have driven afterwards to the Acropolis and to have...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Thebes ...to Oedipus, whose bones, after diligent inquiry, I found were brought from Thebes. The account of the death of Oedipus in the drama of Sophocles I am prevented...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Edonians ...a victorious advance as far as Drabescus, were unexpectedly attacked by the Edonians and slaughtered. There is also a legend that they were struck by...

Edonians

78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Sardinia ...the Greeks; but by them selves the Athenians sent armies, first with Iolaus to Sardinia, secondly to what is now Ionia, and thirdly on the present occasion to...

Sardinia

81 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Argives ...the insult as intolerable, and on their way back made an alliance with the Argives, the immemorial enemies of the Lacedemonians. Afterwards, when a battle was...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...of the Lacedemonians. Afterwards, when a battle was imminent at Tanagra, the Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonian ...was tyrant, others planned the capture of the Peiraeus when in the hands of a Macedonian garrison, but before the deed could be accomplished were betrayed by their...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Myrrhinus ...commander-in-chief in the war with Eleusis. Such is the legend. Phlya and Myrrhinus have altars of Apollo Dionysodotus, Artemis Light-bearer, Dionysus Flower-god...

Myrrhinus

77 23.9678945,37.872812,0 Myrrhinusians ...were ruled by kings even before the reign of Cecrops. Now Colaenus, say the Myrrhinusians, is the name of a man who ruled before Cecrops became king. There is a parish...

Myrrhinusians

78 23.9678945,37.872812,0 Lebadea ...dedicated to them, such as Eleus in Chersonesus dedicated to Protesilaus, and Lebadea of the Boeotians dedicated to Trophonius. The Oropians have both a temple and a...

Lebadea

80 22.87352,38.431063,0 Cephisus ...fifth is dedicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus. The Athenians too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and there is at...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Megarians ...what the Athenians call the Sacred Way you see the tomb of Anthemocritus. The Megarians committed against him a most wicked deed, for when he had come as a herald to...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Cephisus ...Phytalus and his race have gotten honours immortal. Before you cross the Cephisus you come to the tomb of Theodorus, the best tragic actor of his day. By the...

Cephisus

76 23.625,38.125,0 Athenians ...of Scambonidae. I could not find the grave of Crocon, but Eleusinians and Athenians agreed in identifying the tomb of Eumolpus. This Eumolpus they say came from...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleutherae ...from which the old wooden image was carried off to Athens. The image at Eleutherae at the present day is a copy of the old one. A little farther on is a small...

Eleutherae

74 23.37572,38.17934,0 Athenians ...the land is the grave of Pandion, and Nisus, while giving up the rule over the Athenians to Aegeus, the eldest of all the family, was himself made king of Megara and of...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicyon ...say that Cleone was one of the daughters of Asopus, that flows by the side of Sicyon. Be this as it may, one or other of these two accounts for the name of the...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Tretus ...where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to Zeus of Apesas. Ascending to Tretus, and again going along the road to Argos, you see on the left the ruins of...

Tretus

80 Amyclae ...themselves do not accept it either. For the Lacedemonians have at Amyclae a portrait statue of a woman named Sparte, but they would be amazed at the mere...

Amyclae

68 24.76084,35.0133,0 Tiryns ...too, are said to be the work of the Cyclopes, who made for Proetus the wall at Tiryns. In the ruins of Mycenae is a fountain called Persea; there are also...

Tiryns

81 22.80004,37.59918,0 Messenia ...Tisamenus from Lacedemon and Argos, and the descendants of Nestor from Messenia, namely Alcmaeon, son of Sillus, son of Thrasymedes, Peisistratus, son of...

Messenia

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebes ...and of all the chieftains who with him were killed in battle at the wall of Thebes. These men Aeschylus has reduced to the number of seven only, although there...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cephisus ...is, it can be heard flowing under the earth. Beside the sanctuary of Cephisus is a head of Medusa made of stone, which is said to be another of the works of...

Cephisus

72 23.625,38.125,0 Argives ...were returning from Troy, met with the shipwreck at Caphereus, those of the Argives who were able to escape to land suffered from cold and hunger. Having prayed...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Hysiae ...won the foot-race. On coming down to a lower level you reach the ruins of Hysiae, which once was a city in Argolis, and here it is that they say the...

Hysiae

76 22.585884,37.519836,0 Argos ...on the death of Polybus he became king at Sicyon. When Adrastus returned to Argos, Ianiscus, a descendant of Clytius the father-in-law of Lamedon, came from...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Maeander ...the Silenus met with his disaster, the river Marsyas carried the flutes to the Maeander; reappearing in the Asopus they were cast ashore in the Sicyonian territory and...

Maeander

81 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Asopus ...the river Marsyas carried the flutes to the Maeander; reappearing in the Asopus they were cast ashore in the Sicyonian territory and given to Apollo by the...

Asopus

75 22.75,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...the Alexandrians, but at last, on being captured, he fell by his own hand. The Lacedemonians, glad to be rid of Cleomenes, refused to be ruled by kings any longer, but the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegium ...Aratus by giving him secretly a dose of poison. This fate came upon Aratus at Aegium, from which place he was carried to Sicyon and buried, and there is still in...

Aegium

80 22.081952,38.252707,0 Sicyonian ...referred to other women. Here there is a bronze Heracles, made by Lysippus the Sicyonian, and hard by stands Hermes of the Market-place. In the gymnasium not far from...

Sicyonian

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Phlius ...that Hera guided him on the road to Sicyon. On the direct road from Sicyon to Phlius, on the left of the road and just about ten stades from it, is a grove called...

Phlius

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Titane ...of Dionysus, Demeter, and the Maid, with only their faces exposed. The road to Titane is sixty stades long, and too narrow to be used by carriages drawn by a...

Titane

81 22.62501,37.92049,0 Gortynian ...the Mother of the gods, and Fortune. These are wooden, but Asclepius, surnamed Gortynian, is of stone. They are unwilling to enter among the sacred serpents through...

Gortynian

81 24.9469437222,35.0627201667,0 Phliasia ...the Helisson, and after it the Sythas, both emptying themselves into the sea. Phliasia borders on Sicyonia. The city is just about forty stades distant from Titane...

Phliasia

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Megarians ...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...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Delphi ...plague fell upon them and stayed not. So Coroebus of his own accord went to Delphi to submit to the punishment of the god for having slain Vengeance. The Pythia...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Nisaea ...has fallen in through age. There is a citadel here, which also is called Nisaea. Below the citadel near the sea is the tomb of Lelex, who they say arrived from...

Nisaea

75 23.362766,37.974359,0 Scironian ...throughout are sea mussels. Such is the nature of the stone. The road called Scironian to this day and named after Sciron, was made by him when he was war minister of...

Scironian

79 Athens ...for them or wear black clothes. On the occasion referred to Medea went to Athens and married Aegeus, but subsequently she was detected plotting against Theseus...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pagae ...The Megarians say that Tereus was king of the region around what is called Pagae (Springs) of Megaris, but my opinion, which is confirmed by extant evidence, is...

Pagae

77 23.362766,37.974359,0 Phliasian ...the water in the city flowing hence under-ground. This Asopus rises in the Phliasian territory, flows through the Sicyonian, and empties itself into the sea here...

Phliasian

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasians ...the Sicyonian, and empties itself into the sea here. His daughters, say the Phliasians, were Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe. Corcyra and Aegina gave new names to the...

Phliasians

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Inopus ...hearing a similar story from the Delians, that the stream which they call Inopus comes to them from the Nile. Further, there is a story that the Nile itself is...

Inopus

76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Messenia ...who were wealthiest and of noblest birth, carried them off to a village in Messenia, entrusting them to men of his troop to guard, while he rested for the...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Corinth ...but the barbarian overreached them with their own invention, sending money to Corinth, Argos, Athens and Thebes as the result of this bribery the so-called...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lacedemonians ...everyone therefore to take to flight when he gave the signal. When the Lacedemonians were about to close and the Messenians were occupied on their own front, then...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...and scoundrels. It was not difficult for the Lacedemonians to surround the Messenians thus isolated, and they won without trouble the easiest of victories...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...they had summoned as mercenaries from Lyctus and other cities, were patrolling Messenia for them. Aristomenes then, in view of the truce, was at a distance from Eira...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Neda ...the seer Theoclus saw it, he guessed that the goat who drinks of the Neda foretold by the Pythia was this wild fig-tree, and that their fate had already...

Neda

71 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Ithome ...oracles, took it towards nightfall, and coming to the most deserted part of Ithome, buried it on the mountain, calling on Zeus who keeps Ithome and the gods who...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenian ...Lacedemonians. After this, as formerly for the Trojans, the beginning of the Messenian misfortunes was in adultery. The Messenians commanded the mountain of Eira and...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...and the daring of Aristomenes gave pause to the Lacedemonians, while the Messenians had not previously received a watchword from their generals, and the rain would...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...it. On me the gods have laid one doom with my country, but do thou save the Messenians with what power thou hast and save thyself." When he had spoken to Aristomenes...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eira ...obtained more certain news, that they survived and had been forced to desert Eira, they themselves proposed to receive them at Mount Lycaeus after preparing...

Eira

79 21.927988,37.398271,0 Lacedemonians ...we can capture and occupy Sparta," said Aristomenes, "we can give back to the Lacedemonians what is theirs and receive our own. If we fail, we shall die together, having...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...safe. All the Messenians, who were captured about Eira or anywhere else in Messenia, were reduced by the Lacedemonians to serfdom. The people of Pylos and Mothone...

Messenia

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lycaeus ...them Gorgus and Manticlus as leaders. Euergetidas too had retired to Mount Lycaeus with the rest of the Messenians. From there, when he saw that Aristomenes' plan...

Lycaeus

77 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Messenians ...Aristomenes' plan to seize Sparta had failed, he persuaded some fifty of the Messenians to go back with him to Eira and attack the Lacedemonians, and coming upon them...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...of the largest extent and greatest fertility. Meantime Anaxilas sent to the Messenians and summoned them to Italy. He was tyrant of Rhegium, third in descent from...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...He was tyrant of Rhegium, third in descent from Alcidamidas, who had left Messene for Rhegium after the death of king Aristodemus and the capture of Ithome. So...

Messene

76 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messene ...dwelt together in common. They changed the name of the city from Zancle to Messene. This event took place in the twenty-ninth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...was archon at Athens. Manticlus founded the temple of Heracles for the Messenians; the temple of the god is outside the walls and he is called Heracles...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Mothone ...themselves, except the land belonging to the people of Asine; but they gave Mothone to the men of Nauplia, who had recently been driven from their town by the...

Mothone

78 21.705,36.817,0 Messenians ...of Nauplia, who had recently been driven from their town by the Argives. The Messenians who were captured in the country, reduced by force to the position of serfs...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athenian ...to their assistance Cimon the son of Miltiades, their patron in Athens, and an Athenian force. But when the Athenians arrived, they seem to have regarded them with...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...from the Locrians adjoining Aetolia, called the Ozolian. The retirement of the Messenians from Ithome was secured by the strength of the place; also the Pythia announced...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Leuctra ...hereafter destruction would overtake Lacedemon. Then after their victory at Leuctra the Thebans sent messengers to Italy, Sicily and to the Euesperitae, and...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messene ...who had been chosen by the Argives to be their general and to refound Messene. He was bidden by the dream, wherever he found yew and myrtle growing on...

Messene

72 21.920439,37.175491,0 Syracuse ...Festival. But the Gelon who was tyrant of Sicily took possession of Syracuse when Hybrilides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the seventy-second...

Syracuse

71 15.29382,37.05963,0 Isthmian ...won other crowns besides, two at Pytho, eight at the Nemean and eight at the Isthmian games. The statue of Glaucus was set up by his son, while Glaucias of Aegina...

Isthmian

79 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Argives ...teacher, but runs as follows: "Eutelidas and Chrysothemis made these works, Argives, who learnt their art from those who lived before." Iccus the son of Nicolaidas...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Plataea ...stands behind the Zeus dedicated by the Greeks from the spoil of the battle of Plataea. Cleosthenes' victory occurred at the sixty-sixth Festival, and together with...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Olympia ...himself; the offerings of Miltiades the Athenian, which he dedicated at Olympia, I will describe in another part of my story. The Epidamnians occupy the same...

Olympia

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Nemea ...of Triteia, the son of Haemostratus, won the boxing-match for men at Olympia, Nemea, Pytho and the Isthmus; they also declare that the Tritaeans are Arcadians, but...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Tritaeans ...for men at Olympia, Nemea, Pytho and the Isthmus; they also declare that the Tritaeans are Arcadians, but I found this statement to be untrue. For the founders of the...

Tritaeans

79 21.687,37.959,0 Megalopolis ...because of their weakness were surely absorbed for this very reason into Megalopolis, being included in the decree then made by the Arcadian confederacy; no other...

Megalopolis

75 22.126238,37.414256,0 Triteia ...included in the decree then made by the Arcadian confederacy; no other city Triteia, except the one in Achaia, is to be found in Greece. However, one may assume...

Triteia

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Olympia ...his statue set up by the temple of Lacinian Hera. There is also set up in Olympia a slab recording the victories of Chionis the Lacedemonian. They show...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sicyonian ...a crown for the men's boxing, Thersilochus for the boys'. Bycelus, the first Sicyonian to win the boys' boxing-match, had his statue made by Canachus of Sicyon, a...

Sicyonian

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Nemea ...the Corinthians nor the Argives kept complete records of the victors at Nemea and the Isthmus. The mare of the Corinthian Pheidolas was called, the...

Nemea

74 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Olympic ...of Pheidolas." But the inscription is at variance with the Elean records of Olympic victors. These records give a victory to the sons of Pheidolas at the...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...by Dameas, also a native of Crotona. Milo won six victories for wrestling at Olympia, one of them among the boys; at Pytho he won six among the men and one among...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...pentathlum at all the Greek games except the Isthmian, at which he, like other Eleans, abstained from competing. The inscription on his statue adds that he joined...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Nemean ...in the double course and six victories in foot-races of various kinds at the Nemean games. Asamon and Nicander were Eleans the statue of the latter was made by...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Laconian ...in the men's wrestling-match. Here too is dedicated a small chariot of the Laconian Polypeithes, and on the same slab Calliteles, the father of Polypeithes, a...

Laconian

77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cos ...statues of Herodotus of Clazomenae and of Philinus, son of Hegepolis, of Cos, were dedicated by their respective cities. The Clazomenians dedicated a statue...

Cos

75 27.257012,36.875681,0 Arcadian ...Enation does not state his native place, though it does state that he was of Arcadian descent. Two Colophonians, Hermesianax son of Agoneus and Eicasius son of...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thebans ...son of Damasistratus, he wrote a treatise abusing Athenians, Lacedemonians and Thebans alike. He imitated the style of Theopompus with perfect accuracy, inscribed his...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phoenicians ...linen breast-plates, dedicated by Gelo and the Syracusans after overcoming the Phoenicians in either a naval or a land battle. The third of the treasuries, and the...

Phoenicians

81 35.25,33.25,0 Elean ...and the mountain, is a sanctuary of Eileithyia, and in it Sosipolis, a native Elean deity, is worshipped. Now they surname Eileithyia Olympian, and choose a...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Troy ...to the sons of Asclepius. For they say that the sons of Asclepius who went to Troy were Messenians, Asclepius being the son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, not...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messenia ...the Dorians assigned Argos to Temenus, Cresphontes asked them for the land of Messenia, in that he was older than Aristodemus. Aristodemus was now dead, but...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pylos ...settled there. In the time of Nestor and his descendants the palace was at Pylos, but Cresphontes ordained that the king should live in Stenyclerus. As his...

Pylos

77 Pamisus ...the son of Dotadas established the annual sacrifice by the king to the river Pamisus and also the offering to the hero Eurytus the son of Melaneus at Oechalia...

Pamisus

79 21.75,37.25,0 Spartan ...of the Messenian land; in furtherance of his design he selected some Spartan youths, all without beards, dressed them in girls' clothes and ornaments, and...

Spartan

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...and ornaments, and providing them with daggers introduced them among the Messenians when they were resting; the Messenians, in defending themselves, killed the...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...settled by the decision of a court. What happened was as follows. There was a Messenian Polychares, a man of no small distinction in all respects and an Olympic...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athens ...the Argives, kinsmen of both parties, and to submit the matter to the court at Athens called the Areopagus, as this court was held to exercise an ancient...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...to submit the matter to the courts which I have already mentioned. But the Lacedemonians are said to have made no reply to the bearers of the letter. Not many months...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...and when the Spartans endeavored to join battle, went out to meet them. The Lacedemonian commander on the left wing was Polydorus, and Theopompus on the right. The...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...was making this declaration, Lyciscus took the girl away and deserted to Sparta. The Messenians were in despair when they saw that Lyciscus had fled...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...of others of the Peloponnesians, especially of the Arcadians and Argives. The Argives intended to come without the knowledge of the Lacedemonians, and by private...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Corinthians ...be fought, both sides were joined by their allies, the Lacedemonians by the Corinthians alone of the Peloponnesians, the Messenians by the full muster of' the...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delphi ...the twentieth year of the war was approaching, they resolved to send again to Delphi to ask concerning victory. The Pythia made answer to their question: "To those...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ithome ...easily escape detection by the Messenians. Joining some countrymen, he entered Ithome with them, and as soon as night fell, dedicated these tripods of clay to the...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Lacedemonians ...dedicated these tripods of clay to the god, and returned to Sparta to tell the Lacedemonians. The Messenians, when they saw them, were greatly disturbed, thinking, rightly...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...in despair, thought the dream foretold the end of life for him, because the Messenians used to carry out their chiefs for burial wearing a crown and dressed in white...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...to the people of Asine, who had been driven out by the Argives, that part of Messenia on the coast which they still occupy; to the descendants of Androcles (he had a...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eleian ...Sparta, on the Messenian side by Theoclus, who was descended from Eumantis, an Eleian of the house of the Iamidae, whom Cresphontes had brought to Messene. Then in...

Eleian

81 21.25,37.75,0 Macedonians ...But when they discovered from their equipment and speech that it was the Macedonians and Demetrius the son of Philip, they were filled with great fear, when they...

Macedonians

75 21.75,41.25,0 Arcadian ...long afterwards Cleomenes the son of Leonidas, son of Cleonymus, captured the Arcadian Megalopolis in peace-time. Of the people of Megalopolis who were caught in the...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenia ...the sea. Eighty stades on the road which leads thence into the interior of Messenia is the city of the Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pylos ...of the Heracleidae, Cresphontes the Dorian leader, of the inhabitants of Pylos, Nestor, Thrasymedes and Antilochus, singled out from among the sons of Nestor...

Pylos

75 Balyra ...thence. After a descent of thirty stades from the gate is the watercourse of Balyra. The river is said to have got its name from Thamyris throwing (ballein) his...

Balyra

79 21.75,37.25,0 Achaeans ...tomb of Epimelides. I do not know why they call the harbor "the harbor of the Achaeans." Some eighty stades beyond Corone is a sanctuary of Apollo on the coast...

Achaeans

80 Mothone ...Argos were expelled for their Laconian sympathies, the Lacedemonians gave them Mothone, and that no change was made regarding them on the part of the Messenians when...

Mothone

81 21.705,36.817,0 Messenia ...to the people of Mothone. In earlier days they were the only people of Messenia on the coast to suffer a disaster like the following: Thesprotian Epirus was...

Messenia

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Achaea ...out the Ionians and occupied the land called of old Aegialus, but now called Achaea from these Achaeans. The Arcadians, on the other hand, have from the beginning...

Achaea

79 Paeon ...again, Hyperippe, the daughter of Arcas – but all agree that Endymion begat Paeon, Epeius, Aetolus, and also a daughter Eurycyda. Endymion set his sons to run a...

Paeon

78 26.639597,40.505429,0 Scamander ...first two crossed into it from Italy, while the Phrygians came from the river Scamander and the land of the Troad. The Phoenicians and Libyans came to the island on a...

Scamander

80 Aegina ...couplet: "Onatas, son of Micon, fashioned me, He who has his dwelling in Aegina." This Onatas, though belonging to the Aeginetan school of sculpture, I shall...

Aegina

75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Olympia ...at Olympia, but also others dedicated to Apollo at Delphi. The offerings at Olympia are two horses and two charioteers, a charioteer standing by the side of each...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...by the umpires, and on account of this Lichas the Lacedemonians invaded Elis in the reign of King Agis, when a battle took place within the Altis. When the...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...of no Messenian, either from Sicily or from Naupactus, who won a victory at Olympia. Even these two are said by the Sicilians to have been not Messenians but of...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...outran his boy competitors, and Stomius won a victory in the pentathlum at Olympia and three at the Nemean games. The inscription on his statue adds that, when...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ithome ...a sculptor of the same name, a native, not of Sicyon, but of Messene beneath Ithome. A statue of Lysander, son of Aristocritus, a Spartan, was dedicated in...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Thrace ...his credit the following exploits of a different kind. The mountainous part of Thrace, on this side the river Nestus, which runs through the land of Abdera, breeds...

Thrace

81 27.5,42.5,0 Rhodes ...the men. By these is set up a statue of Eucles, son of Callianax, a native of Rhodes and of the family of the Diagoridae. For he was the son of the daughter of...

Rhodes

81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Rhegium ...Caecinus sing just like others, but across the Caecinus in the territory of Rhegium they do not utter a sound. This river then, according to tradition, was the...

Rhegium

78 15.649244,38.111146,0 Olympic ...of Euthymus, who, though he won the prize for boxing at the seventy-fourth Olympic Festival, was not to be so successful at the next. For Theagenes of Thasos...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...people to leave the Lacedemonian alliance and to join the great King and the Athenians. Dorieus, he goes on to say, was at the time away from home in the interior of...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...and Lucinus of Elis. These too succeeded in beating the boys at boxing at Olympia. The inscription on his statue says that Gnathon was very young indeed when he...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thessaly ...a good soldier, had a father, Pyttius, of Thessalian descent, who came from Thessaly to Elis. To Amarynceus, therefore, Augeas also gave a share in the government...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Pylus ...Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of Pylus were punished by Heracles, but his expedition against...

Pylus

73 Olenus ...sons of Actor married twin sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus; Amphimachus was born to one son and Theronice, Thalpius to her sister...

Olenus

81 21.640599,38.153707,0 Arene ...contained no image. Not far from the city of the Lepreans is a spring called Arene, and they say that it derives its name from the wife of Aphareus. Returning...

Arene

79 21.59852,37.53384,0 Anigrus ...and washed his hurt in it, and that it was the hydra's poison which gave the Anigrus its nasty smell. Others again attribute the quality of the river to Melampus...

Anigrus

79 Arene ...the words of the Iliad: "There is a river Minyeius flowing into the sea near Arene." 11.722-3 These ruins are very near to the Anigrus; and, although it might be...

Arene

79 21.59852,37.53384,0 Neda ...that of old the Anigrus was called the Minyeius. One might well hold that the Neda near the sea was made the boundary between Elis and Messenia at the time of the...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Olympia ...say that it is the tomb of Xenophon. As you go from Scillus along the road to Olympia, before you cross the Alpheius, there is a mountain with high, precipitous...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Alpheius ...love into the river. This account of Alpheius . . . to Ortygia. But that the Alpheius passes through the sea and mingles his waters with the spring at this place I...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Syracuse ...confirms the story. For when he despatched Archias the Corinthian to found Syracuse he uttered this oracle: "An isle, Ortygia, lies on the misty ocean Over against...

Syracuse

77 15.29382,37.05963,0 Cretan ...the Dactyls of Ida, who are the same as those called Curetes. They came from Cretan Ida – Heracles, Paeonaeus, Epimedes, Iasius and Idas. Heracles, being the...

Cretan

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Elean ...of the Olympiads began there was first the foot-race, and Coroebus an Elean was victor. There is no statue of Coroebus at Olympia, but his grave is on the...

Elean

72 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...There is no statue of Coroebus at Olympia, but his grave is on the borders of Elis. Afterwards, at the fourteenth Festival, the double foot-race was added...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lacedemonians ...and wrestling. Lampis won the first and Eurybatus the second, these also being Lacedemonians. At the twenty-third Festival they restored the prizes for boxing, and the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eleans ...was drawn by a pair of mules, not horses, and there is an ancient curse on the Eleans if this animal is even born in Elis. The order of the games in our own day...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Pentelic ...The architect was Libon, a native. The tiles are not of baked earth, but of Pentelic marble cut into the shape of tiles. The invention is said to be that of Byzes...

Pentelic

78 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Athenians ...set up, including one on which is written the oath sworn by the Eleans to the Athenians, the Argives and the Mantineans, that they would be their allies for a hundred...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...one on which is written the oath sworn by the Eleans to the Athenians, the Argives and the Mantineans, that they would be their allies for a hundred...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenian ...there are also bronze tripods. The older ones are said to be a tithe of the Messenian war. Under the first tripod stood an image of Aphrodite, and under the second...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Achelous ...the Bull of Minos. There are also represented the wrestling of Heracles with Achelous, the fabled binding of Hera by Hephaestus, the games Acastus held in honor of...

Achelous

79 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Lacedemon ...accompany him willingly, or else, if she preferred her father, to go back to Lacedemon. They say that she made no reply, but covered her face with a veil in reply to...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gythium ...is that they find here a ripe bunch of grapes. Some thirty stades beyond Gythium on the left there are on the mainland walls of a place called Trinasus (Three...

Gythium

76 22.562341,36.763663,0 Acriae ...Trinasus I came to the ruins of Helos, and some thirty stades farther is Acriae, a city on the coast. Well worth seeing here are a temple and marble image of...

Acriae

76 22.785366,36.794176,0 Olympian ...made by Broteas the son of Tantalus. The people of Acriae once produced an Olympian victor, Nicocles, who at two Olympian festivals carried off five prizes for...

Olympian

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympian ...people of Acriae once produced an Olympian victor, Nicocles, who at two Olympian festivals carried off five prizes for running. There has been raised to him a...

Olympian

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Geronthrae ...but in my time it belonged to the Free Laconians. On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea (Old), and in Geronthrae itself are a temple and...

Geronthrae

79 Zarax ...with a statue holding a lyre, at the head of the harbor. The road from Zarax follows the coast for about a hundred stades, and there strikes inland. After...

Zarax

74 23.088,36.787,0 Oetylus ...are the town and harbor of Messa. From this harbor it is 150 stades to Oetylus. The hero, from whom the city received its name, was an Argive by descent, son...

Oetylus

74 22.3848,36.705058,0 Thalamae ...and is not a local goddess of the people of Thalamae. Twenty stades from Thalamae is a place called Pephnus on the coast. In front of it lies a small island no...

Thalamae

76 22.325671,36.786208,0 Pephnus ...of the people of Thalamae. Twenty stades from Thalamae is a place called Pephnus on the coast. In front of it lies a small island no larger than a big rock...

Pephnus

76 22.296786,36.812375,0 Lacedemonians ...theirs, and so they think that the Dioscuri belong to them rather than to the Lacedemonians. Twenty stades from Pephnus is Leuctra. I do not know why the city has this...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ephesians ...and the Argives. This Procles was descended from Ion, son of Xuthus. But the Ephesians under Androclus made war on Leogorus, the son of Procles, who reigned in Samos...

Ephesians

79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Rhamnus ...mother is Night, while the Athenians say that the father of the goddess in Rhamnus is Ocean. The land of the Ionians has the finest possible climate, and...

Rhamnus

77 24.028009,38.222727,0 Phocaea ...burnt down by the Persians, the one of Hera in Samos and that of Athena at Phocaea. Damaged though they are by fire, I found them a wonder. You would be...

Phocaea

77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Helice ...to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of Sicyonia. In...

Helice

77 22.14015,38.22257,0 Lacedemon ...Equally powerful with the chiefs already mentioned were two Achaeans from Lacedemon, Preugenes and his son, whose name was Patreus. The Achaeans allowed them to...

Lacedemon

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...In the expedition of Agamemnon to Troy they furnished, while still dwelling in Lacedemon and Argos, the largest contingent in the Greek army. When the Persians under...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...in course of time. For when later on the Lacedemonians began the war with the Athenians, the Achaeans were eager for the alliance with Patrae, and were no less well...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...towards Athens. Of the wars waged afterwards by the confederate Greeks, the Achaeans took part in the battle of Chaeroneia against the Macedonians under Philip, but...

Achaeans

79 Helice ...actions. As a place of assembly they resolved to have Aegium, for, after Helice had been swallowed up by the sea, Aegium from of old surpassed in reputation...

Helice

76 22.14015,38.22257,0 Aegium ...resolved to have Aegium, for, after Helice had been swallowed up by the sea, Aegium from of old surpassed in reputation the other cities of Achaia, while at the...

Aegium

79 22.081952,38.252707,0 Athenians ...the Aetolian people Philip occupied Magnesia at the foot of Mount Pelium. The Athenians especially and the Aetolians he harried with continual attacks and raids of...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...to be involved in the death of Philopoemen and banished on that account by the Achaeans. Going up with them to Rome they intrigued for the restoration of the exiles...

Achaeans

81 Aetolians ...no avail; to please the Romans they had made war against Philip, against the Aetolians and afterwards against Antiochus, and after all there was preferred before them...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Achaeans ...and it was an Achaean, Callicrates, who at the time I speak of made the Achaeans completely subject to Rome. But the beginning of their troubles proved to be...

Achaeans

74 Rome ...who at the time I speak of made the Achaeans completely subject to Rome. But the beginning of their troubles proved to be Perseus and the destruction...

Rome

69 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Macedonians ...included in his accusation, since one and all had favoured the cause of the Macedonians and Perseus. This he said at the bidding of Callicrates. After him rose Xenon...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Sicyonians ...senate. It decided that an injustice had been committed, and instructed the Sicyonians to inflict a fine on the Athenians commensurate with the unprovoked harm done...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Oropians ...fine did the Athenians pay, but by promises and bribes they beguiled the Oropians into an agreement that an Athenian garrison should enter Oropus, and that the...

Oropians

75 23.846116,38.291099,0 Messene ...to Epiteles and Epaminondas in their sleep was Caucon, who came from Athens to Messene the daughter of Triopas at Andania. The wrath of the sons of Tyndareus against...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...declared to Epaminondas, the Dioscuri no longer opposed the return of the Messenians. Epaminondas was most strongly drawn to the foundation by the oracles of...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...is called, the Sacred War caused the Thebans to withdraw from Peloponnese, the Lacedemonians regained courage and could no longer refrain from attacking the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...of the Achaeans was hostile to the Lacedemonians. For the Argives and the Arcadian group formed not the smallest element in the league. However, in the course of...

Arcadian

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megalopolis ...Cleomenes the son of Leonidas, son of Cleonymus, captured the Arcadian Megalopolis in peace-time. Of the people of Megalopolis who were caught in the city, some...

Megalopolis

73 22.126238,37.414256,0 Pamisos ...Ithome. It is enclosed not only by Mount Ithome, but on the side towards the Pamisos by Mount Eva. The mountain is said to have obtained its name from the fact that...

Pamisos

79 21.75,37.25,0 Athenians ...had the title Laphria, and the Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians, being at that time close neighbors of the Aetolians, adopted her from the...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Leuctra ...misfortune. They have it that Aristomenes was present at the battle of Leuctra, though no longer among men, and say that he helped the Thebans and was the...

Leuctra

74 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenians ...all the peoples who claim that Zeus was born and brought up among them. The Messenians have their share in the story for they too say that the god was brought up...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorium ...a city Dorium. Homer states that the misfortune of Thamyris took place here in Dorium, because he said that he would overcome the Muses themselves in song. But...

Dorium

81 21.88255,37.26708,0 Corone ...tree gives the impression of a small cave; from it the drinking water flows to Corone. The old name of Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to...

Corone

81 21.927944,36.954171,0 Thebans ...Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese by the Thebans, it is said that Epimelides, who was sent as founder, named it Coroneia after...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Colonides ...course of time to adopt the dialect and customs of the Dorians. The town of Colonides lies on high ground, a short distance from the sea. The people of Asine...

Colonides

78 21.928788,36.836082,0 Parnassus ...themselves. They admit that they were conquered by Heracles and their city in Parnassus captured, but they deny that they were made prisoners and brought to Apollo...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Trojan ...the Oenussae islands lying opposite. Before the mustering of the army for the Trojan war, and during the war, Mothone was called Pedasus. Later, as the people...

Trojan

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Mothone ...ships, and plundering others whom they fell in with, put in to the coast of Mothone and anchored as in a friendly port. Sending a messenger to the city they asked...

Mothone

78 21.705,36.817,0 Elis ...on which he departed to the adjoining country and there occupied the Pylos in Elis. When Neleus became king, he raised Pylos to such renown that Homer in his...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Pylos ...to this, when he mentions Nestor, always adding that he was king of sandy Pylos. The island of Sphacteria lies in front of the harbor just as Rheneia off the...

Pylos

76 Messenia ...of Asclepius Aulonius. Here flows the river Neda, forming the boundary between Messenia and Elis.

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Achaeans ...He said that Menalcidas, when on an embassy to Rome, had worked against the Achaeans and had done all he could to separate Sparta from the Achaean...

Achaeans

78 Achaeans ...from Oropus to Diaeus of Megalopolis, who had succeeded him as general of the Achaeans, and on this occasion was so active, because of the bribe, that he succeeded in...

Achaeans

80 Spartan ...to make war, not on Sparta but on those that were troubling her. When the Spartan senate inquired how many he considered were guilty, he reported to them the...

Spartan

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...to the Achaeans. Having again stirred up war between Lacedemonians and Achaeans he incurred blame at the hands of his countrymen, and, failing to find a way of...

Achaeans

74 Achaeans ...sent after Orestes to deal with the dispute between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, they too turned back. When the time came for Diaeus to relinquish his office...

Achaeans

80 Arcadia ...and the Achaeans, and Critolaus had a conference with them at Tegea in Arcadia, being most unwilling to summon the Achaeans to meet them in a general...

Arcadia

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sparta ...of the Achaeans at Corinth, and persuaded them both to take up arms against Sparta and also to declare war openly on Rome. For a king or state to undertake a war...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lamia ...for peace he marched from Macedonia through Thessaly and along the gulf of Lamia. But Critolaus and the Achaeans would listen to no suggestions for an...

Lamia

77 22.43516,38.9046,0 Macedonians ...had deserted from the Greeks who were struggling at Chaeroneia against the Macedonians under Philip. Diaeus once more came forward to command the Achaean army. He...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...by putting him to the trouble of a protracted siege. As it was, when the Achaeans were but beginning to yield, Diaeus fled straight for Megalopolis, his conduct...

Achaeans

75 Catana ...through the enemy at the head of his horsemen. He brought most of them safe to Catana, and then returned by the same way back to Syracuse. Finding the enemy still...

Catana

81 15.0878345,37.5024825,0 Boeotians ...country, and remitted the fines imposed by Mummius. For he had ordered the Boeotians to pay a hundred talents to the people of Heracleia and Euboea, and the...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Euboea ...ordered the Boeotians to pay a hundred talents to the people of Heracleia and Euboea, and the Achaeans to pay two hundred to the Lacedemonians. Although the Romans...

Euboea

80 Olympia ...failing to win the Olympic crown. So they dedicated the statue of Oebotas at Olympia and honored him in other ways, and then Sostratus of Pellene won the footrace...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olenus ...In course of time, it is said, the inhabitants, owing to their weakness, left Olenus and migrated to Peirae and Euryteiae. About eighty stades from the river...

Olenus

80 21.640599,38.153707,0 Patrae ...of Laphria, which even in my time was still worshipped on the acropolis of Patrae. It is said that the goddess was surnamed Laphria after a man of Phocis...

Patrae

77 21.738518,38.243265,0 Cirrha ...did not proceed on his voyage to Thessaly, but made for the town and gulf of Cirrha. Going up to Delphi he inquired of the oracle about his illness. They say that...

Cirrha

79 22.450621,38.428937,0 Patrae ...It was made from the spoils taken when alone of the Achaeans the people of Patrae helped the Aetolians against the army of the Gauls. The Music Hall is in every...

Patrae

77 21.738518,38.243265,0 Pharae ...that grows in Elis, weaving from it nets for the head as well as dresses. Pharae, a city of the Achaeans, belongs to Patrae, having been given to it by...

Pharae

77 21.717095,38.093144,0 Patrae ...for the head as well as dresses. Pharae, a city of the Achaeans, belongs to Patrae, having been given to it by Augustus. The road from the city of Patrae to...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Pharae ...stades, while Pharae is about seventy stades inland from the coast. Near to Pharae runs the river Pierus, which in my opinion is the same as the one flowing past...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Achaia ...of Danais, or someone else with the same name. Triteia, also a city of Achaia, is situated inland, but like Pharae belongs to Patrae, having been annexed by...

Achaia

74 Olympia ...work of Ageladas of Argos. This athlete won in the pancratium two victories at Olympia and three at Pytho. His achievements in war too are distinguished by their...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...is Corcyra, and my name is Philon; I am The son of Glaucus, and I won two Olympic victories for boxing." There is also a statue of Agametor of Mantineia, who...

Olympic

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...Timon, an Elean, the son of Aesypus, entered a four-horse chariot for the Olympic races . . . this is of bronze, and on it is mounted a maiden, who, in my...

Olympic

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Naxos ...Of the city not even the ruins are now to be seen, and that the name of Naxos has survived to after ages must be attributed to Tisander, the son of...

Naxos

74 15.27149,37.82124,0 Abdera ...the Aeginetan. The two statues of Pythes, the son of Andromachus, a native of Abdera, were made by Lysippus, and were dedicated by his soldiers. Pythes seems to...

Abdera

80 24.97363,40.93119,0 Olympia ...his fame by winning the crown, when he was not more than twenty years old, at Olympia, at Pytho, at Nemea and at the Isthmus. The statue of the boy runner Xenon, son...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Syracuse ...Hiero had the same name as the son of Deinomenes, and, like him, was despot of Syracuse. The Paleans, who form one of the four divisions of the Cephallenians...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Elean ...statue of Areus the Lacedemonian king, and beside it is a statue of Gorgus the Elean. Gorgus is the only man down to my time who has won four victories at Olympia...

Elean

81 21.25,37.75,0 Coans ...be proclaimed victor at Olympia, his victory being in the boys' foot-race. The Coans dedicated a statue of Philinus because of his great renown, for he won at...

Coans

81 27.257012,36.875681,0 Dorian ...at the thirty-third Festival. In the treasury he made two chambers, one Dorian and one in the Ionic style. I saw that they were made of bronze; whether the...

Dorian

74 22.25,38.75,0 Myonians ...mentions various cities of the Locrians near Phocis, and among them the Myonians. So the Myanians on the shield are in my opinion the same folk as the Myonians...

Myonians

74 22.315807,38.41224,0 Lacedemonian ...with Aristomenes were at first hard pressed in face of Anaxander and the Lacedemonian champions, but receiving wounds unflinchingly and slowing every form of...

Lacedemonian

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...course of time the punishment of Neoptolemus, as it is called, came upon the Lacedemonians themselves in their turn. Now it was the fate of Neoptolemus the son of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...and most of the other towns that lay in the interior and to settle on Mount Eira. When they had been driven to this spot, the Lacedemonians sat down to besiege...

Eira

78 21.927988,37.398271,0 Neda ...Messenia and Elis. Then they were afraid of the he-goats drinking from the Neda, but it appeared that what the god foretold to them was this. Some of the...

Neda

77 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Messenians ...their fate, and made provision such as circumstances demanded. For the Messenians possessed a secret thing. If it were destroyed, Messene would be overwhelmed...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eira ...misfortunes was in adultery. The Messenians commanded the mountain of Eira and its slopes as far as the Neda, some of them having their dwellings outside...

Eira

72 21.927988,37.398271,0 Lacedemonians ...the enemy, and these were the words that he was constrained to fling at the Lacedemonians. "Yet not for all time shall you enjoy the fruits of Messenia with...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...to Aristomenes. But he was weeping, with his eyes fixed on the ground. So the Arcadians stoned Aristocrates to death and flung him beyond their borders without burial...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...the land. But Manticlus bade them forget Messene and their hatred of the Lacedemonians, and sail to Sardinia and win an island which was of the largest extent and...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...king Aristodemus and the capture of Ithome. So now this Anaxilas summoned the Messenians. When they came, he said that the people of Zancle were at war with him, and...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Athens ...when Xenophon the Corinthian was victorious. Archimedes was archon at Athens. The occasion which they found for the revolt was this. Certain Lacedemonians...

Athens

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the horde which had come from Acarnania. They recalled the achievement of the Athenians at Marathon, how thirty myriad Persians had been destroyed by men not numbering...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cnidus ...Pelops and of the river Alpheius respectively. The greater part of the city of Cnidus is built on the Carian mainland, where are their most noteworthy possessions...

Cnidus

81 27.37404,36.686188,0 Sicily ...expedition, and are settlers from Carthage. Such are the foreign races in Sicily. The Greeks settled there include Dorians and Ionians, with a small proportion...

Sicily

76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Rhegium ...Herodotus in his history says that this Micythus, when Anaxilas was despot of Rhegium, became his slave and steward of his property afterwards, on the death of...

Rhegium

80 15.649244,38.111146,0 Phocis ...the ox at Olympia and another at Delphi will be explained in my account of Phocis. bout the offering at Olympia I heard the following story. Sitting under this...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Dorians ...Ionians, but Cleonaeans and Phliasians, who abandoned their cities when the Dorians had returned to Peloponnesus. The Phocaeans are by birth from the land under...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Elis ...But as for Smilis, it is not clear that he visited any places save Samos and Elis. But to these he did travel, and he it was who made the image of Hera in...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Messenians ...in warfare from boyhood, they employed a deeper formation and hoped that the Messenians would not endure the contest for so long as they, or sustain the toil of battle...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...sides, they proceeded to bury them. But after the battle the affairs of the Messenians began to get serious. They were exhausted by the expenditure of money devoted...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicyonians ...of Eudamidas, who was king at Sparta; but he was immediately driven out by the Sicyonians under Aratus. Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, the son of Cleonymus, king of the...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sparta ...had a long standing private quarrel to settle. When the tyranny of Nabis in Sparta was put down, a tyranny marked by extreme ferocity, the affairs of Lacedemon at...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...exiles. As Appius was a zealous supporter of the Lacedemonians and opposed the Achaeans in everything, the plans of the Messenian and Achaean exiles were bound to...

Achaeans

81 Messenians ...sent by the senate to Athens and Aetolia, with instructions to bring back the Messenians and Achaeans to their homes. This caused the greatest vexation to the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Achaeans ...and fellow-citizens, was destined to be the beginning of woes for the Achaeans as for others, for it has never been absent from Greece since the birth of...

Achaeans

72 Eretria ...eleven betrayed the Ionian fleet. After reducing Ionia the Persians enslaved Eretria also, the most famous citizens turning traitors, Philagrus, the son of Cyneas...

Eretria

80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Sapaeans ...Philip had made, resolved to break the oaths, and leading an army against the Sapaeans and their king Abrupolis, allies of the Romans, made their country desolate...

Sapaeans

80 24.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...to help the Oropians against the Athenians. News of this was brought to the Athenians, who, with all the speed each could, came to Oropus, again dragged away...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadia ...antiquities say that what Clytaemnestra's Furies did to Orestes in Arcadia took place before the trial at the Areopagus; that his accuser was not...

Arcadia

69 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Paroria ...There are also other ruins of cities: of Thyraeum, fifteen stades from Paroria, and of Hypsus, lying above the plain on a mountain which is also called...

Paroria

73 22.139365,37.484682,0 Mylaon ...the Waters) because there is a high knoll between the river Maloetas and the Mylaon, and on it Orchomenus built his city. Methydrium too had citizens victorious at...

Mylaon

79 22.25,37.75,0 Daseae ...Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and seven again from Daseae to the hill called Acacesian Hill. At the foot of this hill used to be a city...

Daseae

81 22.068774,37.399848,0 Athens ...The size of both images just about corresponds to the image of the Mother at Athens. These too are works of Damophon. Demeter carries a torch in her right hand...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phigalia ...called Dryads. When the Lacedemonians attacked the Arcadians and invaded Phigalia, they overcame the inhabitants in battle and sat down to besiege the city. When...

Phigalia

76 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalia ...eagerness to be one of the picked hundred and take part in the expedition to Phigalia. They advanced against the Lacedemonian garrison and fulfilled the oracle in...

Phigalia

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Parthenon ...was a contemporary of Pericles, and built for the Athenians what is called the Parthenon. My narrative has already said that the tile image of Apollo is in the...

Parthenon

81 Arcadia ...who accompanied him, got the name of Pallantium in memory of the city in Arcadia. Afterwards the name was changed by omitting the letters L and N.61 These are...

Arcadia

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Theisoa ...holding the baby Zeus. On either side are four figures: on one, Glauce, Neda, Theisoa and Anthracia; on the other Ide, Hagno, Alcinoe and Phrixa. There are also...

Theisoa

80 22.093976,37.629132,0 Tegeans ...in relief Antiphanes, Crisus, Tyronidas and Pyrrhias, who made laws for the Tegeans, and down to this day receive honors for it from them. On the other slab is...

Tegeans

78 22.429,37.464,0 Tegeans ...Alcinous his journey to Hades, and of those whose ghosts he beheld there. The Tegeans surname Eileithyia, a temple of whom, with art image, they have in their...

Tegeans

81 22.429,37.464,0 Psophidian ...first man to sail across to the island was Zacynthus, the son of Dardanus, a Psophidian who became its founder. From Seirae it is thirty stades to Psophis, by the side...

Psophidian

79 21.892903,37.871725,0 Erymanthus ...the side of which runs the river Aroanius, and a little farther away the river Erymanthus. The Erymanthus has its source in Mount Lampeia, which is said to be sacred to...

Erymanthus

81 21.75,37.75,0 Sicily ...it was established by the sons of Psophis. Their account is probable, for in Sicily too, in the territory of Eryx, is a sanctuary of Erycine, which from the...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Thebes ...cases related by blood to Alcmaeon, and had joined him in his campaign against Thebes. That the Echinades islands have not been made mainland as yet by the Achelous...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadians ...and a horse called Areion. For this reason they say that they were the first Arcadians to call Poseidon Horse. They quote verses from the Iliad and from the Thebaid...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Ladon ...Heraea, at a distance of about fifteen stades from Heraea you will cross the Ladon, and from it to the Erymanthus is a journey of roughly twenty stades. The...

Ladon

79 21.75,37.75,0 Mycenae ...they had increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns, Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in Argolis, the Argives had...

Mycenae

81 22.756111,37.730833,0 Peraethenses ...that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the...

Peraethenses

81 22.243152,37.442734,0 Helisson ...were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian...

Helisson

77 22.217753,37.612883,0 Thisoa ...Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium, Teuthis. These were joined by Tripolis, as it is called, Callia...

Thisoa

80 22.093976,37.629132,0 Lacedemonians ...had been enrolled in the Theban alliance they had nothing to fear from the Lacedemonians. But when the Thebans became involved in what was called the Sacred War, and...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...Theban alliance they had nothing to fear from the Lacedemonians. But when the Thebans became involved in what was called the Sacred War, and they were hard pressed...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Alpheius ...hill, falls into the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson falls into the Alpheius. This Helisson, beginning at a village of the same name – for the name of the...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Dipaea ...– for the name of the village also is Helisson – passes through the lands of Dipaea and Lycaea, and then through Megalopolis itself, descending into the Alpheius...

Dipaea

79 22.254905,37.541156,0 Achaeans ...Iasus, a town on the borders of Laconia, but at that time subject to the Achaeans. Having again stirred up war between Lacedemonians and Achaeans he incurred...

Achaeans

75 Rome ...unparalleled villain. There also arrived in Greece the envoys despatched from Rome to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, among them being...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...acts of criminal insolence against the Romans. A few days afterwards the Achaeans shut up in prison the Lacedemonians they held under arrest, but separated from...

Achaeans

75 Athenians ...Lacedemonian effort to save Greece, and of the no less glorious exploit of the Athenians against the Gauls. Critolaus and the Achaeans took to flight, but at a short...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elateia ...to Critolaus and the Achaeans, they ordered the Arcadians to depart from Elateia. As they were retreating to the Peloponnesus the Romans under Metellus fell...

Elateia

75 22.782061,38.645635,0 Achaean ...the Macedonians under Philip. Diaeus once more came forward to command the Achaean army. He proceeded to set free slaves, following the example of Miltiades and...

Achaean

78 Macedonia ...reached the Roman army at early dawn, and sending Metellus and his forces to Macedonia, himself waited at the Isthmus for his whole force to assemble. There came...

Macedonia

79 21.75,41.25,0 Rome ...spoils at Pergamus. The walls of all the cities that had made war against Rome Mummius demolished, disarming the inhabitants, even before assistant...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Lacedemonians ...the wrath of Alexander swooped like a thunderbolt on Thebes of Boeotia. The Lacedemonians suffered injury through Epaminondas of Thebes and again through the war with...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...Dyme the river Peirus flows down into the sea; on the Peirus once stood the Achaean city of Olenus. The poets who have sung of Heracles and his labours have found...

Achaean

78 Patrae ...and Euryteiae. About eighty stades from the river Peirus is the city of Patrae. Not far from Patrae the river Glaucus flows into the sea. The historians of...

Patrae

75 21.738518,38.243265,0 Acarnania ...thus secured the image of Laphria. Most of the images out of Aetolia and from Acarnania were brought by Augustus' orders to Nicopolis, but to Patrae he gave, with...

Acarnania

81 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Nicopolis ...images out of Aetolia and from Acarnania were brought by Augustus' orders to Nicopolis, but to Patrae he gave, with other spoils from Calydon, the image of Laphria...

Nicopolis

79 20.735953,39.023389,0 Patrae ...that he would ever have given it to an ally as a gift. Further, the people of Patrae have no tradition of a Eurypylus save the son of Euaemon, and to him every year...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Trojans ...he puts these verses in the mouth of Poseidon: "Verily I built a wall for the Trojans about their city, A wide wall and very beautiful, that the city might be...

Trojans

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Patrae ...finished before Herodes began the building. As you leave the market-place of Patrae, where the sanctuary of Apollo is, at this exit is a gate, upon which stand...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Dorians ...this exit is a precinct and temple of Artemis, the Lady of the Lake. When the Dorians were now in possession of Lacedemon and Argos, it is said that Preugenes, in...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Calydonians ...too was brought from Calydon. When Calydon was still inhabited, among the Calydonians who became priests of the god was Coresus, who more than any other man suffered...

Calydonians

76 21.533106,38.372423,0 Elis ...in the world. Most of them gain a livelihood from the fine flax that grows in Elis, weaving from it nets for the head as well as dresses. Pharae, a city of the...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Selemnus ...Argyra, to the spring Argyra, on the right of the high road, and to the river Selemnus going down to the sea. The local legend about Selemnus is that he was a...

Selemnus

80 21.75,38.25,0 Phocians ...who in more ancient days inhabited Thessaly and were then called Aeolians, the Phocians and the Delphians, each send two; ancient Doris sends one. The Ozolian...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Sicyonians ...one each; there is also one from Euboea. Of the Peloponnesians, the Argives, Sicyonians, Corinthians and Megarians send one, as Nicopolis send deputies to every...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Delphi ...and Erasus by Antiphanes of Argos. These offerings were sent by the Tegeans to Delphi after they took prisoners the Lacedemonians that attacked their city...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Leucadian ...Pyrrhias the Phocian, Comon of Megara, Agasimenes of Sicyon, Telycrates the Leucadian, Pythodotus of Corinth and Euantidas the Ambraciot; last come the Lacedemonians...

Leucadian

78 20.64944,38.70819,0 Taras ...both the city and the river. For the river, just like the city, is called Taras. Near the votive offering of the Tarentines is a treasury of the Sicyonians...

Taras

76 17.228553,40.476034,0 Sicyonians ...called Taras. Near the votive offering of the Tarentines is a treasury of the Sicyonians, but there is no treasure to be seen either here or in any other of the...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Delphi ...like the Athenians, afflicted with the plague, and obeying an oracle from Delphi sacrificed a he-goat to the sun while it was still rising. This put an end to...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lesbian ...sex who are pure virgins may dive into the sea. I am going on to tell a Lesbian story. Certain fishermen of Methymna found that their nets dragged up to the...

Lesbian

75 26.10052,39.20874,0 Coroneia ...dialect that Iodama is living and asking for fire. On the market-place of Coroneia I found two remarkable things, an altar of Hermes Epimelius (Keeper of flocks)...

Coroneia

77 22.956902,38.392613,0 Haliartus ...to Athamas and his descendants, while they themselves became founders of Haliartus and Coroneia, for Athamas gave them a part of his land. Even before this...

Haliartus

75 23.088416,38.379818,0 Delphi ...to ravage their neighbors. At last they even marched against the sanctuary at Delphi to raid it, when Philammon with picked men of Argos went out to meet them, but...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Orchomenus ...bed; / Leaving his home he fled from horse-breeding Argos, And reached Minyan Orchomenus, and the hero / Welcomed him, and bestowed on him a portion of his possessions...

Orchomenus

80 22.959486,38.495082,0 Troy ...son of Clymenus. Under the leadership of these the Minyans marched against Troy. Orchomenians also joined with the sons of Codrus in the expedition to Ionia...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pythian ...where in the land of Naupactus they would find the bones; to which the Pythian priestess answered again that a crow would indicate to them the place. So when...

Pythian

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cephisus ...a yet greater extent of the territory. The Thebans declare that the river Cephisus was diverted into the Orchomenian plain by Heracles, and that for a time it...

Cephisus

77 23.625,38.125,0 Phocis ...of Hesiod. On the side towards the mountains the boundary of Orchomenus is Phocis, but on the plain it is Lebadeia. Originally this city stood on high ground...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Lebadeia ...from Omphace to Gela in Sicily have disappeared in course of time. Next to Lebadeia comes Chaeroneia. Its name of old was Arne, said to have been a daughter of...

Lebadeia

78 22.87352,38.431063,0 Troy ...Patrae assert indeed that Hephaestus made the chest brought by Eurypylus from Troy, but they do not actually exhibit it to view. In Cyprus is a city Amathus, in...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Anticyra ...it on one side at Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and on the other at the city of Anticyra. In the direction of the Lamian Gulf there are between Phocis and the sea only...

Anticyra

80 22.626059,38.375439,0 Hyampolis ...Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned exploits of the Phocian people were undertaken by...

Hyampolis

80 22.905228,38.596346,0 Thessalian ...Phocians by Apollo. For the watchword given in battle on every occasion by the Thessalian generals was Itonian Athena, and by the Phocian generals Phocus, from whom the...

Thessalian

81 21.75,39.25,0 Athens ...was beyond their resources. He stated, among other plausible arguments, that Athens and Sparta had always been favorable to them, and that if Thebes or any other...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Parnassus ..."At close quarters a grievous arrow shall Apollo shoot At the spoiler of Parnassus; and of his blood-guilt The Cretans shall cleanse his hands; but the renown...

Parnassus

75 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Spercheius ...neat wine. After this the barbarians proceeded with difficulty as far as the Spercheius, pressed hotly by the Aetolians. But after their arrival at the Spercheius...

Spercheius

80 22.25,38.75,0 Parnassus ...the god. She who gave her name to the spring is said to have been a nymph of Parnassus. Beyond the Cassotis stands a building with paintings of Polygnotus. It was...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Carians ...more like his father than she did. Great honors are paid to Iphimedeia by the Carians in Mylasa. Higher up than the figures I have already enumerated are Perimedes...

Carians

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Parnassus ...from Orchomenus in Boeotia, and the other was a daughter of Castalius from Parnassus. Other authorities have told their history, how that Thyia had connection with...

Parnassus

77 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Aulae ...the floor. There is also near Magnesia on the river Lethaeus a place called Aulae (Halls), where there is a cave sacred to Apollo, not very remarkable for its...

Aulae

79 Tithorea ...being the name of the peak of Parnassus. It appears, then, that at first Tithorea was the name applied to the whole district; but in course of time, when the...

Tithorea

75 22.66931,38.58344,0 Thebes ...soothsayer says about this grave in common with that of Zethus and Amphion at Thebes. I found nothing else remarkable in the town except what I have already...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ledon ...and the dwellers on the Cephisus were about seventy people. Still the name of Ledon is given to their dwellings, and the citizens, like the Panopeans, have the...

Ledon

80 22.680539,38.654801,0 Cephisus ...say that Lilaea was one of the Naids, as they are called, a daughter of the Cephisus, and that after this nymph the city was named. Here the river has its...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Parnassus ...Lilaea has a temperate climate in autumn, in summer, and in spring; but Mount Parnassus prevents the winter from being correspondingly mild. Charadra is twenty stades...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Cephisus ...to go down about three stades to reach it. This river is a tributary of the Cephisus, and it seems to me that the town was named after the Charadrus. In the...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Drymaea ...a grove and altars of Apollo. There has also been made a temple, but no image. Drymaea is eighty stades distant from Amphicleia, on the left . . . according to the...

Drymaea

81 22.54128,38.70507,0 Abae ...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...

Abae

81 22.9154,38.58006,0 Phocian ...of the sanctuary at Abae also, after the Persian invasion, until in the Phocian war some Phocians, overcome in battle, took refuge in Abae. Whereupon the...

Phocian

74 22.25,38.25,0 Hyampolis ...by its neighbors the city of the Hyantes, but in course of time the name of Hyampolis prevailed over the other. Although Xerxes had burnt down the city, and...

Hyampolis

78 22.905228,38.596346,0 Chaeroneia ...is another road, rough and for the most part mountainous, that leads from Chaeroneia to the Phocian city of Stiris. The length of the road is one hundred and twenty...

Chaeroneia

76 22.840365,38.493361,0 Ambrossus ...begins to move, and the blood of the creature serves as a dye for wool. Ambrossus lies at the foot of Mount Parnassus, on the side opposite to Delphi. They say...

Ambrossus

75 22.66763,38.42845,0 Phocians ...days of old the name of the city was Cyparissus, and that Homer in the list of Phocians was determined to call it by this name, although it was called Anticyra in...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Boulis ...long. Here a torrent falls into the sea, called by the natives Heracleius. Boulis lies on high ground, and it is passed by travellers crossing by sea from...

Boulis

78 22.802911,38.276455,0 Nicopolis ...emperor drove the Aetolians from their homes in order to found the new city of Nicopolis, the greater part of the people went away to Amphissa. Originally, however...

Nicopolis

81 20.735953,39.023389,0 Messenia ...the Messenians from Naupactus, all this I have fully related in my history of Messenia. When the Messenians were forced to leave, the Locrians gathered again at...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...Naupactus, all this I have fully related in my history of Messenia. When the Messenians were forced to leave, the Locrians gathered again at Naupactus. The epic poem...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...but to reward mere men, I shall include in my account of the athletes. The Messenians on the Strait in accordance with an old custom used to send to Rhegium a chorus...

Messenians

78 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Thasians ...adopted the worship of Heracles the son of Amphitryon. On the offering of the Thasians at Olympia there is an elegiac couplet: "Onatas, son of Micon, fashioned me, He...

Thasians

81 24.717535,40.78201,0 Nemean ...Dionysius, are some of the exploits of Heracles, including what he did to the Nemean lion, the Hydra, the Hound of Hell, and the boar by the river Erymanthus. These...

Nemean

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Hypaepa ...surnamed Persian have sanctuaries in the city named Hierocaesareia and at Hypaepa. In each sanctuary is a chamber, and in the chamber are ashes upon an altar...

Hypaepa

76 27.953167,38.277489,0 Pheneus ...of the offerings of Phormis, but has been given to the god by the Arcadians of Pheneus. The inscription says that the artist was Onatas of Aegina helped by...

Pheneus

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Olympia ...Philesius of Eretria was the artist. Why the Corcyraeans dedicated the ox at Olympia and another at Delphi will be explained in my account of Phocis. bout the...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...Myron the Athenian. As for Arcesilaus and his son Lichas, the father won two Olympic victories; his son, because in his time the Lacedemonians were excluded from...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Boeotia ...in command of Sicyonian troops, and that they themselves with the force from Boeotia attacked Sicyon out of friendship to the Thebans. So the attack of the Eleans...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Leuctra ...against Sicyon apparently took place after the Lacedemonian disaster at Leuctra. Next stands the statue of a boxer from Lepreus in Elis, whose name was Labax...

Leuctra

74 23.18095,38.25422,0 Aegospotami ...the Samians in the temple of Hera. But when the Attic ships were captured at Aegospotami, the Samians set up a statue of Lysander at Olympia, and the Ephesians set up...

Aegospotami

79 26.61011,40.35074,0 Dorium ...again, and Conon had won the naval action off Cnidus and the mountain called Dorium, the Ionians likewise changed their views, and there are to be seen statues in...

Dorium

79 21.88255,37.26708,0 Pythian ...until, when the inhabitants had resolved to flee from Italy for good, the Pythian priestess forbad them to leave Temesa, and ordered them to propitiate the Hero...

Pythian

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Altis ...herself to the Olympic games. This Peisirodus is one of the statues in the Altis, and stands by the father of his mother. The story goes that Diagoras came to...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athens ...years after the capture of Eira, in the archonship of Dyscinetus at Athens and in the third year of the hundred and second Olympiad, when Damon of Thurii...

Athens

70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Laconia ...and asked the Athenians for help. They refused to join in an attack on Laconia, but promised to render assistance in person if the Lacedemonians began war and...

Laconia

73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Elis ...Learning this, the Lacedemonians were preparing to assist their partisans in Elis. While they were being organized in squadrons and distributed in companies, a...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Macedonians ...on the acropolis attacked from the high ground above. In like manner the Macedonians, brave and experienced troops, at first offered a firm resistance. But worn out...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Achaean ...throwing away their arms. The Messenians refrained at first from joining the Achaean league for the following reason, I think. When Pyrrhus the son of Aeacides made...

Achaean

80 Arcadians ...by the Messenians, who for the sake of the former services rendered by the Arcadians in the time of Aristomenes and again at the founding of Messene now repaid the...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messene ...later. The Messenians, who were responsible for his death, were punished and Messene was again brought into the Achaean league. Hitherto my account has dealt with...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Pharae ...who in the Messenian account bore Ortilochus to Alpheius. I heard also at Pharae that besides the twins a daughter Anticleia was born to Diocles, and that her...

Pharae

77 21.717095,38.093144,0 Pharae ...sacrifices and votive offerings are brought to their sanctuary. The people of Pharae possess also a temple of Fortune (Tyche) and an ancient image. Homer is the...

Pharae

80 21.717095,38.093144,0 Sparta ...a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the lake). They say that Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here. On the road from Thuria towards Arcadia are the springs of...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...for all time. What I myself heard in Thebes gives probability to the Messenian account, although it does not coincide in all respects. The Thebans say that...

Messenian

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Leuctra ...it does not coincide in all respects. The Thebans say that when the battle of Leuctra was imminent, they sent to other oracles and to enquire of the god of Lebadeia...

Leuctra

80 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenian ...set up a trophy and deck it with my shield, which impetuous Aristomenes the Messenian placed in my temple. And I will destroy the host of foemen bearing...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Polichne ...to her parents or her husband. On the road from Andania towards Cyparissiae is Polichne, as it is called, and the streams of Electra and Coeus. The names perhaps are...

Polichne

81 21.823641,37.29595,0 Danube ...dangerous to men as do the Indus and the Egyptian Nile, or again the Rhine and Danube, the Euphrates and Phasis. These indeed produce man-eating creatures of the...

Danube

81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Dryopes ...Their name, which they maintained after their arrival in Peloponnese, was Dryopes, from their founder. Two generations after Dryops, in the reign of Phylas, the...

Dryopes

76 24.25,38.25,0 Dryopes ...from their founder. Two generations after Dryops, in the reign of Phylas, the Dryopes were conquered in battle by Heracles and brought as an offering to Apollo at...

Dryopes

80 24.25,38.25,0 Mothone ...the mustering of the army for the Trojan war, and during the war, Mothone was called Pedasus. Later, as the people themselves say, it received a new name...

Mothone

68 21.705,36.817,0 Nauplians ...against a heavy swell. I have shown in earlier passages that, when the Nauplians in the reign of Damocratidas in Argos were expelled for their Laconian...

Nauplians

74 22.796,37.565,0 Chians ...the hot baths in the district called Atarneus. It was this Atarneus, which the Chians received as a reward from the Persians as a reward for surrendering the...

Chians

81 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Eryx ...of the Iberian cattle, ordered Heracles to drive off the herd of Geryones. Eryx too, who was reigning then in Sicily, plainly had so violent a desire for the...

Eryx

78 12.5919,38.03528,0 Ithaca ...and not a city by the following: "For Messenian men carried away sheep from Ithaca." 21.18 He is still more clear when speaking about the bow of Iphitus: "They...

Ithaca

78 Oechalia ...of Creophylus in his Heraeleia; and Hecataeus of Miletus stated that Oechalia is in Scius, a part of the territory of Eretria. Nevertheless, I think that the...

Oechalia

71 Messenia ...the house of Aphareus was bereft of all male descendants, and the kingdom of Messenia passed to Nestor the son of Neleus, including all the part ruled formerly by...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Theban ...Cresphontes was vigorously opposed by Theras the son of Autesion, who was of Theban origin and fourth in descent from Polyneices the son of Oedipus. He was at that...

Theban

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Andania ...occupy, built in Stenyclerus. Originally Perieres and the other kings dwelt at Andania, but when Aphareus founded Arene, he and his sons settled there. In the time of...

Andania

81 21.938099,37.26217,0 Messenia ...Alcamenes the son of Teleclus leader of the force. Ampheia is a small town in Messenia near the Laconian border, of no great size, but situated on a high hill and...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...driven out of their own country by the Argives and had come as suppliants to Lacedemon, were forced to serve in the army. Against the Messenian light-armed they...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cretan ...forced to serve in the army. Against the Messenian light-armed they employed Cretan archers as mercenaries. The Messenians were inspired alike by desperation and...

Cretan

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messenian ...nothing worth mention; for the Peloponnesians were not good horsemen then. The Messenian light-armed and the Cretans on the Lacedemonian side did not engage at all; for...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonian ...were not good horsemen then. The Messenian light-armed and the Cretans on the Lacedemonian side did not engage at all; for on both sides according to the ancient practice...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...to the garrisoning of the towns, and their slaves were deserting to the Lacedemonians. They were visited also by disease, which caused alarm, as resembling plague...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...reigned thirteen years over the Messenians, and having been at war with the Lacedemonians for the whole of his reign. Euphaes, having no children, left his kingdom to...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...allies meantime pressed more boldly on the troops facing them. Finally the Lacedemonians, worn out by the length of the battle and their wounds, and demoralized...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...came first, they put off going to Argos. Aristodemus, hearing of the Lacedemonian intrigues, also sent men to enquire of the god. And the Pythia replied to...

Lacedemonian

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ithome ...them victory; for as they themselves possessed the sanctuary of Zeus of Ithome within the walls, the Lacedemonians could not forestall them in making the...

Ithome

74 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...at his death and come to Sparta) they assigned the part called Hyamia. The Messenians themselves were treated in this way: First they exacted an oath that they would...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...at the very beginning of the war to prove that he had struck terror into the Lacedemonians and that he would be more terrible to them for the future. With this purpose he...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...Spartans received an oracle from Delphi that they should procure the Athenian as counsellor. So they sent messengers to Athens to announce the oracle, asking...

Athenian

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicyon ...Messenians had the Eleians and Arcadians and also succors from Argos and from Sicyon. They were joined by all the Messenians who had previously been in voluntary...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lacedemonians ...to find favour with Alcander. Having fled to this place he was saved by the Lacedemonians from losing his remaining eye, and so he made this temple of Athena...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...Graces, Phaenna and Cleta, as Alcman calls them in a poem. They believe that Lacedemon founded the sanctuary for the Graces here, and gave them their names. The...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Taygetus ...called Euoras, the haunt of wild animals, especially wild goats. In fact all Taygetus is a hunting-ground for these goats and for boars, and it is well stocked with...

Taygetus

79 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Eleusinian ...this Helos, on stated days, they bring up to the sanctuary of the Eleusinian a wooden image of the Maid, daughter of Demeter. Fifteen stades distant from...

Eleusinian

68 23.538311,38.041096,0 Olympia ...place here, and his grave is above the highway. His namesake, who also won at Olympia a victory, not in the long race but in the short race, is stated in the Elean...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Characoma ...of Aegium in Achaia. Farther on in the direction of Pellana is what is called Characoma (Trench); and after it Pellana, which in the olden time was a city. They say...

Characoma

81 22.959709,40.780606,0 Eurotas ...It is naturally The best watered region of Laconia, seeing that The river Eurotas passes through it, while it has abundant springs of its own. As you go down to...

Eurotas

76 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Gythium ...while it has abundant springs of its own. As you go down to the sea towards Gythium you come to a village called Croceae and a quarry. It is not a continuous...

Gythium

79 22.562341,36.763663,0 Acriae ...Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all...

Acriae

75 22.785366,36.794176,0 Zarax ...Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that are left...

Zarax

78 23.088,36.787,0 Laconians ...Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that are left to the Free Laconians out of twenty-four cities which once were theirs. All the other cities with...

Laconians

74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Sipylus ...in the Peloponnesus, although the Magnesians, who live to the north of Mount Sipylus, have on the rock Coddinus the most ancient of all the images of the Mother of...

Sipylus

79 27.45394,38.5668,0 Acriae ...their own; but in my time it belonged to the Free Laconians. On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea (Old), and in Geronthrae itself are a...

Acriae

80 22.785366,36.794176,0 Epidaurus ...here. They also say that a snake, which they were bringing from their home in Epidaurus, escaped from the ship, and disappeared into the ground not far from the sea...

Epidaurus

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Messa ...a sanctuary of Athena Hippolaitis. A little further are the town and harbor of Messa. From this harbor it is 150 stades to Oetylus. The hero, from whom the city...

Messa

81 22.38113,36.531845,0 Cardamyle ...lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among them. Cardamyle, which is mentioned by Homer in the Gifts promised by Agamemnon, is subject to...

Cardamyle

73 22.237649,36.884777,0 Thebans ...founded Andania, where their palace was built. Before the battle which the Thebans fought with the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, and the foundation of the present...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...to escape from the rout. For he lost time trying to recover his shield. The Lacedemonians were thrown into despair after this blow and purposed to put an end to the war...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...together with his own picked troop, he waited for night and went to a city of Laconia whose ancient name in Homer's Catalogue is Pharis, but is called Pharae by the...

Laconia

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...whose ancient name in Homer's Catalogue is Pharis, but is called Pharae by the Spartans and neighboring people. Arriving here he killed those who offered resistance...

Spartans

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...barbarian overreached them with their own invention, sending money to Corinth, Argos, Athens and Thebes as the result of this bribery the so-called Corinthian war...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...convincing example of divine assistance, was his escape from the Ceadas. The Lacedemonians at once received information from deserters that Aristomenes had returned in...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...they had on their quivers, as evening was coming on. So two of them went to Sparta, bringing the glad news that Aristomenes had been captured. The rest went to...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...the Laconian was victorious for the second time. Miltiades was archon at Athens. Manticlus founded the temple of Heracles for the Messenians; the temple of the...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rhodes ...paid honor to him thenceforward. I omit what is recorded of the Diagoridae in Rhodes, as they are called, a line sprung from Diagoras the son of Damagetus, son of...

Rhodes

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Lacedemonians ...at Athens. The occasion which they found for the revolt was this. Certain Lacedemonians who had been condemned to death on some charge fled as suppliants to Taenarum...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...son of Miltiades, their patron in Athens, and an Athenian force. But when the Athenians arrived, they seem to have regarded them with suspicion that they were likely...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ithome ...revolution, and as a result of this suspicion to have soon dismissed them from Ithome. The Athenians, realizing the feelings of the Lacedemonians towards them, made...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Pythia ...the Messenians from Ithome was secured by the strength of the place; also the Pythia announced to the Lacedemonians that assuredly they would be punished if they...

Pythia

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...not enough for them to have received a city and country at the hands of the Athenians, but they were filled with a strong desire to show that they had won something...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Naupactus ...Acarnanians collected a force from all their towns and discussed an attack on Naupactus. They rejected this, as they saw that their line of march would be through the...

Naupactus

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Messenians ...before the siege was formed to fight a battle in the open, and being Messenians, who had not been surpassed in valor even by Lacedemonians, but in fortune...

Messenians

71 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Acarnanians ...beaten back and again attempting to pierce the massed troops of the Acarnanians at another point, would meet with the same result. Wherever they attacked, they...

Acarnanians

70 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Acarnanians ...of Oeniadae at the time of the first sleep. Their escape became known to the Acarnanians and they were compelled to fight, losing some three hundred and killing still...

Acarnanians

79 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Naupactus ...the Lacedemonians, having command of the sea, then drove the Messenians from Naupactus; they went to their kinsmen in Sicily and to Rhegium, but the majority came to...

Naupactus

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Dorians ...Achaeans are aborigines. When the Achaeans were driven from their land by the Dorians, they did not retire from Peloponnesus, but they cast out the Ionians and...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Arcadians ...land called of old Aegialus, but now called Achaea from these Achaeans. The Arcadians, on the other hand, have from the beginning to to the present time continued in...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Theseus ...both, he was torn in two. This was the way in which Sinis himself was slain by Theseus. For Theseus rid of evildoers the road from Troezen to Athens, killing those...

Theseus

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...arrested by a Macedonian, Philoxenus, who also had demanded Harpalus from the Athenians. Having this slave in his power, he proceeded to examine him, until he learned...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...they and their children are of stone. They are the women and children whom the Athenians gave to the Troezenians to be kept safe, when they had resolved to evacuate...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...they had these wooden images made of olive wood that they received from the Athenians, how the Epidaurians left off paying to the Athenians what they had agreed to...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...made three images of Hecate attached to one another, a figure called by the Athenians Epipurgidia (on the Tower); it stands beside the temple of the Wingless...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to give up the positions for a hundred and fifty talents, himself helping the Athenians by contributing a sixth part of the sum. He induced Aristomachus also, the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 altar of the Cyclopes ...no means escape from his oath. There is also an ancient sanctuary called the altar of the Cyclopes, and they sacrifice to the Cyclopes upon it. The graves of Sisyphus and of...

altar of the Cyclopes

79 Achaeans ...were sold into slavery, and Lacedemon itself was captured. Antigonus and the Achaeans restored to the Lacedemonians the constitution of their fathers; but of the...

Achaeans

79 Achaeans ...laying waste Megalopolis. So Antigonus crossed into the Peloponnesus and the Achaeans met Cleomenes at Sellasia. The Achaeans were victorious, the people of Sellasia...

Achaeans

79 Isthmus ...tried to make the Peloponnesus an island gave up before digging through the Isthmus. Where they began to dig is still to be seen, but into the rock they did not...

Isthmus

78 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 third of Amphitrite, ...large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze. The offerings inside were dedicated in our...

third of Amphitrite,

81 theater ...they say, the Isthmus has belonged to Poseidon. Worth seeing here are a theater and a white-marble race-course. Within the sanctuary of the god stand on the...

theater

75 22.99423043221933,37.91639346034558,0 Peloponnesus ...are all written in Doric. But before the return of the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus the Argives spoke the same dialect as the Athenians, and in Philammon's day I...

Peloponnesus

76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...Tricrana (Three Heads), and a mountain, projecting into the sea from the Peloponnesus, called Buporthmus (Oxford). On Buporthmus has been built a sanctuary of...

Peloponnesus

75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...time afflicted Greece, and no rain fell either beyond the Isthmus or in the Peloponnesus, until at last they sent envoys to Delphi to ask what was the cause and to beg...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...is due to the following reason. The Epidaurians say that Phlegyas came to the Peloponnesus, ostensibly to see the land, but really to spy out the number of the...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...of Epidaurus either. But the last king before the Dorians arrived in the Peloponnesus was, they say, Pityreus, a descendant of Ion, son of Xuthus, and they relate...

Peloponnesus

75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...up. Not far away is what is called the Omphalos (Navel), the center of all the Peloponnesus, if they speak the truth about it. Farther on from the Omphalos they have an...

Peloponnesus

81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...this is what makes the region to the south mainland. He who tried to make the Peloponnesus an island gave up before digging through the Isthmus. Where they began to dig...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...to revolt both the Achaeans and the majority of the Greeks outside the Peloponnesus. When the Romans won the war, they carried out a general disarmament of the...

Peloponnesus

73 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Pythian priestess ...dogged their steps so long, it was after all only consistent that the Pythian priestess said to the Spartan Glaucus, the son of Epicydes, who consulted her about...

Pythian priestess

72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...the god if Asclepius was the son of Arsinoe and therefore a Messenian, the Pythian priestess gave this response: "Asclepius, born to bestow great joy upon mortals, Pledge...

Pythian priestess

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...Delphi to ask what was the cause and to beg for deliverance from the evil. The Pythian priestess bade them propitiate Zeus, saying that he would not listen to them unless the...

Pythian priestess

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 altars to these ...and on either side are the nymphs called Nereids. I know that there are altars to these in other parts of Greece, and that some Greeks have even dedicated to them...

altars to these

74 Attica ...and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons of Troezen, migrated to Attica, and the parishes are named after them. As my readers know it already, I shall...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...in the sanctuary of Demeter, beside which, as I have shown in my account of Attica, his death occurred. At the entrance to this sanctuary of Demeter you can see a...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...and Architeles, the sons of Achaeus, he brought in as his ally Sicyon from Attica, and gave him Zeuxippe his daughter to wife. This man became king, and the land...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Corinthian territory ...the city a burnt temple. There have, of course, been many wars carried on in Corinthian territory, and naturally houses and sanctuaries outside the wall have been fired. But...

Corinthian territory

79 pine trees ...of the Isthmus is the place where the brigand Sinis used to take hold of pine trees and draw them down. All those whom he overcame in fight he used to tie to the...

pine trees

75 the sea at Cenchreae ...fight with a bronze club. The Corinthian Isthmus stretches on the one hand to the sea at Cenchreae, and on the other to the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to...

the sea at Cenchreae

81 Corinthians ...to Helius by Briareos when he acted as adjudicator, and handed over, the Corinthians say, by Helius to Aphrodite. As you go up this Acrocorinthus you see two...

Corinthians

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...bronze, when red-hot, is tempered by this water, since bronze . . . the Corinthians have not. Moreover near Peirene are an image and a sacred enclosure of Apollo...

Corinthians

74 22.878721,37.906045,0 theater ...with an image of the god as a beardless youth. Below this temple is built a theater. Not far from it is a sanctuary of Demeter and old, seated images. On the...

theater

78 theater ...succeeded in winning the prize for wrestling at the Nemean games. Above the theater is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and before the image is a slab with a...

theater

79 theater ...away a second time and came to Salamis. Not far from the Secret Harbor is a theater worth seeing; it is very similar to the one at Epidaurus, both in size and in...

theater

79 Cyrene ...Athens, in the fourth year of the hundred and fifth Olympiad, when Prorus of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race. When they had seized the sanctuary, the best...

Cyrene

79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...Amphion the son of Acestor. It is said that, after Battus had founded Cyrene, he was cured of his stammering in the following way. As he was passing through...

Cyrene

73 21.856169,32.818736,0 Theseus ...exploit made credible the saying that it was divine providence that brought Theseus and his company back in safety. In this temple are altars to the gods said to...

Theseus

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...Hyllicus, originally called Taurius (Bull-like), and a rock called the Rock of Theseus; when Theseus took up the boots and sword of Aegeus under it, it, too, changed...

Theseus

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...which aforetime was called the altar of Zeus Sthenius (Strong) but afterwards Theseus took up the tokens, and people now call it the Rock of Theseus. As you go...

Theseus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greece ...had a private quarrel with him. So Demosthenes is honored in many parts of Greece, and especially by the dwellers in Calaurea. Stretching out far into the sea...

Greece

77 the enclosure ...Heracles. The whole of the enclosure here they name Paedize; in the middle of the enclosure is the sanctuary, and in it is an old wooden figure carved by Laphaes the...

the enclosure

80 the enclosure ...to the offering a leaf of the paideros. This is a plant in the open parts of the enclosure, and it grows nowhere else either in Sicyonia or in any other land. Its leaves...

the enclosure

80 the enclosure ...on all sides by boundary marks. No death or birth takes place within the enclosure the same custom prevails also in the island of Delos. All the offerings...

the enclosure

71 the sea ...Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock into the sea. As one goes up to Corinth are tombs, and by the gate is buried Diogenes of...

the sea

76 the sea ...one at Pergamus has been built in our own day the sanctuary of Asclepius by the sea at Smyrna. Further, at Balagrae of the Cyreneans there is an Asclepius called...

the sea

78 the sea ...his defence standing on board ship, or if he wished, from a mole raised in the sea. So he sailed into the harbor called Secret, and proceeded to make a mole by...

the sea

77 the sea ...fond of hunting. As he was chasing a doe, it so chanced that it dashed into the sea and he dashed in alter it. The doe swam further and further from the shore, and...

the sea

78 tombs ...in Thessaly. But I cannot agree with them when they say that in Argos are the tombs of Deianeira, the daughter of Oeneus, and of Helenus, son of Priam, and that...

tombs

80 precinct of Bellerophontes ...the Dog. Before the city is a grove of cypresses called Craneum. Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the grave of Lais, upon which is set a...

precinct of Bellerophontes

78 that country ...is in Thessaly another tomb which claims to be that of Lais, for she went to that country also when she fell in love with Hippostratus. The story is that originally she...

that country

79 22.2,39.6,0 region ...Cenchreae, and on the other to the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to the south mainland. He who tried to make the Peloponnesus an island gave up...

region

81 Sea ...of ships and of sea-faring men. The other offerings are images of Calm and of Sea, a horse like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the...

Sea

80 the base of the statue of Poseidon ...say that Eriphyle was bribed to wrong her son Alcmaeon. Among the reliefs on the base of the statue of Poseidon are the sons of Tyndareus, because these too are saviours of ships and of...

the base of the statue of Poseidon

80 a horse ...and of sea-faring men. The other offerings are images of Calm and of Sea, a horse like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse...

a horse

76 sanctuary of the god ...seeing here are a theater and a white-marble race-course. Within the sanctuary of the god stand on the one side portrait statues of athletes who have won victories at...

sanctuary of the god

71 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Troezen ...Sinis himself was slain by Theseus. For Theseus rid of evildoers the road from Troezen to Athens, killing those whom I have enumerated and, in sacred Epidaurus...

Troezen

81 sanctuary ...was king in Corinth, and Medea, as her children were born, carried each to the sanctuary of Hera and concealed them, doing so in the belief that so they would be...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...from the Acrocorinthus into the mountain road you see the Teneatic gate and a sanctuary of Eilethyia. The town called Tenea is just about sixty stades distant. The...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...city Aegialea on the plain. Their citadel, they say, was where is now their sanctuary of Athena; further, that Aegialeus begat Europs, Europs Telchis, and Telchis...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...For this reason it is called the Dripping Spring. On the modern citadel is a sanctuary of Fortune of the Height, and after it one of the Dioscuri. Their images and...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...as they tasted it the bark killed them, and that log lay in my time in the sanctuary of the Wolf-god, but not even the guides of the Sicyonians knew what kind of...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...they name . . . ; the second they call Heraclea. From here is a way to a sanctuary of Asclepius. On passing into the enclosure you see on the left a building with...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...and Sleep, surnamed Epidotes (Bountiful), lulling to sleep a lion. Within the sanctuary on either side of the entrance is an image, on the one hand Pan seated, on the...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...to the goddess for the rearing of his son. A little farther away from the sanctuary of Hera founded by Adrastus is a temple of the Carnean Apollo. Only the pillars...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...to be peculiarly holy. The earliest Phliasians named the goddess to whom the sanctuary belongs Ganymeda; but later authorities call her Hebe, whom Homer mentions in...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...a beardless youth. Below this temple is built a theater. Not far from it is a sanctuary of Demeter and old, seated images. On the market-place is a votive offering, a...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...that Dipoenus and Scyllis were his sons by this woman. Cleonae possesses this sanctuary and the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus. The story is that as they were going as...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...they gave burial apart because of her high rank. A little farther on is a sanctuary of the Seasons. On coming back from here you see statues of Polyneices, the son...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...where the Argive women bewail Adonis. On the right of the entrance is the sanctuary of Cephisus. It is said that the water of this river was not utterly destroyed...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...where the sanctuary is, it can be heard flowing under the earth. Beside the sanctuary of Cephisus is a head of Medusa made of stone, which is said to be another of...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...winning the prize for wrestling at the Nemean games. Above the theater is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and before the image is a slab with a representation wrought on...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...son of Bias; the history of Bias and his descendants I have already given. A sanctuary of Athena Trumpet they say was founded by Hegeleos. This Hegeleos, according to...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...then was set up where the pyre stood, but the bones of Pyrrhus lie in the sanctuary of Demeter, beside which, as I have shown in my account of Attica, his death...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...Pelasgian from Pelasgus, son of Triopas, its founder, and not far from the sanctuary is the grave of Pelasgus. Opposite the grave is a small bronze vessel...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...it was Hera who induced Poseidon to send the sea back, but the Argives made a sanctuary to Poseidon Prosclystius at the spot where the tide ebbed. Going on a little...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...but there is a little ivory also in their construction. Near the Lords is a sanctuary of Eilethyia, dedicated by Helen when, Theseus having gone away with Peirithous...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...to the temple of Dionysus you will see the house of Adrastus, farther on a sanctuary of Amphiaraus, and opposite the sanctuary the tomb of Eriphyle. Next to these...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...tomb of Eriphyle. Next to these is a precinct of Asclepius, and after them a sanctuary of Baton. Now Baton belonged to the same family as Amphiaraus, to the...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...removed all its citizens, who thereupon came to live at Argos. At Orneae are a sanctuary and an upright wooden image of Artemis; there is besides a temple devoted to...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...cult to Pergamus. From the one at Pergamus has been built in our own day the sanctuary of Asclepius by the sea at Smyrna. Further, at Balagrae of the Cyreneans there...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...had run away from their masters. The Epidaurians have a theater within the sanctuary, in my opinion very well worth seeing. For while the Roman theaters are far...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...things Antoninus made for the Epidaurians are various appurtenances for the sanctuary of the Maleatian, including a reservoir into which the rain-water collects for...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...as you go towards the mountain of Zeus, God of all the Greeks, you reach a sanctuary of Aphaea, in whose honor Pindar composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...that Pittheus and two men with him used to sit in judgment. Not far off is a sanctuary of the Muses, made, they told me, by Ardalus, son of Hephaestus. This Ardalus...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...seeing that they escaped being enslaved by Xerxes and the Persians. The sanctuary of Thearian Apollo, they told me, was set up by Pittheus; it is the oldest I...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...an old one of Pythian Apollo; these, however, were built much later than the sanctuary at Troezen. The modern image was dedicated by Auliscus, and made by Hermon of...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...before it was called the altar of Zeus Sthenius (Strong). Near the rock is a sanctuary of Aphrodite Nymphia (Bridal), made by Theseus when he took Helen to...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...by a crescent-shaped beach and after the beach there is a spit of land up to a sanctuary of Poseidon, beginning at the sea on the east and extending westwards. It...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...city is just about four stades distant from the headland, upon which is the sanctuary of Poseidon, and it lies on a site which is level at first, gently rising up a...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...and a bronze Poseidon with one foot upon a dolphin. Passing by this into the sanctuary of Hestia, we see no image, but only an altar, and they sacrifice to Hestia...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...(horoi) of their land, and for this reason paid honors to Apollo Horius. The sanctuary of Fortune is said by the Hermionians to be the newest in their city; a...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...Temenium and Lerna. About eight stades to the left from the Erasinus is a sanctuary of the Lords Dioscuri (Sons of Zeus). Their wooden images have been made...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...the river Phrixus empties itself into the sea, and in Temenium is built a sanctuary of Poseidon, as well as one of Aphrodite; there is also the tomb of Temenus...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...Neris, and a third Eua, the largest of the villages, in which there is a sanctuary of Polemocrates. This Polemocrates is one of the sons of Machaon, and the...

sanctuary

75 sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis ...into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbor sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis. Right opposite Cenchreae is Helen's Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid...

sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis

78 ancient wooden image of Artemis ...Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the...

ancient wooden image of Artemis

79 the gate ...away from here towards the gate called Holy you see, not far from the gate, a temple of Athena. Dedicated long ago by Epopeus, it surpassed all its...

the gate

68 the gate ...the Argives. There still remain, however, parts of the city wall, including the gate, upon which stand lions. These, too, are said to be the work of the Cyclopes...

the gate

78 the gate ...from Argos. On turning a little aside from the road to Cylarabis and to the gate there, you come to the tomb of Sacadas, who was the first to play at Delphi the...

the gate

74 tomb ...Messenian Lycus who practised the pentathlon or won a victory at Olympia. This tomb is a mound of earth, but the Sicyonians themselves usually bury their dead in a...

tomb

81 tomb ...within the enclosure are altars. There is also a mound of earth which is the tomb of Lycurgus, the father of Opheltes. The spring they call Adrastea for some...

tomb

79 tomb ...swore an oath together that they would either capture Thebes or die. As to the tomb of Prometheus, their account seems to me to be less probable than that of the...

tomb

81 tomb ...it be the one in which Palamedes dedicated the dice that he had invented. The tomb near this they call that of the maenad Chorea, saying that she was one of the...

tomb

81 tomb ...little aside from the road to Cylarabis and to the gate there, you come to the tomb of Sacadas, who was the first to play at Delphi the Pythian flute-tune; the...

tomb

81 tomb ...of Hera. As you go to the citadel there is on the left of the road another tomb of the children of Egyptus. For here are the heads apart from the bodies, which...

tomb

77 tomb ...until she reaches an age fit for marriage. Within the enclosure is also the tomb of Demosthenes. His fate, and that of Homer before him, have, in my opinion...

tomb

79 Thessaly ...after the daughter of Pelasgus. After her were also named two of the cities in Thessaly, the one by the sea and the one on the Peneus. As you go up the citadel you...

Thessaly

81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...Lamedon. Corax died without issue, and at about this time came Epopeus from Thessaly and took the kingdom. In his reign the first hostile army is said to have...

Thessaly

79 22.2,39.6,0 Hycara ...she fell in love with Hippostratus. The story is that originally she was of Hycara in Sicily. Taken captive while yet a girl by Nicias and the Athenians, she was...

Hycara

78 13.180165,38.153624,0 the pine ...this sow was one of the traditional achievements of Theseus. Farther on the pine still grew by the shore at the time of my visit, and there was an altar of...

the pine

74 Periphetes ...to Athens, killing those whom I have enumerated and, in sacred Epidaurus, Periphetes, thought to be the son of Hephaestus, who used to fight with a bronze...

Periphetes

76 23.079167,37.596111,0 Asia ...allies. Now the Corinthians were most eager to take part in the expedition to Asia, but considering it a bad omen that their temple of Zeus surnamed Olympian had...

Asia

81 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...the present town extends over the ground between the mountains called Ilius, Asia and Cnacadium; formerly it lay on the summit of Mount Asia. Even now there are...

Asia

79 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Persia ...of Ariston and the hatred of Cleomenes. He retired to king Dareius in Persia, and they say that his descendants remained in Asia for a long...

Persia

72 sanctuary of the Fates ...a colossal statue of the Spartan People. The Lacedemonians have also a sanctuary of the Fates, by which is the grave of Orestes, son of Agamemnon. For when the bones of...

sanctuary of the Fates

73 sanctuary ...after this Teleclus was murdered by Messenians in a sanctuary of Artemis. This sanctuary was built on the frontier of Laconia and Messenia, in a place called Limniae...

sanctuary

81 22.435,37.083,0 Limniae ...sanctuary was built on the frontier of Laconia and Messenia, in a place called Limniae (Lakes). After the death of Teleclus, Alcamenes his son succeeded to the...

Limniae

81 22.191795,37.121691,0 Greece ...a temple of Aphrodite Areia (Warlike). The wooden images are as old as any in Greece. On the right of the Lady of the Bronze House has been set up an image of Zeus...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...dropped her lighted lamp. And Pausanias, conscious of his treason to Greece, and therefore always nervous and fearful, jumped up then and struck the girl...

Greece

71 22.5,37.5,0 Peloponnesus ...– for destiny was by this time driving the Messenians out of all the Peloponnesus – the Messenians revolted from the Lacedemonians. For a time they held out by...

Peloponnesus

71 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Italy ...son succeeded to the throne, and the Lacedemonians sent colonies to Croton in Italy and to the Locri by the Western headland. The war called the Messenian reached...

Italy

80 12.5,42.5,0 Egypt ...from the king of Persia. Agesilaus performed many noteworthy achievements in Egypt, but, being by this time ah old man, he died on the march. then his dead body...

Egypt

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 temple to Athena of Sunium ...the Attic land. When you have rounded the promontory you see a harbor and a temple to Athena of Sunium on the peak of the promontory. Farther on is Laurium, where once the Athenians...

temple to Athena of Sunium

78 24.0359195,37.683423,0 mountain ...he left the kingdom to Lacedemon, whose mother was Taygete, after whom the mountain was named, while according to report his father was none other than Zeus...

mountain

77 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Greeks ...with three hundred Lacedemonians met him at Thermopylae. Now although the Greeks have waged many wars, and so have foreigners among themselves, yet there are...

Greeks

76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...As to the place they call the Hellenium, it has been stated that those of the Greeks who were preparing to repel Xerxes when he was crossing into Europe deliberated...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...the Persian's enmity unappeasable. The expedition of the barbarian against Greece we find foretold in the oracles of Bacis, and Euclus wrote his verses about it...

Greece

77 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...in cabins or caves. Years after the Libyans, there came to the island from Greece Aristaeus and his followers. Aristaeus is said to have been a son of Apollo and...

Greece

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...grieved by the fate of Actaeon, and vexed alike with Boeotia and the whole of Greece, he migrated to Sardinia. Others think that Daedalus too ran away from Camicus...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...efforts to driving away those opposed to him at the pass, in order to invade Greece south of Thermopylae. Deserters kept Brennus informed about the forces from...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...compel the Aetolians to return home to Aetolia, he would find the war against Greece prove easier hereafter. So he detached from his army forty thousand foot and...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...invention, but only touched on it as one already in the mouths of everybody in Greece. In the lower part of the picture, after the Thracian Thamyris, comes Hector...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...them their freedom. An army of bandits, called the Costoboes, who overran Greece in my day, visited among other cities Elateia. Whereupon a certain Mnesibulus...

Greece

77 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...was both upright and humane – his fame having by this time spread throughout Greece, was murdered by Polemarchus, a member of a distinguished family in Lacedemon...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Orgas ...Cleomenes devastated the country, including, they say, the district called Orgas, which was sacred to the deities in Eleusis. He advanced as far as Aegina, and...

Orgas

77 city ...invested Athens and prevented the Athenian reinforcements from entering the city; so Patroclus dispatched messengers urging Areus and the Lacedemonians to take...

city

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 whole of this region ...the Spartans have images of Apollo Pythaeus, of Artemis and of Leto. The whole of this region is called Choros (Dancing), because at the Gymnopaediae, a festival which the...

whole of this region

75 Apollo ...of the Market-place and of Poseidon surnamed Securer, and likewise one of Apollo and of Hera. There is also dedicated a colossal statue of the Spartan People...

Apollo

76 Corinth ...Melas from Gonussa above Sicyon joined the Dorians in the expedition against Corinth. When the god expressed disapproval Aletes at first ordered Melas to withdraw...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...while yet a girl by Nicias and the Athenians, she was sold and brought to Corinth, where she surpassed in beauty the courtesans of her time, and so won the...

Corinth

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...of the Greeks and dismantled the walls of such cities as were fortified. Corinth was laid waste by Mummius, who at that time commanded the Romans in the field...

Corinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after Corinthus. Corinth is no longer inhabited by any of the old Corinthians, but by colonists sent out...

Corinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...For this reason they honor Apollo more than any other god. As you go from Corinth, not into the interior but along the road to Sicyon, there is on the left not...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaean League ...the tyrant of Argos, to restore to the Argives their democracy and to join the Achaean League; he captured Mantinea from the Lacedemonians who held it. But no man finds all...

Achaean League

81 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Theseus ...on this slab, that when Hippolytus was killed, owing to the curses of Theseus, Asclepius raised him from the dead. On coming to life again he refused to...

Theseus

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...after them. As my readers know it already, I shall not relate the story of Theseus, the grandson of Pittheus. There is, however, one incident that I must add. On...

Theseus

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...goddess. It was said that the temple was founded and the name Saviour given by Theseus when he returned from Crete after overcoming Asterion the son of Minos. This...

Theseus

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...called Taurius (Bull-like), and a rock called the Rock of Theseus; when Theseus took up the boots and sword of Aegeus under it, it, too, changed its name, for...

Theseus

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Alexander ...they did not advance at all. So it still is mainland as its nature is to be. Alexander the son of Philip wished to dig through Mimas, and his attempt to do this was...

Alexander

79 22.5,42.5,0 Athenians ...the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus the Argives spoke the same dialect as the Athenians, and in Philammon's day I do not suppose that even the name Dorians was...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...had agreed to pay, on the ground that the Aeginetans had the images, how the Athenians perished who crossed over to Aegina to fetch them – all this, as Herodotus has...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...because he was a man who lived a private life; though Miltiades, who led the Athenians to Marathon, and Cimon, the son of Miltiades, achieved renown; but the family...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Asclepius had their origin from Epidaurus. In the first place, the Athenians, who say that they gave a share of their mystic rites to Asclepius, call this...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Asopus, is a grove of holm oaks and a temple of the goddesses named by the Athenians the August, and by the Sicyonians the Kindly Ones. On one day in each year they...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mimas ...as its nature is to be. Alexander the son of Philip wished to dig through Mimas, and his attempt to do this was his only unsuccessful project. The Cnidians...

Mimas

76 26.5013,38.55674,0 Corinthians ...the Homeric poems. When Bellerophontes migrated to Lycia it is clear that the Corinthians none the less were subject to the despots at Argos or Mycenae. By themselves...

Corinthians

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...to look upon but after Corinth was laid waste by the Romans and the old Corinthians were wiped out, the new settlers broke the custom of offering those sacrifices...

Corinthians

74 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...Mermerus and Pheres, and they are said to have been stoned to death by the Corinthians owing to the gifts which legend says they brought to Glauce. But as their...

Corinthians

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...sent out by the Romans. This change is due to the Achaean League. The Corinthians, being members of it, joined in the war against the Romans, which Critolaus...

Corinthians

72 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...it is for man to alter by violence what Heaven has made. A legend of the Corinthians about their land is not peculiar to them, for I believe that the Athenians were...

Corinthians

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 sanctuary ...as a settler. Such I found to be the history of the Corinthian kings. Now the sanctuary of Athena Chalinitis is by their theater, and near is a naked wooden image of...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...that I saw, and its image, were dedicated by Pythocles. The precinct near the sanctuary of Persuasion that is devoted to Roman emperors was once the house of the...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...is dedicated a stone Heracles made by Scopas. There is also in another place a sanctuary of Heracles. The whole of the enclosure here they name Paedize; in the middle...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...will have it that Antiope herself is related to themselves. After this is the sanctuary of Aphrodite, into which enter only a female verger, who after her appointment...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...road and just about ten stades from it, is a grove called Pyraea, and in it a sanctuary of Hera Protectress and the Maid. Here the men celebrate a festival by...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...from a second hill on which the Phliasians have their citadel and their sanctuary of Hebe. Here, then, he founded a city, and after him in ancient times both the...

sanctuary

74 sanctuary ...famous sights. On the Phliasian citadel is a grove of cypress trees and a sanctuary which from ancient times has been held to be peculiarly holy. The earliest...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...this goddess the greatest is the pardoning of suppliants. All those who seek sanctuary here receive full forgiveness, and prisoners, when set free, dedicate their...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...they speak the truth about it. Farther on from the Omphalos they have an old sanctuary of Dionysus, a sanctuary of Apollo, and one of Isis. The image of Dionysus is...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...who, say the Argives, was one of those who entertained Demeter. Now this sanctuary has no roof, but in it is another temple, built of burnt brick, and wooden...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...believing that Apollo had brought the wolf on the herd, he founded a sanctuary of Apollo Lycius. Here is dedicated the throne of Danaus, and here Is placed a...

sanctuary

71 sanctuary ...on stone, themselves drawing the carriage and taking in it their mother to the sanctuary of Hera. Opposite them is a sanctuary of Nemean Zeus, and an upright bronze...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...who met their death at Troy or on the journey home. Here there is also a sanctuary of Zeus the Saviour. Beyond it is a building where the Argive women bewail...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...was not utterly destroyed by Poseidon, but that just in this place, where the sanctuary is, it can be heard flowing under the earth. Beside the sanctuary of Cephisus...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...to the tomb of Cerdo, the wife of Phoroneus, and to a temple of Asclepius. The sanctuary of Artemis, surnamed Persuasion, is another offering of Hypermnestra after...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...uncovered part of his court, and when Troy was taken by the Greeks Priam took sanctuary at the altar of this god. When the spoils were divided, Sthenelus, the son of...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...that of Epidaurus. But before you reach Epidaurus itself you will come to the sanctuary of Asclepius. Who dwelt in this land before Epidaurus came to it I do not know...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...Roman senator, Antoninus, made in our own day a bath of Asclepius and a sanctuary of the gods they call Bountiful. He made also a temple to Health, Asclepius...

sanctuary

74 sanctuary ...called Cynortium; on the latter is a sanctuary of Maleatian Apollo. The sanctuary itself is an ancient one, but among the things Antoninus made for the...

sanctuary

74 sanctuary ...are not many – but only of those who were of high rank. In front of the sanctuary of Apollo is a building called the Booth of Orestes. For before he was cleansed...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...and of her daughter Core (Maid). Seawards, on the borders of Hermionis, is a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Thermasia (Warmth). Just about eighty stades away is a...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...and they offer prizes for swimming-races and boat-races. There is also a sanctuary of Artemis surnamed Iphigenia, and a bronze Poseidon with one foot upon a...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...the gate through which there is a straight road leading to Mases, there is a sanctuary of Eileithyia within the wall. Every day, both with sacrifices and with...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...From it flows a river, also called Pontinus. Upon the top of the mountain is a sanctuary of Athena Saitis, now merely a ruin; there are also the foundations of a house...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...and Amymone. Of the walls, too, ruins still remain and in Nauplia are a sanctuary of Poseidon, harbors, and a spring called Canathus. Here, say the Argives, Hera...

sanctuary

74 Lechaeum ...the exploit of Odysseus against the suitors. Proceeding on the direct road to Lechaeum we see a bronze image of a seated Hermes. By him stands a ram, for Hermes is...

Lechaeum

81 22.88807,37.93277,0 the sea ...the Phliasian territory, flows through the Sicyonian, and empties itself into the sea here. His daughters, say the Phliasians, were Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe...

the sea

80 the sea ...called the Helisson, and after it the Sythas, both emptying themselves into the sea. Phliasia borders on Sicyonia. The city is just about forty stades distant...

the sea

78 the sea ...belonged to Hera and not to him. Now it was Hera who induced Poseidon to send the sea back, but the Argives made a sanctuary to Poseidon Prosclystius at the spot...

the sea

80 the sea ...Pelasgus. After her were also named two of the cities in Thessaly, the one by the sea and the one on the Peneus. As you go up the citadel you come to the sanctuary...

the sea

80 the sea ...Greece, and especially by the dwellers in Calaurea. Stretching out far into the sea from Troezenia is a peninsula, on the coast of which has been founded a little...

the sea

79 the sea ...up her body on this headland. They do not show a grave of her, but say that the sea birds were allowed to tear the corpse to pieces. As you sail from Scyllaeum in...

the sea

78 the sea ...the beach there is a spit of land up to a sanctuary of Poseidon, beginning at the sea on the east and extending westwards. It possesses harbors, and is some seven...

the sea

80 the sea ...begins the grove, which consists chiefly of plane trees, and reaches down to the sea. Its boundaries are, on the one side the river Pantinus, on the other side...

the sea

79 the sea ...a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbor sanctuaries of...

the sea

78 the harbor ...mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbor sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis. Right opposite Cenchreae is Helen's Bath...

the harbor

80 22.992532,37.88239,0 a rock ...is Helen's Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock into the sea. As one goes up to Corinth are tombs, and by the gate is buried...

a rock

75 a rock ...is a spring of the river Hyllicus, originally called Taurius (Bull-like), and a rock called the Rock of Theseus; when Theseus took up the boots and sword of Aegeus...

a rock

80 sanctuary ...The Great Eoeae Peirene is said to be a daughter of Oebalus. In Lechaeum are a sanctuary and a bronze image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to...

sanctuary

81 bronze image of Poseidon ...Peirene is said to be a daughter of Oebalus. In Lechaeum are a sanctuary and a bronze image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient...

bronze image of Poseidon

81 Helen's Bath ...the harbor sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis. Right opposite Cenchreae is Helen's Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock into the...

Helen's Bath

79 Sinope ...one goes up to Corinth are tombs, and by the gate is buried Diogenes of Sinope, whom the Greeks surname the Dog. Before the city is a grove of cypresses...

Sinope

74 35.14885,42.0206,0 temple of Aphrodite Melaenis ...a grove of cypresses called Craneum. Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the grave of Lais, upon which is set a lioness holding a ram in her...

temple of Aphrodite Melaenis

80 a lioness holding a ram ...a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the grave of Lais, upon which is set a lioness holding a ram in her fore-paws. There is in Thessaly another tomb which claims to be that of...

a lioness holding a ram

74 tomb ...kingdom to Sisyphus. This is the account that I read, and not far from the tomb is the temple of Athena Chalinitis (Bridler). For Athena, they say, was the...

tomb

78 tomb ...dead man's name without that of his father and bid him farewell. After the tomb of Lycus, but on the other side of the Asopus, there is on the right the...

tomb

78 tomb ...water of the river which the present inhabitants call after him Asopus. The tomb of Aras is in the place called Celeae, where they say is also buried Dysaules...

tomb

78 tomb ...while yet babies Aegisthus slew after their parents. Electra has her tomb, for Orestes married her to Pylades. Hellanicus adds that the children of...

tomb

71 tomb ...and Timeas, sons of Polyneices. Not far from the statues are shown the tomb of Danaus and a cenotaph of the Argives who met their death at Troy or on the...

tomb

74 tomb ...front of it stands an altar of Zeus Phyxius (God of Fight), and near is the tomb of Hypermnestra, the mother of Amphiaraus, the other tomb being that of...

tomb

78 tomb ...war; for which reason they are surnamed Haliae (Women of the Sea). Facing the tomb of the women is a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Pelasgian from Pelasgus, son...

tomb

80 tomb ...leaves of this myrtle. There is also the grave of Phaedra, not far from the tomb of Hippolytus, which is a barrow near the myrtle. The image of Asclepius was...

tomb

79 Nicias and the Athenians ...that originally she was of Hycara in Sicily. Taken captive while yet a girl by Nicias and the Athenians, she was sold and brought to Corinth, where she surpassed in beauty the...

Nicias and the Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lais ...time, and so won the admiration of the Corinthians that even now they claim Lais as their own. The things worthy of mention in the city include the extant...

Lais

78 13.180165,38.153624,0 Corinthian land The Corinthian land is a portion of the Argive, and is named after Corinthus. That Corinthus was a...

Corinthian land

4 22.878721,37.906045,0 sea coast ...Helius (Sun), fleeing from the lawless violence of his father migrated to the sea coast of Attica; that on the death of Epopeus he came to Peloponnesus, divided his...

sea coast

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 the majority of the Greeks ...of the Achaeans, brought about by persuading to revolt both the Achaeans and the majority of the Greeks outside the Peloponnesus. When the Romans won the war, they carried out a...

the majority of the Greeks

79 Cromyon ...refounded in his reign. In the Corinthian territory is also the place called Cromyon from Cromus the son of Poseidon. Here they say that Phaea was bred; overcoming...

Cromyon

80 23.14146,37.92753,0 Attica ...believe that the Athenians were the first to relate a similar story to glorify Attica. The Corinthians say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helius (Sun) about the...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Ephyraea ...sons, and returned to Attica; and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after Corinthus. Corinth is no longer inhabited by any of the old Corinthians...

Ephyraea

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Peloponnesus ...Universe, as they are called. From Argos are roads to various parts of the Peloponnesus, including one to Tegea on the side towards Arcadia. On the right is Mount...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...over against the forces of Perseus, who was followed by picked troops from the Peloponnesus, she was assassinated by night. Perseus, admiring her beauty even in death, cut...

Peloponnesus

81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus. I remember hearing a similar story from the Delians, that...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Asopia ...divided his kingdom among his sons, and returned to Attica; and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after Corinthus. Corinth is no longer...

Asopia

71 22.71135,37.98336,0 Achaeans ...Dorians, to join the Achaean League. He was immediately elected general by the Achaeans, and leading them against the Locrians of Amphissa and into the land of the...

Achaeans

81 the shore ...into the sea and he dashed in alter it. The doe swam further and further from the shore, and Saron kept close to his prey, until his ardor brought him to the open...

the shore

80 Isthmus ...they say that Neleus came to Corinth, died of disease, and was buried near the Isthmus – I do not think that anyone would look for after reading Eumelus. For he says...

Isthmus

81 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 Isthmus ...the land, and that Briareos arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmus and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helius the height above the city. Ever...

Isthmus

81 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 mainland ...other to the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to the south mainland. He who tried to make the Peloponnesus an island gave up before digging through...

mainland

79 theater ...only to slaves who had run away from their masters. The Epidaurians have a theater within the sanctuary, in my opinion very well worth seeing. For while the Roman...

theater

78 race-course ...one at Epidaurus, both in size and in style. Behind it is built one side of a race-course, which not only itself holds up the theater, but also in turn uses it as a...

race-course

80 pine trees ...of athletes who have won victories at the Isthmian games, on the other side pine trees growing in a row, the greater number of them rising up straight. On the temple...

pine trees

78 Greece ...nymphs called Nereids. I know that there are altars to these in other parts of Greece, and that some Greeks have even dedicated to them precincts by shores, where...

Greece

81 Greece ...as that which the other Greeks assign. A drought had for some time afflicted Greece, and no rain fell either beyond the Isthmus or in the Peloponnesus, until at...

Greece

79 the horses ...gilded except for the hoofs, which are of ivory, and two gold Tritons beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite and...

the horses

80 Palaemon ...waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. These too are made of ivory and gold. On the middle of...

Palaemon

81 the enclosure ...place is the grave of Opheltes; around it is a fence of stones, and within the enclosure are altars. There is also a mound of earth which is the tomb of Lycurgus, the...

the enclosure

77 the enclosure ...and the Aeginetans made these likenesses of those who came to him. Within the enclosure are olive trees that have grown there from of old, and there is an altar which...

the enclosure

76 the enclosure ...hold a festival in their honor that they call Stoning. In the other part of the enclosure is a race-course called that of Hippolytus, and above it a temple of Aphrodite...

the enclosure

79 sons of Tyndareus ...son Alcmaeon. Among the reliefs on the base of the statue of Poseidon are the sons of Tyndareus, because these too are saviours of ships and of sea-faring men. The other...

sons of Tyndareus

81 Argive The Corinthian land is a portion of the Argive, and is named after Corinthus. That Corinthus was a son of Zeus I have never...

Argive

40 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 he ...his father migrated to the sea coast of Attica; that on the death of Epopeus he came to Peloponnesus, divided his kingdom among his sons, and returned to...

he

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 isthmus ...was his only unsuccessful project. The Cnidians began to dig through their isthmus, but the Pythian priestess stopped them. So difficult it is for man to alter by...

isthmus

77 fore-temple ...straight. On the temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of...

fore-temple

81 the base on which the car ...upright upon a dolphin. These too are made of ivory and gold. On the middle of the base on which the car is has been wrought a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side...

the base on which the car

81 the car ...gold Tritons beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a...

the car

78 Gabala ...to them precincts by shores, where honors are also paid to Achilles. In Gabala is a holy sanctuary of Doto, where there was still remaining the robe by which...

Gabala

74 35.92429,35.36171,0 Cyrene ...he it was who brought them in ships from Thera to Libya. The reins are held by Cyrene, and in the chariot is Battus, who is being crowned by Libya. The artist was a...

Cyrene

81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Eleusis ...their land and established the mysteries, and that he had been expelled from Eleusis by Ion, when Ion, the son of Xuthus, was chosen by the Athenians to be...

Eleusis

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Phlius ...himself remained at Eleusis. But it is possible that Dysaules came to Phlius for some other reason than that given by the Phliasians. I do not believe...

Phlius

73 22.649131,37.846299,0 Nemean ...place Nemea is distant some fifteen stades. In Nemea is a noteworthy temple of Nemean Zeus, but I found that the roof had fallen in and that there was no longer...

Nemean

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Mycenae ...son of Phoroneus. It was jealousy which caused the Argives to destroy Mycenae. For at the time of the Persian invasion the Argives made no move, but the...

Mycenae

73 22.756111,37.730833,0 Lacedemonians ...names are Melanopus and Macartatus, who met their death fighting against the Lacedemonians and Boeotians on the borders of Eleon and Tanagra. There is also a grave of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...Persian invasion. It was surely a just decree even for a democracy when the Athenians actually allowed slaves a public funeral, and to have their names inscribed on...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...into upper Caria; also those who died in the war with Cassander, and the Argives who once fought as the allies of Athens. It is said that the alliance between...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athens ...the secession the Lacedemonians sent for help to various places, including Athens, which dispatched picked troops under the command of Cimon, the son of...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataeans ...with the exception of Nicias, and among the private soldiers are included the Plataeans along with the Athenians. This is the reason why Nicias was passed over, and my...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Prasiae ...are hidden in wheat straw, and they are known of none. There is at Prasiae a monument to Erysichthon, who died on the voyage home from Delos, after the...

Prasiae

69 24.0375955,37.8651735,0 Parnes ...appeared there. The Attic mountains are Pentelicus, where there are quarries, Parnes, where there is hunting of wild boars and of bears, and Hymettus, which grows...

Parnes

81 23.7186181,38.1752735,0 Athens ...the parishes (demes). There is a parish called Marathon, equally distant from Athens and Carystus in Euboea. It was at this point in Attica that the foreigners...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotian ...of the killed according to their tribes; and there is another grave for the Boeotian Plataeans and for the slaves, for slaves fought then for the first time by the...

Boeotian

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athenians ...had failed to take Paros and for this reason had been brought to trial by the Athenians. At Marathon every night you can hear horses neighing and men fighting. No one...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...as suppliants caused for the first time war between Peloponnesians and Athenians, Theseus refusing to give up the refugees at the demand of Eurystheus. The...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...of Oenoe, from whom the parish has its name. The land of Oropus, between Attica and the land of Tanagra, which originally belonged to Boeotia, in our time...

Attica

76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Achelous ...Healer. The fifth is dedicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus. The Athenians too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and...

Achelous

77 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Salaminians ...general for Salamis, and they swore never to forget the treachery of the Salaminians. There are still the remains of a market-place, a temple of Ajax and his...

Salaminians

75 23.5314735,37.947768,0 tomb of Car ...been made by Cleopatra, daughter of Philip, son of Amyntas. There is also the tomb of Car, son of Phoroneus, which was originally a mound of earth, but afterwards, at...

tomb of Car

80 Iolcus ...the son of Marathon, died childless, the Corinthians sent for Medea from Iolcus and bestowed upon her the kingdom. Through her Jason was king in Corinth, and...

Iolcus

75 22.96886,39.366305,0 Lycia ...all who have read carefully the Homeric poems. When Bellerophontes migrated to Lycia it is clear that the Corinthians none the less were subject to the despots at...

Lycia

81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Dorians ...but the Corinthian people were conquered in battle and expelled by the Dorians. Aletes himself and his descendants reigned for five generations to Bacchis...

Dorians

73 22.25,38.75,0 Salamis ...called his son Hyllus after the river. But I will return to my subject. In Salamis is a sanctuary of Artemis, and also a trophy erected in honor of the victory...

Salamis

78 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Eleusinians ...Theseus killed a brigand named Polypemon and surnamed Procrustes. The Eleusinians have a temple of Triptolemus, of Artemis of the Portal, and of Poseidon Father...

Eleusinians

73 23.538311,38.041096,0 Boeotia ...concerning the pedigrees of heroes. When you have turned from Eleusis to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which borders on Attica. Formerly Eleutherae...

Boeotia

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Megarians ...silliness, since Theseus was a descendant of Pelops. The fact is that the Megarians know the true story but conceal it, not wishing it to be thought that their...

Megarians

76 15.18273,37.2038,0 Calydon ...the lion of Parnassus, the serpents in many parts of Greece, and the boars of Calydon, Eryrmanthus and Crommyon in the land of Corinth, so that it was said that some...

Calydon

80 21.533106,38.372423,0 Chalcidians ...is passed. Then there is a bronze chariot, tithe from the Boeotians and the Chalcidians in Euboea. There are two other offerings, a statue of Pericles, the son of...

Chalcidians

78 23.602,38.464,0 Euboea ...there is a bronze chariot, tithe from the Boeotians and the Chalcidians in Euboea. There are two other offerings, a statue of Pericles, the son of Xanthippus...

Euboea

77 Troy ...of the charge accounts differ. It is reported that after the capture of Troy Diomedes was returning home with his fleet when night overtook them as in their...

Troy

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Salamis ...as concern the Athenians. He seized the fort of Panactum in Attica and also Salamis, and established as tyrant in Athens Demetrius the son of Phanostratus, a man...

Salamis

78 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Amathus ...of Phocis. However, I do not think that it is in the sanctuary of Adonis at Amathus. For the necklace at Amathus is composed of green stones held together by gold...

Amathus

79 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Phocians ...or killed their riders. The Thessalians, more enraged than ever against the Phocians, gathered levies from all their cities and marched out against them. Whereupon...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...forlorn hopes are called by the Greeks "Phocian despair." On this occasion the Phocians forthwith proceeded to attack the Thessalians. The commander of their cavalry...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Phocis ...than whom no Phocian stood higher in rank, his country being Ledon, a city of Phocis, took charge and tried to persuade them to seize the sanctuary at Delphi...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Ledon ...former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the cities...

Ledon

79 22.680539,38.654801,0 Crannon ...took part in the battle of Chaeroneia, and afterwards fought at Lamia and Crannon against the Macedonians under Antipater. No Greeks were keener defenders...

Crannon

76 22.30245,39.50051,0 Delphian ...whom the Athenians call Thyiads. The Thyiads are Attic women, who with the Delphian women go to Parnassus every other year and celebrate orgies in honor of...

Delphian

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Parnassus ...call Thyiads. The Thyiads are Attic women, who with the Delphian women go to Parnassus every other year and celebrate orgies in honor of Dionysus. It is the custom...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Athens ...Thyiads to hold dances at places, including Panopeus, along the road from Athens. The epithet Homer applies to Panopeus is thought to refer to the dance of the...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Parnassus ...to escape the storm were led by the howls of wolves to safety on the top of Parnassus, being led on their way by these beasts, and on this account they called the...

Parnassus

78 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Cretans ...shall Apollo shoot At the spoiler of Parnassus; and of his blood-guilt The Cretans shall cleanse his hands; but the renown shall never die. It seems that from...

Cretans

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Pythian ...running-races for boys, the long course and the double course. At the second Pythian Festival they no longer offered prizes for events, and hereafter gave a crown...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sicyon ...was dropped. But they added a chariot-race, and Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon, was proclaimed victor in the chariot-race. At the eighth Pythian Festival...

Sicyon

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Delphi ...come to a river named Pleistus. This Pleistus descends to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and flows into the sea there. Ascending from the gymnasium along the way to...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Castalia ...and other things ordained by use, and it is said that these reappear in Castalia. The city of Delphi, both the sacred enclosure of Apollo and the city...

Castalia

74 22.505528,38.483082,0 Olympia ...Elis. There is a statue at Delphi of Phaylus of Crotona. He won no victory at Olympia, but his victories at Pytho were two in the pentathlum and one in the...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Malea ...these words in an ode of Pindar: The mighty one, the dancer, whom the mount of Malea nurtured, husband of Nais, Silenus." Not that Pindar said his name was...

Malea

81 23.19975,36.43603,0 Pyrrhichus ...said his name was Pyrrhichus; that is a statement of the men of Malea. At Pyrrhichus there is a well in the market-place, considered to be the gift of Silenus. If...

Pyrrhichus

77 22.432959,36.659054,0 Pephnus ...this in a song: but they do not say that they remained to be brought up in Pephnus, but that it was Hermes who took them to Pellana. In this little island there...

Pephnus

77 22.296786,36.812375,0 Lacedemonians ...that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Andania ...Messene from the wife of Polycaon. Together with other cities, they founded Andania, where their palace was built. Before the battle which the Thebans fought with...

Andania

78 21.938099,37.26217,0 Plataea ...the mother of Agesilaus, a close friend of the Thebans who, when the wall of Plataea had been taken, had been one of the judges voting that the remnant of the...

Plataea

79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thessalians ...from Abydos to Sestos he passed through Thrace as far as Thessaly, where the Thessalians, to please the Thebans, tried to prevent his further progress; there was also...

Thessalians

79 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...first was at Plataea against the Persians; the second was at Tegea, when the Lacedemonians had engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Dipaea ...when the Lacedemonians had engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all the Arcadians except the Mantineans...

Dipaea

79 22.254905,37.541156,0 Achaeans ...Dorians, when they had conquered in war the Amyclaeans, as well as the other Achaeans, who at that time occupied Laconia. The sanctuary of the Great Mother has paid...

Achaeans

79 Messenia ...the Messenians, who had revolted, and their king Anaxander, having invaded Messenia, took prisoners certain women, and among them Cleo, priestess of Thetis. This...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...is said to have sprung out of their refusing to cleanse him when he came to Sparta for cleansing after the death of Iphitus. The following incident, too, helped...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...of Heracles – he was the son of Licymnius the brother of Alcmene – came to Sparta along with Heracles, and went round to view the city. When he came to the house...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Salamis ...commanded the Lacedemonian warships that fought the Persians at Artemisium and Salamis. Near is what is called the hero-shrine of Astrabacus. The place named...

Salamis

81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Artemis Ortheia ...the hero-shrine of Astrabacus. The place named Limnaeum (Marshy) is sacred to Artemis Ortheia (Upright). The wooden image there they say is that which once Orestes and...

Artemis Ortheia

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...in Arcadia but he paid a fitting penalty to Cleonice and to the god. The Lacedemonians, in fulfillment of a command from Delphi, had the bronze images made and honor...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Crete ...that they name Artemis Cnagia. But I am of opinion that Cnageus came to Crete in some other way, and not in the manner the Lacedemonians state; for I do not...

Crete

75 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Attica ...There is an ashen altar of Samian Hera not a bit grander than what in Attica the Athenians call "improvised hearths." The first stage of the altar at...

Attica

72 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Acheron ...the white poplar. Heracles found the white poplar growing on the banks of the Acheron, the river in Thesprotia, and for this reason Homer calls it "Acheroid." So...

Acheron

80 20.4831346,39.2348296,0 Eleans ...Between the processional entrance and the Leonidaeum is a street, for the Eleans call streets what the Athenians call lanes. Well, there is in the Altis, when...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...commissioned Hypereides to persuade the Eleans to remit them the fine. The Eleans refused this favour, and the Athenians were disdainful enough not to pay the...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Ceraunian ...of Thronium in it were a part of the Thesprotian mainland over against the Ceraunian mountains. When the Greek fleet was scattered on the voyage home from Troy...

Ceraunian

77 19.638889,40.198056,0 Phliasians ...of Aegina, but we do not know when he lived nor who his teacher was. The Phliasians also dedicated a Zeus, the daughters of Asopus, and Asopus himself. Their...

Phliasians

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Tirynthians ...and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae...

Tirynthians

78 22.80004,37.59918,0 Corinth ...Argives after the Persian wars. The Ambraciots and Anactorians, colonists of Corinth, were taken away by the Roman emperor to help to found Nicopolis near Actium...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sparta ...to the effect that although Argos has no part in the treaty between Athens and Sparta, yet the Athenians and the Argives may privately, if they wish, be at peace...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...men-at-arms, met Machanidas returning from the pursuit and killed him. The Lacedemonians were unfortunate in the battle, but their good fortune more than compensated...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...The attempt failed, and Philip incurred the hatred of all Greece. The Thebans had defeated the Megarians in battle, and were already climbing the wall of...

Thebans

72 23.255096,38.318092,0 Messenians ...Philopoemen, despatching Lycortas with the army to lay waste the land of the Messenians, was very anxious two or three days later, in spite of his seventy years and a...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...Father, of all the Greek people. But Deinocrates, after all, and in spite of Messenian opposition, was to bring about the death of Philopoemen, for he sent poison in...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...commanded the lances in war. Witness are two trophies, won from the despots Of Sparta; the swelling flood of slavery he stayed. Wherefore did Tegea set up in stone...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...son of Craugis, Author of blameless freedom." Such is the inscription at Tegea on Philopoemen. The images of Apollo, Lord of Streets, the Tegeans say they set...

Tegea

76 22.429,37.464,0 Cretans ...do not know. The residence of Daedalus with Minos at Cnossus secured for the Cretans a reputation for the making of wooden images also, which lasted for a long...

Cretans

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Phylace ...it often disappears beneath the earth to reappear again. So flowing on from Phylace and the place called Symbola it sinks into the Tegean plain; rising at Asea...

Phylace

78 22.450723,37.331323,0 Tegean ...So flowing on from Phylace and the place called Symbola it sinks into the Tegean plain; rising at Asea, and mingling its stream with the Eurotas, it sinks again...

Tegean

76 22.429,37.464,0 Athenians ...and was suckled by a deer. A little farther on is a sanctuary of Pan, where Athenians and Tegeans agree that he appeared to Philippides and conversed with...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleutherae ...borders on Attica at several places, one of which is where Plataea touches Eleutherae. The Boeotians as a race got their name from Boeotus, who, legend says, was the...

Eleutherae

77 23.37572,38.17934,0 Plataeans ...The cities are called in some cases after men, but in most after women. The Plataeans were originally, in my opinion, sprung from the soil; their name comes from...

Plataeans

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Marathon ...Asopus, and not of the river. Before the battle that the Athenians fought at Marathon, the Plataeans had no claim to renown. But they were present at the battle of...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Marathon ...the Plataeans had no claim to renown. But they were present at the battle of Marathon, and later, when Xerxes came down to the sea, they bravely manned the fleet...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lacedemonians ...in the plan or in the performance. But the Thebans maintained that as the Lacedemonians had themselves made the peace and then broken it, all alike, in their view...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...two years before the battle of Leuctra, when Asteius was Archon at Athens. The Thebans destroyed all the city except the sanctuaries, but the method of its capture...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...the Plataeans alike, and on their expulsion they were again received by the Athenians. When Philip after his victory at Chaeroneia introduced a garrison into Thebes...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cithaeron ...procession. After this they drive the wagons from the river to the summit of Cithaeron. On the peak of the mountain an altar has been prepared, which they make after...

Cithaeron

79 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Marathon ...from the spoils given them by the Athenians as their share from the battle of Marathon. It is a wooden image gilded, but the face, hands and feet are of Pentelic...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Asopus ...river Oeroe, said to have been a daughter of the Asopus. Before crossing the Asopus, if you turn aside to lower ground in a direction parallel to the river, after...

Asopus

79 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Spartan ...of ten, which the Lacedemonians had set up in the cities, and drove out the Spartan governors. Afterwards they also waged for ten years consecutively the Phocian...

Spartan

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Theban ...a just requital. In the time of Cassander all the ancient circuit of the Theban walls was rebuilt, but fate after all willed that afterwards the Thebans were...

Theban

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Homole ...shrank from the journey to Illyria, and turning aside to Thessaly they seized Homole, the most fertile and best-watered of the Thessalian mountains. When they were...

Homole

80 22.62858,39.89498,0 Inachus ...from this point on, and for this reason Aeschylus among others calls the Inachus an Argive river. After crossing into Mantinean country over Mount Artemisius...

Inachus

75 22.75,37.75,0 Cheimerium ...into Dine as an offering to Poseidon. Not only here in Argolis, but also by Cheimerium in Thesprotis, is there unmistakably fresh water rising up in the sea. A...

Cheimerium

78 20.3414,39.284192,0 Lacedemonians ...at Dipaea, but in the Peloponnesian war they rose with the Eleans against the Lacedemonians, and joined in battle with them after the arrival of reinforcements from...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...confederacy, and when the battle took place at Mantineia between the Lacedemonians and the Thebans under Epaminondas, the Mantineans joined the ranks of the...

Lacedemonians

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sangarius ...the following reason. Antinous was by birth from Bithynium beyond the river Sangarius, and the Bithynians are by descent Arcadians of Mantineia. For this reason the...

Sangarius

78 30.592850650000003,40.99129035,0 Thebans ...the command of Podares, the grandson of the Podares who fought against the Thebans. They had with them also the Elean seer Thrasybulus, the son of Aeneas, one of...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Salamis ...relate in song how gods sided with them at Marathon and at the battle of Salamis. Very plainly the host of the Gauls was destroyed at Delphi by the god, and...

Salamis

75 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Arcadians ...to perish on the mountain, and with her the baby boy she had borne, whom the Arcadians call Aechmagoras. On being exposed the babe began to cry, and a jay heard him...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Mantineans ...there is on the slope of the mountain the sanctuary of Artemis Hymnia. The Mantineans, too, share it . . . a priestess also and a priest. It is the custom for these...

Mantineans

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Ithaca ...of Pheneus, just as he reared his cows, they say, on the mainland opposite Ithaca. On the base of the image the people of Pheneus pointed out to me writing...

Ithaca

77 Elis ...also are tombs of heroes, those who joined the campaign of Heracles against Elis and lost their lives in the fighting. They are Telamon, buried quite near the...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Pheneus ...and a road by it. This mountain is the boundary between the territories of Pheneus and Stymphalus. On the left of it, as you travel through the land of Pheneus...

Pheneus

77 22.30692,37.91045,0 Cyllene ...that nobody may disbelieve what has been said about their color. Adjoining Cyllene is another mountain, Chelydorea, where Hermes is said to have found a tortoise...

Cyllene

78 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Styx ...Peiras may be. But it is Homer who introduces most frequently the name of Styx into his poetry. In the oath of Hera he says: "Witness now to this be Earth...

Styx

76 22.25,38.25,0 Lusi ...by secret sacrifices and purifications brought them down to a place called Lusi. Most of the Aroanian mountain belongs to Pheneus, but Lusi is on the borders...

Lusi

77 22.1121,37.9719,0 Stymphalus ...temple of Athena Coria will, an image of the goddess. My narrative returns to Stymphalus and to Geronteium, as it is called, the boundary between Stymphalus and...

Stymphalus

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Erasinus ...earth, and reappearing once more in Argolis it changes its name, and is called Erasinus instead of Stymphalus. There is a story current about the water of the...

Erasinus

81 22.75,37.75,0 Stymphalus ...instead of Stymphalus. There is a story current about the water of the Stymphalus, that at one time man-eating birds bred on it, which Heracles is said to have...

Stymphalus

74 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalus ...miracle is said to have occurred. The festival of Stymphalian Artemis at Stymphalus was carelessly celebrated, and its established ritual in great part...

Stymphalus

75 22.45931,37.85932,0 Ionians ...on the sea called Helice. Here used to be situated a city Helice, where the Ionians had a very holy sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon. Their worship of Heliconian...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Athenians ...in the night, perceived at daybreak that their friends had gone, and when the Athenians gathered against them, they took refuge in the Areopagus at the altars of the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acropolis ...death the suppliants of Athena, when Cylon and his supporters had seized the Acropolis. So the slayers themselves and also their descendants were regarded as accursed...

Acropolis

79 23.625,37.875,0 Aegeira ...is a piteous figure. There is a straight road from the sanctuary of Zeus at Aegeira, passing through the mountains and steep. It is forty stades long, and leads to...

Aegeira

79 22.3782,38.12855,0 Aegeira ...quiver. The image of Dionysus is painted with vermilion. On going down from Aegeira to the port, and walking on again, we see on the right of the road the...

Aegeira

78 22.3782,38.12855,0 Sipylus ...of the same name. There is another river called Crius, which rises in Mount Sipylus and is a tributary of the Hermus. Where the territory of Pellene borders on...

Sipylus

79 27.45394,38.5668,0 Isthmus ...The first people within the peninsula are the Corinthians, living on the Isthmus, and their neighbors on the side sea-wards are the Epidaurians. Along...

Isthmus

75 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Achaia ...of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on the side of Achaia it borders on the land of Dyme. These that I have mentioned extend to the sea...

Achaia

80 Athens ...at Olympia. My view is that Lycaon was contemporary with Cecrops, the king of Athens, but that they were not equally wise in matters of religion. For Cecrops was...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phigalia ...Phigalus. Pallantium is mentioned by Stesichorus of Himera in his Geryoneid. Phigalia and Oresthasium in course of time changed their names, Oresthasium to Oresteium...

Phigalia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalia ...their names, Oresthasium to Oresteium after Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, Phigalia to Phialia after Phialus, the son of Bucolion. Cities were founded by Trapezeus...

Phigalia

77 21.8391,37.3963,0 Charisia ...Tegeates founded Tegea and Mantineus Mantineia. Cromi was named after Cromus, Charisia after Charisius, its founder, Tricoloni after Tricolonus, Peraethenses after...

Charisia

80 Tegea ...the cave in Phrygia called Steunos and the river Pencalas. To Apheidas fell Tegea and the land adjoining, and for this reason poets too call Tegea "the lot of...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Phocians ...no name. Afterwards Elatus migrated to what is now called Phocis, helped the Phocians when hard pressed in war by the Phlegyans, and became the founder of the city...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Phlegyans ...what is now called Phocis, helped the Phocians when hard pressed in war by the Phlegyans, and became the founder of the city Elateia. It is said that Azan had a son...

Phlegyans

81 22.569853,39.798151,0 Argolis ...the death of Ischys, the son of Elatus, I have already told in my history of Argolis. Pereus, they say, had no male child, but only a daughter, Neaera. She married...

Argolis

79 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Arcadians ...the son of Azan, had no children, and the sovereignty of the Arcadians devolved upon Aepytus, the son of Elatus. While out hunting, Aepytus was...

Arcadians

63 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tegea ...Aleus, the son of Apheidas, two generations. Aleus built the old sanctuary in Tegea of Athena Alea, and made Tegea the capital of his kingdom. Gortys the son of...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Calydonian ...of Jason to Colchis; afterwards, while hunting down with Meleager the Calydonian boar, he was killed by the brute. So Lycurgus outlived both his sons, and...

Calydonian

72 21.533106,38.372423,0 Athena Alea ...Laodice, a descendant of Agapenor, sent to Tegea a robe as a gift for Athena Alea. The inscription on the offering told as well the race of Laodice: "This is the...

Athena Alea

72 22.429,37.464,0 Spartans ...allow each Boeotian city to swear to the peace separately. He replied: "No, Spartans, not before we see your vassals taking the oath city by city." When the war...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...proceeded to bury their own, it was at once proved that the fallen were Spartans. The loss of the Thebans and of such Boeotians as remained loyal amounted to...

Spartans

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...put his assailants to flight and came right up to the very city of Athens, but as Iphicrates dissuaded the Athenians from coming out to fight, he...

Athens

69 23.726464,37.971687,0 Orchomenians ...set free Pelopidas. In the absence of Epaminondas the Thebans removed the Orchomenians from their land. Epaminondas regarded their removal as a disaster, and declared...

Orchomenians

77 22.31536,37.724716,0 Thebans ...rises up out of the grave. This occurrence, then, I have seen happening. The Thebans show also the tomb of Teiresias, about fifteen stades from the grave of the...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...and admit that the monument at Thebes is a cenotaph. There is also at Thebes the grave of Hector, the son of Priam. It is near the spring called the...

Thebes

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Boeotia ...conjecture that a division of the Telchinians who once dwelt in Cyprus came to Boeotia and established a sanctuary of Telchinian Athena. Seven stades from Teumessus...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Argive ...of wild ones. Here were buried Promachus, the son of Parthenopaeus, and other Argive officers, who joined with Aegialeus, the son of Adrastus, in the expedition...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Rome ...it was Dionysus who killed him. I saw another Triton among the curiosities at Rome, less in size than the one at Tanagra. The Tritons have the following...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Naxos ...to both Homer and Pindar, the latter adding that their doom overtook them in Naxos, which lies off Paros. Their tombs then are in Anthedon, and by the sea is what...

Naxos

79 25.52001,37.127,0 Acraephnium ...commanding the city wild boars can be hunted. On the straight road from Acraephnium to the Cephisian, or as it is also called, the Copaic Lake, is what is styled...

Acraephnium

75 23.219541,38.451533,0 Ascra ...revolved bore him a son Oeoclus, who first with the children of Aloeus founded Ascra, which lies at the foot of Helicon, rich in springs." This poem of Hegesinus I...

Ascra

81 23.074249,38.327032,0 Ascra ...and I too have done likewise, using the quotation of Callippus himself. Of Ascra in my day nothing memorable was left except one tower. The sons of Aloeus held...

Ascra

77 23.074249,38.327032,0 Athenian ...and to his playing sang of beautiful Linus." Pamphos, who composed the oldest Athenian hymns, called him Oetolinus (Linus doomed) at the time when the mourning for...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...subsequently, because of an oracle, they brought the bones of Hippodameia to Olympia. At the end of the statues which they made from the fines levied on athletes...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Theban ...man of Egypt said that Pelops received something from Amphion the Theban and buried it where is what they call Taraxippus, adding that it was the buried...

Theban

68 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elis ...said to have stabled his mares. The boundaries which now separate Arcadia and Elis originally separated Arcadia from Pisa, and are thus situated. On crossing the...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Scillus ...and were joined in their revolt from the Eleans by the people of Macistus and Scillus, which are in Triphylia, and by the people of Dyspontium, another vassal...

Scillus

80 21.602752,37.609552,0 Triphylia ...revolt from the Eleans by the people of Macistus and Scillus, which are in Triphylia, and by the people of Dyspontium, another vassal community. The list were...

Triphylia

77 21.75,37.75,0 Samicum ...was said to be of Poseidon, and to have been worshipped in ancient times at Samicum in Triphylia. Transferred to Elis it received still greater honor, but the...

Samicum

78 21.59852,37.53384,0 Cyllene ...shown that Cyllene was one of the towns he knew. "Polydamas stripped Otus of Cyllene, Comrade of Phyleides and ruler of the great-souled Epeans." In Cyllene is a...

Cyllene

80 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Elis ...Scythians and Indians. Such are the accounts that are given. As you go from Elis to Achaia you come after one hundred and fifty-seven stades to the river...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Larisus ...Elis to Achaia you come after one hundred and fifty-seven stades to the river Larisus, and in modern days this river forms the boundary between Elis and Achaia...

Larisus

80 21.413649227506795,38.130572873364734,0 Ephesian ...from the Thermodon, as they knew the sanctuary from of old, sacrificed to the Ephesian goddess both on this occasion and when they had fled from Heracles; some of...

Ephesian

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Priene ...the Samians had returned to their own land, Androclus helped the people of Priene against the Carians. The Greek army was victorious, but Androclus was killed in...

Priene

77 27.298333,37.66,0 Clarus ...them out to found a colony, they crossed in ships to Asia, but as they came to Clarus, the Cretans came against them armed and carried them away to Rhacius. But he...

Clarus

81 27.19292,38.00466,0 Colophonians ...of Colophon fought against Lysimachus and the Macedonians. The grave of those Colophonians and Smyrnaeans who fell in the battle is on the left of the road as you go to...

Colophonians

80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Cretans ...and that this Erythrus was the founder of their city. Along with the Cretans there dwelt in the city Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians; Lycians because of...

Cretans

71 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Carians ...founder of their city. Along with the Cretans there dwelt in the city Lycians, Carians and Pamphylians; Lycians because of their kinship with the Cretans, as they...

Carians

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Erythraeans ...cities of Ionia, so many from each, and introduced them as settlers among the Erythraeans. The cities of Clazomenae and Phocaea were not inhabited before the Ionians...

Erythraeans

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Ionians ...on the occasion to which I refer the inhabitants of the island received the Ionians as settlers more of necessity than through good.will. The leader of the Ionians...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Samos ...under Androclus made war on Leogorus, the son of Procles, who reigned in Samos after his father, and after conquering them in a battle drove the Samians out...

Samos

75 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...Elis. But to these he did travel, and he it was who made the image of Hera in Samos. . . . Ion the tragic poet says in his history that Poseidon came to the...

Samos

80 26.84,37.73,0 Macedonians ...in his command. On his arrival Flamininus sacked Eretria, defeating the Macedonians who were defending it. He then marched against Corinth, which was held by...

Macedonians

75 21.75,41.25,0 Sparta ...confederacy, exacted from them the strictest justice, and razed the walls of Sparta to the ground. These had been built at haphazard at the time of the invasion of...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...Roman senate sent Appius and other commissioners to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. The mere sight of Appius and his colleagues was sure to be...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...permission was a contravention of the agreement between the Romans and the Achaeans, which allowed the Achaeans as a body to send a deputation to the Roman senate...

Achaeans

77 Macedonia ...Macedonians, Philip, the son of Amyntas, and Alexander, despatched by force to Macedonia the Greeks who were opposed to them, but allowed them to plead their case...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Rome ...But those who ran away, either at once when they were being brought up to Rome, or later on from the cities to which the Romans sent them, were saved from...

Rome

76 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Oropians ...with opposition, especially from Lacedemon, and the army withdrew. Though the Oropians had received no help from the Achaeans, nevertheless Menalcidas extorted the...

Oropians

81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Achaeans ...and the army withdrew. Though the Oropians had received no help from the Achaeans, nevertheless Menalcidas extorted the money from them. But when he had the...

Achaeans

76 Athenians ...his time, one who could never resist a bribe of any kind. He fell foul of the Athenians without gaining anything, and, when Menalcidas laid down his office, accused...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...succeeded in saving Menalcidas in spite of the opposition of the Achaeans. The Achaeans, individually and as a body, held Diaeus responsible for the acquittal of...

Achaeans

81 Athenians ...market of Greece, has no Delian inhabitant, but only the men sent by the Athenians to guard the sanctuary. At Babylon the sanctuary of Belus still is left, but...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Carnion ...and before this the Carnion flows into the Gatheatas. The source of the Carnion is in Aegytian territory beneath the sanctuary of Apollo Cereatas; that of the...

Carnion

74 22.25,37.25,0 Cromitian ...Cereatas; that of the Gatheatas is at Gatheae in Cromitian territory. The Cromitian territory is about forty stades up from the Alpheius, and in it the ruins of...

Cromitian

77 22.75,37.75,0 Lacedemon ...here on the borders of Messenia and Arcadia. The road from Megalopolis to Lacedemon is thirty stades long at the Alpheius. After this you will travel beside a...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...is the tomb of Oicles, the father of Amphiaraus, if indeed he met his end in Arcadia, and not after he had joined Heracles in his campaign against Laomedon. After...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lycaeus ...the victim on the spot. This it is their custom to do. To the north of Mount Lycaeus is the Theisoan territory. The inhabitants of it worship most the nymph...

Lycaeus

80 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Lacedemonians ...the walls were in danger of capture the Phigalians ran away, or perhaps the Lacedemonians let them come out under a truce. The taking of Phigalia and the flight of the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phigalians ...men from Oresthasium, these would die in the battle, but through them the Phigalians would be restored to their city. When the Oresthasians heard of the oracle...

Phigalians

76 21.8391,37.3963,0 Olympic ...was written upon it. This has disappeared with time, but Arrhachion won two Olympic victories at Festivals before the fifty-fourth, while at this Festival he won...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Maeander ...Near the sea the Neda is navigable for small ships. Of all known rivers the Maeander descends with the most winding course, which very often turns back and then...

Maeander

78 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Arcadia ...it seemed, knew where Demeter was in hiding, until Pan, they say, visited Arcadia. Roaming from mountain to mountain as he hunted, he came at last to Mount...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eurotas ...day. Some five stades from Asea are the sources of the Alpheius and of the Eurotas, the former a little distance from the road, the latter just by the road...

Eurotas

77 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Gela ...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...

Gela

80 14.258433,37.062775,0 Tegea ...sanctuary of Dionysus, and is about half a fathom long. The present image at Tegea was brought from the parish of Manthyrenses, and among them it had the surname...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...stades away from the fountain is a temple of Hermes Aepytus. There is at Tegea another sanctuary of Athena, namely of Athena Poliatis (Keeper of the City)...

Tegea

76 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadian ...for his many brave achievements. His father Craugis was as nobly born as any Arcadian of Megalopolis, but he died while Philopoemen was still a baby, and Cleander of...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Psophis ...between Cleitor and Psophis. The founder of Psophis, according to some, was Psophis, the son of Arrhon, the son of Erymanthus, the son of Aristas, the son of...

Psophis

79 21.892903,37.871725,0 Lampeia ...Homer says that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . . hunter . . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing through Arcadia, with Mount Pholoe on the right and...

Lampeia

76 21.79369,37.88094,0 Psophis ...in Paphos. The hero-shrines, however, of Promachus and Echephron, the sons of Psophis, were no longer distinguished when I saw them. In Psophis is buried Alcmaeon...

Psophis

81 21.892903,37.871725,0 Cleitor ...was a daughter of Ladon. The Ladon rises in springs within the territory of Cleitor, as my account has already set forth. It flows first beside a place Leucasium...

Cleitor

78 22.103248,37.892704,0 Ladon ...boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians. Where the Ladon itself falls into the Alpheius is an island called the Island of Crows. Those...

Ladon

81 21.75,37.75,0 Heraea ...to win the race in armour at Olympia. As you go down to the land of Elis from Heraea, at a distance of about fifteen stades from Heraea you will cross the Ladon...

Heraea

81 21.863791,37.613569,0 Teuthis ...as villages, namely Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson. Only one of them, Pallantium, was destined to meet with a...

Teuthis

77 22.041285,37.597441,0 Spartan ...King Cleomenes, whose lineage I have already traced with that of all the other Spartan kings. A fierce battle took place, and after many had fallen on both sides the...

Spartan

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...but also all the Achaeans that he rivalled the fame of Aratus. The Lacedemonians with all their forces under Agis, the son of Eudamidas, the king of the other...

Lacedemonians

70 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megalopolis ...the greater part of the Persian fleet on the Sepiad rocks, but it also saved Megalopolis from being captured. For it blew violently and continuously, and broke up the...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Laconia ...called Buphagus, the son of Iapetus and Thornax. This is what they call her in Laconia also. They also say that Artemis shot Buphagus on Mount Pholoe because he...

Laconia

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Helisson ...Poseidon Overseer. I found the head of the image still remaining. The river Helisson divides Megalopolis just as Cnidus and Mitylene are cut in two by their...

Helisson

79 22.217753,37.612883,0 Carthage ...wrote also a history of the Romans, including how they went to war with Carthage, what the cause of the war was, and how at last, not before great dangers had...

Carthage

74 10.327986,36.857569,0 Sparta ...to go into voluntary exile from Lacedemon, instead of bringing war upon Sparta by remaining where they were; if they exiled themselves to Rome, he declared...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus should be released from the Achaean confederacy. For they were not...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaeans ...the Achaean confederacy. For they were not, he said, related at all to the Achaeans, and but late-comers to the League. The magistrates of the Achaeans did not...

Achaeans

77 Phocis ...first ruling given by Metellus, to pay a fine for invading the territory of Phocis with an armed force; at the second to compensate the Euboeans for laying waste...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...a marked contrast to that of Callistratus, the son of Empedus, towards the Athenians. This man commanded some cavalry in Sicily, and when the Athenians and their...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Heracleia ...For he had ordered the Boeotians to pay a hundred talents to the people of Heracleia and Euboea, and the Achaeans to pay two hundred to the Lacedemonians. Although...

Heracleia

77 22.442503,38.790767,0 Patrae ...of them being also crushed by poverty, all with the exception of a few left Patrae, and scattered, owing to their love of agriculture, up and down the country...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 Calydon ...Calydonian, for the image of Dionysus too was brought from Calydon. When Calydon was still inhabited, among the Calydonians who became priests of the god was...

Calydon

75 21.533106,38.372423,0 Patrae ...is beyond the acropolis near the gate leading to Mesatis. The women of Patrae outnumber the men by two to one. These women are amongst the most charming in...

Patrae

73 21.738518,38.243265,0 Messenian ...size. On it is an inscription, saying that it was dedicated by Simylus the Messenian. It is called Hermes of the Market, and by it is established an oracle. In...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Charadrus ...from the Meilichus you come to another river, the name of which is the Charadrus. The flocks and herds that drink of this river in spring are bound to have male...

Charadrus

73 21.25,38.75,0 Patrae ...of love, and Aphrodite turned him into a river. This is what the people of Patrae say. As Selemnus continued to love Argyra even when he was turned into water...

Patrae

77 21.738518,38.243265,0 Megarians ...from Euboea. Of the Peloponnesians, the Argives, Sicyonians, Corinthians and Megarians send one, as Nicopolis send deputies to every meeting of the Amphictyonic...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Massiliots ...they now hold, and reached great prosperity. The votive offering of the Massiliots is of bronze. The gold shield given to Athena Forethought by Croesus the Lydian...

Massiliots

75 5.365307,43.299467,0 Athenians ...evidence that they quote is taken from the oracles of Musaeus: "For on the Athenians comes a wild rain Through the baseness of their leaders, but some consolation...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troy ...and sent to Delphi a bronze horse, supposed to be the wooden horse of Troy. It is the work of Antiphanes of Argos. On the base below the wooden horse is...

Troy

72 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argives ...Oenoe in Argive territory. From spoils of the same action, it seems to me, the Argives set up statues of those whom the Greeks call the Epigoni. For there stand...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Potidaeans ...a treasury built from the spoils taken in the great Athenian disaster, the Potidaeans in Thrace built one to show their piety to the god. The Athenians also built a...

Potidaeans

77 23.3278,40.1937,0 Troy ...the ruin of Asia and of Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would capture Troy. The Delians remember also a hymn this woman composed to Apollo. In her poem...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Trojan ...sacred to the Mother, and the river Aedoneus. Even today there remain on Trojan Ida the ruins of the city Marpessus, with some sixty inhabitants. All the land...

Trojan

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Samos ...know was actually fulfilled. This Sibyl passed the greater part of her life in Samos, but she also visited Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi...

Samos

81 26.84,37.73,0 Sminthian ...death came upon her in the Troad, and her tomb is in the grove of the Sminthian with these elegiac verses inscribed upon the tomb-stone: "Here I am, the...

Sminthian

72 26.11775,39.536211,0 Locrians ...their enemies always, who are their neighbors except where the Epicnemidian Locrians come between. The Thessalians too of Pharsalus dedicated an Achilles on...

Locrians

78 22.75,38.75,0 Aegina ...The Phliasians brought to Delphi a bronze Zeus, and with the Zeus an image of Aegina. The Mantineans of Arcadia dedicated a bronze Apollo, which stands near the...

Aegina

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Artemisium ...dedicated also an Apollo at Delphi, from spoils taken in the naval actions at Artemisium and Salamis. There is also a story that Themistocles came to Delphi bringing...

Artemisium

80 23.220954,39.017832,0 Athenians ...palm-tree, as well as a gilt image of Athena on it, was dedicated by the Athenians from the spoils they took in their two successes on the same day at the...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Carthaginians ...by the name of Corsicans, which they brought with them from home. When the Carthaginians were at the height of their sea power, they overcame all in Sardinia except the...

Carthaginians

78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Aeginetan ...in Aeginetan style, except that their breasts are too shaggy to liken them to Aeginetan art. Their horns do not stand out away from the head, but curl straight beside...

Aeginetan

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Molossian ...ass increased the din by his horrible, inarticulate yells. So the men in the Molossian ambush rushed out affrighted, and the Ambraciots, detecting the trap prepared...

Molossian

79 20.924639999999997,39.271716,0 Phocians ...hundred cavalry with footmen three thousand in number. The generals of the Phocians were Critobulus and Antiochus. The Locrians over against the island of...

Phocians

77 22.25,38.25,0 Helicon ...Bellerophon striking the ground with his hoof. The Boeotians dwelling around Helicon hold the tradition that Hesiod wrote nothing but the Works, and even of this...

Helicon

80 22.82514,38.35217,0 Thespians ...summit of Helicon is a small river called the Lamus. In the territory of the Thespians is a place called Donacon (Reed-bed). Here is the spring of Narcissus. They say...

Thespians

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Boeotian ...day on the altar of Iodama, and as she does this she thrice repeats in the Boeotian dialect that Iodama is living and asking for fire. On the market-place of...

Boeotian

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Coroneia ...and his descendants, while they themselves became founders of Haliartus and Coroneia, for Athamas gave them a part of his land. Even before this Andreus took to...

Coroneia

78 22.956902,38.392613,0 Lacedemon ...however, say that the Graces are two, and that they were instituted by Lacedemon, son of Taygete, who gave them the names of Cleta and Phaenna. These are...

Lacedemon

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...Phaenna. These are appropriate names for Graces, as are those given by the Athenians, who from of old have worshipped two Graces, Auxo and Hegemone. Carpo is the...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...but of a Season. The other Season is worshipped together with Pandrosus by the Athenians, who call the goddess Thallo. It was from Eteocles of Orchomenus that we...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Smyrna ...period, certainly, sculptors and painters alike represented them draped. At Smyrna, for instance, in the sanctuary of the Nemeses, above the images have been...

Smyrna

78 27.14781,38.440912,0 Chryse ...had daughters born to him, Chrysogeneia and Chryse. Tradition has it that Chryse, daughter of Almus, had by Ares a son Phlegyas, who, as Eteocles died...

Chryse

76 26.928091,39.585106,0 Phlegyans ...it the best soldiers in Greece. In course of time the foolhardy and reckless Phlegyans seceded from Orchomenus and began to ravage their neighbors. At last they even...

Phlegyans

79 22.569853,39.798151,0 Scarpheia ...the Hypocnemidian Locrians. By these is Phocis bounded in this direction, by Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis...

Scarpheia

79 22.68341970000006,38.81072,0 Phocians ...was held by Tellias, a seer of Elis, upon whom rested all the Phocians' hopes of salvation. When the battle joined, the Phocians had before their...

Phocians

64 22.25,38.25,0 Phocian ...on every occasion by the Thessalian generals was Itonian Athena, and by the Phocian generals Phocus, from whom the Phocians were named. Because of this engagement...

Phocian

78 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...their nature was to put gain before religion. The seizure of Delphi by the Phocians occurred when Heracleides was president at Delphi and Agathocles archon at...

Phocians

77 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...seizure of Delphi by the Phocians occurred when Heracleides was president at Delphi and Agathocles archon at Athens, in the fourth year of the hundred and fifth...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...decay, with the flesh already fallen off, and nothing left but the bones. The Delphians said that it was an offering of Hippocrates the physician. Now the thought came...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocian ...Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian...

Phocian

79 22.25,38.25,0 Parnassian ...After this Parnassus were named, they say, both the mountain and also the Parnassian glen. Augury from flying birds was, it is said, a discovery of Parnassus. Now...

Parnassian

76 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Aenianians ...the following tribes of the Greek people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on...

Aenianians

77 22.25,38.75,0 Phocians ...who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis. But when the Phocians seized the sanctuary, and the war came to an end nine years afterwards, there...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Achaeans ...returning by the same way, they were met by the Patraeans, who alone of the Achaeans were helping the Aetolians. Being trained as hoplites they made a frontal...

Achaeans

78 Phocians ...before they were aware of their approach. Thereupon the Gauls attacked. The Phocians resisted manfully, but at last were forced to retreat from the path. However...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Salamis ...Themisto, lady fair, shall bear in the fields, A man of renown, far from rich Salamis. Leaving Cyprus, tossed and wetted by the waves, The first and only poet to...

Salamis

80 Catana ...from those in Catana called the Pious, who, when the fire flowed down on Catana from Aetna, held of no account gold or silver, but when they fled took up, one...

Catana

75 15.0878345,37.5024825,0 Syracuse ...gods, as the Athenians showed when they took the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus at Syracuse; they moved none of the offerings, but left the Syracusan priest as their...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Pentelic ...that is most common about Parnassus, until Herodes the Athenian rebuilt it of Pentelic marble. Such in my day the objects remaining in Delphi that are worth...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Lilaea ...of Attic workmanship, and of marble from the Pentelic quarries. They say that Lilaea was one of the Naids, as they are called, a daughter of the Cephisus, and that...

Lilaea

80 22.50592,38.62687,0 Cephisus ...by some to be the Dioscuri, by others to be local heroes. The land beside the Cephisus is distinctly the best in Phocis for planting, sowing and pasture. This part of...

Cephisus

81 23.625,38.125,0 Hyampolis ...on the shield of her whom the Athenians call the Virgin. To reach Abae and Hyampolis from Elateia you may go along a mountain road on the right of the city of...

Hyampolis

78 22.905228,38.596346,0 Orchomenus ...a mountain road on the right of the city of Elateia, but the highway from Orchomenus to Opus also leads to those cities. If then you go along the road from...

Orchomenus

76 22.959486,38.495082,0 Phocis ...the left, you reach the road to Abae. The people of Abae say that they came to Phocis from Argos, and that the city got its name from Abas, the founder, who was a...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 ruins of the walls which Conon restored ...is a monument among the Athenians. As you go up from the Peiraeus you see the ruins of the walls which Conon restored after the naval battle off Cnidus. For those built by Themistocles after the...

ruins of the walls which Conon restored

81 Macedonia ...a cenotaph of Euripides. He himself went to King Archelaus and lies buried in Macedonia; as to the manner of his death (many have described it), let it be as they...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Cephisus ...According to the report of the citizens, Eteocles was the son of the river Cephisus, wherefore some of the poets in their verses called him Cephisiades. When this...

Cephisus

77 23.625,38.125,0 Cyprus ...by Eurypylus from Troy, but they do not actually exhibit it to view. In Cyprus is a city Amathus, in which is an old sanctuary of Adonis and Aphrodite. Here...

Cyprus

74 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Phocis ...at the city of Anticyra. In the direction of the Lamian Gulf there are between Phocis and the sea only the Hypocnemidian Locrians. By these is Phocis bounded in this...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Locrians ...of the Lamian Gulf there are between Phocis and the sea only the Hypocnemidian Locrians. By these is Phocis bounded in this direction, by Scarpheia on the other side...

Locrians

81 22.75,38.75,0 Thessalian ...there earthen water-pots, covered these with earth, and so waited for the Thessalian cavalry. Ignorant of the Phocian stratagem, the Thessalians without knowing it...

Thessalian

76 21.75,39.25,0 Thebans ...time victory often fell to the Phocians and their mercenaries, and often the Thebans proved the better. An engagement took place at the town of Neon, in which the...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Neon ...these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were...

Neon

81 22.66931,38.58344,0 Delphi ...than were the Phocians, who considered that they were helping the god of Delphi, and at the same time, I take it, that they were making amends for the old...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Panopeus ...him with a thunderbolt. So said Cleon. About twenty-seven stades distant from Panopeus is Daulis. The men there are few in number, but for size and strength no...

Panopeus

81 22.79418,38.49551,0 Daulis ...was a bird she had a terror of Tereus, and so kept away from his country. At Daulis is a sanctuary of Athena with an ancient image. The wooden image, of an even...

Daulis

79 22.72926,38.50665,0 Cithaeron ...At his birth they pieced his ankles with goads and exposed him on Mount Cithaeron in Plataean territory. Corinth and the land at the Isthmus were the scene of...

Cithaeron

74 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Nicopolis ...should be assigned to the Nicopolitans. The Amphictyons today number thirty. Nicopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly each send six deputies; the Boeotians, who in more...

Nicopolis

80 20.735953,39.023389,0 Delphi ...who, finding their labour lost in trying to catch the tunnies, sent envoys to Delphi. So they sacrificed the bull to Poseidon, and straightway after the sacrifice...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mimas ...They are these:– Aracus of Lacedemon, Erianthes a Boeotian . . . above Mimas, whence came Astycrates, Cephisocles, Hermophantus and Hicesius of Chios...

Mimas

73 26.5013,38.55674,0 Argolis ...Aristophantus of Corinth, Apollodorus of Troezen, and Dion from Epidaurus in Argolis. Next to these come the Achaean Axionicus from Pellene, Theares of Hermion...

Argolis

79 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Aegospotami ...Patrocles and Canachus. The Athenians refuse to confess that their defeat at Aegospotami was fairly inflicted, maintaining that they were betrayed by Tydeus and...

Aegospotami

80 26.61011,40.35074,0 Megara ...from which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that...

Megara

75 15.18273,37.2038,0 Corycus ...Greeks to lay claim to Herophile, adduce as evidence a mountain called Mount Corycus with a cave in it, saying that Herophile was born in it, and that she was a...

Corycus

79 26.5880556,38.1997222,0 Thessalians ...are their neighbors except where the Epicnemidian Locrians come between. The Thessalians too of Pharsalus dedicated an Achilles on horseback, with Patroclus running...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Dorians ...Cyrene, a Greek city in Libya, the chariot with an image of Ammon in it. The Dorians of Corinth too built a treasury, where used to be stored the gold from...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Phocians ...the Sacred War against the Phocians. There are also bronze statues, which the Phocians dedicated when they had put to flight the Thessalian cavalry in the second...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...calming Apollo, and Athena is calming Heracles. This too is an offering of the Phocians, dedicated when Tellias of Elis led them against the Thessalians. Athena and...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Aetolian ...they had won a secure prosperity, and especially a land free to plough. The Aetolian nation, having subdued their neighbors the Acarnanians, sent statues of...

Aetolian

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Delphi ...too a third squadron of five, and likewise a fourth. So they dedicated at Delphi images of Apollo equal in number to the ships that they had...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lindus ...up the spring, captured the town. By the side of this Athena the Rhodians of Lindus set up their image of Apollo. The Ambraciots dedicated also a bronze ass...

Lindus

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Delphi ...of Olympiodorus from Athens, when besieged by Cassander, sent to Apollo at Delphi a bronze lion. The Apollo, very near to the lion, was dedicated by the...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...To meet the Persians there came Greek contingents of the following strength. Lacedemonians with Leonidas not more than three hundred; Tegeans five hundred, and five...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Orchomenus ...three hundred; Tegeans five hundred, and five hundred from Mantineia; from Orchomenus in Arcadia a hundred and twenty; from the other cities in Arcadia one thousand...

Orchomenus

77 22.31536,37.724716,0 Boeotians ...eighty; from Phlius two hundred, and from Corinth twice this number; of the Boeotians there mustered seven hundred from Thespiae and four hundred from Thebes. A...

Boeotians

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Lacedemonian ...the high ground and reached Leuctra in Boeotia. Here heaven sent signs to the Lacedemonian people and to Cleombrotus personally. The Lacedemonian kings were accompanied...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Leuctra ...other Peloponnesians should depart home, kept the Lacedemonians cooped up in Leuctra. But when reports came that the Spartans in the city were marching to a man to...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Arcadians ...devoted his attention to the situation in the Peloponnesus, to which also the Arcadians were eagerly inviting him. On his arrival he won the willing support of Argos...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Theban ...that he was well-disposed to him personally as well as a friend to the Theban commonwealth, but on his arrival was treacherously and insolently thrown into...

Theban

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Boeotians ...again to be Boeotarch, and again invading the Peloponnesus with an army of Boeotians, he overcame the Lacedemonians in a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athenians ...Lacedemonians in a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led from Athens by Chabrias. The Thebans had a rule that they should set free...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...from Thebes to Glisas is a place surrounded by unhewn stones, called by the Thebans the Snake's Head. This snake, whatever it was, popped its head, they say, out...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Aulis ...had to hand, female and male alike. From that time the rule has held good at Aulis that oil victims are permissible. There is also shown the spring, by which the...

Aulis

79 23.5925,38.4335,0 Ionia ...not wholly edible like the dates of Palestine, yet are riper than those of Ionia. There are but few inhabitants of Aulis, and these are potters. This land, and...

Ionia

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Aulis ...Palestine, yet are riper than those of Ionia. There are but few inhabitants of Aulis, and these are potters. This land, and that about Mycalessus and Harma, is...

Aulis

81 23.5925,38.4335,0 Thebes ...Corinna binding her head with a fillet for the victory she won over Pindar at Thebes with a lyric poem. I believe that her victory was partly due to the dialect she...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...Themisto. Before the expedition of the Macedonians under Alexander, in which Thebes was destroyed, there was here an oracle that never lied. Once too a man of...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ptous ...too gave a response, not in Greek but in the Carian speech. On crossing Mount Ptous you come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the coast, said to have been named...

Ptous

81 23.251,38.459,0 Naupactus ...been proved on many occasions. For certain private people dared to perform in Naupactus the ritual just as it was done in Thebes, and soon afterwards justice overtook...

Naupactus

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Thespians ...as well as Wealth, who stands beside her, was made by. . . . Of the gods the Thespians have from the beginning honored Love most, and they have a very ancient image...

Thespians

80 23.154521,38.293384,0 Macedonia ...to a vision in a dream, took up the bones of Linus and conveyed them to Macedonia; other visions induced him to send the bones of Linus back to Thebes. But all...

Macedonia

74 21.75,41.25,0 Boeotia ...upon them. Whereupon the Athenians took the field, and as they marched through Boeotia they were joined by the Boeotians. Thus the combined armies followed the...

Boeotia

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Ios ...be on thy guard against the riddle of the young children." The inhabitants of Ios point to Homer's tomb in the island, and in another part to that of Clymene...

Ios

80 25.2822,36.7233,0 Sunium ...repute in his craft, and how he came to his end when he was already rounding Sunium in Attica. Up to this point Menelaus had been sailing along with Nestor, but...

Sunium

79 25.28064,37.15168,0 Troy ...games, that of Adrastus being the first. Lescheos says of Aethra that, when Troy was taken, she came stealthily to the Greek camp. She was recognized by the...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Athens ...of maidens. Poets sing of her death at the tomb of Achilles, and both at Athens and at Pergamus on the Caicus I have seen the tragedy of Polyxena depicted in...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troy ...of Orpheus. In this part of the painting is Schedius, who led the Phocians to Troy, and after him is Pelias, sitting on a chair, with grey hair and grey beard...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Nomia ...of the uninitiated. Higher up than these is Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, Nomia, and Pero, daughter of Neleus. As her bride-price Neleus asked for the oxen of...

Nomia

77 21.9847,37.40493,0 Thasian ...number of the figures and so many are their beauties, in this painting of the Thasian artist. Adjoining the sacred enclosure is a theater worth seeing, and on...

Thasian

80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Ionia ...When the army of the Gauls was laying waste Ionia and the borders of Ionia, the Themisonians say that they were helped by Heracles, Apollo and Hermes, who...

Ionia

71 27.508324,37.474596,0 Tithronium ...when under the divine inspiration. Fifteen stades away from Amphicleia is Tithronium, lying on a plain. It contains nothing remarkable. From Tithronium it is twenty...

Tithronium

77 22.58105,38.67517,0 Cephisus ...it is twenty stades to Drymaea. At the place where this road joins at the Cephisus the straight road from Amphicleia to Drymaea, the Tithronians have a grove and...

Cephisus

76 23.625,38.125,0 Drymaea ...where this road joins at the Cephisus the straight road from Amphicleia to Drymaea, the Tithronians have a grove and altars of Apollo. There has also been made a...

Drymaea

77 22.54128,38.70507,0 Macedonians ...waged by Cassander, it is Olympiodorus who must receive most credit for the Macedonians being forced to abandon a siege. Philip, the son of Demetrius, reduced the...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Orchomenus ...to Opus also leads to those cities. If then you go along the road from Orchomenus to Opus, and turn off a little to the left, you reach the road to Abae. The...

Orchomenus

73 22.959486,38.495082,0 Phocian ...hundred and twenty stades. The inhabitants assert that by descent they are not Phocian, but Athenian, and that they came from Attica with Peteus, the son of Orneus...

Phocian

81 22.25,38.25,0 Athenian ...stades. The inhabitants assert that by descent they are not Phocian, but Athenian, and that they came from Attica with Peteus, the son of Orneus, when he was...

Athenian

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aeginetan ...a goddess worshipped with great reverence by citizens. The image is of Aeginetan workmanship, and made of a black stone. From the sanctuary of the Dictynnaean...

Aeginetan

73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troad ...Troy and died in his native land; the other, Schedius, died, they say, in the Troad, but his bones also were brought home. About two stades off the city there is...

Troad

80 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Phocis ...from Thisbe in Boeotia is a journey of eighty stades; but I do not know if in Phocis there be a road by land at all from Anticyra, so rough and difficult to cross...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Boulis ...Boulians is named by them the Greatest, a surname, I should think, of Zeus. At Boulis there is a spring called Saunium. The length of the road from Delphi to...

Boulis

81 22.802911,38.276455,0 Cirrha ...horses, either by reason of a hero or on any other account. The plain from Cirrha is altogether bare, and the inhabitants will not plant trees, either because...

Cirrha

78 22.450621,38.428937,0 Ephesians ...the wall is a statue of a woman at the end, a work of Rhoecus, called by the Ephesians Night. A mere glance shows that this image is older, and of rougher...

Ephesians

79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Patrae ...The others, but not Amphissa, are under the government of the Achaeans of Patrae, the emperor Augustus having granted them this privilege. In Oeantheia is a...

Patrae

76 21.738518,38.243265,0 Peloponnesus ...events might correctly be called an expedition of the Heracleidae into the Peloponnesus in the reign of Orestes. Not far from the tomb of Hyllus is a temple of Isis...

Peloponnesus

77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 tomb ...plain that it was malice that made him record that a Macedonian desecrated the tombs of the dead. Besides, Lysimachus was surely aware that they were the ancestors...

tomb

81 tomb ...at Eleusis or has read what are called the Orphica knows what I mean. Of the tombs, the largest and most beautiful are that of a Rhodian who settled at Athens...

tomb

80 Egypt ...from Ptolemy and marched against Egypt. Ptolemy fortified the entrance into Egypt and awaited the attack of the Cyrenians. But while on the march Magas was in...

Egypt

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...it is the reappearance of this water out of the sand which gives the Nile to Egypt. Mount Atlas is so high that its peaks are said to touch heaven, but is...

Egypt

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 tomb ...here, which also is called Nisaea. Below the citadel near the sea is the tomb of Lelex, who they say arrived from Egypt and became king, being the son of...

tomb

75 Egypt ...the Rhodians and the Cretans among the islanders. As the reinforcements from Egypt, Mysia, and Crete were for the most part too late, and the Rhodians, whose...

Egypt

80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Below the citadel near the sea is the tomb of Lelex, who they say arrived from Egypt and became king, being the son of Poseidon and of Libya, daughter of Epphus...

Egypt

81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...it occurred to me to narrate their deeds also, and how the sovereignty of Egypt, of the Mysians and of the neighboring peoples fell into the hands of their...

Egypt

76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Messene ...came to Troy he enumerated Pylos, Arene and other towns, but called no town Messene. In the Odyssey he shows that the Messenians were a tribe and not a city by the...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Pherae ...explained this himself in the visit of Peisistratus to Menelaus: "They came to Pherae to the house of Diocleus, son of Ortilochus." The first rulers then in this...

Pherae

81 22.737728,39.384163,0 Andania ...Oechalia before the mysteries of the great Goddesses, which were still held at Andania. In the reign of Phintas the son of Sybotas the Messenians for the first time...

Andania

81 21.938099,37.26217,0 Messenia ...son of Polydectes, son of Eunomus, son of Prytanis, son of Eurypon in Messenia Antiochus and Androcles, the sons of Phintas were reigning -- the mutual hatred...

Messenia

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...of Rhianus and Myron, was the man who first and foremost raised the name of Messene to renown. He was introduced by Myron into his history, while to Rhianus in his...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...realized the forethought of Euphaes. They had no means of fighting the Messenians unless they came out from the stockade, and despaired of forming a siege, for...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonian ...the enemy by their valor, drove back Theopompus himself and routed the Lacedemonian troops opposed to them. But the other Messenian wing was in difficulties, for...

Lacedemonian

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...striving his utmost to save Messene, fate set this obstacle in his path. A Messenian, whose name is not recorded, was in love with the daughter of' Aristodemus, and...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...into Laconia. The Argives did not think fit to declare their hatred for the Lacedemonians beforehand, but prepared to take part in the contest when it came. In the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...that a battle would be fought, both sides were joined by their allies, the Lacedemonians by the Corinthians alone of the Peloponnesians, the Messenians by the full...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...troops inflicted greater damage on them. It was impossible to reckon the Lacedemonian losses in the battle, but I for my part am convinced that they were heavy. The...

Lacedemonian

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...carried nets with them like a hunter. As he was unknown even to most of the Lacedemonians, he would more easily escape detection by the Messenians. Joining some...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...was the father of Aristomenes, but I myself know that in their libations the Messenians call him Aristomenes son of Nicomedes. He then, being in the full vigor of...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartans ...House a shield inscribed "The Gift of Aristomenes to the Goddess, taken from Spartans." The Spartans received an oracle from Delphi that they should procure the...

Spartans

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...well as the return of the Messenians: "Then indeed shall the bright bloom of Sparta perish and Messene again shall be inhabited for all time." I have discovered...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...and ring-walls. When all was in readiness, victims being provided by the Arcadians, Epaminondas himself and the Thebans then sacrificed to Dionysus and Apollo...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 harbor ...stands out from the Attic land. When you have rounded the promontory you see a harbor and a temple to Athena of Sunium on the peak of the promontory. Farther on is...

harbor

81 Asine ...men of Nauplia were not disturbed at Mothone, and they allowed the people of Asine to remain in their home, remembering their kindness when they refused to join...

Asine

80 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Delians ...time for the Plataeans that they were in exile from their country, and for the Delians when they settled in Adramyttium after being expelled from their island by the...

Delians

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Thebans ...being expelled from their island by the Athenians. The Minyae, driven by the Thebans from Orchomenos after the battle of Leuctra, were restored to Boeotia by Philip...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elis ...blazons on their shields. Seeing their shields, all the Laconising party in Elis thought their supporters had arrived and received them into the fortress. But...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Abia ...Heracles here, and also of Asclepius. Pharae is seventy stades distant from Abia. On the road is a salt spring. The Emperor Augustus caused the Messenians of...

Abia

79 22.142494,36.964322,0 Messenians ...than myself, who gained influence through his wealth and is honored by the Messenians as a hero. There are certain Messenians, who, while admitting that Aethidas was...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Cyparissiae ...say nothing as to her parents or her husband. On the road from Andania towards Cyparissiae is Polichne, as it is called, and the streams of Electra and Coeus. The names...

Cyparissiae

81 21.681159,37.248527,0 Messenia ...occupied Asine by Hermion. They were driven thence by the Argives and lived in Messenia. This was the gift of the Lacedemonians, and when in the course of time the...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Styra ...with Heracles, as they dwelt at some distance from the city. Yet the people of Styra disdain the name of Dryopes, just as the Delphians have refused to be called...

Styra

81 24.2607,38.1455,0 Athenians ...of a democracy bringing prosperity to a nation other than the Athenians; the Athenians attained to greatness by its means, for they surpassed the Greek world in...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argos ...wall, and killed among others Lysistratus, one of the most notable men of Argos. But when the wall was lost, the citizens put their wives and children on board...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Temenium ...which empties itself into the Phrixus, and the Phrixus into the sea between Temenium and Lerna. About eight stades to the left from the Erasinus is a sanctuary of...

Temenium

78 22.737804,37.581685,0 sea ...an archon of the Athenians. Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with...

sea

77 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Lacedemon ...was named, while according to report his father was none other than Zeus. Lacedemon was wedded to Sparta, a daughter of Eurotas. When he came to the throne, he...

Lacedemon

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hermione ...the son of Atreus and son-in-law of Tyndareus, and Orestes the husband of Hermione the daughter of Menelaus. On the return of the Heracleidae in the reign of...

Hermione

76 23.243591,37.385218,0 Dorians ...having learned from Heracles, who met him before he arrived there, that the Dorians would make this return to the Peloponnesus. But the more correct account is...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Ionia ...the son of Orestes was the leader, who was destined to occupy the land between Ionia and Mysia, called at the present day Aeolis; his ancestor Penthilus had even...

Ionia

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lesbos ...day Aeolis; his ancestor Penthilus had even before this seized the island of Lesbos that lies over against this part of the mainland. When Echestratus, son of...

Lesbos

79 26.10052,39.20874,0 Lacedemonians ...the lawgiver, but he calls him Leobotes and not Labotas. It was then that the Lacedemonians first resolved to make war upon the Argives, bringing as charges against them...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythian ...in the reign of Artesilaus; some say that he was taught how to do this by the Pythian priestess, others that he introduced Cretan institutions. The Cretans say that...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Trachis ...from even seeing Greece at all, and from ever burning Athens, if the man of Trachis had not guided the army with Hydarnes by the path that stretches across Oeta...

Trachis

78 22.25,38.75,0 Haliartus ...with the Thebans and took up for burial those who had fallen under the wall of Haliartus. The Lacedemonians disapproved of this decision, but the following reason leads...

Haliartus

81 23.088416,38.379818,0 Lacedemonians ...nearest relative, was their guardian. This Aristodemus was in command of the Lacedemonians when they won their success at Corinth. When Agesipolis grew up and came to...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Dorians ...truce, which from ancient times had been an established custom between Dorians and Dorians. But Agesipolis did not make the truce with the herald, but...

Dorians

73 22.25,38.75,0 Delium ...just as the Athenians lost Hippocrates the son of Ariphron, who commanded at Delium, and later on Leosthenes in Thessaly. Agesipolis, the elder of the sons of...

Delium

79 23.661354,38.3462075,0 Thessaly ...the son of Ariphron, who commanded at Delium, and later on Leosthenes in Thessaly. Agesipolis, the elder of the sons of Cleombrotus, is not a striking figure in...

Thessaly

75 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...of the Spartans against Tegea, when lured on by a deceptive oracle the Lacedemonians hoped to capture the city and to annex the Tegean plain from Arcadia. After...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Asinaeans ...invaded Argolis with an army, and laid waste the greater part of the land. The Asinaeans took part in this action with the Lacedemonians, and shortly after were...

Asinaeans

81 22.87403,37.52659,0 Messenian ...by their long endurance and valor. As they fled, Aristomenes ordered another Messenian troop to undertake the pursuit. He himself attacked the enemies' line where it...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...of affairs, and moreover were thrown into confusion by the passage of the Arcadians through their ranks, so that they almost forgot what lay before them; for...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phalerum ...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...

Phalerum

77 23.7062,37.9373,0 Laconia ...to themselves, accordingly resolved that Messenia and the neighboring part of Laconia should be left uncultivated during the war. As a result scarcity arose in...

Laconia

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Corinthians ...was ensured by the following action on the part of Aristomenes himself. The Corinthians were sending a force to assist the Lacedemonians in the reduction of...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Elis ...again towards Messenia forms the boundary on the coast between Messenia and Elis. Then they were afraid of the he-goats drinking from the Neda, but it appeared...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eira ...of their land on their account. But Aristomenes' grief for the sack of Eira and his hatred of the Lacedemonians suggested to him the following plan. He...

Eira

74 21.927988,37.398271,0 Laconian ...Athens, and in the first year of the twenty-eighth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian was victorious. When the Messenians assembled at Cyllene, they resolved to...

Laconian

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Sicily ...with him, and that they possessed a prosperous land and city well placed in Sicily; and these he said he was ready to give them and help them to conquer. When...

Sicily

78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Messenians ...them, made friends therefore with the Argives, and gave Naupactus to the Messenians besieged in Ithome, when they were allowed to depart under a truce. They had...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Naupactus ...in Ithome, when they were allowed to depart under a truce. They had taken Naupactus from the Locrians adjoining Aetolia, called the Ozolian. The retirement of the...

Naupactus

76 22.315807,38.41224,0 Ithome ...adjoining Aetolia, called the Ozolian. The retirement of the Messenians from Ithome was secured by the strength of the place; also the Pythia announced to the...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Naupactus ...they were allowed to go from Peloponnese under a truce. When they occupied Naupactus it was not enough for them to have received a city and country at the hands of...

Naupactus

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Elis ...subjects; whereupon the Lacedemonians under king Agis invaded the territory of Elis. On this occasion there occurred an earthquake, and the army retired home...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Susa ...had been assigned as a residence to the satrap of the coast region, just as Susa had been to the king himself. A battle was fought on the plain of the Hermus...

Susa

78 48.24854,32.19202,0 Argives ...the Lacedemonians. Those who shared in this money are said to have been the Argives Cylon and Sodamas, the Thebans Androcleides, Ismenias and Amphithemis, the...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...the Thebans behaved towards Agesilaus when he was sacrificing at Aulis. The Athenians receiving early intimation of the Lacedemonians' intentions, sent to Sparta...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thessalian ...was also an old friendship between them and Athens. But Agesilaus put the Thessalian cavalry to flight and passed through Thessaly, and again made his way through...

Thessalian

77 21.75,39.25,0 Corinthians ...Corinthians in exile for pro-Spartan sympathies held the Isthmian games. The Corinthians in the city made no move at the time, through their fear of Agesilaus but when...

Corinthians

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Olympia ...he should win five most famous contests. So he trained for the pentathlon at Olympia, but came away defeated. And yet he was first in two events, beating Hieronymus...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Spartans ...I learned was the history of Tisamenus. On their market-place the Spartans have images of Apollo Pythaeus, of Artemis and of Leto. The whole of this...

Spartans

68 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cnossians ...that of the Argives, for the Lacedemonians deny that they ever fought with the Cnossians. Hard by is the grave of Cynortas son of Amyclas, together with the tomb of...

Cnossians

81 25.163106,35.297847,0 Pleuron ...of Pleuron. The sons of Tyndareus were descended on their mother's side from Pleuron, for Asius in his poem says that Thestius the father of Leda was the son of...

Pleuron

79 21.414714,38.402823,0 Sparta ...fashion, and with such a belief have these cities set up the wooden images. In Sparta is a lounge called Painted, and by it hero-shrines of Cadmus the son of Agenor...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eryx ...if Heracles won, the land of Eryx was to belong to him but if he were beaten, Eryx was to depart with the cows of Geryon; for Heracles at the time was driving...

Eryx

80 12.5919,38.03528,0 Sicyonians ...of Hippasus. This is the account the Phliasians give about themselves, and the Sicyonians in general agree with them. I will now add an account of the most remarkable...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Phliasians ...when set free, dedicate their fetters on the trees in the grove. The Phliasians also celebrate a yearly festival which they call Ivy-cutters. There is no...

Phliasians

71 22.649131,37.846299,0 Paeonidae ...do not know, but the rest of the Neleidae went to Athens, and the clans of the Paeonidae and of the Alcmaeonidae were named after them. Melanthus even came to the...

Paeonidae

81 23.727149,38.123135,0 Argives ...and before it is a grave of women. They were killed in a battle against the Argives under Perseus, having come from the Aegean Islands to help Dionysus in war; for...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...the son of Laomedon, set up in the uncovered part of his court, and when Troy was taken by the Greeks Priam took sanctuary at the altar of this god. When the...

Troy

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Byzantine ...the Hellespont with the Lacedemonian and allied fleets, he fell in love with a Byzantine maiden. And straightway at the beginning of night Cleonice – that was the...

Byzantine

81 28.975926,41.012379,0 Lacedemon ...Ammon appeared by night and declared that it would be better for him and for Lacedemon if they ceased from warring against Aphytis. And so Lysander raised the siege...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aphytis ...would be better for him and for Lacedemon if they ceased from warring against Aphytis. And so Lysander raised the siege, and induced the Lacedemonians to worship the...

Aphytis

80 23.436606,40.099366,0 Crete ...expedition against Aphidna. Being taken prisoner in the battle and sold into Crete, he lived as a slave where the Cretans had a sanctuary of Artemis; but in...

Crete

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Thessaly ...Helots, just as the whole Greek race were called Hellenes from the region in Thessaly once called Hellas. From this Helos, on stated days, they bring up to the...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Sparta ...past Dereium is Harpleia, which extends as far as the plain. On the road from Sparta to Arcadia there stands in the open an image of Athena surnamed Pareia, and...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Epidaurus ...On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that are left to the Free...

Epidaurus

76 23.02637,36.731301,0 Magnesians ...this is the oldest sanctuary of this goddess in the Peloponnesus, although the Magnesians, who live to the north of Mount Sipylus, have on the rock Coddinus the most...

Magnesians

81 22.75,39.75,0 Laconians ...sent to it settlers of their own; but in my time it belonged to the Free Laconians. On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea (Old), and in...

Laconians

75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Here ...for he traced his pedigree back to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras. Here stands Zeus, called Zeus of Freedom, and the Emperor Hadrian, a benefactor to...

Here

73 Glyppia ...supply of water. Above the town, and like it in the interior, is a village, Glyppia. From Geronthrae to another village, Selinus, is a journey of twenty...

Glyppia

78 22.683334,37.174817,0 Messenians ...and other towns, but called no town Messene. In the Odyssey he shows that the Messenians were a tribe and not a city by the following: "For Messenian men carried away...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebes ...all kinds of rites. It was he who established the mysteries of the Cabiri at Thebes, and dedicated in the hut of the Lycomidae a statue with an inscription that...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arene ...settled and established his palace. Lycus the son of Pandion also came to Arene, when he too was driven from Athens by his brother Aegeus, and revealed the...

Arene

77 21.59852,37.53384,0 Argos ...account of Tisamenus. I will only add the following: When the Dorians assigned Argos to Temenus, Cresphontes asked them for the land of Messenia, in that he was...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...Messenians and the Lacedemonians alone of the Dorians shared. According to the Lacedemonians their maidens coming to the festival were violated by Messenian men and their...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...suffered from Euaephnus, whom he had made his friend and trusted above all the Lacedemonians. Obtaining no redress in spite of continual visits to the authorities...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...bringing forward against them their treatment of the Arcadians and of the Argives; for in both cases they have never been satisfied with their continual...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tithorea ...had a son Phocus, reputed to have been begotten by Poseidon. He migrated to Tithorea in what is now called Phocis, but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained...

Tithorea

78 22.66931,38.58344,0 Sicyon ...was a descendant of Melas, the son of Antasus. Melas from Gonussa above Sicyon joined the Dorians in the expedition against Corinth. When the god expressed...

Sicyon

74 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aegina ...daughters, say the Phliasians, were Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe. Corcyra and Aegina gave new names to the islands called Scheria and Oenone, while from Thebe is...

Aegina

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Asopus ...but say that Thebe was the daughter of the Boeotian, and not of the Phliasian, Asopus. The other stories about the river are current among both the Phliasians and...

Asopus

81 22.75,37.75,0 Ampheia ...making of an entrenched camp. The Lacedemonians heard from their garrison at Ampheia that the Messenians were marching out, so they also came out to battle. There...

Ampheia

79 22.075138,37.264193,0 Plataea ...not Nycteus but Asopus, the river that separates the territories of Thebes and Plataea. This woman Epopeus carried off but I do not know whether he asked for her...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartan ...to have won a more fortunate land. Euphaes spoke at greater length than the Spartan, but no more than he saw the occasion admitted. He declared that the contest...

Spartan

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...Polybus gave his daughter Lysianassa to Talaus the son of Bias, king of the Argives; and when Adrastus fled from Argos he came to Polybus at Sicyon, and afterwards...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...to the king, and soon afterwards died of his wounds. Euphaes assembled the Messenians and made known the oracle: "Ye shall sacrifice a pure maiden to the gods below...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...one another's country at harvest time, the Messenians being supported by the Arcadians in their raids into Laconia. The Argives did not think fit to declare their...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Aetolians ...and leading them against the Locrians of Amphissa and into the land of the Aetolians, their enemies, he ravaged their territory. Corinth was held by Antigonus, and...

Aetolians

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Macedonian ...he ravaged their territory. Corinth was held by Antigonus, and there was a Macedonian garrison in the city, but he threw them into a panic by the suddenness of his...

Macedonian

77 21.75,41.25,0 Argos ...a sixth part of the sum. He induced Aristomachus also, the tyrant of Argos, to restore to the Argives their democracy and to join the Achaean League; he...

Argos

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ithome ..."To those who first around the altar set up tripods ten times ten to Zeus of Ithome, heaven grants glory in war and the Messenian land. For thus hath Zeus...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...doom of death came upon any. Tyrtaeus, unknown location. In these straits the Messenians, foreseeing no kindness from the Lacedemonians, and thinking death in battle or...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicyonia ...Helius. Afterwards Alexanor, the son of Machaon, the son of Asclepius, came to Sicyonia and built the sanctuary of Asclepius at Titane. The neighbors are chiefly...

Sicyonia

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Arcadians ...This was not done openly at first, but they sent secretly to Argos and to the Arcadians, to ask if they were ready to help unhesitatingly and no less energetically...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Titane ...and he is said to chant as well charms of Medea. On reaching Sicyon from Titane, as you go down to the shore you see on the left of the road a temple of Hera...

Titane

76 22.62501,37.92049,0 Stenyclerus ...Asine were bound by oaths to both sides. This spot, the Boar's Tomb, lies in Stenyclerus of Messenia, and there, as is said, Heracles exchanged oaths with the sons of...

Stenyclerus

79 21.75,37.25,0 Charadrus ...to redress his wrongs. Farther on from here, across the torrent called Charadrus (Gully), is Oenoe, named, the Argives say, after Oeneus. The story is that...

Charadrus

74 22.75,37.75,0 Phalerum ...a port before Themistocles became an archon of the Athenians. Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that...

Phalerum

79 23.7062,37.9373,0 Carian peninsula ...of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the Carian peninsula. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very great honor, and they have sanctuaries...

Carian peninsula

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 temple of Hera ...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...

temple of Hera

81 Pentelic ...sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Stiria. It is of unburnt brick; the image is of Pentelic marble, and the goddess is holding torches. Beside her, bound with ribbons, is...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Ionians ...grow shrubs, though not close together like the vines. This shrub the Ionians, as well as the rest of the Greeks, call kokkos, and the Gauls above Phrygia...

Ionians

72 27.508324,37.474596,0 Delphi ...that the people of Anticyra were guilty of sacrilege against the sanctuary at Delphi. They were driven from home by Philip, son of Amyntas, and yet once more by the...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...called Saunium. The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, is sixty stades. Descending to the plain you come to a race-course, where at...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cirrha ...for growing trees. It is said that to Cirrha . . . and they say that from Cirrha the place received its modern name. Homer, however, in the Iliad, and similarly...

Cirrha

76 22.450621,38.428937,0 Locrians ...who pretend to have fuller knowledge, hold them to be the Cabeiri. These Locrians also possess the following cities. Farther inland from Amphissa, and above it...

Locrians

76 21.75,38.25,0 Aegospotami ...time of the earthquake at Lacedemon, and how, after the Athenian disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians expelled the Messenians from Naupactus, all this I have...

Aegospotami

79 26.61011,40.35074,0 Colophonians ...arrived, a wandering division of them sent for a leader, Parphorus, from the Colophonians, and founded under Mount Ida a city which shortly afterwards they abandoned...

Colophonians

79 27.142222,38.115556,0 Clazomenians ...Clazomenae a peninsula by a mole from the mainland to the island. Of these Clazomenians the greater part were not Ionians, but Cleonaeans and Phliasians, who abandoned...

Clazomenians

77 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Smyrnaeans ...and displaced the Aeolians; subsequently, however, the Ionians allowed the Smyrnaeans to take their place in the general assembly at Panionium. The modern city was...

Smyrnaeans

77 27.14781,38.440912,0 Chians ...When the raft rested off the cape the Erythraeans made great efforts, and the Chians no less, both being keen to land the image on their own shores. At last a man...

Chians

80 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Ephesians ...its sanctuaries and its climate. There is, for instance, in the land of the Ephesians the river Cenchrius, the strange mountain of Pion and the spring Halitaea. The...

Ephesians

78 27.339722,37.941944,0 Olenus ...such as were known to all the Greek world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae...

Olenus

81 21.640599,38.153707,0 Lamian ...but they say that they did not march out into Thessaly to what is called the Lamian war, for they had not yet recovered from the reverse in Boeotia. The local...

Lamian

79 22.43516,38.9046,0 Boeotia ...is called the Lamian war, for they had not yet recovered from the reverse in Boeotia. The local guide at Patrae used to say that the wrestler Chilon was the only...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Isthmus ...some forthwith and others after an interval. Some too who lived outside the Isthmus were persuaded to join the Achaean League by its unbroken growth in...

Isthmus

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Achaeans ...of Philip, whose mother he had taken to wife. With this Antigonus then and the Achaeans Cleomenes made peace, and immediately broke all the oaths he had sworn by...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...suffered the reverse at Sellasia, where they were defeated by the Achaeans under Antigonus. In my account of Arcadia I shall again have occasion to...

Achaeans

68 Magnesia ...against the Thessalians themselves and the Aetolian people Philip occupied Magnesia at the foot of Mount Pelium. The Athenians especially and the Aetolians he...

Magnesia

77 22.75,39.75,0 Corinth ...defeating the Macedonians who were defending it. He then marched against Corinth, which was held by Philip with a garrison, and sat down to besiege it, while at...

Corinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...Lycortas with jeers, acquitted Areus and Alcibiadas of any offence against the Achaeans, and permitted the Lacedemonians to send an embassy to Rome. Such permission...

Achaeans

81 Lacedemonians ...Areus and Alcibiadas of any offence against the Achaeans, and permitted the Lacedemonians to send an embassy to Rome. Such permission was a contravention of the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebes ...and Thebes by Attaginus and Timegenidas, who were the foremost citizen of Thebes. After the Peloponnesian war, Xenias of Elis attempted to betray Elis to the...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...said "The truth about this accusation is as follows. I myself have served the Achaeans as their general, but I am guilty neither of treachery to Rome nor of...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...men. The Romans, holding that all these had already been condemned by the Achaeans, distributed them throughout Etruria and its cities, and though the Achaeans...

Achaeans

76 Pleuron ...wretch in all Greece. There also came to Gallus the Aetolians living at Pleuron, who wished to detach themselves from the Achaean confederacy. Gallus allowed...

Pleuron

75 21.414714,38.402823,0 Oropus ...a fine on the Athenians commensurate with the unprovoked harm done by them to Oropus. When the Athenians did not appear in time for the trial, the Sicyonians...

Oropus

80 23.846116,38.291099,0 Athenians ...the Oropians should have any complaint to make against the Athenians, then the Athenians were to withdraw their garrison from Oropus and give the hostages back...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...scarlet cloaks, with caps on their heads and spears in their hands. When the Lacedemonians saw them they bowed down and prayed, thinking that the Dioscuri themselves had...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...inhabited for all time." I have discovered that Bacis also told in what manner Eira would be captured, and this too is one of his oracles: "The men of Messene...

Eira

81 21.927988,37.398271,0 Thebans ...first from the Lacedemonians. For the Lacedemonians, restrained by fear of the Thebans, submitted to the foundation of Messene and to the gathering of the Arcadians...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonians ...the death of Alexander, when the Greeks had raised a second war against the Macedonians, the Messenians took part, as I have shown earlier in my account of Attica...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedemonians ...following reason, I think. When Pyrrhus the son of Aeacides made war on the Lacedemonians, they came unasked to their assistance, and as a result of this service a more...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...service a more peaceful disposition towards them came to be established at Sparta. Therefore they were unwilling to revive the feud by joining the league, which...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the Arcadians, and what is still more surprising, that they should capture Sparta. For they fought against Cleomenes at Sellasia and joined with Aratus and the...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Abia ...Cresphontes, amongst other honors assigned to her, renamed the city after Abia. There was a notable temple of Heracles here, and also of Asclepius. Pharae is...

Abia

76 22.142494,36.964322,0 Messenian ...of Ortilochus son of Alpheius. He makes no reference to Telegone, who in the Messenian account bore Ortilochus to Alpheius. I heard also at Pharae that besides the...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thuriatae ...the road which leads thence into the interior of Messenia is the city of the Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's poems. Augustus gave Thuria...

Thuriatae

79 22.05141,37.11343,0 Ithome ...the springs, and after some forty stades is the city of the Messenians under Ithome. It is enclosed not only by Mount Ithome, but on the side towards the Pamisos...

Ithome

79 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Parian ...is also a temple of Messene the daughter of Triopas with a statue of gold and Parian marble. At the back of the temple are paintings of the kings of Messene: before...

Parian

80 25.150728,37.08579,0 Dorian ...Aphareus and his sons, after the return of the Heracleidae, Cresphontes the Dorian leader, of the inhabitants of Pylos, Nestor, Thrasymedes and Antilochus...

Dorian

78 22.25,38.75,0 Troy ...Arsinoe, also Machaon and Podaleirius, as they also took part in the affair at Troy. These pictures were painted by Omphalion, pupil of Nicias the son of...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Ithome ...theft. Water is carried every day from the spring to the sanctuary of Zeus of Ithome. The statue of Zeus is the work of Ageladas and was made originally for the...

Ithome

80 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Odrysae ...and the nymph Argiope, who once dwelt on Parnassus, but settled among the Odrysae when pregnant, for Philammon refused to take her into his house. Thamyris is...

Odrysae

76 25.33686355,42.61977194999999,0 Argive ...not prevent me from making known to all that the brazen urn, discovered by the Argive general, and the bones of Eurytus the son of Melaneus were kept here. A river...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pamisus ...stress of the trouble that afflicted him. From Messene to the mouth of the Pamisus is a journey of eighty stades. The Pamisus is a pure stream flowing through...

Pamisus

78 21.75,37.25,0 Argos ...in earlier passages that, when the Nauplians in the reign of Damocratidas in Argos were expelled for their Laconian sympathies, the Lacedemonians gave them...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mothone ...Emperor Trajan granted civic freedom and autonomy to the people of Mothone. In earlier days they were the only people of Messenia on the coast to suffer a...

Mothone

69 21.705,36.817,0 Epirots ...and cavalry tactics and in the invention of stratagems of war. When the Epirots were rid of their kings, the people threw off all control and disdained to...

Epirots

75 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Dorians ...guardian of Philip, the son of Demetrius, he induced the Sicyonians, who were Dorians, to join the Achaean League. He was immediately elected general by the...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Locrians ...was immediately elected general by the Achaeans, and leading them against the Locrians of Amphissa and into the land of the Aetolians, their enemies, he ravaged their...

Locrians

80 21.75,38.25,0 Dyme ...wishing that they should not hinder his activities. Engaging them at Dyme beyond Patrae, Aratus being still leader of the Achaeans, he won the victory...

Dyme

72 21.551425,38.144625,0 Megalopolis ...had openly acted in many ways contrary to treaty, especially in laying waste Megalopolis. So Antigonus crossed into the Peloponnesus and the Achaeans met Cleomenes at...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Sicyon ...This fate came upon Aratus at Aegium, from which place he was carried to Sicyon and buried, and there is still in that city the hero-shrine of Aratus. Philip...

Sicyon

75 22.71135,37.98336,0 Cirrha ...was built from spoils by Cleisthenes, who helped the Amphictyons in the war at Cirrha. In the market-place under the open sky is a bronze Zeus, a work of Lysippus...

Cirrha

81 22.450621,38.428937,0 Titane ...the son of Asclepius, came to Sicyonia and built the sanctuary of Asclepius at Titane. The neighbors are chiefly servants of the god, and within the enclosure are...

Titane

81 22.62501,37.92049,0 Academy ...their graves on the field of battle, but the others lie along the road to the Academy, and on their graves stand slabs bearing the name and parish of each. First...

Academy

80 Argive ...Decelea, who killed when he came to the help of the Aeginetans Eurybates the Argive, who won the prize in the pentathlon at the Nemean games. This was the third...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...These the Lacedemonians dismissed, because they suspected them. The Athenians regarded the insult as intolerable, and on their way back made an alliance with...

Athenians

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...men also, firstly Apollodorus, commander of the mercenaries, who was an Athenian dispatched by Arsites, satrap of Phrygia by the Hellespont, and saved their...

Athenian

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinthians ...with them, seeing that the Lacedemonians, who had on this occasion overcome Corinthians and Athenians, and furthermore Argives and Boeotians, were afterwards at...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Hellespont ...in Sicily. Here were buried also those who fought in the sea-fights near the Hellespont, those who opposed the Macedonians at Charonea, those who were killed at Delium...

Hellespont

79 26.4,40.2,0 Delium ...those who opposed the Macedonians at Charonea, those who were killed at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, the men Leosthenes led into Thessaly, those who...

Delium

74 23.661354,38.3462075,0 Cithaeron ...Cretans. Let so much suffice for Alcathous and for the lion, whether it was on Cithaeron or elsewhere that the killing took place that caused him to make a temple to...

Cithaeron

81 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Megarians ...of the hero Pandion is the tomb of Hippolyte. I will record the account the Megarians give of her. When the Amazons, having marched against the Athenians because of...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Boeotia ...anchored the fleet of the Cretans. The hilly part of Megaris borders upon Boeotia, and in it the Megarians have built the city Pagae and another one called...

Boeotia

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Samian ...village. On the road from Megara to Corinth are graves, including that of the Samian flute-player Telephanes, said to have been made by Cleopatra, daughter of...

Samian

81 26.84,37.73,0 Epeirus ...part of Macedonia was under the control of Pyrrhus himself, who came from Epeirus with an army and was at that time on friendly terms with Lysimachus. When...

Epeirus

76 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Thyamis ...volunteers from the Epeirots took possession of the region beyond the river Thyamis, while Pergamus crossed into Asia and killed Areius, despot in Teuthrania, who...

Thyamis

78 20.25,39.75,0 Cythera ...at Ascalon in Palestine; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera. Among the Athenians the cult was established by Aegeus, who thought that he...

Cythera

79 22.97822,36.26229,0 Plataea ...the end of the painting are those who fought at Marathon; the Boeotians of Plataea and the Attic contingent are coming to blows with the foreigners. In this place...

Plataea

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Olympian Zeus ...also represented on the shield of their Athena and upon the pedestal of the Olympian Zeus. In the sanctuary of Theseus is also a painting of the battle between the...

Olympian Zeus

78 23.875,37.875,0 Alexandria ...from Ptolemy. Of the Egyptian sanctuaries of Serapis the most famous is at Alexandria, the oldest at Memphis. Into this neither stranger nor priest may enter, until...

Alexandria

77 29.904133,31.195371,0 Athenians ...stone, two of Egyptian. Before the pillars stand bronze statues which the Athenians call "colonies." The whole circumference of the precincts is about four stades...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phrygian ...distressed at the news of the battle at Chaeronea. There are also statues in Phrygian marble of Persians supporting a bronze tripod; both the figures and the tripod...

Phrygian

79 27.75,40.25,0 Athenians ...With Oreithyia he lived in wedlock, and because of the tie between him and the Athenians he helped them by destroying most of the foreigners' warships. The Athenians...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cerameicus ...in battle near Chaeronea. When Sulla returned to Attica he imprisoned in the Cerameicus the Athenians who had opposed him, and one chosen by lot out of every ten he...

Cerameicus

79 23.7188,37.978127,0 Delphi ...nothing of his wrath against the Athenians, and so a few effected an escape to Delphi, and asked if the time were now come when it was fated for Athens also to be...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Troy ...Among those not effaced by time I found Diomedes taking the Athena from Troy, and Odysseus in Lemnos taking away the bow of Philoctetes. There in the...

Troy

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Athenians ...never before been committed to writing, but is generally credited among the Athenians. When Hipparchus died, Hippias tortured Leaena to death, because he knew she...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cretans ...arrows, because the only Greeks whose custom it is to use that weapon are the Cretans. For the Opuntian Locrians, whom Homer represents as coming to Troy with bows...

Cretans

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Athenians ...in debt. So he withdrew to the parish Paeania and lived there until the Athenians elected him to command a naval expedition. But he refused the office on the...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Chaeronea ...despair of winning a single success in the days to come. For the disaster at Chaeronea was the beginning of misfortune for all the Greeks, and especially did it...

Chaeronea

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 Boeotians ...Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the Aetolian League. The Boeotians, who occupied the Thebaid territory now that there were no Thebans left to...

Boeotians

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Panactum ...will deal only with such as concern the Athenians. He seized the fort of Panactum in Attica and also Salamis, and established as tyrant in Athens Demetrius the...

Panactum

75 23.362766,37.974359,0 Larisus ...he turned them into the finest cavalry in Greece. In the battle at the river Larisus between the Achaeans with their allies and the Eleans with the Aetolians, who...

Larisus

79 21.413649227506795,38.130572873364734,0 Crete ...and others were chosen to be generals of the Achaeans, he again crossed to Crete and sided with the Gortynians, who were hard pressed in war. The Arcadians were...

Crete

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Achaeans ...the son of Diaeus, a Megalopolitan who had been elected general of the Achaeans, attacked Lacedemon, accusing the Lacedemonians of rebellion against the...

Achaeans

73 Sicyon ...to the coast. As for Aratus, I have related his exploits in my history of Sicyon. The inscription on the statue of Philopoemen at Tegea runs thus: "The valor...

Sicyon

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Tegeans ...lasted for a long period. By the Apollo stands Cheirisophus in stone. The Tegeans also have what they call a Common Hearth of the Arcadians. Here there is an...

Tegeans

77 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemon ...of a temple of Artemis Cnaceatis. The boundary between the territories of Lacedemon and Tegea is the river Alpheius. Its water begins in Phylace, and not far from...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotians ...at several places, one of which is where Plataea touches Eleutherae. The Boeotians as a race got their name from Boeotus, who, legend says, was the son of Itonus...

Boeotians

75 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athens ...to be taken back to Boeotia. For in the war between the Peloponnesians and Athens, the Lacedemonians reduced Plataea by siege, but it was restored during the...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataea ...by preventing them from getting within their walls. The second capture of Plataea occurred two years before the battle of Leuctra, when Asteius was Archon at...

Plataea

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thebes ...When Philip after his victory at Chaeroneia introduced a garrison into Thebes, one of the means he employed to bring the Thebans low was to restore the...

Thebes

73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Boeotian ...are a half-finished temple of Apollo and a sacred well. According to the Boeotian story oracles were obtained of old from the well by drinking of it. Returning...

Boeotian

75 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Plataea ...failing to make her change her mind, visited Cithaeron, at that time despot in Plataea, who surpassed all men for his cleverness. So he ordered Zeus to make an image...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Cithaeron ...marriage with Plataea, the daughter of Asopus. So Zeus followed the advice of Cithaeron. Hera heard the news at once, and at once appeared on the scene. But when she...

Cithaeron

81 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Plataeans ...Here the trunks of the oaks are the largest in Boeotia. To this grove come the Plataeans, and lay out portions of boiled flesh. They keep a strict watch on the crows...

Plataeans

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...been provided each year at the Little Daedala. Lots are cast for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Daedala ...the Plataeans, to share in the common assembly, and to send a sacrifice to the Daedala. The towns of less account pool their funds for images. Bringing the image to...

Daedala

81 28.976568,36.749409,0 Lydian ...harp. Amphion won fame for his music, learning from the Lydians themselves the Lydian mode, because of his relationship to Tantalus, and adding three strings to the...

Lydian

81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Tanagra ...the Thebans won a victory over the Athenians at Delium in the territory of Tanagra, where the Athenian general Hippocrates, son of Ariphron, perished with the...

Tanagra

77 23.587064,38.309371,0 Thebans ...of the Theban walls was rebuilt, but fate after all willed that afterwards the Thebans were again to taste the cup of great misfortune. For when Mithridates had begun...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...for the Athenian people. But when Sulla invaded Boeotia, terror seized the Thebans; they at once changed sides, and sought the friendship of the Romans. Sulla...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Dodona ...called "the halls." At the same time next year these pigs appear, they say, in Dodona. This story others can believe if they wish. Here there is also a temple of...

Dodona

81 20.78784,39.54648,0 Thebes ...they passed on their return, the Homoloid gate after Homole. The entry into Thebes from Plataea is by the Electran gate. At this, so they say, Capaneus, the son...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Plataea ...on their return, the Homoloid gate after Homole. The entry into Thebes from Plataea is by the Electran gate. At this, so they say, Capaneus, the son of Hipponous...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thebes ...a more furious attack upon the fortifications. This war between Argos and Thebes was, in my opinion, the most memorable of all those waged by Greeks against...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...victory one that brings destruction to the victors. A few years afterwards Thebes was attacked by Thersander and those whom the Greeks call Epigoni (Born later)...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argives ...(Born later). It is clear that they too were accompanied not only by the Argives, Messenians and Arcadians, but also by allies from Corinth and Megara invited...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...later). It is clear that they too were accompanied not only by the Argives, Messenians and Arcadians, but also by allies from Corinth and Megara invited to help them...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Corinth ...not only by the Argives, Messenians and Arcadians, but also by allies from Corinth and Megara invited to help them. Thebes too was defended by their neighbors...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Ismenian ...The only difference is that the image at Branchidae is of bronze, while the Ismenian is of cedar-wood. Here there is a stone, on which, they say, used to sit...

Ismenian

78 Melangeia ...that were once cut into it. Crossing the Ladder you come to a place called Melangeia, from which the drinking water of the Mantineans flows down to their...

Melangeia

77 22.42534,37.64991,0 Dipaea ...did not fight on the side of the other Arcadians against the Lacedemonians at Dipaea, but in the Peloponnesian war they rose with the Eleans against the...

Dipaea

80 22.254905,37.541156,0 Achaeans ...help of an Achaean army under the leadership of Aratus. They also joined the Achaeans in their struggle against Cleomenes and helped to destroy the Lacedemonian...

Achaeans

79 Mantineia ...the name imported from Macedonia, and gave back to their city its old name of Mantineia. The Mantineans possess a temple composed of two parts, being divided almost...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Tegea ...come to a place full of oak trees, called Sea, and the road from Mantineia to Tegea leads through the oaks. The boundary between Mantineia and Tegea is the round...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadia ...was not enough to bury. This result forced the women to change their home to Arcadia, and after their death mounds were made there for their tombs. No poet, so far...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Dodona ...is called Libyssa by the Nicomedians. The Athenians received an oracle from Dodona ordering them to colonize Sicily, and Sicily is a small hill not far from...

Dodona

79 20.78784,39.54648,0 Orchomenus ...is the boundary between Mantineia and Orchomenus. In the territory of Orchomenus, on the left of the road from Anchisiae, there is on the slope of the mountain...

Orchomenus

73 22.31536,37.724716,0 Caryae ...water rises up from a spring, and at the end of the ravine is a place called Caryae. The plain of Pheneus lies below Caryae, and they say that once the water rose...

Caryae

79 22.515967,37.288734,0 Oryxis ...is said, the water rose. Five stades distant from Caryae is a mountain called Oryxis, and another, Mount Sciathis. Under each mountain is a chasm that receives the...

Oryxis

80 22.2522179,37.839724,0 Pheneus ...not by Lysidice, the daughter of Pelops. Now if Heracles really migrated to Pheneus, one might believe that when expelled by Eurystheus from Tiryns he did not go...

Pheneus

78 22.30692,37.91045,0 Eleusinian ...oracle from Delphi, being a grandson of Eumolpus. Beside the sanctuary of the Eleusinian has been set up Petroma, as it is called, consisting of two large stones fitted...

Eleusinian

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Crathis ...sanctuary of the Pythian Apollo you will be on the road that leads to Mount Crathis. On this mountain is the source of the river Crathis, which flows into the sea...

Crathis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Argives ...is a sanctuary of Artemis Pyronia (Fire-goddess), and in more ancient days the Argives used to bring from this goddess fire for their Lernaean ceremonies. Going east...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pheneus ...bring from this goddess fire for their Lernaean ceremonies. Going east from Pheneus you come to a mountain peak called Geronteium and a road by it. This mountain...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Nonacris ...know for certain, but I do know that there is a story to this effect. Above Nonacris are the Aroanian Mountains, in which is a cave. To this cave, legend says, the...

Nonacris

79 22.241203,38.014421,0 Cleitor ...river Aroanius. Near the city you will cross the river called the Cleitor. The Cleitor flows into the Aroanius, at a point not more than seven stades from the...

Cleitor

81 22.103248,37.892704,0 Stymphalus ...returns to Stymphalus and to Geronteium, as it is called, the boundary between Stymphalus and Pheneus. The Stymphalians are no longer included among the Arcadians, but...

Stymphalus

81 22.45931,37.85932,0 Stymphalus ...once more in Argolis it changes its name, and is called Erasinus instead of Stymphalus. There is a story current about the water of the Stymphalus, that at one time...

Stymphalus

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 Orchomenus ...lads are flogged at the image of the Orthian goddess. In my account of Orchomenus, I explained how the straight road runs at first beside the gully, and...

Orchomenus

74 22.31536,37.724716,0 Megalopolis ...suffered the reverse sustained at the hands of Aristodemus, then tyrant of Megalopolis. In the marketplace of that city, behind the enclosure sacred to Lycaean Zeus...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...is a spring, the water flowing down from which is received by the Helisson. Megalopolis was founded by the Arcadians with the utmost enthusiasm amidst the highest...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Delian ...of moderate means, while Delos, once the common market of Greece, has no Delian inhabitant, but only the men sent by the Athenians to guard the sanctuary. At...

Delian

75 25.268194,37.397274,0 Megalopolis ...time. So temporary and utterly weak are the fortunes of men. As you go from Megalopolis to Messene, after advancing about seven stades, there stands on the left of the...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Messenia ...wooden image also, made for Heracles by Daedalus, stood here on the borders of Messenia and Arcadia. The road from Megalopolis to Lacedemon is thirty stades long at...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Belemina ...is twenty stades away from the Hermaeum at Belemina. The Arcadians say that Belemina belonged of old to Arcadia but was severed from it by the Lacedemonians. This...

Belemina

79 22.286919,37.27848,0 Zoetia ...stands a grove of trees. These cities had as founders the sons of Lycaon; but Zoetia, some fifteen stades from Tricoloni, not lying on the straight road but to the...

Zoetia

80 22.141115,37.468145,0 Zoetia ...ten stades distant from Zoetia. Today both towns are without inhabitants. In Zoetia, however, there still remains a temple of Demeter and Artemis. There are also...

Zoetia

80 22.141115,37.468145,0 Tricoloni ...name of Calliste. Twenty-five stades from here, a hundred stades in all from Tricoloni, there is on the Helisson, on the straight road to Methydrium, the only city...

Tricoloni

80 22.165174,37.480046,0 Parrhasia ...reared, they call Theisoa, Neda and Hagno. After Theisoa was named a city in Parrhasia; Theisoa today is a village in the district of Megalopolis. From Neda the river...

Parrhasia

79 22.25,37.25,0 Lycaean ...marvels of Mount Lycaeus the most wonderful is this. On it is a precinct of Lycaean Zeus, into which people are not allowed to enter. If anyone takes no notice of...

Lycaean

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Pythian ...is a sanctuary of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. They also give him the name Pythian. They hold every year a festival in honor of the god and sacrifice in the...

Pythian

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Azanian ...they went as suppliants to the Pythian priestess and received this response: Azanian Arcadians, acorn-eaters, who dwell In Phigaleia, the cave that hid Deo, who...

Azanian

80 22.25,37.75,0 Syracuse ...Xerxes crossed over into Europe, Gelon the son of Deinomenes was despot of Syracuse and of the rest of Sicily besides. When Gelon died, the kingdom devolved on his...

Syracuse

77 15.29382,37.05963,0 Haemoniae ...Lycaon, and the name of the place has remained Haemoniae to this day. After Haemoniae on the right of the road are some noteworthy remains of the city of...

Haemoniae

79 22.165741,37.390614,0 Aphrodisium ...of Artemis is Priestess. On the straight road from Haemoniae is a place called Aphrodisium, and after it another, called Athenaeum. On the left of it is a temple of...

Aphrodisium

81 22.218216,37.387375,0 Alpheius ...from the road, the latter just by the road itself. Near the source of the Alpheius is a temple of the Mother of the Gods without a roof, and two lions made of...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Asea ...territory, the Alpheius at Pegae (Sources) in the land of Megalopolis. From Asea is an ascent up Mount Boreius, and on the top of the mountain are traces of a...

Asea

78 22.283,37.405,0 Arcadians ...Augustus after his defeat of Antonius and his allies, among whom were all the Arcadians except the Mantineans. It is clear that Augustus was not the first to carry...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Marathon ...take Paros and for this reason had been brought to trial by the Athenians. At Marathon every night you can hear horses neighing and men fighting. No one who has...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Tegea ...saying that Cepheus, the son of Aleus, received from Athena a boon, that Tegea should never be captured while time shall endure, adding that the goddess cut...

Tegea

75 22.429,37.464,0 Ionians ...Deoetes, Periclus and Abartus from Erythrae and from Teos. The cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and Chios opposite Mimas. Asius...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Oropians ...in Cilicia an oracle of his which is the most trustworthy of my day. The Oropians have near the temple a spring, which they call the Spring of Amphiaraus; they...

Oropians

76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Epidauria ...himself like the greater part of his followers, who had been expelled from Epidauria by Deiphontes and the Argives. This Procles was descended from Ion, son of...

Epidauria

77 23.02637,36.731301,0 Lydia ...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...

Lydia

73 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Dodona ...The Eleusinians were making war against Erechtheus when there came from Dodona a seer called Scirus, who also set up at Phalerum the ancient sanctuary of...

Dodona

74 20.78784,39.54648,0 Ionians ...a land of wonders that are but little inferior to those of Greece. When the Ionians were gone the Achaeans divided their land among themselves and settled in their...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Bura ...nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of...

Bura

79 22.231166,38.142006,0 Lacedemon ...while because of the Trojan war they scorned to be led by Dorians of Lacedemon. This became plain in course of time. For when later on the Lacedemonians began...

Lacedemon

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonian ...beautiful are that of a Rhodian who settled at Athens, and the one made by the Macedonian Harpalus, who ran away from Alexander and crossed with a fleet from Asia to...

Macedonian

81 21.75,41.25,0 Megalopolis ...peace, and immediately broke all the oaths he had sworn by reducing to slavery Megalopolis, the city of the Arcadians. Because of Cleomenes and his treachery the...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Anticyra ...but displeased the Romans in certain of his acts. Hestiaea in Euboea and Anticyra in Phocis, which had been compelled to submit to Philip, he utterly destroyed...

Anticyra

75 22.626059,38.375439,0 Macedonia ...and afterwards ten Roman senators were sent to arrange the affairs of Macedonia in the best interests of the Romans. When they came to Greece, Callicrates...

Macedonia

72 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...besides helping him generally, had supplied him with money. So he required the Achaeans to condemn them to death. After their condemnation, he said, he would himself...

Achaeans

81 Zacynthian ...Phegia to Psophis, the name of their mother. Psophis is also the name of the Zacynthian acropolis, because the first man to sail across to the island was Zacynthus...

Zacynthian

80 20.892091,37.787178,0 Athenians ...son of Minos. Minos sailed against Athens with a fleet, not believing that the Athenians were innocent of the death of Androgeos, and sorely harassed them until it was...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Erymanthus ...a legend that Heracles at the command of Eurystheus hunted by the side of the Erymanthus a boar that surpassed all others in size and in strength. The people of Cumae...

Erymanthus

80 21.8489331,37.9816702,0 Lemnian ...the best worth seeing of the works of Pheidias, the statue of Athena called Lemnian after those who dedicated it. All the Acropolis is surrounded by a wall; a...

Lemnian

78 25.25,39.916667,0 Sicilians ...On inquiring who they were I could discover nothing except that they were Sicilians originally who emigrated to Acarnania. On descending, not to the lower city...

Sicilians

76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Attica ...it was hostile territory, the darkness preventing them from seeing that it was Attica. Thereupon they say that Demophon, he too being unaware of the facts and...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Psophidian ...to make of black stone. I heard in Psophis a statement about one Aglaus, a Psophidian contemporary with Croesus the Lydian. The statement was that the whole of his...

Psophidian

78 21.892903,37.871725,0 Thrace ...slabs bearing the name and parish of each. First were buried those who in Thrace, after a victorious advance as far as Drabescus, were unexpectedly attacked by...

Thrace

76 27.5,42.5,0 Trojans ...which the Athenians dispatched out of Greece. For against Priam and the Trojans war was made with one accord by all the Greeks; but by them selves the...

Trojans

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Erymanthus ...boundary between Heraea and the land of Elis is according to the Arcadians the Erymanthus, but the people of Elis say that the grave of Coroebus bounds their...

Erymanthus

81 21.75,37.75,0 Thessalians ...system of the tribes at present existing, and to horsemen who died when the Thessalians shared the fortune of war with the Athenians. Here too lie the men of Cleone...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Athenians ...that the Lacedemonians, who had on this occasion overcome Corinthians and Athenians, and furthermore Argives and Boeotians, were afterwards at Leuctra so utterly...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theisoa ...Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa...

Theisoa

76 21.96367,37.50665,0 Tricoloni ...resolution and assembled promptly at Megalopolis. But the people of Lycaea, Tricoloni, Lycosura and Trapezus, but no other Arcadians, repented and, being no longer...

Tricoloni

78 22.165174,37.480046,0 Orchomenus ...the people of Megalopolis as villages, namely Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson. Only one of them, Pallantium, was...

Orchomenus

79 22.31536,37.724716,0 Pellene ...north wind prevented from taking Megalopolis is the man from whom was taken Pellene in Achaia by the Sicyonians under Aratus, and later he met his end at...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Chaeronea ...Boeotia with an army. Having ravaged the greater part of the land and reduced Chaeronea by a siege, he advanced into the territory of Haliartus, where he was killed in...

Chaeronea

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 Dodona ...Arcadians, suffered from famine. Later, oracles were delivered to them from Dodona, telling them what to do to appease the goddess, and in particular they had an...

Dodona

79 20.78784,39.54648,0 Attica ...on the Argive plain he fled through the isthmus of Corinth, into the land of Attica as far as the Attic parish of Marathon, killing all he met, including...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Marathon ...the isthmus of Corinth, into the land of Attica as far as the Attic parish of Marathon, killing all he met, including Androgeos, son of Minos. Minos sailed against...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athens ...killing all he met, including Androgeos, son of Minos. Minos sailed against Athens with a fleet, not believing that the Athenians were innocent of the death of...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megarians ...the marriage that they tell of. Whoever has studied genealogy finds the Megarians guilty of great silliness, since Theseus was a descendant of Pelops. The fact...

Megarians

74 15.18273,37.2038,0 Eleusinian ...of Aristomachus. Today Basilis is in ruins, among which remains a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. Going on from here you will cross the Alpheius again and reach...

Eleusinian

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Marathon ...wars. There is first a bronze Athena, tithe from the Persians who landed at Marathon. It is the work of Pheidias, but the reliefs upon the shield, including the...

Marathon

78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Megarians ...this is the grave of Tereus, who married Procne the daughter of Pandion. The Megarians say that Tereus was king of the region around what is called Pagae (Springs) of...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Marathon ...by Pan, who told him that he was friendly to the Athenians and would come to Marathon to fight for them. This deity, then, has been honored for this...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Hill of Ares ...This deity, then, has been honored for this announcement. There is also the Hill of Ares, so named because Ares was the first to be tried here; my narrative has already...

Hill of Ares

79 Thebes ...believing by Homer, who says that after the death of Oedipus Mecisteus came to Thebes and took part in the funeral games. The Athenians have other law courts as...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Rhypes ...high road are the ruins of Rhypes. Aegium is about thirty stades distant from Rhypes. The territory of Aegium is crossed by a river Phoenix, and by another called...

Rhypes

80 22.01219,38.2198,0 Athenians ...Trojans war was made with one accord by all the Greeks; but by them selves the Athenians sent armies, first with Iolaus to Sardinia, secondly to what is now Ionia, and...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argos ...for having slain Vengeance. The Pythia would not allow Coroebus to return to Argos, but ordered him to take up a tripod and carry it out of the sanctuary, and...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Helice ...in the lake, until the water of the torrent hid them from view. The ruins of Helice too are visible, but not so plainly now as they were once, because they are...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Athenians ...to horsemen who died when the Thessalians shared the fortune of war with the Athenians. Here too lie the men of Cleone, who came with the Argives into Attica; the...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megara ...relic is a bronze image of Artemis surnamed Saviour, in size equal to that at Megara and exactly like it in shape. There is also a hero-shrine of Aegialeus, son of...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Olynthus ...lying in various regions. Here lie the most renowned of those who went against Olynthus, and Melesander who sailed with a fleet along the Maeander into upper...

Olynthus

81 23.354208,40.296525,0 Mycenaeans ...Ceryneia, passes through this part of Achaia. To this part came as settlers Mycenaeans from Argolis because of a catastrophe. Though the Argives could not take the...

Mycenaeans

78 22.756111,37.730833,0 Mycenae ...because of a catastrophe. Though the Argives could not take the wall of Mycenae by storm, built as it was like the wall of Tiryns by the Cyclopes, as they are...

Mycenae

74 22.756111,37.730833,0 Lacedemonians ...by an earthquake, and the Helots seceded to Ithome. After the secession the Lacedemonians sent for help to various places, including Athens, which dispatched picked...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Bura ...service or for some other reason, and these became the second founders of Bura. There is a temple here of Demeter, one of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and a third...

Bura

76 22.231166,38.142006,0 Thessalians ...of their victory, and on the next day the Lacedemonians had the better, as the Thessalians betrayed the Athenians. It occurred to me to tell of the following men also...

Thessalians

81 21.75,39.25,0 Leuctra ...and Athenians, and furthermore Argives and Boeotians, were afterwards at Leuctra so utterly overthrown by the Boeotians alone. After those who were killed at...

Leuctra

75 23.18095,38.25422,0 Sicyonians ...about to invade their territory. As they thought themselves no match for the Sicyonians, they collected all the goats they had in the country, and gathering them...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Aegeira ...the age to marry. There stands here too an ancient image, which the folk of Aegeira say is Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon. If they are correct, it is plain...

Aegeira

78 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pellene ...they say the goat crouched. The territory of Aegeira is bounded by that of Pellene, which is the last city of Achaia in the direction of Sicyon and the Argolid...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Athenian ...They say that Pheidias made it before he made the images of Athena on the Athenian acropolis and at Plataea. The people of Pellene also say that a shrine of...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pellene ...in Mount Sipylus and is a tributary of the Hermus. Where the territory of Pellene borders on that of Sicyon is a Pellenian river Sythas, the last of the Achaean...

Pellene

76 22.5384,38.0446,0 Argolis ...Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to Argolis come the vassals of Lacedemon, and these border on Messenia, which comes down...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Phocis ...thought of coats of sheep-skins, such as poor folk still wear in Euboea and Phocis. He too it was who checked the habit of eating green leaves, grasses, and roots...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...had life in it, but burnt instead on the altar the national cakes which the Athenians still call pelanoi. But Lycaon brought a human baby to the altar of Lycaean...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hymettus ...are quarries, Parnes, where there is hunting of wild boars and of bears, and Hymettus, which grows the most suitable pasture for bees, except that of the Alazones...

Hymettus

79 23.814146,37.939883,0 Helisson ...according to the Arcadian account, that Homer made a surname for Hermes. Helisson has given a name to both the town and the river so called, and similarly...

Helisson

76 22.217753,37.612883,0 Orchomenus ...of Lycaon. Orchomenus became founder of both the town called Methydrium and of Orchomenus, styled by Homer "rich in sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and...

Orchomenus

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Mantineia ...the most famous of the cities of Arcadia, Tegeates founded Tegea and Mantineus Mantineia. Cromi was named after Cromus, Charisia after Charisius, its founder, Tricoloni...

Mantineia

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Cromi ...of the cities of Arcadia, Tegeates founded Tegea and Mantineus Mantineia. Cromi was named after Cromus, Charisia after Charisius, its founder, Tricoloni after...

Cromi

76 22.75,37.75,0 Arcadians ...this king the land was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians. His wife, according to the legend, was no mortal woman...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phrygia ...from Azania, it is said, settled the colonists who dwell about the cave in Phrygia called Steunos and the river Pencalas. To Apheidas fell Tegea and the land...

Phrygia

77 27.75,40.25,0 Cleitor ...and was said to be a son of Hermes, although his real father was Baedalion. Cleitor, the son of Azan, had no children, and the sovereignty of the Arcadians...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Attica ...locusts were devastating the land the god said that he would drive them from Attica. That he did drive them away they know, but they do not say how. I myself know...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Isthmus ...of Hyllus, the son of Heracles, were defeated by the Achaeans at the Isthmus of Corinth, and Echemus killed Hyllus, who had challenged him to single combat...

Isthmus

71 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Thrace ...wall are represented the legendary war with the giants, who once dwelt about Thrace and on the isthmus of Pallene, the battle between the Athenians and the...

Thrace

79 27.5,42.5,0 Dodonian ...then are here, but the bucklers of the Macedonians themselves he dedicated to Dodonian Zeus. They too have an inscription: "These once ravaged golden Asia, and...

Dodonian

80 20.78784,39.54648,0 Corinthian ...returned to the Peloponnesus, not, as three generations before, across the Corinthian Isthmus, but by sea to the place called Rhium. Cypselus, learning about the...

Corinthian

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Arcadians ...for the Aeginetans. After Aeginetes his son Polymestor became king of the Arcadians, and it was then that Charillus and the Lacedemonians for the first time...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Maenalian ...statues set up at Olympia. Next to the sons of Alcaenetus stand Gnathon, a Maenalian of Dipaea, and Lucinus of Elis. These too succeeded in beating the boys at...

Maenalian

78 22.265891,37.549491,0 Athenians ...he came to the throne my narrative will deal only with such as concern the Athenians. He seized the fort of Panactum in Attica and also Salamis, and established as...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...won the boys' race, and Amertes of Elis the wrestlers' match for boys at Olympia, besides beating all competitors in the men's wrestling match at Pytho. It is...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Argives ...had two children, Eubuleus and Triptolemus. That is the account given by the Argives. But the Athenians and those who with them . . . know that Triptolemus, son of...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lycaean (Wolf) Zeus ...about him, how he changed his shape into that of a wolf at the sacrifice of Lycaean (Wolf) Zeus, and how nine years after he became a man again. Nor do I think that the...

Lycaean (Wolf) Zeus

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Aeginetan ...side of the chariot of Gelon is dedicated a statue of Philon, the work of the Aeginetan Glaucias. About this Philon Simonides the son of Leoprepes composed a very neat...

Aeginetan

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Crete ...When Minos was taking Theseus and the rest of the company of young folk to Crete he fell in love with Periboea, and on meeting with determined opposition from...

Crete

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Eleans ...the helmet and greaves were taken from the armour of competitors by both the Eleans and the Greeks generally. Theopompus, son of Damaretus, won his victories in...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Thesprotia ...poems the regions of Hades, and gave to the rivers there the names of those in Thesprotia. While Theseus was thus kept in bonds, the sons of Tyndareus marched against...

Thesprotia

81 20.25,39.75,0 Athenian ...chariot without a figure of Evagoras himself; the offerings of Miltiades the Athenian, which he dedicated at Olympia, I will describe in another part of my story...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aphidna ...While Theseus was thus kept in bonds, the sons of Tyndareus marched against Aphidna, captured it and restored Menestheus to the kingdom. Now Menestheus took no...

Aphidna

78 23.362766,37.974359,0 Pytho ...Theagenes was the winner in the pancratium. He also won three victories at Pytho. These were for boxing, while nine prizes at Nemea and ten at the Isthmus were...

Pytho

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amnisus ...and sing a hymn of Olen. But the Cretans suppose that Eileithyia was born at Amnisus in the Cnossian territory, and that Hera was her mother. Only among the...

Amnisus

79 25.25,35.25,0 Aeginetan ...by Hiero; it was Hiero's son Deinomenes who gave them to the god, Onatas the Aeginetan who made the chariot, and Calamis who made the horses on either side and the...

Aeginetan

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Athenians ...far from the present temple. Hadrian constructed other buildings also for the Athenians: a temple of Hera and Zeus Panellenios (Common to all Greeks), a sanctuary...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...of the bodyguard over-powered and slew Deinomenes. The statues of Hiero at Olympia, one on horseback and the other on foot, were dedicated by the sons of Hiero...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...and before him his paternal grandfather of the same name won victories at Olympia with the four-horse chariot, while the father of Theochrestus won a victory at...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Euxine ...cause of the war was this. Mithridates was king over the foreigners around the Euxine. Now the grounds on which he made war against the Romans, how he crossed into...

Euxine

81 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Athens ...when he raided their territory, killing most of the foreigners as well. So Athens was invested. Taxilus, a general of Mithridates, was at the time besieging...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argive ...boys' boxing-match, had his statue made by Canachus of Sicyon, a pupil of the Argive Polycleitus. By the side of Bycelus stands the statue of a man-at-arms, Mnaseas...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Isthmus ...nor the Argives kept complete records of the victors at Nemea and the Isthmus. The mare of the Corinthian Pheidolas was called, the Corinthians relate, Aura...

Isthmus

72 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Chaeronea ...and the besieging force learnt that Taxilus had been defeated in battle near Chaeronea. When Sulla returned to Attica he imprisoned in the Cerameicus the Athenians...

Chaeronea

79 22.840365,38.493361,0 Athenians ...ordered to be led to execution. Sulla abated nothing of his wrath against the Athenians, and so a few effected an escape to Delphi, and asked if the time were now come...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pythia ...come when it was fated for Athens also to be made desolate, receiving from the Pythia the response about the wine skin. Afterwards Sulla was smitten with the disease...

Pythia

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Acropolis ...quite easy. Such were his words. On the South wall, as it is called, of the Acropolis, which faces the theater, there is dedicated a gilded head of Medusa the...

Acropolis

79 23.625,37.875,0 Aetolian ...is the monument of the flute-player Pythocritus, the son of Callinicus. The Aetolian League dedicated a statue of Cylon, who delivered the Eleans from the tyranny...

Aetolian

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Athenian ...which she wore in her hair. When Theseus had united into one state the many Athenian parishes, he established the cults of Aphrodite Pandemos (Common) and of...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Molossian ...Athena between Pherae and Larisa, with this inscription on them: "Pyrrhus the Molossian hung these shields / taken from the bold Gauls as a gift to Itonian Athena...

Molossian

81 20.924639999999997,39.271716,0 Elean ...him they say is Ptolemy, son of Lagus. Beside him are two statues of the Elean Caprus, the son of Pythagoras, who received on the same day a crown for...

Elean

75 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...were not achieved without great toils and strong effort. There are also at Olympia statues to Anauchidas and Pherenicus, Eleans by race who won crowns for...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...against Seleucus, and Ptolemy the son of Lagus. Aristeides of Elis won at Olympia (so the inscription on his statue declares) a victory in the race run in...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Argos ...was about to lead his army from Argos into Laconia, Pyrrhus himself reached Argos. Victorious once more he dashed into the city along with the fugitives, and his...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Eleans ...with his four-horse chariot, Calliteles in wrestling. There are private Eleans, Lampus the son of Arniscus and . . . of Aristarchus; these the Psophidians...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Psophidians ...private Eleans, Lampus the son of Arniscus and . . . of Aristarchus; these the Psophidians dedicated, either because they were their public friends or because they had...

Psophidians

81 21.892903,37.871725,0 Clazomenians ...son of Hegepolis, of Cos, were dedicated by their respective cities. The Clazomenians dedicated a statue of Herodotus because he was the first Clazomenian to be...

Clazomenians

75 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Macedonia ...the Ionian Sea, dispossessed the Illyrian people, all who dwelt as far as Macedonia with the Macedonians themselves, and overran Thessaly. And when they drew near...

Macedonia

76 21.75,41.25,0 Phocians ...the path by which Ephialtes of Trachis once led the Persians, over whelmed the Phocians stationed there and crossed Oeta unperceived by the Greeks. Then it was that...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...there and crossed Oeta unperceived by the Greeks. Then it was that the Athenians put the Greeks under the greatest obligation, and although outflanked offered...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...that his son helped him to make it. The Hesperides (they were removed by the Eleans) were even in my time in the Heraeum; the treasury was made for the Epidamnians...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Byzantines ...Lacrates and Hermon. The Sybarites too built a treasury adjoining that of the Byzantines. Those who have studied the history of Italy and of the Italian cities say that...

Byzantines

81 28.975926,41.012379,0 Sybarites ...is artificial, being a work of the emperor Hadrian. Near the treasury of the Sybarites is the treasury of the Libyans of Cyrene. In it stand statues of Roman...

Sybarites

80 16.771002,39.590607,0 Metapontum ...the Metapontines were destroyed I do not know, but today nothing is left of Metapontum but the theater and the circuit of the walls. The Megarians who are neighbors...

Metapontum

78 16.824063,40.383868,0 Epeirots ...to Molossus, son of Pyrrhus, so that Cestrinus with volunteers from the Epeirots took possession of the region beyond the river Thyamis, while Pergamus crossed...

Epeirots

74 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Epeirus ...him, there is still a shrine in the city. Pielus remained behind in Epeirus, and to him as ancestor Pyrrhus, the son of Aeacides, and his fathers traced...

Epeirus

70 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Elean ...child but that she gave him, because of dreams, to fight for the Eleans. The Elean officers believed that the woman was to be trusted, and placed the child before...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Macedonians ...he was young in years and before he had consolidated his empire. When the Macedonians attacked him, Pyrrhus went to Ptolemy, son of Lagus, in Egypt. Ptolemy gave him...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Corcyraeans ...force. The first Greeks that Pyrrhus attacked on becoming king were the Corcyraeans. He saw that the island lay off his own territory, and he did not wish others...

Corcyraeans

75 19.92178,39.60733,0 Eleans ...disorder at the sight, the Arcadians turned and fled, and were attacked by the Eleans, who won a very famous victory, and so call the god Sosipolis. On the spot...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Corcyra ...him. My account of Lysimachus has already related how he fared, after taking Corcyra, in his war with Lysimachus, how he expelled Demetrius and ruled Macedonia...

Corcyra

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Troy ...When the envoys urged these considerations, Pyrrhus remembered the capture of Troy, which he took to be an omen of his success in the war, as he was a descendant...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Athenians ...hair with a fillet, and statues of Calades, who it is said framed laws for the Athenians, and of Pindar, the statue being one of the rewards the Athenians gave him for...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...and fourth, which was held by the Arcadians, are called "Non-Olympiads" by the Eleans, who do not include them in a list of Olympiads. At the forty-eighth Festival...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Cyprus ...to the throne, but prevailed on his father before the call came to send him to Cyprus. Among the reasons assigned for Cleopatra's enmity towards her son is her...

Cyprus

81 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Pisa ...that he was intriguing against them, but when they invaded the land of Pisa with an army he persuaded them by prayers and oaths to return quietly home...

Pisa

73 21.653041,37.639535,0 Megara ...This man was deposed from his kingdom by the Metionidae, and when he fled to Megara – for he had to wife the daughter of Pylas king of Megara – his children were...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...Orchomenians. Shortly after this Ptolemy met with his appointed fate, and the Athenians, who had been benefited by him in many ways which I need not stop to relate...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elis ...land of' Elis the ruins are to be seen on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, the distance between Elis and Pylus being eighty stades. This Pylus was...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Alpheius ...to this Pylus in the passage of Homer: "And he was descended from the river Alpheius, that in broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians." The Eleans...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Phoenicians ...of Cyrene had called Ptolemy to Libya, he immediately reduced the Syrians and Phoenicians by a sudden inroad, handed them over to Demetrius, his son, a man who for all...

Phoenicians

80 35.25,33.25,0 Olympia ...wont to go through the training through which they must pass before going to Olympia. High plane-trees grow between the tracks inside a wall. The whole of this...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cyrene ...Syrians and Cyprus, and also restored Pyrrhus to Thesprotia on the mainland. Cyrene rebelled; but Magas, the son of Berenice (who was at this time married to...

Cyrene

79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Calauria ...at Lamia. Exiled for the second time Demosthenes crossed once more to Calauria, and committed suicide there by taking poison, being the only Greek exile whom...

Calauria

73 23.48041,37.52255,0 Andrians ...and with them strangers also, swore that what I have said is the truth. The Andrians too assert that every other year at their feast of Dionysus wine flows of its...

Andrians

78 24.86222,37.8528,0 Epeans ...stripped Otus of Cyllene, Comrade of Phyleides and ruler of the great-souled Epeans." In Cyllene is a sanctuary of Asclepius, and one of Aphrodite. But the image...

Epeans

79 21.784671,37.56585,0 Eleans ...took part were, of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Thrace ...Alexander and before him of Philip. These would comprise but a small part of Thrace. If race be compared with race no nation of men except the Celts are more...

Thrace

79 27.5,42.5,0 Thessaly ...(aigialos). Later on, after the death of Hellen, Xuthus was expelled from Thessaly by the rest of the sons of Hellen, who charged him with having appropriated...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Aetolian ...the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the Aetolian League. The Boeotians, who occupied the Thebaid territory now that there were...

Aetolian

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Athens ...the fort of Panactum in Attica and also Salamis, and established as tyrant in Athens Demetrius the son of Phanostratus, a man who had won a reputation for wisdom...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Peiraeus ...the Athenians from tyrants Demetrius the son of Antigonus did not restore the Peiraeus to them immediately after the flight of Lachares, but subsequently overcame...

Peiraeus

80 23.644609,37.937222,0 Ionians ...themselves and their king Tisamenus, the son of Orestes, sent heralds to the Ionians, offering to settle among them without warfare. But the kings of the Ionians...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lemnos ...set sail from Athens, the Lacedemonians and Minyans who had been expelled from Lemnos by the Pelasgians were led by the Theban Theras, the son of Autesion, to the...

Lemnos

81 25.25,39.916667,0 Ionians ...the sanctuary had nothing to fear; they exchanged oaths of friendship with the Ionians and escaped warfare. Androclus also took Samos from the Samians, and for a time...

Ionians

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Macedonians ...mention his success in recovering Peiraeus and Munychia; and again, when the Macedonians were raiding Eleusis he collected a force of Eleusinians and defeated the...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Delphi ...hall but also a portrait at Eleusis. The Phocians too of Elatea dedicated at Delphi a bronze statue of Olympiodorus for help in their revolt from Cassander. Near...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Carians ...the oracle, were founded in the remotest antiquity. They assert that while the Carians still held the land, the first Greeks to arrive were Cretans under Rhacius, who...

Carians

81 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Lebedus ...in order that the population of Ephesus might be increased. The land around Lebedus is a happy one; in particular its hot baths are more numerous and more pleasant...

Lebedus

78 26.964722,38.077883,0 Teos ...a Carian element combined with the Greek, while Ionians were introduced into Teos by Apoecus, a great-grandchild of Melanthus, who showed no hostility either to...

Teos

79 26.785014,38.177262,0 Thessaly ...While making these proposals for peace he marched from Macedonia through Thessaly and along the gulf of Lamia. But Critolaus and the Achaeans would listen to no...

Thessaly

75 21.75,39.25,0 Achaia ...of a strong desire to settle by himself the affairs of both Macedonia and Achaia. His efforts, however, were thwarted by the senselessness of Diaeus. Mummius...

Achaia

76 Achaeans ...army. The contempt of the Romans made them keep a careless look-out, and the Achaeans, attacking them in the first watch, killed some, drove yet more back to the...

Achaeans

79 Achaeans ...the camp, and took some five hundred shields. Puffed up with this success the Achaeans marched out to battle before the Romans began their attack. But when Mummius...

Achaeans

80 Sicily ...the son of Empedus, towards the Athenians. This man commanded some cavalry in Sicily, and when the Athenians and their partners in the expedition were being...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Achaeans ...equally like him in the cowardice of his death. As soon as night fell, the Achaeans who had escaped to Corinth after the battle fled from the city, and there fled...

Achaeans

78 Achaean ...Greek people had forgotten how to be free. To resume after my researches into Achaean history. The boundary between Achaia and Elis is the river Larisus, and by the...

Achaean

81 Attica ...and that he was king over but a few subjects. But when Triptolemus came from Attica, he received from him cultivated corn, and, learning how to found a city, named...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Achaeans ...of Patrae to explain the name Mesatis as they choose. When afterwards the Achaeans had driven out the Ionians, Patreus, the son of Preugenes, the son of Agenor...

Achaeans

77 Patrae ...he thought that Patrae was a convenient port of call, brought back again to Patrae the men from the other towns, and united with them the Achaeans also from...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 Patrae ...the Romans are accustomed to bestow on their colonists. On the acropolis of Patrae is a sanctuary of Artemis Laphria. The surname of the goddess is a foreign one...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Aetolians ...to the oracle at Dodona. For the inhabitants of this part of the mainland, the Aetolians and their Acarnanian and Epeirot neighbors, considered that the truest oracles...

Aetolians

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 city ...Achelous and Cephisus. The Athenians too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and there is at Mallos in Cilicia an oracle of his which is the most...

city

79 city ...of the precincts is about four stades, and they are full of statues; for every city has dedicated a likeness of the emperor Hadrian, and the Athenians have...

city

81 city ...fact that he built the wall afresh from the beginning, the old one round the city having been destroyed by the Cretans. Let so much suffice for Alcathous and for...

city

79 Ambrossus ...the walls was immediate protection. There is a small market-place at Ambrossus, and of the stone statues set up in it most are broken. The road to Anticyra...

Ambrossus

71 22.66763,38.42845,0 Rome ...the Macedonian king Philip, son of Demetrius. Otilius had been despatched from Rome to help the Athenians against Philip. The mountains beyond Anticyra are very...

Rome

81 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Thisbe ...said of Philomelus and the Phocians . . . the general assembly. To Boulis from Thisbe in Boeotia is a journey of eighty stades; but I do not know if in Phocis there...

Thisbe

81 22.96835,38.259722,0 Cirrhaeans ...some of the god's land. So the Amphictyons determined to make war on the Cirrhaeans, put Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, at the head of their army, and brought over...

Cirrhaeans

76 22.450621,38.428937,0 Cirrhaeans ...to the precinct of Apollo. Solon invented another trick to outwit the Cirrhaeans. The water of the river Pleistus ran along a channel to the city, and Solon...

Cirrhaeans

73 22.450621,38.428937,0 Evenus ...stick the people got their name. Others believe that Nessus, ferrying on the Evenus, was wounded by Heracles, but not killed on the spot, making his escape to this...

Evenus

80 21.5193991,38.3288971,0 Olympia ...distant from it. Its people are those who dedicated the shield to Zeus at Olympia. The town lies upon a height, and it has a grove and an altar of the Gracious...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemon ...it as a home to those who seceded to Ithome at the time of the earthquake at Lacedemon, and how, after the Athenian disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Naupactus ...disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians expelled the Messenians from Naupactus, all this I have fully related in my history of Messenia. When the Messenians...

Naupactus

74 22.315807,38.41224,0 Taenarum ...to the sea is Gythium; after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and...

Taenarum

76 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Selinus ...it in the interior, is a village, Glyppia. From Geronthrae to another village, Selinus, is a journey of twenty stades. These places are inland from Acriae. By the...

Selinus

81 22.683003,37.0251,0 Las ...within five stades of the town. At a spot called Arainus is the tomb of Las with a statue upon it. The natives say that Las was their founder and was...

Las

75 22.5047,36.7279,0 Troy ...suitors. But at the beginning of his poem Homer says that Achilles came to Troy as a favour to the sons of Atreus, and not because he was bound by the oaths...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argive ...150 stades to Oetylus. The hero, from whom the city received its name, was an Argive by descent, son of Amphianax, the son of Antimachus. In Oetylus the sanctuary...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Oetylus ...in the market-place a wooden image of Apollo Carneius are worth seeing. From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino...

Oetylus

80 22.3848,36.705058,0 Carian ...the sack of Troy, was carried out of his course and reached Syrnus on the Carian mainland in safety and settled there. In the territory of Gerenia is a...

Carian

76 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Gerenia ...on the Carian mainland in safety and settled there. In the territory of Gerenia is a mountain, Calathium; on it is a sanctuary of Claea with a cave close...

Gerenia

75 22.208656,36.927195,0 Lacedemon ...husband should be a private person. They collected a force from Argos and from Lacedemon and came to this country, the whole land receiving the name Messene from the...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...the son of Hicetas of Trapezus, who was then king and general of the Arcadians. The Lacedemonians were the first of whom we know to give bribes to an enemy...

Arcadians

71 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...to another is called the Punishment of Neoptolemus. So in the case of the Lacedemonians, when they were at the height of their power after the destruction of the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...of their former thoughts of becoming the masters instead of the slaves of the Lacedemonians they now despaired of safety itself. Among the chieftains killed were Androcles...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...head by a stone, so that his eyes became dizzy. When he fell a number of the Lacedemonians closed upon him and took him alive with some fifty of his followers. The...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythia ...at the Trench and asked concerning safety, receiving this reply from the Pythia: "Whensoever a he-goat drinks of Neda's winding stream, no more do I protect...

Pythia

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Neda ...no more do I protect Messene, for destruction is at hand. The springs of the Neda are in Mount Lycaeus. The river flows through the land of the Arcadians and...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Messenia ...and turning again towards Messenia forms the boundary on the coast between Messenia and Elis. Then they were afraid of the he-goats drinking from the Neda, but it...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messene ...demanded. For the Messenians possessed a secret thing. If it were destroyed, Messene would be overwhelmed and lost for ever, but if it were kept, the oracles of...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...to him speaking, and learning the exact position, again deserted from the Messenians to the Lacedemonians. The Kings were absent at the time from the Lacedemonian...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...the Messenians or to death with them. But he, being in receipt of bribes from Lacedemon, refused to lead them, and said that he knew that no Messenian survived for...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...preparing clothing and food, and sent some of their leading men to comfort the Messenians and also to be their guides on the way. After their safe arrival at Mount...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...here with the Arcadians. Eira was taken, and the second war between the Lacedemonians and Messenians completed in the archonship of Autosthenes at Athens, and in the...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Zancle ...with them, dwelt together in common. They changed the name of the city from Zancle to Messene. This event took place in the twenty-ninth Olympiad, when Chionis...

Zancle

78 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Lacedemonians ...serfs who were of Messenian origin seceded to Mount Ithome. Against them the Lacedemonians, amongst other allies, called to their assistance Cimon the son of Miltiades...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...as at all times, they were stirred by their hatred against the Lacedemonians, and provided the most striking example of their hostility towards them in the...

Lacedemonians

65 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...took place, the Lacedemonians, having command of the sea, then drove the Messenians from Naupactus; they went to their kinsmen in Sicily and to Rhegium, but the...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...sent messengers to Italy, Sicily and to the Euesperitae, and summoned the Messenians to Peloponnese from every other quarter where they might be, and they, with...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Olympia ...Aetolus, and also a daughter Eurycyda. Endymion set his sons to run a race at Olympia for the throne; Epeius won, and obtained the kingdom, and his subjects were...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Isthmian ...pressed the Corinthians entirely to exclude the Argive people from the Isthmian games. When they failed in this also, Moline is said to have laid curses on her...

Isthmian

73 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Lepreus ...and above it on the right is what is called Triphylia, in which is the city Lepreus. The citizens of this city wish to belong to the Arcadians, but it is plain...

Lepreus

78 21.724777,37.439599,0 Anigrus ...again to Samicum, and passing through the district, we reach the mouth of the Anigrus. The current of this river is often held back by violent gales, which carry the...

Anigrus

80 Lapithus ...foot are in danger of sinking into it. The Anigrus descends from the mountain Lapithus in Arcadia, and right from its source its water does not smell sweet but...

Lapithus

81 Athens ...Elis and gave it to Xenophon, the son of Grylus, when he had been exiled from Athens, The reason for his banishment was that he had taken part in an expedition...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Alpheius ...is another legend about the Alpheius. They say that there was a hunter called Alpheius, who fell in love with Arethusa, who was herself a huntress. Arethusa...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Delos ...to Achaeia, was the first to say that from these Hyperboreans Achaeia came to Delos. When Melanopus of Cyme composed an ode to Opis and Hecaerge declaring that...

Delos

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Olympia ...Endymion, the son of Aethlius, deposed Clymenus, and set his sons a race in Olympia with the kingdom as the prize. And about a generation later than Endymion...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ionia ...boxing, and the victor was Onomastus of Smyrna, which already was a part of Ionia. At the twenty-fifth they recognized the race of full-grown horses, and...

Ionia

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Olympia ...an Aeolian from the city Troas. Certain contests, too, have been dropped at Olympia, the Eleans resolving to discontinue them. The pentathlum for boys was...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Acropolis ...they call the Maiden is benefited, not by olive oil, but by water. For the Acropolis, owing to its great height, is over-dry, so that the image, being made of...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Olympic ...whose name was Cynisca; she was exceedingly ambitious to succeed at the Olympic games, and was the first woman to breed horses and the first to win an Olympic...

Olympic

74 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...victory. After Cynisca other women, especially women of Lacedemon, have won Olympic victories, but none of them was more distinguished for their victories than...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thebes ...between the Locrians and the Phocians. Egged on by Ismenias and his party at Thebes, the Locrians cut the ripe corn in this land and drove off the booty. The...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...reign of Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, the Phocians seized the sanctuary at Delphi. To help in a war with Thebes the Phocians hired with its wealth independent...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thebes ...Agesilaus, the Phocians seized the sanctuary at Delphi. To help in a war with Thebes the Phocians hired with its wealth independent mercenaries, but they here also...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydian ...they spent on adorning the image in Amyclae even the gold which Croesus the Lydian sent for Apollo Pythaeus. Farther on from Thornax is the city, which was...

Lydian

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Tegeans ...the Persians; the second was at Tegea, when the Lacedemonians had engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all...

Tegeans

80 22.429,37.464,0 Mantineans ...was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all the Arcadians except the Mantineans were arrayed against them. His fourth contest was against the Helots who had...

Mantineans

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Dorians ...daughter of this Crius was met as she was filling her pitcher by spies of the Dorians, who entered into conversation with her, visited Crius and learned from him how...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Dorians ...by Hippotes the son of Phylas, the wrath of Apollo fell upon the camp of the Dorians Hippotes went into banishment because of the bloodguilt, and from this time the...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Achaeans ...of the House, who was worshipped in the house of Crius the seer while the Achaeans were still in possession of Sparta. The poetess Praxilla represents Carneus as...

Achaeans

76 Plataea ...the theater are two tombs; the first is that of Pausanias, the general at Plataea, the second is that of Leonidas. Every year they deliver speeches over them...

Plataea

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Laconian ...the lyric poet, the charm of whose works was not in the least spoilt by the Laconian dialect, which is the least musical of them all. There are sanctuaries of...

Laconian

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedemon ...Laodicea, who still possess it. I will give other evidence that the Orthia in Lacedemon is the wooden image from the foreigners. Firstly, Astrabacus and Alopecus, sons...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Asinaeans ...of Eunomus, son of Prytanis, son of Eurypon, invaded Argolis with an army, the Asinaeans joined in the invasion, and with them ravaged the land of the Argives. When the...

Asinaeans

81 22.87403,37.52659,0 Argives ...the land of the Argives. When the Lacedemonian expedition departed home, the Argives under their king Eratus attacked Asine. For a time the Asinaeans defended...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lerna ...the daughter of Demeter, descended here to his fabled kingdom underground. Lerna is, I have already stated, by the sea, and here they celebrate mysteries in...

Lerna

77 22.71809,37.55107,0 Argives ...is called the Spring of Amphiaraus and the Alcyonian Lake, through which the Argives say Dionysus went down to Hell to bring up Semele, adding that the descent here...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Spartan ...number of specially chosen Lacedemonian warriors. All were killed except one Spartan and two Argives, and here were raised the graves for the dead. But the...

Spartan

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...reached its height in the reign of this king. As to the causes of the war, the Lacedemonian version differs from the Messenian. The accounts given by the belligerents...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...thus much; the chief leader of the Lacedemonians in the first war against the Messenians was Theopompus the son of Nicander, a king of the other house. When the war...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Cos ...of Plataea, and the foreigners were destroyed, Pausanias sent the lady back to Cos, and she took with her the apparel that the Persian had procured for her as...

Cos

81 27.257012,36.875681,0 Athenians ...was the Pausanias who invaded Attica, ostensibly to oppose Thrasybulus and the Athenians, but really to establish firmly the despotism of those to whom the government...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...upon the wall of Haliartus, the citizens of which refused to revolt from Thebes. Already a band of Thebans and Athenians had secretly entered the city; these...

Thebes

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cadmea ...called Scheria and Oenone, while from Thebe is named the city below the Cadmea. The Thebans do not agree, but say that Thebe was the daughter of the Boeotian...

Cadmea

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Miletus ...from Celaenae through Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus. I remember hearing a similar...

Miletus

79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sicyon ...the son of Erechtheus. Asius confirms their statement, while Hesiod makes Sicyon the son of Erechtheus, and Ibycus says that his father was Pelops. Sicyon had...

Sicyon

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...king of the Argives; and when Adrastus fled from Argos he came to Polybus at Sicyon, and afterwards on the death of Polybus he became king at Sicyon. When Adrastus...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Argive ...that time the Sicyonians became Dorians and their land a part of the Argive territory. The city built by Aegialeus on the plain was destroyed by Demetrius...

Argive

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Rhodes ...shaken, so that it was thought that the Sibyl had had her utterance about Rhodes fulfilled. When you have come from the Corinthian to the Sicyonian territory...

Rhodes

76 28.15629,36.41451,0 Argive ...him. This Nicocles was attacked by Aratus with a force of Sicyonian exiles and Argive mercenaries. Making his attempt by night, he eluded some of the defenders in...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Alexandrians ...against their king. He made his escape from prison and began a riot among the Alexandrians, but at last, on being captured, he fell by his own hand. The Lacedemonians...

Alexandrians

80 29.904133,31.195371,0 Didyma ...seated, was made by the Sicyonian Canachus, who also fashioned the Apollo at Didyma of the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans. It is made of gold...

Didyma

79 27.256115,37.384829,0 Parian ...nothing stood in the way of their taking Athens, they were bringing a piece of Parian marble to make a trophy, convinced that their task was already finished. Of...

Parian

81 25.150728,37.08579,0 Oenoe ...youth; the only thing I heard about them was that they were brothers of Oenoe, from whom the parish has its name. The land of Oropus, between Attica and the...

Oenoe

74 23.952,38.156,0 Cilicia ...too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and there is at Mallos in Cilicia an oracle of his which is the most trustworthy of my day. The Oropians have...

Cilicia

74 35.75,38.25,0 Argives ...produced responses in hexameter verse, saying that Amphiaraus gave them to the Argives who were sent against Thebes. These verses unrestrainedly appealed to popular...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lydians ...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...

Lydians

81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Eleusinian ...Boeotians, and Theseus being victorious in the fight carried the dead to the Eleusinian territory and buried them here. The Thebans, however, say that they voluntarily...

Eleusinian

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athenians ...say that they captured off Salamis in a naval action with the Athenians. The Athenians too admit that for a time they evacuated the island before the Megarians...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megara ...I will tell in another part of my narrative, but Hyllus also is buried at Megara. These events might correctly be called an expedition of the Heracleidae into...

Megara

76 15.18273,37.2038,0 Argos ...concerns Argos, I will relate here. They say that in the reign of Crotopus at Argos, Psamathe, the daughter of Crotopus, bore a son to Apollo, and being in dire...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nisaea ...king, being the son of Poseidon and of Libya, daughter of Epphus. Parallel to Nisaea lies the small island of Minoa, where in the war against Nisus anchored the...

Nisaea

80 23.362766,37.974359,0 Thebes ...heard in Erenea, a village of the Megarians. Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus, left Thebes to live here owing to her great grief at the death of Actaeon, the manner of...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Corinth ...a sanctuary of Apollo Latous, after which is the boundary between Megara and Corinth, where legend says that Hyllus, son of Heracles, fought a duel with the...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Croceae ...who beautified it with various kinds of stone, especially the one quarried at Croceae in Laconia. On the left of the entrance stands a Poseidon, and after him...

Croceae

80 22.548448,36.884856,0 Greeks ...to Antipater for punishment those who had opposed the Macedonians before the Greeks met with their defeat in Thessaly. Such was Demosthenes' reward for his great...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...then use them as breastplates that are as handsome and strong as those of the Greeks. For they can withstand blows of missiles and those struck in close...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...to Eukleia (Glory), this too being a thank-offering for the victory over the Persians, who had landed at Marathon. This is the victory of which I am of opinion the...

Persians

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Apollo is believed to have met Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus . . . when the Persians had landed in Attica Philippides was sent to carry the tidings to Lacedemon. On...

Persians

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Dorians ...in fact Helots they were. The slaves afterwards acquired, although they were Dorians of Messenia, also came to be called Helots, just as the whole Greek race were...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Helos ...called Hellenes from the region in Thessaly once called Hellas. From this Helos, on stated days, they bring up to the sanctuary of the Eleusinian a wooden...

Helos

77 22.60754,36.843247,0 Croceae ...and fountains. Here before the village stands an image of Zeus of Croceae in marble, and the Dioscuri in bronze are at the quarry. After Croceae...

Croceae

68 22.548448,36.884856,0 Las ...as you go down from Aegiae to the sea is Gythium; after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and...

Las

80 22.5047,36.7279,0 Dorians ...It was inhabited before the Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus, but the Dorians of Lacedemon expelled the Achaean inhabitants and afterwards sent to it...

Dorians

72 22.25,38.75,0 Asopus ...of twenty stades. These places are inland from Acriae. By the sea is a city Asopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors, and...

Asopus

79 22.8426,36.6845,0 Side ...to have collected inhabitants for it from three cities, Etis, Aphrodisias and Side. Of the ancient cities two are said to have been founded by Aeneas when he was...

Side

80 23.14464,36.478,0 Malea ...by an armed image of wood. On the voyage from Boeae towards the point of Malea is a harbor called Nymphaeum, with a statue of Poseidon standing, and a cave...

Malea

76 23.19975,36.43603,0 Epidaurians ...The people say that they are not descended from the Lacedemonians but from the Epidaurians of the Argolid, and that they touched at this point in Laconia when sailing on...

Epidaurians

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...Limera is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the Lake) in the country of the Epidaurians. The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of...

Epidaurians

80 23.02637,36.731301,0 Epidaurus ...contains pebbles of prettier form and of all colors. A hundred stades from Epidaurus is Zarax; though possessing a good harbor, it is the most ruinous of the towns...

Epidaurus

78 23.02637,36.731301,0 Chimaera ...it a name or describe it as of manifold form, as he did in the case of the Chimaera. Later poets gave the name Cerberus, and though in other respects they made him...

Chimaera

77 19.729321,40.116152,0 Taenarum ...and carrying him whenever he wanted to ride on it. There is a spring also on Taenarum but now it possesses nothing marvellous. Formerly, as they say, it showed...

Taenarum

80 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Sparta ...the sea to this spot to see Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, when he was going to Sparta to wed Hermione. In the town is a sanctuary of Athena, and an Apollo Carneius...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hermione ...spot to see Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, when he was going to Sparta to wed Hermione. In the town is a sanctuary of Athena, and an Apollo Carneius according to the...

Hermione

78 23.243591,37.385218,0 Messenians ...is a standing bronze statue of Machaon, with a crown on his head which the Messenians in the local speech call kiphos. The author of the epic The Little Iliad says...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartan ...to keep the truce between them unbroken. It was Sthenelaidas, an influential Spartan who was an ephor at the time, who was chiefly responsible for the war. Greece...

Spartan

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...to win an Olympic victory. After Cynisca other women, especially women of Lacedemon, have won Olympic victories, but none of them was more distinguished for their...

Lacedemon

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...Argos, and to the Greeks north of the Isthmus, asking for allies. Now the Corinthians were most eager to take part in the expedition to Asia, but considering it a...

Corinthians

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Aulis ...and those of the allies, and at the same time the fleet was ready, he went to Aulis to sacrifice to Artemis, because Agamemnon too had propitiated the goddess here...

Aulis

80 23.5925,38.4335,0 Thessaly ...with his fleet from Abydos to Sestos he passed through Thrace as far as Thessaly, where the Thessalians, to please the Thebans, tried to prevent his further...

Thessaly

74 21.75,39.25,0 Thebans ...passed through Thrace as far as Thessaly, where the Thessalians, to please the Thebans, tried to prevent his further progress; there was also an old friendship...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Amyclae ...go along, is an image of Apollo Pythaeus, made after the style of the one at Amyclae; the fashion of it I will describe when I come to speak of the latter. For in...

Amyclae

79 24.76084,35.0133,0 Achaeans ...off Helen. Near the Hellenium they point out the tomb of Talthybius. The Achaeans of Aegium too say that a tomb which they show on their market-place belongs to...

Achaeans

76 Athens ...and water, left its mark upon the whole state of the Lacedemonians, but in Athens fell upon individuals, the members of the house of one man, Miltiades the son...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elis ...Artemis, and a little further on has been built a tomb for the diviners from Elis, called the Iamidae. There is also a sanctuary of Maron and of Alpheius. Of...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Messenia ...fits in best with their history to hold that they were buried not here but in Messenia. But the disasters of the Messenians, and the length of their exile from the...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sparta ...the Hyperboreans. Carneus, whom they surname "of the House," had honors in Sparta even before the return of the Heracleidae, his seat being in the house of a...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...by which is a precinct of the hero who they say guided Dionysus on the way to Sparta. To this hero sacrifices are offered before they are offered to the god by the...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thermopylae ...with the names, and their fathers' names, of those who endured the fight at Thermopylae against the Persians. There is a place in Sparta called Theomelida. In this...

Thermopylae

78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Messenians ...say, for the following reason. The Lacedemonians were making war against the Messenians, who had revolted, and their king Anaxander, having invaded Messenia, took...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...but in my opinion it was because of the sanctuary in Hermione that the Lacedemonians also began to worship Demeter Chthonia. The Spartans have also a sanctuary of...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...that confirm my statement that the sons of Aphareus were not buried in Sparta. At the beginning of the Course are the Dioscuri Starters, and a little farther...

Sparta

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...made by those Lydians also who have a sanctuary of Artemis Anaeitis. But the Athenians, we are asked to believe, made light of it becoming booty of the Persians. For...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...of a woman, whom the Lacedemonians say is Euryleonis. She won a victory at Olympia with a two-horse chariot. By the side of the altar of the Lady of the Bronze...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athens ...Hysiae. This fight took place, I discovered, when Peisistratus was archon at Athens, in the fourth year of the twenty-seventh Olympiad, in which the Athenian...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...of Hysiae, which once was a city in Argolis, and here it is that they say the Lacedemonians suffered their reverse. The road from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...could not remain with him, and urged Oeneus to accompany him, if he wished, to Argos. When he came, he gave him all the attention that it was right to give a...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidauria ...further side of Orneae are Sicyonia and Phliasia. On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a building made very like a pyramid, and on it in relief...

Epidauria

78 23.02637,36.731301,0 Argive ...gave the land its name, was, the Eleans say, a son of Pelops but, according to Argive opinion and the poem the Great Eoeae, the father of Epidaurus was Argus, son of...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidaurus ...but, according to Argive opinion and the poem the Great Eoeae, the father of Epidaurus was Argus, son of Zeus, while the Epidaurians maintain that Epidaurus was the...

Epidaurus

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...itself is an ancient one, but among the things Antoninus made for the Epidaurians are various appurtenances for the sanctuary of the Maleatian, including a...

Epidaurians

72 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...than thirty cubits, such as are found in India and in Libya, are said by the Epidaurians not to be serpents, but some other kind of creature. As you go up to Mount...

Epidaurians

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Asinaeans ...his hand, but I cannot say whether he set it to be a boundary mark against the Asinaeans in Argolis, since in no land, which has been depopulated, is it easy to...

Asinaeans

81 22.87403,37.52659,0 Cyprus ...achieved renown; but the family of Teucer continued to be the royal house in Cyprus down to the time of Evagoras. Asius the epic poet says that to Phocus were born...

Cyprus

79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Athens ...of Athens, and in the Persian war supplied more ships than any state except Athens, yet their prosperity was not permanent but when the island was depopulated by...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegina ...way as it is customary to sacrifice at Eleusis. So much I must relate about Aegina, for the sake of Aeacus and his exploits. Bordering on Epidauria are the...

Aegina

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezen ...that either Hippolytus destroyed wolves that were ravaging the land of Troezen, or else that Lycea is a surname of Artemis among the Amazons, from whom he was...

Troezen

73 Aegina ...called Sthenias. The wooden image itself of the goddess was made by Callon, of Aegina. Callon was a pupil of Tectaeus and Angelion, who made the image of Apollo for...

Aegina

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezen ...Aphrodite of the Height. The temple of Isis was made by the Halicarnassians in Troezen, because this is their mother-city, but the image of Isis was dedicated by the...

Troezen

81 Saronic ...me most in Methana. The wind called Lips, striking the budding vines from the Saronic Gulf, blights their buds. So while the wind is still rushing on, two men cut in...

Saronic

80 23.46300815833333,37.77606943333334,0 Asopus ...times both the land and the city were called Arantia. While he was king, Asopus, said to be the son of Celusa and Poseidon, discovered for him the water of the...

Asopus

75 22.75,37.75,0 Argives ...look at these tombs and call Aras and his children to the libations. The Argives say that Phlias, who has given the land its third name, was the son of Ceisus...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Araethyrea ...springs of Asopus." The account goes on to say that the mother of Phlias was Araethyrea and not Chthonophyle. The latter was his wife and bore him Androdamas. On the...

Araethyrea

79 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasians ...Phalces, the son of Temenus, attacked it from Argos and Sicyonia. Some of the Phliasians were inclined to accept the offer of Rhegnidas, which was that they should...

Phliasians

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Dorians ...the citizens to defend themselves, and not to give up many advantages to the Dorians without striking a blow. The people, however, accepted the opposite policy, and...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Cleonae ...a wife from Gortyn, and that Dipoenus and Scyllis were his sons by this woman. Cleonae possesses this sanctuary and the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus. The story is that...

Cleonae

81 22.75372,37.81708,0 Nemea ...other, perhaps because Adrastus found it. The land was named, they say, after Nemea, who was another daughter of Asopus. Above Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Prosymna ...the sanctuary they name after Euboea, and the land beneath the Heraeum after Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraeum, and falling into a cleft disappears. On...

Prosymna

79 Tiryns ...on a pillar. The oldest image is made of wild-pear wood, and was dedicated in Tiryns by Peirasus, son of Argus, and when the Argives destroyed Tiryns they carried...

Tiryns

80 22.80004,37.59918,0 Pelasgian ...of the Sea). Facing the tomb of the women is a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Pelasgian from Pelasgus, son of Triopas, its founder, and not far from the sanctuary is...

Pelasgian

80 22.25,39.75,0 Delphi ...the gate there, you come to the tomb of Sacadas, who was the first to play at Delphi the Pythian flute-tune; the hostility of Apollo to flute-players, which had...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sparta ...against this part of the mainland. When Echestratus, son of Agis, was king at Sparta, the Lacedemonians removed all the Cynurians of military age, alleging as a...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cynurians ...son of Agis, was king at Sparta, the Lacedemonians removed all the Cynurians of military age, alleging as a reason that freebooters from the Cynurian...

Cynurians

69 22.75,37.25,0 Spartan ...sent to Crete Charmidas the son of Euthys, who was a distinguished Spartan, to put down the civil strife among the Cretans, to persuade them to abandon...

Spartan

69 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...the Messenians out of all the Peloponnesus – the Messenians revolted from the Lacedemonians. For a time they held out by force of arms, but at last they were overcome and...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aeginetans ...He advanced as far as Aegina, and proceeded to arrest such influential Aeginetans as had shown Persian sympathies, and had persuaded the citizens to give earth...

Aeginetans

73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Trojan ...the exceptional valor of one man, in the way that Achilles shed luster on the Trojan war and Miltiades on the engagement at Marathon. But in truth the success of...

Trojan

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thermopylae ...exploits, was met on his march by Leonidas and the handful of men he led to Thermopylae, and they would have prevented him from even seeing Greece at all, and from...

Thermopylae

78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Coans ...treated the Coan lady, who was the daughter of a man of distinction among the Coans, Hegetorides the son of Antagoras, and the unwilling concubine of a Persian...

Coans

80 27.257012,36.875681,0 Thebans ...lest he should be caught between two enemy forces, made a truce with the Thebans and took up for burial those who had fallen under the wall of Haliartus. The...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thermopylae ...place when they had been caught between two enemy forces, and the defeats at Thermopylae and on the island of Sphacteria made him afraid lest he himself should prove...

Thermopylae

79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Argos ...by signs from heaven. By the time that he was encamping under the wall of Argos, the earthquakes were still occurring, some of the troops had actually been...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...Providence is peculiarly apt to cut off early the general, just as the Athenians lost Hippocrates the son of Ariphron, who commanded at Delium, and later on...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...were eager to make the venture, both because of their friendship for Athens and also because they were ambitious to hand down to posterity a famous...

Athens

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...Theopompus was still king in Sparta there also took place the struggle of the Lacedemonians with the Argives for what is called the Thyreatid district. Theopompus...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...his. Afterwards he repented of his words. Demaratus, a king of good repute at Sparta, particularly for his helping Cleomenes to free Athens from the Peisistratidae...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Alpheus ...and the army retired home after advancing as far as Olympia and the Alpheus but in the next year Agis devastated the country and carried off most of the...

Alpheus

70 21.451667,37.6125,0 Elis ...the war the Lacedemonians under Agis again prepared to invade the territory of Elis. So Thrasydaeus and the Eleans, reduced to dire extremities, agreed to forgo...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lacedemonians ...to the illegitimacy of Leotychides. Although they might have done so, the Lacedemonians did not refer the disputed point to Delphi; the reason was in my opinion that...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...shared in this money are said to have been the Argives Cylon and Sodamas, the Thebans Androcleides, Ismenias and Amphithemis, the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocians ...the Locrians cut the ripe corn in this land and drove off the booty. The Phocians on their side invaded Locris with all their forces, and laid waste the...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotia ...more serious, had its origin in the expedition of the Lacedemonians into Boeotia. So these circumstances compelled Agesilaus to lead his army back from Asia...

Boeotia

75 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Corinth ...games along with the Argives. Agesilaus again marched with an army against Corinth, and, as the festival Hyacinthia was at hand, he gave the Amycleans leave to go...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Calydon ...compelled to put an end to the war, although they had come very near capturing Calydon and the other towns of the Aetolians. Afterwards he sailed to Egypt, to succor...

Calydon

81 21.533106,38.372423,0 Locri ...to all from the borders of the Minyae at Orchomenos to Scarphea among the Locri. From Peleus sprang the kings in Epeirus; but as for the sons of Telamon, the...

Locri

76 16.23715,38.20782,0 Epidaurus ...the Secret Harbor is a theater worth seeing; it is very similar to the one at Epidaurus, both in size and in style. Behind it is built one side of a race-course, which...

Epidaurus

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Aphaea ...Britomartis shows herself in their island. Her surname among the Aeginetans is Aphaea; in Crete it is Dictynna (Goddess of Nets). The Mount of all the Greeks...

Aphaea

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troezenians ...and he had the best claim to the Kingdom of Argos. Such is the story of the Troezenians, with the exception of the cities that claim to be their colonies. I will now...

Troezenians

78 Troezenian ...the name from Sphaeria to Sacred Island. She also established a custom for the Troezenian maidens of dedicating their girdles before wedlock to Athena...

Troezenian

81 Parian ...is said by the Hermionians to be the newest in their city; a colossus of Parian marble stands there. Of their wells, one is very old; nobody can see the water...

Parian

75 25.150728,37.08579,0 Hermionians ...on the same. Such is the manner in which the sacrifice is performed by the Hermionians. Before the temple stand a few statues of the women who have served Demeter as...

Hermionians

78 23.243591,37.385218,0 Mases ...the Argives, but in my time the Hermionians were using it as a seaport. From Mases there is a road on the right to a headland called Struthus (Sparrow Peak). From...

Mases

80 23.142191,37.417868,0 Argives ...are of white marble, and are upright. Next comes a district, belonging to the Argives, that once was called Asinaea, and by the sea are ruins of Asine. When the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lycians ...of Triconium by descent, who now enjoys a reputation second to none among the Lycians; excellent at original research, he found the clue to this problem in the...

Lycians

80 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Parnon ...and receives honors from the neighbours. Above the villages extends Mount Parnon, on which the Lacedemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and...

Parnon

77 22.61272,37.27816,0 Lacedemonians ...had given them a banquet. As for the tomb of Cassandra, it is claimed by the Lacedemonians who dwell around Amyclae. Agamemnon has his tomb, and so has Eurymedon the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mycenae ...himself and those who were murdered with him. Fifteen stades distant from Mycenae is on the left the Heraeum. Beside the road flows the brook called Water of...

Mycenae

77 22.756111,37.730833,0 Heraeum ...of Argus, and when the Argives destroyed Tiryns they carried it away to the Heraeum. I myself saw it, a small, seated image. Of the votive offerings the following...

Heraeum

78 22.774722,37.691944,0 Tegea ...of Hera, when the lamp before the wreaths set fire to them. Chryseis went to Tegea and supplicated Athena Alea. Although so great a disaster had befallen them the...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadia ...his ancestral dominion, he had extended his rule over the greater part of Arcadia and had succeeded to the throne of Sparta; he also had a contingent of Phocian...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemon ...Nestor by Heracles after he had taken Pylus. So they expelled Tisamenus from Lacedemon and Argos, and the descendants of Nestor from Messenia, namely Alcmaeon, son of...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...deposed altogether from the kingship. The most famous building in the city of Argos is the sanctuary of Apollo Lycius (Wolf-god). The modern image was made by the...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...brought to Lacedemon. For it is said that she was with child, was delivered In Argos, and founded there the sanctuary of Eilethyia, giving the daughter she bore to...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...(Sharp-sighted), dedicated by Diomedes, because once when he was fighting at Troy the goddess removed the mist from his eyes. Adjoining it is the race-course, in...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Tegea ...Argos are roads to various parts of the Peloponnesus, including one to Tegea on the side towards Arcadia. On the right is Mount Lycone, which has trees on...

Tegea

73 22.429,37.464,0 Oenoe ...wrongs. Farther on from here, across the torrent called Charadrus (Gully), is Oenoe, named, the Argives say, after Oeneus. The story is that Oeneus, who was king...

Oenoe

81 22.56036,37.608146,0 Argives ...on Larisa as a sign that she too was now out of danger. For this reason the Argives hold every year a beacon festival. At the first the place was called Lyncea...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyonia ...a temple devoted to all the gods in common. On the further side of Orneae are Sicyonia and Phliasia. On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a...

Sicyonia

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Epidauria ...people and dwelt there, while Deiphontes and the Argives took possession of Epidauria. These on the death of Temenus seceded from the other Argives; Deiphontes and...

Epidauria

78 23.02637,36.731301,0 Arcadian ...to be the son of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus. For when Apollophanes the Arcadian, came to Delphi and asked the god if Asclepius was the son of Arsinoe and...

Arcadian

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cyreneans ...the sanctuary of Asclepius by the sea at Smyrna. Further, at Balagrae of the Cyreneans there is an Asclepius called Healer, who like the others came from Epidaurus...

Cyreneans

79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Arcadian ...theaters are far superior to those anywhere else in their splendor, and the Arcadian theater at Megalopolis is unequalled for size, what architect could seriously...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Epidaurians ...of Mnaseas. When Aratus had liberated Corinth, the League was joined by the Epidaurians and Troezenians inhabiting Argolian Acte, and by the Megarians among those...

Epidaurians

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Macedonians ...his success in the Peloponnesus, Aratus thought it a shame to allow the Macedonians to hold unchallenged Peiraeus, Munychia, Salamis, and Sunium; but not expecting...

Macedonians

74 21.75,41.25,0 Mantinea ...to the Argives their democracy and to join the Achaean League; he captured Mantinea from the Lacedemonians who held it. But no man finds all his plans turn out...

Mantinea

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Sparta ...the son of Leonidas, the son of Cleonymus, having succeeded to the kingship at Sparta, resembled Pausanias in being dissatisfied with the established constitution...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyon ...of the blasts, and he is said to chant as well charms of Medea. On reaching Sicyon from Titane, as you go down to the shore you see on the left of the road a...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Dorian ...Arcadia, so that many of the cities received additional settlers from the Dorian race, and their inhabitants suffered yet more revolutions. The history of...

Dorian

76 22.25,38.75,0 Dorian ...suffered yet more revolutions. The history of Phlius is as follows. The Dorian Rhegnidas, the son of Phalces, the son of Temenus, attacked it from Argos and...

Dorian

74 22.25,38.75,0 Aeolis ...Zeus. It was dedicated by the people of Elaea, who live in the first city of Aeolis you reach on descending from the plain of the Caicus to the sea. Yet another...

Aeolis

79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Carian ...Alpheius respectively. The greater part of the city of Cnidus is built on the Carian mainland, where are their most noteworthy possessions, but what is called...

Carian

80 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Messene ...date is uncertain, he was clearly born before Zancle took its present name of Messene. The Thasians, who are Phoenicians by descent, and sailed from Tyre, and from...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Maenalus ...of which is not metrical. It runs thus: "Phormis dedicated me, an Arcadian of Maenalus, now of Syracuse. This is the horse in which is, say the Eleans, the...

Maenalus

80 22.265891,37.549491,0 Olympic ...to omit by the nature of my work, which is not a list of athletes who have won Olympic victories, but an account of statues and of votive offerings generally. I shall...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Samians ...the Samian boxer says that his trainer Mycon dedicated the statue and that the Samians are best among the Ionians for athletes and at naval warfare; this is what the...

Samians

81 26.84,37.73,0 Sicilians ...from Naupactus, who won a victory at Olympia. Even these two are said by the Sicilians to have been not Messenians but of old Zanclean blood. However, when the...

Sicilians

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Messenians ...victory at Olympia. Even these two are said by the Sicilians to have been not Messenians but of old Zanclean blood. However, when the Messenians came back to the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pytho ...son of Thrasis, a boxer from Elis itself, who also won two victories at Pytho. The statue of Aristodemus is the work of Daedalus of Sicyon, the pupil and son...

Pytho

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleans ...the most skilful wrestler, and when he won the wrestling-match for boys the Eleans allowed him to set up a statue of his trainer as well. The statue was made by...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Nemea ...Callibrotus, won five footraces at Pytho, three at the Isthmian games, four at Nemea, one at Olympia in the race for boys besides two in the men's race. Statues of...

Nemea

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Ionians ...won, and art famed for valour." So plainly "the Samians and the rest of the Ionians," as the Ionians themselves phrase it, painted both the walls. For when...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ionians ...for valour." So plainly "the Samians and the rest of the Ionians," as the Ionians themselves phrase it, painted both the walls. For when Alcibiades had a strong...

Ionians

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Olympia ...ships were captured at Aegospotami, the Samians set up a statue of Lysander at Olympia, and the Ephesians set up in the sanctuary of Artemis not only a statue of...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ephesian ...the Attic school, a pupil of Stadieus the Athenian, has made the statue of an Ephesian boy pancratiast, Amyntas the son of Hellanicus. Chilon, an Achaean of Patrae...

Ephesian

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Sparta ...his death, because he met his end in a foreign land, and is the only king in Sparta who is known to have missed burial. I have spoken at greater length on this...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Rhodian ...for boys. When you have looked at these also you will reach the statues of the Rhodian athletes, Diagoras and his family. These were dedicated one after the other in...

Rhodian

81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Arcadians ...Messenians maintained the war with the help of the Argives and Arcadians, and asked the Athenians for help. They refused to join in an attack on...

Arcadians

65 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...of the Lacedemonians, and they arrived at civil war. Learning this, the Lacedemonians were preparing to assist their partisans in Elis. While they were being...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...had accomplished their return to Peloponnese after so long an absence. So the Messenians in the town went against the Macedonians full of courage, and the garrison on...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...by joining the league, which was openly declared the bitterest enemy of the Lacedemonians. I realize, as of course did the Messenians, that even without their joining...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pharae ...Abia. There was a notable temple of Heracles here, and also of Asclepius. Pharae is seventy stades distant from Abia. On the road is a salt spring. The Emperor...

Pharae

77 21.717095,38.093144,0 Rhodes ...of any eye-witness; but the walls at Ambrossos in Phocis, at Byzantium and at Rhodes, all of them the most strongly fortified places, are not so strong as the...

Rhodes

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Parian ...and, what is most deserving of mention, a statue of the Mother of the Gods, of Parian marble, the work of Damophon, the artist who repaired the Zeus at Olympia with...

Parian

81 25.150728,37.08579,0 Thebes ...his sons, and besides statues of Apollo, the Muses and Heracles, the city of Thebes is represented and Epaminondas the son of Cleommis, Fortune, and Artemis...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonian ...among men, and say that he helped the Thebans and was the chief cause of the Lacedemonian disaster. I know that the Chaldaeans and Indian sages were the first to say...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...and used it to adorn a trophy in a spot where it could be seen by the Lacedemonians. Those of them who had seen the shield at Lebadeia in peace-time knew it, and...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phasis ...Indus and the Egyptian Nile, or again the Rhine and Danube, the Euphrates and Phasis. These indeed produce man-eating creatures of the worst, in shape resembling...

Phasis

80 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Plataniston ...from Bias the son of Amythaon. Twenty stades off the road is the fountain of Plataniston, the water of which flows out of a broad plane tree, which is hollow inside...

Plataniston

79 21.75,37.25,0 Dorians ...were, however, in the course of time to adopt the dialect and customs of the Dorians. The town of Colonides lies on high ground, a short distance from the sea. The...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Argive ...the son of Apollo. The town itself lies on the coast just as the old Asine in Argive territory. It is a journey of forty stades from Colonides to Asine, and of an...

Argive

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phoenicus ...has a deserted island, Theganussa, lying off it. After Acritas is the harbor Phoenicus and the Oenussae islands lying opposite. Before the mustering of the army for...

Phoenicus

79 21.75,36.75,0 Oenussae ...Theganussa, lying off it. After Acritas is the harbor Phoenicus and the Oenussae islands lying opposite. Before the mustering of the army for the Trojan war...

Oenussae

74 21.74065,36.75475,0 Troy ...when he had taken refuge with Diomede in Peloponnese after the fall of Troy. But in my view it was the rock Mothon that gave the place its name. It is this...

Troy

73 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messenians ...them Mothone, and that no change was made regarding them on the part of the Messenians when they returned. The Nauplians in my view were Egyptians originally, who...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Aulon ...Cyparissiae and of Athena with the title Cyparissia. In the depression called Aulon there is a temple and statue of Asclepius Aulonius. Here flows the river Neda...

Aulon

80 21.710701,37.310004,0 Neda ...Aulon there is a temple and statue of Asclepius Aulonius. Here flows the river Neda, forming the boundary between Messenia and Elis.

Neda

81 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Elis ...Aulonius. Here flows the river Neda, forming the boundary between Messenia and Elis.

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Achaeans ...contains both Arcadians and Eleans, that the second division belongs to the Achaeans, and the remaining three to the Dorians. Of the races dwelling in Peloponnesus...

Achaeans

78 Achaeans ...three to the Dorians. Of the races dwelling in Peloponnesus the Arcadians and Achaeans are aborigines. When the Achaeans were driven from their land by the Dorians...

Achaeans

80 Carnasium ...Perieres assigned to him as a dwelling a part of the country now called the Carnasium, but which then received the name Oechalia, derived, as they say, from the wife...

Carnasium

78 21.948808,37.266348,0 Olympic ...a Messenian Polychares, a man of no small distinction in all respects and an Olympic victor. (The Eleians were holding the fourth Olympiad, the only event being the...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Messenians ...on account of the wrongdoing of Cresphontes in the matter of the lot. The Messenians make the reply that I have already given with regard to Teleclus, and point to...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...had a share of the god's property. As the most convincing proof that the Lacedemonians would stick at nothing for the sake of gain, they reproach them with their...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...reasons for the war which the two sides allege. An embassy then came from the Lacedemonians to demand the surrender of Polychares. The Messenian kings replied to the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...however great they might be, would deter them until they won the land of Messenia by the sword. After taking this oath, they attacked Ampheia by night...

Messenia

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...the spirit of the Messenians, now at the height of their passion against the Lacedemonians, and considering too that they had undergone sufficient training, Euphaes...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...and Argives. The Argives intended to come without the knowledge of the Lacedemonians, and by private enterprise rather than by public declaration. The expedition...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...the fight, but he died in a few days, having reigned thirteen years over the Messenians, and having been at war with the Lacedemonians for the whole of his...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...Nevertheless Aristodemus was chosen and became king. This Ophioneus, the Messenian seer, was blind from birth and practised the following method of divination. By...

Messenian

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Argos ...good relations with the allies, sending gifts to the Arcadian leaders and to Argos and Sicyon. They carried on the war during his reign by means of constant...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...allies, the Lacedemonians by the Corinthians alone of the Peloponnesians, the Messenians by the full muster of' the Arcadians and by picked troops from Argos and...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...alone of the Peloponnesians, the Messenians by the full muster of' the Arcadians and by picked troops from Argos and Sicyon. The Lacedemonians entrusted their...

Arcadians

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...themselves possessed the sanctuary of Zeus of Ithome within the walls, the Lacedemonians could not forestall them in making the dedication. They set about making...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...and the Sicyonians about Aristodama, but there is this difference: The Messenians do not make Aristomenes the son of Heracles or of Zeus, as the Macedonians do...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenia ...the revolt the Messenians engaged the Lacedemonians at a place called Derae in Messenia, both sides being without their allies. Neither side won a clear victory, but...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...be more terrible to them for the future. With this purpose he came by night to Lacedemon and fixed on the temple of Athena of the Brazen House a shield inscribed "The...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...to the Goddess, taken from Spartans." The Spartans received an oracle from Delphi that they should procure the Athenian as counsellor. So they sent messengers to...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Corinthians ...of Androcles. These indeed were their most zealous supporters. The Corinthians came to fight on the side of the Lacedemonians, and some of the Lepreans owing...

Corinthians

70 22.878721,37.906045,0 Himera ...Helen was wedded to Achilles, and had bidden him sail to Stesichorus at Himera, and announce that the loss of his sight was caused by her wrath. Therefore...

Himera

74 13.82184,37.96884,0 Croceae ...own. As you go down to the sea towards Gythium you come to a village called Croceae and a quarry. It is not a continuous stretch of rock, but the stones they dig...

Croceae

79 22.548448,36.884856,0 Astyra ...blood in the spring. I have myself seen water coming up black from springs at Astyra. Astyra opposite Lesbos is the name of the hot baths in the district called...

Astyra

81 26.906742,39.163484,0 Pylos ...of him. His tomb is inside the city; the tomb at a little distance from Pylos is said to be the tomb of Thrasymedes. There is a cave inside the town, in...

Pylos

74 Aetolia ...have made a trophy and the image of an armed woman, supposed to represent Aetolia. These were dedicated by the Aetolians when they had punished the Gauls for...

Aetolia

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Leuctra ...many occasions; in particular, immediately after the Lacedemonian reverse at Leuctra they seceded from them and joined the Thebans. Though they did not fight on the...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Arcadian ...Greeks. The fortunes of each individual city, as distinct from those of the Arcadian people as a whole, I shall reserve for their proper place in my...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Argive ...for their proper place in my narrative. There is a pass into Arcadia on the Argive side in the direction of Hysiae and over Mount Parthenius into Tegean...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mantineia ...Mount Parthenius into Tegean territory. There are two others on the side of Mantineia: one through what is called Prinus and one through the Ladder. The latter is...

Mantineia

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Argolis ...of Mantineia. But when it turns away from the road the stream flows through Argolis from this point on, and for this reason Aeschylus among others calls the...

Argolis

78 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Argolis ...a stream of fresh water rising out of the sea by what is called Genethlium in Argolis. In olden times the Argives cast horses adorned with bridles down into Dine as...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Lacedemonians ...and the Thebans under Epaminondas, the Mantineans joined the ranks of the Lacedemonians. Subsequently the Mantineans quarrelled with the Lacedemonians, and seceded...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thespians ...Epaminondas had his suspicions of some of the Boeotians especially of the Thespians. Fearing, therefore, lest they should desert during the engagement, he...

Thespians

76 23.154521,38.293384,0 Actian ...when Augustus was about to fight the naval engagement off the cape of Actian Apollo, the Mantineans fought on the side of the Romans, while the rest of...

Actian

72 20.7683,38.9509,0 Thespians ...be better for the Boeotians to shift the war from Boeotia to Lacedemon. The Thespians, apprehensive because of the ancient hostility of Thebes and its present good...

Thespians

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Thessalians ...themselves to meet the invasion of the Thessalians. On that occasion the Thessalians tried to take Ceressus, but success seemed hopeless. So they consulted the god...

Thessalians

75 21.75,39.25,0 Ammon ...the image, a work of Calamis, was dedicated by Pindar, who also sent to the Ammon of Libya a hymn to Ammon. This hymn I found still carved on a triangular slab...

Ammon

78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Mantineia ...horse. Epaminondas, the Mantineans say, was killed by Machaerion, a man of Mantineia. The Lacedemonians on their part say that a Spartan killed Epaminondas, but...

Mantineia

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Thebes ...to Ammon by Ptolemy the son of Lagus. After the sanctuary of Ammon at Thebes comes what is called the bird-observatory of Teiresias, and near it is a...

Thebes

72 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonian ...to the chest. Here have been dedicated bronze shields, said to be those of Lacedemonian officers who fell at Leuctra. Near the Proetidian gate is built a theater, and...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Theban ...close to the theater is a temple of Dionysus surnamed Deliverer. For when some Theban prisoners in the hands of Thracians had reached Haliartia on their march, they...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Nicomedians ...he died on the third day. The place where lie died is called Libyssa by the Nicomedians. The Athenians received an oracle from Dodona ordering them to colonize...

Nicomedians

78 29.923486,40.76445,0 Phocis ...Zethus and Amphion is a small mound of earth. The inhabitants of Tithorea in Phocis like to steal earth from it when the sun is passing through the constellation...

Phocis

79 22.25,38.25,0 Eleusinian ...Myrto. The people of Pheneus have also a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Eleusinian, and they perform a ritual to the goddess, saying that the ceremonies at...

Eleusinian

75 23.538311,38.041096,0 Aegeira ...fifteen stades away from the city. As you go from Pheneus to Pellene and Aegeira, an Achaean city, after about fifteen stades you come to a temple of Pythian...

Aegeira

76 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pheneatians ...and towards Aegeira the "road to Artemis." 26 Within the territory of the Pheneatians themselves, shortly after passing the sanctuary of the Pythian Apollo you will...

Pheneatians

76 22.30692,37.91045,0 Ionia ...snakes I believe that they exist, as I believe that a Phrygian brought to Ionia a scorpion with wings exactly like those of locusts. Beside the sanctuary of...

Ionia

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Euboeans ...armed with a scraper like a youth, was chiefly responsible for the rout of the Euboeans. In the sanctuary of the Champion is kept all that is left of the wild...

Euboeans

81 Anthedon ...a son of Poseidon by Alcyone, the daughter of Atlas. Just about the center of Anthedon is a sanctuary of the Cabeiri, with a grove around it, near which is a temple...

Anthedon

80 23.448834,38.498583,0 Sardis ...Here there is also shown a hero-shrine of Iolaus. That Iolaus himself died at Sardis along with the Athenians and Thespians who made the crossing with him is...

Sardis

80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Styx ...the river Titaresius receive its water from the Styx. He also represents the Styx as a river in Hades, and Athena says that Zeus does not remember that because...

Styx

80 22.25,38.25,0 Athens ...to the Boeotians there were once other inhabited towns near the lake, Athens and Eleusis, but there occurred a flood one winter which destroyed them. The...

Athens

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartan ...in obedience to a response from Delphi, women are flogged, just as the Spartan lads are flogged at the image of the Orthian goddess. In my account of...

Spartan

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...who, because he was fond of her, told her the oracle delivered to Cadmus from Delphi. No one, they say, except the kings knew the oracle. Now Laius (the story goes...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thespia ...you come to Thespiae, built at the foot of Mount Helicon. They say that Thespia was a daughter of Asopus, who gave her name to the city, while others say that...

Thespia

74 23.154521,38.293384,0 Samian ...Lysis, a Tarentine by descent, learned in the philosophy of Pythagoras the Samian. When Lacedemon was at war with Mantineia, Epaminondas is said to have been...

Samian

77 26.84,37.73,0 Thebes ...to Macedonia; other visions induced him to send the bones of Linus back to Thebes. But all that was over the grave, and whatever marks were on it, vanished, they...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonian ...sent signs to the Lacedemonian people and to Cleombrotus personally. The Lacedemonian kings were accompanied on their expeditions by sheep, to serve as sacrifices to...

Lacedemonian

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cleitor ...a little farther what is called Seirae; this Seirae forms a boundary between Cleitor and Psophis. The founder of Psophis, according to some, was Psophis, the son...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Erymanthus ...says that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . . hunter . . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing through Arcadia, with Mount Pholoe on the right and the district...

Erymanthus

79 21.8489331,37.9816702,0 Pythian ...did not grow any better, so he had recourse to the oracle at Delphi. The Pythian priestess informed him that the only land into which the avenging spirit of...

Pythian

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thebans ...and of his own accord set free Pelopidas. In the absence of Epaminondas the Thebans removed the Orchomenians from their land. Epaminondas regarded their removal as...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...clever was the conception of Cephisodotus, who made the image of Peace for the Athenians with Wealth in her arms. At Thebes are three wooden images of Aphrodite, so...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thelpusa ...being destined by birth to both states alike. As you go from Psophis to Thelpusa you first reach on the left of the Ladon a place called Tropaea, adjoining...

Thelpusa

75 21.87884,37.710489,0 Nasi ...set forth. It flows first beside a place Leucasium and Mesoboa, through Nasi to Oryx, also called Halous, and from Halous it descends to Thaliades and a...

Nasi

74 22.25,37.75,0 Mysia ...their story by the fact that I have seen a similar wonder. It was this. In Mysia beyond the Caicus is a town called Pioniae, the founder of which according to...

Mysia

78 27.75,40.25,0 Megara ...Pegae I have already stated in an earlier part of my history that deals with Megara. On the straight road from Thebes to Glisas is a place surrounded by unhewn...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Rhipe ...called the Island of Crows. Those who have thought that Enispe, Stratia and Rhipe, mentioned by Homer, were once inhabited islands in the Ladon, cherish, I would...

Rhipe

78 22.01219,38.2198,0 Mycalessus ...part of my history that deals with the Athenians. On the way to the coast of Mycalessus is a sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter. They say that each night it is shut up...

Mycalessus

80 23.545847,38.415804,0 Heraea ...to the land of Elis from Heraea, at a distance of about fifteen stades from Heraea you will cross the Ladon, and from it to the Erymanthus is a journey of roughly...

Heraea

78 21.863791,37.613569,0 Arcadians ...stades. The boundary between Heraea and the land of Elis is according to the Arcadians the Erymanthus, but the people of Elis say that the grave of Coroebus bounds...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tanagra ...is called Delium on Sea. In it are images of Artemis and Leto. The people of Tanagra say that their founder was Poemander, the son of Chaeresilaus, the son of...

Tanagra

79 23.587064,38.309371,0 Tanagra ...The grander of the two versions of the Triton legend relates that the women of Tanagra before the orgies of Dionysus went down to the sea to be purified, were...

Tanagra

81 23.587064,38.309371,0 Melaeneae ...the flies trouble them no longer. On the road from Heraea to Megalopolis is Melaeneae. It was founded by Melaeneus, the son of Lycaon; in my time it was uninhabited...

Melaeneae

79 Locris ...the daughter of Cynus. Her earlier ancestors I shall give in my account of Locris. Of old Larymna belonged to Opus, but when Thebes rose to great power the...

Locris

77 22.75,38.75,0 Larymna ...of Cynus. Her earlier ancestors I shall give in my account of Locris. Of old Larymna belonged to Opus, but when Thebes rose to great power the citizens of their own...

Larymna

79 23.288,38.566,0 Boeotians ...of Demeter, one of Dionysus and a third of Serapis. According to the Boeotians there were once other inhabited towns near the lake, Athens and Eleusis, but...

Boeotians

72 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Trapezus ...promptly at Megalopolis. But the people of Lycaea, Tricoloni, Lycosura and Trapezus, but no other Arcadians, repented and, being no longer ready to abandon their...

Trapezus

77 22.060685,37.456281,0 Megalopolis ...some are altogether deserted in our time, some are held by the people of Megalopolis as villages, namely Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium...

Megalopolis

75 22.126238,37.414256,0 Pallantium ...near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson. Only one of them, Pallantium, was destined to meet with a kindlier fate even then. Aliphera has continued to...

Pallantium

77 22.336587,37.462155,0 Cyrtones ...and a small grove, in which all the trees alike are cultivated. Going out of Cyrtones, as you cross the mountain you come to Corseia, under which is a grove of trees...

Cyrtones

80 23.044957,38.585688,0 Megalopolis ...the Achaean League, and Lydiades became so famous among not only the people of Megalopolis but also all the Achaeans that he rivalled the fame of Aratus. The...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Gortys ...source of the river, you will reach first a place called Maratha, and after it Gortys, which today is a village, but of old was a city. Here there is a temple of...

Gortys

81 22.041,37.534,0 Dium ...Macedonians who dwell in the district below Mount Pieria and the city of Dium say that it was here that Orpheus met his end at the hands of the women. Going...

Dium

75 22.491299,40.177012,0 Nymphas ...Cromi have not entirely disappeared. From Cromi it is about twenty stades to Nymphas, which is well supplied with water and covered with trees. From Nymphas it is...

Nymphas

79 Bathos ...Trapezus to the Alpheius, there is, not far from the river, a place called Bathos (Depth), where they celebrate mysteries every other year to the Great...

Bathos

77 22.071247,37.454573,0 Messene ...Megalopolis. Here they have made a Hermes also on a slab. This road leads to Messene, and there is another leading from Megalopolis to Carnasium in Messenia. The...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Clarus ...large, and human in all parts of its body. This corpse the god in Clarus, when the Syrians came to his oracle there, declared to be Orontes, and that he...

Clarus

68 27.19292,38.00466,0 Theius ...tributary of the Alpheius, and some forty stades from the Alpheius leaving the Theius on the left you will come to Phalaesiae. This place is twenty stades away from...

Theius

81 22.25,37.25,0 Cnidus ...of the image still remaining. The river Helisson divides Megalopolis just as Cnidus and Mitylene are cut in two by their straits, and in the north section, on the...

Cnidus

80 27.37404,36.686188,0 Tricoloni ...nothing remains to be recorded except Methydrium itself, which is distant from Tricoloni one hundred and thirty-seven stades. It received the name Methydrium (Between...

Tricoloni

81 22.165174,37.480046,0 Mylaon ...is in Methydrium a temple of Horse Poseidon, standing by the Mylaon. But Mount Thaumasius (Wonderful) lies beyond the river Maloetas, and the...

Mylaon

63 22.25,37.75,0 Methydrians ...But Mount Thaumasius (Wonderful) lies beyond the river Maloetas, and the Methydrians hold that when Rhea was pregnant with Zeus, she came to this mountain and...

Methydrians

75 22.168912,37.627412,0 Methydrium ...save only the women who are sacred to the goddess. About thirty stades from Methydrium is a spring Nymphasia, and it is also thirty stades from Nymphasia to the...

Methydrium

79 22.168912,37.627412,0 Lycaean ...long time, and the seeds in the earth and the trees wither, then the priest of Lycaean Zeus, after praying towards the water and making the usual sacrifices, lowers...

Lycaean

81 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Acarnania ...Achelous, falling into the sea by the Echinadian islands, flows through Acarnania and Aetolia, and is said by Homer in the Iliad to be the prince of all rivers...

Acarnania

74 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Melpeia ...called Nomian, and on them is a sanctuary of Nomian Pan; the place they name Melpeia, saying that here Pan discovered the music of the pipes. It is a very obvious...

Melpeia

79 21.963136,37.43148,0 Athenian ...to over ten thousand, as likewise did those who were starved to death. Athenian scouts arrived at Delphi to gather information, after which they returned and...

Athenian

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the flight of the Phigalians from it took place when Miltiades was Archon at Athens, in the second year of the thirtieth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian was...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphi ...The chair is of iron, and on it they say Pindar sat whenever he came to Delphi, and there composed his songs to Apollo. Into the innermost part of the temple...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Troy ...the arm, as Lescheos of Pyrrha, son of Aeschylinus, describes in the Sack of Troy. For he says that he was wounded by Admetus, son of Augeias, in the battle that...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Trojan ...the altar he has painted Laodice standing, whom I do not find among the Trojan captive women enumerated by any poet, so I think that the only probable...

Trojan

74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Troy ...at the gate of his own palace. As to Hecuba, Stesichorus says in the Sack of Troy that she was brought by Apollo to Lycia. Lescheos says that Axion was a son of...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Olympia ...his father. These too are works of Onatas, and there are two inscriptions at Olympia. The one over the offering is this: "Having won victories in thy grand games...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Orchomenus ...during the lives of these women they remained friends. For Chloris came from Orchomenus in Boeotia, and the other was a daughter of Castalius from Parnassus. Other...

Orchomenus

79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Rome ...he founded a city on the banks of the river Tiber. That part of modern Rome, which once was the home of Evander and the Arcadians who accompanied him, got...

Rome

73 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Lycia ...unprovoked war on the province of Genunia, a Roman dependency. The cities of Lycia and of Caria, along with Cos and Rhodes, were overthrown by a violent...

Lycia

79 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Haemoniae ...founder was Haemon the son of Lycaon, and the name of the place has remained Haemoniae to this day. After Haemoniae on the right of the road are some noteworthy...

Haemoniae

79 22.165741,37.390614,0 Corycian ...exceeding height walk with their burdens down the narrowest of paths. But the Corycian cave exceeds in size those I have mentioned, and it is possible to make one's...

Corycian

81 22.52073,38.51526,0 Tegeans ...called Mount Cresius, on which stands the sanctuary of Aphneius. For Ares, the Tegeans say, mated with Aerope, daughter of Cepheus, the son of Aleus. She died in...

Tegeans

81 22.429,37.464,0 Parnassus ...and that the city's name was Neon, Tithorea being the name of the peak of Parnassus. It appears, then, that at first Tithorea was the name applied to the whole...

Parnassus

76 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Tegea ...the name given to the hill was, it is said, Aeropus. There is on the way to Tegea a fountain called Leuconian. They say that Apheidas was the father of Leucone...

Tegea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Thebes ...There is also the tomb of Antiope and Phocus. I have already in my account of Thebes mentioned how Antiope went mad because of the wrath of Dionysus, and the reason...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tegeans ...a Tegean, fought a duel with Hyllus, and overcame him in the fight. The Tegeans again were the first Arcadians to overcome Lacedemonians; when invaded they...

Tegeans

74 22.429,37.464,0 Tegeans ...sanctuary of Athena Alea was made for the Tegeans by Aleus. Later on the Tegeans set up for the goddess a large temple, worth seeing. The sanctuary was utterly...

Tegeans

75 22.429,37.464,0 Ionia ...Parian, who made images in many places of ancient Greece, and some besides in Ionia and Caria. On the front gable is the hunting of the Calydonian boar. The boar...

Ionia

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ledon ...represented at the general assembly of the Phocians. The ruins of the ancient Ledon are forty stades farther up from these dwellers on the Cephisus. They say that...

Ledon

80 22.680539,38.654801,0 Parnassus ...from Delphi; we estimated the length of the road, which goes across and down Parnassus, to be one hundred and eighty stades. Even after their city had been restored...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Proconnesus ...of Lycian Apollo. Again, the people of Cyzicus, compelling the people of Proconnesus by war to live at Cyzicus, took away from Proconnesus an image of Mother...

Proconnesus

76 27.55568,40.591686,0 Phocis ...when they published their decree for the destruction of the cities in Phocis, gave it the name of Amphicleia. The natives tell about it the following story...

Phocis

72 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...a feast in her honor, the Thesmophoria. Elateia is, with the exception of Delphi, the largest city in Phocis. It lies over against Amphicleia, and the road to...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonian ...along its banks is the bustard. The Elateans were successful in repelling the Macedonian army under Cassander, and they managed to escape from the war that Taxilus...

Macedonian

81 21.75,41.25,0 Nasi ...up about seven stades from Caphyae you will go down to what is called Nasi. Fifty stades farther on is the Ladon. You will then cross the river and reach...

Nasi

72 22.25,37.75,0 Elateia ...them against the barbarians under Taxilus. About twenty stades away from Elateia is a sanctuary of Athena surnamed Cranaea. The road to it slopes upwards, but...

Elateia

76 22.782061,38.645635,0 Psophis ...those of the Erymanthian boar, but the saying is altogether improbable. In Psophis there is a sanctuary of Aphrodite surnamed Erycine; I found only ruins of it...

Psophis

78 21.892903,37.871725,0 Psophis ...when they were kings in the city that was still called Phegia. The people of Psophis assert that the reason why they took no part in the expedition was because...

Psophis

79 21.892903,37.871725,0 Tiryns ...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...

Tiryns

77 22.80004,37.59918,0 Aeginetans ...and furthermore gave the name Aeginetes to his son out of friendship for the Aeginetans. After Aeginetes his son Polymestor became king of the Arcadians, and it was...

Aeginetans

79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Delos ...the custom is said to be that Theseus, on his return from Crete, held games in Delos in honor of Apollo, and crowned the victors with palm. Such, it is said, was...

Delos

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Phocians ...Gallic army against Delphi, no Greeks showed greater zeal for the war than the Phocians, and for this conduct of theirs recovered their membership of the League, as...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Doris ...then called Aeolians, the Phocians and the Delphians, each send two; ancient Doris sends one. The Ozolian Locrians, and the Locrians opposite Euboea, send one...

Doris

79 22.25,38.75,0 Lacedemonians ...Timolaus. He was again appointed general of the Achaeans. At this time the Lacedemonians were involved in civil war, and Philopoemen expelled from the Peloponnesus...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegeans ...and at Delphi with a tithe of their catch. Next to this are offerings of the Tegeans from spoils of the Lacedemonians: an Apollo, a Victory, the heroes of the...

Tegeans

80 22.429,37.464,0 Messene ...from the cities of the interior. By founding cities too, of no small fame, Messene and Arcadian Megalopolis, Epaminondas made Greece more famous. I reckon...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Cretan ...a temple of Apollo with a gilded image. The artist was Cheirisophus; he was a Cretan by race, but his date and teacher we do not know. The residence of Daedalus...

Cretan

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Sicyonians ...who has already been wounded in the body. These stand by the treasury of the Sicyonians. The Siphnians too made a treasury, the reason being as follows. Their island...

Sicyonians

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Garates ...within the gates. By the road flows also the river Garates. Crossing the Garates and advancing ten stades you come to a sanctuary of Pan, by which is an oak...

Garates

75 22.25,37.25,0 Boeotia Boeotia borders on Attica at several places, one of which is where Plataea touches...

Boeotia

0 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Attica Boeotia borders on Attica at several places, one of which is where Plataea touches Eleutherae. The...

Attica

19 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Thebans ...afield and cut off from their gates. With those caught within the city the Thebans came to terms, allowing them to depart before sundown, the men with one garment...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...occur again. A bronze head of the Paeonian bull called the bison was sent to Delphi by the Paeonian king Dropion, son of Leon. These bisons are the most difficult...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Chaeroneans ...are cast for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for at the time when Cassander, the son...

Chaeroneans

74 22.840365,38.493361,0 Delphi ...Crete there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies, Phylacides and Philander. The...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sardinia ...first offering to be set up. Of the non-Greeks in the west, the people of Sardinia have sent a bronze statue of him after whom they are called. In size and...

Sardinia

77 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Macedonians ...web over the door of the sanctuary, but on the approach of Alexander with his Macedonians the web was black. It is also said that there was a shower of ashes at Athens...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Trojans ...the non-Greek element were prevented from coming to blows with the Greeks and Trojans, for the two enemies were evenly matched in all warlike equipment, while the...

Trojans

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Potniae ...so they say, the god substituted a goat as a victim in place of their boy. In Potniae is also shown a well. The mares of the country are said on drinking this water...

Potniae

80 23.311229,38.30383,0 Thebans ...knowledge, many of them were killed by missiles hurled from the walls by the Thebans, who afterwards sallied forth and overcame the rest while they were in...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonians ...lie all those who met their death when fighting against Alexander and the Macedonians. Hard by they show a place where, it is said, Cadmus (he may believe the story...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Thebes ...of Eteocles. The following custom is, to my knowledge, still carried out in Thebes. A boy of noble family, who is himself both handsome and strong, is chosen...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Persians ...Lycomedes contrived his death. His close was built at Athens after the Persians landed at Marathon, when Cimon, son of Miltiades, ravaged Scyros, thus avenging...

Persians

73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...news of the battle at Chaeronea. There are also statues in Phrygian marble of Persians supporting a bronze tripod; both the figures and the tripod are worth seeing...

Persians

80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Celts, having discovered the path by which Ephialtes of Trachis once led the Persians, over whelmed the Phocians stationed there and crossed Oeta unperceived by the...

Persians

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...other gods. Here also is Pegasus of Eleutherae, who introduced the god to the Athenians. Herein he was helped by the oracle at Delphi, which called to mind that the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...of office as general expired, and others were chosen to be generals of the Achaeans, he again crossed to Crete and sided with the Gortynians, who were hard pressed...

Achaeans

77 Lacedemonians ...and his band, waiting for a moonless night, burnt down the camp of the Lacedemonians at Gythium. Thereupon Nabis caught Philopoemen himself and the Arcadians with...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...not himself, but those who could persuade the many in the meeting of the Achaeans -- a suggestion, it is said, directed against Timolaus. He was again appointed...

Achaeans

75 Hysiae ...cultivated area, and reach the boundary between Tegea and Argos; it is near Hysiae in Argolis. These are the divisions of the Peloponnesus, the cities in the...

Hysiae

78 22.585884,37.519836,0 Athens ...between the Persians and the Greeks, and the Plataeans returned from Athens. But a second disaster was destined to befall them. There was no open war...

Athens

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Leuctra ...walls. The second capture of Plataea occurred two years before the battle of Leuctra, when Asteius was Archon at Athens. The Thebans destroyed all the city except...

Leuctra

80 23.18095,38.25422,0 Pentelic ...they call Full-grown; it is an upright image of huge size. Both figures are of Pentelic marble, and the artist was Praxiteles. Here too is another image of Hera; it is...

Pentelic

81 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Priapus ...as a baby being suckled by a deer. By his side is an ox, and an image of Priapus worth seeing. This god is worshipped where goats and sheep pasture or there are...

Priapus

75 27.324347,40.412181,0 Athens ...was given to wooden images before Daedalus, the son of Palamaon, was born at Athens, and that he did not receive this name at birth, but that it was a surname...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Donacon ...river called the Lamus. In the territory of the Thespians is a place called Donacon (Reed-bed). Here is the spring of Narcissus. They say that Narcissus looked...

Donacon

78 23.101469,38.272393,0 Tipha ...from whom the city has received its name. Sailing from here you come to Tipha, a small town by the sea. The townsfolk have a sanctuary of Heracles and hold...

Tipha

75 23.052885,38.189977,0 Haliartus ...the army of Xerxes overran and burnt both their territory and their city. In Haliartus is the tomb of Lysander the Lacedemonian. For having attacked the walls of...

Haliartus

79 23.088416,38.379818,0 Thebes ...story, how Nycteus died, and how the care of the boy with the sovereignty of Thebes devolved on Lycus, the brother of Nycteus, I have already set forth in my...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Coroneia ...a woman's breasts, and from them rises water like milk. The distance from Coroneia to Mount Laphystius and the precinct of Laphystian Zeus is about twenty stades...

Coroneia

77 22.956902,38.392613,0 Haliartus ...round Mount Laphystius with what are now the territories of Coroneia and Haliartus. Athamas, thinking that none of his male children were left, adopted Haliartus...

Haliartus

75 23.088416,38.379818,0 Haliartus ...Haliartus. Athamas, thinking that none of his male children were left, adopted Haliartus and Coronus, the sons of Thersander, the son of Sisyphus, his brother. For he...

Haliartus

81 23.088416,38.379818,0 Thebes ...with grief because of the fight between her children. Polyneices retired from Thebes while Oedipus was still alive and reigning, in fear lest the curses of the...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Hyettus ...Orchomenus assigned to him such of the land as is now around the village Hyettus, and the land adjacent to this. Hyettus is also mentioned by the poet who...

Hyettus

75 23.103304,38.55756,0 Naupactus ...priestess made answer that to bring the bones of Hesiod from the land of Naupactus to the land of Orchomenus was their one and only remedy. Whereupon the envoys...

Naupactus

75 22.315807,38.41224,0 Ascra ...they found in a cleft of the rock. Elegiac verses are inscribed on the tomb: "Ascra rich in corn was his native land, but when Hesiod died, The land of the...

Ascra

80 23.074249,38.327032,0 Aspledon ...by Chersias, a man of Orchomenus: "To Poseidon and glorious Mideia was born Aspledon in the spacious city. The poem of Chersias was no longer extant in my day, but...

Aspledon

78 22.957728,38.534199,0 Boeotia ...kept at the oracle. Of the works of Daedalus there are these two in Boeotia, a Heracles in Thebes and the Trophonius at Lebadeia. There are also two wooden...

Boeotia

71 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thessaly ...A portion of them shrank from the journey to Illyria, and turning aside to Thessaly they seized Homole, the most fertile and best-watered of the Thessalian...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Amathus ...from Troy, but they do not actually exhibit it to view. In Cyprus is a city Amathus, in which is an old sanctuary of Adonis and Aphrodite. Here they say is...

Amathus

78 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Thebans ...Anchasian Trophonius and Agamedes made it." Such was the inscription that the Thebans say was written here. They show also the tomb of the children of Heracles by...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Opus ...bounded in this direction, by Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned exploits of...

Opus

79 22.999964,38.653678,0 Hyampolis ...noteworthy deeds. Expecting that the Thessalians would invade their land at Hyampolis, they buried there earthen water-pots, covered these with earth, and so waited...

Hyampolis

78 22.905228,38.596346,0 Naupactus ...death. All agree that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled from Naupactus to Molycria because of the murder of Hesiod, that here they sinned against...

Naupactus

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Thisbe ...divert the water to the farther side of the dyke, and farm the other side. Thisbe, they say, was a nymph of the country, from whom the city has received its...

Thisbe

77 22.96835,38.259722,0 Phocians ...of the story, whether the fine was inflicted because of the misdeeds of the Phocians, or whether the Thessalians exacted the fine from the Phocians because of their...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Sparta ...far from the city of Colophon. And when for the second time he arrived from Sparta to take charge of the triremes, he so tamed Cyrus that, whenever he asked for...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocian ...at the greatness of the fine, Philomelus, son of Theotimus, than whom no Phocian stood higher in rank, his country being Ledon, a city of Phocis, took charge...

Phocian

75 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...was deposed, and crossing with a fleet to Crete, accompanied by such Phocians as sided with him and by a part of his mercenaries, he sat down to besiege...

Phocians

71 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...land was originally arid and without water, so that one of the rulers came to Delphi and asked in what way they would find water in the land. The Pythian priestess...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Hyampolis ...of Phocis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in...

Hyampolis

80 22.905228,38.596346,0 Alalcomenae ...was formerly accounted his good fortune came to such an end. The sanctuary at Alalcomenae, deprived of the goddess, was hereafter neglected. In my time yet another...

Alalcomenae

80 23.00169,38.385259,0 Athens ...the image of Apollo for the Delians, set three Graces in his hand. Again, at Athens, before the entrance to the Acropolis, the Graces are three in number; by their...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocians ...were keener defenders against the Gauls and the Celtic invaders than were the Phocians, who considered that they were helping the god of Delphi, and at the same time...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Acropolis ...made images of Graces for the Athenians, which are before the entrance to the Acropolis. All these are alike draped; but later artists, I do not know the reason, have...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Cnemis ...Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis. But when the Phocians seized the sanctuary, and the war came to an end nine...

Cnemis

73 22.54475,38.73735,0 Lacedemonians ...to enter it, while the Phocian nation and a section of the Dorians, namely the Lacedemonians, lost their membership, the Phocians because of their rash crime, the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocians ...rash crime, the Lacedemonians as a penalty for allying themselves with the Phocians. When Brennus led the Gallic army against Delphi, no Greeks showed greater...

Phocians

77 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotians ...number thirty. Nicopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly each send six deputies; the Boeotians, who in more ancient days inhabited Thessaly and were then called Aeolians, the...

Boeotians

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Carthaginians ...Phocaea when attacked by Harpagus the Persian. They proved superior to the Carthaginians in a sea war, acquired the territory they now hold, and reached great...

Carthaginians

77 10.327986,36.857569,0 Castalia ...Panyassis, son of Polyarchus, who composed an epic poem on Heracles, says that Castalia was a daughter of Achelous. For about Heracles he says: "Crossing with swift...

Castalia

81 22.505528,38.483082,0 Arcadia ...the heroes of the country, Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, Arcas, who gave Arcadia its name, Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan, the sons of Arcas, and also Triphylus...

Arcadia

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadian ...the likeness of Arcas by Daedalus of Sicyon; Triphylus and Azan by Samolas the Arcadian; Elatus, Apheidas and Erasus by Antiphanes of Argos. These offerings were sent...

Arcadian

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Epidaurus ...of Eretria, Aristophantus of Corinth, Apollodorus of Troezen, and Dion from Epidaurus in Argolis. Next to these come the Achaean Axionicus from Pellene, Theares of...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Lacedemonians ...Leucadian, Pythodotus of Corinth and Euantidas the Ambraciot; last come the Lacedemonians Epicydidas and Eteonicus. These, they say, are works of Patrocles and...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...are works of Hypatodorus and Aristogeiton, who made them, as the Argives themselves say, from the spoils of the victory which they and their Athenian...

Argives

67 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thessalians ...despair." On this occasion the Phocians forthwith proceeded to attack the Thessalians. The commander of their cavalry was Daiphantes of Hyampolis, of their infantry...

Thessalians

76 21.75,39.25,0 Athens ...occurred when Heracleides was president at Delphi and Agathocles archon at Athens, in the fourth year of the hundred and fifth Olympiad, when Prorus of Cyrene...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...the best mercenaries in Greece at once mustered to join them, while the Thebans, at variance before, declared open war against them. The war lasted ten...

Thebans

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemon ...enumerates the cities from which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It...

Lacedemon

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaia ...Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that from the spoils taken...

Achaia

79 Ambracia ...sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that from the spoils taken in these...

Ambracia

77 20.95316,39.04107,0 Chaeroneia ...of Chaeroneia befell the Greeks. The Phocians took part in the battle of Chaeroneia, and afterwards fought at Lamia and Crannon against the Macedonians under...

Chaeroneia

76 22.840365,38.493361,0 Troad ...Marpessus is two hundred and forty stades distant from Alexandria in the Troad. The inhabitants of this Alexandria say that Herophile became the attendant of...

Troad

75 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Troad ...stand on this rock and sing her chants. However, death came upon her in the Troad, and her tomb is in the grove of the Sminthian with these elegiac verses...

Troad

79 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Dium ...horseback, with Patroclus running beside his horse: the Macedonians living in Dium, a city at the foot of Mount Pieria, the Apollo who has taken hold of the deer...

Dium

80 22.491299,40.177012,0 Delphi ...ascent through Daulis to the summit of Parnassus, a longer one than that from Delphi, though not so difficult. Turning back from Daulis to the straight road to...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Corinthians ...other images are works shared by Diyllus and Amyclaeus. They are said to be Corinthians. The Delphians say that when Heracles the son of Amphitryon came to the...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delphi ...who found the bodies lying and buried them. From here the high road to Delphi becomes both steeper and more difficult for the walker. Many and different are...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian ...spoils. He asked whether he should dedicate them within the temple, but the Pythian priestess bade him carry them from the sanctuary altogether. The part of the...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Corycian ...and that after Lycorus was named the city Lycoreia, and after the nymph the Corycian cave. It is also said that Celaeno was daughter to Hyamus, son of Lycorus, and...

Corycian

78 22.52073,38.51526,0 Pytho ...Melaena, daughter of Cephisus. Afterwards the dwellers around called the city Pytho, as well as Delphi, just as Homer so calls it in the list of the Phocians...

Pytho

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonians ...the latter Ptolemy the Macedonian. For the kings of Egypt liked to be called Macedonians, as in fact they were. The reason why a crown of laurel is the prize for a...

Macedonians

79 21.75,41.25,0 Liparaeans ...enemies, refusing to admit that their seamanship was unequal to that of the Liparaeans, went out to meet them with an equal number of ships. These the Liparaeans...

Liparaeans

78 14.95373,38.46708,0 Sardinia ...sent a bronze statue of him after whom they are called. In size and prosperity Sardinia is the equal of the most celebrated islands. What the ancient name was that the...

Sardinia

81 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Ionians ...summoned to the common assembly the following tribes of the Greek people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Cretans ...too ran away from Camicus on this occasion, because of the invasion of the Cretans, and took a part in the colony that Aristaeus led to Sardinia. But it is...

Cretans

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Sardinia ...invasion of the Cretans, and took a part in the colony that Aristaeus led to Sardinia. But it is nonsense to think that Daedalus, a contemporary of Oedipus, king of...

Sardinia

79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Phocians ...Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis. But when...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Megalopolis ...with pillars round it. Zeus is seated on a throne, and by his side stand Megalopolis on the right and an image of Artemis Saviour on the left. These are of Pentelic...

Megalopolis

75 22.126238,37.414256,0 Sardinia ...the Carthaginians were at the height of their sea power, they overcame all in Sardinia except the Ilians and Corsicans, who were kept from slavery by the strength of...

Sardinia

80 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Trojan ...necessity according to her whim. For Mycenae, the leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war, and Nineveh, where was the royal palace of the Assyrians, are utterly...

Trojan

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thebes ...and its few inhabitants. Of the opulent places in the ancient world, Egyptian Thebes and Minyan Orchomenus are now less prosperous than a private individual of...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Callians ...by the Aetolians when they had punished the Gauls for their cruelty to the Callians. A gilt statue, offered by Gorgias of Leontini, is a portrait of Gorgias...

Callians

77 22.171569,38.553535,0 Megalopolis ...by Daedalus, stood here on the borders of Messenia and Arcadia. The road from Megalopolis to Lacedemon is thirty stades long at the Alpheius. After this you will travel...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Marathon ...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...

Marathon

73 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Cnemis ...Greek total. Herodotus does not give the number of the Locrians under Mount Cnemis, but he does say that each of their cities sent a contingent. It is possible...

Cnemis

79 22.54475,38.73735,0 Tricoloni ...road to Methydrium, the only city left to be described on the road from Tricoloni, a place called Anemosa, and also Mount Phalanthus, on which are the ruins of a...

Tricoloni

74 22.165174,37.480046,0 Lycaeus ...few giants: They allow that she gave birth to her son on some part of Mount Lycaeus, but they claim that here Cronus was deceived, and here took place the...

Lycaeus

79 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Aegium ...they call the cape Drepanum. Beyond the high road are the ruins of Rhypes. Aegium is about thirty stades distant from Rhypes. The territory of Aegium is crossed...

Aegium

77 22.081952,38.252707,0 Macareae ...After crossing the river it is two stades from the Alpheius to the ruins of Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and seven again from Daseae to...

Macareae

78 22.076211,37.405021,0 Aegium ...Such were the customs. Even in my time the Achaean assembly still meets at Aegium, just as the Amphictyons do at Thermopylae and at Delphi. Going on further you...

Aegium

77 22.081952,38.252707,0 Dodona ...suppliants. For about the time of Apheidas the Athenians received from Zeus of Dodona the following verses: "Consider the Areopagus, and the smoking altars Of the...

Dodona

81 20.78784,39.54648,0 Achelous ...of the same name as the Achelous in Arcadia, and more famous than it. One Achelous, falling into the sea by the Echinadian islands, flows through Acarnania and...

Achelous

77 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Phigalia ...or perhaps the Lacedemonians let them come out under a truce. The taking of Phigalia and the flight of the Phigalians from it took place when Miltiades was Archon...

Phigalia

78 21.8391,37.3963,0 Helice ...was the daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and of Helice. When the god wiped off Helice from the face of the earth, Bura too suffered a severe earthquake, so that not...

Helice

80 22.14015,38.22257,0 Lacedemonian ...and take part in the expedition to Phigalia. They advanced against the Lacedemonian garrison and fulfilled the oracle in all respects. For they fought and met...

Lacedemonian

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phigalia ...sacrifice to them as to heroes. A river called the Lymax flowing just beside Phigalia falls into the Neda, and the river, they say, got its name from the cleansing...

Phigalia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Aegeira ...some who called Oreus in Euboea by its ancient name of Hestiaea. The sights of Aegeira worth recording include a sanctuary of Zeus with a sitting image of Pentelic...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Neda ...pestilence was stayed, and threw the lymata into the sea. The source of the Neda is on Mount Cerausius, which is a part of Mount Lycaeus. At the place where the...

Neda

79 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Phigalia ...same meaning, and also the fact that Ictinus, the architect of the temple at Phigalia, was a contemporary of Pericles, and built for the Athenians what is called the...

Phigalia

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Olympia ...killed a vast number of the enemy. It is said that he also overcame at Olympia Polydamas of Scotussa, this being the occasion when, after his safe return home...

Olympia

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...the other end of the Peloponnesus, opposite the Echinadian islands, dwell the Eleans. The land of Elis, on the side of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...the Echinadian islands, dwell the Eleans. The land of Elis, on the side of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on the side of Achaia it...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Acacesium ...Macareus, Helisson, Acacus and Thocnus. The last founded Thocnia, and Acacus Acacesium. It was after this Acacus, according to the Arcadian account, that Homer made a...

Acacesium

79 Tegea ...of the so-called Dyke lies the Manthuric plain. The plain is on the borders of Tegea, stretching just about fifty stades to that city. On the right of the road is a...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Dipaea ...Arcadians, which include the Trojan war, the Persian wars and the battle at Dipaea with the Lacedemonians, the Tegeans have, besides the deeds already mentioned...

Dipaea

78 22.254905,37.541156,0 Arcadians ...is merely named in honor of Callisto, since her grave is pointed out by the Arcadians. After the death of Nyctimus, Arcas the son of Callisto came to the throne. He...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cyllene ...for this reason poets too call Tegea "the lot of Apheidas." Elatus got Mount Cyllene, which down to that time had received no name. Afterwards Elatus migrated to...

Cyllene

80 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Calydonian ...of the Caicus. 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...

Calydonian

81 21.533106,38.372423,0 Elatus ...It is said that Azan had a son Cleitor, Apheidas a son Aleus, and that Elatus had five sons, Aepytus, Pereus, Cyllen, Ischys, and Stymphalus. On the death...

Elatus

73 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Gela ...of Gela, after the sack of Omphace, a town of the Sicanians, removed to Gela an image made by Daedalus. Xerxes, too, the son of Dareius, the king of...

Gela

74 14.258433,37.062775,0 Athens ...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...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...under the leadership of Hyllus, the son of Heracles, were defeated by the Achaeans at the Isthmus of Corinth, and Echemus killed Hyllus, who had challenged him to...

Achaeans

76 Olympia ...such a pitch of prosperity that he dedicated not only these offerings at Olympia, but also others dedicated to Apollo at Delphi. The offerings at Olympia are...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lydia ...from the bronze horse. There is another marvel I know of, having seen it in Lydia; it is different from the horse of Phormis, but like it not innocent of the...

Lydia

79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Aenus ...and they live inland at some distance from the sea that is by the city of Aenus.

Aenus

76 26.0806,40.7241,0 Olympic ...was Cleon of Sicyon. As for Cynisca, daughter of Archidamus, her ancestry and Olympic victories, I have given an account thereof in my history of the Lacedemonian...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonian ...and Olympic victories, I have given an account thereof in my history of the Lacedemonian kings. By the side of the statue of Troilus at Olympia has been made a basement...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...For beside those I have already mentioned, the following horse-breeders from Sparta have their statues set up after that of the Acarnanian athlete Xenarces...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cyprians ...has, we all know, been established among men from ancient times, and the Cyprians have even discovered how to practise the art by means of pigs; but no peoples...

Cyprians

75 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Spartans ...made for the Eleans the trophy in the Altis commemorating the victory over the Spartans. The inscription on the Samian boxer says that his trainer Mycon dedicated the...

Spartans

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Nemea ...of Elis, son of Lysianax, of the clan of the Iamidae, won five victories at Nemea for boxing, two at Pytho, and two at Olympia. The artist who made the statue...

Nemea

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Cretan ...from Himera; but it is said that this is incorrect, and that be was a Cretan from Cnossus. Expelled from Cnossus by a political party he came to Himera, was...

Cretan

72 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Olympia ...to those coming after an object of ambition, by writing up in the gymnasium at Olympia the names of those who won Olympic victories. So much for these. But it would...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thurii ...of Thurii, for they had been pursued by their political enemies from Rhodes to Thurii in Italy. Dorieus subsequently returned to Rhodes. Of all men he most obviously...

Thurii

81 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Sparta ...returned to Rhodes. Of all men he most obviously showed his friendship with Sparta, for he actually fought against the Athenians with his own ships, until he was...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Epeans ...their name, when he fled to this part of the mainland. But the kingdom of the Epeans fell to Eleius, the son of Eurycyda, daughter of Endymion and, believe the tale...

Epeans

80 21.784671,37.56585,0 Aetolia ...were ties of kindred between the Heracleidae and the kings of Aetolia; in particular the mothers of Thoas, the son of Andraemon, and of Hyllus, the...

Aetolia

64 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Helice ...of Damasius, son of Penthilus, son of Orestes. He brought Agorius himself from Helice in Achaia, and with him a small body of Achaeans. The wife of Oxylus they say...

Helice

81 22.14015,38.22257,0 Lacedemonians ...of Oxylus and contemporary with Lycurgus, who drew up the code of laws for the Lacedemonians, arranged the games at Olympia and reestablished afresh the Olympic festival...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...who drew up the code of laws for the Lacedemonians, arranged the games at Olympia and reestablished afresh the Olympic festival and truce, after an interruption...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...the ancient records of Elis traced him to a father of the same name. The Eleans played their part in the Trojan war, and also in the battles of the Persian...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...sought sanctuary at the altar of Zeus the Saviour. Such were the wars of the Eleans, of which my present enumeration must serve as a summary. The land of Elis...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Ionia ...to the earth through which the water springs up, just as those rivers beyond Ionia, the exhalation from which is deadly to man, owe their peculiarity to the same...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Scillus ...the cities of Triphylia but in the war between Pisa and Elis the citizens of Scillus openly helped Pisa against her enemy, and for this reason the Eleans utterly...

Scillus

79 21.602752,37.609552,0 Scillus ...the Lacedemonians, and, obtaining pardon from the Eleans, dwelt securely in Scillus. Moreover, at a little distance from the sanctuary was shown a tomb, and upon...

Scillus

78 21.602752,37.609552,0 Alpheius ...of broad Arethusa." For this reason, therefore, because the water of the Alpheius mingles with the Arethusa, I am convinced that the legend arose of the river's...

Alpheius

75 21.451667,37.6125,0 Olen ...the land of the Hyperboreans, men living beyond the home of the North Wind. Olen the Lycian, in his hymn to Achaeia, was the first to say that from these...

Olen

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Olympic ...to have held, on the occasion I mentioned, the games, and to have called them Olympic. So he established the custom of holding them every fifth year, because he and...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ida ...upon the Greeks in the time of Deucalion. He was descended from Heracles of Ida; he held the games at Olympia and set up an altar in honor of Heracles, his...

Ida

78 26.85852,39.69936,0 Syracusans ...Lygdamis has his tomb near the quarries at Syracuse, and according to the Syracusans he was as big as Heracles of Thebes, though I cannot vouch for the...

Syracusans

76 15.29382,37.05963,0 Pisa ...Olympic victor. The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleans, and with Pisa such of the subject peoples as...

Pisa

81 21.653041,37.639535,0 Ionians ...and their allies dedicated it, a gift taken from the Argives, Athenians and Ionians, The tithe offered for victory in war." This battle I also mentioned in my...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Nemean ...ornament made for the top of a ship's bows; then Heracles' exploit against the Nemean lion, the outrage committed by Ajax on Cassandra, Hippodameia the daughter of...

Nemean

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Aegospotami ...larger than the others, and were dedicated from the spoils of the victory at Aegospotami. Bathycles of Magnesia, who made the throne of the Amyclaean, dedicated, on...

Aegospotami

79 26.61011,40.35074,0 Amyclaean ...with what is supposed to be the tomb of Agamemnon. The natives worship the Amyclaean god and Dionysus, surnaming the latter, quite correctly I think, Psilax. For...

Amyclaean

77 24.76084,35.0133,0 Opuntians ...Locri in Italy, the Locri, in virtue of the relationship between them and the Opuntians, called upon Ajax son of Oileus to help them in battle. So Leonymus the general...

Opuntians

80 22.75,38.75,0 Lacedemonian .... . . is a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Eleusinian. Here according to the Lacedemonian story Heracles was hidden by Asclepius while he was being healed of a wound. In...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaia ...in the Elean records of Olympic victors to have been a native of Aegium in Achaia. Farther on in the direction of Pellana is what is called Characoma (Trench)...

Achaia

77 Laconia ...is the place called Belemina. It is naturally The best watered region of Laconia, seeing that The river Eurotas passes through it, while it has abundant springs...

Laconia

75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Teuthrone ...the first as you go down from Aegiae to the sea is Gythium; after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and...

Teuthrone

76 22.489063,36.621145,0 Acriae ...are inland from Acriae. By the sea is a city Asopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors, and about twelve stades inland from...

Acriae

81 22.785366,36.794176,0 Scandeia ...Scandeia on the coast, but the town Cythera is about ten stades inland from Scandeia. The sanctuary of Aphrodite Urania (the Heavenly) is most holy, and it is the...

Scandeia

78 23.073782,36.229899,0 Epidelium ...land here in the country of the Boeatae. For this reason they call the place Epidelium. But neither Menophanes nor Mithridates himself escaped the wrath of the god...

Epidelium

79 23.029361,36.630631,0 Lacedemonians ...for the management of the Olympian games. Against their will they joined the Lacedemonians in their invasion of Athenian territory, and shortly afterwards they rose up...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...it either by a native potentate or by the river Cerynites, which, flowing from Arcadia and Mount Ceryneia, passes through this part of Achaia. To this part came as...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaia ...which, flowing from Arcadia and Mount Ceryneia, passes through this part of Achaia. To this part came as settlers Mycenaeans from Argolis because of a...

Achaia

78 Crathis ...from a mountain in Arcadia and never dries up. The river itself is called the Crathis, which is also the name of the mountain where the river has its source. From...

Crathis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Helice ...Aegae is mentioned by Homer in Hera's speech: "They bring thee gifts up to Helice and to Aegae." Hence it is plain that Poseidon was equally honored at Helice...

Helice

77 22.14015,38.22257,0 Aegae ...by Homer in Hera's speech: "They bring thee gifts up to Helice and to Aegae." Hence it is plain that Poseidon was equally honored at Helice and at...

Aegae

72 22.3484,38.1478,0 Aegae ...Aegae." Hence it is plain that Poseidon was equally honored at Helice and at Aegae. At no great distance from the Crathis you will find a tomb on the right of...

Aegae

79 22.3484,38.1478,0 Crathis ...was equally honored at Helice and at Aegae. At no great distance from the Crathis you will find a tomb on the right of the road, and on the tombstone a man...

Crathis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Oreus ...Hyperesia at once, just as even in my time there were still some who called Oreus in Euboea by its ancient name of Hestiaea. The sights of Aegeira worth...

Oreus

78 23.06593,38.93759,0 Eleans ...but it is plain that from the beginning they have been subject to the Eleans. Such of them as have won Olympic victories have been announced by the herald...

Eleans

72 21.25,37.75,0 Acidas ...are caught in the Acidas, they are eatable. I heard from an Ephesian that the Acidas was called Iardanus in ancient times. I repeat his statement, though I have...

Acidas

81 Anigrus ...found evidence in support of it. I am convinced that the peculiar odor of the Anigrus is due to the earth through which the water springs up, just as those rivers...

Anigrus

80 Elis ...Scillus. It was one of the cities of Triphylia but in the war between Pisa and Elis the citizens of Scillus openly helped Pisa against her enemy, and for this...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...for her father, her brothers and her son, all of whom had been victorious at Olympia. But a law was passed that for the future trainers should strip before entering...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...called Panormos. These things then are as I have described them. As for the Olympic games, the most learned antiquaries of Elis say that Cronus was the first king...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ida ...them from the Issedones, to whom he says in his poem that he came. Heracles of Ida, therefore, has the reputation of being the first to have held, on the occasion...

Ida

81 26.85852,39.69936,0 Cnidus ...you see the ruins of the walls which Conon restored after the naval battle off Cnidus. For those built by Themistocles after the retreat of the Persians were...

Cnidus

81 27.37404,36.686188,0 Elis ...held them, and likewise Heracles, the son of Amphitryon, after the conquest of Elis. The victors crowned by Heracles include Iolaus, who won with the mares of...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...foot-race, and Coroebus an Elean was victor. There is no statue of Coroebus at Olympia, but his grave is on the borders of Elis. Afterwards, at the fourteenth...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 those built by Themistocles ...ruins of the walls which Conon restored after the naval battle off Cnidus. For those built by Themistocles after the retreat of the Persians were destroyed during the rule of those named...

those built by Themistocles

81 Olympic ...by lot from all the Eleans, were entrusted with the management of the Olympic games, and for a long time after this the number of the presidents continued to...

Olympic

72 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...on nothing does Heaven bestow more care than on the Eleusinian rites and the Olympic games. The sacred grove of Zeus has been called from of old Altis, a corruption...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Syracuse ...Polycrates, despot of Samos, and Aeschylus and Simonides journeyed to Hiero at Syracuse. Dionysius, afterwards despot in Sicily had Philoxenus at his court, and...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Attica ...offered for victory in war." This battle I also mentioned in my history of Attica, Then I described the tombs that are at Athens. On the outside of the frieze...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Corinth ...the Roman general Mummius when he had conquered the Achaeans in war, captured Corinth, and driven out its Dorian inhabitants. To come to the pediments: in the front...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Troezenians ...The name of the charioteer of Pelops is, according to the account of the Troezenians, Sphaerus, but the guide at Olympia called him Cillas. The sculptures in the...

Troezenians

75 Magnesia ...Themistocles, and that his relations took up his bones and brought them from Magnesia. And the children of Themistocles certainly returned and set up in the...

Magnesia

79 27.52785,37.8507,0 Argives ...ate up at public feasts, so that they were not put to any expense. At last the Argives asked for the images to be returned, whereupon the people of Aegium asked for...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Syracuse ...goddess and throw them into the sea, saying that they send them to Arethusa at Syracuse. There are at Aegium other images made of bronze, Zeus as a boy and Heracles...

Syracuse

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 it ...with neither doors nor roof. Men say that Mardonius, son of Gobryas, burnt it. But the image there today is, as report goes, the work of Alcamenes. So that...

it

77 Cerynites ...and its name was given to it either by a native potentate or by the river Cerynites, which, flowing from Arcadia and Mount Ceryneia, passes through this part of...

Cerynites

76 33.321417,35.337334,0 Ceryneia ...the message to be given to the Athenians. The rest of the population came to Ceryneia, and the addition of the Mycenaeans made Ceryneia more powerful, through the...

Ceryneia

79 22.143425,38.158659,0 Ceryneia ...through the increase of the population, and more renowned for the future. In Ceryneia is a sanctuary of the Eumenides, which they say was established by Orestes...

Ceryneia

80 22.143425,38.158659,0 Bura ...and of Helice. When the god wiped off Helice from the face of the earth, Bura too suffered a severe earthquake, so that not even the ancient images were left...

Bura

75 22.231166,38.142006,0 Athens ...by the oracle at Delphi, which called to mind that the god once dwelt in Athens in the days of Icarius. Amphictyon won the kingdom thus. It is said that...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pellene ...it was one of the habors into which the Argonauts entered. The city of Pellene is on a hill which rises to a sharp peak at its summit. This part then is...

Pellene

74 22.5384,38.0446,0 Lacedemon ...the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to Argolis come the vassals of Lacedemon, and these border on Messenia, which comes down to the sea at Mothone, Pylus...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Theseus ...with pictures of the gods called the Twelve. On the wall opposite are painted Theseus, Democracy and Demos. The picture represents Theseus as the one who gave the...

Theseus

80 Cadmea ...among others has written a history of the whole war – the taking of the Cadmea, the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, how the Boeotians invaded the...

Cadmea

74 Haemoniae ...sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and Hypsus, and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that both the Thyrea in Argolis and also the...

Haemoniae

81 22.165741,37.390614,0 Tricoloni ...Cromi was named after Cromus, Charisia after Charisius, its founder, Tricoloni after Tricolonus, Peraethenses after Peraethus, Asea after Aseatas, Lycoa after...

Tricoloni

71 22.165174,37.480046,0 Arcadian ...storm that overtook the Greeks on their return home carried Agapenor and the Arcadian fleet to Cyprus, and so Agapenor became the founder of Paphos, and built the...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phigalia ...acceptance. In the reign of Simus, the son of Phialus, the people of Phigalia lost by fire the ancient wooden image of Black Demeter. This loss proved to be...

Phigalia

72 21.8391,37.3963,0 Tegea ...Charillus and his army I shall mention at greater length in my account of Tegea. Polymestor had no children, and Aechmis succeeded to the throne, who was the...

Tegea

76 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...near the territory of Mantineia. Artemis Hymnia has been worshipped by all the Arcadians from the most remote period. At that time the office of priestess to the...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cydonia ...they say, by Clymenus, a descendant of Idaean Heracles, and he came from Cydonia in Crete and from the river Jardanus. The Eleans say that Pelops too sacrificed...

Cydonia

75 24.019611,35.517333,0 Letrini ...one hundred and twenty stades to Letrini, and one hundred and eighty from Letrini to Elis. Originally Letrini was a town, and Letreus the son of Pelops was its...

Letrini

76 21.431292,37.672865,0 Aegialus ...of Selinus he became king of the Aegialians. He called the city he founded in Aegialus Helice after his wife, and called the inhabitants Ionians after himself. This...

Aegialus

80 22.3484,38.1478,0 Dorians ...at that time had themselves been expelled from Lacedemon and Argos by the Dorians. The history of the Ionians in relation to the Achaeans I will give as soon as...

Dorians

76 22.25,38.75,0 Achaeans ...power in Argos and Lacedemon, the inhabitants of these towns came to be called Achaeans. The name Achaeans was common to them; the Argives had the special name of...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...Lacedemon, the inhabitants of these towns came to be called Achaeans. The name Achaeans was common to them; the Argives had the special name of Danai. On the occasion...

Achaeans

81 Thebans ...in the expedition of the Ionians were the following among the Greeks: some Thebans under Philotas, a descendant of Peneleus; Minyans of Orchomenus, because they...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...Ships for the voyage were given to the Phocians by Philogenes and Damon, Athenians and sons of Euctemon, who themselves led the colony. When they landed in Asia...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Carians ...its name. The inhabitants of the land were partly Leleges, a branch of the Carians, but the greater number were Lydians. In addition there were others who dwelt...

Carians

78 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Priene ...Carians. The founder of Myus was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene, half Theban and half Ionian, had as their founders Philotas, the descendant of...

Priene

81 27.298333,37.66,0 Pergamus ...A similar fate to that of Myus happened to the people of Atarneus, under Mount Pergamus. The people of Colophon suppose that the sanctuary at Clarus, and the oracle...

Pergamus

81 27.184167,39.1325,0 Colophon ...of Lysimachus. Of those who were transported to Ephesus only the people of Colophon fought against Lysimachus and the Macedonians. The grave of those Colophonians...

Colophon

77 27.142222,38.115556,0 Ephesus ...is not drawn upwards to the roof as is that in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, but it is let down to the ground by cords. The offerings inside, or in the...

Ephesus

74 27.339722,37.941944,0 Alpheius ...the ash from the town-hall, and making it into a paste with the water of the Alpheius they daub the altar therewith. But never may the ash be made into paste with...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...Averter of Flies, and thus the flies were diverted to the other side of the Alpheius. It is said that in the same way the Eleans too sacrifice to Zeus Averter of...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Eleans ...of the choral dance, named after her and managed by the Sixteen Women. The Eleans still adhere to the other ancient customs, even though some of the cities have...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...his descendants, Cypselids as they are called, dedicated the chest at Olympia. The Corinthians of that age called chests kypselai, and from this word, they...

Olympia

72 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...competitors in the pentathlum. The fourth purports to say that the contest at Olympia is one of merit and not of wealth; the inscription on the fifth declares the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aegeae ...Prymnessus in Phrygia by robbers, being a child of a noble family. Conveyed to Aegeae he was bought by somebody or other, who some time afterwards dreamed a dream...

Aegeae

81 22.324777,40.479304,0 Altis ...images were made. One is set up in the Elean gymnasium; the other is in the Altis in front of what is called the Painted Portico, because anciently there were...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Mycenae ...Euripus. Of these cities the following are at the present day uninhabited: Mycenae and Tiryns were destroyed by the Argives after the Persian wars. The Ambraciots...

Mycenae

78 22.756111,37.730833,0 Ambraciots ...Mycenae and Tiryns were destroyed by the Argives after the Persian wars. The Ambraciots and Anactorians, colonists of Corinth, were taken away by the Roman emperor to...

Ambraciots

79 20.95316,39.04107,0 Nicopolis ...colonists of Corinth, were taken away by the Roman emperor to help to found Nicopolis near Actium. The Potidaeans twice suffered removal from their city, once at the...

Nicopolis

78 20.735953,39.023389,0 Megarians ...This chariot I will describe later; the image of Zeus was dedicated by the Megarians, and made by the brothers Psylacus and Onaethus with the help of their sons...

Megarians

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Aegina ...wrestling-match, and how a wraith like Taurosthenes appeared on that day in Aegina and announced the victory. The statue of Philles of Elis, who won the boys'...

Aegina

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Troy ...who was king after Echemus, led the Arcadians to Troy. After the capture of Troy the storm that overtook the Greeks on their return home carried Agapenor and...

Troy

78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Paphos ...and the Arcadian fleet to Cyprus, and so Agapenor became the founder of Paphos, and built the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos (Old Paphos). Up to that...

Paphos

74 32.573711,34.707147,0 Isthmus ...to the Peloponnesus, not, as three generations before, across the Corinthian Isthmus, but by sea to the place called Rhium. Cypselus, learning about the expedition...

Isthmus

79 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Pytho ...brought him the victory. He is said to have won other crowns besides, two at Pytho, eight at the Nemean and eight at the Isthmian games. The statue of Glaucus was...

Pytho

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Boeotia ...to Asia with Agesilaus; they also followed the Lacedemonians to Leuctra in Boeotia. Their distrust of the Lacedemonians was shown on many occasions; in...

Boeotia

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Mantineans ...water is not "untilled,"13 but serves for hot baths. In the territory of the Mantineans on the left of the plain called Untilled is a mountain, on which are the ruins...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...call a snake. So it is likely that Antinoe's guide also was a dragon. The Mantineans did not fight on the side of the other Arcadians against the Lacedemonians at...

Mantineans

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Arcadian ...Arcadians, but I found this statement to be untrue. For the founders of the Arcadian cities that attained to fame have well-known histories; while those that had...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sparta ...them to the Achaean League. They defeated Agis, the son of Eudamidas, king of Sparta, in defence of their own country, with the help of an Achaean army under the...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Crotona ...a Syracusan, in order to please Hiero the son of Deinomenes, the people of Crotona for this condemned his house to be a prison, and pulled down his statue set up...

Crotona

77 17.205128,39.028864,0 Mantineia ...beyond the river Sangarius, and the Bithynians are by descent Arcadians of Mantineia. For this reason the Emperor established his worship in Mantineia also; mystic...

Mantineia

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Athenians ...a wave of sea-water rises up in the sanctuary. A like story is told by the Athenians about the wave on the Acropolis, and by the Carians living in Mylasa about the...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...consider a great marvel. This Polites was from Ceramus in Caria, and showed at Olympia every excellence in running. For from the longest race, demanding the greatest...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Mylasa ...sea at Phalerum is about twenty stades distant from Athens, and the port of Mylasa is eighty stades from the city. But at Mantineia the sea rises after a very...

Mylasa

78 27.789697,37.316871,0 Lacedemonians ...Aratus and his host. But the Arcadians got in their rear unperceived, and the Lacedemonians were surrounded, losing the greater part of their army, while King Agis himself...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...the mainland of Asia . . . the inscription on it shows that he was born at Argos. Naxos was founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of the city...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicily .... the inscription on it shows that he was born at Argos. Naxos was founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of the city not even the ruins are now to be...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Aetolia ...falling into the sea by the Echinadian islands, flows through Acarnania and Aetolia, and is said by Homer in the Iliad to be the prince of all rivers. Another...

Aetolia

78 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Nemean ...For the Argives too gave to Creugas after his death the crown in the Nemean games, because his opponent Damoxenus of Syracuse broke their mutual agreement...

Nemean

71 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Isthmus ...victor. He was afterwards proclaimed victor at Nemea also and at the Isthmus. But when he was twenty years old he met his death before he returned home to...

Isthmus

71 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Ionians ...extreme youth. When, however, the time arrived for the contest held by the Ionians of Smyrna, his strength had so increased that he beat in the pancratium on the...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Olympia ...he beat in the pancratium on the same day those who had competed with him at Olympia, after the boys the beardless youths as they are called, and thirdly the pick...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elaius ...Roaming from mountain to mountain as he hunted, he came at last to Mount Elaius and spied Demeter, the state she was in and the clothes she wore. So Zeus...

Elaius

75 26.220385,40.051661,0 Phigalians ...and laid aside her wrath, moderating her grief as well. For these reasons, the Phigalians say, they concluded that this cavern was sacred to Demeter and set up in it a...

Phigalians

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Syracusan ...on thee these gifts: his son dedicated them, Deinomenes, as a memorial to his Syracusan father." The other inscription is: "Onatas, son of Micon, fashioned me, Who...

Syracusan

80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Tegea ...of Arcadia I have only to describe the road from Megalopolis to Pallantium and Tegea, which also takes us as far as what is called the Dyke. On this road is a...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Pytho ...all competitors in the boxing-match and in the pancratium. His victories at Pytho were all in the pancratium, three in number. At Olympia this Cleitomachus was...

Pytho

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tegea ...is called the Dyke is the boundary between Megalopolis on the one hand and Tegea and Pallantium on the other. The plain of Pallantium you reach by turning aside...

Tegea

77 22.429,37.464,0 Parian ...pillars of the Ionic order. I discovered that its architect was Scopas the Parian, who made images in many places of ancient Greece, and some besides in Ionia...

Parian

77 25.150728,37.08579,0 Olympian ...a horse-race at Olympia, at the time when Heracles the Theban celebrated the Olympian festival. The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive...

Olympian

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Mantineia ...and Cleander of Mantineia became his guardian. This man was an exile from Mantineia, resident in Megalopolis because of his misfortunes at home, and his house and...

Mantineia

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Arcadian ...temper of Epaminondas was calm and, in particular, free from anger, but the Arcadian was somewhat passionate. When Megalopolis was captured by Cleomenes...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megarians ...and Philip incurred the hatred of all Greece. The Thebans had defeated the Megarians in battle, and were already climbing the wall of Megara, when the Megarians...

Megarians

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thebans ...deceived them into thinking that Philopoemen had come to Megara. This made the Thebans so cautious that they went away home, and abandoned their military...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lethaeus ...of Miletus, son of Polyneices; a statue too of Callicrates of Magnesia on the Lethaeus, who received two crowns for victories in the race in armour. The statue of...

Lethaeus

80 24.75,35.25,0 Messenians ...alive by the enemy. Now at this time the Achaeans had a grievance against the Messenians, and Philopoemen, despatching Lycortas with the army to lay waste the land of...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lampsacus ...subsequent deeds of Alexander. His honor at Olympia was due to the people of Lampsacus. Anaximenes bequeathed to posterity the following anecdotes about himself...

Lampsacus

79 26.68998,40.34869,0 Tegea ...in my history of Sicyon. The inscription on the statue of Philopoemen at Tegea runs thus: "The valor and glory of this man are famed throughout Greece, who...

Tegea

76 22.429,37.464,0 Myanians ...as first-fruits to Zeus. Various conjectures have been made as to who these Myanians were. I happened to remember that Thucydides in his history mentions various...

Myanians

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Tegea ...against the Lacedemonians, and had the better of the engagement. I also saw in Tegea:– the house of Aleus, the tomb of Echemus, and the fight between Echemus and...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Artemis Cnaceatis ...Greeks call Aeginetan. Some ten stades farther on are the ruins of a temple of Artemis Cnaceatis. The boundary between the territories of Lacedemon and Tegea is the river...

Artemis Cnaceatis

81 Epidamnians ...the Eleans) were even in my time in the Heraeum; the treasury was made for the Epidamnians by Pyrrhus and his sons Lacrates and Hermon. The Sybarites too built a...

Epidamnians

81 19.44594,41.31497,0 Achelous ...The figures include Zeus, Deianeira, Achelous, Heracles, and Ares helping Achelous. There once stood here an image of Athena, as being an ally of Heracles, but it...

Achelous

76 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Boeotians ...a foreign country. Racial confederacies, whether of Achaeans, or Phocians, or Boeotians, or of any other Greek people, were one and all put down. A few years later...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Argos ...it from the beginning had suffered ruin and devastation at the hand of heaven. Argos, a city that reached the zenith of its power in the days of the heroes, as they...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Actium ...in order that the Aetolian people might be incorporated into Nicopolis above Actium, the people of Patrae thus secured the image of Laphria. Most of the images...

Actium

79 Phocis ...of Patrae. It is said that the goddess was surnamed Laphria after a man of Phocis, because the ancient image of Artemis was set up at Calydon by Laphrius, the...

Phocis

77 22.25,38.25,0 Argos ...Lady of the Lake. When the Dorians were now in possession of Lacedemon and Argos, it is said that Preugenes, in obedience to a dream, stole from Sparta the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lycia ...or dead. This water partakes to this extent of truth, but close to Cyaneae by Lycia, where there is an oracle of Apollo Thyrxeus, the water shows to him who looks...

Lycia

81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Pharae ...uncarved stones instead of images of the gods. About fifteen stades from Pharae is a grove of the Dioscuri. The trees in it are chiefly laurels; I saw in it...

Pharae

76 21.717095,38.093144,0 Elis ...give it to him. He accordingly led the Dorians through Arcadia and not through Elis. Oxylus was anxious to get the kingdom of Elis without a battle, but Dius would...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Titane ...his statements, but that the argument was as much Greek as Phoenician for at Titane in Sicyonia the same image is called both Health and . . .43 thus clearly...

Titane

79 22.62501,37.92049,0 Aegium ...showing that it is the course of the sun that brings health to mankind. At Aegium you find a temple of Athena and a grove of Hera. Of Athena there are two images...

Aegium

78 22.081952,38.252707,0 Epeans ...Pyraechmes won and Oxylus got the kingdom. He allowed the old inhabitants, the Epeans, to keep their possessions, except that he introduced among them Aetolian...

Epeans

81 21.784671,37.56585,0 Aegium ...sacrifices. As the Argives had not the means to pay, they left the images at Aegium. By the market-place at Aegium is a temple shared by Apollo and Artemis in...

Aegium

79 22.081952,38.252707,0 Olympic ...Pythian priestess ordained that Iphitus himself and the Eleans must renew the Olympic games. Iphitus also induced the Eleans to sacrifice to Heracles as to a god...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Helice ...and the invasion of the sea that accompanied it, the tidal wave swallowed up Helice and every man in it. A similar fate, though different in type, came upon a...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Gauls ...to Thermopylae to stop the incursion of the Gauls into Greece. These Gauls inhabit the most remote portion of Europe, near a great sea that is not...

Gauls

72 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Greece ...pass where it was narrowest, they tried to keep the foreigners from entering Greece; but the Celts, having discovered the path by which Ephialtes of Trachis once...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...threw themselves down the steepest part of the Acropolis. Here it was that the Persians climbed and killed the Athenians who thought that they understood the oracle...

Persians

81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...highway, you are shown a rock with arrows stuck all over it, into which the Persians once shot in the night. In Pagae a noteworthy relic is a bronze image of...

Persians

78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 cities ...born at this time who are worshipped among the Greeks as gods; some even have cities dedicated to them, such as Eleus in Chersonesus dedicated to Protesilaus, and...

cities

80 sea ...Thermopylae – the reason being, I think, the hot water that here runs into the sea. These then were more distressed; for taking the Greeks on board they were...

sea

81 statues of Cecrops and Pandion ...and Acamas, one of the children of Theseus. I saw also among the eponymoi statues of Cecrops and Pandion, but I do not know who of those names are thus honored. For there was an...

statues of Cecrops and Pandion

77 statues of heroes ...sacrifice, and there are a few small statues made of silver. Farther up stand statues of heroes, from whom afterwards the Athenian tribes received their names. Who the man was...

statues of heroes

80 Egypt ...for the division of the various nations into the kingdoms. He crossed over to Egypt in person, and killed Cleomenes, whom Alexander had appointed satrap of that...

Egypt

81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Then on the arrival of Antigonus Ptolemy did not wait for him but returned to Egypt. When the winter was over, Demetrius sailed to Cyprus and overcame in a naval...

Egypt

80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 tomb ...the grave of Crocon, but Eleusinians and Athenians agreed in identifying the tomb of Eumolpus. This Eumolpus they say came from Thrace, being the son of Poseidon...

tomb

79 Olynthus ...war, having captured most of the cities in Chalcidice, and hoping to capture Olynthus itself, he was suddenly attacked by a disease which ended in his death. VI.As...

Olynthus

79 23.354208,40.296525,0 Sparta ...leadership of the armies, so as to prevent his becoming one day an enemy of Sparta. But at last he committed many hostile acts against his fatherland, and induced...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...was Leonidas the son of Cleonymus, by this time a very old man, the Lacedemonians gave him the throne. Leonidas, it so happened, had a bitter opponent in...

Lacedemonians

70 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...impulse and retired, like Demaratus the son of Ariston, either to the king of Macedonia or to the Egyptian king, he would have profited nothing even by the Spartans...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedemonians ...son of Eurypon was Prytanis, in whose reign began the enmity of the Lacedemonians against the Argives, although even before this quarrel they made war against...

Lacedemonians

70 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...in Sparta there also took place the struggle of the Lacedemonians with the Argives for what is called the Thyreatid district. Theopompus personally took no part...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pisa ...of Pelops. So it is said that they sent for Philoctetes to the camp, and from Pisa was brought to them a bone of Pelops – a shoulder-blade. As they were returning...

Pisa

80 21.653041,37.639535,0 Delphi ...to do with it. It happened that by the providence of Heaven there was then at Delphi an Elean embassy praying for deliverance from a pestilence. So the Pythian...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Hermus ...of Pelops beyond the sanctuary of Plastene the Mother. If you cross the river Hermus you see an image of Aphrodite in Temnus made of a living myrtle-tree. It is a...

Hermus

80 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Alpheius ...never may the ash be made into paste with other water, and for this reason the Alpheius is thought to be of all rivers the dearest to Olympic Zeus. There is also an...

Alpheius

81 21.451667,37.6125,0 Boeotian ...trees. Tamarisks grow best and in the greatest numbers by the Maeander; the Boeotian Asopus can produce the tallest reeds; the persea tree flourishes only in the...

Boeotian

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Chaeroneia ...is surrounded by columns. It was built by Philip after the fall of Greece at Chaeroneia. Here are set statues of Philip and Alexander, and with them is Amyntas...

Chaeroneia

79 22.840365,38.493361,0 Altis ...Athenian Acropolis statues are votive offerings like everything else, in the Altis some things only are dedicated in honor of the gods, and statues are merely...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...at tie hundred and twelfth Festival. When the fine had been imposed by the Eleans on Callippus and his antagonists, the Athenians commissioned Hypereides to...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Corcyra ...Apollonia, their neighbors. Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of Corinth, and the Corinthians had their share of the spoils. A little...

Corcyra

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Gereatis ...of the Hyblaeans. There were two cities in Sicily called Hybla, one surnamed Gereatis and the other Greater, it being in fact the greater of the two. They still...

Gereatis

79 14.90091,37.567342,0 Europe ...Harpalus, who ran away from Alexander and crossed with a fleet from Asia to Europe. On his arrival at Athens he was arrested by the citizens, but ran away after...

Europe

78 27.5,42.5,0 coast ...session until Philip gave it to them after taking Thebes. The city is on the coast and affords nothing remarkable to record. About twelve stades from the city is...

coast

79 Arene ...Aetolian used as a fortified post against the Arcadians. As to the ruins of Arene, no Messenian and no Elean could point them out to me with certainty. Those who...

Arene

79 21.59852,37.53384,0 Athenian ...that he had taken part in an expedition which Cyrus, the greatest enemy of the Athenian people, had organized against their friend, the Persian king. Cyrus, in fact...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Melaeneae ...past Gortyna, where is a sanctuary of Asclepius, flows the Gortynius; from Melaeneae, between the territories of Megalopolis and Heraea, comes the Buphagus; from...

Melaeneae

77 Olympic ...the pancratium. After the reign of Oxylus, who also celebrated the games, the Olympic festival was discontinued until the reign of Iphitus. When Iphitus, as I have...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...but after Eutelidas of Lace-daemon had received the wild olive for it, the Eleans disapproved of boys entering for this competition. The races for mule-carts...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Eleusinian ...wonders to be heard; but on nothing does Heaven bestow more care than on the Eleusinian rites and the Olympic games. The sacred grove of Zeus has been called from of...

Eleusinian

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Argive ...of the bull at Cnossus, of the Stymphalian birds, of the hydra, and of the Argive lion. As you enter the bronze doors you see on the right, before the pillar...

Argive

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Olympic ...king of Etruria, who was the first foreigner to present an offering to the Olympic Zeus, and bronze horses of Cynisca, tokens of an Olympic victory. These are not...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...an offering to the Olympic Zeus, and bronze horses of Cynisca, tokens of an Olympic victory. These are not as large as real horses, and stand in the fore-temple on...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...the goddess and asking for Hippodameia to be his bride. The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but...

Olympic

72 21.630126,37.637849,0 Milesians ...an altar at Didyma of the Milesians, which Heracles the Theban is said by the Milesians to have made from the blood of the victims. But in later times the blood of the...

Milesians

80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Olympia ...from Thesprotia. And it is my opinion that when Heracles sacrificed to Zeus at Olympia he himself burned the thigh bones of the victims upon wood of the white poplar...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...Olympia. My narrative will follow in dealing with them the order in which the Eleans are wont to sacrifice on the altars. They sacrifice to Hestia first, secondly...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...they stand, but the order followed by my narrative is that followed by the Eleans in their sacrifices. By the sacred enclosure of Pelops is an altar of Dionysus...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Arcadia ...the Market, and one has also been built for Mistresses, and in my account of Arcadia I will tell you about the goddess they call Mistress. After this is an altar of...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Asopus ...in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These...

Asopus

79 22.8426,36.6845,0 Dorian ...down upon it his madness left him. For this reason the stone was named in the Dorian tongue Zeus Cappotas. Before Gythium lies the island Cranae, and Homer says...

Dorian

80 22.25,38.75,0 Laconians ...by fire along with the former temple. Marius is another town of the Free Laconians, distant from Geronthrae one hundred stades. Here is an ancient sanctuary...

Laconians

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Geronthrae ...the former temple. Marius is another town of the Free Laconians, distant from Geronthrae one hundred stades. Here is an ancient sanctuary common to all the gods, and...

Geronthrae

81 Boeae ...goddess herself is represented by an armed image of wood. On the voyage from Boeae towards the point of Malea is a harbor called Nymphaeum, with a statue of...

Boeae

80 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Epidaurus ...was the reward of their impiety. The country of the Boeatae is adjoined by Epidaurus Limera, distant some two hundred stades from Epidelium. The people say that...

Epidaurus

78 23.02637,36.731301,0 Lacedemonians ...As to the Colchians honoring Athena Asia, I give what I heard from the Lacedemonians. Near the present town is a spring called Galaco (Milky) from the color of the...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Taygetus ...promontory; its water is extremely sweet to drink; its sources are in Mount Taygetus, and it passes within five stades of the town. At a spot called Arainus is the...

Taygetus

78 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Las ...the hand of Helen of Tyndareus. In point of fact it was Patroclus who killed Las, for it was he who was Helen's suitor. We need not regard it as a proof that...

Las

79 22.5047,36.7279,0 Thyrides ...on the shore, with a standing statue of stone. Thirty stades distant is Thyrides, a headland of Taenarum, with the ruins of a city Hippola; among them is a...

Thyrides

74 22.39224,36.46799,0 Laconians ...Enope, with Messenian inhabitants but belonging to the league of the Free Laconians, is called in our time Gerenia. One account states that Nestor was brought up...

Laconians

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 temple of Asclepius ...son of Telephus. I myself know that to be the reason of the practice at the temple of Asclepius at Pergamum, where they begin their hymns with Telephus but make no reference...

temple of Asclepius

79 27.165609,39.118873,0 Messene ...and from Lacedemon and came to this country, the whole land receiving the name Messene from the wife of Polycaon. Together with other cities, they founded Andania...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Andania ...And I wondered that Lycus, son of Pandion, brought all the Attic rite to wise Andania. This inscription shows that Caucon who came to Messene was a descendant of...

Andania

80 21.938099,37.26217,0 Tricca ...not the son of Coronis, and they call a desolate spot in Messenia by the name Tricca and quote the lines of Homer, in which Nestor tends Machaon kindly, when he has...

Tricca

80 21.762589,39.558752,0 Pharae ...the son of Glaucus built a shrine also to Gorgasus and Nicomachus which is in Pharae. Isthmius had a son Dotadas, who constructed the harbor at Mothone, though...

Pharae

80 21.717095,38.093144,0 Pheia ...in battle, and that they are Pylians and Arcadians about to fight by the city Pheia and the river Iardanus. But it cannot for a moment be admitted that the...

Pheia

80 21.30067,37.66,0 Delos ...of Corinth. My main reason for this view is the processional hymn he wrote for Delos. There are here other offerings also: a couch of no great size and for the...

Delos

81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Olympic ...the images are a warning to all the Greeks not to give bribes to obtain an Olympic victory. Next after Eupolus they say that Callippus of Athens, who had entered...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...and his antagonists, the Athenians commissioned Hypereides to persuade the Eleans to remit them the fine. The Eleans refused this favour, and the Athenians were...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Chrysaoris ...compatriot, Aristeas of Stratoniceia (anciently both land and city were called Chrysaoris), and the seventh was Nicostratus, from Gilicia on the coast, though he was in...

Chrysaoris

81 28.25,37.75,0 Corinthians ...Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of Corinth, and the Corinthians had their share of the spoils. A little farther on is a Zeus turned towards...

Corinthians

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Eleans ...Aegina; by Aegina stands Harpina, who, according to the tradition of the Eleans and Phliasians, mated with Ares and was the mother of Oenomaus, king around...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Leontini ...who in my opinion was some other Aenesidemus and not the tyrant of Leontini. As you pass by the entrance to the Council Chamber you see an image of Zeus...

Leontini

69 15.002988,37.279759,0 Athenians ...hands of Philip, the son of Amyntas, and once before this at the hands of the Athenians. Afterwards, however, Cassander restored the Potidaeans to their homes, but the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Potidaea ...the Potidaeans to their homes, but the name of the city was changed from Potidaea to Cassandreia after the name of its founder. The image at Olympia dedicated by...

Potidaea

75 23.3278,40.1937,0 Plataea ...Anaxagoras of Aegina. The name of this artist is omitted by the historians of Plataea. In front of this Zeus there is a bronze slab, on which are the terms of the...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Athenians ...although Argos has no part in the treaty between Athens and Sparta, yet the Athenians and the Argives may privately, if they wish, be at peace with each other. Such...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympian ...second revolt. On it is an elegiac couplet: "Accept, king, son of Cronus, Olympian Zeus, a lovely image, And have a heart propitious to the Lacedemonians. We...

Olympian

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonians ...of Cronus, Olympian Zeus, a lovely image, And have a heart propitious to the Lacedemonians. We know of no Roman, either commoner or senator, who gave a votive offering...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...the son of Philip. It was set up by a Corinthian, not one of the old Corinthians, but one of those settlers whom the Emperor planted in the city. I shall also...

Corinthians

71 22.878721,37.906045,0 Phoenicia ...Thasians, who are Phoenicians by descent, and sailed from Tyre, and from Phoenicia generally, together with Thasus, the son of Agenor, in search of Europa...

Phoenicia

75 35.25,33.25,0 Altis ...It is much inferior in size and beauty to all the horses standing within the Altis. Moreover, its tail has been cut off which makes the figure uglier still. But...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...at Delphi will be explained in my account of Phocis. bout the offering at Olympia I heard the following story. Sitting under this ox a little boy was playing...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Mendeans ...Sipte by might of hand." Sipte seems to be a Thracian fortress and city. The Mendeans themselves are of Greek descent, coming from Ionia, and they live inland at...

Mendeans

79 23.419,39.964,0 Scotitas ...Hermae the whole of the region is full of oak-trees. The name of the district, Scotitas (Dark), is not due to the unbroken woods but to Zeus surnamed Scotitas, and...

Scotitas

81 22.75,37.25,0 Lacedemon ...which was originally named Sparta, but in course of time came to be called Lacedemon as well, a name which till then belonged to the land. To prevent misconception...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...and left the Isthmus for Ithome. Not all the Helots revolted, only the Messenian element, which separated itself off from the old Helots. These events I shall...

Messenian

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...of Hera. There is also dedicated a colossal statue of the Spartan People. The Lacedemonians have also a sanctuary of the Fates, by which is the grave of Orestes, son of...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...war the Amyclaeans, as well as the other Achaeans, who at that time occupied Laconia. The sanctuary of the Great Mother has paid to it the most extraordinary...

Laconia

79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cyrene ...also took part in the expedition of Battus of Thera, helped him to found Cyrene and to reduce the neighboring Libyans. The sanctuary of Thetis was set up...

Cyrene

75 21.856169,32.818736,0 Calliste ...the island now called Thera after him, the name of which in ancient times was Calliste (Fairest). Near is a temple of Hipposthenes, who won so many victories in...

Calliste

80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Amyclae ...says Leda brought forth. Each year the women weave a tunic for the Apollo at Amyclae, and they call Tunic the chamber in which they do their weaving. Near it is...

Amyclae

80 24.76084,35.0133,0 Lacedemonian ...of Theopompus son of Nicander, and also that of Eurybiades, who commanded the Lacedemonian warships that fought the Persians at Artemisium and Salamis. Near is what is...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Calydonian ...the throne, the inner part away from the Tritons contains the hunting of the Calydonian boar and Heracles killing the children of Actor. Calais and Zetes are driving...

Calydonian

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Therapne ...as Homer says of Achilles: And he is fierce as a lion." 24.41 The name of Therapne is derived from the daughter of Lelex, and in it is a temple of Menelaus; they...

Therapne

77 22.454127,37.066091,0 Lacedemonians ...By the sea was a city Helos, which Homer too has mentioned in his list of the Lacedemonians: "These had their home in Amyclae, and in Helos the town by the seaside." It...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lapithaeum ...of the Maid, daughter of Demeter. Fifteen stades distant from the sanctuary is Lapithaeum, named after Lapithus, a native of the district. So this Lapithaeum is on...

Lapithaeum

81 22.43012,36.989577,0 his bones ...repented of their treatment of Themistocles, and that his relations took up his bones and brought them from Magnesia. And the children of Themistocles certainly...

his bones

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 portrait ...forced them into Lamia over against Oeta, and shut them up there. The portrait is in the long portico, where stands a market-place for those living near the...

portrait

72 Aphrodite called Cnidian ...next in age as Acraea (Of the Height/Promontory), while the newest is to the Aphrodite called Cnidian by men generally, but Euploia (Fair Voyage) by the Cnidians themselves. The...

Aphrodite called Cnidian

79 Peloponnesus ...more than any other god. They say that this bull crossed from Crete to the Peloponnesus, and came to be one of what are called the Twelve Labours of Heracles. When he...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Gauls ...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...

Gauls

81 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Europe ...to Persia, but Leosthenes was too quick for him, and brought them by sea to Europe. On this occasion too his brilliant actions surpassed expectation, and his...

Europe

78 27.5,42.5,0 Greeks ...country. But the Athenians, although they were more exhausted than any of the Greeks by the long Macedonian war, and had been generally unsuccessful in their...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...half-sister of his children, and restored him by an Egyptian force. The first Greeks that Pyrrhus attacked on becoming king were the Corcyraeans. He saw that the...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 city ...Hieronymus had grievances against Lysimachus, especially his destroying the city of the Cardians and founding Lysimachia in its stead on the isthmus of the...

city

78 city ...embellished as you see it by Peisistratus. There are cisterns all over the city, but this is the only fountain. Above the spring are two temples, one to...

city

77 city ...but subsequently overcame them and brought a garrison even into the upper city, fortifying the place called the Museum. This is a hill right opposite the...

city

76 coast ...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...

coast

77 coast ...empire of Antigonus. He founded also the modern city of Ephesus as far as the coast, bringing to it as settlers people of Lebedos and Colophon, after destroying...

coast

80 coast ...the Boeotians had an inland town Mycalessus, marched up to this town from the coast and took it. Of the inhabitants the Thracians put to the sword not only the...

coast

80 coast ...a sanctuary of Demeter Lawgiver and of the Maid, and at Zoster (Girdle) on the coast is an altar to Athena, as well as to Apollo, to Artemis and to Leto. The story...

coast

81 Egypt ...them with all the forces he could muster. Antigonus thus failed to reduce Egypt or, later, Rhodes, and shortly afterwards he offered battle to Lysimachus, and...

Egypt

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the people of Cyrene to revolt from Ptolemy and marched against Egypt. Ptolemy fortified the entrance into Egypt and awaited the attack of the...

Egypt

66 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...of the citizens, Ptolemy returned and for the second time assumed control of Egypt. He made war against the Thebans, who had revolted, reduced them two years...

Egypt

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 tomb ...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...

tomb

77 tomb ...coming down from the citadel, where the ground turns northwards, is the tomb of Alcmena, near the Olympieum. They say that as she was walking from Argos to...

tomb

74 Libya ...they say arrived from Egypt and became king, being the son of Poseidon and of Libya, daughter of Epphus. Parallel to Nisaea lies the small island of Minoa, where...

Libya

80 26.5,31.5,0 bronze figure of Lycurgus ...Amphiaraus, and Eirene (Peace) carrying the boy Plutus (Wealth). Here stands a bronze figure of Lycurgus, son of Lycophron, and of Callias, who, as most of the Athenians say, brought...

bronze figure of Lycurgus

81 Samians ...of Lysander, son of Aristocritus, a Spartan, was dedicated in Olympia by the Samians, and the first of their inscriptions runs: "In the much-seen precinct of Zeus...

Samians

79 26.84,37.73,0 Spartans ...a statue of Lysander himself but also statues of Eteonicus, Pharax and other Spartans quite unknown to the Greek world generally. But when fortune changed again...

Spartans

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pisans ...victory, is not reckoned by the Eleans, because the games were held by the Pisans and Arcadians and not by themselves. Beside Sostratus is a statue of...

Pisans

77 21.653041,37.639535,0 Lacedemonians ...this Archidamus no king, so far as I could learn, had his statue set up by the Lacedemonians, at least outside the boundaries of the country. They sent the statue of...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Nemea ...labours of Heracles, because Heracles also, legend says, overthrew the lion at Nemea. In addition to this, Polydamas is remembered for another wonderful...

Nemea

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Rhegium ...of this man, but of the river Caecinus, which divides Locris from the land of Rhegium and produces the marvel of the grasshoppers. For the grasshoppers within Locris...

Rhegium

80 15.649244,38.111146,0 Temesa ...and suffered no more terrors from the ghost. But Euthymus happened to come to Temesa just at the time when the ghost was being propitiated in the usual way...

Temesa

80 16.1315,39.03644,0 Athenians ...men-of-war and brought alive to Athens. Before he was brought to them the Athenians were wroth with Dorieus and used threats against him; but when they met in the...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Caunus ...in his Attic history. He says that the great King's fleet was then at Caunus, with Conon in command, who persuaded the Rhodian people to leave the...

Caunus

72 28.621536,36.825909,0 Lacedemonians ...from home in the interior of the Peloponnesus, and having been caught by some Lacedemonians he was brought to Sparta, convicted of treachery by the Lacedemonians and...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympic ...ends. Eubotas of Cyrene, when the Libyan oracle foretold to him his coming Olympic victory for running, had his portrait statue made beforehand, and so was...

Olympic

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadian ...as acts of madness rather than of courage. After Baucis are statues of Arcadian athletes: Euthymenes from Maenalus itself, who won the men's and previously the...

Arcadian

74 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cleitor ...of Alcinous, victor in the boys' boxing-match, who also was an Arcadian from Cleitor. Cleon made the statue of Alcetus; that of Xenocles is by...

Cleitor

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Epidamnus ...boys at wrestling. Next to Pantarces is the chariot of Cleosthenes, a man of Epidamnus. This is the work of Ageladas, and it stands behind the Zeus dedicated by the...

Epidamnus

79 19.44594,41.31497,0 Olympic ...Hermogenes of Xanthus, a Lydian, who won the wild olive eight times at three Olympic festivals, and was surnamed Horse by the Greeks. Polites also you will consider...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Messenian ...in the pentathlum, was made by the Boeotian Theron; that of Damaretus, another Messenian, who won the boys' boxing-match, was made by the Athenian Silanion. Anauchidas...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Isthmian ...Timon won victories for the pentathlum at all the Greek games except the Isthmian, at which he, like other Eleans, abstained from competing. The inscription on...

Isthmian

75 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Eleans ...a crown for the foot-race and the race in armour; all were, I may tell you, Eleans. About Pyttalus it is further related that, when a dispute about boundaries...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Peloponnesus ...who persuaded Pyrrhus to abandon his Macedonian adventure and to go to the Peloponnesus, was a Lacedemonian who led an hostile army into the Lacedemonian territory for...

Peloponnesus

77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Lacedemonians ...Theopompus the son of Damasistratus, he wrote a treatise abusing Athenians, Lacedemonians and Thebans alike. He imitated the style of Theopompus with perfect accuracy...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonians ...was Patrocles of Crotona, the son of Catillus. Next to the treasury of the Sicyonians is the treasury of the Carthaginians, the work of Pothaeus, Antiphilus and...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Brundusium ...history of Italy and of the Italian cities say that Lupiae, situated between Brundusium and Hydrus, has changed its name, and was Sybaris in ancient times. The harbor...

Brundusium

79 17.946867,40.641136,0 Greeks ...Heaven showed most distinctly here and again at Leuctra that those whom the Greeks call brave are as nothing if Good Fortune be not with them, seeing that the...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...derives its name, and then Heracles, saying that they were the first among the Greeks to acknowledge him as a god. They say too that there chanced to be present in...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Gela ...that the treasury, and the images in it, were dedicated by the people of Gela. The images, however, are no longer there. Mount Cronius, as I have already...

Gela

75 14.258433,37.062775,0 Celts ...of a boy in the pentathlon. I saw nothing to wonder at in the stature of those Celts who live farthest of on the borders of the land which is uninhabited because of...

Celts

81 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Olympia ...of Pentelic marble were dedicated by Herodes the Athenian. In the gymnasium at Olympia it is customary for pentathletes and runners to practise, and in the open has...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadia ...Oenomaus is said to have stabled his mares. The boundaries which now separate Arcadia and Elis originally separated Arcadia from Pisa, and are thus situated. On...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Erymanthus ...separated Arcadia from Pisa, and are thus situated. On crossing the river Erymanthus at what is called the ridge of Saurus are the tomb of Saurus and a sanctuary of...

Erymanthus

76 21.75,37.75,0 Alpheius ...after the founder. It too is in ruins. It was built on the height beside the Alpheius. Not far from it is a sanctuary of Dionysus Leucyanites, whereby flows a river...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Alpheius ...whereby flows a river Leucyanias. This river too is a tributary of the Alpheius; it descends from Mount Pholoe. Crossing the Alpheius after it you will be...

Alpheius

73 21.451667,37.6125,0 Cydonian ...are the ruins of the city of Phrixa, as well as a temple of Athena surnamed Cydonian. This temple is not entire, but the altar is still there. The sanctuary was...

Cydonian

78 24.019611,35.517333,0 Harpina ...Harpinates, and not far from the river are, among the other ruins of a city Harpina, its altars. The city was founded, they say, by Oenomaus, who named it after...

Harpina

78 21.674729,37.648791,0 Pelusium ...his extreme peril Ptolemy saved his empire by making a stand with an army at Pelusium while offering resistance with warships from the river. Antigonus now abandoned...

Pelusium

79 32.540631,31.042265,0 Pisa ...another vassal community. The list were closely related to the people of Pisa, and it was a tradition of theirs that their founder had been Dysponteus the...

Pisa

75 21.653041,37.639535,0 Elis ...of all her allies, to be destroyed by the Eleans. Of Pylus in the land of' Elis the ruins are to be seen on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, the...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Messenians ...to him and others in the night, it chanced that there was heavy rain, and the Messenians deserted their post. For they were overcome by the density of the rain that...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonian ...Messenians to the Lacedemonians. The Kings were absent at the time from the Lacedemonian camp, but Emperamus, his master, who was commandant, was conducting the siege...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lycaeus ...been forced to desert Eira, they themselves proposed to receive them at Mount Lycaeus after preparing clothing and food, and sent some of their leading men to...

Lycaeus

80 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Messenians ...suggested to him the following plan. He chose from the body of the Messenians five hundred men whom he knew to be the most unsparing of themselves, and asked...

Messenians

69 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...during the following evening. For now was the time when the majority of the Lacedemonians was away at Eira, and others were scouring Messenia for booty and plunder. "If...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...posterity to remember." When he said this, as many as three hundred of the Arcadians were ready to share his enterprise. For the time they delayed their departure...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phigalia ...found a colony, Aristomenes gave his sister Hagnagora in marriage to Tharyx at Phigalia, and his daughters, both the eldest and the next in age, to Damothoidas of...

Phigalia

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Egyptian ...evacuated the country before Ptolemy, and having surprised a body of Egyptians, killed a few of them. Then on the arrival of Antigonus Ptolemy did not wait...

Egyptian

71 Egyptian ...bronze likeness of him and of Berenice, his only legitimate child. After the Egyptians come statues of Philip and of his son Alexander. The events of their lives...

Egyptian

80 Acarnanians ...destroyed by men not numbering ten thousand. So they joined battle with the Acarnanians, and the course of the battle is said to have been thus. The enemy, being far...

Acarnanians

79 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Acarnanians ...of their men posted on the wall. Here they could not be surrounded, hut the Acarnanians enveloped both their flanks and shot volleys at them from all sides. The...

Acarnanians

78 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Andania ...where in the land to build it. For the Messenians refused to settle again in Andania and Oechalia, because their disasters had befallen them when they dwelt there...

Andania

79 21.938099,37.26217,0 Gauls ...the engagement with the Persians at Marathon and the destruction of the Gauls in Mysia. Each is about two cubits, and all were dedicated by Attalus. There...

Gauls

74 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Laconia ...friends in all things, and marched together into battle and on raids into Laconia. The Lacedemonians were keeping a feast of the Dioscuri in camp and had turned...

Laconia

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...added that he had witnesses to his valor in the grove at Marathon and in the Persians who landed there. Above the Cerameicus and the portico called the King's...

Persians

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...grandson of the Themistocles who fought the sea fight against Xerxes and the Persians. Of the later descendants I shall mention none except Acestium. She, her father...

Persians

79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ithome ...manner, the Argives to Argive Hera and Nemean Zeus, the Messenians to Zeus of Ithome and the Dioscuri, and their priests to the Great Goddesses and Caucon. And...

Ithome

80 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...and the Lacedemonians refused to grant them a truce. Not long afterwards the Messenians occupied Elis, employing strategy and daring alike. The Eleians in the earliest...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...them into the fortress. But having obtained admission in this way, the Messenians drove out the supporters of the Lacedemonians and made over the city to their...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...an advance guard consisting of all the light-armed troops who knew the road to Ithome, he succeeded just before dawn in scaling the wall unnoticed at a point where...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...is very steep at this point. A few escaped by throwing away their arms. The Messenians refrained at first from joining the Achaean league for the following reason, I...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...the bitterest enemy of the Lacedemonians. I realize, as of course did the Messenians, that even without their joining the league the policy of the Achaeans was...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Asia ...hearing of all these things lost no time in crossing into Asia, and assuming the initiative met Seleucus, suffered a severe defeat and was...

Asia

60 27.5,37.5,0 Asia ...possession of the region beyond the river Thyamis, while Pergamus crossed into Asia and killed Areius, despot in Teuthrania, who fought with him in single combat...

Asia

81 27.5,37.5,0 Messenians ...Achaean league. Hitherto my account has dealt with the many sufferings of the Messenians, how fate scattered them to the ends of the earth, far from Peloponnese, and...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...which Homer says that Agamemnon promised to Achilles. When Hyllus and the Dorians were defeated by the Achaeans, it is said that Abia, nurse of Glenus the son of...

Dorians

76 22.25,38.75,0 city ...and helped to overthrow the empire of Antigonus. He founded also the modern city of Ephesus as far as the coast, bringing to it as settlers people of Lebedos...

city

78 Abia ...When Hyllus and the Dorians were defeated by the Achaeans, it is said that Abia, nurse of Glenus the son of Heracles, withdrew to Ire, and settling there built...

Abia

77 22.142494,36.964322,0 Pharae ...Nicomachus and Gorgasus, by Machaon the son of Asclepius. They remained at Pharae and succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Diocles. The power of healing...

Pharae

77 21.717095,38.093144,0 Egypt ...the campaign, but really he was plotting to take from Ptolemy his kingdom in Egypt. But being expelled from Egypt, and having lost his reputation as a soldier...

Egypt

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...break the treaty which his father Seleucus had made with Ptolemy and to attack Egypt. When Antiochus resolved to attack, Ptolemy dispatched forces against all the...

Egypt

81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Messenians ...camp. The Lacedemonians heard from their garrison at Ampheia that the Messenians were marching out, so they also came out to battle. There was a place in...

Messenians

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...and his men in a frenzy of despair that was near to madness (for picked Messenian troops formed the whole of the king's bodyguard), overpowering the enemy by...

Messenian

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 country ...of his achievements was his forcing the Gauls to retire from the sea into the country which they still hold. After the statues of the eponymoi come statues of gods...

country

80 Argives ...Messenians being supported by the Arcadians in their raids into Laconia. The Argives did not think fit to declare their hatred for the Lacedemonians beforehand, but...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ithome ...javelins, and some of them spears. While these were in ambush in a part of Ithome where they were least likely to be visible, the heavy-armed troops of the...

Ithome

77 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Lacedemonians ...troops of the Messenians and their allies withstood the first assault of the Lacedemonians, and continued after this to show courage in every way. They were inferior in...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...arrival Aristodemus at once sent them away, saying that the crimes of the Lacedemonians were new, but their tricks old. Failing in their attempt, the Lacedemonians...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...to lay down my office." She said this because it was an established custom in Messene that, if a child of a man or woman holding a priesthood died before its parent...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Delphians ...of wood, as they had not money enough to make them of bronze. But one of the Delphians reported the oracle to Sparta. When they heard it, no plan occurred to them in...

Delphians

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonians ...Messenians do not make Aristomenes the son of Heracles or of Zeus, as the Macedonians do with Alexander and Ammon, and the Sicyonians with Aratus and Asclepius. Most...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedemon ...office. Tyrtaeus has not recorded the names of the kings then reigning in Lacedemon, but Rhianos stated in his epic that Leotychides was king at the time of this...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...battle at the Boar's Tomb, as it is called. The Messenians had the Eleians and Arcadians and also succors from Argos and from Sicyon. They were joined by all the...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eleusis ...who had previously been in voluntary exile, together with those from Eleusis, whose hereditary task it was to perform the rites of the Great Goddesses, and...

Eleusis

71 23.538311,38.041096,0 Lacedemonians ...most zealous supporters. The Corinthians came to fight on the side of the Lacedemonians, and some of the Lepreans owing to their hatred of the Eleians. But the people...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...the cattle started to drive them off to Messene. On the way he was attacked by Lacedemonian troops under king Anaxander, but put them to flight and began to pursue...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...at what is called The Great Trench, and the Messenians had been joined by Arcadians from all the cities, the Lacedemonians bribed Aristocrates the son of Hicetas...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...Herkeios (Of the Courtyard), himself to be slain by the altar of Apollo in Delphi. Thenceforward to suffer what a man has himself done to another is called the...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...overreached them with their own invention, sending money to Corinth, Argos, Athens and Thebes as the result of this bribery the so-called Corinthian war broke...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...purpose of heaven to turn the trick employed by the Lacedemonians against the Messenians to their own destruction. After receiving the money from Lacedemon...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...receiving the money from Lacedemon, Aristocrates concealed his plot from the Arcadians for the present, but when they were about to come into action, he alarmed them...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadian ...before them; for instead of the advance of the Lacedemonians they watched the Arcadian retirement, some begging them to stand by them, others cursing them for...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...others cursing them for traitors and scoundrels. It was not difficult for the Lacedemonians to surround the Messenians thus isolated, and they won without trouble the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...news that Aristomenes had been captured. The rest went to one of the farms in Messenia, where there dwelt a fatherless girl with her mother. On the previous night the...

Messenia

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Delphi ...for them an oracle given to Aristomenes and Theoclus. They had come to Delphi after the disaster at the Trench and asked concerning safety, receiving this...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messenians ...the oracles of Lycus the son of Pandion said that after lapse of time the Messenians would recover their country. Aristomenes, knowing the oracles, took it towards...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Trojans ...return into the power of the Lacedemonians. After this, as formerly for the Trojans, the beginning of the Messenian misfortunes was in adultery. The Messenians...

Trojans

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Phigaleia ...to a duel. Lepreus, they say, lost, was killed, and was buried in the land of Phigaleia. The Phigalians, however, could not show a tomb of Lepreus. I have heard some...

Phigaleia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalians ...they say, lost, was killed, and was buried in the land of Phigaleia. The Phigalians, however, could not show a tomb of Lepreus. I have heard some who maintained...

Phigalians

75 21.8391,37.3963,0 Tanagraeans ...having found an image of Apollo in a Phoenician ship he restored it to the Tanagraeans at Delium. So at that time all men held the divine in reverence, and this is...

Tanagraeans

77 23.587064,38.309371,0 Olympus ...strings broken. Above him is Marsyas, sitting on a rock, and by his side is Olympus, with the appearance of a boy in the bloom of youth learning to play the flute...

Olympus

79 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Magnesia ...greater part of the roof lies quite close to the floor. There is also near Magnesia on the river Lethaeus a place called Aulae (Halls), where there is a cave...

Magnesia

78 27.52785,37.8507,0 Tithorea ...too came to be called Tithorea, and not Neon any longer. The natives say that Tithorea was so called after a nymph of the same name, one of those who in days of old...

Tithorea

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Phocians ...He receives divine honors from the Tithoreans, and no less from the other Phocians. Within the precincts are dwellings for both the suppliants of the god and his...

Phocians

76 22.25,38.25,0 Sicyonian ...face to face. The olive oil of Tithorea is less abundant than Attic or Sicyonian oil, but in color and pleasantness it surpasses Iberian oil and that from the...

Sicyonian

74 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lilaea ...In return for this good deed the Lilaeans dedicated his statue at Delphi. In Lilaea are also a theater, a market-place and baths. There is also a sanctuary of...

Lilaea

80 22.50592,38.62687,0 Elateia ...but with an upward gradient for a short distance quite close to the town of Elateia. In the plain flows the Cephisus, and the most common bird to live along its...

Elateia

78 22.782061,38.645635,0 Argos ...reach the road to Abae. The people of Abae say that they came to Phocis from Argos, and that the city got its name from Abas, the founder, who was a son of...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Abaeans ...by the emperor Hadrian. The images are of earlier date, being dedicated by the Abaeans themselves; they are made of bronze, and all alike are standing, Apollo, Leto...

Abaeans

81 22.9154,38.58006,0 Daulis ...cattle. The straight road to Delphi that leads through Panopeus and past Daulis and the Cleft Way, is not the only pass from Chaeroneia to Phocis. There is...

Daulis

76 22.72926,38.50665,0 Anticyra ...Ambrossus, and of the stone statues set up in it most are broken. The road to Anticyra is at first up-hill. About two stades up the slope is a level place, and on the...

Anticyra

81 22.626059,38.375439,0 Phocian ...there is a dog. The image is taller than the tallest woman. Bordering on the Phocian territory is a land named after Boulon, the leader of the colony, which was...

Phocian

80 22.25,38.25,0 Cirrha ...images. The territory of the Locrians called Ozolian adjoins Phocis opposite Cirrha. I have heard various stories about the surname of these Locrians, all of which...

Cirrha

80 22.450621,38.428937,0 Ephesian ...no work of Theodorus, at least no work of bronze. But in the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis, as you enter the building containing the pictures, there is a stone...

Ephesian

76 27.339722,37.941944,0 Amphissa ...On the coast is Oeantheia, neighbor to which is Naupactus. The others, but not Amphissa, are under the government of the Achaeans of Patrae, the emperor Augustus...

Amphissa

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Sparta ...Trojan war, as she foretold in her oracles that Helen would be brought up in Sparta to be the ruin of Asia and of Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Idaean ...nymph was my mother, my father an eater of corn; On my mother's side of Idaean birth, but my fatherland was red Marpessus, sacred to the Mother, and the river...

Idaean

74 26.85852,39.69936,0 Aeginetan ...the Peucetii, a non-Greek people. The offerings are the work of Onatas the Aeginetan, and Ageladas the Argive, and consist of statues of footmen and horsemen –...

Aeginetan

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Thespians ...fourth component part of the population was the army of Iolaus, consisting of Thespians and men from Attica, which put in at Sardinia and founded Olbia; by themselves...

Thespians

80 23.154521,38.293384,0 Cyrnus ...than eight stades of sea, and is hilly and high all over. So they think that Cyrnus prevents the west wind and the north wind from reaching as far as...

Cyrnus

79 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Pythian ...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...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...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...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonia ...of their ancient reputation the Athenians held the chief command. The king of Macedonia sent five hundred mercenaries, and the king of Asia a like number; the leader...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Phocians ...to some a fourth appeared, Phylacus, a local hero of Delphi. Among the many Phocians who were killed in the action was Aleximachus, who in this battle excelled all...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Athens ...who asked him, all these acts are inscribed in his honor in the sanctuary at Athens common to all the gods. But as to the history of Attalus and Ptolemy, it is...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cyprus ...for him but returned to Egypt. When the winter was over, Demetrius sailed to Cyprus and overcame in a naval action Menelaus, the satrap of Ptolemy, and afterwards...

Cyprus

80 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyrenians ...fortified the entrance into Egypt and awaited the attack of the Cyrenians. But while on the march Magas was in formed that the Marmaridae, a tribe of...

Cyrenians

66 21.856169,32.818736,0 Macedonians ...how this Ptolemy sent a fleet to help the Athenians against Antigonus and the Macedonians, but it did very little to save Athens. His children were by Arsinoe, not his...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Parian ...of Aphrodite, one of Ares made by Alcamenes, and one of Athena made by a Parian of the name of Locrus. There is also an image of Enyo, made by the sons of...

Parian

75 25.150728,37.08579,0 Orchomenians ...surpassed in wealth the richest of the Greeks, the sanctuary of Delphi and the Orchomenians. Shortly after this Ptolemy met with his appointed fate, and the Athenians, who...

Orchomenians

81 22.959486,38.495082,0 Macedonia ...Demetrius inherited a tendency to aggrandise, and he also knew that he visited Macedonia at the summons of Alexander and Cassander, and on his arrival murdered...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Caunian ...a Demos by Lyson. The thesmothetae (lawgivers) were painted by Protogenes the Caunian, and Olbiades portrayed Callippus, who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to stop...

Caunian

80 28.621536,36.825909,0 Thermopylae ...the Caunian, and Olbiades portrayed Callippus, who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to stop the incursion of the Gauls into Greece. These Gauls inhabit the most...

Thermopylae

74 22.538294,38.796511,0 Illyrian ...An army of them mustered and turned towards the Ionian Sea, dispossessed the Illyrian people, all who dwelt as far as Macedonia with the Macedonians themselves, and...

Illyrian

79 19.5,41.5,0 Trojan ...the Greeks after missing Troy, were plundering the Meian plain thinking it Trojan territory. Now I will return from my digression. Near to the Council Chamber...

Trojan

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Phliasians ...Dysaules of Eleusis. Aras had a son Aoris and a daughter Araethyrea, who, the Phliasians say, were experienced hunters and brave warriors. Araethyrea died first, and...

Phliasians

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Samos ...the opposite policy, and so Hippasus and any others who wished fled to Samos. Great-grandson of this Hippasus was Pythagoras, the celebrated sage. For...

Samos

73 26.84,37.73,0 Phliasians ...any save those of Aeschylus. Behind the market-place is a building which the Phliasians name the House of Divination. Into it Amphiaraus entered, slept the night...

Phliasians

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Asterion ...was not a man but the river. This river, with the rivers Cephisus and Asterion, judged concerning the land between Poseidon and Hera. They decided that the...

Asterion

72 22.75,37.75,0 Asterion ...they name after Euboea, and the land beneath the Heraeum after Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraeum, and falling into a cleft disappears. On its banks...

Asterion

80 22.75,37.75,0 Argives ...and a sanctuary of Mysian Demeter, so named from a man Mysius who, say the Argives, was one of those who entertained Demeter. Now this sanctuary has no roof, but...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...brother, Aristodemus, who had died. Their claim to Argos and to the throne of Argos was, in my opinion, most just, because Tisamenus was descended from Pelops, but...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...Rain, where those who were helping Polyneices in his efforts to be restored to Thebes swore an oath together that they would either capture Thebes or die. As to the...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...stay within the original boundaries of their territories. Before this, if the Lacedemonians were not engaged on some business outside the Peloponnesus, they were always...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argive ...in battle, Driving away the male, and wins great glory in Argos, Many an Argive woman will tear both cheeks in her sorrow." Such are the words of the oracle...

Argive

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dorians ...Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, and Hegeleos, the son of Tyrsenus, taught the Dorians with Temenus how to play the instrument, and for this reason gave Athena the...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Cnossians ...of Epimenides. The Argive story is that the Lacedemonians made war upon the Cnossians and took Epimenides alive; they then put him to death for not prophesying good...

Cnossians

78 25.163106,35.297847,0 Aphidna ...by Helen when, Theseus having gone away with Peirithous to Thesprotia, Aphidna had been captured by the Dioscuri and Helen was being brought to Lacedemon. For...

Aphidna

73 23.362766,37.974359,0 Argives ...himself. Not far from the gymnasium has been built a common grave of those Argives who sailed with the Athenians to enslave Syracuse and Sicily. As you go from...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...As to Deianeira, we know that her death took place near Trachis and not in Argos, and her grave is near Heraclea, at the foot of Mount Oeta. The story of...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Oenoe ...father, and on his death buried him here. After him the Argives name the place Oenoe. Above Oenoe is Mount Artemisius, with a sanctuary of Artemis on the top. On...

Oenoe

81 22.56036,37.608146,0 Epidaurus ...time nothing was left of it except the foundations. On the straight road to Epidaurus is a village Lessa, in which is a temple of Athena with a wooden image exactly...

Epidaurus

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Argives ...of Xuthus, and they relate that he handed over the land to Deiphontes and the Argives without a struggle. He went to Athens with his people and dwelt there, while...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Eleans ...than Ceisus and his brothers. Epidaurus, who gave the land its name, was, the Eleans say, a son of Pelops but, according to Argive opinion and the poem the Great...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Messenians ...invented by Hesiod, or by one of Hesiod's interpolators, just to please the Messenians. There is other evidence that the god was born in Epidaurus for I find that...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Epidaurians ...the chariot more recklessly, as he was anxious to gain a start before all the Epidaurians could gather against him. Deiphontes and his children – for before this...

Epidaurians

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Anaphlystus ...as colonists from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons of Troezen, migrated to Attica, and the parishes are named...

Anaphlystus

76 23.9508185,37.7273205,0 Troy ...weathered the storm that came upon the Greeks as they were returning from Troy. They say that Diomedes was also the first to hold the Pythian games in honor...

Troy

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Hermionians ...on the land of Troezen, is Hermione. The founder of the old city, the Hermionians say, was Hermion, the son of Europs. Now Europs, whose father was certainly...

Hermionians

72 23.243591,37.385218,0 Hermion ...punished by being burnt up along with his house, while Chthonia was brought to Hermion by Demeter, and made the sanctuary for the Hermionians. At any rate, the...

Hermion

81 23.243591,37.385218,0 Brauron ...shaped in most respects like to goats. At some distance from Marathon is Brauron, where, according to the legend, Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, landed...

Brauron

76 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Eleus ...among the Greeks as gods; some even have cities dedicated to them, such as Eleus in Chersonesus dedicated to Protesilaus, and Lebadea of the Boeotians dedicated...

Eleus

77 26.220385,40.051661,0 Boeotians ...such as Eleus in Chersonesus dedicated to Protesilaus, and Lebadea of the Boeotians dedicated to Trophonius. The Oropians have both a temple and a white marble...

Boeotians

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Salamis ...and to Eurysaces, for there is an altar of Eurysaces also at Athens. In Salamis is shown a stone not far from the harbor, on which they say that Telamon sat...

Salamis

74 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Olympia ...the Magnesians on the Lethaeus, Protophanes, one of the citizens, won at Olympia in one day victories in the pancration and in wrestling. Into the grave of this...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Mysia ...and the Cretans among the islanders. As the reinforcements from Egypt, Mysia, and Crete were for the most part too late, and the Rhodians, whose strength...

Mysia

74 27.75,40.25,0 Troy ...poetry of Homer, who makes Peleus vow that on the safe return of Achilles from Troy he will cut off the young man's hair as a gift for the Spercheus. Across the...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleusinians ...and a well called Callichorum (Lovely dance), where first the women of the Eleusinians danced and sang in praise of the goddess. They say that the plain called...

Eleusinians

77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Eleutherae ...washed them there for the first time, taking off their swaddling clothes. Of Eleutherae there were still left the ruins of the wall and of the houses. From these it is...

Eleutherae

79 23.37572,38.17934,0 Mycenaean ...the campaign against Troy, but shared in the expedition as part of the forces, Mycenaean and other, led by Agamemnon. Sisyphus had other sons besides Glaucus, the...

Mycenaean

81 22.756111,37.730833,0 Delphi ...who introduced the god to the Athenians. Herein he was helped by the oracle at Delphi, which called to mind that the god once dwelt in Athens in the days of...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...on them enumerates the cities from which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Asia ...On his return from Sicily and his defeat, he first sent various dispatches to Asia and to Antigonus, asking some of the kings for troops, some for money, and...

Asia

80 27.5,37.5,0 sea ...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...

sea

80 city ...a decisive victory; Aristion and the Athenians they drove in flight into the city, Archelaus and the foreigners into the Peiraeus. This Archelaus was another...

city

79 Meian plain ...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. Near to...

Meian plain

79 Egypt ...rites in Memphis, but, knowing that Perdiccas would make war, he kept Egypt garrisoned. And Perdiccas took Aridaeus, son of Philip, and the boy Alexander...

Egypt

72 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...some four thousand Gauls. Discovering that they were plotting to seize Egypt, he led them through the river to a deserted island. There they perished at one...

Egypt

73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 district ...him happened to die before this, leaving no issue, and there is in Egypt a district called Arsinoites after her. It is pertinent to add here an account of...

district

77 tomb ...Heracleidae into the Peloponnesus in the reign of Orestes. Not far from the tomb of Hyllus is a temple of Isis, and beside it one of Apollo and of Artemis. They...

tomb

79 tomb ...precinct sacred to Lacius, a hero, a parish called after him Laciadae, and the tomb of Nicocles of Tarentum, who won a unique reputation as a harpist. There is...

tomb

81 Athens ...ravaged Scyros, thus avenging Theseus' death, and carried his bones to Athens. The sanctuary of the Dioscuri is ancient. They them selves are represented as...

Athens

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acropolis ...when they saw Erichthonius, and threw themselves down the steepest part of the Acropolis. Here it was that the Persians climbed and killed the Athenians who thought...

Acropolis

81 23.625,37.875,0 Athenians ...for every city has dedicated a likeness of the emperor Hadrian, and the Athenians have surpassed them in dedicating, behind the temple, the remarkable...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lyceum ...to Alcmena and to Iolaus, who shared with Heracles most of his labours. The Lyceum has its name from Lycus, the son of Pandion, but it was considered sacred to...

Lyceum

78 Athenian ...cut off her father's hair. Such is the legend. The rivers that flow through Athenian territory are the Ilisus and its tributary the Eridanus, whose name is the same...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...out where the Peloponnesians killed Codrus, son of Melanthus and king of Athens. Across the Ilisus is a district called Agrae and a temple of Artemis Agrotera...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ilisus ...Peloponnesians killed Codrus, son of Melanthus and king of Athens. Across the Ilisus is a district called Agrae and a temple of Artemis Agrotera (the Huntress)...

Ilisus

81 23.6959733,37.9582581,0 Sipylus ...general of Mithridates, whom earlier than this the Magnetes, who inhabit Sipylus, wounded when he raided their territory, killing most of the foreigners as...

Sipylus

75 27.45394,38.5668,0 Troezenians ...there. Falling in love with him she contrived the plot for his death. The Troezenians have a myrtle with every one of its leaves pierced; they say that it did not...

Troezenians

76 Lesbos ...Greeks is one that there were seven wise men. Two of them were the despot of Lesbos and Periander the son of Cypselus. And yet Peisistratus and his son Hippias...

Lesbos

79 26.10052,39.20874,0 Syracuse ...many ambitions of the Athenians was to reduce all Italy, but the disaster at Syracuse prevented their trying conclusions with the Romans. Alexander, son of...

Syracuse

79 15.29382,37.05963,0 Epeirots ...was nevertheless encouraged to meet them in a naval battle, employing the Epeirots, the majority of whom, even after the capture of Troy, knew no thing of the sea...

Epeirots

76 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Itonian ...the Molossian hung these shields / taken from the bold Gauls as a gift to Itonian Athena, when he had destroyed all the host of Antigonus. 'Tis no great...

Itonian

76 22.050597,39.261599,0 Sparta ...the land and carrying off plunder. The citizens prepared for a siege, and Sparta even before this in the war with Demetrius had been fortified with deep...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gortyn ...belonged to a different city. The latter was from Cnossus, but Thales was from Gortyn, according to Polymnastus of Colophon, who composed a poem about him for the...

Gortyn

81 24.9469437222,35.0627201667,0 Orchomenians ...the animal to some god or other, presumably to the one called by the Orchomenians Laphystius, he has cut out the thighs in accordance with Greek custom and is...

Orchomenians

71 22.959486,38.495082,0 Athens ...and such as had sided with Macedon. Most of their cities Philip captured; with Athens he nominally came to terms, but really imposed the severest penalties upon her...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Locrians ...the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the...

Locrians

75 21.75,38.25,0 Athenian ...the gods. Although Demetrius the son of Antigonus was now at variance with the Athenian people, he notwithstanding deposed Lachares too from his tyranny, who, on the...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...and chased them to the city. Returning afterwards to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and Naxos and invaded Boeotia with an army. Having ravaged...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Memphis ...to hand it over to him. And he proceeded to bury it with Macedonian rites in Memphis, but, knowing that Perdiccas would make war, he kept Egypt garrisoned. And...

Memphis

79 31.254278,29.849667,0 Thrace ...He prevailed on Cassander, son of Anti pater, and Lysimachus, who was king in Thrace, to join in the war, urging that Seleucus was in exile and that the growth of...

Thrace

80 27.5,42.5,0 Athenians ...laws for the Athenians, and of Pindar, the statue being one of the rewards the Athenians gave him for praising them in an ode. Hard by stand statues of Harmodius and...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cyprus ...and when he escaped on board a ship, made Alexander, who returned from Cyprus, their king. Retribution for the exile of Ptolemy came upon Cleopatra, for she...

Cyprus

73 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Argos ...On the further side of Orneae are Sicyonia and Phliasia. On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a building made very like a pyramid, and on...

Argos

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...you come to the ruins of Tiryns. The Tirynthians also were removed by the Argives, who wished to make Argos more powerful by adding to the population. The hero...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Larisa ...is a temple of Athena with a wooden image exactly like the one on the citadel Larisa. Above Lessa is Mount Arachnaeus, which long ago, in the time of Inachus, was...

Larisa

80 Epidaurians ...in the island of Delos. All the offerings, whether the offerer be one of the Epidaurians themselves or a stranger, are entirely consumed within the bounds. At Titane...

Epidaurians

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...been unburnt, had fallen into utter ruin after it had lost its roof. As the Epidaurians about the sanctuary were in great distress, because their women had no shelter...

Epidaurians

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...and Phalces (for Agraeus, the youngest, disapproved of their plan) came to Epidaurus. Staying their chariot under the wall, they sent a herald to their sister...

Epidaurus

77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidauria ...Cissaea (Ivy Goddess). The Aeginetans dwell in the island over against Epidauria. It is said that in the beginning there were no men in it; but after Zeus...

Epidauria

74 23.02637,36.731301,0 Parnassus ...In the time, then, of this Phocus only the district about Tithorea and Parnassus was called Phocis, but in the time of Aeacus the name spread to all from the...

Parnassus

73 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Orchomenos ...in the time of Aeacus the name spread to all from the borders of the Minyae at Orchomenos to Scarphea among the Locri. From Peleus sprang the kings in Epeirus; but as...

Orchomenos

81 22.959486,38.495082,0 Marathon ...was a man who lived a private life; though Miltiades, who led the Athenians to Marathon, and Cimon, the son of Miltiades, achieved renown; but the family of Teucer...

Marathon

81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Aegina ...of the Argives who, under Deiphontes, had seized Epidaurus, crossed to Aegina, and, settling among the old Aeginetans, established in the island Dorian...

Aegina

73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Hellespont ...They recovered their island when the Athenian warships were captured in the Hellespont, yet it was never given them to rise again to their old wealth or power. Of...

Hellespont

78 26.4,40.2,0 Aeginetans ...by Artemis, and she is worshipped, not only by the Cretans, but also by the Aeginetans, who say that Britomartis shows herself in their island. Her surname among the...

Aeginetans

78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Crete ...shows herself in their island. Her surname among the Aeginetans is Aphaea; in Crete it is Dictynna (Goddess of Nets). The Mount of all the Greeks, except for the...

Crete

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Argives ...Mecisteus, who were guardians of the boy Cyanippus, son of Aegialeus, led the Argives to Troy. Sthenelus, as I have related above, came of a more illustrious family...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troezenia ...magistrates dreams which supplied a cure for the epidemic that had afflicted Troezenia, and the Athenians more than any other people. Having crossed the sanctuary...

Troezenia

79 Halicarnassians ...above it one of Aphrodite of the Height. The temple of Isis was made by the Halicarnassians in Troezen, because this is their mother-city, but the image of Isis was...

Halicarnassians

78 27.424112,37.037864,0 Athens ...a bribe from Harpalus. On obtaining this information he sent a dispatch to Athens, in which he gave a list of such as had taken a bribe from Harpalus, both...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hermione ...border towards Troezenia, as I have stated above, while there is another in Hermione itself. Near the latter is a temple of Dionysus of the Black Goatskin. In his...

Hermione

78 23.243591,37.385218,0 Argolis ...sister of Clymenus. But the Argive account is that when Demeter came to Argolis, while Atheras and Mysius afforded hospitality to the goddess, Colontas neither...

Argolis

74 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Philanorium ...by way of the summits of the mountains the distance to the place called Philanorium and to the Boleoi is two hundred and fifty stades. These Boleoi are heaps of...

Philanorium

74 23.141581,37.537127,0 Asine ...their vessels and abandoned their own country; the Argives, while levelling Asine to the ground and annexing its territory to their own, left the sanctuary of...

Asine

78 22.87403,37.52659,0 Temenium ...with the Dorians the war against Tisamenus and the Achaeans. On the way to Temenium from Lerna the river Phrixus empties itself into the sea, and in Temenium is...

Temenium

77 22.737804,37.581685,0 Aeginetans ...enjoyed the fruits of the land, but afterwards they assigned it to the Aeginetans, when they were expelled from their island by the Athenians. In my time...

Aeginetans

73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Tanaus ...figures of Hermes, from which the name of the place is derived. A river called Tanaus, which is the only one descending from Mount Parnon, flows through the Argive...

Tanaus

81 22.7404143,37.4211067,0 Laconia ...of Lacedemon, wished to leave some memorial behind him, and built a town in Laconia. Hyacinthus, the youngest and most beautiful of his sons, died before his...

Laconia

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Aeolis ...destined to occupy the land between Ionia and Mysia, called at the present day Aeolis; his ancestor Penthilus had even before this seized the island of Lesbos that...

Aeolis

81 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Lacedemonians ...Archelaus to destroy Aegys, but the exploits he achieved when leading the Lacedemonians by himself, these too I shall relate when my narrative comes to treat of those...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...buried him secretly. During the reign of Eurycrates, son of Polydorus, the Messenians submitted to be subjects of the Lacedemonians, neither did any trouble befall...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates – for destiny was by this time driving the Messenians out of all the Peloponnesus – the Messenians revolted from the Lacedemonians...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...a truce. The remnant of them left behind in the land became the slaves of the Lacedemonians, with the exception of those in the towns on the coast. The incidents of the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...second Eurycrates a son Leon. While these two kings were on the throne the Lacedemonians were generally unsuccessful in the war with Tegea. But in the reign of...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...when there chanced to be a truce between the cities. When Lichas arrived the Spartans were seeking the bones of Orestes in accordance with an oracle. Now Lichas...

Spartans

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phaselis ...confirmed by the spear of Achilles dedicated in the sanctuary of Athena at Phaselis, and by the sword of Memnon in the Nicomedian temple of Asclepius. The point...

Phaselis

77 30.551573,36.524579,0 Athenians ...him to establish a tyranny over Athens. When he was disappointed, and the Athenians fought strenuously for their freedom, Cleomenes devastated the country...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...that Achilles shed luster on the Trojan war and Miltiades on the engagement at Marathon. But in truth the success of Leonidas surpassed, in my opinion, all later as...

Marathon

81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Aeginetan ...Pausanias also refused to dishonor the body of Mardonius, as Lampon the Aeginetan advised him to do. Shortly after Pleistarchus the son of Leonidas came to the...

Aeginetan

74 23.42372,37.74991,0 Lacedemonian ...credit, he was brought to trial by his enemies. The court that sat to try a Lacedemonian king consisted of the senate, "old men" as they were called, twenty eight in...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...son Archidamus succeeded to the throne after the departure of Leotychides for Tegea. This Archidamus did terrible damage to the land of the Athenians, invading...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Boeotia ...to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and Naxos and invaded Boeotia with an army. Having ravaged the greater part of the land and reduced Chaeronea...

Boeotia

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Nemean ...the days of old the beasts were much more formidable to men, for example the Nemean lion, the lion of Parnassus, the serpents in many parts of Greece, and the...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Argives ...fleet when night overtook them as in their voyage they were off Phalerum. The Argives landed, under the impression that it was hostile territory, the darkness...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aeginetans ...the army, and Sophanes of Decelea, who killed when he came to the help of the Aeginetans Eurybates the Argive, who won the prize in the pentathlon at the Nemean games...

Aeginetans

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Attica ...of an old alliance, came when the Peloponnesians with Archidamus invaded Attica with an army for the first time, and hard by that of Cretan bowmen. Again there...

Attica

75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Ithome ...about thus. Sparta was once shaken by an earthquake, and the Helots seceded to Ithome. After the secession the Lacedemonians sent for help to various places...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Eleans ...and at Megara, and when Alcibiades persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the Eleans to revolt from the Lacedemonians, and of those who were victorious over the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Cephale ...the Maid and Demeter, and Anagyrus a sanctuary of the Mother of the gods. At Cephale the chief cult is that of the Dioscuri, for the in habitants call them the...

Cephale

79 23.996377,37.811802,0 Tithrone ...altars of Demeter Anesidora (Sender-up of Gifts), Zeus Ctesius (God of Gain), Tithrone Athena, the Maid First-born and the goddesses styled August. The wooden image...

Tithrone

80 22.58105,38.67517,0 Marathon ...proceed with my account of the parishes (demes). There is a parish called Marathon, equally distant from Athens and Carystus in Euboea. It was at this point in...

Marathon

76 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Macaria ...were carried to a trench and thrown in anyhow. In Marathon is a spring called Macaria with the following legend. When Heracles left Tiryns, fleeing from Eurystheus...

Macaria

81 24.00382,38.15931,0 Hermione ...Agamemnon and Menelaus and Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles and first husband of Hermione, the daughter of Helen. Orestes was passed over because of his crime against...

Hermione

79 23.243591,37.385218,0 Salamis ...to death Aeschetades, who on this occasion had been elected general for Salamis, and they swore never to forget the treachery of the Salaminians. There are...

Salamis

74 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Aetolians ...the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and, of the self-governing peoples, the Aetolians with the Rhodians and the Cretans among the islanders. As the reinforcements...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Megarians ...men used the name Megara (Chambers). This is their history according to the Megarians themselves. But the Boeotians declare that Megareus, son of Poseidon, who dwelt...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 fountain ...war and the capture of the city in the reign of Nisus. There is in the city a fountain, which was built for the citizens by Theagenes, whom I have mentioned...

fountain

81 Athenians ...for the work was interrupted by the war of the Peloponnesians against the Athenians, in which the Athenians every year ravaged the land of the Megarians with a...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phliasians ...with gold. The following is the reason why it has received honors among the Phliasians. The constellation which they call the Goat on its rising causes continual...

Phliasians

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Eleusinian ...war. Now I cannot possibly agree with the Phliasians in supposing that an Eleusinian was conquered in battle and driven away into exile, for the war terminated in a...

Eleusinian

76 23.538311,38.041096,0 Argos ...found most worthy of mention among the Phliasians. On the road from Corinth to Argos is a small city Cleonae. They say that Cleones was a son of Pelops, though...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nemea ...In these mountains is still shown the cave of the famous lion, and the place Nemea is distant some fifteen stades. In Nemea is a noteworthy temple of Nemean Zeus...

Nemea

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Midea ...Acrisius remained where he was at Argos, and Proetus took over the Heraeum, Midea, Tiryns, and the Argive coast region. Traces of the residence of Proetus in...

Midea

78 22.842,37.65,0 Mycene ...Mycene in the following verse: "Tyro and Alcmene and the fair-crowned lady Mycene." She is said to have been the daughter of Inachus and the wife of Arestor in...

Mycene

77 22.756111,37.730833,0 Seriphus ...folk, then, pay him honors here, but the greatest honors are paid to him in Seriphus and among the Athenians, who have a precinct sacred to Perseus and an altar of...

Seriphus

78 24.48685,37.17261,0 Argives ...Argives to retaliate. When the hatred of both sides was at its height, the Argives resolved to maintain a thousand picked men. The commander appointed over them...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...to maintain a thousand picked men. The commander appointed over them was the Argive Bryas. His general behavior to the men of the people was violent, and a maiden...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...the expedition, from Argos, from Messene, with some even from Arcadia. But the Argives have adopted the number seven from the drama of Aeschylus, and near to their...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nemean ...Before this, Perilaus had succeeded in winning the prize for wrestling at the Nemean games. Above the theater is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and before the image is...

Nemean

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Argive ...Before the temple of Athena is, they say, the grave of Epimenides. The Argive story is that the Lacedemonians made war upon the Cnossians and took Epimenides...

Argive

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...because the people who live around Lake Tritonis are sacred to her. In Argos, by the side of this monument of the Gorgon, is the grave of Gorgophone...

Argos

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...– the people rose up against him and cast him out. He fled to Sparta, and the Lacedemonians tried to restore him to power, but were defeated by the Argives, who killed the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phrygian ...flee from Sipylus, such as afterwards forced Pelops to run away when Ilus the Phrygian launched an army against him. But I must pursue the inquiry no further. The...

Phrygian

80 27.75,40.25,0 Troy ...they say, is from Euboea. For when the Greeks, as they were returning from Troy, met with the shipwreck at Caphereus, those of the Argives who were able to...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Delphi ...Apollo, which is said to have been first built by Pythaeus when he came from Delphi. The present image is a bronze standing figure called Apollo Deiradiotes...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Chaon ...little farther on there is on the right of the road a mountain called Chaon. At its foot grow cultivated trees, and here the water of the Erasinus rises to...

Chaon

72 22.63419,37.60053,0 Argos ...it is that they say the Lacedemonians suffered their reverse. The road from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as that to Tegea, but begins from the gate at the...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sellasia ...met Cleomenes at Sellasia. The Achaeans were victorious, the people of Sellasia were sold into slavery, and Lacedemon itself was captured. Antigonus and the...

Sellasia

73 Asopus ...open space in the grove. On turning back to the road, and having crossed the Asopus again and reached the summit of the hill, you come to the place where the...

Asopus

80 22.75,37.75,0 Megarians ...that is a mimic representation of the legend. In the city are graves of Megarians. They made one for those who died in the Persian invasion, and what is called...

Megarians

75 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...of the Cretans. The hilly part of Megaris borders upon Boeotia, and in it the Megarians have built the city Pagae and another one called Aegosthena. As you go to...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Messenia ...was struck with the torches and taken alive. Nevertheless he escaped to Messenia during the same night. Archidameia, the priestess of Demeter, was charged with...

Messenia

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...when he gave the signal. When the Lacedemonians were about to close and the Messenians were occupied on their own front, then Aristocrates withdrew the Arcadians as...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...then Aristocrates withdrew the Arcadians as the battle began, leaving the Messenian left and center without troops. For the Arcadians occupied both positions in...

Messenian

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...to besiege them, thinking that they would soon reduce them. Nevertheless the Messenians maintained their resistance for eleven years after the disaster at the...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Neda ...tragos (he-goat). Now at that time a wild fig-tree growing on the bank of the Neda had not grown straight up, but was bending towards the stream and touching the...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Lacedemonians ...owing to the hurried nature of its building; moreover they did not expect the Lacedemonians even to stir on a moonless night that was so stormy. A few days earlier a...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...Various indications of the trouble that was upon them were given to the Messenians, especially by the dogs barking, not in their usual fashion, but uttering more...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...of Dascylus and the Lydians, when they were in occupation of their town. The Messenians, when they heard, were filled with desperate courage, and mustering as they...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...account. But Aristomenes' grief for the sack of Eira and his hatred of the Lacedemonians suggested to him the following plan. He chose from the body of the Messenians...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...he revealed the whole plan, that he proposed at all costs to lead them against Sparta during the following evening. For now was the time when the majority of the...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...them to a colony. But he said that while he lived, he would make war on the Lacedemonians, as he knew well that trouble would always be brewing for Sparta through him...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...had failed, he persuaded some fifty of the Messenians to go back with him to Eira and attack the Lacedemonians, and coming upon them while they were still...

Eira

79 21.927988,37.398271,0 Zancle ...When they accepted the proposal, Anaxilas then transported them to Sicily. Zancle was originally occupied by pirates, who, as the land was uninhabited, walled...

Zancle

78 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Lacedemon ...must suffer evil at the present, but that hereafter destruction would overtake Lacedemon. Then after their victory at Leuctra the Thebans sent messengers to Italy...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...Epaminondas it seemed in no way easy to found a city that could resist the Lacedemonians, nor could he discover where in the land to build it. For the Messenians...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...caused his death. For when Isagoras the Athenian captured the Acropolis of the Athenians with a view to setting up a tyranny, Timasitheus took part in the affair, and...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympian ...being noised abroad through-out Greece. The achievements of Theagenes at the Olympian games have already – the most famous of them – been described in my story, how...

Olympian

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thessaly ...won in some cases for the pancratium and in others for boxing. At Phthia in Thessaly he gave up training for boxing and the pancratium. He devoted himself to...

Thessaly

78 21.75,39.25,0 Naxos ...mainland of Asia . . . the inscription on it shows that he was born at Argos. Naxos was founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of the city not even...

Naxos

81 15.27149,37.82124,0 Euripus ...he was born at Argos. Naxos was founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of the city not even the ruins are now to be seen, and that the name of Naxos...

Euripus

79 23.58944,38.46276,0 Isthmian ...that of the double course; the event had been omitted from the Nemean and Isthmian games, but was restored to the Argives for their winter Nemean games by the...

Isthmian

76 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Naxos ...him comes Brimias of Elis, victor in the men's boxing-match, Leonidas from Naxos in the Aegean, a statue dedicated by the Arcadians of Psophis, a statue of...

Naxos

77 25.52001,37.127,0 Elean ...the Olynthian. Next is Ptolemy, mounted on a horse, and by his side is an Elean athlete, Paeanius the son of Damatrius, who won at Olympia a victory in...

Elean

77 21.25,37.75,0 Isthmus ...five victories in running, at Pytho four victories, at Nemea four, and at the Isthmus eleven. The statue of Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy Lagus, was dedicated by...

Isthmus

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Syracusan ...he wrote the most persuasive speech of his time to support the claim of a Syracusan woman to a property. However, Gorgias surpassed his fame at Athens; indeed...

Syracusan

76 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athenian ...when Phorbas, who held a life office, was archon at Athens. At this time Athenian offices were not yet annual, nor had the Eleans begun to record the...

Athenian

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...were not yet annual, nor had the Eleans begun to record the Olympiads. The Argives are said to have helped the Megarians in the engagement with the Corinthians...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messene ...son of Heracles, but it omits all reference to the husband of Messene and to Messene herself. Some time later, as no descendant of Polycaon survived (in my opinion...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenia ...sons of Aristodemus was dissolved, and Cresphontes, winning in this way, chose Messenia. The common people of the old Messenians were not dispossessed by the Dorians...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorian ...he reached manhood, he was brought back by the Arcadians to Messene, the other Dorian kings, the sons of Aristodemus and Isthmius, the son of Temenus, helping to...

Dorian

81 22.25,38.75,0 Lacedemonians ...It was in the reign of Phintas that a quarrel first took place with the Lacedemonians. The very cause is disputed, but is said to have been as follows: There is a...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...who had come to the sanctuary, his incentive being the excellence of the Messenian land; in furtherance of his design he selected some Spartan youths, all without...

Messenian

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Delphi ...point out too that when the Phocian leaders had seized the temple at Delphi, the kings and every Spartan of repute privately, and the board of ephors and...

Delphi

71 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messenia ...were marching out, so they also came out to battle. There was a place in Messenia which was in other ways suitable for an engagement, but had a deep ravine in...

Messenia

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...sake of gain attacked their kinsmen and outraged all the ancestral gods of the Dorians, and Heracles above all. And now with their taunts they come to deeds, mass...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Messenian ...come as suppliants to Lacedemon, were forced to serve in the army. Against the Messenian light-armed they employed Cretan archers as mercenaries. The Messenians were...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Ithome ...town existed here, which they say Homer mentions in the Catalogue: "Stepped Ithome." To this town they withdrew, extending the old circuit to form a sufficient...

Ithome

78 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Delphi ...considered to be fully versed in divination. While he was returning from Delphi men from the Lacedemonian garrison at Ampheia laid an ambush for him. Though...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sicyon ...with the allies, sending gifts to the Arcadian leaders and to Argos and Sicyon. They carried on the war during his reign by means of constant forays with...

Sicyon

74 22.71135,37.98336,0 Messenian ...did this in separate parties and at different points of the enemy's line. The Messenian heavy-armed and their allies meantime pressed more boldly on the troops facing...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...of our fathers. Tyrtaeus, unknown location. It is obvious then that the Messenians went to war now in the second generation after the first war, and the sequence...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...Theopompus. In the first year after the revolt the Messenians engaged the Lacedemonians at a place called Derae in Messenia, both sides being without their allies...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...an Eleian of the house of the Iamidae, whom Cresphontes had brought to Messene. Then in the presence of the seers both sides were spurred by greater ardor for...

Messene

73 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenian ...but Anaxander, the Lacedemonian king, and his Spartan guard above all. On the Messenian side the descendants of Androcles, Phintas and Androcles, and their company...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...remain in their home, remembering their kindness when they refused to join the Lacedemonians in the war against them. The men of Nauplia on the return of the Messenians to...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...the Messenians formed an alliance with Philip the son of Amyntas and the Macedonians; it was this, they say, that prevented them from taking part in the battle...

Macedonians

75 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...the Messenians, that even without their joining the league the policy of the Achaeans was hostile to the Lacedemonians. For the Argives and the Arcadian group formed...

Achaeans

79 Messenians ...the Romans, Antony, himself a Roman, made war upon him and was joined by the Messenians and the rest of the Greeks, because the Lacedemonians were on the side of...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...all of them the most strongly fortified places, are not so strong as the Messenian wall. The Messenians possess a statue of Zeus the Saviour in the market-place...

Messenian

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Epirus ...to their magistrates, and the Illyrians who live on the Ionian Sea above Epirus reduced them by a raid. We have yet to hear of a democracy bringing prosperity...

Epirus

75 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Pelasgians ...the country. But he did not enjoy it, as he was driven out by Neleus and the Pelasgians of Iolcos, on which he departed to the adjoining country and there occupied the...

Pelasgians

79 22.25,39.75,0 Olympia ...one of the honors bestowed upon them was the dedication of bronze statues at Olympia, the group including the trainer of the chorus and the flautist. The old...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sicily ...artist was Calamis, a conjecture in accordance with the tradition about them. Sicily is inhabited by the following races: Sicanians, Sicels, and Phrygians; the...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Nemea ...two nude statues of Heracles as a boy. One represents him shooting the lion at Nemea. This Heracles and the lion with him were dedicated by Hippotion of Tarentum...

Nemea

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Eleans ...was dedicated by Anaxippus of Mende, and was transferred to this place by the Eleans. Previously it stood at the end of the road that leads from Elis to Olympia...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Aeginetan ...the shield of Idomeneus: "This is one of the many works of clever Onatas, The Aeginetan, whose sire was Micon." Not far from the offering of the Achaeans there is...

Aeginetan

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Argives ...by Nero. The artists are said to have been Dionysius and Glaucus, who were Argives by birth, but the name of their teacher is not recorded. Their date is fixed by...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...disease. Near to the greater offerings of Micythus, which were made by the Argive Glaucus, stands an image of Athena with a helmet on her head and clad in an...

Argive

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Corinthians ...at the Boar's Tomb, his second offering was occasioned by the slaughter of the Corinthians in the night. It is said that he made a third offering as the result of his...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Messenians ...the Trojans, the beginning of the Messenian misfortunes was in adultery. The Messenians commanded the mountain of Eira and its slopes as far as the Neda, some of them...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartan ...by the Lacedemonians and archers from Aptera, commanded by Euryalus the Spartan; Aristomenes rescued him and recovered all the goods that he was bringing, but...

Spartan

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...one another Aristomenes and Theoclus tried to rouse the fury of despair in the Messenians, setting forth all that suited the occasion and reminding them of the valor of...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...and despair. Moreover Hecas the seer ordered them to act thus. As soon as the Arcadians heard of the Capture of Eira, they at once ordered Aristocrates to lead them to...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sparta ...it to the slave whom he knew to be most loyal, sent him to Anaxander in Sparta. As the slave was returning, he was intercepted by some of the Arcadians, who...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Naupactus ...who were always their enemies; moreover they suspected that the men of Naupactus possessed a fleet, which was the fact; and while they commanded the sea, it was...

Naupactus

73 22.315807,38.41224,0 Athenians ...dead mother, but that afterwards she came to life again. He hoped that as the Athenians had recovered their seapower, they would be restored to Naupactus. But the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Altis ...who forswear themselves. I have enumerated the images of Zeus within the Altis with the greatest accuracy. For the offering near the great temple, though...

Altis

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...together with Thasus, the son of Agenor, in search of Europa, dedicated at Olympia a Heracles, the pedestal as well as the image being of bronze. The height of...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...the Hound of Hell, and the boar by the river Erymanthus. These were brought to Olympia by the people of Heracleia when they had overrun the land of the Mariandynians...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadia ...an Elean by birth. Beside him is Neolaidas, son of Proxenus, from Pheneus in Arcadia, who won a victory in the boys' boxing-match. Next comes Archedamus, son of...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Elean ...in the boys' boxing-match. Next comes Archedamus, son of Xenius, another Elean by birth, who like Symmachus overthrew wrestlers in the contest for boys. The...

Elean

75 21.25,37.75,0 Stratus ...by Lysippus. The athlete was the first to win the pancratium not only from Stratus itself but from the whole of Acarnania, and his name was Xenarces the son of...

Stratus

77 21.31578,38.67111,0 Olympic ...about the boxer himself. Beside this is the Messenian Damiscus, who won an Olympic victory at the age of twelve. I was exceedingly surprised to learn that while...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...Boeotia attacked Sicyon out of friendship to the Thebans. So the attack of the Eleans and Thebans against Sicyon apparently took place after the Lacedemonian...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Plataea ...Olympiad 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...

Plataea

72 23.273866,38.221019,0 Ionians ...Conon had won the naval action off Cnidus and the mountain called Dorium, the Ionians likewise changed their views, and there are to be seen statues in bronze of...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Sparta ...said, was a Corinthian, and attended the school of Syadras and Chartas, men of Sparta. The boy who is binding his head with a fillet must be mentioned in my account...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...of an Ephesian boy pancratiast, Amyntas the son of Hellanicus. Chilon, an Achaean of Patrae, won two prizes for men wrestlers at Olympia, one at Delphi, four at...

Achaean

77 Thrace ...inscription, but tradition says that it represents Aristotle from Stageira in Thrace, and that it was set up either by a pupil or else by some soldier aware of...

Thrace

80 27.5,42.5,0 Himera ...was accordingly natural for him to be proclaimed at the games as a native of Himera. The statue on the high pedestal is the work of Lysippus, and it represents...

Himera

79 13.82184,37.96884,0 Olympia ...the mountain. Here Polydamas met his end. Beside the statue of Polydamas at Olympia stand two Arcadians and one Attic athlete. The statue of the Mantinean...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Troy ...is as follows. Odysseus, so they say, in his wanderings after the capture of Troy was carried down by gales to various cities of Italy and Sicily, and among them...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Achaeans ...dwelling in Peloponnesus the Arcadians and Achaeans are aborigines. When the Achaeans were driven from their land by the Dorians, they did not retire from...

Achaeans

79 Elis ...of Moline are respected right down to the present day, and no athlete of Elis is wont to compete in the Isthmian games. There are two other accounts...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Isthmian ...two sons, Philanthus and Lampus, by his wife Lysippe. These two came to the Isthmian games to compete in the boys' pancratium, and one of them intended to wrestle...

Isthmian

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Isthmian ...of Lysippe on the Eleans, should they not voluntarily keep away from the Isthmian games. But this story too proves on examination to be silly. For Timon, a man...

Isthmian

75 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Delphi ...by Heracles, but his expedition against Pisa was stopped by an oracle from Delphi to this effect "My father cares for Pisa, but to me in the hollows of Pytho."...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...him to keep the prisoners, and Augeas to escape punishment. The women of Elis, it is said, seeing that their land had been deprived of its vigorous manhood...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Arene ...of those who held that in the heroic age and even earlier Samicum was called Arene. These quoted too the words of the Iliad: "There is a river Minyeius flowing...

Arene

79 21.59852,37.53384,0 Elis ...and deer, and the land is crossed by a river called the Selinus. The guides of Elis said that the Eleans recovered Scillus again, and that Xenophon was tried by...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Alpheius ...who are caught present at the Olympic games, or even on the other side of the Alpheius, on the days prohibited to women. However, they say that no woman has been...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Dorian ...he had conquered the Achaeans in war, captured Corinth, and driven out its Dorian inhabitants. To come to the pediments: in the front pediment there is, not yet...

Dorian

77 22.25,38.75,0 Epidaurus ...that the image, being made of ivory, needs water or dampness. When I asked at Epidaurus why they pour neither water nor olive oil on the image of Asclepius, the...

Epidaurus

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Alpheius ...this ridge which has the same name as the robber, a river, falling into the Alpheius from the south, just opposite the Erymanthus, is the boundary between the land...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Pholoe ...This river too is a tributary of the Alpheius; it descends from Mount Pholoe. Crossing the Alpheius after it you will be within the land of Pisa. In this...

Pholoe

72 21.7408,37.75407,0 Pisa ...Mount Pholoe. Crossing the Alpheius after it you will be within the land of Pisa. In this district is a hill rising to a sharp peak, on which are the ruins of...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Pylus ...the fate of Pisa, and of all her allies, to be destroyed by the Eleans. Of Pylus in the land of' Elis the ruins are to be seen on the mountain road from Olympia...

Pylus

78 Alpheius ...playmates, and to it came Alpheius. But Artemis had a suspicion of the plot of Alpheius, and smeared with mud her own face and the faces of the nymphs with her. So...

Alpheius

81 21.451667,37.6125,0 Elean ...of the festival, when the course of the sun is sinking towards the west, the Elean women do honor to Achilles, especially by bewailing him. There is another...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Aetolians ...town unobserved, and after hearing all they wished they went back again to the Aetolians. So the street received its name from the silence of the spies. One of the two...

Aetolians

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Abantes ...also took part all the Phocians except the Delphians, and with them Abantes from Euboea. Ships for the voyage were given to the Phocians by Philogenes and...

Abantes

70 23.75,38.75,0 Euboea ...took part all the Phocians except the Delphians, and with them Abantes from Euboea. Ships for the voyage were given to the Phocians by Philogenes and Damon...

Euboea

78 Miletus ...an army of Cretans both the land and the city changed their name to Miletus. Miletus and his men came from Crete, fleeing from Minos, the son of Europa; the...

Miletus

79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Leleges ...king of the Ionians who sailed against Ephesus) expelled from the land the Leleges and Lydians who occupied the upper city. Those, however, who dwelt around the...

Leleges

77 26.75,39.75,0 Eleans ...too are set up, including one on which is written the oath sworn by the Eleans to the Athenians, the Argives and the Mantineans, that they would be their...

Eleans

74 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...altar of Hephaestus some Eleans call the altar of Warlike Zeus. These same Eleans also say that Oenomaus used to sacrifice to Warlike Zeus on this altar whenever...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...altars which the Eleans dedicated. On them are engraved the questions of the Eleans, the replies of the god, and the names of the men who came to Ammon from Elis...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...who built the temple about eight years after Oxylus came to the throne of Elis. The style of the temple is Doric, and pillars stand all round it. In the rear...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Athenians ...the Eleans to remit them the fine. The Eleans refused this favour, and the Athenians were disdainful enough not to pay the money and to boycott the Olympic games...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...god at Delphi declared that he would deliver no oracle on any matter to the Athenians before they had paid the Eleans the fine. So when it was paid, images, also...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...the pancratium and wrestling at Olympia. Afterwards others were fined by the Eleans, among whom was an Alexandrian boxer at the two hundred and eighteenth...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...or give a bribe in the contests; it is an even greater wonder that one of the Eleans themselves has fallen so low. But it is said that the Elean Damonicus did so...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Apollonians ...which on the Ionian Sea Phoebus founded, he of the unshorn locks. The Apollonians, after taking the land of Abantis, set up here These images with heaven's help...

Apollonians

72 19.470413,40.720583,0 Argives ...the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cyclades ...Lepreans, who were the only people from Triphylia, but from the Aegean and the Cyclades there came not only the Tenians but also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians...

Cyclades

81 25.139512376923083,37.0415464153846,0 Tiryns ...these cities the following are at the present day uninhabited: Mycenae and Tiryns were destroyed by the Argives after the Persian wars. The Ambraciots and...

Tiryns

77 22.80004,37.59918,0 Thessalians ...it says that it is a tithe from the war between Phocis and Thessaly. If the Thessalians went to war with Phocis and dedicated the offering from Phocian plunder, this...

Thessalians

79 21.75,39.25,0 Greece ...their accounts of Italy, how its prosperity was equal to that of the whole of Greece, and their plea that it was wicked to dismiss them when they had come as...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Gauls ...only were thunderbolts and rocks broken off from Parnassus hurled against the Gauls, but terrible shapes as armed warriors haunted the foreigners. They say that...

Gauls

80 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Clazomenae ...occupied the land which they still hold, and built on the mainland the city of Clazomenae. Later they crossed over to the island through their fear of the Persians. But...

Clazomenae

81 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Phocaeans ...who abandoned their cities when the Dorians had returned to Peloponnesus. The Phocaeans are by birth from the land under Parnassus still called Phocis, who crossed to...

Phocaeans

81 26.75261,38.6684,0 Euboea ...by Amphiclus, who because of an oracle from Delphi came from Histiaea in Euboea. Three generations from Amphiclus, Hector, who also had made himself king, made...

Euboea

75 Smyrnaeans ...in the open before the entrance. A sanctuary too of Asclepius was made by the Smyrnaeans in my time between Mount Coryphe and a sea into which no other water...

Smyrnaeans

80 27.1383,38.41905,0 Chios ...grotto, where they say that Homer composed his poems. One of the sights of Chios is the grave of Oenopion, about whose exploits they tell certain legends. The...

Chios

78 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Plataea ...latter gave his name to the mountain, the former to the river. I think that Plataea also, after whom the city is named, was a daughter of King Asopus, and not of...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...to befall them. There was no open war between Plataea and Thebes; in fact the Plataeans declared that the peace with them still held, because when the Lacedemonians...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Ionians ...city on the side of Sicyonia. In them, which had previously been inhabited by Ionians, settled the Achaeans and their princes. Those who held the greatest power...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Thebans ...daily to the fields at some distance from the city, but, knowing that the Thebans were wont to conduct their assemblies with every voter present, and at the same...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...Sicyonia. In them, which had previously been inhabited by Ionians, settled the Achaeans and their princes. Those who held the greatest power among the Achaeans were...

Achaeans

81 Plataean ...Neocles, who was at the time Boeotarch at Thebes, not being unaware of the Plataean trick, proclaimed that every Theban should attend the assembly armed, and at...

Plataean

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Lacedemonians ...was the reverse of what happened to them formerly when they were taken by the Lacedemonians under Archidamus. For the Lacedemonians reduced them by preventing them from...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...of Agamemnon to Troy they furnished, while still dwelling in Lacedemon and Argos, the largest contingent in the Greek army. When the Persians under Xerxes...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athens ...eager for the alliance with Patrae, and were no less well disposed towards Athens. Of the wars waged afterwards by the confederate Greeks, the Achaeans took...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...but little smaller than the bronze Athena on the Acropolis, the one which the Athenians also erected as first-fruits of the battle at Marathon; the Plataeans too had...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaean ...itself alone, the Achaeans enjoyed their greatest power. For except Pellene no Achaean city had at any time suffered from tyranny, while the disasters of war and of...

Achaean

81 Argives ...guardian of Laodamas. When the latter had grown up and held the kingship, the Argives led their army for the second time against Thebes. The Thebans encamped over...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mysia ...expedition under Agamemnon against Troy mistook its course and the reverse in Mysia occurred, Thersander too met his death at the hands of Telephus. He had shown...

Mysia

80 27.75,40.25,0 Pelium ...and the Aetolian people Philip occupied Magnesia at the foot of Mount Pelium. The Athenians especially and the Aetolians he harried with continual attacks...

Pelium

72 23.0465058,39.43722,0 Phocian ...Spartan governors. Afterwards they also waged for ten years consecutively the Phocian war, called by the Greeks the Sacred war. I have already said in my history of...

Phocian

80 22.25,38.25,0 Athens ...the Thebans were removed from their homes by Alexander, and straggled to Athens; afterwards they were restored by Cassander, son of Antipater. Heartiest in...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...Cassander, son of Antipater. Heartiest in their support of the restoration of Thebes were the Athenians, and they were helped by Messenians and the Arcadians of...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocians ...Olympia, those at Epidaurus, and all those at Delphi that had been left by the Phocians. These he divided among his soldiery, and repaid the gods with half of the...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Theban ...he divided among his soldiery, and repaid the gods with half of the Theban territory. Although by favour of the Romans the Thebans afterwards recovered...

Theban

70 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...graze on the grass that grows here. In the circuit of the ancient wall of Thebes were gates seven in number, and these remain today. One got its name, I...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Boeotia ...and peace was made. But the Argive army marched from mid-Peloponnesus to mid-Boeotia, while Adrastus collected his allied forces out of Arcadia and from the...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Macedonians ...had come from Rome. They had come, not at all to bring war upon Philip and the Macedonians, as peace had already been made between Philip and the Romans, but to judge the...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Thebans ...the exception of Adrastus. But the action was attended by severe losses to the Thebans, and from that time they term a Cadmean victory one that brings destruction to...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...and a battle at Glisas was fiercely contested on both sides. Some of the Thebans escaped with Laodamas immediately after their defeat; those who remained behind...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonian ...the honor, Defeated by men from west and east." Now those who destroyed the Macedonian empire were the Romans, dwelling in the west of Europe, and among the allies...

Macedonian

78 21.75,41.25,0 Ismenian ...by Amphitryon for Heracles after he had worn the laurel. Higher up than the Ismenian sanctuary you may see the fountain which they say is sacred to Ares, and they...

Ismenian

79 Ladon ...got its name. Not that the river was nameless before, if indeed it was called Ladon before Ismenus was born to Apollo. On the left of the gate named Electran are...

Ladon

80 21.75,37.75,0 Thebans ...sanctuary of Heracles. The image, of white marble, is called Champion, and the Thebans Xenocritus and Eubius were the artists. But the ancient wooden image is thought...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...people. On this occasion, therefore, they too arose and attacked the Achaeans with great vehemence before the senate; accordingly, the Achaeans, at a meeting...

Achaeans

71 Dorian ...For a time flute-players had three forms of the flute. On one they played Dorian music; for Phrygian melodies flutes of a different pattern were made; what is...

Dorian

76 22.25,38.75,0 Arcadia ...statue was dedicated by Damarchus, son of Dinytas, Parrhasian by birth from Arcadia." Here the inscription ends. Eubotas of Cyrene, when the Libyan oracle...

Arcadia

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenian ...which attended all but the last, which caused his death. For when Isagoras the Athenian captured the Acropolis of the Athenians with a view to setting up a tyranny...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elatus ...which he named after himself; Aleus held his father's portion. Of the sons of Elatus, Cyllen gave his name to Mount Cyllene, and Stymphalus gave his to the spring...

Elatus

81 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Arcadian ...Alcetus, son of Alcinous, victor in the boys' boxing-match, who also was an Arcadian from Cleitor. Cleon made the statue of Alcetus; that of Xenocles is by...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympia ...of Chios, the pupil of his father Sostratus. Besides the statue of Cheimon at Olympia there is another in the temple of Peace at Rome, brought there from Argos. Both...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Leuctra ...Scedasus repaired to Lacedemon, but meeting with no justice returned to Leuctra and committed suicide. Well, on this occasion Epaminondas sacrificed with...

Leuctra

74 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenians ...They persuaded to go up to Rome the exiles of the Achaeans, along with the Messenians who had been held to be involved in the death of Philopoemen and banished on...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Achaean ...and opposed the Achaeans in everything, the plans of the Messenian and Achaean exiles were bound to enjoy an easy success. Despatches were at once sent by the...

Achaean

73 Achaeans ...to Athens and Aetolia, with instructions to bring back the Messenians and Achaeans to their homes. This caused the greatest vexation to the Achaeans. They...

Achaeans

76 Lechaeum ...the Thebans back to Boeotia. In his advance with the army he came over against Lechaeum, and was about to cross the narrow and difficult parts of the road, when...

Lechaeum

81 22.88807,37.93277,0 Lamia ...the action and one thousand killed. But when about two hundred at most fell at Lamia they were enslaved by the Lacedemonians. So the plague of treachery never...

Lamia

81 22.43516,38.9046,0 Macedonian ...their troubles proved to be Perseus and the destruction by the Romans of the Macedonian empire. Perseus, the son of Philip, who was at peace with Rome in accordance...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedemonians ...and again invading the Peloponnesus with an army of Boeotians, he overcame the Lacedemonians in a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lechaeum ...with an army of Boeotians, he overcame the Lacedemonians in a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led from Athens by Chabrias...

Lechaeum

74 22.88807,37.93277,0 Athens ...a battle at Lechaeum, and with them Achaeans of Pellene and Athenians led from Athens by Chabrias. The Thebans had a rule that they should set free for a ransom all...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rome ...he entered the assembly he declared that while Perseus was at war with Rome the most influential Achaeans, besides helping him generally, had supplied him...

Rome

73 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Rome ...served the Achaeans as their general, but I am guilty neither of treachery to Rome nor of friendship to Perseus. I am therefore ready to submit to trial either...

Rome

80 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Euboeans ...he put on his armour when he was about to give battle to Chalcodon and the Euboeans. It seems that the ancients used the verb "to gird oneself" in the sense of "to...

Euboeans

77 Arcadia ...of Dionysus. There is also in Heraea a temple of Pan, as he is native to Arcadia, and of the temple of Hera I found remaining various ruins, including the...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadian ...the temple of Hera I found remaining various ruins, including the pillars. Of Arcadian athletes the most renowned has been Damaretus of Heraea, who was the first to...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Oropus ...beguiled the Oropians into an agreement that an Athenian garrison should enter Oropus, and that the Athenians should take hostages from the Oropians. If in the...

Oropus

81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Oropians ...should enter Oropus, and that the Athenians should take hostages from the Oropians. If in the future the Oropians should have any complaint to make against the...

Oropians

76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Heraea ...at the union of the Arcadians into Megalopolis. As you go to this town from Heraea you will cross the Alpheius, and after going over a plain of just about ten...

Heraea

78 21.863791,37.613569,0 Achaeans ...who on account of his friendship with the Romans had most influence among the Achaeans. Callicrates was persuaded to adopt the plan of Menalcidas, and it was decided...

Achaeans

80 Heraea ...Near the source of the Buphagus is the boundary between Megalopolis and Heraea. Megalopolis is the youngest city, not of Arcadia only, but of Greece, with...

Heraea

74 21.863791,37.613569,0 Oropus ...this was brought to the Athenians, who, with all the speed each could, came to Oropus, again dragged away anything they had overlooked in the previous raids, and...

Oropus

81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Olympia ...The history of Micythus, his family, and why he dedicated so many offerings at Olympia, my narrative will presently set forth. A little farther on in a straight line...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Parrhasians ...Eucampidas and Hieronymus of Maenalus, Possicrates and Theoxenus of the Parrhasians. The following were the cities which the Arcadians were persuaded to abandon...

Parrhasians

74 22.25,37.25,0 Sumeteium ...of the fact that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities...

Sumeteium

76 Messenians ...that the benevolence of the gods makes all things easy. On this occasion the Messenians mourned for the loss of the boys, and one of the honors bestowed upon them was...

Messenians

80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Malea ...Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. From the Aegytae: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus...

Malea

81 23.19975,36.43603,0 Athenians ...of Sunium on the peak of the promontory. Farther on is Laurium, where once the Athenians had silver mines, and a small uninhabited island called the Island of...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 peak ...the promontory you see a harbor and a temple to Athena of Sunium on the peak of the promontory. Farther on is Laurium, where once the Athenians had silver...

peak

74 Thessaly ...Arcadians did not help the Greeks at Chaeroneia or again in the struggle in Thessaly. After a short time a tyrant arose at Megalopolis in the person of...

Thessaly

78 21.75,39.25,0 Megalopolis ...or again in the struggle in Thessaly. After a short time a tyrant arose at Megalopolis in the person of Aristodemus, a Phigalian by birth and a son of Artylas, who...

Megalopolis

78 22.126238,37.414256,0 Spartan ...both sides the army of Megalopolis had the better of the encounter. Among the Spartan killed was Acrotatus, who never succeeded to the throne of his fathers. Some...

Spartan

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...became so famous among not only the people of Megalopolis but also all the Achaeans that he rivalled the fame of Aratus. The Lacedemonians with all their forces...

Achaeans

77 Messenians ...of enemy spoils, I think from the war with the Arcarnanians and Oeniadae. The Messenians themselves declare that their offering came from their exploit with the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...Sphacteria, and that the name of their enemy was omitted through dread of the Lacedemonians; for, they say, they are not in the least afraid of Oeniadae and the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gortynius ...from the source call it the Gortynius after the village. The water of this Gortynius is colder than that of any other river. The Danube, Rhine, Hypanis...

Gortynius

77 22.25,37.75,0 Oeniadae ...dread of the Lacedemonians; for, they say, they are not in the least afraid of Oeniadae and the Acarnanians. The offerings of Micythus I found were numerous and not...

Oeniadae

81 21.1966,38.4077,0 Lydians ...from the horse of Phormis, but like it not innocent of the magic art. The Lydians surnamed Persian have sanctuaries in the city named Hierocaesareia and at...

Lydians

76 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Corcyraeans ...and the other by the Eretrians. Philesius of Eretria was the artist. Why the Corcyraeans dedicated the ox at Olympia and another at Delphi will be explained in my...

Corcyraeans

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Olympia ...other victories, at Delphi, at Argos and at Corinth. Lycinus brought foals to Olympia, and when one of them was disqualified, entered his foals for the race for...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Tricoloni ...pointed out that Thyraeus and Hypsus were sons of Lycaon. To the right of Tricoloni there is first a steep road ascending to a spring called Cruni. Descending from...

Tricoloni

77 22.165174,37.480046,0 Athenian ...with them. He also dedicated two statues at Olympia, works of Myron the Athenian. As for Arcesilaus and his son Lichas, the father won two Olympic victories...

Athenian

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mantineans ...On this mountain is what is called the Meeting of the Three Ways, whence the Mantineans fetched the bones of Arcas, the son of Callisto, at the bidding of the Delphic...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Olympia ...that he was of Milesian descent and the first Ionian to dedicate his statue at Olympia. The artist who made this statue was Polycleitus, while that of Timosthenes...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Teumessus ...of Supreme Zeus. The river, a torrent, they call the Thermodon. Returning to Teumessus and the road to Chalcis, you come to the tomb of Chalcodon, who was killed by...

Teumessus

79 23.382283,38.357554,0 Aulis ...the right is the sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter, and a little farther on is Aulis, said to have been named after the daughter of Ogygus. Here there is a temple...

Aulis

80 23.5925,38.4335,0 Tanagra ...and wide Mycalessus." Later, however, it recovered its old name. There is in Tanagra the tomb of Orion, and Mount Cerycius, the reputed birthplace of Hermes, and...

Tanagra

80 23.587064,38.309371,0 Thebans ...Sicyon out of friendship to the Thebans. So the attack of the Eleans and Thebans against Sicyon apparently took place after the Lacedemonian disaster at...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydian ...as they are called. The size of these blackbirds is the same as that of the Lydian birds, but in color they are like crows, while wattles and comb are very like...

Lydian

78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Samians ...the temple of Hera. But when the Attic ships were captured at Aegospotami, the Samians set up a statue of Lysander at Olympia, and the Ephesians set up in the...

Samians

81 26.84,37.73,0 Olympia ...at the Nemean and Isthmian games combined twelve victories, three victories at Olympia and two at Pytho. The hundred and fourth Festival, when Sostratus won his first...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Rome ...say, sent it back to Thespiae, but Nero carried it away a second time. At Rome the image perished by fire. Of the pair who sinned against the god, Gaius was...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Erythrae ...to Heracles called one of the Idaean Dactyls, to whom I found the people of Erythrae in Ionia and of Tyre possessed sanctuaries. Nevertheless, the Boeotians were...

Erythrae

78 26.48103,38.38122,0 Macedonia ...they say that afterwards Pierus, a Macedonian, after whom the mountain in Macedonia was named, came to Thespiae and established nine Muses, changing their names to...

Macedonia

76 21.75,41.25,0 Smyrnaeans ...of Pierus. Mimnermus, who composed elegiac verses about the battle between the Smyrnaeans and the Lydians under Gyges, says in the preface that the elder Muses are...

Smyrnaeans

81 27.14781,38.440912,0 Athens ...dedicated, is the most noteworthy of the works of Myron after the Erectheus at Athens. What he dedicated was not his own; he took it away from the Minyae of...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonians ...and all the animals in the city. When Libethra was now a city of ruin, the Macedonians in Dium, according to my friend of Larisa, carried the bones of Orpheus to...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Creusis ...she was deceived into being carried off were not violets, but the narcissus. Creusis, the harbor of Thespiae, has nothing to show publicly, but at the home of a...

Creusis

80 23.110281,38.20809,0 Colophon ...of vainglory he put out to sea, Lysander overcame him not far from the city of Colophon. And when for the second time he arrived from Sparta to take charge of the...

Colophon

81 27.142222,38.115556,0 Locris ...makes him the son, not of this man, but of the river Caecinus, which divides Locris from the land of Rhegium and produces the marvel of the grasshoppers. For the...

Locris

79 22.75,38.75,0 Thebes ...and foreign to the Roman character, but quite consistent with his treatment of Thebes and Orchomenus. But in Alalcomenae he added yet another to his crimes by...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Temesa ...various cities of Italy and Sicily, and among them he came with his ships to Temesa. Here one of his sailors got drunk and violated a maiden, for which offence he...

Temesa

79 16.1315,39.03644,0 Achelous ...in her hand she carries Sirens. For the story goes that the daughters of Achelous were persuaded by Hera to compete with the Muses in singing. The Muses won...

Achelous

75 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Boeotians ...the name of the village that was generally adopted was Olmones. The Boeotians say that Eteocles was the first man to sacrifice to the Graces. Moreover, they...

Boeotians

71 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Nemean ...besides his Olympian victories, won eight at the Isthmian and seven at the Nemean games. He is also said to have won a Pythian victory without a contest. He and...

Nemean

77 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Lacedemonians ...of the Graces, but they have no tradition of the names he gave them. The Lacedemonians, however, say that the Graces are two, and that they were instituted by...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pythian ...at the Isthmian and seven at the Nemean games. He is also said to have won a Pythian victory without a contest. He and Peisirodus were proclaimed by the herald as...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phlegyans ...to meet them, but he and his picked men perished in the engagement. That the Phlegyans took more pleasure in war than any other Greeks is also shown by the lines of...

Phlegyans

80 22.569853,39.798151,0 Ionia ...Troy. Orchomenians also joined with the sons of Codrus in the expedition to Ionia. When expelled from their city by the Thebans they were restored again to...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Orchomenus ...Amyntas. But Providence was to drag them ever lower and lower into decay. At Orchomenus is a sanctuary of Dionysus, but the oldest is one of the Graces. They worship...

Orchomenus

80 22.959486,38.495082,0 Aegialians ...found favour with Ion, and on the death of Selinus he became king of the Aegialians. He called the city he founded in Aegialus Helice after his wife, and called...

Aegialians

75 23.909752,37.7924365,0 Helice ...mention the ancient name of the land: Throughout all Aegialus and about wide Helice." 2.575 At that time in the reign of Ion the Eleusinians made war on the...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Lacedemonian ...the Achaeans in their struggle against Cleomenes and helped to destroy the Lacedemonian power. Antigonus of Macedonia, who was guardian of Philip, the father of...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...them without warfare. But the kings of the Ionians were afraid that, if the Achaeans united with them, Tisamenus would be chosen king of the combined people because...

Achaeans

78 Athenians ...folk. The earliest was when Iolaus of Thebes, the nephew of Heracles, led the Athenians and Thespians to Sardinia. One generation before the Ionians set sail from...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...tongue Osogoa. But the sea at Phalerum is about twenty stades distant from Athens, and the port of Mylasa is eighty stades from the city. But at Mantineia the...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ionian ...was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene, half Theban and half Ionian, had as their founders Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus, and Aepytus, the...

Ionian

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Macedonians ...Leosthenes at the head of the Athenians and the united Greeks defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 long portico ...into Lamia over against Oeta, and shut them up there. The portrait is in the long portico, where stands a market-place for those living near the sea – those farther away...

long portico

79 Athenians ...skirted by the grove of what is called the Ocean, and here the cavalry of the Athenians and Mantineans fought against the Boeotian horse. Epaminondas, the Mantineans...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocaea ...them as settlers among the Erythraeans. The cities of Clazomenae and Phocaea were not inhabited before the Ionians came to Asia. When the Ionians arrived, a...

Phocaea

72 26.75261,38.6684,0 Ionians ...cities of Clazomenae and Phocaea were not inhabited before the Ionians came to Asia. When the Ionians arrived, a wandering division of them sent for a...

Ionians

65 27.508324,37.474596,0 Mantineia ..."cork" by the Ionians, for example by Hermesianax, the elegiac poet. From Mantineia there is a road leading to Methydrium, which today is not a city, but only a...

Mantineia

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Orchomenus ...addition to the roads mentioned there are two others, leading to Orchomenus. On one is what is called the stadium of Ladas, where Ladas practised his...

Orchomenus

67 22.31536,37.724716,0 Teos ...Codridae, they accepted Deoetes, Periclus and Abartus from Erythrae and from Teos. The cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and...

Teos

79 26.785014,38.177262,0 Epidaurian ...through good.will. The leader of the Ionians was Procles, the son of Pityreus, Epidaurian himself like the greater part of his followers, who had been expelled from...

Epidaurian

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Mantineia ...she went away at first to Lacedemon, but afterwards she removed from Sparta to Mantineia, where she died. Adjoining this grave is a plain of no great size, and on the...

Mantineia

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Pheneus ...a city. Here the road forks again, one way leading to Stymphalus, the other to Pheneus. On the road to Pheneus you will come to a mountain. On this mountain meet the...

Pheneus

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Erythrae ...sight through disease, saw a vision in a dream to the effect that the women of Erythrae must cut off their locks, and in this way the men would, with a rope woven from...

Erythrae

81 26.48103,38.38122,0 Caryae ...end of the ravine is a place called Caryae. The plain of Pheneus lies below Caryae, and they say that once the water rose on it and flooded the ancient city of...

Caryae

79 22.515967,37.288734,0 Smyrnaeans ...into the sea, and on it are sea baths, the most useful baths in Ionia. The Smyrnaeans have the river Meles, with its lovely water, and at its springs is the grotto...

Smyrnaeans

77 27.14781,38.440912,0 Aegium ...world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on...

Aegium

78 22.081952,38.252707,0 Pheneus ...found his mares he was minded, it is said, to keep horses in the land of Pheneus, just as he reared his cows, they say, on the mainland opposite Ithaca. On the...

Pheneus

75 22.30692,37.91045,0 Aegeira ...Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last city on the side of Sicyonia. In them, which had...

Aegeira

74 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pheneus ...Odysseus to those tending his mares. The rest of the account of the people of Pheneus it will be reasonable to accept, but I cannot believe their statement that...

Pheneus

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Troy ...wars of the Achaeans were as follow. In the expedition of Agamemnon to Troy they furnished, while still dwelling in Lacedemon and Argos, the largest...

Troy

73 26.23873,39.9577,0 Isthmus ...anticipated no danger from the Gauls, if only they walled off the Corinthian Isthmus from the sea at Lechaeum to the other sea at Cenchreae. This was the policy of...

Isthmus

79 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Pheneus ...Thesmia is just about fifteen stades away from the city. As you go from Pheneus to Pellene and Aegeira, an Achaean city, after about fifteen stades you come to...

Pheneus

75 22.30692,37.91045,0 Lechaeum ...from the Gauls, if only they walled off the Corinthian Isthmus from the sea at Lechaeum to the other sea at Cenchreae. This was the policy of all the Peloponnesians...

Lechaeum

81 22.88807,37.93277,0 Elis ...Telamon? So it is plain that those who helped Heracles in his campaign against Elis were not the Chalcodon of Euboea and the Telamon of Aegina. It is, and always...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Achaia ...up by the sea, Aegium from of old surpassed in reputation the other cities of Achaia, while at the time it enjoyed great power. Of the remaining Greeks the...

Achaia

80 Arcadians ...Aepytus I was especially anxious to see, because Homer in his verses about the Arcadians makes mention of the tomb of Aepytus. It is a mound of earth of no great size...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Nonacris ...while on the right is the road to Nonacris and the water of the Styx. Of old Nonacris was a town of the Arcadians that was named after the wife of Lycaon. When I...

Nonacris

79 22.241203,38.014421,0 Aetolians ...Romans to Macedonia against Philip; they took part in the campaign against the Aetolians; thirdly they fought side by side with the Romans against the Syrians under...

Aetolians

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Styx ...height. A water trickles down the cliff, called by the Greeks the water of the Styx. Hesiod in the Theogony – for there are some who assign this hexameter poem to...

Styx

81 22.25,38.25,0 Crathis ...first to a high rock, through which it passes and then descends into the river Crathis. Its water brings death to all, man and beast alike. It is said too that it...

Crathis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Macedonians ...later Philip, were foretold by the inspired Sibyl. This was her oracle: Ye Macedonians, boasting of your Argive kings, To you the reign of a Philip will be both good...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...and the Achaeans, and asked the officers of the League to summon the Achaeans to a meeting, so that they might receive all together instructions to be...

Achaeans

71 Achaeans ...was to be held. Metellus and his colleagues, thinking that the conduct of the Achaeans was very insolent, on their arrival at Rome made before the senate many...

Achaeans

80 Pythian ...was proclaimed as a man of Lusi when victor in the horse-race at the eleventh Pythian festival held by the Amphictyons; but when I was there not even ruins of Lusi...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Achaeans ...of great distinction at Sparta but ungrateful to the Achaeans. For the Achaeans gave them a welcome when exiled by Nabis, and on the tyrant's death restored...

Achaeans

73 Lusi ...Lusi remained. Well, the daughters of Proetus were brought down by Melampus to Lusi, and healed of their madness in a sanctuary of Artemis. Wherefore this Artemis...

Lusi

81 22.1121,37.9719,0 Cleitorians ...Artemis. Wherefore this Artemis is called Hemerasia (She who soothes) by the Cleitorians. There is a clan of the Arcadians, called the Cynaetheans, the same folk who...

Cleitorians

79 22.103248,37.892704,0 Achaeans ...by the Achaeans at that time beyond all other men. The commissioners vexed the Achaeans yet more when they came to the assembly and delivered speeches more angry than...

Achaeans

81 Arcadians ...called Hemerasia (She who soothes) by the Cleitorians. There is a clan of the Arcadians, called the Cynaetheans, the same folk who dedicated the image of Zeus at...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 sea ...farther away from the harbor have another – but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea Conon built a...

sea

78 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Spartans ...to the Achaean League. The circuit of the city walls was restored by the Spartans right from the foundations. The restored Lacedemonian exiles carried on...

Spartans

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aroanius ...extends by the side of the work of Heracles, which made a course for the river Aroanius. By it the road goes down to a place called Lycuria, which is the boundary...

Aroanius

81 21.75,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...for the restoration of the exiles. As Appius was a zealous supporter of the Lacedemonians and opposed the Achaeans in everything, the plans of the Messenian and Achaean...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Samian ...the king of Persia, the cause of the Ionians was ruined because all the Samian captains except eleven betrayed the Ionian fleet. After reducing Ionia the...

Samian

74 26.84,37.73,0 Ionian ...Ionians was ruined because all the Samian captains except eleven betrayed the Ionian fleet. After reducing Ionia the Persians enslaved Eretria also, the most...

Ionian

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Thessaly ...of Cyneas, and Euphorbus, the son of Alcimachua. When Xerxes invaded Greece, Thessaly was betrayed by Aleuades, and Thebes by Attaginus and Timegenidas, who were the...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Elis ...of Thebes. After the Peloponnesian war, Xenias of Elis attempted to betray Elis to the Lacedemonians under Agis, and the so-called "friends" of Lysander at no...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Stymphalian ...none of these sanctuaries, but I found the following notable things. In the Stymphalian territory is a spring, from which the emperor Hadrian brought water to Corinth...

Stymphalian

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 altars of the gods named Unknown ...is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown, and of heroes, and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus; for this Phalerus...

altars of the gods named Unknown

77 Attica ...were too late to render help, Menalcidas and Callicrates urged them to invade Attica. But they met with opposition, especially from Lacedemon, and the army...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Achaeans ...senate had committed to them the right to condemn a Spartan to death. So the Achaeans claimed the right to try a Lacedemonian on a capital charge, but the...

Achaeans

80 Sparta ...reported to them the names of twenty-four citizens of the very front rank in Sparta. Thereupon was carried a motion of Agasisthenes, whose advice on this occasion...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...remarks was that they were sending envoys to settle the disputes between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. The journey of the envoys from Rome proved rather slow...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...from Rome of the envoys sent for the purpose of arbitrating between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. They delivered their instructions to the Achaeans under...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinth ...they at once turned against the Spartans who happened to be then residing in Corinth, and arrested every one, not only those whom they knew for certain to be...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...But it was such a combination that overthrew Critolaus and the Achaeans. The Achaeans were also encouraged by Pytheas, who at that time was Boeotarch at Thebes, and...

Achaeans

79 Phocis ...Critolaus in his enterprise, took the field and advanced as far as Elateia in Phocis, into which city they were received by the inhabitants on the ground of some...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Lacedemonians ...arrived in Greece the envoys despatched from Rome to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, among them being Orestes. He invited to visit him the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineia ...(Clubman) because of his weapon. As you go along the road leading from Mantineia to Pallantium, at a distance of about thirty stades, the highway is skirted by...

Mantineia

74 22.393259,37.618138,0 Boeotian ...Ocean, and here the cavalry of the Athenians and Mantineans fought against the Boeotian horse. Epaminondas, the Mantineans say, was killed by Machaerion, a man of...

Boeotian

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Lacedemonians ...had by this time already arrived to adjudicate on the dispute between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and Critolaus had a conference with them at Tegea in Arcadia...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...without help before Mummius reached Greece. So he despatched envoys to the Achaeans, bidding them release from the League the Lacedemonians and the other states...

Achaeans

78 Caphya ...to a mountain. On this mountain meet the boundaries of Orchomenus, Pheneus and Caphya. Over the boundaries extends a high crag, called the Caphyatic Rock. After the...

Caphya

81 22.262624,37.766264,0 Pheneus ...So when reminded of his oath Pelops threw him out of the ship. The people of Pheneus say that the body of Myrtilus was cast ashore by the tide, that they took it up...

Pheneus

79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Pheneatians ...them in the hearing of the initiated, and return them on the same night. Most Pheneatians, too, I know, take an oath by the Petroma in the most important affairs. On...

Pheneatians

80 22.30692,37.91045,0 Stymphalus ...by it. This mountain is the boundary between the territories of Pheneus and Stymphalus. On the left of it, as you travel through the land of Pheneus, are mountains of...

Stymphalus

78 22.45931,37.85932,0 Achaeans ...sent earlier to deal with the dispute between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, reached the Roman army at early dawn, and sending Metellus and his forces to...

Achaeans

74 Caicus ...Philopoemen, at the head of some troops sent by Attalus from Pergamus on the Caicus. Certain of the Italian troops along with the auxiliaries were stationed by...

Caicus

79 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Megalopolis ...was, when the Achaeans were but beginning to yield, Diaeus fled straight for Megalopolis, his conduct towards the Achaeans showing a marked contrast to that of...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Ladon ...the Ladon, Cleitor is sixty stades away, and the road from the source of the Ladon is a narrow gorge alongside the river Aroanius. Near the city you will cross...

Ladon

79 21.75,37.75,0 Lycian ...and, thirdly, Eileithyia . . . to be, and gave no number for them. The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to...

Lycian

73 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Achaean ...of Larisaean Athena; about thirty stades distant from the Larisus is Dyme, an Achaean city. This was the only Achaean city that in his wars Philip the son of...

Achaean

80 Dyme ...and Adrastus Phoronids, and Theseus an Erechthid. A little before the city of Dyme there is, on the right of the road, the grave of Sostratus. He was a native...

Dyme

81 21.551425,38.144625,0 Lampeia ...source in Mount Lampeia, which is said to be sacred to Pan. One might regard Lampeia as a part of Mount Erymanthus. Homer says that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . ...

Lampeia

79 21.79369,37.88094,0 Lydia ...account of Hermesianax goes on to say that, on growing up, Attis migrated to Lydia and celebrated for the Lydians the orgies of the Mother; that he rose to such...

Lydia

79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Erymanthus ...which is said to be sacred to Pan. One might regard Lampeia as a part of Mount Erymanthus. Homer says that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . . hunter . . . so . . . of...

Erymanthus

81 21.8489331,37.9816702,0 Lydians ...wroth at it, sent a boar to destroy the tillage of the Lydians. Then certain Lydians, with Attis himself, were killed by the boar, and it is consistent with this...

Lydians

80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Peirus ...forty stades from Dyme the river Peirus flows down into the sea; on the Peirus once stood the Achaean city of Olenus. The poets who have sung of Heracles and...

Peirus

74 21.75,38.25,0 Miletus ...turned to mainland in a short time the sea that once was between Priene and Miletus. The people of Psophis have also by the side of the Erymanthus a temple and...

Miletus

78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Parian ...The images in the temple are of wood, but their faces, hands and feet are of Parian marble. The image of Fury holds what is called the chest, and in her right...

Parian

79 25.150728,37.08579,0 Thebes ...of the race of the gods." In the Thebaid it is said that Adrastus fled from Thebes: "Wearing wretched clothes, and with him dark-maned Areion." They will have it...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Epidaurus ...Asclepius . . . I thought more likely, as also I set forth in my account of Epidaurus. There is a river Tuthoa, and it falls into the Ladon at the boundary between...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Patrae ...people might be incorporated into Nicopolis above Actium, the people of Patrae thus secured the image of Laphria. Most of the images out of Aetolia and from...

Patrae

74 21.738518,38.243265,0 Aegeira ...of the Achaeans this last man fought more bravely than any other soldier of Aegeira, but was killed. His surviving brothers carried home the news of his death, and...

Aegeira

78 22.3782,38.12855,0 Phelloe ...passing through the mountains and steep. It is forty stades long, and leads to Phelloe, an obscure town, which was not always inhabited even when the Ionians still...

Phelloe

81 22.413941,38.077545,0 Phelloe ...inhabited even when the Ionians still occupied the land. The district round Phelloe is well suited for the growth of the vine; the rocky parts are covered with...

Phelloe

78 22.413941,38.077545,0 Thessalian ...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...

Thessalian

79 21.75,39.25,0 Argives ...of the Pellenians, from Pallas, who was, they say, one of the Titans, but the Argives think it was from Pellen, an Argive. And they say that he was the son of...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Pellene ...and set up bowls of wine throughout the whole city. There is also at Pellene a sanctuary of Apollo, the Strangers' God, and the image is made of bronze...

Pellene

72 22.5384,38.0446,0 Pellene ...stone, not bronze. It is said too that when a war arose between Corinth and Pellene, Promachus killed a vast number of the enemy. It is said that he also overcame...

Pellene

79 22.5384,38.0446,0 Pellenian ...of the Hermus. Where the territory of Pellene borders on that of Sicyon is a Pellenian river Sythas, the last of the Achaean rivers, which flows into the Sicyonian...

Pellenian

79 22.5384,38.0446,0 Pharae ...having been given to it by Augustus. The road from the city of Patrae to Pharae is a hundred and fifty stades, while Pharae is about seventy stades inland from...

Pharae

75 21.717095,38.093144,0 Triteia ...son of Phylodameia, daughter of Danais, or someone else with the same name. Triteia, also a city of Achaia, is situated inland, but like Pharae belongs to Patrae...

Triteia

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Pharae ...the same name. Triteia, also a city of Achaia, is situated inland, but like Pharae belongs to Patrae, having been annexed by the emperor. The distance to Triteia...

Pharae

79 21.717095,38.093144,0 Troy ...from the sea on every side and dwell in the interior. Hence, when they went to Troy, so Homer says, they did not sail in their own ships, but in vessels lent by...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Arcadians ...they did not sail in their own ships, but in vessels lent by Agamemnon. The Arcadians say that Pelasgus was the first inhabitant of this land. It is natural to...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadia ...to touch the land of the Arcadians, uttered the following verses: "In Arcadia are many men who eat acorns, Who will prevent you; though I do not grudge it...

Arcadia

72 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lycaean ...Lycaean games. I hold that the Panathenian festival was not founded before the Lycaean. The early name for the former festival was the Athenian, which was changed to...

Lycaean

81 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Olympia ...(Runner), proved true to it in the long race, for he won two victories at Olympia, two at Pytho, three at the Isthmus and five at Nemea. He is said to have also...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...is by Pythagoras; the one next to it, representing Pythocles, a pentathlete of Elis, was made by Polycleitus. Socrates of Pellene won the boys' race, and Amertes...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Parrhasia ...the names of the victors. As to the boxer, by name Damarchus, an Arcadian of Parrhasia, I cannot believe (except, of course, his Olympic victory) what romancers say...

Parrhasia

80 22.25,37.25,0 Libethra ...of men, and drowning the inhabitants and all the animals in the city. When Libethra was now a city of ruin, the Macedonians in Dium, according to my friend of...

Libethra

77 22.53438,40.02458,0 Chalcis ...is the one which it is said Hesiod received for winning the prize for song at Chalcis on the Euripus. Men too live round about the grove, and here the Thespians...

Chalcis

80 23.602,38.464,0 Thespiae ...being carried off were not violets, but the narcissus. Creusis, the harbor of Thespiae, has nothing to show publicly, but at the home of a private person I found an...

Thespiae

81 23.154521,38.293384,0 Athenian ...the Athenian commander-in-chief at Aegospotami, along with four thousand other Athenian prisoners, were put to death by Lysander, who even refused them burial...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Haliartus ...Tilphusius and the spring called Tilphusa are about fifty stades away from Haliartus. The Greeks declare that the Argives, along with the sons of Polyneices, after...

Haliartus

77 23.088416,38.379818,0 Alalcomenae ...blood ran water rose up from the earth. Wherefore the river is called Lophis. Alalcomenae is a small village, and it lies at the very foot of a mountain of no great...

Alalcomenae

81 23.00169,38.385259,0 Mases ...runs a road to Mases for those who have turned aside from the straight road. Mases was in old days a city, even as Homer represents it in the catalogue of the...

Mases

79 23.142191,37.417868,0 Argives ...was in old days a city, even as Homer represents it in the catalogue of the Argives, but in my time the Hermionians were using it as a seaport. From Mases there...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Hermionians ...as Homer represents it in the catalogue of the Argives, but in my time the Hermionians were using it as a seaport. From Mases there is a road on the right to a...

Hermionians

77 23.243591,37.385218,0 Phliasia ...to all the gods in common. On the further side of Orneae are Sicyonia and Phliasia. On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a building made very...

Phliasia

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Lessa ...altars to Zeus and Hera. When rain is needed they sacrifice to them here. At Lessa the Argive territory joins that of Epidaurus. But before you reach Epidaurus...

Lessa

80 22.9427,37.5969,0 Argives ...from their island by the Athenians. In my time Thyreatis was inhabited by the Argives, who say that they recovered it by the award of an arbitration. As you go from...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...Tanaus, which is the only one descending from Mount Parnon, flows through the Argive territory and empties itself into the Gulf of Thyrea.

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidaurians ...that whereas the former sacrifice goats, it is against the custom of the Epidaurians to do so. That Asclepius was considered a god from the first, and did not...

Epidaurians

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidauria ...considered sacred to Asclepius, and are tame with men. These are peculiar to Epidauria, and I have noticed that other lands have their peculiar animals. For in Libya...

Epidauria

79 23.02637,36.731301,0 Delphi ...Pythian priestess approved. Tradition has it that Aristodemus himself died at Delphi before the Dorians returned to the Peloponnesus, but those who glorify his fate...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...part of the mainland. When Echestratus, son of Agis, was king at Sparta, the Lacedemonians removed all the Cynurians of military age, alleging as a reason that...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegys ...Charilaus, the king of the other house, helped Archelaus to destroy Aegys, but the exploits he achieved when leading the Lacedemonians by himself, these...

Aegys

70 22.165456,37.246287,0 Aeginetans ...but in another place, and his image is of stone, and seated. Of the gods, the Aeginetans worship most Hecate, in whose honor every year they celebrate mystic rites...

Aeginetans

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Dorians ...they distinguished themselves by glorious achievements. To this heroism the Dorians bore witness by raising a trophy against the Amyclaeans, implying that their...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Epidaurians ...images made of olive wood that they received from the Athenians, how the Epidaurians left off paying to the Athenians what they had agreed to pay, on the ground...

Epidaurians

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Eleusis ...and sacrificed to them in the same way as it is customary to sacrifice at Eleusis. So much I must relate about Aegina, for the sake of Aeacus and his exploits...

Eleusis

76 23.538311,38.041096,0 Troezen ...horse Pegasus struck the ground with his hoof, and that Bellerophontes came to Troezen to ask Pittheus to give him Aethra to wife, but before the marriage took place...

Troezen

81 Athens ...burned, burned up the suppliants with it. He also conducted campaigns against Athens, by the first of which he delivered the Athenians from the sons of Peisistratus...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troezenians ...that every year they hold in honor of Artemis a festival called Saronia. The Troezenians possess islands, one of which is near the mainland, and it is possible to wade...

Troezenians

80 Methana ...I have seen before now men trying to keep off hail by sacrifices and spells. Methana, then, is a peninsula of the Peloponnesus. Within it, bordering on the land of...

Methana

80 23.34909,37.58672,0 Peiraeus ...by Lysander. Although he won a battle against the Athenians holding the Peiraeus, yet immediately after the battle he resolved to lead his army back home, and...

Peiraeus

74 23.644609,37.937222,0 Hermionians ...and not more than three stades in breadth where it is broadest. Here the Hermionians had their former city. They still have sanctuaries here: one of Poseidon at the...

Hermionians

76 23.243591,37.385218,0 Corinth ...Aristodemus was in command of the Lacedemonians when they won their success at Corinth. When Agesipolis grew up and came to the throne, the first Peloponnesians...

Corinth

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sparta ...called the Agiadae, Cleomenes the son of Leonidas was the last king in Sparta. I will now relate what I have heard about the other house. Procles the son of...

Sparta

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...on coming to the throne in place of Demaratus, took part with the Athenians and the Athenian general Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, in the engagement of...

Athenians

68 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athena Alea ...went into exile to Tegea, where he sought sanctuary as a suppliant of Athena Alea. Zeuxidamus, the son of Leotychides, died of disease while Leotychides was...

Athena Alea

72 22.429,37.464,0 Amyclaean ...the victory at Aegospotami. Bathycles of Magnesia, who made the throne of the Amyclaean, dedicated, on the completion of the throne, Graces and an image of Artemis...

Amyclaean

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Amyclaeans ...a sanctuary and image of Alexandra worth seeing. Alexandra is said by the Amyclaeans to be Cassandra, the daughter of Priam. Here is also a statue of Clytaemnestra...

Amyclaeans

76 24.76084,35.0133,0 Crotona ...says was Leonymus of Crotona. For when war had arisen between the people of Crotona and the Locri in Italy, the Locri, in virtue of the relationship between them...

Crotona

78 17.205128,39.028864,0 Lyceum ...Lycus came when he fled from Aegeus, were called Lycii after him. Behind the Lyceum is a monument of Nisus, who was killed while king of Megara by Minos, and the...

Lyceum

80 Brauronian ...and Myron's Perseus after beheading Medusa. There is also a sanctuary of Brauronian Artemis; the image is the work of Praxiteles, but the goddess derives her name...

Brauronian

75 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Argives ...son of Achilles, and if the end of the son of Aeacides was such as the Argives say and Lyceas has described in his poem. The account, how ever, given by...

Argives

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...compete with the Phrygians. It is said, then, that when Demeter came to Argos she was received by Pelasgus into his home, and that Chrysanthis, knowing about...

Argos

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...in the life of mortals and in the vicissitudes of fortune, but honored by the Athenians alone among the Greeks. And they are conspicuous not only for their humanity...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thesprotia ...of day, but the most plausible account I have heard is this. Theseus invaded Thesprotia to carry off the wife of the Thesprotian king, and in this way lost the greater...

Thesprotia

79 20.25,39.75,0 Dodona ...at Cichyrus. Among the sights of Thesprotia are a sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona and an oak sacred to the god. Near Cichyrus is a lake called Acherusia, and a...

Dodona

74 20.78784,39.54648,0 Attica ...the kingdom thus. It is said that Actaeus was the first king of what is now Attica. When he died, Cecrops, the son-in-law of Actaeus, received the kingdom, and...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athenians ...lived, and the kingdom of Cecrops fell to Cranaus, the most powerful of the Athenians. They say that Cranaus had daughters, and among them Atthis; and from her they...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mysians ...to me to narrate their deeds also, and how the sovereignty of Egypt, of the Mysians and of the neighboring peoples fell into the hands of their fathers. 27 The...

Mysians

78 27.75,40.25,0 Athens ...against Antigonus and the Macedonians, but it did very little to save Athens. His children were by Arsinoe, not his sister, but the daughter of Lysimachus...

Athens

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thurian ...failed to bring back to Antipater and the Macedonians. This Archias was a Thurian who undertook the abominable task of bringing to Antipater for punishment those...

Thurian

76 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Thebans ...and for the second time assumed control of Egypt. He made war against the Thebans, who had revolted, reduced them two years after the revolt, and treated them so...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonian ...as because they thought to serve their immediate ends. This Lysimachus was a Macedonian by birth and one of Alexander's body-guards, whom Alexander once in anger shut...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...of Alexander, Lysimachus ruled such of the Thracians, who are neighbors of the Macedonians, as had been under the sway of Alexander and before him of Philip. These would...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...in allegiance to Olympias and joined in her campaign against Aridaeus and the Macedonians, although the Epeirots refused to accompany him. Olympias on her victory...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Memphis ...sanctuaries of Serapis the most famous is at Alexandria, the oldest at Memphis. Into this neither stranger nor priest may enter, until they bury Apis. Not far...

Memphis

73 31.254278,29.849667,0 Thuria ...They say that Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here. On the road from Thuria towards Arcadia are the springs of the Pamisus, at which little children find...

Thuria

76 22.05141,37.11343,0 Olympia ...of Parian marble, the work of Damophon, the artist who repaired the Zeus at Olympia with extreme accuracy when the ivory parted. Honors have been granted to him by...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delphi ...they said that they sent to Rhodes for them, and that it was the god of Delphi who ordered it. They also instructed me in the nature of the rites carried out...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...are willing to accept this, this too cannot be denied, that his hatred for the Lacedemonians was imparted to Aristomenes for all time. What I myself heard in Thebes gives...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenian ...offering to Trophonius. There is also a bronze statue of Aristomenes in the Messenian running-ground. Not far from the theater is a sanctuary of Sarapis and...

Messenian

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Oechalia ...was a hero, it is said. Facing the plain is a site anciently called Oechalia, in our time the Carnasian grove, thickly grown with cypresses. There are...

Oechalia

70 Pamisus ...which discharges opposite the Echinades islands. But the fish that enter the Pamisus are of quite a different kind, as the water is pure and not muddy like the...

Pamisus

80 21.75,37.25,0 Asine ...and appealed to Eurystheus. Being at feud with Heracles, he gave them Asine in the Argolid. The men of Asine are the only members of the race of the...

Asine

72 22.87403,37.52659,0 Parnassus ...of their sanctuaries in memory of those which they once had, established on Parnassus. For they have both a temple of Apollo and again a temple and ancient statue of...

Parnassus

78 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Illyrians ...threw off all control and disdained to listen to their magistrates, and the Illyrians who live on the Ionian Sea above Epirus reduced them by a raid. We have yet to...

Illyrians

78 19.5,41.5,0 Iolcos ...But he did not enjoy it, as he was driven out by Neleus and the Pelasgians of Iolcos, on which he departed to the adjoining country and there occupied the Pylos in...

Iolcos

80 22.96886,39.366305,0 Thessalian ...to Nestor and to Neleus before him were kept. These cattle must have been of Thessalian stock, having once belonged to Iphiclus the father of Protesilaus. Neleus...

Thessalian

80 21.75,39.25,0 Arcadia ...say that the Peloponnesus has five, and only five, divisions must agree that Arcadia contains both Arcadians and Eleans, that the second division belongs to the...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Dryopians ...their land from the Roman Emperor is two hundred and seventeen years. The Dryopians reached the Peloponnesus from Parnassus, the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we...

Dryopians

76 24.25,38.25,0 Eleans ...people of Heracleia near Miletus do not agree with the Eleans for while the Eleans show a tomb of Endymion, the folk of Heracleia say that he retired to Mount...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Pisa ...Ares, and the common report agrees with them), but while lord of the land of Pisa he was put down by Pelops the Lydian, who crossed over from Asia. On the death...

Pisa

79 21.653041,37.639535,0 Olympic ...the Isthmian games. But how could the Corinthians themselves take part in the Olympic games if the Eleans against their will were shut out by the Corinthians from...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thebans ...afterwards took Elis and sacked it, with an army he had raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Olympic ...the beginning they have been subject to the Eleans. Such of them as have won Olympic victories have been announced by the herald as Eleans from Lepreus, and...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elean ...of Hera is the statue of a wrestler, Symmachus the son of Aeschylus. He was an Elean by birth. Beside him is Neolaidas, son of Proxenus, from Pheneus in Arcadia...

Elean

81 21.25,37.75,0 Acarnanian ...horse-breeders from Sparta have their statues set up after that of the Acarnanian athlete Xenarces, Lycinus, Arcesilaus, and Lichas his son. Xenarces succeeded...

Acarnanian

73 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Mantineans ...diviner, Thrasybulus, son of Aeneas of the Iamid family, who divined for the Mantineans in their struggle against the Lacedemonians under Agis, son of Eudamidas, their...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Altis ...made by Daedalus of Sicyon, who also made for the Eleans the trophy in the Altis commemorating the victory over the Spartans. The inscription on the Samian...

Altis

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Samian ...the Altis commemorating the victory over the Spartans. The inscription on the Samian boxer says that his trainer Mycon dedicated the statue and that the Samians are...

Samian

81 26.84,37.73,0 Eleans ...killed in single combat the general of the enemy, who had challenged him. The Eleans say that the dead general was a native of Sicyon in command of Sicyonian...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonian ...of the Eleans and Thebans against Sicyon apparently took place after the Lacedemonian disaster at Leuctra. Next stands the statue of a boxer from Lepreus in Elis...

Lacedemonian

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyon ...that of Pyrilampes was made by a sculptor of the same name, a native, not of Sicyon, but of Messene beneath Ithome. A statue of Lysander, son of Aristocritus, a...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 goddesses ...(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...

goddesses

73 Ptolemy, ...by Patroclus, who was admiral in command of the Egyptian men-of-war sent by Ptolemy, son of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, to help the Athenians, when Antigonus, son of...

Ptolemy,

78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 house of Poulytion ...contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes. In it is the house of Poulytion, at which it is said that a mystic rite was performed by the most notable...

house of Poulytion

80 precinct of Athena and Zeus ...is a portrait of Themistocles. The most noteworthy sight in the Peiraeus is a precinct of Athena and Zeus. Both their images are of bronze; Zeus holds a staff and a Victory, Athena a...

precinct of Athena and Zeus

81 it ...for mariners, and had three harbors as against one at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks there, and near the...

it

74 23.644609,37.937222,0 wall ...a daemon attendant upon Dionysos; it is only a face of him worked into the wall. After the precinct of Dionysos is a building that contains clay images...

wall

77 precinct of Dionysos ...upon Dionysos; it is only a face of him worked into the wall. After the precinct of Dionysos is a building that contains clay images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting...

precinct of Dionysos

74 Island of Patroclus ...once the Athenians had silver mines, and a small uninhabited island called the Island of Patroclus. For a fortification was built on it and a palisade constructed by Patroclus...

Island of Patroclus

81 23.875,37.625,0 Pegasus of Eleutherae ...Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods. Here also is Pegasus of Eleutherae, who introduced the god to the Athenians. Herein he was helped by the oracle at...

Pegasus of Eleutherae

77 23.37572,38.17934,0 Oeta ...in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against Oeta, and shut them up there. The portrait is in the long portico, where stands a...

Oeta

79 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 images ...into the wall. After the precinct of Dionysos is a building that contains clay images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods. Here also is...

images

81 Salamis ...King Artaxerxes. This he did as an Athenian whose ancestry connected him with Salamis, for he traced his pedigree back to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras. Here...

Salamis

80 23.5314735,37.947768,0 temple of Artemis of Munychia ...themselves. The Athenians have also another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a...

temple of Artemis of Munychia

75 another ...another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter...

another

77 Eleusinian mysteries ...that a mystic rite was performed by the most notable Athenians, parodying the Eleusinian mysteries. But in my time it was devoted to the worship of Dionysus. This Dionysus they...

Eleusinian mysteries

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Apollo ...Athena Paeonia (Healer), of Zeus, of Mnemosyne (Memory) and of the Muses, an Apollo, the votive offering and work of Eubulides, and Acratus, a daemon attendant...

Apollo

79 Timotheus ...by Hesiod, among others, in his poem on women. Near the portico stand Conon, Timotheus his son and Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be...

Timotheus

80 Demos ...called the Twelve. On the wall opposite are painted Theseus, Democracy and Demos. The picture represents Theseus as the one who gave the Athenians political...

Demos

77 Sphacteria ...mentions Nestor, always adding that he was king of sandy Pylos. The island of Sphacteria lies in front of the harbor just as Rheneia off the anchorage at Delos. It...

Sphacteria

81 21.665725,36.930136,0 Dorians ...the second division belongs to the Achaeans, and the remaining three to the Dorians. Of the races dwelling in Peloponnesus the Arcadians and Achaeans are...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Achaeans ...anything, and, when Menalcidas laid down his office, accused him before the Achaeans on a capital charge. He said that Menalcidas, when on an embassy to Rome, had...

Achaeans

78 Achaeans ...freed them from the Achaean League. So the result of the debate was that the Achaeans again came near to actual war with the Lacedemonians, and Damocritus, who had...

Achaeans

80 Lacedemonians ...of the debate was that the Achaeans again came near to actual war with the Lacedemonians, and Damocritus, who had been elected general of the Achaeans at this time...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...to mobilize an army against Sparta. But about this time there arrived in Macedonia a Roman force under Metellus, whose object was to put down the rebellion of...

Macedonia

75 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...Roman senate to settle the affairs of Asia, to parley with the chiefs of the Achaeans before making the crossing. They were to order them not to attack Sparta, but...

Achaeans

79 Heracleia ...nor yet Corinth itself should belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus should be released from the Achaean...

Heracleia

78 22.442503,38.790767,0 Rome ...separated from them the foreigners and let them go. They also despatched to Rome Thearidas, with certain other members of the Achaean government. These set out...

Rome

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Thebans ...also encouraged by Pytheas, who at that time was Boeotarch at Thebes, and the Thebans promised to give enthusiastic support in the war. The Thebans had been...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...envoys sent to Greece and from the despatches of Metellus, decided that the Achaeans were in the wrong, and they ordered Mummius, the consul elected for that year...

Achaeans

78 Lacedemonians ...he despatched envoys to the Achaeans, bidding them release from the League the Lacedemonians and the other states mentioned in the order of the Romans, promising that the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...the Romans began their attack. But when Mummius advanced to meet them, the Achaean horse at once took to flight, without waiting for even the first charge of the...

Achaean

78 Corinth ...routed them. If after the battle Diaeus had boldly thrown himself into Corinth and received the fugitives within the walls, the Achaeans might have been able...

Corinth

74 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenian ...by the same way back to Syracuse. Finding the enemy still plundering the Athenian camp, he cut down some five of them, and then both he and his horse received...

Athenian

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedonia ...only to be struck down a few years later by the ascendancy of Macedonia. From Macedonia the wrath of Alexander swooped like a thunderbolt on Thebes of Boeotia. The...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Olympia ...likely to be led into a fallacy by the inscription on the statue of Oebotas at Olympia. Oebotas was a man of Dyme, who won the foot-race at the sixth Festival and was...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Dyme ...by the inscription on the statue of Oebotas at Olympia. Oebotas was a man of Dyme, who won the foot-race at the sixth Festival and was honored, because of a...

Dyme

79 21.551425,38.144625,0 Patraeans ...also from Rhypes, which town he razed to the ground. He granted freedom to the Patraeans, and to no other Achaeans; and he granted also all the other privileges that...

Patraeans

81 21.738518,38.243265,0 Calydonians ...the image of Dionysus. The god listened to the prayer of his priest, and the Calydonians at once became raving as though through drink, and they were still out of their...

Calydonians

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Dodona ...everything had been prepared for the sacrifice according to the oracle from Dodona, the maiden was led like a victim to the altar. Coresus stood ready to...

Dodona

78 20.78784,39.54648,0 Rome ...nor images, the latter, according to the natives, having been carried away to Rome. In the grove at Pharae is an altar of unshaped stones. I could not discover...

Rome

80 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Pharae ...according to the natives, having been carried away to Rome. In the grove at Pharae is an altar of unshaped stones. I could not discover whether the founder of...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Patrae ...also a city of Achaia, is situated inland, but like Pharae belongs to Patrae, having been annexed by the emperor. The distance to Triteia from Pharae is a...

Patrae

72 21.738518,38.243265,0 Pharae ...to Patrae, having been annexed by the emperor. The distance to Triteia from Pharae is a hundred and twenty stades. Before you enter the city is a tomb of white...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Cumae ...founder of Triteia is said by some to have been Celbidas, who came from Cumae in the country of the Opici. Others say that Ares mated with Triteia the...

Cumae

74 26.936283,38.75953,0 Nemea ...Argos. Euanoridas of Elis won the boys' wrestling-match both at Olympia and at Nemea. When he was made an umpire he joined the ranks of those who have recorded at...

Nemea

81 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Arcadian ...at Olympia the names of the victors. As to the boxer, by name Damarchus, an Arcadian of Parrhasia, I cannot believe (except, of course, his Olympic victory) what...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympia ...of him, otherwise it would have been recorded as well in the inscription at Olympia, which runs: "This statue was dedicated by Damarchus, son of Dinytas...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Achaeans ...son of Dryon, a pancratiast of Pellene, will be included in my account of the Achaeans. Not far from Promachus is set up the statue of Timasitheus, a Delphian by...

Achaeans

80 Syracuse ...won the foot-race. Plainly, therefore, he would have announced himself as of Syracuse, not Gela. The fact is that this Gelon must be a private person, of the same...

Syracuse

79 15.29382,37.05963,0 Pytho ...boxing-match at Olympia four times; he had the same number of victories at Pytho, but at this time neither the Corinthians nor the Argives kept complete records...

Pytho

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleans ...reached the umpires first, realized that she had won and stopped running. The Eleans proclaimed Pheidolas the winner and allowed him to dedicate a statue of this...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...to this Pherias was different, in fact the exact opposite of what happened at Olympia to Nicasylus of Rhodes. Being eighteen years of age he was not allowed by the...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...death before he returned home to Rhodes. The feat of the Rhodian wrestler at Olympia was in my opinion surpassed by Artemidorus of Tralles. He failed in the boys'...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...there is a memorial of his victory also at Olympia. The statue of Olidas, of Elis, was dedicated by the Aetolian nation, and Charinus of Elis is represented in a...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...His victories at Pytho were all in the pancratium, three in number. At Olympia this Cleitomachus was the first after Theagenes of Thasos to be proclaimed...

Olympia

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...and by his side is an Elean athlete, Paeanius the son of Damatrius, who won at Olympia a victory in wrestling besides two Pythian victories. There is also Clearetus...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Colophonians ...his native place, though it does state that he was of Arcadian descent. Two Colophonians, Hermesianax son of Agoneus and Eicasius son of Lycinus and the daughter of...

Colophonians

78 27.142222,38.115556,0 Eleans ...of Hermesianax was dedicated by the commonwealth of Colophon. Near these are Eleans who beat the boys at boxing, Choerilus the work of Sthennis of Olynthus, and...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Athenian ...of Thessaly, placed him before Polycrates, who was a shining light of the Athenian school. Gorgias, they say, lived to be one hundred and five years old. Leontini...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lampsacus ...passionate monarch, he circumvented by the following artifice. The people of Lampsacus favoured the cause of the Persian king, or were suspected of doing so, and...

Lampsacus

80 26.68998,40.34869,0 Metapontines ...image of Dionysus with face, feet and hands of ivory. In the treasury of the Metapontines, which adjoins that of the Selinuntians, stands an Endymion; it too is of ivory...

Metapontines

80 16.824063,40.383868,0 Selinuntians ...of ivory. In the treasury of the Metapontines, which adjoins that of the Selinuntians, stands an Endymion; it too is of ivory except the drapery. How it came about...

Selinuntians

76 12.75,37.75,0 Eleans ...at Athens. At this time Athenian offices were not yet annual, nor had the Eleans begun to record the Olympiads. The Argives are said to have helped the...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Athenian ...Again it is clear that at a later date, when they were lying opposite the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians bought Adeimantus and other Athenian...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...battle began, leaving the Messenian left and center without troops. For the Arcadians occupied both positions in the absence of the Eleians from the battle and of...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eira ...herbs" meaning the green corn or the time just before harvest. Settling on Eira and cut off from the rest of Messenia, except in so far as the people of Pylos...

Eira

78 21.927988,37.398271,0 promontory ...Sunium promontory stands out from the Attic land. When you have rounded the promontory you see a harbor and a temple to Athena of Sunium on the peak of the...

promontory

78 24.125,37.625,0 Thelpusian ...writing on a slab:– "The boundary between Psophis and Thelpusa." In the Thelpusian territory is a river called Arsen (Male). Cross this and go on for about...

Thelpusian

74 22.994538,38.371064,0 Phocians ...at Abae also, after the Persian invasion, until in the Phocian war some Phocians, overcome in battle, took refuge in Abae. Whereupon the Thebans gave them to...

Phocians

74 22.25,38.25,0 Thelpusa ...and a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. This sanctuary is on the borders of Thelpusa. In it are images, each no less than seven feet high, of Demeter, her daughter...

Thelpusa

78 21.87884,37.710489,0 Alpheius ...Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians. Where the Ladon itself falls into the Alpheius is an island called the Island of Crows. Those who have thought that Enispe...

Alpheius

79 21.451667,37.6125,0 Argolis ...Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in Argolis, the Argives had less to fear from the Lacedemonians, while they were in a...

Argolis

81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Attica ...that by descent they are not Phocian, but Athenian, and that they came from Attica with Peteus, the son of Orneus, when he was pursued from Athens by Aegeus. They...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Methydrium ...by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. Of those belonging to Orchomenus: Thisoa, Methydrium, Teuthis. These were joined by Tripolis, as it is called, Callia, Dipoena...

Methydrium

80 22.168912,37.627412,0 Leuctra ...year, but a few months later, as occurred the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, when Phrasicleides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the hundred and...

Leuctra

79 23.18095,38.25422,0 Theban ...in the foot-race. When the citizens of Megalopolis had been enrolled in the Theban alliance they had nothing to fear from the Lacedemonians. But when the Thebans...

Theban

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Doris ...colony, which was founded by a union of emigrants from the cities in ancient Doris. The Boulians are said of Philomelus and the Phocians . . . the general...

Doris

79 22.25,38.75,0 Boulis ...so rough and difficult to cross are the mountains between Anticyra and Boulis. To the harbor from Anticyra is a sail of one hundred stades, and the road by...

Boulis

73 22.802911,38.276455,0 Macedonian ...a little responsible for the rise of Philip, the son of Amyntas, and of the Macedonian empire, and the Arcadians did not help the Greeks at Chaeroneia or again in the...

Macedonian

78 21.75,41.25,0 Megalopolis ...fierce battle took place, and after many had fallen on both sides the army of Megalopolis had the better of the encounter. Among the Spartan killed was Acrotatus, who...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...The Lacedemonian people were in no way responsible for the disaster to Megalopolis, because Cleomenes had changed their constitution from a kingship to a...

Megalopolis

73 22.126238,37.414256,0 Aetolians ...is given to this view by the fact that, when the Roman emperor drove the Aetolians from their homes in order to found the new city of Nicopolis, the greater part...

Aetolians

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Teuthis ...Teuthis sanctuaries of Aphrodite and Artemis. These are the notable things at Teuthis. On the road from Gortys to Megalopolis stands the tomb of those who were...

Teuthis

81 22.041285,37.597441,0 Amphissa ...shows that this image is older, and of rougher workmanship, than the Athena in Amphissa. The Amphissians also celebrate mysteries in honor of the Boy Kings, as they...

Amphissa

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Thocnia ...Demeter. Going on from here you will cross the Alpheius again and reach Thocnia, which is named after Thocnus, the son of Lycaon, and today is altogether...

Thocnia

74 22.077856,37.41772,0 Naupactus ...a waking vision. For she found in her own hands a sealed tablet; so sailing to Naupactus she bade Phalysius take away the seal and read what was written. He did not...

Naupactus

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Callians ...the Spercheius and across Thessaly again, invaded Aetolia. The fate of the Callians at the hands of Combutis and Orestorius is the most wicked ever heard of, and...

Callians

77 22.171569,38.553535,0 Aetolians ...they were met by the Patraeans, who alone of the Achaeans were helping the Aetolians. Being trained as hoplites they made a frontal attack on the barbarians, but...

Aetolians

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Argives ...from his attitude, whether it will be possible for him to rescue Aethra. The Argives say that Theseus had also a son Melanippus by the daughter of Sinis, and that...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mysia ...are Auge of Arcadia and Iphimedeia. Auge visited the house of Teuthras in Mysia, and of all the women with whom Heracles is said to have mated, none gave birth...

Mysia

76 27.75,40.25,0 Salamis ...again to the upper part of the painting, you see, next to Actaeon, Ajax of Salamis, and also Palamedes and Thersites playing with dice, the invention of...

Salamis

77 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Laodiceia ...It is sacred to the Mother, and there is an image of her. Themisonium above Laodiceia is also inhabited by Phrygians. When the army of the Gauls was laying waste...

Laodiceia

79 29.10786,37.83692,0 Abae ...founder, who was a son of Lynceus and of Hypermnestra, the daughter of Danaus. Abae from of old has been considered sacred to Apollo, and here too there was an...

Abae

81 22.9154,38.58006,0 Apollo surnamed Patroos ...pictures were painted for the Athenians by Euphranor, and he also wrought the Apollo surnamed Patroos (Paternal) in the temple hard by. And in front of the temple is one Apollo made...

Apollo surnamed Patroos

80 Greeks ...to Athens was destroyed, but nevertheless they came to Troy to fight all the Greeks as well as the Athenians them selves. After the Amazons come the Greeks when...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...the disaster at Chaeronea was the beginning of misfortune for all the Greeks, and especially did it enslave those who had been blind to the danger and such...

Greeks

72 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...soldier. He had already proved himself a general benefactor of Greece. All the Greeks that were serving as mercenaries in the armies of Darius and his satraps...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 city ...that which they are prevented from seeing. The hero Eleusis, after whom the city is named, some assert to be a son of Hermes and of Daeira, daughter of Ocean...

city

78 city ...know the true story but conceal it, not wishing it to be thought that their city was captured in the reign of Nisus, but that both Megareus, the son-in-law of...

city

78 city ...part of Megaris borders upon Boeotia, and in it the Megarians have built the city Pagae and another one called Aegosthena. As you go to Pagae, on turning a...

city

79 city ...who fought with him in single combat for his kingdom, and gave his name to the city which is still called after him. To Andromache, who accompanied him, there is...

city

81 Hyperboreans ...foreigners. They say that two of them, Hyperochus and Amadocus, came from the Hyperboreans, and that the third was Pyrrhus son of Achilles. Because of this help in battle...

Hyperboreans

80 Corinth ...studied philosophy under Zeno, the son of Mnaseas. When Aratus had liberated Corinth, the League was joined by the Epidaurians and Troezenians inhabiting Argolian...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...So Doridas and Hyanthidas gave up the kingship to Aletes and remained at Corinth, but the Corinthian people were conquered in battle and expelled by the...

Corinth

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...and Hyanthidas. While these were kings the Dorians took the field against Corinth, their leader being Aletes, the son of Hippotas, the son of Phylas, the son of...

Corinth

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...still exists, being the likeness of a woman frightful to look upon but after Corinth was laid waste by the Romans and the old Corinthians were wiped out, the new...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 sanctuary of Athena ...My statement is likewise confirmed by the spear of Achilles dedicated in the sanctuary of Athena at Phaselis, and by the sword of Memnon in the Nicomedian temple of Asclepius...

sanctuary of Athena

79 Egyptian expedition ...Athens with an army and a fleet. To the help of the Athenians there came the Egyptian expedition with Patroclus, and every available man of the Lacedemonians with Areus their...

Egyptian expedition

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...would Agesipolis consent to take away his forces. And yet more than any other Greeks were the Lacedemonians (in this respect like the Athenians) frightened by signs...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...by the path that stretches across Oeta, and enabled the enemy to surround the Greeks; so Leonidas was overwhelmed and the foreigners passed along into...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...mother Demonassa, the sister of Amphilochus. The Lacedemonians are the only Greeks who surname Hera Goat-eater, and sacrifice goats to the goddess. They say that...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Lacedemonians are known to have used the oracle in Libya more than any other Greeks. It is said also that when Lysander was besieging Aphytis in Pallene Ammon...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...holy, and it is the most ancient of all the sanctuaries of Aphrodite among the Greeks. The goddess herself is represented by an armed image of wood. On the voyage...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 Egyptian sailors ...attack the Macedonians in rear; but before such a move it was not fair for Egyptian sailors to attack Macedonians on land. The Lacedemonians were eager to make the...

Egyptian sailors

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Peloponnesians ...Athens. Nevertheless he was not eager that war should be declared between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, but to the utmost of his power tried to keep the truce...

Peloponnesians

81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Asia ...to king Dareius in Persia, and they say that his descendants remained in Asia for a long time. Leotychides, on coming to the throne in place of Demaratus...

Asia

75 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...war with Athens. Agesilaus, who was appointed to lead the expedition across to Asia and to be in command of the land forces, sent round to all parts of the...

Asia

81 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...that the sacrifice was not completed, Agesilaus nevertheless crossed into Asia and launched an attack against Sardes for Lydia at this period was the most...

Asia

76 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...Sardes for Lydia at this period was the most important district of lower Asia, and Sardes, pre-eminent for its wealth and resources, had been assigned as a...

Asia

75 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...Boeotia. So these circumstances compelled Agesilaus to lead his army back from Asia. Crossing with his fleet from Abydos to Sestos he passed through Thrace as far...

Asia

81 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Asia ...Tyndareus took part in Jason's expedition. As to the Colchians honoring Athena Asia, I give what I heard from the Lacedemonians. Near the present town is a spring...

Asia

81 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 Peloponnesians ...success at Corinth. When Agesipolis grew up and came to the throne, the first Peloponnesians against whom he waged war were the Argives. When he led his army from the...

Peloponnesians

81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 of Athena of the Market-place ...far from them is a sanctuary of Earth and of Zeus of the Market-place, another of Athena of the Market-place and of Poseidon surnamed Securer, and likewise one of Apollo and of...

of Athena of the Market-place

81 Greece ...favour of heaven, achieved the most famous victory of that time. Then did all Greece understand the oracle given to the Phocians by Apollo. For the watchword given...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...own, equipped by himself and manned by citizens of Crotona who were staying in Greece. Such is the story of the athlete of Crotona. On entering the enclosure you...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Delphi It is plain that such part of Phocis as is around Tithorea and Delphi was so named in very ancient days after a Corinthian, Phocus, a son of...

Delphi

63 22.501169,38.482289,0 Greece ...a more prosperous city than was Agamemnon, and to be like him overlord of all Greece, and that it would be a more glorious success to conquer Artaxerxes and acquire...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...to recall their army from Asia. He sent Timocrates, a Rhodian, to Greece with money, instructing him to stir up in Greece a war against the...

Greece

68 22.5,37.5,0 Peloponnesus ...at the onslaught of the Dorians, made an agreement to retire from the Peloponnesus under a truce, but those of Amyclae were not driven out at the first assault...

Peloponnesus

72 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Italy ...at the hands of the Phocians. Archidamus afterwards also crossed over into Italy to help the Tarentines to wage war against their foreign neighbors. Here he was...

Italy

78 12.5,42.5,0 Peloponnesus ...it that Aristodemus himself died at Delphi before the Dorians returned to the Peloponnesus, but those who glorify his fate assert that he was shot by Apollo for not going...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Egypt ...Calydon and the other towns of the Aetolians. Afterwards he sailed to Egypt, to succor the Egyptians who had revolted from the king of Persia. Agesilaus...

Egypt

72 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...of Aratus of Sicyon. My narrative also included the manner of his death in Egypt. So of the family of Eurysthenes, called the Agiadae, Cleomenes the son of...

Egypt

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 sanctuary of Earth ...any other, the lads perform dances in honor of Apollo. Not far from them is a sanctuary of Earth and of Zeus of the Market-place, another of Athena of the Market-place and of...

sanctuary of Earth

80 Tellias of Elis ...is calming Heracles. This too is an offering of the Phocians, dedicated when Tellias of Elis led them against the Thessalians. Athena and Artemis were made by Chionis, the...

Tellias of Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Tellias of Elis ...of the night to be too unearthly to be an attack of their enemies. It was Tellias of Elis who devised this stratagem also for the Phocians to use against the...

Tellias of Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Achaean League ...but by colonists sent out by the Romans. This change is due to the Achaean League. The Corinthians, being members of it, joined in the war against the Romans...

Achaean League

69 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Lacedemonians ...enemy, and the first to make victory in war a matter of purchase. Before the Lacedemonians committed this crime in the Messenian war in the matter of the treachery of...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...to render much assistance. So great were the numbers of the people of the Messenians slain that in lieu of their former thoughts of becoming the masters instead of...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...the hundred slain to Zeus of Ithome. This was an old-established custom, all Messenians making it who had slain their hundred enemies. Aristomenes first offered it...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Cretan ...the men of Eira. They themselves returned home to keep the feast, but some Cretan archers, whom they had summoned as mercenaries from Lyctus and other cities...

Cretan

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Cretans ...it seemed that the wolves were torn in pieces by the lion. And now when the Cretans brought in Aristomenes, the girl realized that the dream of the night had come...

Cretans

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messene ..."Whensoever a he-goat drinks of Neda's winding stream, no more do I protect Messene, for destruction is at hand. The springs of the Neda are in Mount Lycaeus. The...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Arcadians ...of the Neda are in Mount Lycaeus. The river flows through the land of the Arcadians and turning again towards Messenia forms the boundary on the coast between...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Ithome ...deserted part of Ithome, buried it on the mountain, calling on Zeus who keeps Ithome and the gods who had hitherto protected the Messenians to remain guardians of...

Ithome

80 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Elis ...to Lepreus; from Samicum another leads to it from Olympia and a third from Elis. The longest of them is a day's journey. The city got its name, they say, from...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...One might well hold that the Neda near the sea was made the boundary between Elis and Messenia at the time of the return of the Heracleidae to the...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...of Scillus openly helped Pisa against her enemy, and for this reason the Eleans utterly destroyed it. The Lacedemonians afterwards separated Scillus from Elis...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Typaeum ...there is a mountain with high, precipitous cliffs. It is called Mount Typaeum. It is a law of Elis to cast down it any women who are caught present at the...

Typaeum

72 21.68253,37.61158,0 Elis ...with high, precipitous cliffs. It is called Mount Typaeum. It is a law of Elis to cast down it any women who are caught present at the Olympic games, or even...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lycian ...of the Hyperboreans, men living beyond the home of the North Wind. Olen the Lycian, in his hymn to Achaeia, was the first to say that from these Hyperboreans...

Lycian

79 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Olympian ...too was the son of Aeolus, though supposed to be a son of Zeus), held the Olympian games, and after him Pelias and Neleus in common. Augeas too held them, and...

Olympian

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleans, and with Pisa such of the subject peoples as conspired together with her. The...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Naxian ...is the inscription: "To the offspring of Leto was I dedicated by Euergus, A Naxian, son of Byzes, who first made tiles of stone." This Byzes lived about the time...

Naxian

78 25.52001,37.127,0 Olympia ...the Athenians call "improvised hearths." The first stage of the altar at Olympia, called prothysis, has a circumference of one hundred and twenty-five feet; the...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cladeus ...by the processional gate there are behind the Heraeum altars of the river Cladeus and of Artemis; the one after them is Apollo's, the fourth is of Artemis...

Cladeus

76 21.75,37.75,0 Leuctra ...it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on Taenarum are Caenepolis, Oetylus, Leuctra and Thalamae, and in addition Alagoma and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium...

Leuctra

81 22.26501,36.84279,0 Boeae ...and Gerenia. On the other side of Gythium by the sea are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that...

Boeae

75 23.06003809999993,36.5121752,0 Gythium ...and are not independent like those I have already mentioned. The people of Gythium say that their city had no human founder, but that Heracles and Apollo, when...

Gythium

78 22.562341,36.763663,0 Brasiae ...word used of the waves casting things ashore is ekbrazein. The people of Brasiae add that Ino in the course of her wanderings came to the country, and agreed to...

Brasiae

75 22.890275,37.144402,0 Malea ...that Silenus came from Malea and settled here. That Silenus was brought up in Malea is clear from these words in an ode of Pindar: The mighty one, the dancer, whom...

Malea

80 23.19975,36.43603,0 Taenarum ...Miletus gave a plausible explanation, stating that a terrible serpent lived on Taenarum, and was called the hound of Hades, because any one bitten was bound to die of...

Taenarum

81 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Leuctra ...part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among them. Cardamyle, which is...

Leuctra

81 22.26501,36.84279,0 Sparta ...Homer in the Gifts promised by Agamemnon, is subject to the Lacedemonians of Sparta, having been separated from Messenia by the emperor Augustus. It is eight...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...in the following manner: On the death of Lelex, who ruled in the present Laconia, then called after him Lelegia, Myles, the elder of his sons, received the...

Laconia

75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cretan ...wood. That there is a wood in this land so called is stated by Rhianus the Cretan: "By rugged Elaeum above Lycus' wood. That this Lycus was the son of Pandion...

Cretan

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messenia ...of the Argolid and of Laconia. Aphareus then founded the city of Arena in Messenia, and received into his house his cousin Neleus the son of Cretheus, son of...

Messenia

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadians ...others of their actions, bringing forward against them their treatment of the Arcadians and of the Argives; for in both cases they have never been satisfied with their...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Phocian ...the Dorians who live on the Carian mainland. They point out too that when the Phocian leaders had seized the temple at Delphi, the kings and every Spartan of repute...

Phocian

81 22.25,38.25,0 Messenians ...This war was fought between the Lacedemonians with their allies and the Messenians with their supporters, but received its name not from the invaders like the...

Messenians

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Trojan ...wars, but was called Messenian from their disasters, just as the name Trojan war, rather than Greek, came to be universally applied to the war at Troy. An...

Trojan

72 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eleans ...outside the Altis and buried him in the earth along with his armour. What the Eleans call the pillar of Oenomaus is in the direction of the sanctuary of Zeus as you...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...been picking up some money at the Ionian games. In these circumstances the Eleans shut out from the games Apollonius with any other boxer who came after the...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Corcyra ...by the people of Apollonia, their neighbors. Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of Corinth, and the Corinthians had their share of the...

Corcyra

73 19.92178,39.60733,0 Aeginetans ...third the Corinthians, fourth the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the people of Tegea and...

Aeginetans

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Catana ...of the two. They still retain their old names, and are in the district of Catana. Greater Hybla is entirely uninhabited, but Gereatis is a village of Catana...

Catana

76 15.0878345,37.5024825,0 Sicilians ...Catana, with a sanctuary of the goddess Hyblaea which is held in honor by the Sicilians. The people of Gereatis, I think, brought the image to Olympia. For Philistus...

Sicilians

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Eleans ...of Zeus in the Altis is twenty-seven feet high, and was dedicated by the Eleans themselves from the plunder of the war with the Arcadians. Beside the Pelopium...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Phocians ...Greeks settled there include Dorians and Ionians, with a small proportion of Phocians and of Attics. On the same wall as the offerings of the Agrigentines are two...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Eleans ...in an aegis. Nicodamus of Maenalus was the artist, but it was dedicated by the Eleans. Beside the Athena has been set up a Victory. The Mantineans dedicated it, but...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Heracleia ...boar by the river Erymanthus. These were brought to Olympia by the people of Heracleia when they had overrun the land of the Mariandynians, their foreign neighbors...

Heracleia

79 31.414722,41.284722,0 Lacedemonians ...that the god granted him to win five contests in war by his divinations. The Lacedemonians, hearing of the oracle the Pythian priestess had given to Tisamenus, persuaded...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Maenalia ...engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at Dipaea, an Arcadian town in Maenalia, when all the Arcadians except the Mantineans were arrayed against them. His...

Maenalia

80 22.265891,37.549491,0 Athenians ...the son of Cimon. Miltiades was responsible for the death at the hands of the Athenians of those of the heralds who came to Attica. The Lacedemonians have an altar of...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...but their account of him does not agree with that of the Argives, for the Lacedemonians deny that they ever fought with the Cnossians. Hard by is the grave of...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argive ...Pleuron. Not far from the hero-shrine is a hill, and on the hill a temple of Argive Hera, set up, they say, by Eurydice, the daughter of Lacedemon and the wife of...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...fetters. The idea the Lacedemonians express by this image is the same as the Athenians express by their Wingless Victory; the former think that Enyalius will never...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eryx ...that Heracles wrestled with Eryx on these terms: if Heracles won, the land of Eryx was to belong to him but if he were beaten, Eryx was to depart with the cows of...

Eryx

80 12.5919,38.03528,0 Sicily ...Heracles at the time was driving these away, and when they swam across to Sicily he too crossed over in search of them near the bent olive-tree. The favour of...

Sicily

76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Lacedemonians ...By what is called the Scenoma (Tent) there is a statue of a woman, whom the Lacedemonians say is Euryleonis. She won a victory at Olympia with a two-horse chariot. By...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tiasa ...down to Amyclae from Sparta you come to a river called Tiasa. They hold that Tiasa was a daughter of Eurotas, and by it is a sanctuary of Graces, Phaenna and...

Tiasa

79 22.25,37.25,0 Amyclae ...must be content with the legends, although perhaps they are not true history. Amyclae was laid waste by the Dorians, and since that time has remained a village; I...

Amyclae

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Rhodes ...descent, and when she was already married to Tlepolemus shared his flight to Rhodes. At the time she was queen of the island, having been left with an orphan boy...

Rhodes

79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Amyclae ...too has mentioned in his list of the Lacedemonians: "These had their home in Amyclae, and in Helos the town by the seaside." It was founded by Helius, the youngest...

Amyclae

79 24.76084,35.0133,0 Ithaca ...next besought his daughter to remain behind, and when she was setting forth to Ithaca he followed the chariot, begging her to stay. Odysseus endured it for a time...

Ithaca

81 Pellana ...in the direction of Pellana is what is called Characoma (Trench); and after it Pellana, which in the olden time was a city. They say that Tyndareus dwelt here when he...

Pellana

81 22.325267,37.207648,0 Sparta ...Augustus freed from the bondage in which they had been to the Lacedemonians in Sparta. All the Peloponnesus, except the Isthmus of Corinth, is surrounded by sea, but...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...purple dye after those of the Phoenician sea are to be found on the coast of Laconia. The Free Laconians have eighteen cities; the first as you go down from Aegiae...

Laconia

79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Aegiae ...Free Laconians have eighteen cities; the first as you go down from Aegiae to the sea is Gythium; after it come Teuthrone and Las and Pyrrhichus; on...

Aegiae

69 22.512906,36.786285,0 gates ...court of Alcinous, and Agamemnon leave a poet with his wife. Not far from the gates is a grave, on which is mounted a soldier standing by a horse. Who it is I do...

gates

80 Cerameicus ...time assigns the statue to another, and not to Poseidon. From the gate to the Cerameicus there are porticoes, and in front of them brazen statues of such as had some...

Cerameicus

80 23.7188,37.978127,0 Delphi ...a son, Cestrinus, being married to Andromache after the murder of Pyrrhus at Delphi. Helenus on his death passed on the kingdom to Molossus, son of Pyrrhus, so...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pamisus ...his end here. On the road from Thuria towards Arcadia are the springs of the Pamisus, at which little children find cures. A road turns to the left from the...

Pamisus

80 21.75,37.25,0 Calydon ...at that time close neighbors of the Aetolians, adopted her from the people of Calydon. I will describe her appearance in another place. The name Laphria spread only...

Calydon

80 21.533106,38.372423,0 Dorian ...of the temple are paintings of the kings of Messene: before the coming of the Dorian host to Peloponnese, Aphareus and his sons, after the return of the...

Dorian

80 22.25,38.75,0 Delphi ...and Ptoan Apollo are recorded, also the responses given at Abae and at Delphi. Trophonius, they say, answered in hexameters: "Or ever ye join battle with the...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messene ...forsook his art through stress of the trouble that afflicted him. From Messene to the mouth of the Pamisus is a journey of eighty stades. The Pamisus is a...

Messene

74 21.920439,37.175491,0 Mathia ...is a city to the right of the Pamisus, on the sea-coast under Mount Mathia. On this road is a place on the coast regarded as sacred to Ino. For they say...

Mathia

70 21.8604355,36.9295173,0 Asine ...according to the god's instructions to Heracles, they first occupied Asine by Hermion. They were driven thence by the Argives and lived in Messenia. This...

Asine

71 22.87403,37.52659,0 Dryopes ...at some distance from the city. Yet the people of Styra disdain the name of Dryopes, just as the Delphians have refused to be called Phocians. But the men of Asine...

Dryopes

78 24.25,38.25,0 Theganussa ...called Acritas. Acritas projects into the sea and has a deserted island, Theganussa, lying off it. After Acritas is the harbor Phoenicus and the Oenussae islands...

Theganussa

75 21.88662,36.6969,0 Nauplia ...by sea with Danaus to the Argolid, and two generations later were settled in Nauplia by Nauplius the son of Amymone. The Emperor Trajan granted civic freedom and...

Nauplia

79 22.796,37.565,0 Lesbos ...have myself seen water coming up black from springs at Astyra. Astyra opposite Lesbos is the name of the hot baths in the district called Atarneus. It was this...

Lesbos

81 26.10052,39.20874,0 one Apollo ...Patroos (Paternal) in the temple hard by. And in front of the temple is one Apollo made by Leochares; the other Apollo, called Averter of evil, was made by...

one Apollo

74 Epidaurus ...Isthmus, and their neighbors on the side sea-wards are the Epidaurians. Along Epidaurus, Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to...

Epidaurus

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Argolic ...sea-wards are the Epidaurians. Along Epidaurus, Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to Argolis come the vassals of Lacedemon...

Argolic

81 22.728648,37.500864,0 Lacedemonians ...a history of the whole war – the taking of the Cadmea, the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, how the Boeotians invaded the Peloponnesus, and the contingent sent...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macaria ...has given a name to both the town and the river so called, and similarly Macaria, Dasea, and Trapezus were named after the sons of Lycaon. Orchomenus became...

Macaria

75 22.076211,37.405021,0 Arcadians ...and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and Hypsus, and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that both the Thyrea in Argolis and also the Thyrean gulf were...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thyrea ...and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that both the Thyrea in Argolis and also the Thyrean gulf were named after this Thyraeus. Maenalus...

Thyrea

78 Elatus ...nymph they call Erato, and by her they say that Arcas had Azan, Apheidas and Elatus. Previously he had had Autolaus, an illegitimate son. When his sons grew up...

Elatus

79 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Azania ...them into three parts, and one district was named Azania after Azan; from Azania, it is said, settled the colonists who dwell about the cave in Phrygia called...

Azania

76 22.25,37.75,0 Achaeans ...than the one I gave before, that on this occasion Orestes was king of the Achaeans, and that it was during his reign that Hyllus attempted to return to the...

Achaeans

76 Arcadians ...from which place they carried their cargoes up country on pack-animals to the Arcadians. In return for this Pompus honored the Arcadians greatly, and furthermore gave...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Elis ...occasions. The story is that when the Arcadians had invaded the land of Elis, and the Eleans were set in array against them, a woman came to the Elean...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elean ...of Elis, and the Eleans were set in array against them, a woman came to the Elean generals, holding a baby to her breast, who said that she was the mother of the...

Elean

78 21.25,37.75,0 Isthmus ...Taraxippus a surname of Horse Poseidon. There is another Taraxippus at the Isthmus, namely Glaucus, the son of Sisyphus. They say that he was killed by his...

Isthmus

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Pentelic ...to Demeter. In place of the old images of the Maid and of Demeter new ones of Pentelic marble were dedicated by Herodes the Athenian. In the gymnasium at Olympia it...

Pentelic

81 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Phrixa ...is a hill rising to a sharp peak, on which are the ruins of the city of Phrixa, as well as a temple of Athena surnamed Cydonian. This temple is not entire...

Phrixa

74 21.71145,37.635009,0 Elis ...are to be seen on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, the distance between Elis and Pylus being eighty stades. This Pylus was founded, as I have already said...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Corcyra ...dedicated to the Roman emperors. Behind the portico built from the spoils of Corcyra is a temple of Aphrodite, the precinct being in the open, not far from the...

Corcyra

80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Pylus ...of so to do. It is said that, when Heracles was leading an expedition against Pylus in Elis, Athena was one of his allies. Now among those who came to fight on the...

Pylus

80 Pylus ...a swift arrow, When the same man, the son of aegis-bearing Zeus, Hit him in Pylus among the dead, and gave him over to pains." If in the expedition of Agamemnon...

Pylus

78 Eleans ...above Syene say about the table of the sun. On the Acropolis of the Eleans is a sanctuary of Athena. The image is of ivory and gold. They say that the...

Eleans

71 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...all the Peloponnesians, and afforded peculiar safety to its suppliants, as the Lacedemonians showed in the case of Pausanias and of Leotychides before him, and the Argives...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...consent to take away his forces. And yet more than any other Greeks were the Lacedemonians (in this respect like the Athenians) frightened by signs from heaven. By the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...son of Demetrius attacked Athens with an army and a fleet. To the help of the Athenians there came the Egyptian expedition with Patroclus, and every available man of...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadia ...minds. But as it was, when the citizens sentenced him to exile, he went to Arcadia, whence not many years later he was recalled by the Lacedemonians, who made him...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cynurians ...the Argives, although even before this quarrel they made war against the Cynurians. During the generations immediately succeeding this, while Eunomus the son of...

Cynurians

75 22.75,37.25,0 Tegean ...deceptive oracle the Lacedemonians hoped to capture the city and to annex the Tegean plain from Arcadia. After the death of Charillus, Nicander his son succeeded...

Tegean

80 22.429,37.464,0 Sparta ...of Elis replied that, when they saw the cities free that were neighbors of Sparta, they would without delay set free their own subjects; whereupon the...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cretans ...to the gods, while others had been let loose to punish mankind. And so the Cretans say that this bull was sent by Poseidon to their land because, although Minos...

Cretans

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Cnossus ...and seven boys for the Minotaur that was said to dwell in the Labyrinth at Cnossus. But the bull at Marathon Theseus is said to have driven afterwards to the...

Cnossus

77 25.163106,35.297847,0 Acropolis ...the statue of Athena called Lemnian after those who dedicated it. All the Acropolis is surrounded by a wall; a part was constructed by Cimon, son of Miltiades, but...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Athenians ...the stone of Ruthlessness. Hard by is a sanctuary of the goddesses which the Athenians call the August, but Hesiod in the Theogony calls them Erinyes (Furies). It was...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...he too being unaware of the facts and ignorant that those who had landed were Argives, attacked them and, having killed a number of them, went off with the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thessalian ...and Boeotians on the borders of Eleon and Tanagra. There is also a grave of Thessalian horsemen who, by reason of an old alliance, came when the Peloponnesians with...

Thessalian

78 21.75,39.25,0 Maeander ...who went against Olynthus, and Melesander who sailed with a fleet along the Maeander into upper Caria; also those who died in the war with Cassander, and the...

Maeander

78 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Lacedemonians ...on and took from them the assurance of their victory, and on the next day the Lacedemonians had the better, as the Thessalians betrayed the Athenians. It occurred to me...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...call brave are as nothing if Good Fortune be not with them, seeing that the Lacedemonians, who had on this occasion overcome Corinthians and Athenians, and furthermore...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thrace ...soldier. On another slab are the names of those who fought in the region of Thrace and at Megara, and when Alcibiades persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the...

Thrace

79 27.5,42.5,0 Syracusans ...to revolt from the Lacedemonians, and of those who were victorious over the Syracusans before Demosthenes arrived in Sicily. Here were buried also those who fought in...

Syracusans

78 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athenian ...Academy is an altar to Love, with an inscription that Charmus was the first Athenian to dedicate an altar to that god. The altar within the city called the altar of...

Athenian

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phlya ...and was their commander-in-chief in the war with Eleusis. Such is the legend. Phlya and Myrrhinus have altars of Apollo Dionysodotus, Artemis Light-bearer...

Phlya

81 23.806835,38.0262565,0 Pentelicus ...is its nature. The Athenians have also statues of gods on their mountains. On Pentelicus is a statue of Athena, on Hymettus one of Zeus Hymettius. There are altars both...

Pentelicus

81 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Marathon ...the Athenians victory in the war and to the spring her own name. There is at Marathon a lake which for the most part is marshy. Into this ignorance of the roads made...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Megara ...Salamis lies over against Eleusis, and stretches as far as the territory of Megara. It is said that the first to give this name to the island was Cychreus, who...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Aulis ...sat when he gazed at the ship in which his children were sailing away to Aulis to take part in the joint expedition of the Greeks. Those who dwell about...

Aulis

75 23.5925,38.4335,0 Athenians ...is said to have appeared in the fleet, and the god in an oracle told the Athenians that it was Cychreus the hero. Before Salamis there is an island called...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Mysian ...Cephisodorus induced to become allies of Athens two kings, Attalus the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and, of the self-governing peoples, the Aetolians...

Mysian

73 27.75,40.25,0 Athenians ...little help against the Macedonian men-at-arms, Cephisodorus sailed with other Athenians to Italy and begged aid of the Romans. They sent a force and a general, who so...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Macedon ...son of Demetrius. Demetrius was the first of this house to hold the throne of Macedon, having put to death Alexander, son of Cassander, as I have related in a former...

Macedon

80 21.75,41.25,0 Cephallenia ...Teleboans, was the first to dwell in that island which now is called after him Cephallenia, and that he resided till that time at Thebes, exiled from Athens because he...

Cephallenia

81 20.59,38.2,0 Megaris ...There is a story that a detachment of the army of Mardonius, having overrun Megaris, wished to return to Mardonius at Thebes, but that by the will of Artemis night...

Megaris

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...arrows thinking that they were shooting at the enemy. When the day broke, the Megarians attacked, and being men in armour fighting against men without armour who no...

Megarians

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...Athenians challenged their enemies, won the war and recovered Salamis. But the Megarians say that exiles from themselves, whom they call Dorycleans, reached the...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Phliasians ...is that of Apollo, but the image of Isis only the priests may behold. The Phliasians tell also the following legend. When Heracles came back safe from Libya...

Phliasians

77 22.649131,37.846299,0 Eleusinian ...list of those to whom the goddess taught the mysteries he knows nothing of an Eleusinian named Dysaules. These are the verses: "She to Triptolemus taught, and to...

Eleusinian

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Argolis ...afterwards laid Mycenae waste. The oldest tradition in the region now called Argolis is that when Inachus was king he named the river after himself and sacrificed...

Argolis

79 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Heraeum ...the environs of the sanctuary they name after Euboea, and the land beneath the Heraeum after Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraeum, and falling into a cleft...

Heraeum

81 22.774722,37.691944,0 Amphilochians ...After the capture of Troy, Amphilochus migrated to the people now called the Amphilochians, and, Cyanippus having died without issue, Cylarabes, son of Sthenelus, became...

Amphilochians

79 21.25,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...of Phocian allies always ready to help him. When Orestes became king of the Lacedemonians, they themselves consented to accept him for they considered that the sons of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...far from the statues are shown the tomb of Danaus and a cenotaph of the Argives who met their death at Troy or on the journey home. Here there is also a...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...this, were burnt to death in the grove. So when Cleomenes led his troops to Argos there were no men to defend it. But Telesilla mounted on the wall all the...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...of Athena is, they say, the grave of Epimenides. The Argive story is that the Lacedemonians made war upon the Cnossians and took Epimenides alive; they then put him to...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...themselves – the people rose up against him and cast him out. He fled to Sparta, and the Lacedemonians tried to restore him to power, but were defeated by the...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Erasinus ...near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus. At the places where the Erasinus gushes forth from the mountain they sacrifice to Dionysus and to Pan, and to...

Erasinus

74 22.75,37.75,0 Theban ...is followed by the one called Lysius (Deliverer), brought from Thebes by the Theban Phanes at the command of the Pythian priestess. Phanes came to Sicyon when...

Theban

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argives ...the sum. He induced Aristomachus also, the tyrant of Argos, to restore to the Argives their democracy and to join the Achaean League; he captured Mantinea from the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyonians ...but insisted on sacrificing to him as to a god. Even at the present day the Sicyonians, after slaying a lamb and burning the thighs upon the altar, eat some of the...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pheraea ...from here to the gymnasium you see in the right a sanctuary of Artemis Pheraea. It is said that the wooden image was brought from Pherae. This gymnasium was...

Pheraea

73 21.794283,37.696919,0 Olympia ...statue of a Sicyonian named Granianus, who won the following victories at Olympia: the pentathlon twice, the foot-race, the double-course foot-race twice, once...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sicyon ...forty stades distant from Titane, and there is a straight road to it from Sicyon. That the Phliasians are in no way related to the Arcadians is shown by the...

Sicyon

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Araethyrea ...who, the Phliasians say, were experienced hunters and brave warriors. Araethyrea died first, and Aoris, in memory of his sister, changed the name of the land to...

Araethyrea

72 22.649131,37.846299,0 Tripodiskoi ...and fell unawares. Here he dwelt in the village called the Little Tripods (Tripodiskoi). The grave of Coroebus is in the market-place of the Megarians. The story of...

Tripodiskoi

77 Pagae ...have built the city Pagae and another one called Aegosthena. As you go to Pagae, on turning a little aside from the highway, you are shown a rock with arrows...

Pagae

76 23.362766,37.974359,0 Corinth ...house. The tomb of Autonoe is in this village. On the road from Megara to Corinth are graves, including that of the Samian flute-player Telephanes, said to have...

Corinth

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Cithaeron ...treated Dionysus despitefully, his crowning outrage being that he went to Cithaeron, to spy upon the women, and climbing up a tree beheld what was done. When the...

Cithaeron

76 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Athens ...but subsequently she was detected plotting against Theseus and fled from Athens also; coming to the land then called Aria she caused its inhabitants to be...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Iolcus ...by Jason. When she begged for pardon he refused it, and sailed away to Iolcus. For these reasons Medea too departed, and handed over the kingdom to...

Iolcus

73 22.96886,39.366305,0 Troy ...or Mycenae. By themselves they provided no leader for the campaign against Troy, but shared in the expedition as part of the forces, Mycenaean and other, led...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pythian ...but the emperor Hadrian afterwards built it of white marble. The Apollo called Pythian and the one called Decatephorus (Bringer of Tithes) are very like the Egyptian...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Megara ...also a shrine of the heroine Iphigenia; for she too according to them died in Megara. Now I have heard another account of Iphigenia that is given by Arcadians and I...

Megara

80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...is Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon. Adrastus also is honored among the Megarians, who say that he too died among them when he was leading back his army after...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 it ...the most notable Athenians, parodying the Eleusinian mysteries. But in my time it was devoted to the worship of Dionysus. This Dionysus they call Melpomenus...

it

81 Emperor Hadrian ...and the daughter of Cinyras. Here stands Zeus, called Zeus of Freedom, and the Emperor Hadrian, a benefactor to all his subjects and especially to the city of the...

Emperor Hadrian

81 Conon ...Evagoras King of Cyprus, who caused the Phoenician men-of-war to be given to Conon by King Artaxerxes. This he did as an Athenian whose ancestry connected him...

Conon

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...than to destroy the empire of Priam. but even as he was sacrificing armed Thebans came upon him, threw dawn from the altar the still burning thighbones of the...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argive ...the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates, with the Corinthians who had Argive sympathies, Polyanthes and Timolaus. But those who first openly started the...

Argive

69 22.719464,37.631561,0 Corinthian ...I have already described in my account of Pausanias. And what was called the Corinthian war, which continually became more serious, had its origin in the expedition of...

Corinthian

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Thessaly ...Athens. But Agesilaus put the Thessalian cavalry to flight and passed through Thessaly, and again made his way through Boeotia, winning a victory over Thebes and the...

Thessaly

81 21.75,39.25,0 Aetolians ...although they had come very near capturing Calydon and the other towns of the Aetolians. Afterwards he sailed to Egypt, to succor the Egyptians who had revolted from...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Caryae ...sons. The third branch from the straight road is on the right, and leads to Caryae (Walnut-trees) and to the sanctuary of Artemis. For Caryae is a region sacred...

Caryae

79 22.515967,37.288734,0 Lacedemonians ...it I will describe when I come to speak of the latter. For in the eyes of the Lacedemonians the cult of the Amyclaean is the more distinguished, so that they spent on...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Elis ...the Pythian priestess had given to Tisamenus, persuaded him to migrate from Elis and to be state-diviner at Sparta. And Tisamenus won them five contests in war...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Amyclaeans ...turns to flight) was made by the Dorians, when they had conquered in war the Amyclaeans, as well as the other Achaeans, who at that time occupied Laconia. The...

Amyclaeans

79 24.76084,35.0133,0 Delphi ...of Dionysus there is held a footrace; this custom came to Sparta from Delphi. Not far from the Dionysus is a sanctuary of Zeus of Fair Wind, on the right...

Delphi

72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sparta ...Goddess. Both the sacrifice of the Colophonians and that of the youths at Sparta are appointed to take place at night. At the sacrifice the youths set trained...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...and the Athenian warships and the second occurred later, when he destroyed the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami. On the left of the Lady of the Bronze House they have...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...possession of Epidauria. These on the death of Temenus seceded from the other Argives; Deiphontes and Hyrnetho through hatred of the sons of Temenus, and the army...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Olympian ...is the same rule. The image of Asclepius is, in size, half as big as the Olympian Zeus at Athens, and is made of ivory and gold. An inscription tells us that the...

Olympian

76 23.875,37.875,0 Epidaurus ...was tyrant of Corinth. The most noteworthy things which I found the city of Epidaurus itself had to show are these. There is, of course, a precinct of Asclepius...

Epidaurus

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Delphi ...beyond the Isthmus or in the Peloponnesus, until at last they sent envoys to Delphi to ask what was the cause and to beg for deliverance from the evil. The Pythian...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aeginetans ...who say that Britomartis shows herself in their island. Her surname among the Aeginetans is Aphaea; in Crete it is Dictynna (Goddess of Nets). The Mount of all the...

Aeginetans

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Phocaeans ...they told me, was set up by Pittheus; it is the oldest I know of. Now the Phocaeans, too, in Ionia have an old temple of Athena, which was once burnt by Harpagus...

Phocaeans

76 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phytalmios ...to wife. Outside the wall there is also a sanctuary of Poseidon Nurturer (Phytalmios). For they say that, being wroth with them, Poseidon smote the land with...

Phytalmios

77 25.361,36.7378,0 Troezenians ...Sea you see a wild olive growing, which they call the Bent Rhacos. The Troezenians call rhacos every kind of barren olive – cotinos, phylia, or elaios – and this...

Troezenians

73 Delphi ...Apaturia. Calaurea, they say, was sacred to Apollo of old, at the time when Delphi was sacred to Poseidon. Legend adds that the two gods exchanged the two places...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Crete ...Shortly after Harpalus ran away from Athens and crossed with a squadron to Crete, he was put to death by the servants who were attending him, though some assert...

Crete

77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Troezen ...peoples, or it would have been spoken of by the Argives. There is a road from Troezen to Hermion by way of the rock which aforetime was called the altar of Zeus...

Troezen

81 Scyllaeum ...surnamed Thermasia (Warmth). Just about eighty stades away is a headland Scyllaeum, which is named alter the daughter of Nisus. For when, owing to her treachery...

Scyllaeum

76 23.523,37.435,0 Nisaea ...alter the daughter of Nisus. For when, owing to her treachery, Minos had taken Nisaea and Megara, he said that now he would not have her to wife, and ordered his...

Nisaea

81 23.362766,37.974359,0 Inachus ...to Hera, and so Poseidon made their waters disappear. For this reason neither Inachus nor either of the other rivers I have mentioned provides any water except after...

Inachus

80 22.75,37.75,0 Mycenae ...Drinking with joy water that flowed from it, he gave to the place the name of Mycenae. Homer in the Odyssey mentions a woman Mycene in the following verse: "Tyro...

Mycenae

80 22.756111,37.730833,0 Thermopylae ...invasion the Argives made no move, but the Mycenaeans sent eighty men to Thermopylae who shared in the achievement of the Lacedemonians. This eagerness for...

Thermopylae

75 22.538294,38.796511,0 Paeon ...Sillus, son of Thrasymedes, Peisistratus, son of Peisistratus, and the sons of Paeon, son of Antilochus, and with them Melanthus, son of Andropompus, son of Borus...

Paeon

81 26.639597,40.505429,0 Athens ...Peisistratus retreated I do not know, but the rest of the Neleidae went to Athens, and the clans of the Paeonidae and of the Alcmaeonidae were named after them...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...of Aeschylus, and near to their statues are the statues of those who took Thebes: Aegialeus, son of Adrastus; Promachus, son of Parthenopaeus, son of Talaus...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydian ...story, was the son of Tyrsenus, and Tyrsenus was the son of Heracles and the Lydian woman; Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, and Hegeleos, the son of Tyrsenus, taught...

Lydian

79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Argives ...of Pleuron, and even before them, Stesichorus of Himera, agree with the Argives in asserting that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus. Over against the...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyonians ...Sphyrus, son of Machaon and brother of the Alexanor who is honored among the Sicyonians in Titane. The Argives, like the Athenians and Sicyonians, worship Artemis...

Sicyonians

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Phliasian ...not agree, but say that Thebe was the daughter of the Boeotian, and not of the Phliasian, Asopus. The other stories about the river are current among both the...

Phliasian

81 22.649131,37.846299,0 Eleutherae ...after Epopeus, gave up Antiope. As she was being taken to Thebes by way of Eleutherae, she was delivered there on the road. On this matter Asius the son of...

Eleutherae

77 23.37572,38.17934,0 Asopus ...and bid him farewell. After the tomb of Lycus, but on the other side of the Asopus, there is on the right the Olympium, and a little farther on, to the left of...

Asopus

79 22.75,37.75,0 Megalopolis ...of the Sicyonians who were killed at Pellene, at Dyme of the Achaeans, in Megalopolis and at Sellasia. Their story I will relate more fully presently. By the gate...

Megalopolis

76 22.126238,37.414256,0 Sythas ...Artemis, they sent seven boys and seven maidens as suppliants to the river Sythas. They say that the deities, persuaded by these, came to what was then the...

Sythas

78 22.62377,38.08036,0 Sicyonians ...in my time in the sanctuary of the Wolf-god, but not even the guides of the Sicyonians knew what kind of tree it was. Next after this are bronze portrait statues...

Sicyonians

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Paros ...the son of Cimon, although his end came later, after he had failed to take Paros and for this reason had been brought to trial by the Athenians. At Marathon...

Paros

77 25.150728,37.08579,0 Marathon ...to be seen, as the dead were carried to a trench and thrown in anyhow. In Marathon is a spring called Macaria with the following legend. When Heracles left...

Marathon

77 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athenians ...Macaria, daughter of Deianeira and Heracles, slew herself and gave to the Athenians victory in the war and to the spring her own name. There is at Marathon a lake...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...the foreigners I will set forth in another place. About sixty stades from Marathon as you go along the road by the sea to Oropus stands Rhamnus. The dwelling...

Marathon

77 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lethaeus ...I will relate all that appeared to me worth seeing. For the Magnesians on the Lethaeus, Protophanes, one of the citizens, won at Olympia in one day victories in the...

Lethaeus

81 24.75,35.25,0 Salamis ...the god in an oracle told the Athenians that it was Cychreus the hero. Before Salamis there is an island called Psyttalea. Here they say that about four hundred of...

Salamis

81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Eleusinians ...a place called Scirum, which received its name for the following reason. The Eleusinians were making war against Erechtheus when there came from Dodona a seer called...

Eleusinians

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Corinth ...whose family I do not know, but she was a courtesan at Athens and at Corinth. His love for her was so great that when she died he made her a tomb which is...

Corinth

71 22.878721,37.906045,0 Eleusinians ...Anciently, I learn, these streams were the boundaries between the land of the Eleusinians and that of the other Athenians, and the first to dwell on the other side of...

Eleusinians

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athenians ...at the present day is what is called the palace of Crocon. This Crocon the Athenians say married Saesara, daughter of Celeus. Not all of them say this, but only...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cephisus ...concerning him. At Eleusis flows a Cephisus which is more violent than the Cephisus I mentioned above, and by the side of it is the place they call Erineus, saying...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Thebans ...fight carried the dead to the Eleusinian territory and buried them here. The Thebans, however, say that they voluntarily gave up the dead for burial and deny that...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...by the war of the Peloponnesians against the Athenians, in which the Athenians every year ravaged the land of the Megarians with a fleet and an army, damaging...

Athenians

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aphidna ...has recorded that Timalcus the son of Megareus came with the Dioscuri to Aphidna? And supposing he had gone there, how could one hold that he had been killed by...

Aphidna

75 23.362766,37.974359,0 Athens ...when Alcman wrote a poem on the Dioscuri, in which he says that they captured Athens and carried into captivity the mother of Theseus, but Theseus himself was...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megara ...and on this occasion the leader of the women, escaped with a few others to Megara. Having suffered such a military disaster, being in despair at her present...

Megara

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...Crete in payment of the tribute. On the occasion of his building the wall, the Megarians say, Apollo helped him and placed his lyre on the stone; and if you happen to...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Troy ...when he came to persuade Calchas, who dwelt in Megara, to accompany him to Troy. In the Town-hall are buried, they say, Euippus the son of Megareus and...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Delians ...offer a lock of their hair before their wedding, just as the daughters of the Delians once cut their hair for Hecaerge and Opis. Beside the entrance to the...

Delians

80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Gates ...tried to save Greece in the way described, but the Gauls, now south of the Gates, cared not at all to capture the other towns, but were very eager to sack...

Gates

77 22.538294,38.796511,0 Lacedemonians ...When the leaders on either side gave the signal, the Messenians charged the Lacedemonians recklessly like men eager for death in their wrath, each one of them eager to...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...now incurred the suspicion of others of the Peloponnesians, especially of the Arcadians and Argives. The Argives intended to come without the knowledge of the...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sicyon ...by the full muster of' the Arcadians and by picked troops from Argos and Sicyon. The Lacedemonians entrusted their center to the Corinthians, Helots and all...

Sicyon

75 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lacedemonians ...Messenians were plunged into despair, and were even ready to send to the Lacedemonians to ask mercy, so demoralized were they by the death of Aristodemus. Their...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...of the fourteenth Olympiad, when Dasmon of Corinth won the short footrace. At Athens the Medontidae were still holding the archonship as a ten years' office...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...sixth in descent from Theopompus. In the first year after the revolt the Messenians engaged the Lacedemonians at a place called Derae in Messenia, both sides being...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...and also succors from Argos and from Sicyon. They were joined by all the Messenians who had previously been in voluntary exile, together with those from Eleusis...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Spartan ...befitted their age and strength, but Anaxander, the Lacedemonian king, and his Spartan guard above all. On the Messenian side the descendants of Androcles, Phintas...

Spartan

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oechalia ...land to build it. For the Messenians refused to settle again in Andania and Oechalia, because their disasters had befallen them when they dwelt there. To...

Oechalia

78 Lacedemonians ...all things, and marched together into battle and on raids into Laconia. The Lacedemonians were keeping a feast of the Dioscuri in camp and had turned to drinking and...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Andania ...them, striking with their spears, and when many had been killed, returned to Andania, having outraged the sacrifice to the Dioscuri. It was this, in my view, that...

Andania

79 21.938099,37.26217,0 Argive ...to Dionysus and Apollo Ismenius in the accustomed manner, the Argives to Argive Hera and Nemean Zeus, the Messenians to Zeus of Ithome and the Dioscuri, and...

Argive

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...for their return begged the Messenians to grant protection to themselves. The Messenians returned to Peloponnese and recovered their own land two hundred and...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 fortification ...mines, and a small uninhabited island called the Island of Patroclus. For a fortification was built on it and a palisade constructed by Patroclus, who was admiral in...

fortification

78 23.875,37.625,0 Boeotia ...by the Thebans from Orchomenos after the battle of Leuctra, were restored to Boeotia by Philip the son of Amyntas, as were also the Plataeans. When Alexander had...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Lacedemonians ...in Peloponnese. After their return they had nothing to fear at first from the Lacedemonians. For the Lacedemonians, restrained by fear of the Thebans, submitted to the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...the Macedonians and Demetrius the son of Philip, son of Demetrius, captured Messene. I have already, in my account of Sicyon, narrated most of the crimes of...

Messene

78 21.920439,37.175491,0 Ithome ...in disorder. The majority were pushed over the precipices and killed, for Ithome is very steep at this point. A few escaped by throwing away their arms. The...

Ithome

76 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Lacedemonians ...without their joining the league the policy of the Achaeans was hostile to the Lacedemonians. For the Argives and the Arcadian group formed not the smallest element in the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...for his death, were punished and Messene was again brought into the Achaean league. Hitherto my account has dealt with the many sufferings of the...

Achaean

70 Messenians ...were on the side of Augustus. For this reason Augustus punished the Messenians and the rest of his adversaries, some more, some less. The people of Thuria...

Messenians

71 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Troy ...of Nestor on the score of age and because they took part in the expedition to Troy. There is Leucippus brother of Aphareus, Hilaeira and Phoebe, and with them...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messenians ...his wealth and is honored by the Messenians as a hero. There are certain Messenians, who, while admitting that Aethidas was a man of great wealth, maintain that it...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Megalopolis ...he knew that they held a musical contest. At the Arcadian gate leading to Megalopolis is a Herm of Attic style; for the square form of Herm is Athenian, and the rest...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Maeander ...the sea. Sea-fish run up it, especially in spring, as they do up the Rhine and Maeander. The chief run of fish is up the stream of the Achelous, which discharges...

Maeander

81 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Aous ...rivers of Greece contain no terrors from wild beasts, for the sharks of the Aous, which flows through Thesprotia, are not river beasts but migrants from the...

Aous

78 19.4812849,40.6125045,0 Attica ...Colonides. The inhabitants say that they are not Messenians but settlers from Attica brought by Colaenus, who followed a bird known as the crested lark to found the...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Messenians ...This was the gift of the Lacedemonians, and when in the course of time the Messenians were restored, they were not driven from their city by the Messenians. But the...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Sicily ...to drive off the herd of Geryones. Eryx too, who was reigning then in Sicily, plainly had so violent a desire for the cattle from Erytheia that he wrestled...

Sicily

73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Euboea ...unknown have been raised to fame by the fortunes of men. For Caphereus in Euboea is famous since the storm that here befell the Greeks with Agamemnon on their...

Euboea

76 Hermionians ...at least three times. Behind the temple of Chthonia are three places which the Hermionians call that of Clymenus, that of Pluto, and the Acherusian Lake. All are...

Hermionians

81 23.243591,37.385218,0 Struthus ...it as a seaport. From Mases there is a road on the right to a headland called Struthus (Sparrow Peak). From this headland by way of the summits of the mountains the...

Struthus

81 23.00492,37.46202,0 Asine ...expedition departed home, the Argives under their king Eratus attacked Asine. For a time the Asinaeans defended themselves from their wall, and killed...

Asine

73 22.87403,37.52659,0 Lerna ...itself into the Phrixus, and the Phrixus into the sea between Temenium and Lerna. About eight stades to the left from the Erasinus is a sanctuary of the Lords...

Lerna

77 22.71809,37.55107,0 there ...at Phalerum, he made it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks there, and near the largest harbor is the grave of Themistocles. For it is said that...

there

81 23.644609,37.937222,0 Argives ...the olive. As you go up inland from this is a place where three hundred picked Argives fought for this land with an equal number of specially chosen Lacedemonian...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Eua ...where Aeginetans once made their home, another village Neris, and a third Eua, the largest of the villages, in which there is a sanctuary of Polemocrates...

Eua

76 Parthenon ...And the children of Themistocles certainly returned and set up in the Parthenon a painting, on which is a portrait of Themistocles. The most noteworthy sight...

Parthenon

72 sea ...is in the long portico, where stands a market-place for those living near the sea – those farther away from the harbor have another – but behind the portico near...

sea

80 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Argives ...themselves openly made forays into the land. The Cynurians are said to be Argives by descent, and tradition has it that their founder was Cynurus, son of...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...make further mention later. Agesilaus had a son Archelaus. In his reign the Lacedemonians took by force of arms Aegys, a city of the Perioeci, and sold the inhabitants...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Croton ...his son succeeded to the throne, and the Lacedemonians sent colonies to Croton in Italy and to the Locri by the Western headland. The war called the Messenian...

Croton

74 17.205128,39.028864,0 Delphi ...this. Everything that he saw in the smithy he compared with the oracle from Delphi, likening to the winds the bellows, for that they too sent forth a violent...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argives ...sword he began to wound himself, and hacked and maimed his body all over. The Argives assert that the manner of his end was a punishment for his treatment of the...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...the son of Leonidas, who was a child when his father died, he led the Lacedemonians to Plataea, and afterwards with their fleet to the Hellespont. I cannot praise...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocian ...On this occasion Lysander came to Phocis, took along with him the entire Phocian army, and without any further delay entered Boeotia and began assaults upon the...

Phocian

75 22.25,38.25,0 Haliartus ...without any further delay entered Boeotia and began assaults upon the wall of Haliartus, the citizens of which refused to revolt from Thebes. Already a band of Thebans...

Haliartus

80 23.088416,38.379818,0 Argos ...the Argives. When he led his army from the territory of Tegea into that of Argos, the Argives sent a herald to make for them with Agesipolis a certain ancestral...

Argos

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...entering the city; so Patroclus dispatched messengers urging Areus and the Lacedemonians to take the offensive against Antigonus. On their doing so, he would himself...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegila ...for a large ransom, maidens, as when he captured them. There is a place Aegila in Laconia, where is a sanctuary sacred to Demeter. Aristomenes and his men...

Aegila

75 22.466185,36.559084,0 Persian fleet ...to Androgeos. 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...

Persian fleet

81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Thebes ...them with their own invention, sending money to Corinth, Argos, Athens and Thebes as the result of this bribery the so-called Corinthian war broke out...

Thebes

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Hegias of Troezen ...This Antiope, Pindar says, was carried of by Peirithous and Theseus, but Hegias of Troezen gives the following account of her. Heracles was besieging Themiscyra on the...

Hegias of Troezen

75 Messenian ...time for them to take Eira, recounting everything that he had learnt from the Messenian. His story seemed to be reliable, and he led the way for Emperamus and the...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...their eyes with lightning flashing in their faces. All this put courage in the Lacedemonians, who said that heaven itself was-helping them and as the lightning was on their...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cyllene ...the Messenians who wished to take part in the colony to join the leaders at Cyllene. And all took part except those debarred by age or lack of funds for journeying...

Cyllene

78 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Athens ...the Lacedemonians and Messenians completed in the archonship of Autosthenes at Athens, and in the first year of the twenty-eighth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenia ...it should seem to be irrelevant. Now the Lacedemonians, gaining possession of Messenia, divided it all among themselves, except the land belonging to the people of...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Asine ...divided it all among themselves, except the land belonging to the people of Asine; but they gave Mothone to the men of Nauplia, who had recently been driven from...

Asine

78 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Ozolian ...They had taken Naupactus from the Locrians adjoining Aetolia, called the Ozolian. The retirement of the Messenians from Ithome was secured by the strength of...

Ozolian

75 21.75,38.25,0 Aetolians ...They rejected this, as they saw that their line of march would be through the Aetolians, who were always their enemies; moreover they suspected that the men of...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Messenians ...desperate courage as to fight against the full levy of the Acarnanians. The Messenians had previously prepared food and all else that was requisite, expecting to...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...For wherever the Acarnanians saw a part of their own line being broken by the Messenians they went to the support of their harassed troops at this point and checked the...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Acarnanians ...month all their provisions alike had been consumed. They shouted to the Acarnanians from the wall in mockery that their supplies would not fail them until the...

Acarnanians

75 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Naupactus ...the territory of the Aetolians, who were their friends, arrived safely at Naupactus. Afterwards, as at all times, they were stirred by their hatred against the...

Naupactus

76 22.315807,38.41224,0 Rhegium ...the Messenians from Naupactus; they went to their kinsmen in Sicily and to Rhegium, but the majority came to Libya and to the Euesperitae there, who had suffered...

Rhegium

77 15.649244,38.111146,0 Thebans ...Comon, who had commanded them in Sphacteria. A year before the victory of the Thebans at Leuctra, heaven foretold their return to Peloponnese to the Messenians. It...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lacedemonians ...a man of Elis who was a personal friend of Agis and the state-friend of the Lacedemonians, rose up with the rich citizens against the people but before Agis and his army...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Elean ...behind Lysistratus, a Spartan, with a portion of his forces, along with the Elean refugees, that they might help the Lepreans to ravage the land. In the third...

Elean

78 21.25,37.75,0 Spartan ...Athenians, and it was on their own initiative, and without the approval of the Spartan state, that they put before their allies the proposal to destroy Athens root...

Spartan

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Isthmus ...to all parts of the Peloponnesus, except Argos, and to the Greeks north of the Isthmus, asking for allies. Now the Corinthians were most eager to take part in the...

Isthmus

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Lacedemonians ...down to the sea Tithraustes, a clever schemer who had some grudge against the Lacedemonians. On his arrival at Sardes he at once thought out a plan by which to force the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thrace ...from Asia. Crossing with his fleet from Abydos to Sestos he passed through Thrace as far as Thessaly, where the Thessalians, to please the Thebans, tried to...

Thrace

77 27.5,42.5,0 Athens ...his further progress; there was also an old friendship between them and Athens. But Agesilaus put the Thessalian cavalry to flight and passed through...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Coronea ...made his way through Boeotia, winning a victory over Thebes and the allies at Coronea. When the Boeotians were put to flight, certain of them took refuge in the...

Coronea

80 22.956902,38.392613,0 Lacedemonians ...ah old man, he died on the march. then his dead body was brought home, the Lacedemonians buried it with greater honors than they had given to any other king. In the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Amyclae ...is the more distinguished, so that they spent on adorning the image in Amyclae even the gold which Croesus the Lydian sent for Apollo Pythaeus. Farther on...

Amyclae

73 24.76084,35.0133,0 Tegea ...in war. The first was at Plataea against the Persians; the second was at Tegea, when the Lacedemonians had engaged the Tegeans and Argives; the third was at...

Tegea

75 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemonians ...any who wish to dispute a claim with them. Opposite the Olympian Aphrodite the Lacedemonians have a temple of the Saviour Maid. Some say that it was made by Orpheus the...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Acarnanian ...Carneus has been established among all the Dorians ever since Carnus, an Acarnanian by birth, who was a seer of Apollo. When he was killed by Hippotes the son of...

Acarnanian

75 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Sparta ...in the house of Crius the seer while the Achaeans were still in possession of Sparta. The poetess Praxilla represents Carneus as the son of Europa, Apollo and Leto...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Brauron ...to believe, made light of it becoming booty of the Persians. For the image at Brauron was brought to Susa, and afterwards Seleucus gave it to the Syrians of...

Brauron

80 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Orthia ...and the encircling willow made the image stand upright. Not far from the Orthia is a sanctuary of Eileithyia. They say that they built it, and came to worship...

Orthia

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hellespont ...unable to wipe away a defilement of bloodshed. When he was cruising about the Hellespont with the Lacedemonian and allied fleets, he fell in love with a Byzantine...

Hellespont

81 26.4,40.2,0 Argive ...confederates. As my narrative progresses it will become clear that they were Argive originally, and became Dorian later after the return of the Heracleidae to the...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Parian ...theirs though on the left as you go out is a temple of Hera with an image of Parian marble. On the citadel is another enclosure, which is sacred to Demeter, and...

Parian

79 25.150728,37.08579,0 Phliasians ...to the vines. In order that they may suffer nothing unpleasant from it, the Phliasians pay honors to the bronze goat on the market-place and adorn the image with...

Phliasians

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phlius ...Libya, bringing the apples of the Hesperides, as they were called, he visited Phlius on some private matter. While he was staying there Oeneus came to him from...

Phlius

80 22.649131,37.846299,0 Nemean ...Argives offer burnt sacrifices to Zeus in Nemea also, and elect a priest of Nemean Zeus; moreover they offer a prize for a race in armour at the winter...

Nemean

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Heraeum ...murdered with him. Fifteen stades distant from Mycenae is on the left the Heraeum. Beside the road flows the brook called Water of Freedom. The priestesses use...

Heraeum

77 22.774722,37.691944,0 Heraeum ...and Acraea, and that they were nurses of Hera. The hill opposite the Heraeum they name after Acraea, the environs of the sanctuary they name after Euboea...

Heraeum

72 22.774722,37.691944,0 Athena Alea ...before the wreaths set fire to them. Chryseis went to Tegea and supplicated Athena Alea. Although so great a disaster had befallen them the Argives did not take down...

Athena Alea

78 22.429,37.464,0 Argives ...supplicated Athena Alea. Although so great a disaster had befallen them the Argives did not take down the statue of Chryseis; it is still in position in front of...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nemea ...to the poet Lyceas, when the Argives were holding a sacrifice to Zeus at Nemea, Biton by sheer physical strength took up a bull and carried it there. Next to...

Nemea

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Argive ...sights, including a representation of a man killing another, namely the Argive Perilaus, the son of Alcenor, killing the Spartan Othryadas. Before this...

Argive

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 building for the preparation of the processions ...horse and soldier were carved by Praxiteles. On entering the city there is a building for the preparation of the processions, which are held in some cases every year, in others at longer intervals. Hard...

building for the preparation of the processions

80 Euboea ...there is on the right a temple of Dionysus; the image, they say, is from Euboea. For when the Greeks, as they were returning from Troy, met with the shipwreck...

Euboea

75 Thebes ...when he went forth to battle. When the rout took place at the wall of Thebes, the earth opened and received Amphiaraus and his chariot, swallowing up this...

Thebes

72 23.255096,38.318092,0 Here ...clay images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods. Here also is Pegasus of Eleutherae, who introduced the god to the Athenians. Herein...

Here

77 Eurotas ...to Therapne, and on this road is a wooden image of Athena Alea. Before the Eurotas is crossed, a little above the bank is shown a sanctuary of Zeus Wealthy...

Eurotas

77 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Taygetus ...Turning away from the Phellia to the right is the road that leads to Mount Taygetus. On the plain is a precinct of Zeus Messapeus, who is surnamed, they say, after...

Taygetus

77 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Taygetus ...in secret the sacrificial rites. Above Bryseae rises Taletum, a peak of Taygetus. They call it sacred to Helius (the Sun), and among the sacrifices they offer...

Taygetus

75 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Elean ...a victory, not in the long race but in the short race, is stated in the Elean records of Olympic victors to have been a native of Aegium in Achaia. Farther...

Elean

74 21.25,37.75,0 Laconians ...stades distant from Aegiae, built by the sea in the territory of the Free Laconians, whom the emperor Augustus freed from the bondage in which they had been to the...

Laconians

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Marius ...containing springs. In a sanctuary of Artemis also there are springs. In fact Marius has an unsurpassed supply of water. Above the town, and like it in the...

Marius

80 22.819373,37.042584,0 Scandeia ...from a promontory on the mainland called Onugnathus. In Cythera is a port Scandeia on the coast, but the town Cythera is about ten stades inland from Scandeia...

Scandeia

76 23.073782,36.229899,0 Delos ...the wrath of the god. Menophanes, as he was putting to sea after the sack of Delos was sunk at once by those of the merchants who had escaped; for they lay in...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Epidelium ...Boeatae is adjoined by Epidaurus Limera, distant some two hundred stades from Epidelium. The people say that they are not descended from the Lacedemonians but from the...

Epidelium

80 23.029361,36.630631,0 Andania ...statements with regard to Lycus, and that the mysteries were originally at Andania. And it seems natural to me that Messene should have established the mysteries...

Andania

77 21.938099,37.26217,0 Laconia ...from the Epidaurians of the Argolid, and that they touched at this point in Laconia when sailing on public business to Asclepius in Cos. Warned by dreams that...

Laconia

78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...but no more), they summoned Perieres, the son of Aeolus, as king. To him, the Messenians say, came Melaneus, a good archer and considered for this reason to be a son of...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Laconia ...the Macedonians. These formed a detachment of Philip's army, when he invaded Laconia, but were separated from the main body and were plundering the coastal...

Laconia

79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Euboeans ...was formerly a city and was called Oechalia. The account given by the Euboeans agrees with the statements of Creophylus in his Heraeleia; and Hecataeus of...

Euboeans

72 Troy ...the wife of Protesilaus, the first who dared to land when the Greeks reached Troy, was named Polydora, whom he calls a daughter of Meleager the son of Oeneus. If...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messene ...of his house. When he reached manhood, he was brought back by the Arcadians to Messene, the other Dorian kings, the sons of Aristodemus and Isthmius, the son of...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Dorians ...consecrated by Polycaon and Messene, had hitherto received no honor among the Dorians, and it was Glaucus who established this worship among them and he was the...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Thalamae ...a small island no larger than a big rock, also called Pephnus. The people of Thalamae say that the Dioscuri were born here. I know that Alcman too says this in a...

Thalamae

79 22.325671,36.786208,0 Messenian ...to the local Dorian custom. A city, called in Homer's poems Enope, with Messenian inhabitants but belonging to the league of the Free Laconians, is called in our...

Messenian

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Pergamum ...know that to be the reason of the practice at the temple of Asclepius at Pergamum, where they begin their hymns with Telephus but make no reference to Eurypylus...

Pergamum

75 27.184167,39.1325,0 Laconia ...besides. He sold the cattle of Polychares to some merchants who put in to Laconia, and went himself to inform Polychares but he said that pirates had landed in...

Laconia

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Syrnus ...returning after the sack of Troy, was carried out of his course and reached Syrnus on the Carian mainland in safety and settled there. In the territory of...

Syrnus

78 28.196786,36.720882,0 Asopus ...knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, but refused to give information to the seeker before he had a spring given him...

Asopus

75 22.75,37.75,0 Messene ...which say: "To our king beloved of the gods, Theopompus, through whom we took Messene with wide dancing-grounds. Tyrtaeus, unknown location. Aristomenes then in my...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Phrygia ...foreign and not native, in that the Maeander, descending from Celaenae through Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the...

Phrygia

81 27.75,40.25,0 Lacedemonians ...wood and all else that was required for the making of an entrenched camp. The Lacedemonians heard from their garrison at Ampheia that the Messenians were marching out, so...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ampheia ...homes burnt. His words were not supposition, the fate of the men captured at Ampheia was evidence that all could see. Better a noble death than such evils; it was...

Ampheia

79 22.075138,37.264193,0 Dorians ...Hippolytus was the father of Lacestades. Phalces the son of Temenus, with the Dorians, surprised Sicyon by night, but did Lacestades no harm, because he too was one...

Dorians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Messenian ...tomb of Lycus the Messenian, whoever this Lycus may be; for I can discover no Messenian Lycus who practised the pentathlon or won a victory at Olympia. This tomb is a...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadian ...and Damis. He maintained good relations with the allies, sending gifts to the Arcadian leaders and to Argos and Sicyon. They carried on the war during his reign by...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sythas ...story is the ceremony they perform at the present day; the children go to the Sythas at the feast of Apollo, and having brought, as they pretend, the deities to the...

Sythas

80 22.62377,38.08036,0 Pythia ...reason they sent envoys to Delphi, who received the following reply from the Pythia: "Phoebus bids thee pursue not only the task of war with the hand, but by guile...

Pythia

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Arcadians ...next attempted to break up the Messenian alliance. But when repulsed by the Arcadians, to whom their ambassadors came first, they put off going to Argos...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messene ...death overtook the daughter whom he carried with him on his flight from Messene. As he often visited her tomb, Arcadian horsemen lay in wait and captured him...

Messene

74 21.920439,37.175491,0 Arcadian ...he carried with him on his flight from Messene. As he often visited her tomb, Arcadian horsemen lay in wait and captured him. When carried to Ithome and brought into...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenians ...to most of the Lacedemonians, he would more easily escape detection by the Messenians. Joining some countrymen, he entered Ithome with them, and as soon as night...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Milesians ...made by the Sicyonian Canachus, who also fashioned the Apollo at Didyma of the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans. It is made of gold and ivory, having...

Milesians

81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Lacedemonians ...of the common people were scattered in their native towns, as before. The Lacedemonians first razed Ithome to the ground, then attacked and captured the remaining...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyonian ...and take no further trouble. Within the enclosure is a bronze statue of a Sicyonian named Granianus, who won the following victories at Olympia: the pentathlon...

Sicyonian

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Arcadians ...the Arcadians is shown by the passage in Homer that deals with the list of the Arcadians, in which the Sicyonians are not included among the Arcadian confederates. As...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Hysiae ...are common graves of the Argives who conquered the Lacedemonians in battle at Hysiae. This fight took place, I discovered, when Peisistratus was archon at Athens...

Hysiae

80 22.585884,37.519836,0 Inachus ...of Artemis on the top. On this mountain are also the springs of the river Inachus. For it really has springs, though the water does not run far. Here I found...

Inachus

76 22.75,37.75,0 Thyreatis ...when they were expelled from their island by the Athenians. In my time Thyreatis was inhabited by the Argives, who say that they recovered it by the award of an...

Thyreatis

73 Argos ...son of Orestes, both districts, Messene and Argos, had kings put over them; Argos had Temenus and Messene Cresphontes. In Lacedemon, as the sons of Aristodemus...

Argos

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...It was then that the Lacedemonians first resolved to make war upon the Argives, bringing as charges against them that they were annexing the Cynurian...

Argives

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dorian ...to Aegina, and, settling among the old Aeginetans, established in the island Dorian manners and the Dorian dialect. Although the Aeginetans rose to great power, so...

Dorian

79 22.25,38.75,0 Aegina ...(on the Tower); it stands beside the temple of the Wingless Victory. In Aegina, as you go towards the mountain of Zeus, God of all the Greeks, you reach a...

Aegina

75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Cretans ...of Aphaea, in whose honor Pindar composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the story of Aphaea is Cretan) that Carmanor, who purified Apollo alter he...

Cretans

75 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Messenian ...Croton in Italy and to the Locri by the Western headland. The war called the Messenian reached its height in the reign of this king. As to the causes of the war, the...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...Eurycrates, son of Polydorus, the Messenians submitted to be subjects of the Lacedemonians, neither did any trouble befall from the Argive people. But in the reign of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Epidaurus ...read a book purporting to be a treatise by Pittheus, published by a citizen of Epidaurus. Not far from the Muses' Hall is an old altar, which also, according to report...

Epidaurus

81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Troezenians ...before it is what is called the Fountain of Heracles, for Heracles, say the Troezenians, discovered the water. On the citadel is a temple of Athena, called Sthenias...

Troezenians

78 Athens ...to please an Athenian, Isagoras, by helping him to establish a tyranny over Athens. When he was disappointed, and the Athenians fought strenuously for their...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Taenarum ..."Delos and Calaurea alike thou lovest to dwell in, Pytho, too, the holy, and Taenarum swept by the high winds." At any rate, there is a holy sanctuary of Poseidon...

Taenarum

79 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Hermion ...it would have been spoken of by the Argives. There is a road from Troezen to Hermion by way of the rock which aforetime was called the altar of Zeus Sthenius...

Hermion

80 23.243591,37.385218,0 Phocis ...will be given in my account of Agesilaus. On this occasion Lysander came to Phocis, took along with him the entire Phocian army, and without any further delay...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Eilei ...Apollo surnamed Platanistius (God of the Plane-tree Grove), and a place called Eilei, where are sanctuaries of Demeter and of her daughter Core (Maid). Seawards, on...

Eilei

81 23.26405,37.442072,0 Athenians ...citizens of which refused to revolt from Thebes. Already a band of Thebans and Athenians had secretly entered the city; these came out and offered battle before the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cretans ...and Megara, he said that now he would not have her to wife, and ordered his Cretans to throw her from the ship. She was drowned, and the waves cast up her body on...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Hydrea ...lies an island called Aperopia, not far from which is another island, Hydrea. After it the mainland is skirted by a crescent-shaped beach and after the...

Hydrea

72 23.46048,37.32924,0 Chalcidice ...Olynthus. Victorious in the war, having captured most of the cities in Chalcidice, and hoping to capture Olynthus itself, he was suddenly attacked by a disease...

Chalcidice

73 23.6437183,39.9832624,0 Arcadia ...the Lacedemonians hoped to capture the city and to annex the Tegean plain from Arcadia. After the death of Charillus, Nicander his son succeeded to the throne, in...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Rhodians ...as Furies, who seized Helen and hanged her on a tree, and for this reason the Rhodians have a sanctuary of Helen of the Tree. A story too I will tell which I know...

Rhodians

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Euxine ...tell about Helen. The people of Himera too agree with this account. In the Euxine at the mouths of the Ister is an island sacred to Achilles. It is called White...

Euxine

77 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Locri ...when war had arisen between the people of Crotona and the Locri in Italy, the Locri, in virtue of the relationship between them and the Opuntians, called upon Ajax...

Locri

80 16.23715,38.20782,0 Olympic ...not in the long race but in the short race, is stated in the Elean records of Olympic victors to have been a native of Aegium in Achaia. Farther on in the direction...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sparta ...olden time was a city. They say that Tyndareus dwelt here when he fled from Sparta before Hippocoon and his sons. Remarkable sights I remember seeing here were a...

Sparta

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gythium ...that a fisherman in these waters turns into the fish called the fisher. Gythium is thirty stades distant from Aegiae, built by the sea in the territory of the...

Gythium

75 22.562341,36.763663,0 Marius ...are Asopus, Acriae, Boeae, Zarax, Epidaurus Limera, Brasiae, Geronthrae and Marius. These are all that are left to the Free Laconians out of twenty-four cities...

Marius

78 22.819373,37.042584,0 Cythera ...called Onugnathus. In Cythera is a port Scandeia on the coast, but the town Cythera is about ten stades inland from Scandeia. The sanctuary of Aphrodite Urania...

Cythera

78 22.97822,36.26229,0 Zarax ...of prettier form and of all colors. A hundred stades from Epidaurus is Zarax; though possessing a good harbor, it is the most ruinous of the towns of the...

Zarax

74 23.088,36.787,0 Laconians ...possessing a good harbor, it is the most ruinous of the towns of the Free Laconians, since it was the only town of theirs to be depopulated by Cleonymus the son of...

Laconians

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Brasiae ...when hunting, struck the rock with her spear, so that the water gushed forth. Brasiae is the last town on the coast belonging to the Free Laconians in this...

Brasiae

81 22.890275,37.144402,0 Cyphanta ...Free Laconians in this direction. It is distant two hundred stades by sea from Cyphanta. The inhabitants have a story, found nowhere else in Greece, that Semele, after...

Cyphanta

81 22.989822,36.961993,0 Pephnus ...Dioscuri belong to them rather than to the Lacedemonians. Twenty stades from Pephnus is Leuctra. I do not know why the city has this name. If indeed it is derived...

Pephnus

80 22.296786,36.812375,0 Leuctra ...is a sanctuary and image of Athena, and there is a temple and grove of Eros in Leuctra. Water flows through the grove in winter-time, but the leaves which are shaken...

Leuctra

81 22.26501,36.84279,0 Calathium ...in safety and settled there. In the territory of Gerenia is a mountain, Calathium; on it is a sanctuary of Claea with a cave close beside it; it has a narrow...

Calathium

75 22.17928,36.92565,0 Gerenia ...but contains objects which are worth seeing. Thirty stades inland from Gerenia is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free...

Gerenia

73 22.208656,36.927195,0 Eleans ...Agis again prepared to invade the territory of Elis. So Thrasydaeus and the Eleans, reduced to dire extremities, agreed to forgo their supremacy over their...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...Lysander, the son of Aristocritus, and Agis violated the oaths which the Lacedemonians as a state had sworn by the gods to the Athenians, and it was on their own...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Orchomenians ...these verses are quoted by Callippus in the same history of Orchomenus. The Orchomenians have a tradition that this Chersias wrote also the inscription on the grave of...

Orchomenians

78 22.31536,37.724716,0 Troy ...river is the tomb of Arcesilaus, whose bones, they say, were carried back from Troy by Leitus. The most famous things in the grove are a temple and image of...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Pythian ...from each city. These asked for a cure for the drought, and were bidden by the Pythian priestess to go to Trophonius at Lebadeia and to discover the remedy from...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Gela ...dedicated by the Argives in the Heraeum and those brought from Omphace to Gela in Sicily have disappeared in course of time. Next to Lebadeia comes...

Gela

76 14.258433,37.062775,0 Phocians ...in charge a force of thirty men. These were under orders that, should the Phocians chance to be worsted in the battle, they were first to put to death the women...

Phocians

77 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...misdeeds of the Phocians, or whether the Thessalians exacted the fine from the Phocians because of their ancient hatred. As they were disheartened at the greatness of...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Sparta ...their resources. He stated, among other plausible arguments, that Athens and Sparta had always been favorable to them, and that if Thebes or any other state made...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocians ...proved the better. An engagement took place at the town of Neon, in which the Phocians were worsted, and in the rout Philomelus threw himself down a high precipice...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...Amphictyons for spoilers of the sanctuary. After the death of Philomelus the Phocians gave the command to Onomarchus, while Philip, son of Amyntas, made an alliance...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Daulis ...The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old, especially because of the...

Daulis

78 22.72926,38.50665,0 Phocis ...was fear of the Boeotians; at this point is the easiest pass from Boeotia into Phocis, so the king used Panopeus as a fortified post. The former passage, in which...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Hermus ...where he lay, the name of which was Nine Roods. Cleon of Magnesia on the Hermus used to say that those men were incredulous of wonders who in the course of...

Hermus

76 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Phocians ...is Daulis. The men there are few in number, but for size and strength no Phocians are more renowned even to this day. They say that the name of the city is...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Phocis ...feathers on its head rise into the shape of a crest. It is noteworthy that in Phocis swallows neither hatch nor lay eggs; in fact no swallow would even make a nest...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Troezen ...Apollo as a gift. It is said that he gave to Poseidon Calaureia, that lies off Troezen, in exchange for his oracle. I have heard too that shepherds feeding their...

Troezen

81 Tempe ...was made of laurel, the branches of which were brought from the laurel in Tempe. This temple must have had the form of a hut. The Delphians say that the second...

Tempe

76 22.7175,39.934167,0 Pythian ...tyrant of Sicyon, was proclaimed victor in the chariot-race. At the eighth Pythian Festival they added a contest for harpists playing without singing; Agelaus of...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocian ...in the Amphictyonic League. The Macedonians managed to enter it, while the Phocian nation and a section of the Dorians, namely the Lacedemonians, lost their...

Phocian

77 22.25,38.25,0 Massiliots ...offering of the Massiliots, and is larger than the one inside the temple. The Massiliots are a colony of Phocaea in Ionia, and their city was founded by some of those...

Massiliots

80 5.365307,43.299467,0 Crotona ...Persian, in a ship of his own, equipped by himself and manned by citizens of Crotona who were staying in Greece. Such is the story of the athlete of Crotona. On...

Crotona

79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Phocian ...come the Achaean Axionicus from Pellene, Theares of Hermion, Pyrrhias the Phocian, Comon of Megara, Agasimenes of Sicyon, Telycrates the Leucadian, Pythodotus of...

Phocian

76 22.25,38.25,0 Argos ...to found Messene. The statues are of heroes: Danaus, the most powerful king of Argos, and Hypermnestra, for she alone of her sisters kept her hands undefiled. By...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cnidus ...The Cnidians brought the following images to Delphi: Triopas, founder of Cnidus, standing by a horse, Leto, and Apollo and Artemis shooting arrows at Tityos...

Cnidus

75 27.37404,36.686188,0 Hiera ...in ships. On Strongyle fire is to be seen rising out of the ground, while in Hiera fire of its own accord bursts out on the summit of the island, and by the sea...

Hiera

79 25.38225,36.39633,0 Cnidians ...treasury built from the spoils of war, and so have the Athenians. Whether the Cnidians built to commemorate a victory or to display their prosperity I do not know...

Cnidians

80 27.37404,36.686188,0 Thrace ...built from the spoils taken in the great Athenian disaster, the Potidaeans in Thrace built one to show their piety to the god. The Athenians also built a portico...

Thrace

80 27.5,42.5,0 Delians ...Asia and of Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would capture Troy. The Delians remember also a hymn this woman composed to Apollo. In her poem she calls...

Delians

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Phocians ...their founder. The images of Apollo, Athena, and Artemis were dedicated by the Phocians from the spoils taken from the Thessalians, their enemies always, who are their...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Salamis ...an Apollo at Delphi, from spoils taken in the naval actions at Artemisium and Salamis. There is also a story that Themistocles came to Delphi bringing with him for...

Salamis

80 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Phocians ...of Heracleia on the Euxine, the other by the Amphictyons when they fined the Phocians for tilling the territory of the god. The second Apollo the Delphians call...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Liparaeans ...of Apollo and Artemis. I learnt a very strange thing that happened to the Liparaeans in a war with the Etruscans. For the Liparaeans were bidden by the Pythian...

Liparaeans

77 14.95373,38.46708,0 Carthaginians ...Corsicans, who were kept from slavery by the strength of the mountains. These Carthaginians, like those who preceded them, founded cities in the island, namely, Caralis...

Carthaginians

80 10.327986,36.857569,0 Paeonia ...leader against the Thracians and the nation of the Triballi. The invaders of Paeonia were under the command of Brennus and Acichorius. Bolgius attacked the...

Paeonia

79 21.75,41.75,0 Illyrians ...the command of Brennus and Acichorius. Bolgius attacked the Macedonians and Illyrians, and engaged in a struggle with Ptolemy, king of the Macedonians at that time...

Illyrians

78 19.5,41.5,0 Paeonia ...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...

Paeonia

81 21.75,41.75,0 Thebes ...the Boeotians there mustered seven hundred from Thespiae and four hundred from Thebes. A thousand Phocians guarded the path on Mount Oeta, and the number of these...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thespians ...remained all the time guarding the pass; for if we except the Lacedemonians, Thespians and Mycenaeans, the rest left the field before the conclusion of the...

Thespians

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Thebans ...also there is a sanctuary of Voices outside the wall and beyond the city. The Thebans in ancient days used to sacrifice bulls to Apollo of the Ashes. Once when the...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocis ...also is current among the Thebans. As Cadmus was leaving Delphi by the road to Phocis, a cow, it is said, guided him on his way. This cow was one bought from the...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Boeotians ...camp and go home. The Thespians left with all their forces, as did any other Boeotians who felt annoyed with the Thebans. When the battle joined, the allies of the...

Boeotians

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Dorians ...There a tearful battle is nigh, and no one will foretell it, Until the Dorians have lost their glorious youth, When the day of fate has come. Then may...

Dorians

73 22.25,38.75,0 Thebes ...the Athenians from coming out to fight, he proceeded to march back to Thebes. Epaminondas stood his trial on a capital charge for holding the office of...

Thebes

72 23.255096,38.318092,0 Boeotian ...he captured the Sicyonian town of Phoebia, in which were gathered most of the Boeotian fugitives, he assigned to each of those whom he captured in it a new...

Boeotian

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Mantineia ...a new nationality, any that occurred to him, and set them free. On reaching Mantineia with his army, he was killed in the hour of victory by an Athenian. In the...

Mantineia

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Tithorea ...time they take earth from the mound and set it on Antiope's tomb, the land of Tithorea will yield a harvest, but that of Thebes be less fertile. For this reason the...

Tithorea

80 22.66931,38.58344,0 Caicus ...the fact that I have seen a similar wonder. It was this. In Mysia beyond the Caicus is a town called Pioniae, the founder of which according to the inhabitants was...

Caicus

80 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Greeks ...Oeta unperceived by the Greeks. Then it was that the Athenians put the Greeks under the greatest obligation, and although outflanked offered resistance to...

Greeks

74 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...that here runs into the sea. These then were more distressed; for taking the Greeks on board they were forced to sail through the mud weighted as they were by arms...

Greeks

79 22.5,37.5,0 sanctuary of Zeus ...time. And the anchor, which Midas found, 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...

sanctuary of Zeus

78 deserted island ...that they were plotting to seize Egypt, he led them through the river to a deserted island. There they perished at one another's hands or by famine. Magas, who was...

deserted island

77 Egypt ...had wedded him happened to die before this, leaving no issue, and there is in Egypt a district called Arsinoites after her. It is pertinent to add here an account...

Egypt

80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Eirene (Peace) carrying the boy Plutus (Wealth) ...the country which they still hold. After the statues of the eponymoi come statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Eirene (Peace) carrying the boy Plutus (Wealth). Here stands a bronze figure of Lycurgus, son of Lycophron, and of Callias...

statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Eirene (Peace) carrying the boy Plutus (Wealth)

77 tomb ...into another direction and made here an altar to Achelous. Hard by is the tomb of Hyllus, son of Heracles, who fought a duel with an Arcadian, Echemus the son...

tomb

76 of Callias ...(Wealth). Here stands a bronze figure of Lycurgus, son of Lycophron, and of Callias, who, as most of the Athenians say, brought about the peace between the Greeks...

of Callias

75 Asine ...Asine in Argive territory. It is a journey of forty stades from Colonides to Asine, and of an equal number from Asine to the promontory called Acritas. Acritas...

Asine

79 21.958376499999986,36.7960065,0 Pylos ...Iolcos, on which he departed to the adjoining country and there occupied the Pylos in Elis. When Neleus became king, he raised Pylos to such renown that Homer in...

Pylos

79 Caphereus ...places hitherto unknown have been raised to fame by the fortunes of men. For Caphereus in Euboea is famous since the storm that here befell the Greeks with Agamemnon...

Caphereus

79 24.58816,38.15888,0 Achaeans ...disputes were the cause of a war between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and the former, realizing that they were not a match for their opponents, sent...

Achaeans

69 Macedonia ...the rebellion of Andriscus, the son of Perseus, the son of Philip. The war in Macedonia, it turned out, was easily decided in favour of the Romans, but Metellus urged...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedemonians ...but at that time subject to the Achaeans. Having again stirred up war between Lacedemonians and Achaeans he incurred blame at the hands of his countrymen, and, failing to...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinth ...story, that the Roman senate decreed that neither the Lacedemonians nor yet Corinth itself should belong to the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lacedemonians ...envoys who had been sent after Orestes to deal with the dispute between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, they too turned back. When the time came for Diaeus to...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaean ...for an agreement, and sat down to besiege Heracleia, which refused to join the Achaean League. Then, when Critolaus was informed by his scouts that the Romans under...

Achaean

81 Achaeans ...less glorious exploit of the Athenians against the Gauls. Critolaus and the Achaeans took to flight, but at a short distance from Scarpheia they were overtaken by...

Achaeans

79 Arcadia ...of Critolaus offers a wide field for conjecture. A thousand picked troops of Arcadia, who had joined Critolaus in his enterprise, took the field and advanced as far...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Heracleia ...marched against Thebes, for the Thebans had joined the Achaeans in investing Heracleia, and had taken part in the engagement of Scarpheia. Then the inhabitants, of...

Heracleia

79 22.442503,38.790767,0 Achaean ...from them no special prize. Wherefore Oebotas pronounced a curse that no Achaean in future should win an Olympic victory. There must have been some god who was...

Achaean

75 Peirus ...on the statue of Oebotas at Olympia. Some forty stades from Dyme the river Peirus flows down into the sea; on the Peirus once stood the Achaean city of Olenus...

Peirus

78 21.75,38.25,0 Patrae ...Lacedemon. Such was the genealogy of Patreus. In course of time the people of Patrae on their own account crossed into Aetolia; they did this out of friendship for...

Patrae

81 21.738518,38.243265,0 Calydonians ...against Oeneus weighed as time went on more lightly (elaphroteron) on the Calydonians, and they believe that this was why the goddess received her surname. The image...

Calydonians

76 21.533106,38.372423,0 Pythian ...an unusually fatal character. When they appealed to the oracle at Delphi the Pythian priestess accused Melanippus and Comaetho. The oracle ordered that they...

Pythian

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dodona ...the doves and the responses from the oak. On this occasion the oracles from Dodona declared that it was the wrath of Dionysus that caused the plague, which would...

Dodona

79 20.78784,39.54648,0 Pharae ...to the image stand square stones, about thirty in number. These the people of Pharae adore, calling each by the name of some god. At a more remote period all the...

Pharae

80 21.717095,38.093144,0 Triteia ...came from Cumae in the country of the Opici. Others say that Ares mated with Triteia the daughter of Triton, that this maiden was priestess to Athena, and that...

Triteia

79 22.315807,38.41224,0 Sicily ...of this Gelon is the seventy-third Festival. But the Gelon who was tyrant of Sicily took possession of Syracuse when Hybrilides was archon at Athens, in the second...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Olympia ...of Heraea, his son and his grandson, each won two victories at Olympia. Those of Damaretus were gained at the sixty-fifth Festival (at which the race...

Olympia

65 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phthia ...Isthmus were won in some cases for the pancratium and in others for boxing. At Phthia in Thessaly he gave up training for boxing and the pancratium. He devoted...

Phthia

81 22.55625075,38.9967985,0 Lacedemonian ...is also set up in Olympia a slab recording the victories of Chionis the Lacedemonian. They show simplicity who have supposed that Chionis himself dedicated the...

Lacedemonian

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thesprotian ...the fate that overtook Milo. Pyrrhus, the son of Aeacides, who was king on the Thesprotian mainland and performed many remarkable deeds, as I have related in my account...

Thesprotian

81 20.25,39.75,0 Pythian ...after this victory two others for which crowns were given; but at the next six Pythian Festivals Pythocritus of Sicyon was victor, being the only flute-player so to...

Pythian

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Boeotian ...of Eucletus, a Messenian who won a victory in the pentathlum, was made by the Boeotian Theron; that of Damaretus, another Messenian, who won the boys' boxing-match...

Boeotian

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Olympia ...by the Cretans. The first athletes to have their statues dedicated at Olympia were Praxidamas of Aegina, victorious at boxing at the fifty-ninth Festival...

Olympia

73 21.630126,37.637849,0 Altis ...of cypress, and his statue is less decayed than the other. There is in the Altis to the north of the Heraeum a terrace of conglomerate, and behind it stretches...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...at Delphi certain of the Greeks have made treasuries for Apollo. There is at Olympia a treasury called the treasury of the Sicyonians, dedicated by Myron, who was...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...I saw that they were made of bronze; whether the bronze is Tartessian, as the Eleans declare, I do not know. They say that Tartessus is a river in the land of the...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Lebadeia ...Trophonius at Lebadeia, as the Pythia bade. Afterwards he took the shield to Lebadeia and dedicated it, and I myself have seen it there among the offerings. The...

Lebadeia

79 22.87352,38.431063,0 Lacedemon ...the Messenians to their own destruction. After receiving the money from Lacedemon, Aristocrates concealed his plot from the Arcadians for the present, but when...

Lacedemon

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...Messenians were occupied on their own front, then Aristocrates withdrew the Arcadians as the battle began, leaving the Messenian left and center without troops. For...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eleians ...troops. For the Arcadians occupied both positions in the absence of the Eleians from the battle and of the Argives and Sicyonians. To complete his work...

Eleians

74 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonian ...Aristomenes and his men held together and tried to check the fiercest of the Lacedemonian assaults but, being few in number, were unable to render much assistance. So...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...into which they throw men punished for the greatest crimes. The rest of the Messenians were killed at once as they fell, but Aristomenes now as on other occasions was...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Aptera ...all that they needed, had been captured by the Lacedemonians and archers from Aptera, commanded by Euryalus the Spartan; Aristomenes rescued him and recovered all...

Aptera

80 24.141374,35.462784,0 Messene ...and said: "Why vainly maintain this toil? The decree of fate stands fast that Messene should fall; long since the Pythia declared to us the disaster now before our...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...of Eira, they at once ordered Aristocrates to lead them to the rescue of the Messenians or to death with them. But he, being in receipt of bribes from Lacedemon...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...brought him before the Arcadians and made known to the people the answer from Lacedemon. Anaxander was writing that his retreat from the Great Trench formerly had not...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...in age, to Damothoidas of Lepreum and Theopompus of Heraea. He himself went to Delphi to enquire of the god. The reply that was given to Aristomenes is not...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...allies, called to their assistance Cimon the son of Miltiades, their patron in Athens, and an Athenian force. But when the Athenians arrived, they seem to have...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acarnanians ...formed. They had no fear of the wall being taken by assault, either by the Acarnanians scaling it or by themselves being forced to abandon their posts. But in the...

Acarnanians

78 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Thebans ...destruction would overtake Lacedemon. Then after their victory at Leuctra the Thebans sent messengers to Italy, Sicily and to the Euesperitae, and summoned the...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phrygians ...Sicels, and Phrygians; the first two crossed into it from Italy, while the Phrygians came from the river Scamander and the land of the Troad. The Phoenicians and...

Phrygians

77 27.75,40.25,0 Olympia ...worship of Heracles the son of Amphitryon. On the offering of the Thasians at Olympia there is an elegiac couplet: "Onatas, son of Micon, fashioned me, He who has...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...Their date is fixed by that of Micythus, who dedicated the works of art at Olympia. For Herodotus in his history says that this Micythus, when Anaxilas was despot...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Delphi ...was the artist. Why the Corcyraeans dedicated the ox at Olympia and another at Delphi will be explained in my account of Phocis. bout the offering at Olympia I heard...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Altis ...the Greeks for unintentional shedding of blood. Under the plane trees in the Altis, just about in the center of the enclosure, there is a bronze trophy, with an...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thrace ...of the Heraeum was being repaired in my time. The offering of the Mendeans in Thrace came very near to beguiling me into the belief that it was a representation of...

Thrace

81 27.5,42.5,0 Altis ...Orontes an image of Fortune, which is highly valued by the natives. In the Altis by the side of Timosthenes are statues of Timon and of his son Aesypus, who is...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...while the Messenians were in exile from the Peloponnesus, their luck at the Olympic games failed. For with the exception of Leontiscus and Symmachus, who came from...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Nemean ...for men, and the pentathlum twice at the Isthmian games and twice at the Nemean. For the Lepreans are not afraid of the Isthmian games as the Eleans themselves...

Nemean

75 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Olympia ...stands near that of Antiochus, competed successfully in the pentathlum both at Olympia and at Nemea, but clearly kept away, just like other Eleans, from the Isthmian...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Isthmus ...won two prizes for men wrestlers at Olympia, one at Delphi, four at the Isthmus and three at the Nemean games. He was buried at the public expense by the...

Isthmus

74 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Macedonians ...personal courage and daring led him alone of the Achaeans to fight against the Macedonians under Antipater at the battle of Lamia in Thessaly. Next to Chilon two statues...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Olympia ...outside the boundaries of the country. They sent the statue of Archidamus to Olympia chiefly, in my opinion, on account of his death, because he met his end in a...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Mantinea ...founder Philip, son of Amyntas. The statue of Cyniscus, the boy boxer from Mantinea, was made by Polycleitus. Ergoteles, the son of Philanor, won two victories in...

Mantinea

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Scotussa ...and children as slaves in order to pay his mercenaries. This disaster befell Scotussa when Phrasicleides was archon at Athens, in the hundred and second Olympiad...

Scotussa

80 22.5403,39.38533,0 Messenian ...on his sons. The family of Diagoras was originally, through the female line, Messenian, as he was descended from the daughter of Aristomenes. Dorieus, son of...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Aegialus ...but they cast out the Ionians and occupied the land called of old Aegialus, but now called Achaea from these Achaeans. The Arcadians, on the other hand...

Aegialus

68 22.3484,38.1478,0 Dorians ...seventeen years. The Dryopians reached the Peloponnesus from Parnassus, the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we know crossed over from Calydon and Aetolia generally...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Eleans ...and its bordering country Olympia, separating it from the land of Epeius. The Eleans said that Pelops was the first to found a temple of Hermes in Peloponnesus and...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Achelous ...in honor of Azan. Aetolus, son of Endymion, gave to the dwellers around the Achelous their name, when he fled to this part of the mainland. But the kingdom of the...

Achelous

78 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Corinthians ...Argives refused them satisfaction, the Eleans as an alternative pressed the Corinthians entirely to exclude the Argive people from the Isthmian games. When they failed...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Isthmian ...down to the present day, and no athlete of Elis is wont to compete in the Isthmian games. There are two other accounts, differing from the one that I have given...

Isthmian

76 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Corinth ...the one that I have given. According to one of them Cypselus, the tyrant of Corinth, dedicated to Zeus a golden image at Olympia. As Cypselus died before...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...offering, the Corinthians asked of the Eleans leave to inscribe the name of Corinth on it, but were refused. Wroth with the Eleans, they proclaimed that they must...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Eleans ...remained common people. Incidentally this is shown by Homer in his list of the Eleans; he makes their whole fleet to consist of forty ships, half of them under the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Dorians ...inferred that this was the man indicated by the oracle, and so the Dorians made him one of themselves. He urged them to descend upon the Peloponnesus in...

Dorians

69 22.25,38.75,0 Naupactus ...army. Such was his advice, and at the same time he led them on the voyage from Naupactus to Molycrium. In return they agreed to give him at his request the land of...

Naupactus

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Lacedemonians ...shortly afterwards they rose up with the Mantineans and Argives against the Lacedemonians, inducing Athens too to join the alliance. When Agis invaded the land, and...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lepreus ...could not show a tomb of Lepreus. I have heard some who maintained that Lepreus was founded by Leprea, the daughter of Pyrgeus. Others say that the first...

Lepreus

75 21.724777,37.439599,0 Acidas ...not smell sweet but actually stinks horribly. Before it receives the tributary Acidas it plainly cannot support fish-life at all. After the rivers unite, the fish...

Acidas

81 Triphylia ...see behind you on the left the ruins of Scillus. It was one of the cities of Triphylia but in the war between Pisa and Elis the citizens of Scillus openly helped Pisa...

Triphylia

79 21.75,37.75,0 Pentelic ...sanctuary was shown a tomb, and upon the grave is a statue of marble from the Pentelic quarry. The neighbors say that it is the tomb of Xenophon. As you go from...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Elis ...Elis to join it. The source of the Alpheius itself is in Arcadia, and not in Elis. There is another legend about the Alpheius. They say that there was a hunter...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Delphi ...with the spring at this place I cannot disbelieve, as I know that the god at Delphi confirms the story. For when he despatched Archias the Corinthian to found...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Corinthian ...that the god at Delphi confirms the story. For when he despatched Archias the Corinthian to found Syracuse he uttered this oracle: "An isle, Ortygia, lies on the misty...

Corinthian

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Ida ...of Ida, who are the same as those called Curetes. They came from Cretan Ida – Heracles, Paeonaeus, Epimedes, Iasius and Idas. Heracles, being the eldest...

Ida

74 26.85852,39.69936,0 Olympia ...time of Deucalion. He was descended from Heracles of Ida; he held the games at Olympia and set up an altar in honor of Heracles, his ancestor, and the other Curetes...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Thrace ...sculptures in the front pediment are by Paeonius, who came from Mende in Thrace; those in the back pediment are by Alcamenes, a contemporary of Pheidias...

Thrace

75 27.5,42.5,0 Olympia ...great grandson of Pelops. Most of the labours of Heracles are represented at Olympia. Above the doors of the temple is carved the hunting of the Arcadian boar, his...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...story is that when the Arcadians had invaded the land of Elis, and the Eleans were set in array against them, a woman came to the Elean generals, holding a...

Eleans

73 21.25,37.75,0 Pisa ...which now separate Arcadia and Elis originally separated Arcadia from Pisa, and are thus situated. On crossing the river Erymanthus at what is called the...

Pisa

72 21.653041,37.639535,0 Cydonian ...and from the river Jardanus. The Eleans say that Pelops too sacrificed to Cydonian Athena before he set about his contest with Oenomaus. Going on from this point...

Cydonian

76 24.019611,35.517333,0 Pisa ...that their founder had been Dysponteus the son of Oenomaus. It was the fate of Pisa, and of all her allies, to be destroyed by the Eleans. Of Pylus in the land...

Pisa

81 21.653041,37.639535,0 Corcyrean ...is another portico, between the two being one street. The Eleans call it the Corcyrean, because, they say, the Corcyreans landed in their country and carried off part...

Corcyrean

79 19.92178,39.60733,0 Eleans ...on any matter. The tomb also of Pyrrhon is not far from the town of the Eleans. The name of the place is Petra, and it is said that Petra was a township in...

Eleans

74 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...in Triphylia. Transferred to Elis it received still greater honor, but the Eleans call it Satrap and not Poseidon, having learned the name Satrap, which is a...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Athens ...him with having appropriated some of the ancestral property. But he fled to Athens, where he was deemed worthy to wed the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he had...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delphians ...to the sons of Codrus. There also took part all the Phocians except the Delphians, and with them Abantes from Euboea. Ships for the voyage were given to the...

Delphians

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ephesians ...The Greek army was victorious, but Androclus was killed in the battle. The Ephesians carried off his body and buried it in their own land, at the spot where his...

Ephesians

77 27.339722,37.941944,0 Ionians ...at the hands of Hiero, a native, yet down to the present day are accounted Ionians. The people of Myus left their city on account of the following accident. A...

Ionians

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Phoenician ...Olympia there is a woollen curtain, adorned with Assyrian weaving and Phoenician purple, which was dedicated by Antiochus, who also gave as offerings the golden...

Phoenician

72 35.25,33.25,0 Egyptian ...would prove more subservient, and this consideration induced her to urge the Egyptians to choose Alexander as king. When the people offered opposition, she...

Egyptian

79 Egyptian ...gave him to wife the half-sister of his children, and restored him by an Egyptian force. The first Greeks that Pyrrhus attacked on becoming king were the...

Egyptian

75 Gauls ...until, being the first of the kings to my knowledge to dare to meet the Gauls in battle, he was killed by the foreigners. The empire was recovered by...

Gauls

74 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 Greece ...through the mud weighted as they were by arms and men. So they tried to save Greece in the way described, but the Gauls, now south of the Gates, cared not at all...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...games. This was the third expedition which the Athenians dispatched out of Greece. For against Priam and the Trojans war was made with one accord by all the...

Greece

77 22.5,37.5,0 Ionians ...the mainland to the island. Of these Clazomenians the greater part were not Ionians, but Cleonaeans and Phliasians, who abandoned their cities when the Dorians had...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Samus ...to wife Samia, the daughter of the river Maeander, and begat Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses and a daughter Parthenope; and that Parthenope had a son Lycomedes...

Samus

81 26.84,37.73,0 Dardania ...as a result of their settling there the name of the island was changed from Dardania to Samothrace. Others with Leogorus threw a wall round Anaea on the mainland...

Dardania

78 26.385172,40.071124,0 Imbrasus ...hold that the goddess was born in the island by the side of the river Imbrasus under the withy that even in my time grew in the Heraeum. That this sanctuary...

Imbrasus

72 26.885425,37.6656981,0 Panionium ...occurred to Hector that they ought to unite with the Ionians in sacrificing at Panionium. It is said that the Ionian confederacy gave him a tripod as a prize for valor...

Panionium

81 27.329993,37.703924,0 Macedonian ...for their later exploits, but they never found it possible to recover from the Macedonian war. When the Greeks no longer took concerted action, but each state acted for...

Macedonian

81 21.75,41.25,0 Arcadians ...all the oaths he had sworn by reducing to slavery Megalopolis, the city of the Arcadians. Because of Cleomenes and his treachery the Lacedemonians suffered the reverse...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Macedonians ...estate, and Antigonus without reluctance handed over the sovereignty of the Macedonians, he struck fear into the hearts of all the Greeks. He copied Philip, the son of...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Thessalians ...Euboea, the Boeotians and the Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the Thessalians themselves and the Aetolian people Philip occupied Magnesia at the foot of...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Aetolian ...Phocians, Chalcis on the Euripus; against the Thessalians themselves and the Aetolian people Philip occupied Magnesia at the foot of Mount Pelium. The Athenians...

Aetolian

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Athenians ...of Attica I have described the alliances of Greeks and barbarians with the Athenians against Philip, and how the weakness of their allies urged the Athenians to...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...allies of Rome and at the same time to show their goodwill to Greece. But the Achaeans greatly blamed Flamininus himself, and Otilius before him, for their savage...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...foresaw too that the Romans were coming to impose their domination both on Achaeans and on the rest of Greece, merely in fact to take the place of Philip and the...

Achaeans

77 Achaean ...of the youths, at the same time ordering the youths to be trained after the Achaean method. I shall treat of this more fully in my account of Arcadia. The...

Achaean

78 Achaeans ...and the other commissioners resolved not to overlook the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans, and asked the officers of the League to summon the Achaeans to a meeting, so...

Achaeans

81 Lacedemonians ...a deputation privately. A deputation of the Achaeans was sent to oppose the Lacedemonians, and after speeches had been delivered by both sides before the senate, the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...to have no kindly thoughts towards the Greeks, and by frightening the Athenian people were the cause of Macedonian garrisons being brought into Athens and...

Athenian

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaean ...as he was getting the worst of the argument, brazenly asserted that every Achaean who had held the office of general was included in his accusation, since one...

Achaean

76 Achaeans ...bidding of Callicrates. After him rose Xenon, a man of great repute among the Achaeans, and said "The truth about this accusation is as follows. I myself have served...

Achaeans

80 Oropians ...from Oropus and give the hostages back again. After no long interval the Oropians were wronged by certain of the garrison. They accordingly despatched envoys to...

Oropians

76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Attica ...the Messenians took part, as I have shown earlier in my account of Attica. They did not join the Greeks against the Gauls, as Cleonymus and the...

Attica

69 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Elis ...in companies, a thousand picked Messenian troops arrived hurriedly at Elis with Laconian blazons on their shields. Seeing their shields, all the...

Elis

72 21.37493,37.89131,0 Macedonians ...proved useful to men in every matter. Not long after the affair at Elis, the Macedonians and Demetrius the son of Philip, son of Demetrius, captured Messene. I have...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Argolid ...a fleet to Peloponnese. He put in to one of the less frequented harbors of the Argolid, and at once marched his army by the shortest route to Messene. With an advance...

Argolid

81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Macedonian ...the son of Philip, they were filled with great fear, when they considered the Macedonian training in warfare and the good fortune which they saw that they enjoyed in...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...after so long an absence. So the Messenians in the town went against the Macedonians full of courage, and the garrison on the acropolis attacked from the high...

Macedonians

75 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...For they fought against Cleomenes at Sellasia and joined with Aratus and the Achaeans to capture Sparta. When the Lacedemonians were rid of Cleomenes there rose to...

Achaeans

79 Spartan ...Philopoemen and the people of Megalopolis arrived during the same night, the Spartan tyrant retired on terms. But the Achaeans after this, having some quarrel with...

Spartan

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...Deinocrates, the head of the government, who had been chosen to command the Messenians on that occasion, compelled Lycortas and his force to retire without effecting...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadia ...I will narrate the manner of Philopoemen's capture and death in my account of Arcadia later. The Messenians, who were responsible for his death, were punished and...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Alpheius ...no reference to Telegone, who in the Messenian account bore Ortilochus to Alpheius. I heard also at Pharae that besides the twins a daughter Anticleia was born...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Thuria ...and the rest of his adversaries, some more, some less. The people of Thuria left their town, which lay originally on high ground, and came down to live in...

Thuria

71 22.05141,37.11343,0 Susa ...upon it. I have not seen the walls at Babylon or the walls of Memnon at Susa in Persia, nor have I heard the account of any eye-witness; but the walls at...

Susa

74 48.24854,32.19202,0 Elis ...when the ivory parted. Honors have been granted to him by the people of Elis. By Damophon too is the so-called Laphria at Messene. The cult came to be...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Messenians ...the city of the Ephesians and the renown of the goddess who dwells there. The Messenians have a temple erected to Eileithyia with a stone statue, and near by a hall of...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...in the house of Nicias and his favorite. The place called Hierothesion by the Messenians contains statues of all the gods whom the Greeks worship, and also a bronze...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Maeander ...creatures of the worst, in shape resembling the cat-fish of the Hermus and Maeander, but of darker color and stronger. In these respects the cat-fish is...

Maeander

77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Aepeia ...cave; from it the drinking water flows to Corone. The old name of Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese by the Thebans, it is...

Aepeia

80 22.05141,37.11343,0 Coroneia ...by the Thebans, it is said that Epimelides, who was sent as founder, named it Coroneia after his native town in Boeotia. The Messenians got the name wrong from the...

Coroneia

80 22.956902,38.392613,0 Argives ...Heracles, they first occupied Asine by Hermion. They were driven thence by the Argives and lived in Messenia. This was the gift of the Lacedemonians, and when in the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...time the Messenians were restored, they were not driven from their city by the Messenians. But the people of Asine give this account of themselves. They admit that they...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Phocians ...disdain the name of Dryopes, just as the Delphians have refused to be called Phocians. But the men of Asine take the greatest pleasure in being called Dryopes, and...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Pythian ...at Delphi an Elean embassy praying for deliverance from a pestilence. So the Pythian priestess ordered the Eleans to recover the bones of Pelops, and Damarmenus to...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympia ...may be made by maidens, and likewise by women, when they are not shut out from Olympia, but men only can ascend from the prothysis to the highest part of the altar...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympia ...prey with the most rapacious nature, never harms those who are sacrificing at Olympia. Should ever a kite seize the entrails or some of the flesh, it is regarded as...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Altis ...of Nymphs; these too are styled Nymphs of the Beautiful Crowns. Outside the Altis, but on the right of the Leonidaeum, is an altar of Artemis of the Market, and...

Altis

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...of Pisa refused to participate as a people in their tyrant's sins, and the Eleans too became quite ready to lay aside their grievances, they chose a woman from...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...ceiling. This soldier took part in the battle in the Altis between the Eleans and the Lacedemonians. The Eleans in fact climbed to defend themselves on to...

Eleans

73 21.25,37.75,0 Olympic ...on them. The first of the inscriptions is intended to make plain that an Olympic victory is to be won, not by money, but by swiftness of foot and strength of...

Olympic

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...athletes. The purport of the inscription on the fifth image is praise of the Eleans, especially for their fining the boxers; that of the sixth and last is that the...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Lethaeus ...side of the Aegean, Aristomenes of Rhodes and Protophanes of Magnesia on the Lethaeus, were earlier than Strato; after him came Marion his compatriot, Aristeas of...

Lethaeus

79 24.75,35.25,0 Olympia ...is a wonder in any case if a man has so little respect for the god of Olympia as to take or give a bribe in the contests; it is an even greater wonder that...

Olympia

72 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ceraunian ...and Abantes from Euboea, with eight ships altogether, were driven on the Ceraunian mountains. Settling here and founding the city of Thronium, by common agreement...

Ceraunian

75 19.638889,40.198056,0 Apollonia ...conquered in war and expelled by the people of Apollonia, their neighbors. Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of Corinth, and the Corinthians...

Apollonia

77 19.470413,40.720583,0 Corinth ...their neighbors. Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of Corinth, and the Corinthians had their share of the spoils. A little farther on is a...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Metapontum ...flowers, with a crown of them on his head. It is an offering of the people of Metapontum. The artist was Aristonus of Aegina, but we do not know when he lived nor who...

Metapontum

80 16.824063,40.383868,0 Troezen ...the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after them the dwellers in Phlius, Troezen and Hermion, the Tirynthians from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the...

Troezen

73 Ambraciots ...of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the Tenians and the Lepreans, who were the only...

Ambraciots

77 20.95316,39.04107,0 Anactorians ...were destroyed by the Argives after the Persian wars. The Ambraciots and Anactorians, colonists of Corinth, were taken away by the Roman emperor to help to found...

Anactorians

75 20.84143,38.92237,0 Athens ...treaty is to the effect that although Argos has no part in the treaty between Athens and Sparta, yet the Athenians and the Argives may privately, if they wish, be...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greater Hybla ...the two. They still retain their old names, and are in the district of Catana. Greater Hybla is entirely uninhabited, but Gereatis is a village of Catana, with a sanctuary...

Greater Hybla

81 14.74761,36.92655,0 Sicily ...portents and dreams, and more given to devotions than any other foreigners in Sicily. Near the offering of the Hyblaeans has been made a pedestal of bronze with a...

Sicily

80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Celts ...was narrowest, they tried to keep the foreigners from entering Greece; but the Celts, having discovered the path by which Ephialtes of Trachis once led the...

Celts

81 3.5988981583333333,44.730982100000006,0 city ...than ten cubits. 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...

city

81 Mantineia ...on the Nile is an Egyptian city named after Antinous. He has won worship in Mantineia for the following reason. Antinous was by birth from Bithynium beyond the river...

Mantineia

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineia ...of Mantineia. For this reason the Emperor established his worship in Mantineia also; mystic rites are celebrated in his honor each year, and games every four...

Mantineia

72 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineans ...the son of Aeneas, one of the Iamids. This man foretold a victory for the Mantineans and took a personal part in the fighting. On the left wing was stationed all...

Mantineans

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Eleans ...but his father Iphicles, in the first battle fought by Heracles against the Eleans and Augeas, was wounded by the sons of Actor, who were called after their...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Achaean ...stades away from the city. As you go from Pheneus to Pellene and Aegeira, an Achaean city, after about fifteen stades you come to a temple of Pythian Apollo. I...

Achaean

80 Pheneatians ...only its ruins, which include a large altar of white marble. Here even now the Pheneatians still sacrifice to Apollo and Artemis, and they say that the sanctuary was made...

Pheneatians

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Salamis ...killed in Thebes by Amphitryon? And how would Teucer have founded the city of Salamis in Cyprus if nobody had expelled him from his native city after his return from...

Salamis

81 Cyprus ...by Amphitryon? And how would Teucer have founded the city of Salamis in Cyprus if nobody had expelled him from his native city after his return from Troy? And...

Cyprus

75 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Arcadians ...they could not carry the body away. These snakes are still to be found, the Arcadians say, on the mountain, even at the present day; not many, however, for they are...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pheneus ...them down to a place called Lusi. Most of the Aroanian mountain belongs to Pheneus, but Lusi is on the borders of Cleitor. They say that Lusi was once a city...

Pheneus

77 22.30692,37.91045,0 Arcadians ...among the Syrians who live on the river Orontes, and give the account of the Arcadians and Eleans. Oenomaus, prince of Pisa, had a son Leucippus. Leucippus fell in...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Selemnus ...they forget their passion. If there is any truth in the story the water of the Selemnus is of more value to mankind than great wealth. At some distance from Argyra is...

Selemnus

81 21.75,38.25,0 Olympia ...the sea. A portico near the city was made for Straton, an athlete who won at Olympia on the same day victories in the pancratium and in wrestling. The portico was...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Aegium ...The portico was built that this man might exercise himself in it. At Aegium is an ancient sanctuary of Eileithyia, and her image is covered from head to...

Aegium

71 22.081952,38.252707,0 Argives ...the people of Aegium themselves say that the images were deposited by the Argives with them on trust. They say further that they were ordered to sacrifice each...

Argives

76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Aegium ...on further you come to the river Selinus, and forty stades away from Aegium is a place on the sea called Helice. Here used to be situated a city Helice...

Aegium

71 22.081952,38.252707,0 Athens ...even after their expulsion by the Achaeans to Athens, and subsequently from Athens to the coasts of Asia. At Miletus too on the way to the spring Biblis there is...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Heliconian ...is before the city an altar of Heliconian Poseidon, and in Teos likewise the Heliconian has a precinct and an altar, well worth seeing. There are also passages in...

Heliconian

79 22.82514,38.35217,0 Athenian ...of these words when Peloponnesians arrived at Athens at the time when the Athenian king was Codrus, the son of Melanthus. Now the rest of the Peloponnesian army...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...came as settlers Mycenaeans from Argolis because of a catastrophe. Though the Argives could not take the wall of Mycenae by storm, built as it was like the wall of...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cleonae ...to leave their city through lack of provisions. Some of them departed for Cleonae, but more than half of the population took refuge with Alexander in Macedonia...

Cleonae

76 22.75372,37.81708,0 Aegeira ...purifications, especially in the matter of diet. I remember observing at Aegeira a building in which was an image of Fortune carrying the horn of Amaltheia. By...

Aegeira

76 22.3782,38.12855,0 Sicyonians ...son of Triopas. Between Aegeira and Pellene once stood a town, subject to the Sicyonians and called Donussa, which was laid waste by the Sicyonians; it is mentioned...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Olympia ...called Promachus, the son of Dryon, who won prizes in the pancratium, one at Olympia, three at the Isthmus and two at Nemea. The Pellenians made two statues of him...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...home from the king of Persia, he came for the second time to compete in the Olympic games. The Thessalians, however, refuse to admit that Polydamas was beaten; one...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Pellene ...most invidious of all gifts, to be set up as tyrant of one's own fatherland. Pellene has also a sanctuary of Eileithyia, which is situated in the lesser portion of...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Argive ...It is said that it was founded by Mysius, a man of Argos, who according to Argive tradition gave Demeter a welcome in his home. There is a grove in the Mysaeum...

Argive

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mantineans ...part of Arcadia that lies next to the Argive land is occupied by Tegeans and Mantineans, who with the rest of the Arcadians inhabit the interior of the Peloponnesus...

Mantineans

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Corinthians ...to the sea at Mothone, Pylus and Cyparissiae. On the side of Lechaeum the Corinthians are bounded by the Sicyonians, who dwell in the extreme part of Argolis on this...

Corinthians

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lycaean ...since the time of Lycaon a man has changed into a wolf at the sacrifice to Lycaean Zeus, but that the change is not for life; if, when he is a wolf, he abstains...

Lycaean

77 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Oresthasium ...on the sites they considered best. Thus Pallantium was founded by Pallas, Oresthasium by Orestheus and Phigalia by Phigalus. Pallantium is mentioned by Stesichorus...

Oresthasium

76 22.206506,37.345994,0 Asea ...its founder, Tricoloni after Tricolonus, Peraethenses after Peraethus, Asea after Aseatas, Lycoa after . . . 4 and Sumetia after Sumateus. Alipherus also...

Asea

73 22.283,37.405,0 Stymphalus ...name to Mount Cyllene, and Stymphalus gave his to the spring and to the city Stymphalus near the spring. The story of the death of Ischys, the son of Elatus, I have...

Stymphalus

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Lacedemon ...to fear. Holaeas was the son of Cypselus, who, aided by the Heracleidae from Lacedemon and Argos, restored to Messene his sister's son Aepytus. Holaeas had a son...

Lacedemon

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...of the Arcadian kings, and the genealogy as given above was told me by the Arcadians themselves. Of their memorable achievements the oldest is the Trojan war; then...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delos ...for the Chalcidians on the Euripus a processional tune for their use in Delos. So the Thebans set up here a statue of this man, and like-wise one of...

Delos

74 25.268194,37.397274,0 Lacedemonians ...is said to have been sent with certain others from Thebes to help the Lacedemonians. In the battle Pelopidas received wounds, but his life was saved by Epaminondas...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...to take up their dead, and only when these had done so did he approve of the Lacedemonians' burying their own dead. Some of the allies took up no dead at all, as not a...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megalopolis ...a home where they could live together, which even at the present day is called Megalopolis (Great City). The period of his office as Boeotarch had now expired, and death...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Messene ...and when Agesilaus did not come out to meet him, turned to the founding of Messene. Epaminondas, was the founder of the modern Messene, and the history of its...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Argives ...the spring is the grave of Asphodicus. He it was who in the fighting with the Argives killed Parthenopaeus, the son of Talaus. This is the Theban account, but...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebans ...fox, how owing to the wrath of Dionysus the beast was reared to destroy the Thebans, and how, when about to be caught by the hound given by Artemis to Procris the...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Harma ...of Aulis, and these are potters. This land, and that about Mycalessus and Harma, is tilled by the people of Tanagra. Within the territory of Tanagra is what...

Harma

76 23.486691,38.388352,0 Boeotia ...and at the end of the tail. Such is the appearance of the blackbirds. Within Boeotia to the left of the Euripus is Mount Messapion, at the foot of which on the...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Ptous ...right is the sanctuary of Ptoan Apollo. We are told by Asius in his epic that Ptous, who gave a surname to Apollo and the name to the mountain, was a son of...

Ptous

80 23.251,38.459,0 Cephisus ...on which, they say, Athamas made his home. Into the lake flows the river Cephisus, which rises at Lilaea in Phocis, and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a...

Cephisus

75 23.625,38.125,0 Orchomenus ...my view Hyettus, as well as the Athamantian plain, belongs to the district of Orchomenus. All the stories I heard about Hyettus the Argive and Olmus, the son of...

Orchomenus

80 22.31536,37.724716,0 Corseia ...are cultivated. Going out of Cyrtones, as you cross the mountain you come to Corseia, under which is a grove of trees that are not cultivated, being mostly...

Corseia

80 23.08241,38.59375,0 Thespians ...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...

Thespians

76 23.154521,38.293384,0 Helicon ...the sanctuary of Demeter of Mycalessus has been entrusted to Idaean Heracles. Helicon is one of the mountains of Greece with the most fertile soil and the greatest...

Helicon

81 22.82514,38.35217,0 Termessus ...Muses, is the spring Aganippe; they say that Aganippe was a daughter of the Termessus, which flows round Helicon. As you go along the straight road to the grove is a...

Termessus

78 30.467197,36.982996,0 Dium ...it was here that Orpheus met his end at the hands of the women. Going from Dium along the road to the mountain, and advancing twenty stades, you come to a...

Dium

77 22.491299,40.177012,0 Helicon ...to the hymns of Homer, while they have been even more honored by the gods. On Helicon there is also a statue of Arsinoe, who married Ptolemy her brother. She is...

Helicon

81 22.82514,38.35217,0 Olympic ...the son of Omphalion, collected an army from the neighborhood, and held the Olympic games instead of the Eleans. These Festivals, as well as the hundred and...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...be without inhabitants. Beside it the river Ladon flows into the Peneius. The Eleans declare that there is a reference to this Pylus in the passage of Homer: "And...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Eleans ...Alpheius, that in broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians." The Eleans convinced me that they are right. For the Alpheius does flow through this...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Heracleia ...of no city in Arcadia named Pylus. Distant from Olympia about fifty stades is Heracleia, a village of the Eleans, and beside it is a river Cytherus. A spring flows...

Heracleia

81 21.573479,37.687483,0 Athens ...are named after Ion, the son of Gargettus, who migrated to this place from Athens. If you wish to go to Elis through the plain, you will travel one hundred and...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cyllene ...to fight. The bird might also be considered as sacred to Athena the worker. Cyllene is one hundred and twenty stades distant from Elis; it faces Sicily and affords...

Cyllene

79 21.144997500000045,37.9346907,0 Attica ...these having invited Ion to be their leader in the war, he met his death in Attica, his tomb being in the deme of Potamus. The descendants of Ion became rulers of...

Attica

78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Achaeans ...to depart under a truce. The body of Tisamenus was buried in Helice by the Achaeans, but afterwards at the command of the Delphic oracle the Lacedemonians carried...

Achaeans

77 Ionians ...in the place where the Lacedemonians take the dinner called Pheiditia. The Ionians went to Attica, and they were allowed to settle there by the Athenians and...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Athenians ...Ionians went to Attica, and they were allowed to settle there by the Athenians and their king Melanthus, the son of Andropompus, I suppose for the sake of Ion...

Athenians

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ephesian ...his oracle, are earlier than the immigration of the Ionians, while the cult of Ephesian Artemis is far more ancient still than their coming. Pindar, however, it seems...

Ephesian

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Miletus ...lake until the inhabitants were forced to leave the city. They departed for Miletus, taking with them the images of the gods and their other movables, and on my...

Miletus

78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Orchomenians ...a great-grandchild of Melanthus, who showed no hostility either to the Orchomenians or to the Teians. A few years later there came men from Athens and from...

Orchomenians

73 22.959486,38.495082,0 Boeotia ...or to the Teians. A few years later there came men from Athens and from Boeotia; the Attic contingent was under Damasus and Naoclus, the sons of Codrus, while...

Boeotia

74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Ida ...sent for a leader, Parphorus, from the Colophonians, and founded under Mount Ida a city which shortly afterwards they abandoned, and returning to Ionia they...

Ida

79 26.85852,39.69936,0 Clazomenae ...But in course of time Alexander the son of Philip was destined to make Clazomenae a peninsula by a mole from the mainland to the island. Of these Clazomenians...

Clazomenae

73 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Mycale ...from Teos. The cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and Chios opposite Mimas. Asius, the son of Amphiptolemus, a Samian, says in...

Mycale

78 27.12558,37.66144,0 Ionians ...out of their island, accusing them of conspiring with the Carians against the Ionians. The Samians fled and some of them made their home in an island near Thrace...

Ionians

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ephesians ...on the mainland opposite Samos, and ten years after crossed over, expelled the Ephesians and reoccupied the island. Some say that the sanctuary of Hera in Samos was...

Ephesians

81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Delphi ...and his sons were succeeded by Amphiclus, who because of an oracle from Delphi came from Histiaea in Euboea. Three generations from Amphiclus, Hector, who...

Delphi

74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Smyrnaeans ...a city there and to remove into it the Smyrnaeans from the old city. So the Smyrnaeans sent ambassadors to Clarus to make inquiries about the circumstance, and the...

Smyrnaeans

79 27.14781,38.440912,0 Ionia ...one at Clarus in the land of the Colophonians. Besides these, two temples in Ionia were burnt down by the Persians, the one of Hera in Samos and that of Athena at...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Triteia ...to all the Greek world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene...

Triteia

78 22.315807,38.41224,0 Achaeans ...sons of Tisamenus. Equally powerful with the chiefs already mentioned were two Achaeans from Lacedemon, Preugenes and his son, whose name was Patreus. The Achaeans...

Achaeans

81 Achaeans ...in the Greek army. When the Persians under Xerxes attacked Greece the Achaeans it is clear had no part in the advance of Leonidas to Thermopylae, nor in the...

Achaeans

72 Megalopolis ...by the reverse at Leuctra combined with the union of the Arcadians at Megalopolis and the settlement of Messenians on their border. Thebes had been brought so...

Megalopolis

72 22.126238,37.414256,0 Achaia ...suffered from tyranny, while the disasters of war and of pestilence touched Achaia less than any other part of Greece. So we have what was called the Achaean...

Achaia

78 Sparta ...of the Achaeans, was captured by Agis, the son of Eudamidas, who was king at Sparta; but he was immediately driven out by the Sicyonians under Aratus. Cleomenes...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...the city of the Arcadians. Because of Cleomenes and his treachery the Lacedemonians suffered the reverse at Sellasia, where they were defeated by the Achaeans...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...right zealous allies they proved themselves to be. They followed the Romans to Macedonia against Philip; they took part in the campaign against the Aetolians; thirdly...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Mysia ...fighting on their side was Attalus . . . who also commanded the army from Mysia, a land lying under the rising sun. On the occasion to which I referred...

Mysia

76 27.75,40.25,0 Achaeans ...attacked the Achaeans with great vehemence before the senate; accordingly, the Achaeans, at a meeting of their League, passed sentence of death upon them. The Roman...

Achaeans

81 Rome ...and banished on that account by the Achaeans. Going up with them to Rome they intrigued for the restoration of the exiles. As Appius was a zealous...

Rome

70 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Athenian ...as many states as he could. While he was carrying out his instructions, the Athenian populace sacked Oropus, a state subject to them. The act was one of necessity...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Egyptian men-of-war sent by Ptolemy, son of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, to help the Athenians, when Antigonus, son of Demetrius, was ravaging their country, which he had...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Asopus ...Peirene are the same, the water in the city flowing hence under-ground. This Asopus rises in the Phliasian territory, flows through the Sicyonian, and empties...

Asopus

80 22.75,37.75,0 Corcyra ...sea here. His daughters, say the Phliasians, were Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe. Corcyra and Aegina gave new names to the islands called Scheria and Oenone, while from...

Corcyra

80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Aegospotami ...that at a later date, when they were lying opposite the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami, the Lacedemonians bought Adeimantus and other Athenian generals. However in...

Aegospotami

76 26.61011,40.35074,0 Argives ...both positions in the absence of the Eleians from the battle and of the Argives and Sicyonians. To complete his work Aristocrates caused his men to fly through...

Argives

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...of the siege is proved by these lines of the poet Rhianus, regarding the Lacedemonians: "In the folds of the white mountain were they encamped, for two and twenty...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...were sending a force to assist the Lacedemonians in the reduction of Eira. Learning from his scouts that their march discipline was lax and that their...

Eira

71 21.927988,37.398271,0 Lacedemonians ...said that he made a third offering as the result of his later raids. Now the Lacedemonians, as the festival of Hyacinthus was approaching, made a truce of forty days with...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eira ...but Emperamus, his master, who was commandant, was conducting the siege of Eira. Coming to him he first begged forgiveness for his crime of deserting and then...

Eira

77 21.927988,37.398271,0 Eira ...crime of deserting and then showed him that now was the time for them to take Eira, recounting everything that he had learnt from the Messenian. His story seemed...

Eira

80 21.927988,37.398271,0 Eira ...they accomplished it in their eagerness, and arriving before the acropolis of Eira, mounted by raising ladders and in any other way that was possible. Various...

Eira

80 21.927988,37.398271,0 Smyrna ...all that suited the occasion and reminding them of the valor of the men of Smyrna, how, though an Ionian people, by their valor and courage they had driven out...

Smyrna

77 27.14781,38.440912,0 Ionian ...occasion and reminding them of the valor of the men of Smyrna, how, though an Ionian people, by their valor and courage they had driven out Cyges the son of...

Ionian

80 27.508324,37.474596,0 Lacedemonians ...who were captured about Eira or anywhere else in Messenia, were reduced by the Lacedemonians to serfdom. The people of Pylos and Mothone and all who occupied the maritime...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...victory to grief. He then met his doom there, but Aristomenes ordered all the Messenians who wished to take part in the colony to join the leaders at Cyllene. And all...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Zanclaeans ...put to sea to oppose him, and the Messenians did the like by land, and the Zanclaeans, blockaded on land by the Messenians and from the sea by the fleet of the...

Zanclaeans

77 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Oeniadae ...them until the tenth year of the siege, but they themselves sallied out of Oeniadae at the time of the first sleep. Their escape became known to the Acarnanians...

Oeniadae

77 21.1966,38.4077,0 Athenians ...towards them in the war which took place between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians. For they offered Naupactus as a base against Peloponnese, and Messenian...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messene ...foretold their return to Peloponnese to the Messenians. It is said that in Messene on the Straits the priest of Heracles saw a vision in a dream: it seemed that...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...them down in books. As Epaminondas considered the spot where the city of the Messenians now stands most convenient for the foundation, he ordered enquiry to be made by...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Nemea ...won two victories at Olympia, two at Pytho, three at the Isthmus and five at Nemea. He is said to have also conceived the idea of a flesh diet; up to this time...

Nemea

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Argos ...at Olympia there is another in the temple of Peace at Rome, brought there from Argos. Both are in my opinion among the most glorious works of Naucydes. It is also...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Isthmus ...of Haemostratus, won the boxing-match for men at Olympia, Nemea, Pytho and the Isthmus; they also declare that the Tritaeans are Arcadians, but I found this statement...

Isthmus

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Corinthian ...complete records of the victors at Nemea and the Isthmus. The mare of the Corinthian Pheidolas was called, the Corinthians relate, Aura (breeze), and at the...

Corinthian

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Rhodian ...years old he met his death before he returned home to Rhodes. The feat of the Rhodian wrestler at Olympia was in my opinion surpassed by Artemidorus of Tralles. He...

Rhodian

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Olympic ...fought the men because of the insult of a man pancratiast. Artemidorus won an Olympic victory among the men at the two hundred and twelfth Festival. Next to the...

Olympic

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Isthmus ...was not more than twenty years old, at Olympia, at Pytho, at Nemea and at the Isthmus. The statue of the boy runner Xenon, son of Calliteles from Lepreus in...

Isthmus

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Paleans ...dedicated a statue of Timoptolis, an Elean, the son of Lampis. These Paleans were of old called Dulichians. There is also a statue set up of Archidamus the...

Paleans

71 20.437481,38.222555,0 Elis ...the guardian of Philip the son of Demetrius, with the other Philip himself; Elis is crowning Demetrius, who marched against Seleucus, and Ptolemy the son of...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympia ...name of Carpia, a city of the Iberians. On the smaller of the chambers at Olympia are inscriptions, which inform us that the weight of the bronze is five hundred...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Myanians ...and greaves. An inscription on the armour says that they were dedicated by the Myanians as first-fruits to Zeus. Various conjectures have been made as to who these...

Myanians

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Carthaginians ...of Catillus. Next to the treasury of the Sicyonians is the treasury of the Carthaginians, the work of Pothaeus, Antiphilus and Megacles. In it are votive offerings – a...

Carthaginians

78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Selinus ...the treasury of the Libyans of Cyrene. In it stand statues of Roman emperors. Selinus in Sicily was destroyed by the Carthaginians in a war, but before the disaster...

Selinus

80 12.75,37.75,0 Altis ...Aphrodite, and there too they sacrifice upon the altars. There is within the Altis by the processional entrance the Hippodameium, as it is called, about a quarter...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Messene ...of Hyllus, son of Heracles, but it omits all reference to the husband of Messene and to Messene herself. Some time later, as no descendant of Polycaon survived...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Pharae ...they point to a tomb of Machaon in Gerenia and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae. After the conclusion of the Trojan war and the death of Nestor after his...

Pharae

81 21.717095,38.093144,0 Messene ...of Zeus on the summit of Ithome, having been consecrated by Polycaon and Messene, had hitherto received no honor among the Dorians, and it was Glaucus who...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lacedemonians ...months later Antiochus died and his son Euphaes succeeded to the kingdom. The Lacedemonians, without sending a herald to declare war on the Messenians or renouncing their...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...were few. This was the first attack which the Lacedemonians made on the Messenians, in the second year of the ninth Olympiad, when Xenodocus of Messenia won the...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Argos ...from the attempt of his ancestor Polyneices; for Polyneices led an army from Argos against his fatherland, and slaying his brother with his own hand was slain by...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ithome ...they resolved to desert all their numerous towns inland and to settle on Mount Ithome. A small town existed here, which they say Homer mentions in the Catalogue...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Messenians ...parties, and made incursions into one another's country at harvest time, the Messenians being supported by the Arcadians in their raids into Laconia. The Argives did...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Corinthians ...heavy. The rest made their retreat homewards without molestation, but for the Corinthians it was likely to be difficult, for whether they tried to retire through the...

Corinthians

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Argos ...is called. The Messenians had the Eleians and Arcadians and also succors from Argos and from Sicyon. They were joined by all the Messenians who had previously been...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Boeotian ...built houses and the temples. They worked to the sound of music, but only from Boeotian and Argive flutes, and the tunes of Sacadas and Pronomus were brought into keen...

Boeotian

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Plataeans ...Cassander the son of Antipater rebuilt it after a few years. The exile of the Plataeans seems to have lasted the longest of those mentioned, but even this was not for...

Plataeans

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Elis ...refused to grant them a truce. Not long afterwards the Messenians occupied Elis, employing strategy and daring alike. The Eleians in the earliest times were...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Lacedemonians ...for quarrels to arise among men whose counsels were divided on account of the Lacedemonians, and they arrived at civil war. Learning this, the Lacedemonians were preparing...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Troy ...spies by night among the Trojans, instead of one and later a man coming to Troy, who pretends to be a deserter but actually is to find out their...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messene ...harbors of the Argolid, and at once marched his army by the shortest route to Messene. With an advance guard consisting of all the light-armed troops who knew the...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lacedemonians ...Sellasia and joined with Aratus and the Achaeans to capture Sparta. When the Lacedemonians were rid of Cleomenes there rose to power a tyrant Machanidas, and after his...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megalopolis ...an army. This Nabis seized Messene, but when Philopoemen and the people of Megalopolis arrived during the same night, the Spartan tyrant retired on terms. But the...

Megalopolis

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Messenians ...retired on terms. But the Achaeans after this, having some quarrel with the Messenians, invaded them with all their forces and ravaged most of the country. On a...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...name Antheia in Homer's poems. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedemonians of Sparta. For when Augustus was emperor of the Romans, Antony, himself a...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Byzantium ...heard the account of any eye-witness; but the walls at Ambrossos in Phocis, at Byzantium and at Rhodes, all of them the most strongly fortified places, are not so...

Byzantium

81 28.975926,41.012379,0 Achaeans ...in another place. The name Laphria spread only to the Messenians and to the Achaeans of Patrae. But all cities worship Artemis of Ephesus, and individuals hold her...

Achaeans

78 Boeotia ...who was sent as founder, named it Coroneia after his native town in Boeotia. The Messenians got the name wrong from the start, and the mistake which they...

Boeotia

70 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Messenians ...was sent as founder, named it Coroneia after his native town in Boeotia. The Messenians got the name wrong from the start, and the mistake which they made gradually...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Parnassus ...from the sea. The people of Asine originally adjoined the Lycoritae on Parnassus. Their name, which they maintained after their arrival in Peloponnese, was...

Parnassus

74 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Dryopes ...this day. The case is very different with the Euboeans of Styra. They too are Dryopes in origin, who took no part in the battle with Heracles, as they dwelt at some...

Dryopes

80 24.25,38.25,0 Mothone ...set sail for the Ionian Sea, having desolated the city of the Mothonaeans. In Mothone is a temple of Athena Of the Winds, with a statue dedicated, it is said, by...

Mothone

81 21.705,36.817,0 Astyra ...the spring. I have myself seen water coming up black from springs at Astyra. Astyra opposite Lesbos is the name of the hot baths in the district called Atarneus...

Astyra

80 26.906742,39.163484,0 Rheneia ...of sandy Pylos. The island of Sphacteria lies in front of the harbor just as Rheneia off the anchorage at Delos. It seems that places hitherto unknown have been...

Rheneia

80 25.2124,37.4159,0 Cyparissia ...There is a shrine of Apollo in Cyparissiae and of Athena with the title Cyparissia. In the depression called Aulon there is a temple and statue of Asclepius...

Cyparissia

74 21.681159,37.248527,0 Corinthians ...their own country. The rest of Peloponnesus belongs to immigrants. The modern Corinthians are the latest inhabitants of Peloponnesus, and from my time to the time when...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Rhegium ...Choerus as the father of Micythus, and as his fatherland the Greek cities of Rhegium and Messene on the Strait. The inscriptions say that he lived at Tegea, and he...

Rhegium

79 15.649244,38.111146,0 Athens ...is said to have made it without wings in imitation of the wooden image at Athens called Wingless Victory. By the smaller offerings of Micythus, that were made...

Athens

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rhegian ...image, Hermes with a herald's wand. An inscription on it says that Glaucias, a Rhegian by descent, dedicated it, and Gallon of Elis made it. Of the bronze oxen one...

Rhegian

81 15.649244,38.111146,0 Elean ...Altis. When the war was over Lichas set up the statue in this place, but the Elean records of Olympic victors give as the name of the victor, not Lichas, but the...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonians ...the Iamid family, who divined for the Mantineans in their struggle against the Lacedemonians under Agis, son of Eudamidas, their king. I shall have more to say about this...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...failed. For with the exception of Leontiscus and Symmachus, who came from Messene on the Strait, we know of no Messenian, either from Sicily or from Naupactus...

Messene

76 21.920439,37.175491,0 Macedonia ...right into the land around Mount Olympus, one side of which is turned towards Macedonia, and the other towards Thessaly and the river Peneius. Here on Mount Olympus...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Mantinean ...at Olympia stand two Arcadians and one Attic athlete. The statue of the Mantinean, Protolaus the son of Dialces, who won the boxing-match for boys, was made by...

Mantinean

74 22.393259,37.618138,0 Lydian ...with them), but while lord of the land of Pisa he was put down by Pelops the Lydian, who crossed over from Asia. On the death of Oenomaus, Pelops took possession...

Lydian

79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Eleans ...had his home at Tiryns. When the Argives refused them satisfaction, the Eleans as an alternative pressed the Corinthians entirely to exclude the Argive people...

Eleans

74 21.25,37.75,0 Elis ...Molionids. Enough of my discussion of this question. Heracles afterwards took Elis and sacked it, with an army he had raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Dorian ...Eleius, and it was while Eleius was king in Elis that the assembly of the Dorian army under the sons of Aristomachus took place, with a view to returning to the...

Dorian

76 22.25,38.75,0 Olympia ...buried him in a tomb which they caused to be made right in the gate leading to Olympia and the sanctuary of Zeus. That they buried him thus was due to an oracle...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...Eleans, of which my present enumeration must serve as a summary. The land of Elis contains two marvels. Here, and here only in Greece, does fine flax grow; and...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Samia ...far away on the right of the road you reach a high district with a city called Samia on it. This they say Polysperchon the Aetolian used as a fortified post against...

Samia

81 21.59852,37.53384,0 Anigrus ...at the time of the return of the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus. After the Anigrus, if you travel for a considerable distance through a district that is generally...

Anigrus

79 Lacedemonians ...seat at Sardis, had been providing Lysander, the son of Aristocritus, and the Lacedemonians with money for their fleet. Xenophon, accordingly, was banished and having made...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Scillus ...a river called the Selinus. The guides of Elis said that the Eleans recovered Scillus again, and that Xenophon was tried by the Olympic Council for accepting the...

Scillus

80 21.602752,37.609552,0 Gortynius ...of that city; past Gortyna, where is a sanctuary of Asclepius, flows the Gortynius; from Melaeneae, between the territories of Megalopolis and Heraea, comes the...

Gortynius

75 22.25,37.75,0 Alpheius ...itself is in Arcadia, and not in Elis. There is another legend about the Alpheius. They say that there was a hunter called Alpheius, who fell in love with...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Arcadians ...one umpire was chosen from each. But they were hard pressed in a war with the Arcadians and lost a portion of their territory, along with all the parishes included in...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...they did so. It runs thus: "The temple has a golden shield; from Tanagra. The Lacedemonians and their allies dedicated it, a gift taken from the Argives, Athenians and...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...also mentioned in my history of Attica, Then I described the tombs that are at Athens. On the outside of the frieze that runs round the temple at Olympia, above the...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...an offering made by the Roman general Mummius when he had conquered the Achaeans in war, captured Corinth, and driven out its Dorian inhabitants. To come to...

Achaeans

74 Alpheius ...Cladeus, the river which, in other ways also, the Eleans honor most after the Alpheius. On the left from Zeus are Pelops, Hippodameia, the charioteer of Pelops...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Salamis ...ready to receive the load of Atlas, along with Theseus; Perithous, Hellas, and Salamis carrying in her hand the ornament made for the top of a ship's bows; then...

Salamis

81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Acropolis ...the ivory from being harmed by the marshiness of the Altis. On the Athenian Acropolis the ivory of the image they call the Maiden is benefited, not by olive oil, but...

Acropolis

78 23.625,37.875,0 Mantineans ...is written the oath sworn by the Eleans to the Athenians, the Argives and the Mantineans, that they would be their allies for a hundred years. Within the Altis there...

Mantineans

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Therapne ...have declared that of old the name Messeis was given, not to the fountain at Therapne, but to the one we call Polydeucea. The fountain Polydeucea and a sanctuary of...

Therapne

79 22.454127,37.066091,0 Therapne ...of Polydeuces are on the right of the road to Therapne. Not far from Therapne is what is called Phoebaeum, in which is a temple of the Dioscuri. Here the...

Therapne

72 22.454127,37.066091,0 Spartans ...in Plane-tree Grove are wont to sacrifice to Achilles before the fight. The Spartans say that the sanctuary was made for them by Prax, a grandson of Pergamus the...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eurotas ...the road when she veiled herself. Twenty stades from here the stream of the Eurotas comes very near to the road, and here is the tomb of Ladas, the fastest runner...

Eurotas

79 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Sparta ...cities with which my narrative will deal belong, it must be remembered, to Sparta, and are not independent like those I have already mentioned. The people of...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Gythium ...of Demeter and an image of Poseidon Earth-embracer. Him whom the people of Gythium name Old Man, saying that he lives in the sea, I found to be Nereus. They got...

Gythium

78 22.562341,36.763663,0 Trinasus ...beyond Gythium on the left there are on the mainland walls of a place called Trinasus (Three Islands), which was in my opinion a fort and not a city. Its name I...

Trinasus

79 22.606891,36.797636,0 Geronthrae ...and the wall by the harbor. A hundred and twenty stades inland from Acriae is Geronthrae. It was inhabited before the Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus, but the Dorians...

Geronthrae

81 Malea ...There is a large population in the district. After doubling the point of Malea and proceeding a hundred stades, you reach a place on the coast within the...

Malea

75 23.19975,36.43603,0 Cyphanta ...inland. After an ascent of ten stades inland are the ruins of the so-called Cyphanta, among which is a cave sacred to Asclepius; the image is of stone. There is a...

Cyphanta

78 22.989822,36.961993,0 Las ...in number; a statue of Athena makes a fourth. To the right of Gythium is Las, ten stades from the sea and forty from Gythium. The site of the present town...

Las

76 22.5047,36.7279,0 Malea ...that Pindar said his name was Pyrrhichus; that is a statement of the men of Malea. At Pyrrhichus there is a well in the market-place, considered to be the gift...

Malea

78 23.19975,36.43603,0 Ithome ...most of the trees, and when the place showed bare, a statue of Zeus of Ithome was found to have been dedicated there. The Messenians say that this is...

Ithome

73 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Arene ...Homer's lines. In the catalogue of those who came to Troy he enumerated Pylos, Arene and other towns, but called no town Messene. In the Odyssey he shows that the...

Arene

81 21.59852,37.53384,0 Sparta ...was supplied by the oracle that was delivered at Delphi to this effect: "Sparta beware! though haughty, pay heed to the warning I give thee. Never let thy...

Sparta

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...of the land forces, sent round to all parts of the Peloponnesus, except Argos, and to the Greeks north of the Isthmus, asking for allies. Now the...

Argos

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phocians ...in the Thebans as allies, and devastated Phocis. Going to Lacedemon the Phocians inveighed against the Thebans, and set forth what they had suffered at their...

Phocians

74 22.25,38.25,0 Thebes ...had suffered at their hands. The Lacedemonians determined to make war against Thebes, chief among their grievances being the outrageous way the Thebans behaved...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Phocians ...the Phocians seized the sanctuary at Delphi. To help in a war with Thebes the Phocians hired with its wealth independent mercenaries, but they here also aided...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Tarentines ...the Phocians. Archidamus afterwards also crossed over into Italy to help the Tarentines to wage war against their foreign neighbors. Here he was killed by the...

Tarentines

80 17.228553,40.476034,0 Athens ...the most serious business, one of them giving his name to the year, just as at Athens this privilege belongs to one of those called the Nine Archons. The most...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pythian ...in war by his divinations. The Lacedemonians, hearing of the oracle the Pythian priestess had given to Tisamenus, persuaded him to migrate from Elis and to be...

Pythian

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aegium ...the Hellenium they point out the tomb of Talthybius. The Achaeans of Aegium too say that a tomb which they show on their market-place belongs to...

Aegium

71 22.081952,38.252707,0 Olympian ...makes it easy for any who wish to dispute a claim with them. Opposite the Olympian Aphrodite the Lacedemonians have a temple of the Saviour Maid. Some say that it...

Olympian

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenians ...Enyalius will never run away from them, being bound in the fetters, while the Athenians think that Victory, having no wings, will always remain where she is. In this...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...have induced Iphigenia to leave the image behind at Brauron? Or why did the Athenians, when they were preparing to abandon their land, fail to include this image in...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonian ...a defilement of bloodshed. When he was cruising about the Hellespont with the Lacedemonian and allied fleets, he fell in love with a Byzantine maiden. And straightway at...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pallene ...any other Greeks. It is said also that when Lysander was besieging Aphytis in Pallene Ammon appeared by night and declared that it would be better for him and for...

Pallene

80 23.6437183,39.9832624,0 Cretans ...prisoner in the battle and sold into Crete, he lived as a slave where the Cretans had a sanctuary of Artemis; but in course of time he ran away in the company of...

Cretans

76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Eleans ...the Eleans to recover the bones of Pelops, and Damarmenus to give back to the Eleans what he had found. He did so, and the Eleans repaid him by appointing him and...

Eleans

80 21.25,37.75,0 Alpheius ...that the white poplar grew first by the Acheron and the wild olive by the Alpheius, and that the dark poplar is a nursling of the Celtic land of the Celtic...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Pylians ...Others declare that the soldiers are meeting in battle, and that they are Pylians and Arcadians about to fight by the city Pheia and the river Iardanus. But it...

Pylians

76 Altis ...tiles and the ornamented ceiling. This soldier took part in the battle in the Altis between the Eleans and the Lacedemonians. The Eleans in fact climbed to defend...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenian ...that it would be wrong to mix up the accounts of them. For whereas on the Athenian Acropolis statues are votive offerings like everything else, in the Altis some...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleans ...deliver no oracle on any matter to the Athenians before they had paid the Eleans the fine. So when it was paid, images, also six in number, were made in honor...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Olympic ...was a Rhodian. This account I found was at variance with the Elean record of Olympic victories. In this record it is stated that Strato of Alexandria at the hundred...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Megarians ...fourth the Sicyonians, fifth the Aeginetans; after the Aeginetans, the Megarians and Epidaurians, of the Arcadians the people of Tegea and Orchomenus, after...

Megarians

74 15.18273,37.2038,0 Mycenae ...from the Argolid, the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the...

Mycenae

73 22.756111,37.730833,0 Olympia ...a votive offering to a Greek sanctuary before Mummius, and he dedicated at Olympia a bronze Zeus from the spoils of Achaia. It stands on the left of the offering...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Messene ...Philopoemen was not dismayed by the unexpected disaster, but led safely to Messene about two-thirds of the men of military age, along with the women and children...

Messene

77 21.920439,37.175491,0 Achaeans ...battle had joined with the Lacedemonians under Cleomenes at Sellasia, in which Achaeans and Arcadians from all the cities took part, along with Antigonus at the head...

Achaeans

81 Macedonian ...Arcadians from all the cities took part, along with Antigonus at the head of a Macedonian army, Philopoemen served with the cavalry. But when he saw that the infantry...

Macedonian

81 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...learned of his valor and saw it, he was anxious to take Philepoemen to Macedonia. But Philopoemen was not likely to care much about Antigonus. Sailing across...

Macedonia

73 21.75,41.25,0 Achaeans ...then turned to flight all the mounted troops of Aetolia and Elis. L. As the Achaeans now turned their gaze on Philopoemen and placed in him all their hopes, he...

Achaeans

79 Nemean ...delivered from their despot. Not long afterwards the Argives celebrated the Nemean games, and Philopoemen chanced to be present at the competition of the...

Nemean

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Crete ...in war. The Arcadians were wroth with him for his absence; so he returned from Crete and found that the Romans had begun a war against Nabis. The Romans had...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Achaeans ...distinction for having been captured alive by the enemy. Now at this time the Achaeans had a grievance against the Messenians, and Philopoemen, despatching Lycortas...

Achaeans

80 Spartan ...in the tomb of Orestes, the son of Agamemnon; from here, say the Tegeans, a Spartan stole his bones. In our time the grave is no longer within the gates. By the...

Spartan

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...you are within the cultivated area, and reach the boundary between Tegea and Argos; it is near Hysiae in Argolis. These are the divisions of the Peloponnesus, the...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Plataea ...were originally, in my opinion, sprung from the soil; their name comes from Plataea, whom they consider to be a daughter of the river Asopus. It is clear that the...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Hysiae ...not by the direct way from Thebes across the plain, but along the road to Hysiae in the direction of Eleutherae and Attica, where not even a scout had been...

Hysiae

76 23.362766,37.974359,0 Thebans ...Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for at the time when Cassander, the son of Antipater, rebuilt Thebes, the...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Plataeans ...and the story is that of old the nymphs gave oracles in this place. The Plataeans have also a sanctuary of Athena surnamed Warlike; it was built from the spoils...

Plataeans

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Argives ...the wooers; the other, painted by Onasias, is the former expedition of the Argives, under Adrastus, against Thebes. These paintings are on the walls of the...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Asopus ...from Plataea to Thebes is the river Oeroe, said to have been a daughter of the Asopus. Before crossing the Asopus, if you turn aside to lower ground in a direction...

Asopus

81 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Sicyon ...on Lycus, the brother of Nycteus, I have already set forth in my account of Sicyon. When Labdacus grew up, Lycus handed over to him the reins of government; but...

Sicyon

78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Thebes ...city to the Cadmeia, giving it, because of their kinship to Thebe, the name of Thebes. What I have said is confirmed by what Homer says in the Odyssey: "Who first...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebes ...and held the kingship, the Argives led their army for the second time against Thebes. The Thebans encamped over against them at Glisas. When they joined in battle...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Leuctra ...in battle at Corinth and Coroncia, they won on the other hand at Leuctra the most famous victory we know of gained by Greeks over Greeks. They put down...

Leuctra

67 23.18095,38.25422,0 Messenians ...while Adrastus collected his allied forces out of Arcadia and from the Messenians, and likewise mercenaries came to the help of the Thebans from Phocis, and the...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebes ...Arcadians, but also by allies from Corinth and Megara invited to help them. Thebes too was defended by their neighbors, and a battle at Glisas was fiercely...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Branchidae ...other, that it is a work of Canachus. The only difference is that the image at Branchidae is of bronze, while the Ismenian is of cedar-wood. Here there is a stone, on...

Branchidae

81 27.256115,37.384829,0 Thebans ...of Apollo that is now called the Ismenian sanctuary. The god, according to the Thebans, shot him. Here then is the tomb of Caanthus. They say that Apollo had sons by...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Electran ...called Ladon before Ismenus was born to Apollo. On the left of the gate named Electran are the ruins of a house where they say Amphitryon came to live when exiled...

Electran

81 Tegean ...on the Argive side in the direction of Hysiae and over Mount Parthenius into Tegean territory. There are two others on the side of Mantineia: one through what is...

Tegean

79 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadia ...and the spring here they still call Philippium after the king. Philip came to Arcadia to bring over the Arcadians to his side, and to separate them from the rest of...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...still call Philippium after the king. Philip came to Arcadia to bring over the Arcadians to his side, and to separate them from the rest of the Greek people. Philip...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Leuctra ...the Mantineans from the villages to their own country after the engagement at Leuctra, but when restored they proved far from grateful. They were caught treating...

Leuctra

80 23.18095,38.25422,0 other Apollo ...hard by. And in front of the temple is one Apollo made by Leochares; the other Apollo, called Averter of evil, was made by Calamis. They say that the god received...

other Apollo

75 Cnossian ...of Olen. But the Cretans suppose that Eileithyia was born at Amnisus in the Cnossian territory, and that Hera was her mother. Only among the Athenians are the...

Cnossian

78 25.163106,35.297847,0 Ilisus ...is the legend. The rivers that flow through Athenian territory are the Ilisus and its tributary the Eridanus, whose name is the same as that of the Celtic...

Ilisus

73 23.6959733,37.9582581,0 Ilisus ...by destroying most of the foreigners' warships. The Athenians hold that the Ilisus is sacred to other deities as well, and on its bank is an altar of the Ilisian...

Ilisus

78 23.6959733,37.9582581,0 Acropolis ...upon. After the sanctuary of Asclepius, as you go by this way towards the Acropolis, there is a temple of Themis. Before it is raised a sepulchral mound to...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Tarentine ...to help him in his war with Corcyra, but the most cogent arguments of the Tarentine envoys were their accounts of Italy, how its prosperity was equal to that of...

Tarentine

76 17.228553,40.476034,0 Thessalians ...pursued them to the coast cities, and himself reduced upper Macedonia and the Thessalians. The extent of the fighting and the decisive character of the victory of...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonian ...to go to the Peloponnesus, was a Lacedemonian who led an hostile army into the Lacedemonian territory for a reason which I will relate after giving the descent of...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...steps to induce Pyrrhus to enter the country. Before the battle of Leuctra the Lacedemonians had suffered no disaster, so that they even refused to admit that they had yet...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...woman who killed him but Demeter in the likeness of a woman. This is what the Argives themselves relate about his end, and Lyceas, the guide for the neighborhood...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...and purified Athens and other cities. But Thales who stayed the plague for the Lacedemonians was not related to Epimenides in any way, and belonged to a different city. The...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Oenoe ...portico contains, first, the Athenians arrayed against the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in the Argive territory. What is depicted is not the crisis of the battle nor...

Oenoe

78 22.56036,37.608146,0 Thesprotian ...part in the expedition, being eager for the marriage) were taken captive. The Thesprotian king kept them prisoners at Cichyrus. Among the sights of Thesprotia are a...

Thesprotian

80 20.25,39.75,0 Cichyrus ...the marriage) were taken captive. The Thesprotian king kept them prisoners at Cichyrus. Among the sights of Thesprotia are a sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona and an oak...

Cichyrus

80 20.53143,39.242391,0 Athenians ...because by an oracle from Delphi he stayed the pestilence which afflicted the Athenians at the time of the Peloponnesian War. Here is built also a sanctuary of the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thessaly ...all who dwelt as far as Macedonia with the Macedonians themselves, and overran Thessaly. And when they drew near to Thermopylae, the Greeks in general made no move to...

Thessaly

81 21.75,39.25,0 Athenians ...although outflanked offered resistance to the foreigners on two sides. But the Athenians on the fleet suffered most, for the Lamian gulf is a swamp near Thermopylae –...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phoenicia ...immediately raised Ptolemy to power, who both reduced the Syrians and Phoenicia, and also welcomed Seleucus, son of Antiochus, who was in exile, having been...

Phoenicia

72 35.25,33.25,0 Memphis ...who was, it is said, plotting against him; and he it was who brought down from Memphis the corpse of Alexander. He put to death another brother also, son of Eurydice...

Memphis

81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Cyrene ...a tribe of Libyan nomads, had revolted, and thereupon fell back upon Cyrene. Ptolemy resolved to pursue, but was checked owing to the following...

Cyrene

71 21.856169,32.818736,0 Rhodians ...Philadelphus, while the son of Lagus is called Soter, a name given him by the Rhodians. Of these, Philadelphus is he whom I have mentioned before among the eponymoi...

Rhodians

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Colophon ...cities, so that the iambic poet Phoenix com posed a lament for the capture of Colophon. Mermesianax, the elegiac writer, was, I think, no longer living, otherwise he...

Colophon

80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Macedonian ...graves, it is perfectly plain that it was malice that made him record that a Macedonian desecrated the tombs of the dead. Besides, Lysimachus was surely aware that...

Macedonian

79 21.75,41.25,0 Cardia ...and buried it, where his grave is still to be seen between the village of Cardia and Pactye. Such was the history of Lysimachus. The Athenians have also a...

Cardia

76 21.338432,38.546722,0 Athenians ...with the exception of one hundred talents. Not even this reduced fine did the Athenians pay, but by promises and bribes they beguiled the Oropians into an agreement...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rome ...Achaeans on a capital charge. He said that Menalcidas, when on an embassy to Rome, had worked against the Achaeans and had done all he could to separate Sparta...

Rome

79 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Eleusis ...mysteries of the Great Goddesses, and the ritual acts are a copy of those at Eleusis. Within the enclosure of the goddesses are the following images, which all have...

Eleusis

79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Chryse ...and prosperity of cities. No long sail from Lemnos was once an island Chryse, where, it is said, Philoctetes met with his accident from the water-snake. But...

Chryse

72 26.928091,39.585106,0 Alpheius ...Arcadia. The road from Megalopolis to Lacedemon is thirty stades long at the Alpheius. After this you will travel beside a river Theius, which is a tributary of the...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Megalopolis ...city. Methydrium too had citizens victorious at Olympia before it belonged to Megalopolis. There is in Methydrium a temple of Horse Poseidon, standing by the Mylaon...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...and it is also thirty stades from Nymphasia to the common boundaries of Megalopolis, Orchomenus and Caphyae. Passing through the gate at Megalopolis named the...

Megalopolis

74 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonians ...in greater honor than the North Wind, because he proved their saviour from the Lacedemonians under Agis. Next is the tomb of Oicles, the father of Amphiaraus, if indeed he...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Theisoa ...call Theisoa, Neda and Hagno. After Theisoa was named a city in Parrhasia; Theisoa today is a village in the district of Megalopolis. From Neda the river Neda...

Theisoa

77 22.093976,37.629132,0 Lycaean ...in front of which is a running-track. Of old they used to hold here the Lycaean games. Here there are also bases of statues, with now no statues on them. On...

Lycaean

74 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Arcadia ...and Naliphus. There are two other rivers of the same name as the Achelous in Arcadia, and more famous than it. One Achelous, falling into the sea by the Echinadian...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Poseidon on horseback ...is written that they are works of Praxiteles. Not far from the temple is Poseidon on horseback, hurling a spear against the giant Polybotes, concerning whom is prevalent...

Poseidon on horseback

75 brazen statues ...From the gate to the Cerameicus there are porticoes, and in front of them brazen statues of such as had some title to fame, both men and women. One of the porticoes...

brazen statues

76 largest harbor ...it the Athenian port. Even up to my time there were docks there, and near the largest harbor is the grave of Themistocles. For it is said that the Athenians repented of...

largest harbor

80 a Demos ...the harbor have another – but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite...

a Demos

81 Peloponnesus ...the defeat of the Lacedemonians at Leuctra, how the Boeotians invaded the Peloponnesus, and the contingent sent to the Lacedemonians from the Athenians. In the...

Peloponnesus

76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Euploia ...while the newest is to the Aphrodite called Cnidian by men generally, but Euploia (Fair Voyage) by the Cnidians themselves. The Athenians have also another...

Euploia

76 27.373294,36.688864,0 Molpadia ...came, Antiope was shot by Molpadia, while Molpadia was killed by Theseus. To Molpadia also there is a monument among the Athenians. As you go up from the Peiraeus...

Molpadia

79 He ...graves, that of Menander, son of Diopeithes, and a cenotaph of Euripides. He himself went to King Archelaus and lies buried in Macedonia; as to the manner...

He

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 porticoes ...to another, and not to Poseidon. From the gate to the Cerameicus there are porticoes, and in front of them brazen statues of such as had some title to fame, both...

porticoes

77 Lacedemonians ...how the Boeotians invaded the Peloponnesus, and the contingent sent to the Lacedemonians from the Athenians. In the picture is a cavalry battle, in which the most...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 children of Themistocles ...that his relations took up his bones and brought them from Magnesia. And the children of Themistocles certainly returned and set up in the Parthenon a painting, on which is a...

children of Themistocles

79 27.52785,37.8507,0 Cephisus ...alludes, not to a city Parapotamii (Riverside), but to the farmers beside the Cephisus. The saying, however, is at variance with the history of Herodotus as well as...

Cephisus

80 23.625,38.125,0 Attica ...the one that has survived. The inhabitants say that originally they were from Attica, but on being expelled from Athens by Aegeus they fled to Arcadia, threw...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Delos ...which come the oak in Dodona, the olive on the Acropolis and the olive in Delos. The third place in respect of age the Syrians would assign to the bay-tree...

Delos

76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Elateia ...cities of the Phocians burnt by the Persians. Some disasters were shared by Elateia with the other Phocians, but she had peculiar calamities of her own, inflicted...

Elateia

78 22.782061,38.645635,0 Psophis ...this Seirae forms a boundary between Cleitor and Psophis. The founder of Psophis, according to some, was Psophis, the son of Arrhon, the son of Erymanthus, the...

Psophis

76 21.892903,37.871725,0 Macedonians ...she had peculiar calamities of her own, inflicted by fate at the hands of the Macedonians. In the war waged by Cassander, it is Olympiodorus who must receive most credit...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Eryx ...traditions concerning their kings, but the most accurate version is that Eryx, the despot of Sicania, had a daughter named Psophis, whom Heracles, though he...

Eryx

76 12.5919,38.03528,0 Elateia ...at the two hundred and thirty-fifth Olympic festival. In Runner Street at Elateia there stands a bronze statue of Mnesibulus. The market-place itself is worth...

Elateia

76 22.782061,38.645635,0 Paphos ...the remotest times has been very holy, and quite as rich as the sanctuary in Paphos. The hero-shrines, however, of Promachus and Echephron, the sons of Psophis...

Paphos

79 32.573711,34.707147,0 Elateia ...from Elateia you may go along a mountain road on the right of the city of Elateia, but the highway from Orchomenus to Opus also leads to those cities. If then...

Elateia

76 22.782061,38.645635,0 Achelous ...took to wife Callirhoe, said by the Acarnanians to have been the daughter of Achelous. He had two sons, Acarnan and Amphoterus; after this Acarnan were called by...

Achelous

79 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Opus ...also leads to those cities. If then you go along the road from Orchomenus to Opus, and turn off a little to the left, you reach the road to Abae. The people of...

Opus

79 22.999964,38.653678,0 Thebes ...Antimachus also, who wrote a poem about the expedition of the Argives against Thebes. His verse runs thus: "There, they say, is the seat of Demeter Fury." Now...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Tuthoa ...more likely, as also I set forth in my account of Epidaurus. There is a river Tuthoa, and it falls into the Ladon at the boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea...

Tuthoa

81 21.75,37.75,0 Arcadians ...the Ladon at the boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians. Where the Ladon itself falls into the Alpheius is an island called the Island...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympic ...of Elis say that the grave of Coroebus bounds their territory. But when the Olympic games, after not being held for a long period, were revived by Iphitus, and the...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Orneae ...when they had increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns, Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in Argolis, the...

Orneae

78 22.557292,37.713973,0 Euxine ...sailed away to Pontus and were welcomed by the citizens of Trapezus on the Euxine as their kindred, as they bore their name and came from their mother-city. The...

Euxine

77 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Olympic ...seem that Xenodamus received the wild olive at the two hundred and eleventh Olympic festival. But this is the only festival omitted in the Elean records. Beyond...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athens ...tyrant of Sicyon, at the head of their army, and brought over Solon from Athens to give them advice. They asked the oracle about victory, and the Pythian...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Heraea ...to a tyranny. As I have already related, the boundary between Megalopolis and Heraea is at the source of the river Buphagus. The river got its name, they say, from...

Heraea

81 21.863791,37.613569,0 Teuthis ...is called Rhaeteae. Adjoining the land of Theisoa is a village called Teuthis, which in old days was a town. In the Trojan war the inhabitants supplied a...

Teuthis

73 22.041285,37.597441,0 Aulis ...Ornytus. When the Greeks failed to secure favorable winds to take them from Aulis, but were shut in for a long time by a violent gale, Teuthis quarrelled with...

Aulis

78 23.5925,38.4335,0 Teuthis ...to take them from Aulis, but were shut in for a long time by a violent gale, Teuthis quarrelled with Agamemnon and was about to lead the Arcadians under his command...

Teuthis

79 22.041285,37.597441,0 Trapezus ...you come to what is called Trapezuntian territory and to the ruins of a city Trapezus. On the left, as you go down again from Trapezus to the Alpheius, there is, not...

Trapezus

79 22.060685,37.456281,0 Samians ...accept the story. For I have stated in an earlier part of my work that two Samians, Rhoecus, son of Philaeus, and Theodorus, son of Telecles, discovered how to...

Samians

78 26.84,37.73,0 Dorians ...from a woman or a nymph, while as for Naupactus, I have heard it said that the Dorians under the sons of Aristomachus built here the vessels in which they crossed to...

Dorians

81 22.25,38.75,0 Athenians ...hundred horse and one thousand foot. Because of their ancient reputation the Athenians held the chief command. The king of Macedonia sent five hundred mercenaries...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Heracleia ...did not capture the city. For a year previous to this the Aetolians had forced Heracleia to join the Aetolian League; so now they defended a city which they considered...

Heracleia

81 22.442503,38.790767,0 Athens ...Greece, and their destruction, took place when Anaxicrates was archon at Athens, in the second year of the hundred and twenty-fifth Olympiad, when Ladas of...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phrygians ...the son of Mygdon. Of Mygdon there is a notable tomb on the borders of the Phrygians of Stectorium, and after him poets are wont to call Phrygians by the name of...

Phrygians

77 27.75,40.25,0 Mygdones ...of Stectorium, and after him poets are wont to call Phrygians by the name of Mygdones. Coroebus came to marry Cassandra, and was killed, according to the more...

Mygdones

79 23.25,40.75,0 Athenians ...that in those days men laid the greatest stress on piety to the gods, as the Athenians showed when they took the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus at Syracuse; they moved...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Delium ...an image of Apollo in a Phoenician ship he restored it to the Tanagraeans at Delium. So at that time all men held the divine in reverence, and this is why...

Delium

79 23.661354,38.3462075,0 Delphian ...up than the figures I have enumerated comes Eurynomus, said by the Delphian guides to be one of the demons in Hades, who eats off all the flesh of the...

Delphian

69 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phrygians ...the appearance of a boy in the bloom of youth learning to play the flute. The Phrygians in Celaenae hold that the river passing through the city was once this great...

Phrygians

80 27.75,40.25,0 Delphian ...enclosure...and here is an image of Dionysus, dedicated by the Cnidians. The Delphian race-course is on the highest part of their city. It was made of the stone that...

Delphian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...is, I should guess, about one hundred and eighty stades distant from Delphi on the road across Parnassus. This road is not mountainous throughout, being...

Delphi

71 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tithorea ...in the town except what I have already mentioned. Running past the city of Tithorea is a river that gives the inhabitants drinking-water. They go down to the bank...

Tithorea

77 22.66931,38.58344,0 Cephisus ...owing to their weakness had abandoned the city, and the dwellers on the Cephisus were about seventy people. Still the name of Ledon is given to their dwellings...

Cephisus

74 23.625,38.125,0 Ionia ...Edonians, now to be admitted to the councils of Dareius, and now to go back to Ionia. Again, Philomelus brought on the community of Ledon the punishment to be paid...

Ionia

81 27.508324,37.474596,0 Macedonians ...its inhabitants were fated to suffer a second disaster at the hands of the Macedonians. Besieged by Philip, the son of Demetrius, they made terms and surrendered, and...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Cephisus ...there is a saying that the verse, And they who dwelt beside the divine river Cephisus, alludes, not to a city Parapotamii (Riverside), but to the farmers beside the...

Cephisus

79 23.625,38.125,0 Phlegyans ...stock, saying that of old they came from Arcadia. For they say that when the Phlegyans marched against the sanctuary at Delphi, Elatus, the son of Arcas, came to the...

Phlegyans

79 22.569853,39.798151,0 Elateia ...and with his army stayed behind in Phocis, becoming the founder of Elateia. Elateia must be numbered among the cities of the Phocians burnt by the Persians. Some...

Elateia

79 22.782061,38.645635,0 Elatus ...Mnesibulus. The market-place itself is worth seeing, and so is the figure of Elatus carved in relief upon a slab. I do not know for certain whether they made the...

Elatus

80 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Abae ...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...

Abae

78 22.9154,38.58006,0 Phalerum ...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. Such, I suppose, was the...

Phalerum

81 23.7062,37.9373,0 Pentelic ...of Aegeira worth recording include a sanctuary of Zeus with a sitting image of Pentelic marble, the work of Eucleides the Athenian. In this sanctuary there also stands...

Pentelic

81 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Aegeira ...sanctuary of the Huntress, where they say the goat crouched. The territory of Aegeira is bounded by that of Pellene, which is the last city of Achaia in the...

Aegeira

81 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pellene ...say that he was the son of Phorbas, the son of Triopas. Between Aegeira and Pellene once stood a town, subject to the Sicyonians and called Donussa, which was laid...

Pellene

79 22.5384,38.0446,0 Sicyonians ...subject to the Sicyonians and called Donussa, which was laid waste by the Sicyonians; it is mentioned, they say, in a verse of Homer that occurs in the list of...

Sicyonians

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pellene ...mention by name. This I believe is because he overthrew the constitution of Pellene, and received from Alexander, the son of Philip, the most invidious of all...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Sicyon ...a tributary of the Hermus. Where the territory of Pellene borders on that of Sicyon is a Pellenian river Sythas, the last of the Achaean rivers, which flows into...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Oropus ...against the Athenians, then the Athenians were to withdraw their garrison from Oropus and give the hostages back again. After no long interval the Oropians were...

Oropus

81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Achaeans ...the culprits should he brought to account. The Oropians then appealed to the Achaeans for aid, but these refused to give it out of friendship and respect for the...

Achaeans

80 Arcadia ...were from Attica, but on being expelled from Athens by Aegeus they fled to Arcadia, threw themselves on the mercy of Cepheus, and found a home in the country. The...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Caphyans ...it round the neck of the image said that Artemis was being strangled. The Caphyans, detecting what the children had done, stoned them to death. When they had done...

Caphyans

77 22.262624,37.766264,0 Crete ...Poseidon more than any other god. They say that this bull crossed from Crete to the Peloponnesus, and came to be one of what are called the Twelve Labours...

Crete

74 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Thebes ...He put down what is known as the tyranny of the Thirty, setting out from Thebes with a force amounting at first to sixty men; he also persuaded the Athenians...

Thebes

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Eleon ...their death fighting against the Lacedemonians and Boeotians on the borders of Eleon and Tanagra. There is also a grave of Thessalian horsemen who, by reason of an...

Eleon

81 23.479833,38.355639,0 Midea ...increased the population of Argos by reducing Tiryns, Hysiae, Orneae, Mycenae, Midea, along with other towns of little importance in Argolis, the Argives had less...

Midea

81 22.842,37.65,0 Arcadians ...fairly be considered Epaminondas of Thebes. For he it was who gathered the Arcadians together for the union and despatched a thousand picked Thebans under Pammenes...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenians ...Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians. For a time the Argives had the better, but night came on and took from them...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Leuctrum ...Paroreia. From the Aegytae: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium...

Leuctrum

73 22.138259,37.321324,0 Lycosura ...Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the...

Lycosura

73 22.030087,37.389509,0 Argives ...who had on this occasion overcome Corinthians and Athenians, and furthermore Argives and Boeotians, were afterwards at Leuctra so utterly overthrown by the...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Helisson ...Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson. Only one of them, Pallantium, was destined to meet with a kindlier fate even...

Helisson

75 22.217753,37.612883,0 Attica ...The grove and temple of Poseidon were burnt by Antigonus when he invaded Attica, who at other times also ravaged the land of the Athenians. The small parishes...

Attica

75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Euboea ...about these deities, so I give my own conjecture. Amarynthus is a town in Euboea, the inhabitants of which worship Amarysia, while the festival of Amarysia...

Euboea

76 Teuthis ...Melas, the son of Ops, tried to turn Teuthis aside from his journey home. But Teuthis, his wrath swelling within him, struck with his spear the thigh of the goddess...

Teuthis

80 22.041285,37.597441,0 Troezenian ...attacked the skin in earnest, thinking it to be a lion. This is the first Troezenian legend about Theseus. The next is that Aegeus placed boots and a sword under a...

Troezenian

77 Acharnae ...name of a man who ruled before Cecrops became king. There is a parish called Acharnae, where they worship Apollo Agyieus (God of Streets) and Heracles, and there is...

Acharnae

80 23.73147,38.08194,0 Teuthis ...myself seen, with its thigh swathed in a purple bandage. There are also at Teuthis sanctuaries of Aphrodite and Artemis. These are the notable things at Teuthis...

Teuthis

77 22.041285,37.597441,0 Megalopolis ...Artemis. These are the notable things at Teuthis. On the road from Gortys to Megalopolis stands the tomb of those who were killed in the fight with Cleomenes. This tomb...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Brenthe ...plain about sixty stades across. On the right of the road are ruins of a city Brenthe, and here rises a river Brentheates, which some five stades farther on falls...

Brenthe

80 22.042889,37.483688,0 Antioch ...from it. The Roman emperor wished ships to sail up the river from the sea to Antioch. So with much labour and expense he dug a channel suitable for ships to sail...

Antioch

79 36.165318,36.200663,0 Athens ...of this Athena and the crest of her helmet are visible to those sailing to Athens, as soon as Sunium is passed. Then there is a bronze chariot, tithe from the...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megalopolis ...itself, descending into the Alpheius twenty stades away from the city of Megalopolis. Near the city is a temple of Poseidon Overseer. I found the head of the image...

Megalopolis

75 22.126238,37.414256,0 Cretan ...this citadel you see on the right the tomb of Megareus, who at the time of the Cretan invasion came as an ally from Onchestus. There is also shown a hearth of the...

Cretan

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Onchestus ...tomb of Megareus, who at the time of the Cretan invasion came as an ally from Onchestus. There is also shown a hearth of the gods called Prodomeis (Builders before)...

Onchestus

80 23.146959,38.364863,0 Lycaean ...made their market-place. In it is an enclosure of stones and a sanctuary of Lycaean Zeus, with no entrance into it. The things inside, however, can be seen –...

Lycaean

78 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Megalopolis ...twelve feet, brought from Phigalia as a contribution to the adornment of Megalopolis. The place where the image was originally set up by the Phigalians is named...

Megalopolis

75 22.126238,37.414256,0 Cyprus ...Aeginetan works. They are all alike made of ebony. I have heard a man of Cyprus, who was skilled at sorting herbs for medicinal purposes, say that the ebony...

Cyprus

75 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Hill of Ares ...and Earth, by which sacrifice those who have received an acquittal on the Hill of Ares; sacrifices are also offered on other occasions by both citizens and...

Hill of Ares

76 Drepanum ...with which he mutilated his father Uranus. For this reason they call the cape Drepanum. Beyond the high road are the ruins of Rhypes. Aegium is about thirty stades...

Drepanum

80 21.75,38.25,0 Delphi ...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...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delos ...in size by others, but I know of no builder who has beaten the vessel at Delos, with its nine banks of oars below the deck. Outside the city, too, in the...

Delos

75 25.268194,37.397274,0 Parian ...up except the face, which alone is exposed. By the side of it is a Satyr of Parian marble made by Praxiteles. This Dionysus they call Patrous (Paternal); but the...

Parian

78 25.150728,37.08579,0 Argos ...the grave of Coroebus. The poetical story of him, although it equally concerns Argos, I will relate here. They say that in the reign of Crotopus at Argos, Psamathe...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenians ...in the pentathlon at the Nemean games. This was the third expedition which the Athenians dispatched out of Greece. For against Priam and the Trojans war was made with...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Helice ...river Selinus, and forty stades away from Aegium is a place on the sea called Helice. Here used to be situated a city Helice, where the Ionians had a very holy...

Helice

80 22.14015,38.22257,0 Boeotians ...and Macartatus, who met their death fighting against the Lacedemonians and Boeotians on the borders of Eleon and Tanagra. There is also a grave of Thessalian...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Nisaea ...show. When you have gone down to the port, which to the present day is called Nisaea, you see a sanctuary of Demeter Malophorus (Sheep-bearer or Apple-bearer). One...

Nisaea

81 23.362766,37.974359,0 Helice ...once, because they are corroded by the salt water. The disaster that befell Helice is but one of the many proofs that the wrath of the God of Suppliants is...

Helice

79 22.14015,38.22257,0 Boeotians ...Afterwards, when a battle was imminent at Tanagra, the Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians. For a time the Argives...

Boeotians

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Achaeans ...Italy has been named. By the Achaean Crathis once stood Aegae, a city of the Achaeans. In course of time, it is said, it was abandoned because its people were weak...

Achaeans

80 Boeotians ...Argives and Boeotians, were afterwards at Leuctra so utterly overthrown by the Boeotians alone. After those who were killed at Corinth, we come across elegiac verses...

Boeotians

81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Corinth ...so utterly overthrown by the Boeotians alone. After those who were killed at Corinth, we come across elegiac verses declaring that one and the same slab has been...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Pellenians ...in the pancratium, one at Olympia, three at the Isthmus and two at Nemea. The Pellenians made two statues of him, dedicating one at Olympia and one in the gymnasium...

Pellenians

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Crius ...the mountains above Pellene, the one on the side nearest Aegeira being called Crius, after, it is said, a Titan of the same name. There is another river called...

Crius

80 22.75,38.25,0 Arcadia The part of Arcadia that lies next to the Argive land is occupied by Tegeans and Mantineans, who...

Arcadia

12 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Prasiae ...is that of the Dioscuri, for the in habitants call them the Great gods. At Prasiae is a temple of Apollo. Hither they say are sent the first-fruits of the...

Prasiae

78 24.0375955,37.8651735,0 Epidaurians ...living on the Isthmus, and their neighbors on the side sea-wards are the Epidaurians. Along Epidaurus, Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of...

Epidaurians

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Sinope ...the Arimaspi to the Issedones, from these the Scythians bring them to Sinope, thence they are carried by Greeks to Prasiae, and the Athenians take them to...

Sinope

72 35.14885,42.0206,0 Myrrhinus ...of the goddess, I think, came to Athmonia in this fashion and the Colaenis in Myrrhinus is called after Colaenus. I have already written that many of the inhabitants...

Myrrhinus

80 23.9678945,37.872812,0 Arcadians ...(Lycos). I for my part believe this story; it has been a legend among the Arcadians from of old, and it has the additional merit of probability. For the men of...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Hymettus ...statues of gods on their mountains. On Pentelicus is a statue of Athena, on Hymettus one of Zeus Hymettius. There are altars both of Zeus Ombrios (Rainy) and of...

Hymettus

78 23.814146,37.939883,0 Parnes ...are altars both of Zeus Ombrios (Rainy) and of Apollo Proopsios (Foreseer). On Parnes is a bronze Zeus Parnethius, and an altar to Zeus Semaleus (Sign-giving). There...

Parnes

81 23.7186181,38.1752735,0 Odrysian ...on their flight to Seleucus by Alexander who was the son of Lysimachus by an Odrysian woman. So they going up to Babylon entreated Seleucus to make war on...

Odrysian

79 25.33686355,42.61977194999999,0 Epeirus ...who after the capture of Troy disdained to return to Thessaly, but sailing to Epeirus dwelt there because of the oracles of Helenus. By Hermione Pyrrhus had no...

Epeirus

80 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Syracusans ...Dwarf-men and cranes. Pyrrhus was brought over to Sicily by an embassy of the Syracusans. The Carthaginians had crossed over and were destroying the Greek cities, and...

Syracusans

81 15.29382,37.05963,0 Athens ...He succeeded in getting a decree passed for the return of Thucydides to Athens, who was treacherously murdered as he was returning, and there is a monument to...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sipylus ...myself know that locusts have been destroyed three times in the past on Mount Sipylus, and not in the same way. Once a gale arose and swept them away; on another...

Sipylus

80 27.45394,38.5668,0 Athenian ...them and they died. Such were the fates I saw befall the locusts. On the Athenian Acropolis is a statue of Pericles, the son of Xanthippus, and one of Xanthippus...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acropolis ...and they died. Such were the fates I saw befall the locusts. On the Athenian Acropolis is a statue of Pericles, the son of Xanthippus, and one of Xanthippus himself...

Acropolis

80 23.625,37.875,0 Tegea ...district called Golgi. Afterwards Laodice, a descendant of Agapenor, sent to Tegea a robe as a gift for Athena Alea. The inscription on the offering told as well...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Troy ...broad fatherland from divine Cyprus. When Agapenor did not return home from Troy, the kingdom devolved upon Hippothous, the son of Cercyon, the son of Agamedes...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argos ...others to join them. The cities that took part were, of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Macedonians ...and they afterwards suffered a severe defeat at the hands of Antipater and the Macedonians. Thirdly the war with Demetrius came as an unexpected misfortune to their land...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Thessalians ...on the other side of the Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the Aetolian League. The Boeotians, who...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonian ...Caunus, with Conon in command, who persuaded the Rhodian people to leave the Lacedemonian alliance and to join the great King and the Athenians. Dorieus, he goes on to...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arginusae ...in their treatment of Thrasyllus and his fellow admirals at the battle of Arginusae. Such was the fame won by Diagoras and his family. Alcaenetus too, son of...

Arginusae

76 26.78548,39.00699,0 Athenian ...from the story as much as relates to Deiope. The Greeks who dispute most the Athenian claim to antiquity and the gifts they say they have received from the gods are...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...of Phradmon of Argos. Euanoridas of Elis won the boys' wrestling-match both at Olympia and at Nemea. When he was made an umpire he joined the ranks of those who have...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...which, according to the account of the Eleans, was not genuine because the Arcadians presided at it. The statue of Timanthes of Cleonae, who won the crown in the...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Salamis ...for his poetry and for his share in the naval battles before Artemisium and at Salamis, recorded at the prospect of death nothing else, and merely wrote his name, his...

Salamis

81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Delphian ...the Achaeans. Not far from Promachus is set up the statue of Timasitheus, a Delphian by birth, the work of Ageladas of Argos. This athlete won in the pancratium two...

Delphian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...both on the Acropolis and in the town hall but also a portrait at Eleusis. The Phocians too of Elatea dedicated at Delphi a bronze statue of Olympiodorus for help in...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Acropolis ...Timasitheus took part in the affair, and, on being taken prisoner on the Acropolis, was put to death by the Athenians for his sin against them. Theognetus of...

Acropolis

75 23.625,37.875,0 Athenians ...the painting are Callimachus, who had been elected commander-in-chief by the Athenians, Miltiades, one of the generals, and a hero called Echetlus, of whom I shall...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thesprotia ...The Thesprotian king kept them prisoners at Cichyrus. Among the sights of Thesprotia are a sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona and an oak sacred to the god. Near Cichyrus...

Thesprotia

77 20.25,39.75,0 Acropolis ...they understood the oracle better than did Themistocles, and fortified the Acropolis with logs and stakes. Hard by is the Prytaneum (Town-hall), in which the laws...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Pytho ...the son of Haemostratus, won the boxing-match for men at Olympia, Nemea, Pytho and the Isthmus; they also declare that the Tritaeans are Arcadians, but I...

Pytho

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Agrae ...son of Melanthus and king of Athens. Across the Ilisus is a district called Agrae and a temple of Artemis Agrotera (the Huntress). They say that Artemis first...

Agrae

79 23.742903,37.965297,0 Athenian ...third day from this, news came to both the Roman armies; Sulla heard that the Athenian fortifications had been stormed, and the besieging force learnt that Taxilus...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...number of victories at Pytho, but at this time neither the Corinthians nor the Argives kept complete records of the victors at Nemea and the Isthmus. The mare of the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Olympia ...the boys; at Pytho he won six among the men and one among the boys. He came to Olympia to wrestle for the seventh time, but did not succeed in mastering Timasitheus...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...Aetolian League dedicated a statue of Cylon, who delivered the Eleans from the tyranny of Aristotimus. The statue of Gorgus, the son of Eucletus, a...

Eleans

65 21.25,37.75,0 Athens ...thinking that his son was dead, threw himself down to destruction. There is at Athens a sanctuary dedicated to him, and called the hero-shrine of Aegeus. On the...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenian ...from the tyranny of Aristotimus. The statue of Gorgus, the son of Eucletus, a Messenian who won a victory in the pentathlum, was made by the Boeotian Theron; that of...

Messenian

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lemnos ...effaced by time I found Diomedes taking the Athena from Troy, and Odysseus in Lemnos taking away the bow of Philoctetes. There in the pictures is Orestes killing...

Lemnos

80 25.25,39.916667,0 Plataea ...the descent of Cleonymus. Pausanias, who was in command of the Greeks at Plataea, was the father of Pleistoanax, he of Pausanias, and he of Cleombrotus, who was...

Plataea

75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Erythrae ...he tackled the boxers with sturdy spirit and unwearied vigor. The Ionians of Erythrae dedicated a statue of Epitherses, son of Metrodorus, who won two boxing prizes...

Erythrae

80 26.48103,38.38122,0 Nemea ...who won two boxing prizes at Olympia, two at Pytho, and also victories at Nemea and the Isthmus; the Syracusans dedicated two statues of Hiero at the public...

Nemea

76 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Elis ...far from the statue of Timon stands Hellas, and by Hellas stands Elis; Hellas is crowning with one hand Antigonus the guardian of Philip the son of...

Elis

67 21.37493,37.89131,0 Pythian ...the son of Damatrius, who won at Olympia a victory in wrestling besides two Pythian victories. There is also Clearetus of Elis, who received a crown in the...

Pythian

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenian ...Hard by is the council chamber of those called the Five Hundred, who are the Athenian councillors for a year. In it are a wooden figure of Zeus Counsellor and an...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aeginetan ...near the pillar of Oenomaus, and are made of wood, Rexibius of figwood and the Aeginetan of cypress, and his statue is less decayed than the other. There is in the...

Aeginetan

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Delphi ...it stretches Mount Cronius. On this terrace are the treasuries, just as at Delphi certain of the Greeks have made treasuries for Apollo. There is at Olympia a...

Delphi

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sicyon ...called the treasury of the Sicyonians, dedicated by Myron, who was tyrant of Sicyon. Myron built it to commemorate a victory in the chariot-race at the...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Parnassus ...were opposed by the Delphians themselves and the Phocians of the cities around Parnassus; a force of Aetolians also joined the defenders, for the Aetolians at this time...

Parnassus

81 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Metapontines ...an Endymion; it too is of ivory except the drapery. How it came about that the Metapontines were destroyed I do not know, but today nothing is left of Metapontum but the...

Metapontines

81 16.824063,40.383868,0 Eleans ...to Cronus at the spring equinox, in the month called Elaphius among the Eleans. At the foot of Mount Cronius, on the north . . . ,48 between the treasuries...

Eleans

74 21.25,37.75,0 Epeirots ...at the hands of Cassander; so Aeacides at first was not received even by the Epeirots because of their hatred of Olympias, and when after wards they forgave him, his...

Epeirots

79 20.590387322222224,39.577073022222216,0 Hellespont ...all his youth had already a reputation for good sense, and went down to the Hellespont. But he led his army back without crossing, on hearing that Demetrius had been...

Hellespont

78 26.4,40.2,0 Olenian ...in horsemanship; they call him Olenius, and say that after him was named the Olenian rock in the land of Elis. Others say that Dameon, son of Phlius, who took part...

Olenian

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Arcadians ...there stood on the basement a trophy to commemorate a victory over the Arcadians. There is also another enclosure, less than this, to the left of the entrance...

Arcadians

73 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...Capetus, Lycurgus, Lasius, Chalcodon and Tricolonus, who, according to the Arcadians, was the descendant and namesake of Tricolonus, the son of Lycaon. After...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pisa ...the games along with him, while at the thirty-fourth Festival the people of Pisa, with their king Pantaleon the son of Omphalion, collected an army from the...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Pisa ...the son of Pantaleon, succeeded his brother Damophon as king, the people of Pisa of their own accord made war against Elis, and were joined in their revolt from...

Pisa

78 21.653041,37.639535,0 Thrace ...was for the sake of power that he made the marriage alliance with the king of Thrace. But there is no way for a mortal to overstep what the deity thinks fit to...

Thrace

80 27.5,42.5,0 Pylians ...district, and the passage cannot refer to another Pylus. For the land of the Pylians over against the island Sphacteria simply cannot in the nature of things be...

Pylians

79 Alpheius ...an all-night revel with the nymphs who were her playmates, and to it came Alpheius. But Artemis had a suspicion of the plot of Alpheius, and smeared with mud her...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Elis ...up, being just about three stades across. One of the noteworthy things in Elis is an old gymnasium. In this gymnasium the athletes are wont to go through the...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Idaean ...that they match them. There are also in the gymnasium altars of the gods, of Idaean Heracles, surnamed Comrade, of Love, of the deity called by Eleans and...

Idaean

80 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Pythia ...tradition says were sculptured by Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, who the Pythia testified was the wisest of men, a title she refused to Anacharsis, although he...

Pythia

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleans ...gods, of Idaean Heracles, surnamed Comrade, of Love, of the deity called by Eleans and Athenians alike Love Returned, of Demeter and of her daughter. Achilles has...

Eleans

78 21.25,37.75,0 Calauria ...of Xerxes. Here also is Demosthenes, whom the Athenians forced to retire to Calauria, the island off Troezen, and then, after receiving him back, banished again...

Calauria

78 23.48041,37.52255,0 Eleans ...umpires pass the day is another portico, between the two being one street. The Eleans call it the Corcyrean, because, they say, the Corcyreans landed in their...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Macedon ...it enslave those who had been blind to the danger and such as had sided with Macedon. Most of their cities Philip captured; with Athens he nominally came to terms...

Macedon

79 21.75,41.25,0 Athenians ...to be their king, though the whole empire had been entrusted to Antipater, the Athenians now thought it intolerable if Greece should be for ever under the Macedonians...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Epidaurus ...to join them. The cities that took part were, of the Peloponnesians, Argos, Epidaurus, Sicyon, Troezen, the Eleans, the Phliasians, Messene; on the other side of the...

Epidaurus

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Elis ...to the river Larisus, and in modern days this river forms the boundary between Elis and Achaia, though of old the boundary was Cape Araxus on the coast.

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Acarnanians ...Corinthian isthmus the Locrians, the Phocians, the Thessalians, Carystus, the Acarnanians belonging to the Aetolian League. The Boeotians, who occupied the Thebaid...

Acarnanians

80 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Aegialian ...was not a change of name, but an addition to it, for the folk were named Aegialian Ionians. The original name clung to the land even longer than to the people...

Aegialian

75 23.909752,37.7924365,0 Lysimachia ...Lysimachus, especially his destroying the city of the Cardians and founding Lysimachia in its stead on the isthmus of the Thracian Chersonesus. As long as Aridaeus...

Lysimachia

78 21.338432,38.546722,0 Achaeans ...the Ionians, until they themselves as well as the people were expelled by the Achaeans. The Achaeans at that time had themselves been expelled from Lacedemon and...

Achaeans

80 Peiraeus ...was set over the Athenians, and occupied first Munychia and afterwards Peiraeus also and the Long Walls. On the death of Antipater Olympias came over from...

Peiraeus

73 23.644609,37.937222,0 Achaeans ...inhabitants of Lacedemon and Argos were the only Peloponnesians to be called Achaeans before the return of the Dorians. Archander and Architeles, sons of Achaeus...

Achaeans

79 Helice ...were allowed to depart under a truce. The body of Tisamenus was buried in Helice by the Achaeans, but afterwards at the command of the Delphic oracle the...

Helice

76 22.14015,38.22257,0 Athens ...and Thespians to Sardinia. One generation before the Ionians set sail from Athens, the Lacedemonians and Minyans who had been expelled from Lemnos by the...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Crete ...land and the city changed their name to Miletus. Miletus and his men came from Crete, fleeing from Minos, the son of Europa; the Carians, the former inhabitants of...

Crete

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Ionians ...inhabitants of the land, united with the Cretans. But to resume. When the Ionians had overcome the ancient Milesians they killed every male, except those who...

Ionians

77 27.508324,37.474596,0 Eleusis ...recovering Peiraeus and Munychia; and again, when the Macedonians were raiding Eleusis he collected a force of Eleusinians and defeated the invaders. Still earlier...

Eleusis

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Attica ...and defeated the invaders. Still earlier than this, when Cassander had invaded Attica, Olympiodorus sailed to Aetolia and induced the Aetolians to help. This allied...

Attica

81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Crete ...Lycians because of their kinship with the Cretans, as they came of old from Crete, having fled along with Sarpedon; Carians because of their ancient friendship...

Crete

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Troy ...they too belong to the Greek race, being among those who after the taking of Troy wandered with Calchas. The peoples I have enumerated occupied Erythrae when...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Rome ...war upon Sparta by remaining where they were; if they exiled themselves to Rome, he declared, they would before long be restored to their country by the...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Sparta ...had made a vigorous effort, the Achaeans could have dashed into the walls of Sparta along with the fugitives from the field of battle. As it was, he at once...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Orchomenus ...the Achaean League, and that Argos, Heracleia by Mount Oeta and the Arcadian Orchomenus should be released from the Achaean confederacy. For they were not, he said...

Orchomenus

79 22.31536,37.724716,0 Achaeans ...to the Achaeans, and but late-comers to the League. The magistrates of the Achaeans did not wait for Orestes to conclude, but while he was yet speaking ran out of...

Achaeans

78 Spercheius ...was informed by his scouts that the Romans under Metellus had crossed the Spercheius, he fled to Scarpheia in Locris, without daring even to draw up the Achaeans in...

Spercheius

76 22.25,38.75,0 Megarians ...not face it, but straightway fled to the camp of the Achaeans at Corinth. The Megarians surrendered their city to the Romans without a blow, and when Metellus came to...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...the Athenians. This man commanded some cavalry in Sicily, and when the Athenians and their partners in the expedition were being massacred at the river...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaean ...stades distant from the Larisus is Dyme, an Achaean city. This was the only Achaean city that in his wars Philip the son of Demetrius made subject to him, and for...

Achaean

78 Olympic ...of Oebotas the runner. Although this Oebotas was the first Achaean to win an Olympic victory, he yet received from them no special prize. Wherefore Oebotas...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Troy ...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...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sparta ...and Argos, it is said that Preugenes, in obedience to a dream, stole from Sparta the image of our Lady of the Lake, and that he had as partner in his exploit...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pharae ...road from the city of Patrae to Pharae is a hundred and fifty stades, while Pharae is about seventy stades inland from the coast. Near to Pharae runs the river...

Pharae

78 21.717095,38.093144,0 Pharae ...and those who have a mind to do so sleep there as well. The market-place of Pharae is of wide extent after the ancient fashion, and in the middle of it is an...

Pharae

79 21.717095,38.093144,0 Triteia ...Pharae belongs to Patrae, having been annexed by the emperor. The distance to Triteia from Pharae is a hundred and twenty stades. Before you enter the city is a tomb...

Triteia

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 city ...of Nisus, but they ignore altogether the Cretan war and the capture of the city in the reign of Nisus. There is in the city a fountain, which was built for...

city

77 Chaeroneia ...through Panopeus and past Daulis and the Cleft Way, is not the only pass from Chaeroneia to Phocis. There is another road, rough and for the most part mountainous, that...

Chaeroneia

80 22.840365,38.493361,0 Athens ...they came from Attica with Peteus, the son of Orneus, when he was pursued from Athens by Aegeus. They add that, because the greater part of those who accompanied...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ambrossus ...of Demeter, as ancient as any of that goddess that exists. From Stiris to Ambrossus is about six stades. The road is flat, lying on the level with mountains on...

Ambrossus

77 22.66763,38.42845,0 Anticyra ...from Rome to help the Athenians against Philip. The mountains beyond Anticyra are very rocky, and on them grows hellebore in great profusion. Black hellebore...

Anticyra

72 22.626059,38.375439,0 Lechaeum ...high ground, and it is passed by travellers crossing by sea from Anticyra to Lechaeum in Corinthian territory. More than half its inhabitants are fishers of the...

Lechaeum

79 22.88807,37.93277,0 Corinthian ...and it is passed by travellers crossing by sea from Anticyra to Lechaeum in Corinthian territory. More than half its inhabitants are fishers of the shell-fish that...

Corinthian

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delphi ...to smell as badly as did the hides. One hundred and twenty stades away from Delphi is Amphissa, the largest and most renowned city of Locris. The people hold that...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Locris ...stades away from Delphi is Amphissa, the largest and most renowned city of Locris. The people hold that they are Aetolians, being ashamed of the name of...

Locris

77 22.75,38.75,0 Amphissa ...came of Locrian race. It is said that the name of the city is derived from Amphissa, daughter of Macar, son of Aeolus, and that Apollo was her lover. The city is...

Amphissa

77 22.315807,38.41224,0 Amphissa ...in it. But the image had disappeared before my time. These, then, live above Amphissa. On the coast is Oeantheia, neighbor to which is Naupactus. The others, but not...

Amphissa

80 22.315807,38.41224,0 Aetolian ...white marble. She is in the attitude of one hurling a javelin, and is surnamed Aetolian. In a cave Aphrodite is worshipped, to whom prayers are offered for various...

Aetolian

81 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Delphians ...that the third was Pyrrhus son of Achilles. Because of this help in battle the Delphians sacrifice to Pyrrhus as to a hero, although formerly they held even his tomb in...

Delphians

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenian ...made of silver. Farther up stand statues of heroes, from whom afterwards the Athenian tribes received their names. Who the man was who established ten tribes instead...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Scyros ...after the Persians landed at Marathon, when Cimon, son of Miltiades, ravaged Scyros, thus avenging Theseus' death, and carried his bones to Athens. The sanctuary...

Scyros

79 24.6099,38.82754,0 Cretan ...figures of Eileithyia draped to the feet. The women told me that two are Cretan, being offerings of Phaedra, and that the third, which is the oldest...

Cretan

75 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Attica ...Elatea in Phocis, but on receiving the news he withdrew his troops towards Attica. Learning this, the Roman general entrusted the siege of Athens to a portion of...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Boeotia ...and with the greater part of his forces advanced in person to meet Taxilus in Boeotia. On the third day from this, news came to both the Roman armies; Sulla heard...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athenian ...I learn attacked Pherecydes the Syrian. Although Sulla's treatment of the Athenian people was so savage as to be unworthy of a Roman, I do not think that this was...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Tarentum ...only one now remaining. When Pyrrhus heard this from the envoys he abandoned Tarentum and the Italiots on the coast, and crossing into Sicily forced the...

Tarentum

79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Macedonians ...as they were of old." These shields then are here, but the bucklers of the Macedonians themselves he dedicated to Dodonian Zeus. They too have an inscription: "These...

Macedonians

77 21.75,41.25,0 Argives ...army for the fourth time, they arrayed themselves to meet it along with the Argives and Messenians who had come as their allies. Pyrrhus won the day, and came near...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Macedonian ...time, while the Laconian war was dragging on, Antigonus, having recovered the Macedonian cities, hastened to the Peloponnesus being well aware that if Pyrrhus were to...

Macedonian

80 21.75,41.25,0 Athens ...go further into this story, and to describe the contents of the sanctuary at Athens, called the Eleusinium, I was stayed by a vision in a dream. I shall therefore...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...according to Polymnastus of Colophon, who composed a poem about him for the Lacedemonians. Still farther of is a temple to Eukleia (Glory), this too being a...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Marathon ...being a thank-offering for the victory over the Persians, who had landed at Marathon. This is the victory of which I am of opinion the Athenians were proudest...

Marathon

78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athenians ...the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera. Among the Athenians the cult was established by Aegeus, who thought that he was childless (he had...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Parian ...because of the wrath of Heavenly Aphrodite. The statue still extant is of Parian marble and is the work of Pheidias. One of the Athenian parishes is that of the...

Parian

76 25.150728,37.08579,0 Themiscyra ...not lose through their defeats their reckless courage in the face of danger; Themiscyra was taken by Heracles, and afterwards the army which they dispatched to Athens...

Themiscyra

79 36.967737,41.215176,0 Phrygians ...wall is known to everybody who does not attribute utter silliness to the Phrygians. But legend says of that horse that it contained the most valiant of the...

Phrygians

75 27.75,40.25,0 Athenians ...and the first to rush into the Museum; and when he fell fighting, the Athenians did him great honor, dedicating his shield to Zeus of Freedom and in scribing...

Athenians

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Mardonius was opposed by the Lacedemonians and was killed by a Spartan; so the Athenians could not have taken the scimitar to begin with, and furthermore the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rhodes ...the forces he could muster. Antigonus thus failed to reduce Egypt or, later, Rhodes, and shortly afterwards he offered battle to Lysimachus, and to Cassander and...

Rhodes

80 28.15629,36.41451,0 Athenians ...no shame of itself taking no part in the defence of the country. But the Athenians, although they were more exhausted than any of the Greeks by the long...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...from here, across the torrent called Charadrus (Gully), is Oenoe, named, the Argives say, after Oeneus. The story is that Oeneus, who was king in Aetolia, on being...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Orneae ...is besides a temple devoted to all the gods in common. On the further side of Orneae are Sicyonia and Phliasia. On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the...

Orneae

80 22.557292,37.713973,0 Argos ...Tiryns. The Tirynthians also were removed by the Argives, who wished to make Argos more powerful by adding to the population. The hero Tiryns, from whom the city...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Smyrna ...has been built in our own day the sanctuary of Asclepius by the sea at Smyrna. Further, at Balagrae of the Cyreneans there is an Asclepius called Healer, who...

Smyrna

73 27.1383,38.41905,0 Epidaurus ...Cyreneans there is an Asclepius called Healer, who like the others came from Epidaurus. From the one at Cyrene was founded the sanctuary of Asclepius at Lebene, in...

Epidaurus

79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Dorian ...among the old Aeginetans, established in the island Dorian manners and the Dorian dialect. Although the Aeginetans rose to great power, so that their navy was...

Dorian

77 22.25,38.75,0 Lacedemonians ...by the Athenians, they took up their abode at Thyrea, in Argolis, which the Lacedemonians gave them to dwell in. They recovered their island when the Athenian warships...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cretans ...She was made a goddess by Artemis, and she is worshipped, not only by the Cretans, but also by the Aeginetans, who say that Britomartis shows herself in their...

Cretans

76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Troezenians ...are of stone. They are the women and children whom the Athenians gave to the Troezenians to be kept safe, when they had resolved to evacuate Athens and not to await the...

Troezenians

79 Pytho ...this, and quote an oracle: "Delos and Calaurea alike thou lovest to dwell in, Pytho, too, the holy, and Taenarum swept by the high winds." At any rate, there is a...

Pytho

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Aperopia ...(Champion of the Anchorage). Before Buporthmus lies an island called Aperopia, not far from which is another island, Hydrea. After it the mainland is skirted...

Aperopia

72 23.30295,37.32767,0 Argives ...in Doric. But before the return of the Heracleidae to the Peloponnesus the Argives spoke the same dialect as the Athenians, and in Philammon's day I do not...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...reason that freebooters from the Cynurian territory were harrying Argolis, the Argives being their kinsmen, and that the Cynurians themselves openly made forays into...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonians ...of Doryssus, were soon both killed. Lycurgus too laid down their laws for the Lacedemonians in the reign of Artesilaus; some say that he was taught how to do this by the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pharis ...Teleclus. In his reign the Lacedemonians conquered in war and reduced Amyclae, Pharis, and Geranthrae, cities of the Perioeci, which were still in the possession of...

Pharis

81 22.2805645,37.029321,0 Messenians ...was by this time driving the Messenians out of all the Peloponnesus – the Messenians revolted from the Lacedemonians. For a time they held out by force of arms, but...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemon ...throne to the elder claimant Cleomenes. Now Dorieus could not bear to stay at Lacedemon and be subject to his brother, and so he went on a colonizing expedition. As...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...in Aegina, Demaratus, the king of the other house, was slandering him to the Lacedemonian populace. On his return from Aegina, Cleomenes began to intrigue for the...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotia ...along with him the entire Phocian army, and without any further delay entered Boeotia and began assaults upon the wall of Haliartus, the citizens of which refused to...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Lacedemonians ...leads me to approve it. Pausanias was well aware that the disasters of the Lacedemonians always took place when they had been caught between two enemy forces, and the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Trojan ...the exploits shared by the Tegeans with the Arcadians, which include the Trojan war, the Persian wars and the battle at Dipaea with the Lacedemonians, the...

Trojan

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Tegeans ...war, the Persian wars and the battle at Dipaea with the Lacedemonians, the Tegeans have, besides the deeds already mentioned, the following claims of their own to...

Tegeans

77 22.429,37.464,0 Tithorea ...that it bodes no good to man to see godhead face to face. The olive oil of Tithorea is less abundant than Attic or Sicyonian oil, but in color and pleasantness it...

Tithorea

78 22.66931,38.58344,0 Ismenian ...him, he dared to set fire to the precinct of Apollo that is now called the Ismenian sanctuary. The god, according to the Thebans, shot him. Here then is the tomb...

Ismenian

77 Arcadian ...from the whole house of Cypselus. I spent much care upon the history of the Arcadian kings, and the genealogy as given above was told me by the Arcadians...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athens ...than sympathy that made them join the Lacedemonians in their war against Athens and in crossing over to Asia with Agesilaus; they also followed the...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaean ...be laid waste in the absence of their men of military age. As members of the Achaean League the Arcadians were more enthusiastic than any other Greeks. The fortunes...

Achaean

79 Macedonians ...Paeonia were under the command of Brennus and Acichorius. Bolgius attacked the Macedonians and Illyrians, and engaged in a struggle with Ptolemy, king of the Macedonians...

Macedonians

81 21.75,41.25,0 Thrace ...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...

Thrace

76 27.5,42.5,0 Lacedemonians ...own. Later on, when Epaminondas had come to Sparta as an envoy, what time the Lacedemonians said they were concluding with the Greeks the peace called the Peace of...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...the highway, is a well called Lamb. The following story is told by the Arcadians. When Rhea had given birth to Poseidon, she laid him in a flock for him to live...

Arcadians

74 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedemonians ...the Peloponnesians would make their invasion. But Cleombrotus, the king of the Lacedemonians, turned towards Ambrossus in Phocis. He massacred a Theban force under...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Boeotia ...truce, saying that it would be better for the Boeotians to shift the war from Boeotia to Lacedemon. The Thespians, apprehensive because of the ancient hostility of...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Mantineia ...and an image. Antinous too was deified by them; his temple is the newest in Mantineia. He was a great favorite of the Emperor Hadrian. I never saw him in the flesh...

Mantineia

79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Bithynians ...Antinous was by birth from Bithynium beyond the river Sangarius, and the Bithynians are by descent Arcadians of Mantineia. For this reason the Emperor established...

Bithynians

75 31.501635083333333,41.01972391666666,0 Thebes ...to Lacedemon. The Thespians, apprehensive because of the ancient hostility of Thebes and its present good fortune, resolved to abandon their city and to seek a...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Mantineia ...On the left of the highway leading to Tegea there is, beside the walls of Mantineia, a place where horses race, and not far from it is a race-course, where they...

Mantineia

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Laconian ...themselves. Meanwhile the allies of Thebes scattered and overran the Laconian territory, pillaging what it contained. This persuaded Epaminondas to lead the...

Laconian

72 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Troy ...men has been told by the poets who have treated of the sufferings of heroes at Troy, and the Athenians relate in song how gods sided with them at Marathon and at...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Mantineia ...you will come to a place full of oak trees, called Sea, and the road from Mantineia to Tegea leads through the oaks. The boundary between Mantineia and Tegea is...

Mantineia

76 22.393259,37.618138,0 Athens ...army, he was killed in the hour of victory by an Athenian. In the painting at Athens of the battle of the cavalry the man who is killing Epaminondas is Grylus, the...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...it is a sanctuary of Fortune, who carries the child Wealth. According to the Thebans, the hands and face of the image were made by Xenophon the Athenian, the rest...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Ionians ...it floats for anchors and nets. The bark of this oak is called "cork" by the Ionians, for example by Hermesianax, the elegiac poet. From Mantineia there is a road...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Orchomenus ...considerable in extent, but the greater part of it is a lake. As you go out of Orchomenus, after about three stades, the straight road leads you to the city Caphya...

Orchomenus

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Argive ...grave of Melanippus, one of the very best of the soldiers of Thebes. When the Argive invasion occurred this Melanippus killed Tydeus, as well as Mecisteus, one of...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebans ...Tanagra, because the chariot of Amphiaraus disappeared here, and not where the Thebans say it did. Both peoples agree that Mycalessus was so named because the cow...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Idaean ...and opened again by Heracles, and that Heracles is one of what are called the Idaean Dactyls. Here is shown the following marvel. Before the feet of the image they...

Idaean

80 24.8289925,35.2082103,0 Delium ...by the people of Tanagra. Within the territory of Tanagra is what is called Delium on Sea. In it are images of Artemis and Leto. The people of Tanagra say that...

Delium

79 23.661354,38.3462075,0 Paeonian ...but smaller one, but there is no trace of horns on their heads. I saw too the Paeonian bulls, which are shaggy all over, but especially about the chest and lower jaw...

Paeonian

80 21.75,41.75,0 Arcadia ...break it down. After the grave of Aepytus you come to the highest mountain in Arcadia, Cyllene, on the top of which is a dilapidated temple of Cyllenian Hermes. It...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cyllenian ...the following trees ebony, cypress, cedar, oak, yew, lotus. But the image of Cyllenian Hermes is made of none of these, but of juniper wood. Its height, I conjecture...

Cyllenian

79 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Rome ...individuals. White hares are bred in Libya, and white deer I have seen in Rome to my great astonishment, though it never occurred to me to ask from what...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Anthedon ...of Glaucus. Pindar and Aeschylus got a story about Glaucus from the people of Anthedon. Pindar has not thought fit to say much about him in his odes, but the story...

Anthedon

80 23.448834,38.498583,0 Styx ...city Cleitor, while on the right is the road to Nonacris and the water of the Styx. Of old Nonacris was a town of the Arcadians that was named after the wife of...

Styx

80 22.25,38.25,0 Styx ...articles men make of stone, and pottery, are all broken by the water of the Styx, while things of horn or of bone, with iron, bronze, lead, tin, silver and...

Styx

78 22.25,38.25,0 Pisa ...Orontes, and give the account of the Arcadians and Eleans. Oenomaus, prince of Pisa, had a son Leucippus. Leucippus fell in love with Daphne, but despaired of...

Pisa

81 21.653041,37.639535,0 Cleitor ...the river Aroanius. Near the city you will cross the river called the Cleitor. The Cleitor flows into the Aroanius, at a point not more than seven stades...

Cleitor

72 22.103248,37.892704,0 Dodona ...to be established for Pelarge by Telondes in accordance with an oracle from Dodona, one being the sacrifice of a pregnant victim. The wrath of the Cabeiri no man...

Dodona

78 20.78784,39.54648,0 Corinth ...her by the superior numbers of the army he had with him on his arrival from Corinth. There is another version of the story which makes her the natural daughter of...

Corinth

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Phrygian ...had three forms of the flute. On one they played Dorian music; for Phrygian melodies flutes of a different pattern were made; what is called the Lydian...

Phrygian

69 27.75,40.25,0 Athens ...while others say that Thespius, who was descended from Erechtheus, came from Athens and was the man after whom the city was called. In Thespiae is a bronze image...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemon ...Tarentine by descent, learned in the philosophy of Pythagoras the Samian. When Lacedemon was at war with Mantineia, Epaminondas is said to have been sent with certain...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phoenician ...very much to the strength of their poison; for instance, I learnt from a Phoenician that the roots they eat make more venomous the vipers in the highland of...

Phoenician

75 35.25,33.25,0 Helicon ...of Uranus, and that there are other and younger Muses, children of Zeus. On Helicon, on the left as you go to the grove of the Muses, is the spring Aganippe; they...

Helicon

79 22.82514,38.35217,0 Phocis ...But Cleombrotus, the king of the Lacedemonians, turned towards Ambrossus in Phocis. He massacred a Theban force under Chaereas, who was under orders to guard the...

Phocis

78 22.25,38.25,0 Leuctra ...who was under orders to guard the passes, crossed the high ground and reached Leuctra in Boeotia. Here heaven sent signs to the Lacedemonian people and to...

Leuctra

80 23.18095,38.25422,0 Larisa ...sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter. In Larisa I heard another story, how that on Olympus is a city Libethra, where the...

Larisa

78 22.41474,39.64147,0 Boeotians ...try the ordeal of battle. But Epaminondas had his suspicions of some of the Boeotians especially of the Thespians. Fearing, therefore, lest they should desert during...

Boeotians

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Samian ...still preserved and flourish, the oldest of them is the withy growing in the Samian sanctuary of Hera, after which come the oak in Dodona, the olive on the...

Samian

79 26.84,37.73,0 Dodona ...the withy growing in the Samian sanctuary of Hera, after which come the oak in Dodona, the olive on the Acropolis and the olive in Delos. The third place in respect...

Dodona

81 20.78784,39.54648,0 Alesian ...received the following response: "A care to me is shady Leuctra, and so is the Alesian soil; A care to me are the two sorrowful girls of Scedasus. There a tearful...

Alesian

81 22.413455,37.043277,0 Argos ...were eagerly inviting him. On his arrival he won the willing support of Argos, while he collected again into their ancient city the Mantineans, who had been...

Argos

74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...and the history of its foundation I have included in my account of the Messenians themselves. Meanwhile the allies of Thebes scattered and overran the Laconian...

Messenians

73 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebans ...and insolently thrown into prison and kept there by Alexander. The Thebans at once set out to attack Alexander, and made leaders of the expedition...

Thebans

69 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lydian ...a statement about one Aglaus, a Psophidian contemporary with Croesus the Lydian. The statement was that the whole of his life was happy, but I could not...

Lydian

75 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Delphi ...set a jar of good things, and another jar of evil things, taught by the god at Delphi, who once declared that Homer himself was both unhappy and blessed, being...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thelpusa ...the village Caus, with a sanctuary of Causian Asclepius, built on the road. Thelpusa is some forty stades distant from this sanctuary. It is said that it was named...

Thelpusa

79 21.87884,37.710489,0 Thebes ...Orpheus, how wild creatures followed him as he played the harp. The road from Thebes to Chalcis is by this Proetidian gate. On the highway is pointed out the grave...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...son of Priam. It is near the spring called the Fountain of Oedipus, and the Thebans say that they brought Hector's bones from Troy because of the following oracle...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Theban ...fighting with the Argives killed Parthenopaeus, the son of Talaus. This is the Theban account, but according to the passage in the Thebaid which tells of the death...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Mycalessus ...cow lowed (emykesato) here that was guiding Cadmus and his host to Thebes. How Mycalessus was laid waste I have related in that part of my history that deals with the...

Mycalessus

81 23.545847,38.415804,0 Heraea ...where they celebrate their mysteries in honor of Dionysus. There is also in Heraea a temple of Pan, as he is native to Arcadia, and of the temple of Hera I found...

Heraea

79 21.863791,37.613569,0 Heraea ...to the Erymanthus is a journey of roughly twenty stades. The boundary between Heraea and the land of Elis is according to the Arcadians the Erymanthus, but the...

Heraea

80 21.863791,37.613569,0 Megalopolis ...it was abandoned by many of its inhabitants at the union of the Arcadians into Megalopolis. As you go to this town from Heraea you will cross the Alpheius, and after...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...have done this the flies trouble them no longer. On the road from Heraea to Megalopolis is Melaeneae. It was founded by Melaeneus, the son of Lycaon; in my time it was...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolis ...has continued to be regarded as a city from the beginning to the present day. Megalopolis was united into one city in the same year, but a few months later, as occurred...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Phocians ...involved in what was called the Sacred War, and they were hard pressed by the Phocians, who were neighbors of the Boeotians, and wealthy because they had seized the...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Thebans ...find the inside like blood. This pomegranate-tree is still flourishing. The Thebans assert that they were the first men among whom the vine grew, but they have now...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadians ...would have done it, would have removed bodily the Megalopolitans and the other Arcadians besides; but as the Arcadians of the day put up a vigorous defence, while their...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...of note was accomplished by either side. But the hatred felt by the Arcadians for the Lacedemonians was not a little responsible for the rise of Philip, the...

Arcadians

70 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Helicon ...the goats sweeter fruit than that growing anywhere else. The dwellers around Helicon say that all the grasses too and roots growing on the mountain are not at all...

Helicon

79 22.82514,38.35217,0 Sicyonians ...taking Megalopolis is the man from whom was taken Pellene in Achaia by the Sicyonians under Aratus, and later he met his end at Mantineia. Shortly afterwards...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Methydrium ...in the season of summer. It has its source in Theisoa, which borders on Methydrium. The place where its stream joins the Alpheius is called Rhaeteae. Adjoining...

Methydrium

74 22.168912,37.627412,0 Arcadians ...After this a wasting disease fell on Teuthis, and its people, alone of the Arcadians, suffered from famine. Later, oracles were delivered to them from Dodona...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Alpheius ...roughly fifteen stades long. At this point the river Gatheatas falls into the Alpheius, and before this the Carnion flows into the Gatheatas. The source of the...

Alpheius

80 21.451667,37.6125,0 Pellene ...say that the fabled battle between giants and gods took place here and not at Pellene in Thrace, and at this spot sacrifices are offered to lightnings, hurricanes...

Pellene

80 22.5384,38.0446,0 Basilis ...in size? Some ten stades distant from the place named Depth is what is called Basilis. The founder of it was Cypselus, who gave his daughter in marriage to...

Basilis

81 22.068131,37.444881,0 Megalopolis ...could have brought about restitution with justice. There are also roads from Megalopolis leading to the interior of Arcadia; to Methydrium it is one hundred and seventy...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Spercheius ...tricks of strategy. So on that very night he despatched some troops to the Spercheius, not to the places where the old bridges had stood, but lower down, where the...

Spercheius

78 22.25,38.75,0 Aetolians ...in the fields, but did not capture the city. For a year previous to this the Aetolians had forced Heracleia to join the Aetolian League; so now they defended a city...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Daseae ...stades from the Alpheius to the ruins of Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and seven again from Daseae to the hill called Acacesian...

Daseae

80 22.068774,37.399848,0 Crete ...left of the grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The Arcadians claim that the Crete, where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared, was this place and not the...

Crete

80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Arcadians ...cloud, gathers to itself other clouds, and makes rain fall on the land of the Arcadians. There is on Mount Lycaeus a sanctuary of Pan, and a grove of trees around it...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...and Pyrrhus; according to some a fourth appeared, Phylacus, a local hero of Delphi. Among the many Phocians who were killed in the action was Aleximachus, who in...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Plataniston ...derive the name from a nymph. By Lycosura to the west passes the river Plataniston. No traveller can possibly avoid crossing the Plataniston who is going to...

Plataniston

74 21.75,37.25,0 Dorians ...and Bias of Priene; of the Aeolians in Lesbos, Pittacus of Mitylene; of the Dorians in Asia, Cleobulus of Lindus; Solon of Athens and Chilon of Sparta; the seventh...

Dorians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Phigalians ...to their city. When the Oresthasians heard of the oracle delivered to the Phigalians, all vied with one another in their eagerness to be one of the picked hundred...

Phigalians

76 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalia ...the Spartans they enabled the Phigalians to recover their native land. Phigalia lies on high land that is for the most part precipitous, and the walls are...

Phigalia

73 21.8391,37.3963,0 Lycaeus ...sea. The source of the Neda is on Mount Cerausius, which is a part of Mount Lycaeus. At the place where the Neda approaches nearest to Phigalia the boys of the...

Lycaeus

79 21.9725313,37.4563114,0 Neda ...above Phigalia are hot baths, and not far from these the Lymax falls into the Neda. Where the streams meet is the sanctuary of Eurynome, a holy spot from of old...

Neda

80 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Phigalia ...cypress trees, growing close together. Eurynome is believed by the people of Phigalia to be a surname of Artemis. Those of them, however, to whom have descended...

Phigalia

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Ephesian ...Not only have I seen this armour depicted by Polygnotus, but in the temple of Ephesian Artemis Calliphon of Samos has painted women fitting on the gyala of the...

Ephesian

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Phigalians ...away from Phigalia, and has a cave sacred to Demeter surnamed Black. The Phigalians accept the account of the people of Thelpusa about the mating of Poseidon and...

Phigalians

75 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalians ...all your people, And adorn with divine honors the nook of the cave." When the Phigalians heard the oracle that was brought back, they held Demeter in greater honor than...

Phigalians

81 21.8391,37.3963,0 Thasos ...Cleoboea, they say that she was the first to bring the orgies of Demeter to Thasos from Paros. On the bank of Acheron there is a notable group under the boat of...

Thasos

78 24.717535,40.78201,0 Pallantium ...Sent out to establish a colony at the head of a company of Arcadians from Pallantium, he founded a city on the banks of the river Tiber. That part of modern Rome...

Pallantium

76 22.336587,37.462155,0 Pleuronian ...made the subject of a drama by Phrynichus, the son of Polyphradmon, in his Pleuronian Women: "For chill doom he escaped not, but a swift flame consumed him, as the...

Pleuronian

77 21.414714,38.402823,0 Cnidians ...up from the enclosure...and here is an image of Dionysus, dedicated by the Cnidians. The Delphian race-course is on the highest part of their city. It was made of...

Cnidians

77 27.37404,36.686188,0 Oresthasium ...Haemoniae on the right of the road are some noteworthy remains of the city of Oresthasium, especially the pillars of a sanctuary of Artemis, which still are there. The...

Oresthasium

80 22.206506,37.345994,0 Parnassus ...the marks of drops on the floor throughout the cave. The dwellers around Parnassus believe it to be sacred to the Corycian nymphs, and especially to Pan. From the...

Parnassus

75 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Lacedemonians ...on to say that he was set free without ransom, swore to the Tegeans that the Lacedemonians would never again attack Tegea, and then broke his oath; that the women offered...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...Nabis, and the first of the Peloponnesians to be attacked by him were the Messenians. Coming upon them by night, when they by no means were expecting an assault, he...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Achaeans ...it is said, directed against Timolaus. He was again appointed general of the Achaeans. At this time the Lacedemonians were involved in civil war, and Philopoemen...

Achaeans

79 Thermopylae ...the discipline of their native land. When the Romans under Manius defeated at Thermopylae Antiochus the descendant of Seleucus, named Nicator, and the Syrian army with...

Thermopylae

81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Troy ...was descended, as I have already said, from Agapenor, who led the Arcadians to Troy, and it was in Paphos that she dwelt. Not far from it are two sanctuaries of...

Troy

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Eurotas ...sinks into the Tegean plain; rising at Asea, and mingling its stream with the Eurotas, it sinks again into the earth. Coming up at the place called by the Arcadians...

Eurotas

80 22.3334931,37.1615197,0 Tegea ...of Pan, by which is an oak, like the sanctuary sacred to Pan. The road from Tegea to Argos is very well suited for carriages, in fact a first-rate highway. On...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Boeotia ...Twice it was their fate to be driven from their homes and to be taken back to Boeotia. For in the war between the Peloponnesians and Athens, the Lacedemonians...

Boeotia

80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thebans ...from getting out of the city, building a double line of circumvallation; the Thebans on this occasion by preventing them from getting within their walls. The...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Chaeroneia ...they were again received by the Athenians. When Philip after his victory at Chaeroneia introduced a garrison into Thebes, one of the means he employed to bring the...

Chaeroneia

78 22.840365,38.493361,0 Plataea ...the Plataeans to their homes. On Mount Cithaeron, within the territory of Plataea, if you turn off to the right for a little way from the straight road, you...

Plataea

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Libethra ...stating that when the sun should see the bones of Orpheus, then the city of Libethra would be destroyed by a boar. The citizens paid little regard to the oracle...

Libethra

78 22.53438,40.02458,0 Cithaeron ...to pieces without distinction everybody they chanced to meet. Whereabouts on Cithaeron the disaster befell Pentheus, the son of Echion, or where Oedipus was exposed...

Cithaeron

79 23.2505528,38.1850025,0 Boeotia ...an annual festival. They claim to have been from of old the best sailors in Boeotia, and remind you that Tiphys, who was chosen to steer the Argo, was a...

Boeotia

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Haliartus ...on her return from Colchis. As you go inland from Thespiae you come to Haliartus. The question who became founder of Haliartus and Coroneia I cannot separate...

Haliartus

74 23.088416,38.379818,0 Tanagraeans ...Daedala. Lots are cast for them by the Plataeans, Coronaeans, Thespians, Tanagraeans, Chaeroneans, Orchomenians, Lebadeans, and Thebans; for at the time when...

Tanagraeans

76 23.587064,38.309371,0 Athenian ...to pay the fleet, he received it in good time and without stint. When the Athenian fleet of one hundred ships anchored at Aegospotami, waiting until the sailors...

Athenian

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...refused them burial afterwards, a thing which even the Persians who landed at Marathon received from the Athenians, and the Lacedemonians themselves who fell at...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lacedemonians ...received from King Xerxes. Lysander brought a yet deeper disgrace upon the Lacedemonians by the Commissions of Ten he set over the cities and by the Laconian...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataeans ...against them got therefrom their drinking-water. Afterwards, however, the Plataeans recovered the water. On the road from Plataea to Thebes is the river Oeroe...

Plataeans

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...Afterwards, however, the Plataeans recovered the water. On the road from Plataea to Thebes is the river Oeroe, said to have been a daughter of the Asopus...

Plataea

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Scolus ...parallel to the river, after about forty stades you come to the ruins of Scolus. The temple of Demeter and the Maid among the ruins is not finished, and only...

Scolus

75 23.403247,38.317722,0 Athenians ...still held Athens under a despotism that the foreigner had invaded Greece, the Athenians too would certainly have been accused of favouring Persia. Afterwards...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Orchomenus ...When expelled from their city by the Thebans they were restored again to Orchomenus by Philip the son of Amyntas. But Providence was to drag them ever lower and...

Orchomenus

75 22.959486,38.495082,0 Melas ...is a temple of Heracles with a small image. Here is the source of the river Melas (black), one of the streams running into the Cephisian Lake. The lake at all...

Melas

78 Lebadeia ...go to Trophonius at Lebadeia and to discover the remedy from him. Coming to Lebadeia they could not find the oracle. Thereupon Saon, one of the envoys from the city...

Lebadeia

79 22.87352,38.431063,0 Delian ...say the Delians, Theseus dedicated the wooden image of the goddess to the Delian Apollo, lest by taking it home he should be dragged into remembering Ariadne...

Delian

76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Chaeroneia ...of Aeolus, who gave her name also to a city in Thessaly. The present name of Chaeroneia, they say, is derived from Chaeron, reputed to be a son of Apollo by Thero, a...

Chaeroneia

79 22.840365,38.493361,0 Aeginetans ...itself as the received title of what is today called Phocis, when the Aeginetans had disembarked on the land with Phocus the son of Aeacus. Opposite the...

Aeginetans

72 23.42372,37.74991,0 Creusis ...made of gypsum and adorned with painting. The voyage from the Peloponnesus to Creusis is winding and, besides, not a calm one. For capes jut out so that a straight...

Creusis

80 23.110281,38.20809,0 Phocis ...lying opposite each other at the pass into Phocis, five hundred picked men of Phocis, waiting until the moon was full, attacked the Thessalians on that night, first...

Phocis

80 22.25,38.25,0 Athenians ...the pancratiast, whose statue I saw in the Prytaneium of the Athenians, had a dispute about some piece of property with Eteonicus of Sparta. When...

Athenians

63 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocians ...to their courage and resources. When Philomelus put all this before them, the Phocians were nothing loath, either because their judgment was blinded by heaven, or...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Parapotamii ...and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old...

Parapotamii

77 22.806,38.554,0 Charadra ...down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities...

Charadra

75 22.489574,38.640939,0 Tithronium ...made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in...

Tithronium

80 22.58105,38.67517,0 Athenians ...the Parian. Socrates too, son of Sophroniscus, made images of Graces for the Athenians, which are before the entrance to the Acropolis. All these are alike draped...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Panopeus ...I was reminded of Homer's verses about Tityos, where he mentions the city of Panopeus with its beautiful dancing-floors, and how in the fight over the body of...

Panopeus

79 22.79418,38.49551,0 Pentelic ...is by the roadside a small building of unburnt brick, in which is an image of Pentelic marble, said by some to be Asclepius, by others Prometheus. The latter produce...

Pentelic

80 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Thebes ...the kingdom. Immediately he and his brothers gathered a force and attacked Thebes. Victorious in the battle, they then came to an agreement that the Thebans...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lycoreia ...by these beasts, and on this account they called the city that they founded Lycoreia (Mountainwolf-city). Another and different legend is current that Apollo had a...

Lycoreia

78 Orchomenus ...that to bring the bones of Hesiod from the land of Naupactus to the land of Orchomenus was their one and only remedy. Whereupon the envoys asked a further question...

Orchomenus

78 22.959486,38.495082,0 Orchomenians ..."Sloping towards the Cephisian Lake." 5.709 It is not likely either that the Orchomenians would not have discovered the chasm, and, breaking down the work put up by...

Orchomenians

80 22.959486,38.495082,0 Dorians ...Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis...

Dorians

79 22.25,38.75,0 Mideia ...verses composed by Chersias, a man of Orchomenus: "To Poseidon and glorious Mideia was born Aspledon in the spacious city. The poem of Chersias was no longer...

Mideia

78 22.87352,38.431063,0 Macedonians ...here nor for any other success, whether won over Greeks or non-Greeks, as the Macedonians were not accustomed to raise trophies. The Macedonians say that Caranus, king...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Crotona ...of Crotona who were staying in Greece. Such is the story of the athlete of Crotona. On entering the enclosure you come to a bronze bull, a votive offering of the...

Crotona

78 17.205128,39.028864,0 Samians ...it, apparently in ignorance of the fact that the first to melt bronze were the Samians Theodorus and Rhoecus. The Achaeans of Patrae assert indeed that Hephaestus...

Samians

81 26.84,37.73,0 Elatus ...of Arcas by Daedalus of Sicyon; Triphylus and Azan by Samolas the Arcadian; Elatus, Apheidas and Erasus by Antiphanes of Argos. These offerings were sent by the...

Elatus

78 20.7088064,37.8145891,0 Amathus ...think that it is in the sanctuary of Adonis at Amathus. For the necklace at Amathus is composed of green stones held together by gold, but the necklace given to...

Amathus

78 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Abae ...the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned exploits of the Phocian people were undertaken by the whole...

Abae

81 22.9154,38.58006,0 Delphi ...the Argives claimed that they had the better of the engagement, and sent to Delphi a bronze horse, supposed to be the wooden horse of Troy. It is the work of...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...levies from all their cities and marched out against them. Whereupon the Phocians, greatly terrified at the army of the Thessalians, especially at the number of...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Phocians ...at the hands of the Thessalians. Their disaster created such panic among the Phocians in the camp that they actually gathered together in one spot their women...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Siphnians ...been wounded in the body. These stand by the treasury of the Sicyonians. The Siphnians too made a treasury, the reason being as follows. Their island contained gold...

Siphnians

80 24.70109,36.9678,0 Ledon ...son of Theotimus, than whom no Phocian stood higher in rank, his country being Ledon, a city of Phocis, took charge and tried to persuade them to seize the...

Ledon

81 22.680539,38.654801,0 Lipara ...when the sea flooded their mines and hid them from sight. The people of Lipara too dedicated statues to commemorate a naval victory over the Etruscans. These...

Lipara

75 14.95373,38.46708,0 Medeon ...Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which...

Medeon

76 22.6827,38.36754,0 Macedonians ...in the Greek assembly, and their votes were given by the Amphictyons to the Macedonians. Subsequently, however, the Phocian cities were rebuilt, and their inhabitants...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Cumae ...according to Hyperochus of Cumae, a historian, was called Demo, and came from Cumae in the territory of the Opici. The Cumaeans can point to no oracle given by...

Cumae

80 26.936283,38.75953,0 Panopeus ...It is the custom for these Thyiads to hold dances at places, including Panopeus, along the road from Athens. The epithet Homer applies to Panopeus is thought...

Panopeus

73 22.79418,38.49551,0 Epicnemidian ...Thessalians, their enemies always, who are their neighbors except where the Epicnemidian Locrians come between. The Thessalians too of Pharsalus dedicated an Achilles...

Epicnemidian

78 22.75,38.75,0 Corinth ...Greek city in Libya, the chariot with an image of Ammon in it. The Dorians of Corinth too built a treasury, where used to be stored the gold from Lydia. The image...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lydia ...Dorians of Corinth too built a treasury, where used to be stored the gold from Lydia. The image of Heracles is a votive offering of the Thebans, sent when they had...

Lydia

81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Calaureia ...Themis, who gave it to Apollo as a gift. It is said that he gave to Poseidon Calaureia, that lies off Troezen, in exchange for his oracle. I have heard too that...

Calaureia

79 23.48041,37.52255,0 Epidaurians ...Phryne include two images of Apollo, one dedicated from Persian spoils by the Epidaurians of Argolis, the other dedicated by the Megarians to commemorate a victory over...

Epidaurians

80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Lacedemonians ...bronze, seeing that Acrisius made a bedchamber of bronze for his daughter, the Lacedemonians still possess a sanctuary of Athena of the Bronze House, and the Roman forum, a...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...the other dedicated by the Megarians to commemorate a victory over the Athenians at Nisaea. The Plataeans have dedicated an ox, an offering made at the time...

Athenians

73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Cyrenaeans ...in the following way. As he was passing through the territory of the Cyrenaeans, in the extreme parts of it, as yet desert, he saw a lion, and the terror of...

Cyrenaeans

71 21.856169,32.818736,0 Phthiotians ...people:-- Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of...

Phthiotians

76 22.55625075,38.9967985,0 Sardinia ...part in the expedition. Be this as it may, there are still today places in Sardinia called Iolaia, and Iolaus is worshipped by the inhabitants. When Troy was...

Sardinia

77 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Locrians ...Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis. But when the...

Locrians

80 22.75,38.75,0 Ilians ...precipitous and protected by stakes. Even at the present day they are called Ilians, but in figure, in the fashion of their arms, and in their mode of living...

Ilians

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lacedemonians ...situated in the market-place, was built from the spoils taken when the Lacedemonians fighting under Acrotatus, the son of Cleomenes, suffered the reverse sustained...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sardinia ...as far as Sardinia. Neither poisonous nor harmless snakes can live in Sardinia, nor yet wolves. The he-goats are no bigger than those found elsewhere, but...

Sardinia

73 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Ambraciots ...yells. So the men in the Molossian ambush rushed out affrighted, and the Ambraciots, detecting the trap prepared for them, attacked in the night and overcame the...

Ambraciots

75 20.95316,39.04107,0 Hiera ...it, and Chryse sank and disappeared in the depths. Another island called Hiera (Sacred) . . . was not during this time. So temporary and utterly weak are the...

Hiera

75 25.38225,36.39633,0 Orneae ...them, attacked in the night and overcame the Molossians in battle. The men of Orneae in Argolis, when hard pressed in war by the Sicyonians, vowed to Apollo that...

Orneae

81 22.557292,37.713973,0 Carnasium ...road leads to Messene, and there is another leading from Megalopolis to Carnasium in Messenia. The first thing you come to on the latter road is the Alpheius at...

Carnasium

74 21.948808,37.266348,0 Aetolians ...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...

Aetolians

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Thessalians ...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...

Thessalians

78 21.75,39.25,0 Thermopylae ...service and slaves; so the number of Locrian fighting men who marched to Thermopylae cannot have exceeded six thousand. So the whole army would amount to eleven...

Thermopylae

75 22.538294,38.796511,0 Patrae ...some distance from the sea and completely inland. As you sail to Aegium from Patrae you come first to the cape called Rhium, fifty stades from Patrae, the harbor...

Patrae

79 21.738518,38.243265,0 Erineus ...what is known as the Fort of Athena. From the Fort of Athena to the harbor of Erineus is a coastal voyage of ninety stades, and from Erineus to Aegium is sixty. But...

Erineus

80 21.993332,38.309763,0 Selemnus ...Aphrodite turned him into a river. This is what the people of Patrae say. As Selemnus continued to love Argyra even when he was turned into water, just as Alpheius...

Selemnus

79 21.75,38.25,0 Maenalian ...come to a plain, and after crossing it to the mountain called, like the plain, Maenalian. Under the fringe of the mountain are traces of a city Lycoa, a sanctuary of...

Maenalian

81 Phoenician ...that I accepted his statements, but that the argument was as much Greek as Phoenician for at Titane in Sicyonia the same image is called both Health and . . .43 thus...

Phoenician

77 35.25,33.25,0 Mylaon ...through the land of Theisoa the following tributaries of the Alpheius, the Mylaon, Nus, Achelous, Celadus, and Naliphus. There are two other rivers of the same...

Mylaon

77 22.25,37.75,0 Helice ...and violent that no house in Lacedemon could resist it. The destruction of Helice occurred while Asteius was still archon at Athens, in the fourth year of the...

Helice

78 22.14015,38.22257,0 Arcadians ...was one of the nymphs called Dryads. When the Lacedemonians attacked the Arcadians and invaded Phigalia, they overcame the inhabitants in battle and sat down to...

Arcadians

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...victorious for the third time. The Phigalians who escaped resolved to go to Delphi and ask the god about their return. The Pythian priestess said that if they...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleans ...was forced to give in at the same time because of the pain in his toe. The Eleans crowned and proclaimed victor the corpse of Arrhachion. I know that the...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Aegeira ...seen the Heracles at Sicyon would be led to conjecture that the Apollo in Aegeira was also a work of the same artist, Laphaes the Phliasian. There are in a...

Aegeira

76 22.3782,38.12855,0 Achaeans ...three lads, with a man wearing a breastplate. They say that in a war of the Achaeans this last man fought more bravely than any other soldier of Aegeira, but was...

Achaeans

78 Phigalians ...the season of the festival, and I did not see the image of Eurynome; but the Phigalians told me that golden chains bind the wooden image, which represents a woman as...

Phigalians

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Pellene ...the images of Athena on the Athenian acropolis and at Plataea. The people of Pellene also say that a shrine of Athena sinks deep into the ground, that this shrine...

Pellene

79 22.5384,38.0446,0 Pythian ...until the barrenness fell on the land. Then they went as suppliants to the Pythian priestess and received this response: Azanian Arcadians, acorn-eaters, who...

Pythian

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argolis ...Along Epidaurus, Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to Argolis come the vassals of Lacedemon, and these border on Messenia...

Argolis

80 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Phigalians ...earth. The image made by Onatas no longer existed in my time, and most of the Phigalians were ignorant that it had ever existed at all. The oldest, however, of the...

Phigalians

80 21.8391,37.3963,0 Arcadia ...had been guilty of beginning a war of aggression. To complete my account of Arcadia I have only to describe the road from Megalopolis to Pallantium and Tegea...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...Pythian priestess, when she forbade the Lacedemonians to touch the land of the Arcadians, uttered the following verses: "In Arcadia are many men who eat acorns, Who...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megalopolis ...in the Lacedemonian territory, the Alpheius at Pegae (Sources) in the land of Megalopolis. From Asea is an ascent up Mount Boreius, and on the top of the mountain are...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Tegea ...Apheidas fell Tegea and the land adjoining, and for this reason poets too call Tegea "the lot of Apheidas." Elatus got Mount Cyllene, which down to that time had...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Athena Alea ...Telephus fighting Achilles on the plain of the Caicus. The ancient image of Athena Alea, and with it the tusks of the Calydonian boar, were carried away by the Roman...

Athena Alea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Troy ...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...

Troy

72 26.23873,39.9577,0 Tegea ...generations. Aleus built the old sanctuary in Tegea of Athena Alea, and made Tegea the capital of his kingdom. Gortys the son of Stymphalus founded the city...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Dorian ...died. Aepytus was succeeded as king by his son Cypselus, and in his reign the Dorian expedition returned to the Peloponnesus, not, as three generations before...

Dorian

81 22.25,38.75,0 Tegean ...follows. Aristomelidas, despot of Orchomenus in Arcadia, fell in love with a Tegean maiden, and, getting her somehow or other into his power, entrusted her to the...

Tegean

79 22.429,37.464,0 Aeginetans ...his end. Simus was succeeded as king by Pompus his son, in whose reign the Aeginetans made trading voyages as far as Cyllene, from which place they carried their...

Aeginetans

77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Megalopolis ...brave achievements. His father Craugis was as nobly born as any Arcadian of Megalopolis, but he died while Philopoemen was still a baby, and Cleander of Mantineia...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Macedonia ...assigned to the Nicopolitans. The Amphictyons today number thirty. Nicopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly each send six deputies; the Boeotians, who in more ancient days...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Thessaly ...Nicopolitans. The Amphictyons today number thirty. Nicopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly each send six deputies; the Boeotians, who in more ancient days inhabited...

Thessaly

79 21.75,39.25,0 Sparta ...by the Aetolians. LI. At this time Philopoemen flung himself into Sparta and forced her to join the Achaean League. Shortly afterwards Titus, the Roman...

Sparta

69 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corcyraeans ...On entering the enclosure you come to a bronze bull, a votive offering of the Corcyraeans made by Theopropus of Aegina. The story is that in Corcyra a bull, leaving the...

Corcyraeans

80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Sparta ...from tribute. Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, with Leotychidaes the king of Sparta destroyed the Persian fleet at Mycale, and with Cimon accomplished many...

Sparta

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ambraciot ...of Sicyon, Telycrates the Leucadian, Pythodotus of Corinth and Euantidas the Ambraciot; last come the Lacedemonians Epicydidas and Eteonicus. These, they say, are...

Ambraciot

79 20.95316,39.04107,0 Crete ...namely, Cydon, Archedius and Gortys, migrated of their own free will to Crete, and that after them were named the cities Cydonia, Gortyna and Catreus. The...

Crete

74 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Macedonians ...The statue of the Egyptian they sent out of good-will; those of the Macedonians were sent because of the dread that they inspired. Near the horse are also...

Macedonians

70 21.75,41.25,0 Cretans ...and that after them were named the cities Cydonia, Gortyna and Catreus. The Cretans dissent from the account of the Tegeans, saying that Cydon was a son of Hermes...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Argive ...which they and their Athenian allies won over the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in Argive territory. From spoils of the same action, it seems to me, the Argives set up...

Argive

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tegeans ...the sons of Hippocoon. The lofty place, on which are most of the altars of the Tegeans, is called the place of Zeus Clarius (Of Lots), and it is plain that the god...

Tegeans

81 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...Hyllus carved in relief upon a slab. On the left of the road as you go from Tegea to Laconia there is an altar of Pan, and likewise one of Lycaean Zeus. The...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemonians ...of Tarentum, and are works of Ageladas the Argive. Tarentum is a colony of the Lacedemonians, and its founder was Phalanthus, a Spartan. On setting out to found a colony...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataeans ...kingship and not democracy was the established form of government. But the Plataeans know of no king except Asopus and Cithaeron before him, holding that the latter...

Plataeans

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...in the war between the Peloponnesians and Athens, the Lacedemonians reduced Plataea by siege, but it was restored during the peace made by the Spartan Antalcidas...

Plataea

78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Ida ...her oracles she states that her mother was an immortal, one of the nymphs of Ida, while her father was a human. These are the verses: "I am by birth half...

Ida

79 26.85852,39.69936,0 Thebans ...Cadmeia they had no part either in the plan or in the performance. But the Thebans maintained that as the Lacedemonians had themselves made the peace and then...

Thebans

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Pieria ...beside his horse: the Macedonians living in Dium, a city at the foot of Mount Pieria, the Apollo who has taken hold of the deer; the people of Cyrene, a Greek city...

Pieria

80 22.424792491340284,40.13002811595563,0 Colonae ...to an old story. Cycnus, they say, was a son of Poseidon, and ruled as king in Colonae, a city in the Troad situated opposite the island Leucophrys. He had a...

Colonae

81 26.16276,39.69025,0 Alexandrians ...of time weakness compelled the people of Tenedos to merge themselves with the Alexandrians on the Troad mainland. The Greeks who fought against the king, besides...

Alexandrians

80 26.79365,39.64192,0 Heracleia ...Then there are another two images of Apollo, one dedicated by the citizens of Heracleia on the Euxine, the other by the Amphictyons when they fined the Phocians for...

Heracleia

80 31.414722,41.284722,0 Aetolians ...Apollo the Delphians call Sitalcas, and he is thirty-five cubits high. The Aetolians have statues of most of their generals, and images of Artemis, Athena and two...

Aetolians

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Hellespont ...the invasion occurred: Then verily, having crossed the narrow strait of the Hellespont, The devastating host of the Gauls shall pipe; and lawlessly They shall ravage...

Hellespont

79 26.4,40.2,0 Athenians ...the customs of the Athenians, says in his account of Attica that when the Athenians were preparing the Sicilian expedition a vast flock of crows swooped on Delphi...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebes ...the city grew, and so the Cadmeia became the citadel of the lower city of Thebes. Cadmus made a brilliant marriage, if, as the Greek legend says, he indeed took...

Thebes

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...to beware of sailing against Sicily. The Cyrenaeans have dedicated at Delphi a figure of Battus in a chariot; he it was who brought them in ships from Thera...

Delphi

72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elyrus ...the Gauls. On the mountains of Crete there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies...

Elyrus

80 23.795528,35.287701,0 Plataeans ...a bronze ox, from spoils taken in the Persian war. The Carystians and the Plataeans dedicated oxen, I believe, because, having repulsed the barbarian, they had won...

Plataeans

76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Corinth ...out and the Athenian navy destroyed, after a brief interval Thebes along with Corinth was involved in the war with Lacedemon. Overcome in battle at Corinth and...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Boeotia ...except their friendship for the Athenian people. But when Sulla invaded Boeotia, terror seized the Thebans; they at once changed sides, and sought the...

Boeotia

74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Epidaurus ...he was short of funds. So he collected offerings from Olympia, those at Epidaurus, and all those at Delphi that had been left by the Phocians. These he divided...

Epidaurus

74 23.079167,37.596111,0 Thebans ...than any other poem. So much for the war waged by the Argives against the Thebans on account of the sons of Oedipus. Not far from the gate is a common tomb...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Elaius ...the left by the mountain called Cotilius, while on the right is another, Mount Elaius, which acts as a shield to the city. The distance from the city to Mount...

Elaius

81 26.220385,40.051661,0 Megalopolis ...has already said that the tile image of Apollo is in the market-place of Megalopolis. On Mount Cotilius is a spring of water, but the author who related that this...

Megalopolis

75 22.126238,37.414256,0 Manthuric ...sacrificed to Lycaean Zeus. On the right of the so-called Dyke lies the Manthuric plain. The plain is on the borders of Tegea, stretching just about fifty stades...

Manthuric

75 22.397404,37.409589,0 Tegea ...vision stirred up Chronius against Aristomelidas. He slew the despot, fled to Tegea, and made a sanctuary for Artemis. The market-place is in shape very like a...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedemon ...who entertains women). At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedemon made the first invasion, the women armed themselves and lay in ambush under the...

Lacedemon

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...the daughter of Xanthus, the son of Erymanthus, the son of Arcas. Such are the Arcadian traditions concerning their kings, but the most accurate version is that Eryx...

Arcadian

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Psophis ...woman, changed the name of Phegia to Psophis, the name of their mother. Psophis is also the name of the Zacynthian acropolis, because the first man to sail...

Psophis

75 21.892903,37.871725,0 Argos ...called "maidens" by the natives. Alcmaeon, after killing his mother, fled from Argos and came to Psophis, which was still called Phegia after Phegeus, and married...

Argos

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Arsen ...between Psophis and Thelpusa." In the Thelpusian territory is a river called Arsen (Male). Cross this and go on for about twenty-five stades, when you will arrive...

Arsen

79 21.75,37.75,0 Elis ...hair might still be dark. Legend also has it that when Heracles was warring on Elis he asked Oncus for the horse, and was carried to battle on the back of Areion...

Elis

81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...for the horse, and was carried to battle on the back of Areion when he took Elis, but afterwards the horse was given to Adrastus by Heracles. Wherefore...

Elis

78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Olympic ...after not being held for a long period, were revived by Iphitus, and the Olympic festival was again held, the only prizes offered were for running, and Coroebus...

Olympic

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadia ...between Megalopolis and Heraea. Megalopolis is the youngest city, not of Arcadia only, but of Greece, with the exception of those whose inhabitants have been...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eutresian ...Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea; these were cities of Maenalus. Of the Eutresian cities Tricoloni, Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. From the...

Eutresian

79 22.25,37.75,0 Megalopolis ...for the most part obeyed the general resolution and assembled promptly at Megalopolis. But the people of Lycaea, Tricoloni, Lycosura and Trapezus, but no other...

Megalopolis

76 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lycosura ...and assembled promptly at Megalopolis. But the people of Lycaea, Tricoloni, Lycosura and Trapezus, but no other Arcadians, repented and, being no longer ready to...

Lycosura

78 22.030087,37.389509,0 Megalopolis ...won the surname of "the Good." During his tyranny the territory of Megalopolis was invaded by the Lacedemonians under Acrotatus, the eldest of the sons of...

Megalopolis

69 22.126238,37.414256,0 Megalopolitans ...Cleomenes the son of Leonidas seized Megalopolis during a truce. Of the Megalopolitans some fell at once on the night of the capture in the defence of their country...

Megalopolitans

74 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonian ...on their return, will be set forth in my account of Philopoemen. The Lacedemonian people were in no way responsible for the disaster to Megalopolis, because...

Lacedemonian

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Teuthis ...they say, Athena in the guise of Melas, the son of Ops, tried to turn Teuthis aside from his journey home. But Teuthis, his wrath swelling within him, struck...

Teuthis

72 22.041285,37.597441,0 Phigalians ...of Megalopolis. The place where the image was originally set up by the Phigalians is named Bassae. The surname of the god has followed him from Phigalia, but why...

Phigalians

74 21.8391,37.3963,0 Megalopolis ...Sosigenes and Polus. These men are said to have been the first to establish at Megalopolis the mysteries of the Great Goddesses, and the ritual acts are a copy of those...

Megalopolis

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonians ...and arrested every one, not only those whom they knew for certain to be Lacedemonians, but also all those they suspected to be such from the cut of their hair, or...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phocians ...on the ground of some supposed ancient connection between them. But when the Phocians heard of the disaster to Critolaus and the Achaeans, they ordered the Arcadians...

Phocians

79 22.25,38.25,0 Corinthians ...after the battle fled from the city, and there fled with them most of the Corinthians themselves. At first Mummius hesitated to enter Corinth, although the gates...

Corinthians

76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...god who was careful that the curse of Oebotas should be fulfilled, but the Achaeans by sending to Delphi at last learned why it was that they had been failing to...

Achaeans

77 Antheia ...killed, and so Triptolemus and Eumelus together founded a city, and called it Antheia after the son of Eumelus. Between Antheia and Aroe was founded a third city...

Antheia

80 Antheia ...founded a city, and called it Antheia after the son of Eumelus. Between Antheia and Aroe was founded a third city, called Mesatis. The stories told of Dionysus...

Antheia

75 Aetolia ...In course of time the people of Patrae on their own account crossed into Aetolia; they did this out of friendship for the Aetolians, to help them in their war...

Aetolia

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Calydon ...is a foreign one, and her image too was brought in from elsewhere. For after Calydon with the rest of Aetolia had been laid waste by the Emperor Augustus in order...

Calydon

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Aetolian ...rest of Aetolia had been laid waste by the Emperor Augustus in order that the Aetolian people might be incorporated into Nicopolis above Actium, the people of Patrae...

Aetolian

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Athenians ...through guile, obstruct my chariot." Pamphos also, who composed for the Athenians the most ancient of their hymns, says that Poseidon is: "Giver of horses and of...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Patrae ...to Patrae, having been given to it by Augustus. The road from the city of Patrae to Pharae is a hundred and fifty stades, while Pharae is about seventy stades...

Patrae

76 21.738518,38.243265,0 Peirus ...the one flowing past the ruins of Olenus, called by the men of the coast the Peirus. Near the river is a grove of plane-trees, most of which are hollow through...

Peirus

79 21.75,38.25,0 Patrae ...Aegium from Patrae you come first to the cape called Rhium, fifty stades from Patrae, the harbor of Panormus being fifteen stades farther from the cape. It is...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Castalia ...work unknown I have heard another account, that the water was a gift to Castalia from the river Cephisus. So Alcaeus has it in his prelude to Apollo. The...

Castalia

75 22.505528,38.483082,0 Spartan ...the offerings enumerated are statues of those who, whether Spartans or Spartan allies, assisted Lysander at Aegospotami. They are these:– Aracus of Lacedemon...

Spartan

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...also foretold by the Sibyl, who said that the battle would be drawn. But the Argives claimed that they had the better of the engagement, and sent to Delphi a bronze...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Delphi ...of Antigonus, of his son Demetrius, and of Ptolemy the Egyptian, were sent to Delphi by the Athenians afterwards. The statue of the Egyptian they sent out of...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argives ...and Aegialeus is Euryalus. Opposite them are other statues, dedicated by the Argives who helped the Thebans under Epaminondas to found Messene. The statues are of...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tarentum ...his wife's name was Aethra. And so on that night he took from the barbarians Tarentum, the largest and most prosperous city on the coast. They say that Taras the...

Tarentum

79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Cnidians ...is no treasure to be seen either here or in any other of the treasuries. The Cnidians brought the following images to Delphi: Triopas, founder of Cnidus, standing by...

Cnidians

79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Delphians ...his achievements. There is a rock rising up above the ground. On it, say the Delphians, there stood and chanted the oracles a woman, by name Herophile and surnamed...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Corinthians ...of Arcadia dedicated a bronze Apollo, which stands near the treasury of the Corinthians. Heracles and Apollo are holding on to the tripod, and are preparing to fight...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Olympia ...Troad mainland. The Greeks who fought against the king, besides dedicating at Olympia a bronze Zeus, dedicated also an Apollo at Delphi, from spoils taken in the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Parnassus ...of some treasure, and kept himself and the gold hidden at the place on Mount Parnassus where the forest is thickest. As he slept a wolf attacked and killed him, and...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Eurymedon ...from the spoils they took in their two successes on the same day at the Eurymedon, one on land, and the other with their fleet on the river. The gold on this...

Eurymedon

74 31.1815439,37.1968531,0 Athenians ...and thieves. But Cleitodemus, the oldest writer to describe the customs of the Athenians, says in his account of Attica that when the Athenians were preparing the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicily ...describes other omens that told the Athenians to beware of sailing against Sicily. The Cyrenaeans have dedicated at Delphi a figure of Battus in a chariot; he it...

Sicily

77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Elyrians ...a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies, Phylacides and Philander. The Elyrians say that these were children of Apollo by the nymph Acacallis, and that Apollo...

Elyrians

77 23.795528,35.287701,0 Pytho ...the following response: Dwellers in the land of Pelops and in Achaia, who to Pytho Have come to inquire how ye shall take a city, Come, consider what daily...

Pytho

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mantineia ...not more than three hundred; Tegeans five hundred, and five hundred from Mantineia; from Orchomenus in Arcadia a hundred and twenty; from the other cities in...

Mantineia

75 22.393259,37.618138,0 Corinth ...Arcadia one thousand; from Mycenae eighty; from Phlius two hundred, and from Corinth twice this number; of the Boeotians there mustered seven hundred from Thespiae...

Corinth

79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Locrians ...in number. The generals of the Phocians were Critobulus and Antiochus. The Locrians over against the island of Atalanta were under the command of Meidias; they...

Locrians

78 22.75,38.75,0 Spercheius ...the tallest of them were able to cross the water by wading. The Greeks on the Spercheius, as soon as they learned that a detachment of the barbarians had crossed by the...

Spercheius

80 22.25,38.75,0 Thermopylae ...received from the Athenians, and the Lacedemonians themselves who fell at Thermopylae received from King Xerxes. Lysander brought a yet deeper disgrace upon the...

Thermopylae

76 22.538294,38.796511,0 Tilphusa ...the god at Delphi, when Teiresias, being thirsty, drank by the wayside of the Tilphusa, and forthwith gave up the ghost; his grave is by the spring. They say that...

Tilphusa

80 22.994538,38.371064,0 Acropolis ...set three Graces in his hand. Again, at Athens, before the entrance to the Acropolis, the Graces are three in number; by their side are celebrated mysteries which...

Acropolis

77 23.625,37.875,0 Argos ...against the sanctuary at Delphi to raid it, when Philammon with picked men of Argos went out to meet them, but he and his picked men perished in the...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Orchomenus ...marvellous. Minyas had a son Orchomenus, in whose reign the city was called Orchomenus and the men Orchomenians. Nevertheless, they continued to bear the additional...

Orchomenus

79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Cephisian ...is the source of the river Melas (black), one of the streams running into the Cephisian Lake. The lake at all times covers the greater part of the Orchomenian...

Cephisian

80 23.625,38.125,0 Cnossus ...are also two wooden images in Crete, a Britomartis at Olus and an Athena at Cnossus, at which latter place is also Ariadne's Dance, mentioned by Homer in the...

Cnossus

78 25.163106,35.297847,0 Phocians ...their enemies. It was Tellias of Elis who devised this stratagem also for the Phocians to use against the Thessalians. When the Persian army crossed into Europe, it...

Phocians

80 22.25,38.25,0 Thebes ...that Athens and Sparta had always been favorable to them, and that if Thebes or any other state made war against them, they would have the better owing to...

Thebes

72 23.255096,38.318092,0 Neon ...often the Thebans proved the better. An engagement took place at the town of Neon, in which the Phocians were worsted, and in the rout Philomelus threw himself...

Neon

79 22.66931,38.58344,0 Ambrossus ...famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the...

Ambrossus

78 22.66763,38.42845,0 Boeotians ...It seemed to me that the reason why the king lived here was fear of the Boeotians; at this point is the easiest pass from Boeotia into Phocis, so the king used...

Boeotians

74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Panopeus ...Homer applies to Panopeus is thought to refer to the dance of the Thyiads. At Panopeus there is by the roadside a small building of unburnt brick, in which is an...

Panopeus

81 22.79418,38.49551,0 Cephisus ...that the name of the city is derived from Daulis, a nymph, the daughter of the Cephisus. Others say that the place, on which the city was built, was wooded, and that...

Cephisus

81 23.625,38.125,0 Delphi ...more difficult for the walker. Many and different are the stories told about Delphi, and even more so about the oracle of Apollo. For they say that in the earliest...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Crete ...its name from the builder. After this Pteras, so they say, the city in Crete was named, with the addition of a letter, Apterei. The story that the temple...

Crete

73 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Parnassus ...they say was the god Poseidon, the human father being Cleopompus. After this Parnassus were named, they say, both the mountain and also the Parnassian glen. Augury...

Parnassus

79 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Malians ...be members of the Amphictyonic League, that the Magnesians moreover and the Malians, together with the Aenianians and Phthiotians, should be numbered with the...

Malians

78 22.25,38.75,0 Spercheius ...Brennus ordered the dwellers round the Malian Gulf to build bridges across the Spercheius, and they proceeded to accomplish their task with a will, for they were...

Spercheius

81 22.25,38.75,0 Callium ...the barbarians, having pillaged houses and sanctuaries, and having fired Callium, were returning by the same way, they were met by the Patraeans, who alone of...

Callium

75 22.171569,38.553535,0 Callians ...attack with vigor when their enemies returned from the pursuit. Although the Callians suffered so terribly that even Homer's account of the Laestrygones and the...

Callians

80 22.171569,38.553535,0 Aenianians ...by the woes of others. Brennus was encouraged by the promise made by the Aenianians and Heracleots. Leaving Acichorius behind in charge of the main army, with...

Aenianians

76 22.25,38.75,0 Phocis ...at once from a pressing shortage of corn and other food. Their losses in Phocis were these: in the battles were killed close on six thousand; those who...

Phocis

76 22.25,38.25,0 Malians ...arrival at the Spercheius, during the rest of the retreat the Thessalians and Malians kept lying in wait for them, and so took their fill of slaughter that not a...

Malians

80 22.25,38.75,0 Cnidians ...stands a building with paintings of Polygnotus. It was dedicated by the Cnidians, and is called by the Delphians Lesche (Place of Talk, Club Room), because here...

Cnidians

74 27.37404,36.686188,0 Thasian ...of the painting there is also an elegiac couplet of Simonides: "Polygnotus, a Thasian by birth, son of Aglaophon, Painted a picture of Troy's citadel being...

Thasian

80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Phoenician ...Delians, and in this act as well, when having found an image of Apollo in a Phoenician ship he restored it to the Tanagraeans at Delium. So at that time all men held...

Phoenician

78 35.25,33.25,0 Lethaeus ...roof lies quite close to the floor. There is also near Magnesia on the river Lethaeus a place called Aulae (Halls), where there is a cave sacred to Apollo, not very...

Lethaeus

80 24.75,35.25,0 Cephisus ...of the ancient Ledon are forty stades farther up from these dwellers on the Cephisus. They say that the city took its name from an aboriginal. Other cities have...

Cephisus

78 23.625,38.125,0 Ledon ...and now to go back to Ionia. Again, Philomelus brought on the community of Ledon the punishment to be paid for the crime of his own impiety. Lilaea is a winter...

Ledon

77 22.680539,38.654801,0 Tithronians ...road joins at the Cephisus the straight road from Amphicleia to Drymaea, the Tithronians have a grove and altars of Apollo. There has also been made a temple, but no...

Tithronians

79 22.58105,38.67517,0 Delphi ...Arcadia. For they say that when the Phlegyans marched against the sanctuary at Delphi, Elatus, the son of Arcas, came to the assistance of the god, and with his army...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...the founder of Elateia. Elateia must be numbered among the cities of the Phocians burnt by the Persians. Some disasters were shared by Elateia with the other...

Phocians

76 22.25,38.25,0 Pontus ...by siege. Later on the Elateans held out when besieged by the barbarians of Pontus under the command of Taxilus, the general of Mithridates. As a reward for this...

Pontus

78 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Haliartus ...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...

Haliartus

78 23.088416,38.379818,0 Elean ...and eleventh Olympic festival. But this is the only festival omitted in the Elean records. Beyond the market-place there is in a well a spring of water. Over...

Elean

78 21.25,37.75,0 Anticyra ...all from Anticyra, so rough and difficult to cross are the mountains between Anticyra and Boulis. To the harbor from Anticyra is a sail of one hundred stades, and...

Anticyra

79 22.626059,38.375439,0 Sicyon ...determined to make war on the Cirrhaeans, put Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, at the head of their army, and brought over Solon from Athens to give them...

Sicyon

71 22.71135,37.98336,0 Athenian ...another statue, well worth seeing, of Pandion on the Acropolis. These are the Athenian eponymoi who belong to the ancients. And of later date than these they have...

Athenian

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...were made by Critius, the old ones being the work of Antenor. When Xerxes took Athens after the Athenians had abandoned the city he took away these statues also...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the old ones being the work of Antenor. When Xerxes took Athens after the Athenians had abandoned the city he took away these statues also among the spoils, but...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thrace ...Romans reduced the whole Thracian population. But the Romans have subdued all Thrace, and they also hold such Celtic territory as is worth possessing, but they have...

Thrace

80 27.5,42.5,0 Odrysae ...or barrenness. Then Lysimachus made war against his neighbours, first the Odrysae, secondly the Getae and Dromichaetes. Engaging with men not unversed in warfare...

Odrysae

77 25.33686355,42.61977194999999,0 Athenians ...to him by Meda daughter of Phylas, thirdly, Ajax son of Telamon, and to the Athenians belongs Leos, who is said to have given up his daughters, at the command of the...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Araethyrea ...a list of Agamemnon's subjects, has the verse: "Orneae was their home and Araethyrea the delightful." The graves of the children of Aras are, in my opinion, on the...

Araethyrea

76 22.649131,37.846299,0 Sicyonia ...Rhegnidas, the son of Phalces, the son of Temenus, attacked it from Argos and Sicyonia. Some of the Phliasians were inclined to accept the offer of Rhegnidas, which...

Sicyonia

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Argives ...Opheltes was placed by his nurse in the grass and killed by the serpent. The Argives offer burnt sacrifices to Zeus in Nemea also, and elect a priest of Nemean...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Larisa ...himself was not only alive but accomplishing great achievements, retired to Larisa on the Peneus. And Perseus, wishing at all costs to see the father of his...

Larisa

78 22.41474,39.64147,0 Phocian ...Arcadia and had succeeded to the throne of Sparta; he also had a contingent of Phocian allies always ready to help him. When Orestes became king of the...

Phocian

81 22.25,38.25,0 Argives ...the eldest of them, seized the kingdom. But from the earliest times the Argives have loved freedom and self-government, and they limited to the utmost the...

Argives

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cephisus ...Argive women bewail Adonis. On the right of the entrance is the sanctuary of Cephisus. It is said that the water of this river was not utterly destroyed by Poseidon...

Cephisus

79 23.625,38.125,0 Lacedemonians ...age, and then posted them where she knew the enemy would attack. When the Lacedemonians came on, the women were not dismayed at their battle-cry, but stood their...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...poem says that the image is of Zeus Mechaneus (Contriver), and that here the Argives who set out against Troy swore to hold out in the war until they either took...

Argives

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cretan ...it down. Besides this building there is the tomb of Crotopus and a temple of Cretan Dionysus. For they say that the god, having made war on Perseus, afterwards...

Cretan

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Eleusis ...point it flows from Stymphalus in Arcadia, just as the Rheiti, near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus. At the places where the Erasinus gushes forth from the...

Eleusis

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Mantinea ...they say the Lacedemonians suffered their reverse. The road from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as that to Tegea, but begins from the gate at the Ridge. On...

Mantinea

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Aetolia ...the Argives say, after Oeneus. The story is that Oeneus, who was king in Aetolia, on being driven from his throne by the sons of Agrius, took refuge with...

Aetolia

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Argives ...the kingdom of Priam. From him then did Omeae get its name, and afterwards the Argives removed all its citizens, who thereupon came to live at Argos. At Orneae are a...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Epidauria ...dates from then. Again, when Archias, son of Aristaechmus, was healed in Epidauria after spraining himself while hunting about Pindasus, he brought the cult to...

Epidauria

75 23.02637,36.731301,0 Hyrnethium ...of the Epidaurians, you come to a place where wild olives grow; they call it Hyrnethium. I will relate the story of it, which is probable enough, as given by the...

Hyrnethium

79 Aeginetans ...citadel, a wooden image worth seeing, they surname Cissaea (Ivy Goddess). The Aeginetans dwell in the island over against Epidauria. It is said that in the beginning...

Aeginetans

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Epidauria ...relate about Aegina, for the sake of Aeacus and his exploits. Bordering on Epidauria are the Troezenians, unrivalled glorifiers of their own country. They say that...

Epidauria

77 23.02637,36.731301,0 Troezenians ...for the sake of Aeacus and his exploits. Bordering on Epidauria are the Troezenians, unrivalled glorifiers of their own country. They say that Orus was the first...

Troezenians

74 Argos ...of Troezen said was an illegitimate child. For surely the kingdom of Argos would never have devolved upon Argus, Niobe's son, the grandchild of Phoroneus...

Argos

71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Smyrnaeans ...statue of Nemesis has wings, for not even the holiest wooden images of the Smyrnaeans have them, but later artists, convinced that the goddess manifests herself most...

Smyrnaeans

77 27.14781,38.440912,0 Boeotia ...Oropus, between Attica and the land of Tanagra, which originally belonged to Boeotia, in our time belongs to the Athenians, who always fought for it but never won...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Salaminians ...an Athenian by them. Many years afterwards the Athenians drove out all the Salaminians, having discovered that they had been guilty of treachery in the war with...

Salaminians

77 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Cephisus ...of Mnesimache, and a votive statue of her son cutting his hair as a gift for Cephisus. That this habit has existed from ancient times among all the Greeks may be...

Cephisus

79 23.625,38.125,0 Athens ...him Cephallenia, and that he resided till that time at Thebes, exiled from Athens because he had killed his wife Procris. In the tenth generation afterwards...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...this place they sacrificed to Apollo; afterwards they came to Athens and the Athenians made them citizens. After this is a temple of Aphrodite, before which is a...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleusis ...especially concerning the pedigrees of heroes. When you have turned from Eleusis to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which borders on Attica. Formerly...

Eleusis

76 23.538311,38.041096,0 Megarians ...of the territory as far as Corinth. Even at the present day the port of the Megarians is called Nisaea after him. Subsequently in the reign of Codrus the...

Megarians

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athens ...in the reign of Codrus the Peloponnesians made an expedition against Athens. Having accomplished nothing brilliant, on their way home they took Megara from...

Athens

71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megarians ...its pillars. Water flows into it called the water of the Sithnid nymphs. The Megarians say that the Sithnid nymphs are native, and that one of them mated with Zeus...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...The Athenians too admit that for a time they evacuated the island before the Megarians, saying that afterwards Solon wrote elegiac poems and encouraged them, and that...

Megarians

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thebes ...corpse of Alcmena back to Argos, others wishing to take it to Thebes, as in Thebes were buried Amphitryon and the children of Heracles by Megara. But the god in...

Thebes

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Maeander ...Sicyonians, for instance that its water is foreign and not native, in that the Maeander, descending from Celaenae through Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into...

Maeander

81 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Sicyonians ...the modern city near what was once the ancient citadel. The reason why the Sicyonians grew weak it would be wrong to seek; we must be content with Homer's saying...

Sicyonians

77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyonian ...who succeeded him. This Nicocles was attacked by Aratus with a force of Sicyonian exiles and Argive mercenaries. Making his attempt by night, he eluded some of...

Sicyonian

74 22.71135,37.98336,0 Amphissa ...elected general by the Achaeans, and leading them against the Locrians of Amphissa and into the land of the Aetolians, their enemies, he ravaged their territory...

Amphissa

76 22.315807,38.41224,0 Pellene ...The Lacedemonians and king Agis, the son of Eudamidas, surprised and took Pellene by a sudden onslaught, but when Aratus and his army arrived they were defeated...

Pellene

76 22.5384,38.0446,0 Lacedemon ...Achaeans were victorious, the people of Sellasia were sold into slavery, and Lacedemon itself was captured. Antigonus and the Achaeans restored to the Lacedemonians...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Acropolis ...back covered up. These maidens they henceforth let go free, and take up to the Acropolis others in their place. By the temple of Athena is . . . an old woman about a...

Acropolis

81 23.625,37.875,0 Athens ...he put them to flight and chased them to the city. Returning afterwards to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and Naxos and invaded Boeotia with...

Athens

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...I believe, in the following incident. It was when Erechtheus was king of Athens that the ox-slayer first killed an ox at the altar of Zeus Polieus. Leaving the...

Athens

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sicily ...of those who were victorious over the Syracusans before Demosthenes arrived in Sicily. Here were buried also those who fought in the sea-fights near the Hellespont...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Amarynthus ...that the guides knew nothing about these deities, so I give my own conjecture. Amarynthus is a town in Euboea, the inhabitants of which worship Amarysia, while the...

Amarynthus

81 23.9106,38.3868,0 Thebes ...say that he too died among them when he was leading back his army after taking Thebes, and that his death was caused by old age and the fate of Aegialeus. A...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megara ...Artemis was made by Agamemnon when he came to persuade Calchas, who dwelt in Megara, to accompany him to Troy. In the Town-hall are buried, they say, Euippus the...

Megara

79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megara ...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...

Megara

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...within it. Between this and the hero-shrine of Alcathous, which in my day the Megarians used as a record office, was the tomb, they said, of Pyrgo, the wife of...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Olympia ...among the Greeks. Near Coroebus is buried Orsippus who won the footrace at Olympia by running naked when all his competitors wore girdles according to ancient...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Syracuse ...crossed over and were destroying the Greek cities, and had sat down to invest Syracuse, the only one now remaining. When Pyrrhus heard this from the envoys he...

Syracuse

80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Phoenicians ...the siege of Syracuse. In his self-conceit, although the Carthaginians, being Phoenicians of Tyre by ancient descent, were more experienced sea men than any other...

Phoenicians

80 35.25,33.25,0 Thebans ...of Cleombrotus, who was killed at Leuctra fighting against Epaminondas and the Thebans. Cleombrotus was the father of Agesipolis and Cleomenes, and, Agesipolis dying...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Marathon ...and other captive women. At the end of the painting are those who fought at Marathon; the Boeotians of Plataea and the Attic contingent are coming to blows with the...

Marathon

79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lysimachia ...this reason the Thunderbolt, when the army of Seleucus had advanced as far as Lysimachia, assassinated Seleucus, allowed the kings to seize his wealth, and ruled over...

Lysimachia

80 21.338432,38.546722,0 Athenians ...in the Cnossian territory, and that Hera was her mother. Only among the Athenians are the wooden figures of Eileithyia draped to the feet. The women told me that...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Acropolis ...wrought an aegis. At the top of the theater is a cave in the rocks under the Acropolis. This also has a tripod over it, wherein are Apollo and Artemis slaying the...

Acropolis

79 23.625,37.875,0 Acropolis ...you see a woman in tears, with head bowed down. On the way to the Athenian Acropolis from the theater is the tomb of Calos. Daedalus murdered this Calos, who was...

Acropolis

78 23.625,37.875,0 Troezenians ...love of Phaedra and the wickedness the nurse dared commit to serve her. The Troezenians too have a grave of Hippolytus, and their legend about it is this. When...

Troezenians

78 Euripus ...the expedition of Demosthenes against Syracuse. He also put into the Chalcidic Euripus, where the Boeotians had an inland town Mycalessus, marched up to this town...

Euripus

81 23.58944,38.46276,0 Parthenon ...then, is such as I have described. As you enter the temple that they name the Parthenon, all the sculptures you see on what is called the pediment refer to the birth...

Parthenon

80 Pallene ...war with the giants, who once dwelt about Thrace and on the isthmus of Pallene, the battle between the Athenians and the Amazons, the engagement with the...

Pallene

73 23.6437183,39.9832624,0 Marathon ...between the Athenians and the Amazons, the engagement with the Persians at Marathon and the destruction of the Gauls in Mysia. Each is about two cubits, and all...

Marathon

77 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Macedonians ...Athenians now thought it intolerable if Greece should be for ever under the Macedonians, and themselves embarked on war besides inciting others to join them. The...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Munychia ...defeat. A Macedonian garrison was set over the Athenians, and occupied first Munychia and afterwards Peiraeus also and the Long Walls. On the death of Antipater...

Munychia

79 23.644901333333333,37.937560999999995,0 Macedonians ...and trusted for military success more to enthusiasm than to strength. The Macedonians came out to meet him, but he over came them, pursued them to the Museum, and...

Macedonians

76 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...to the Museum, and captured the position. So Athens was delivered from the Macedonians, and though all the Athenians fought memorably, Leocritus the son of Protarchus...

Macedonians

78 21.75,41.25,0 Munychia ...of Olympiodorus, not to mention his success in recovering Peiraeus and Munychia; and again, when the Macedonians were raiding Eleusis he collected a force of...

Munychia

73 23.644901333333333,37.937560999999995,0 Caria ...for other inland regions have similar wells, in particular Aphrodisias in Caria. But this cistern is remarkable for the noise of waves it sends forth when a...

Caria

76 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Megalopolitans ...saying that he was beginning to repent his crime, and would treat with the Megalopolitans if they returned home; but Philopoemen induced the citizens at a meeting to win...

Megalopolitans

77 22.126238,37.414256,0 Eleans ...the battle at the river Larisus between the Achaeans with their allies and the Eleans with the Aetolians, who were helping the Eleans on grounds of kinship...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Argolic ...however, persuaded them to put on breast-plates and greaves, and also to use Argolic shields and long spears. When Machanidas the upstart became despot of...

Argolic

79 22.728648,37.500864,0 Gythium ...waiting for a moonless night, burnt down the camp of the Lacedemonians at Gythium. Thereupon Nabis caught Philopoemen himself and the Arcadians with him in a...

Gythium

76 22.562341,36.763663,0 Messene ...in the head during the battle, fell from his horse and was taken alive to Messene. A meeting of the assembly was immediately held, at which the most widely...

Messene

76 21.920439,37.175491,0 Marathon ...the son of Cimon, overcame in battle the foreign invaders who had landed at Marathon, stayed the advance of the Persian army, and so became the first benefactor of...

Marathon

78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athens ...behalf of the Greeks. But those who took part in the Peloponnesian war against Athens, especially the most distinguished of them, might be said to be murderers...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Paphos ...have already said, from Agapenor, who led the Arcadians to Troy, and it was in Paphos that she dwelt. Not far from it are two sanctuaries of Dionysus, an altar of...

Paphos

81 32.573711,34.707147,0 Aeginetan ...with an image of ebony. The fashion of the workmanship is what the Greeks call Aeginetan. Some ten stades farther on are the ruins of a temple of Artemis...

Aeginetan

81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Tegea ...of Artemis Cnaceatis. The boundary between the territories of Lacedemon and Tegea is the river Alpheius. Its water begins in Phylace, and not far from its source...

Tegea

79 22.429,37.464,0 Elis ...of Pisa and past Olympia, it falls into the sea above Cyllene, the port of Elis. Not even the Adriatic could check its flowing onwards, but passing through it...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Thebans ...from its terms. The Plataeans, therefore, looked upon the attitude of the Thebans with suspicion, and maintained strict watch over their city. They did not go...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Plataeans ...the men with one garment each, the women with two. What happened to the Plataeans on this occasion was the reverse of what happened to them formerly when they...

Plataeans

74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Boeotia ...road, you reach the ruins of Hysiae and Erythrae. Once they were cities of Boeotia, and even at the present day among the ruins of Hysiae are a half-finished...

Boeotia

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Asopus ...and only half-finished are the images of the goddesses. Even today the Asopus is the boundary between Thebes and Plataea. The first to occupy the land of...

Asopus

73 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Delphi ...the kingdom. When Laius was king and married to Iocasta, an oracle came from Delphi that, if Iocasta bore a child, Laius would meet his death at his son's hands...

Delphi

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thebans ...Chaeroneia was a disaster for all the Greeks; but it was even more so for the Thebans, as a garrison was brought into their city. When Philip died, and the kingship...

Thebans

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonia ...a garrison was brought into their city. When Philip died, and the kingship of Macedonia devolved on Alexander, the Thebans succeeded in destroying the garrison. But as...

Macedonia

80 21.75,41.25,0 Ismenian ...of noble family, who is himself both handsome and strong, is chosen priest of Ismenian Apollo for a year. He is called Laurel-bearer, for the boys wear wreaths of...

Ismenian

80 Nestane ...are the ruins of a camp of Philip, the son of Amyntas, and of a village called Nestane. For it is said that by this Nestane Philip made an encampment, and the spring...

Nestane

81 22.461269,37.616101,0 Lemnos ...When in the list of ships he tells how the Greeks abandoned Philoctetes in Lemnos suffering from his wound, he does not style the water-serpent a snake. But the...

Lemnos

77 25.25,39.916667,0 Lacedemonians ...ranks of the Lacedemonians. Subsequently the Mantineans quarrelled with the Lacedemonians, and seceded from them to the Achaean League. They defeated Agis, the son of...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Mantineia ...from Athens, and the port of Mylasa is eighty stades from the city. But at Mantineia the sea rises after a very long distance, and quite plainly through the divine...

Mantineia

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Arcadians ...thought it a great achievement to put to flight Aratus and his host. But the Arcadians got in their rear unperceived, and the Lacedemonians were surrounded, losing...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Mantineans ...part of their army, while King Agis himself fell, the son of Eudamidas. The Mantineans affirmed that Poseidon too manifested himself in their defence, and for this...

Mantineans

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Sparta ...The Lacedemonians also speak of Machaerion as the slayer, but actually at Sparta there is no Machaerion, nor is there at Mantineia, who has received honors for...

Sparta

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicily ...Athenians received an oracle from Dodona ordering them to colonize Sicily, and Sicily is a small hill not far from Athens. But they, not understanding...

Sicily

69 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Orchomenus ...sanctuary of Aphrodite, and at Anchisiae is the boundary between Mantineia and Orchomenus. In the territory of Orchomenus, on the left of the road from Anchisiae, there...

Orchomenus

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Orchomenian ...the war was fought, was set forth neither by inscriptions on the graves nor in Orchomenian tradition. Opposite the city is Mount Trachy (Rough). The rain-water, flowing...

Orchomenian

81 22.31536,37.724716,0 Thebes ...believe that when expelled by Eurystheus from Tiryns he did not go at once to Thebes, but went first to Pheneus. Heracles dug a channel through the middle of the...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadians ...through the middle of the plain of Pheneus for the river Olbius, which some Arcadians call, not Olbius but Aroanius. The length of the cutting is fifty stades, its...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lusi ...to a place called Lusi. Most of the Aroanian mountain belongs to Pheneus, but Lusi is on the borders of Cleitor. They say that Lusi was once a city, and Agesilas...

Lusi

80 22.1121,37.9719,0 Aroanius ...city you will cross the river called the Cleitor. The Cleitor flows into the Aroanius, at a point not more than seven stades from the city. Among the fish in the...

Aroanius

79 21.75,37.75,0 Cleitor ...by the river even until sunset, at which time the fish were said to cry most. Cleitor got its name from the son of Azan, and is situated on a level spot surrounded...

Cleitor

81 22.103248,37.892704,0 Olen ...and, thirdly, Eileithyia . . . to be, and gave no number for them. The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to...

Olen

80 21.640599,38.153707,0 Trapezus ...are old wooden images of Hera, Apollo and the Muses, brought, it is said, from Trapezus, and in the temple are images made by Damophon, a wooden Hermes and a wooden...

Trapezus

81 22.060685,37.456281,0 Thebes ...royal palace of the Assyrians, are utterly ruined and desolate; while Boeotian Thebes, once deemed worthy to be the head of the Greek people, why, its name includes...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megalopolis ...is twenty stades to the Hermaeum, where is the boundary between Messenia and Megalopolis. Here they have made a Hermes also on a slab. This road leads to Messene, and...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Theius ...thirty stades long at the Alpheius. After this you will travel beside a river Theius, which is a tributary of the Alpheius, and some forty stades from the Alpheius...

Theius

80 22.25,37.25,0 Megalopolis ...to Methydrium it is one hundred and seventy stades, and thirteen stades from Megalopolis is a place called Scias, where are ruins of a sanctuary of Artemis Sciatis...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Methydrium ...from Tricoloni one hundred and thirty-seven stades. It received the name Methydrium (Between the Waters) because there is a high knoll between the river Maloetas...

Methydrium

75 22.168912,37.627412,0 Megalopolis ...of Megalopolis, Orchomenus and Caphyae. Passing through the gate at Megalopolis named the Gate to the Marsh, and proceeding by the side of the river Helisson...

Megalopolis

71 22.126238,37.414256,0 Theban ...was reared, and that Acacus the son of Lycaon became his foster-father. The Theban legend is different, and the people of Tanagra, again, have a legend at...

Theban

78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Parrhasian ...on Mount Lycaeus called Cretea, on the left of the grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The Arcadians claim that the Crete, where the Cretan story has it that Zeus...

Parrhasian

78 22.25,37.25,0 Neda ...round once more; but the second place for its twistings should be given to the Neda. Some twelve stades above Phigalia are hot baths, and not far from these the...

Neda

81 21.6919123,37.3853097,0 Bassae ...to Mount Cotilius is about forty stades. On the mountain is a place called Bassae, and the temple of Apollo the Helper, which, including the roof, is of...

Bassae

77 21.900415,37.429653,0 Megalopolis ...complete my account of Arcadia I have only to describe the road from Megalopolis to Pallantium and Tegea, which also takes us as far as what is called the Dyke...

Megalopolis

71 22.126238,37.414256,0 Haemoniae ...son of Echemus, and after it is the site of what was in old times the city of Haemoniae. Its founder was Haemon the son of Lycaon, and the name of the place has...

Haemoniae

80 22.165741,37.390614,0 Pallantium ...on the one hand and Tegea and Pallantium on the other. The plain of Pallantium you reach by turning aside to the left from the Dyke. In Pallantium is a temple...

Pallantium

70 22.336587,37.462155,0 Milesians ...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...

Milesians

81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Argives ...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...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedemonian ...up are the fetters, except such as have been destroyed by rust, worn by the Lacedemonian prisoners when they dug the plain of Tegea. There have been dedicated a sacred...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Trachis ...departed this life Eurystheus demanded his children; whereupon the king of Trachis sent them to Athens, saying that he was weak but Theseus had power enough to...

Trachis

77 22.25,38.75,0 Athenians ...at the demand of Eurystheus. The story says that an oracle was given the Athenians that one of the children of Heracles must die a voluntary death, or else...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Elis ...receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis; why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later. At the Isthmus the...

Elis

75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Athens ...of Artemis when she fled from the Tauri; leaving the image there she came to Athens also and afterwards to Argos. There is indeed an old wooden image of Artemis...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Oropus ...sixty stades from Marathon as you go along the road by the sea to Oropus stands Rhamnus. The dwelling houses are on the coast, but a little way inland...

Oropus

68 23.846116,38.291099,0 Ionian ...not by war but by agreement. When the Ionians would not admit them to the Ionian confederacy until they accepted kings of the race of the Codridae, they...

Ionian

76 27.508324,37.474596,0 Chalcis ...not happen here, the place called the Chariot being on the road from Thebes to Chalcis. The divinity of Amphiaraus was first established among the Oropians, from whom...

Chalcis

81 23.602,38.464,0 Astypalaea ...Astypalaea and Europa, whose mother was Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus; that Astypalaea had by Poseidon a son Ancaeus, who reigned over those called Leleges; that...

Astypalaea

81 26.35528,36.54413,0 Aeolians ...on the iris. About the judgment concerning the armour I heard a story of the Aeolians who afterwards settled at Ilium, to the effect that when Odysseus suffered...

Aeolians

79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ilium ...the armour I heard a story of the Aeolians who afterwards settled at Ilium, to the effect that when Odysseus suffered shipwreck the armour was cast ashore...

Ilium

71 26.23873,39.9577,0 Magnesians ...corpses. But I will relate all that appeared to me worth seeing. For the Magnesians on the Lethaeus, Protophanes, one of the citizens, won at Olympia in one day...

Magnesians

76 27.52785,37.8507,0 Athenians ...carved wooden images of Pan. As you go to Eleusis from Athens along what the Athenians call the Sacred Way you see the tomb of Anthemocritus. The Megarians committed...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Samians ...is the grave of Oenopion, about whose exploits they tell certain legends. The Samians have on the road to the Heraeum the tomb of Rhadine and Leontichus, and those...

Samians

80 26.84,37.73,0 Rhodians ...from Egypt, Mysia, and Crete were for the most part too late, and the Rhodians, whose strength lay only in their fleet, were of little help against the...

Rhodians

72 28.15629,36.41451,0 Patrae ...allowed them to found a city in their territory, and to it was given the name Patrae from Patreus. The wars of the Achaeans were as follow. In the expedition of...

Patrae

80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Achaeans ...territory, and to it was given the name Patrae from Patreus. The wars of the Achaeans were as follow. In the expedition of Agamemnon to Troy they furnished, while...

Achaeans

80 Laciadae ...Themistocles is a precinct sacred to Lacius, a hero, a parish called after him Laciadae, and the tomb of Nicocles of Tarentum, who won a unique reputation as a...

Laciadae

81 23.699604,37.993384,0 Salamis ...the naval actions fought by the Athenians with Themistocles off Euboea and at Salamis, and they are not included in the Laconian or in the Attic list of...

Salamis

80 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Achaeans ...of allies. They were absent from the action at Plataea, for otherwise the Achaeans would surely have had their name inscribed on the offering of the Greeks at...

Achaeans

77 Lacedemonians ...of Lacedemon. This became plain in course of time. For when later on the Lacedemonians began the war with the Athenians, the Achaeans were eager for the alliance with...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...but in his poems styles him "manly." When the Eleusinians fought with the Athenians, Erechtheus, king of the Athenians, was killed, as was also Immaradus, son of...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Zarax ...a Lacedemonian who came as a stranger to the land, and that after him is named Zarax, a town in the Laconian territory near the sea. If there is a native Athenian...

Zarax

81 23.088,36.787,0 Athenian ...Zarax, a town in the Laconian territory near the sea. If there is a native Athenian hero called Zarex, I have nothing to say concerning him. At Eleusis flows a...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eleusis ...not permitted to learn that which they are prevented from seeing. The hero Eleusis, after whom the city is named, some assert to be a son of Hermes and of Daeira...

Eleusis

77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Phocis ...the Romans in certain of his acts. Hestiaea in Euboea and Anticyra in Phocis, which had been compelled to submit to Philip, he utterly destroyed. It was, I...

Phocis

72 22.25,38.25,0 Eleutherae ...to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which borders on Attica. Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary on the side towards Attica, but when it came over to the...

Eleutherae

78 23.37572,38.17934,0 Achaeans ...most by the following plot. They persuaded to go up to Rome the exiles of the Achaeans, along with the Messenians who had been held to be involved in the death of...

Achaeans

80 Megaris ...things that deserve to be recorded. Next to Eleusis is the district called Megaris. This too belonged to Athens in ancient times, Pylas the king having left it to...

Megaris

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athens ...the Athenian people were the cause of Macedonian garrisons being brought into Athens and most other cities. My statement is confirmed by the following fact. The...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Achaeans ...Achaeans, distributed them throughout Etruria and its cities, and though the Achaeans sent embassy after embassy to plead on behalf of the men, no notice was taken...

Achaeans

79 Athenians ...Dorycleans, reached the colonists in Salamis and betrayed the island to the Athenians. After the precinct of Zeus, when you have ascended the citadel, which even at...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...If in the future the Oropians should have any complaint to make against the Athenians, then the Athenians were to withdraw their garrison from Oropus and give the...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Euboea ...remain fresh throughout all the year. At this place the Euripus separates Euboea from Boeotia. On the right is the sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter, and a...

Euboea

77 Eretrian ...a lamb on his shoulders. Hermes Champion is said, on the occasion when an Eretrian fleet put into Tanagra from Euboea, to have led out the youths to the battle...

Eretrian

77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Aeolians ...she used, for she composed, not in Doric speech like Pindar, but in one Aeolians would understand, and partly to her being, if one may judge from the likeness...

Aeolians

74 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Boeotian ...of the Euripus is Mount Messapion, at the foot of which on the coast is the Boeotian city of Anthedon. Some say that the city received its name from a nymph called...

Boeotian

78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotian ...but in the Carian speech. On crossing Mount Ptous you come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the coast, said to have been named after Larymna, the daughter of...

Boeotian

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Copae ...eels there are of great size and very pleasant to the palate. On the left of Copae about twelve stades from it is Olmones, and some seven stades distant from...

Copae

80 23.160772,38.493128,0 Thebes ...when Alexander after his victory wasted with fire all the Thebaid, including Thebes itself, some men from Macedonia entered the sanctuary of the Cabeiri, as it was...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Macedonia ...wasted with fire all the Thebaid, including Thebes itself, some men from Macedonia entered the sanctuary of the Cabeiri, as it was in enemy territory, and were...

Macedonia

75 21.75,41.25,0 Hellespont ...god I do not know. He is worshipped equally by the people of Parium on the Hellespont, who were originally colonists from Erythrae in Ionia, but today are subject to...

Hellespont

77 26.4,40.2,0 Tyre ...of the Idaean Dactyls, to whom I found the people of Erythrae in Ionia and of Tyre possessed sanctuaries. Nevertheless, the Boeotians were not unacquainted with...

Tyre

80 35.209358,33.268071,0 Oeta ...the seventh day after the battle a regiment of Gauls attempted to go up to Oeta by way of Heracleia. Here too a narrow path rises just past the ruins of...

Oeta

77 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Oeta ...Trachinian territory, and in it were votive offerings. So they hoped to ascend Oeta by this path and at the same time to get possession of the offerings in the...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Aetolians ...been joined by the army under Acichorius only on the previous night. For the Aetolians had delayed their march, hurling at them a merciless shower of javelins and...

Aetolians

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Aeolians ...sages. These were: from Ionia, Thales of Miletus and Bias of Priene; of the Aeolians in Lesbos, Pittacus of Mitylene; of the Dorians in Asia, Cleobulus of Lindus...

Aeolians

78 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Trojan ...about Aethra, and to be saying what he had been told to say by Agamemnon. The Trojan women are represented as already captives and lamenting. Andromache is in the...

Trojan

81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lycia ...Hecuba, Stesichorus says in the Sack of Troy that she was brought by Apollo to Lycia. Lescheos says that Axion was a son of Priam, killed by Eurypylus, the son of...

Lycia

81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Eresus ...There is also in the painting another corpse, that of Eresus. The tale of Eresus and Laomedon, so far as we know, no poet has sung. There is the house of...

Eresus

76 26.489422,39.05495,0 Acheron ...depicted are as follow. There is water like a river, clearly intended for Acheron, with reeds growing in it; the forms of the fishes appear so dim that you will...

Acheron

76 20.4831346,39.2348296,0 Paros ...they say that she was the first to bring the orgies of Demeter to Thasos from Paros. On the bank of Acheron there is a notable group under the boat of Charon...

Paros

80 25.150728,37.08579,0 Miletus ...of Cameiro and Clytie. I must tell you that Pandareos was a Milesian from Miletus in Crete, and implicated in the theft of Tantalus and in the trick of the...

Miletus

76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Crete ...and Clytie. I must tell you that Pandareos was a Milesian from Miletus in Crete, and implicated in the theft of Tantalus and in the trick of the oath. After...

Crete

76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Susa ...of the Ethiopian nation. He came to Troy, however, not from Ethiopia, but from Susa in Persia and from the river Choaspes, having subdued all the peoples that...

Susa

81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Phrygians ...having subdued all the peoples that lived between these and Troy. The Phrygians still point out the road through which he led his army, picking out the...

Phrygians

72 27.75,40.25,0 Nomia ...lying on Nomia's knees. I have already mentioned that the Arcadians say that Nomia is a nymph native to their country. The poets say that the nymphs live for a...

Nomia

79 21.9847,37.40493,0 Arcadia ...Pencelas, and those who came to this land originally from the Azanians in Arcadia, show visitors a cave called Steunos, which is round, and handsome in its...

Arcadia

76 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Parapotamii ...the cities that King Xerxes burnt in Phocis, includes among them the city of Parapotamii. However, Parapotamii was not restored by the Athenians and Boeotians, but the...

Parapotamii

79 22.806,38.554,0 Amphicleia ...their decree for the destruction of the cities in Phocis, gave it the name of Amphicleia. The natives tell about it the following story. A certain chief, suspecting...

Amphicleia

80 22.5813,38.6424,0 Amphicleia ...to the shrine, nor have they any image that can be seen. The people of Amphicleia say that this god is their prophet and their helper in disease. The diseases of...

Amphicleia

73 22.5813,38.6424,0 Athens ...armed as for battle, and on the shield is wrought in relief a copy of what at Athens is wrought on the shield of her whom the Athenians call the Virgin. To reach...

Athens

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Abae ...are made of bronze, and all alike are standing, Apollo, Leto and Artemis. At Abae there is a theater, and also a market-place, both of ancient...

Abae

79 22.9154,38.58006,0 Panopeus ...and fatter than other cattle. The straight road to Delphi that leads through Panopeus and past Daulis and the Cleft Way, is not the only pass from Chaeroneia to...

Panopeus

80 22.79418,38.49551,0 Anticyra ...lies on high ground, and it is passed by travellers crossing by sea from Anticyra to Lechaeum in Corinthian territory. More than half its inhabitants are fishers...

Anticyra

75 22.626059,38.375439,0 Cirrhaeans ...water held enough of the drug he diverted it back again into its channel. The Cirrhaeans drank without stint of the water, and those on the wall, seized with obstinate...

Cirrhaeans

80 22.450621,38.428937,0 Greece ...But my narrative must not loiter, as my task is a general description of all Greece. Endoeus was an Athenian by birth and a pupil of Daedalus, who also, when...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 tomb ...that not even the emperor Hadrian could make more prosperous. After the tombstone of Anthemocritus comes the grave of Molottus, who was deemed worthy of...

tomb

75 Egypt ...back the stronger, so that Antiochus never had an opportunity of attacking Egypt. I have already stated how this Ptolemy sent a fleet to help the Athenians...

Egypt

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...When the Macedonians attacked him, Pyrrhus went to Ptolemy, son of Lagus, in Egypt. Ptolemy gave him to wife the half-sister of his children, and restored him by...

Egypt

79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syria ...death of Perdiccas immediately raised Ptolemy to power, who both reduced the Syrians and Phoenicia, and also welcomed Seleucus, son of Antiochus, who was in...

Syria

79 37.5,37.5,0 Trojan ...and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae. After the conclusion of the Trojan war and the death of Nestor after his return home, the Dorian expedition and...

Trojan

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Messenia ...which took place two generations later, drove the descendants of Nestor from Messenia. This has already formed a part of my account of Tisamenus. I will only add the...

Messenia

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Iolcos ...suspicion which they felt for their rulers, as the Neleidae were originally of Iolcos. Cresphontes took to wife Merope the daughter of Cypselus, then king of the...

Iolcos

81 22.96886,39.366305,0 Messene ...to sacrifice to Machaon the son of Asclepius in Gerenia, and to assign to Messene, the daughter of Triopas, the honors customarily paid to heroes. Isthmius the...

Messene

76 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lacedemonians ...(of the Lake) on the frontier of Messenian, in which the Messenians and the Lacedemonians alone of the Dorians shared. According to the Lacedemonians their maidens...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messene ...say that a plot was formed by Teleclus against persons of the highest rank in Messene who had come to the sanctuary, his incentive being the excellence of the...

Messene

80 21.920439,37.175491,0 Ampheia ...won the land of Messenia by the sword. After taking this oath, they attacked Ampheia by night, appointing Alcamenes the son of Teleclus leader of the force. Ampheia...

Ampheia

80 22.075138,37.264193,0 Messenian ...his statements seeming to lack truth and credibility, and particularly in this Messenian history. For he has made Aristomenes kill Theopompus, the king of the...

Messenian

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...war had already been decided thereby, or to be afraid of the power of the Lacedemonians as superior to their own. For the Lacedemonians had longer practice in warfare...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Epeans ...throne; Epeius won, and obtained the kingdom, and his subjects were then named Epeans for the first time. Of his brothers they say that Aetolus remained at home...

Epeans

81 21.784671,37.56585,0 Arcadia ...him of unintentional homicide. For Apis, the son of Jason, from Pallantium in Arcadia, was run over and killed by the chariot of Aetolus at the games held in honor...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Epeans ...was Eleius who gave the inhabitants their present name of Eleans in place of Epeans. Eleius had a son Augeas. Those who exaggerate his glory give a turn to the...

Epeans

79 21.784671,37.56585,0 Thessalian ...Amarynceus, besides being a good soldier, had a father, Pyttius, of Thessalian descent, who came from Thessaly to Elis. To Amarynceus, therefore, Augeas also...

Thessalian

71 21.75,39.25,0 Olympia ...of them Cypselus, the tyrant of Corinth, dedicated to Zeus a golden image at Olympia. As Cypselus died before inscribing his own name on the offering, the...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Corinthians ...proclaimed that they must keep away from the Isthmian games. But how could the Corinthians themselves take part in the Olympic games if the Eleans against their will were...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...in the Olympic games if the Eleans against their will were shut out by the Corinthians from the Isthmian games? The other account is this. Prolaus, a distinguished...

Corinthians

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Olympia ...a man of Elis, won victories in the pentathlum at the Greek games, and at Olympia there is even a statue of him, with an elegiac inscription giving the crowns he...

Olympia

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Elis ...Phyleus had returned to Dulichium after organizing the affairs of Elis, Augeas died at an advanced age, and the kingdom of Elis devolved on...

Elis

68 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...the affairs of Elis, Augeas died at an advanced age, and the kingdom of Elis devolved on Agasthenes, the son of Augeas, and on Amphimachus and Thalpius. For...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Arcadia ...be no longer willing to give it to him. He accordingly led the Dorians through Arcadia and not through Elis. Oxylus was anxious to get the kingdom of Elis without a...

Arcadia

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delphi ...larger and generally more prosperous. There also came to him an oracle from Delphi, that he should bring in as co-founder "the descendant of Pelops." Oxylus made...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...war was concluded by the treaty I have already spoken of in my account of the Lacedemonians. 9 When Philip the son of Amyntas would not let Greece alone, the Eleans...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lepreus ...by the herald as Eleans from Lepreus, and Aristophanes in a comedy calls Lepreus a town of the Eleans. Leaving the river Anigrus on the left there is a road...

Lepreus

75 21.724777,37.439599,0 Lacedemonians ...name was Xenarces the son of Philandrides. Now after the Persian invasion the Lacedemonians became keener breeders of horses than any other Greeks. For beside those I have...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...Lichas his son. Xenarces succeeded in winning other victories, at Delphi, at Argos and at Corinth. Lycinus brought foals to Olympia, and when one of them was...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Theban ...records of Olympic victors give as the name of the victor, not Lichas, but the Theban people. Near Lichas stands an Elean diviner, Thrasybulus, son of Aeneas of the...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Lepreus ...history of Achaia. The statue of Antiochus was made by Nicodamus. A native of Lepreus, Antiochus won once at Olympia the pancratium for men, and the pentathlum twice...

Lepreus

81 21.724777,37.439599,0 Isthmian ...Isthmian games and twice at the Nemean. For the Lepreans are not afraid of the Isthmian games as the Eleans themselves are. For example, Hysmon of Elis, whose statue...

Isthmian

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Isthmian ...Dicon, the son of Callibrotus, won five footraces at Pytho, three at the Isthmian games, four at Nemea, one at Olympia in the race for boys besides two in the...

Isthmian

75 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Messene ...was made by a sculptor of the same name, a native, not of Sicyon, but of Messene beneath Ithome. A statue of Lysander, son of Aristocritus, a Spartan, was...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Olympia ...inscription at Olympia: "In wrestling only I alone conquered twice the men at Olympia and at Pytho, Thrice at Nemea, and four times at the Isthmus near the sea...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Assos ...influence with Antipater and at an earlier date with Alexander. Sodamas from Assos in the Troad, a city at the foot of Ida, was the first of the Aeolians in this...

Assos

79 26.337061,39.490601,0 Arcadians ...Polydamas met his end. Beside the statue of Polydamas at Olympia stand two Arcadians and one Attic athlete. The statue of the Mantinean, Protolaus the son of...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Megara ...Megarian Callicles, the son of the Theocosmus who made the image of Zeus at Megara. The sons too of the daughters of Diagoras practised boxing and won Olympic...

Megara

78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Lacedemonians ...by some Lacedemonians he was brought to Sparta, convicted of treachery by the Lacedemonians and sentenced to death. If Androtion tells the truth, he appears to me to wish...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...to be a spectator of his son's performance, and thereupon brought him to Olympia to box. There Glaucus, inexperienced in boxing, was wounded by his antagonists...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Pythian ...her instructions the wrath of the gods still abode with them. Whereupon the Pythian priestess replied to them: "But you have forgotten your great Theagenes." And...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thasians ...catch of fish caught the statue in their net and brought it back to land. The Thasians set it up in its original position, and are wont to sacrifice to him as to a...

Thasians

80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Olympia ...and won twelve victories for running. Not far from the slab of Chionis at Olympia stands Scaeus, the son of Duris, a Samian, victor in the boys' boxing-match...

Olympia

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Corinthians ...he had the same number of victories at Pytho, but at this time neither the Corinthians nor the Argives kept complete records of the victors at Nemea and the...

Corinthians

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...the race for four-horse chariots; the statue of Agathinus was dedicated by the Achaeans of Pellene. The Athenian people dedicated a statue of Aristophon, the son of...

Achaeans

81 Crotona ...statue of Milo the son of Diotimus was made by Dameas, also a native of Crotona. Milo won six victories for wrestling at Olympia, one of them among the boys...

Crotona

74 17.205128,39.028864,0 Achaeans ...inscription on the statue of Pantarces of Elis states that it was dedicated by Achaeans, because he made peace between them and the Eleans, and procured the release of...

Achaeans

81 Ionians ...by Caprus he tackled the boxers with sturdy spirit and unwearied vigor. The Ionians of Erythrae dedicated a statue of Epitherses, son of Metrodorus, who won two...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Cephallenians ...despot of Syracuse. The Paleans, who form one of the four divisions of the Cephallenians, dedicated a statue of Timoptolis, an Elean, the son of Lampis. These Paleans...

Cephallenians

78 20.59,38.2,0 Spartan ...may be sure, of the Byzantines. At the thirty-eighth Festival Eutelidas the Spartan won two victories among the boys, one for wrestling and one for the pentathlum...

Spartan

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympic ...by mankind. They say that Gorgias won great renown for his eloquence at the Olympic assembly, and also when he accompanied Tisias on an embassy to Athens. Yet...

Olympic

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Peloponnesus ...on, Antigonus, having recovered the Macedonian cities, hastened to the Peloponnesus being well aware that if Pyrrhus were to reduce Lacedemon and the greater part...

Peloponnesus

73 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Thessaly ...Gorgias surpassed his fame at Athens; indeed Jason, the tyrant of Thessaly, placed him before Polycrates, who was a shining light of the Athenian school...

Thessaly

68 21.75,39.25,0 portico ...island of Sphacteria. Here are placed bronze statues, one, in front of the portico, of Solon, who composed the laws for the Athenians, and, a little farther away...

portico

78 Cretans ...bribed to do so by the Ephesian people. For this act he was banished by the Cretans. The first athletes to have their statues dedicated at Olympia were Praxidamas...

Cretans

78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Opuntian ...of Aegina, victorious at boxing at the fifty-ninth Festival, and Rexibius the Opuntian, a successful pancratiast at the sixty-first Festival. These statues stand near...

Opuntian

80 22.75,38.75,0 Chersonesus ...in old Attic characters: "To Olympian Zeus was I dedicated by the men of Chersonesus After they had taken the fortress of Aratus. Their leader was Miltiades." There...

Chersonesus

75 26.5,40.33333,0 Greeks ...is a Sauromatic breast plate. On seeing this a man will say that no less than Greeks are foreigners skilled in the arts. For the Sauromatae have no iron, neither...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Sicily ...of the Libyans of Cyrene. In it stand statues of Roman emperors. Selinus in Sicily was destroyed by the Carthaginians in a war, but before the disaster befell...

Sicily

78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Carthaginians ...In it stand statues of Roman emperors. Selinus in Sicily was destroyed by the Carthaginians in a war, but before the disaster befell them the citizens made a treasury...

Carthaginians

80 10.327986,36.857569,0 Megarians ...the treasury from spoils taken from the Corinthians. I think that the Megarians won this victory when Phorbas, who held a life office, was archon at Athens. At...

Megarians

72 15.18273,37.2038,0 Olympia ...helped the Megarians in the engagement with the Corinthians. The treasury at Olympia was made by the Megarians years after the battle, but it is to be supposed that...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonian ...that they had the offerings from of old, seeing that they were made by the Lacedemonian Dontas, a pupil of Dipoenus and Scyllis. The last of the treasuries is right...

Lacedemonian

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cronius ...equinox, in the month called Elaphius among the Eleans. At the foot of Mount Cronius, on the north . . . ,48 between the treasuries and the mountain, is a sanctuary...

Cronius

80 Elis ...him Olenius, and say that after him was named the Olenian rock in the land of Elis. Others say that Dameon, son of Phlius, who took part in the expedition of...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Greeks ...themselves, and overran Thessaly. And when they drew near to Thermopylae, the Greeks in general made no move to prevent the inroad of the barbarians, since...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 Athenian ...Maid and of Demeter new ones of Pentelic marble were dedicated by Herodes the Athenian. In the gymnasium at Olympia it is customary for pentathletes and runners to...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Leucyanias ...far from it is a sanctuary of Dionysus Leucyanites, whereby flows a river Leucyanias. This river too is a tributary of the Alpheius; it descends from Mount Pholoe...

Leucyanias

76 21.75,37.75,0 Alpheius ...is a tributary of the Alpheius; it descends from Mount Pholoe. Crossing the Alpheius after it you will be within the land of Pisa. In this district is a hill...

Alpheius

78 21.451667,37.6125,0 Egyptians ...a large army, hoping, if the island were won, to use it as a base against the Egyptians. But the Rhodians displayed daring and ingenuity in the face of the besiegers...

Egyptians

80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Elis ...Damophon as king, the people of Pisa of their own accord made war against Elis, and were joined in their revolt from the Eleans by the people of Macistus and...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...own accord made war against Elis, and were joined in their revolt from the Eleans by the people of Macistus and Scillus, which are in Triphylia, and by the...

Eleans

77 21.25,37.75,0 Olympia ...Pylus in the land of' Elis the ruins are to be seen on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, the distance between Elis and Pylus being eighty stades. This Pylus...

Olympia

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Ladon ...the city was doomed in time to be without inhabitants. Beside it the river Ladon flows into the Peneius. The Eleans declare that there is a reference to this...

Ladon

77 21.75,37.75,0 Alpheius ...and smeared with mud her own face and the faces of the nymphs with her. So Alpheius, when he joined the throng, could not distinguish Artemis from the others, and...

Alpheius

77 21.451667,37.6125,0 Messenians ...who kept his cattle not far from the Neda, saw the wife of one of the Messenians, who had their dwellings outside the wall, as she came to draw water. Falling...

Messenians

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...was he who devised the following plan. The Lacedemonians far outnumbered the Messenians, but as the battle was not being fought on open ground with troops in line, but...

Messenians

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...before evening to relieve their own men who were to remain on duty. The Lacedemonians, by resting and fighting by turns, held out the longer, but the Messenians were...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadians ...by age or lack of funds for journeying abroad. These remained here with the Arcadians. Eira was taken, and the second war between the Lacedemonians and Messenians...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sardinia ...bade them forget Messene and their hatred of the Lacedemonians, and sail to Sardinia and win an island which was of the largest extent and greatest...

Sardinia

78 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Zanclaeans ...Anaxilas, however, advised the Messenians to put to death the suppliant Zanclaeans and to enslave the rest together with the women and children. But Gorgus and...

Zanclaeans

74 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Athenians ...as a result of this suspicion to have soon dismissed them from Ithome. The Athenians, realizing the feelings of the Lacedemonians towards them, made friends...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenians ...and their wives and children enslaved, elected to withdraw on terms. The Messenians held the town and occupied the country for about a year. In the following year...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...went to the support of their harassed troops at this point and checked the Messenians, overwhelming them by numbers. The Messenians, beaten back and again...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Acarnanians ...will. The battle was evenly contested until evening, but when at nightfall the Acarnanians received reinforcements from their cities, the blockade of the Messenians was...

Acarnanians

81 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Greece ...the Romans in battle. So Pyrrhus was the first to cross the Ionian Sea from Greece to attack the Romans. And even he crossed on the invitation of the Tarentines...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Messenians ...Lacedemonians, nor could he discover where in the land to build it. For the Messenians refused to settle again in Andania and Oechalia, because their disasters had...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Thebans ...victims being provided by the Arcadians, Epaminondas himself and the Thebans then sacrificed to Dionysus and Apollo Ismenius in the accustomed manner, the...

Thebans

71 23.255096,38.318092,0 Messene ...were brought into keen competition. The city itself was given the name Messene, but they founded other towns. The men of Nauplia were not disturbed at...

Messene

73 21.920439,37.175491,0 Messenians ...even this was not for more than two generations. But the wanderings of the Messenians outside the Peloponnese lasted almost three hundred years, during which it is...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Persians ...victory, but his followers were insufficient for the entire destruction of the Persians; the achievement of Demosthenes and the Athenians on the island of Sphacteria...

Persians

81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedemonians ...in an attack on Laconia, but promised to render assistance in person if the Lacedemonians began war and invaded Messenia. Finally the Messenians formed an alliance with...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 city ...was chosen the Athenian Leosthenes, both because of the fame of his city and also because he had the reputation of being an experienced soldier. He had...

city

70 Argives ...league the policy of the Achaeans was hostile to the Lacedemonians. For the Argives and the Arcadian group formed not the smallest element in the league. However...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Asia ...by the fall of Lysimachus, he entrusted to his son Antiochus all his empire in Asia, and himself proceeded rapidly towards Macedonia, having with him an army both...

Asia

81 27.5,37.5,0 Messenian ...to the battle which they fought at the Great Trench, as it is called. The Messenian, Aristomenes, on whose account I have made my whole mention of Rhianus and...

Messenian

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Egypt ...and had children by her, and when his end drew near he left the kingdom of Egypt to Ptolemy (from whom the Athenians name their tribe) being the son of Berenice...

Egypt

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Taygetos ...Messenians also ravaged the Laconian coast and all the cultivated land round Taygetos. Three years after the capture of Ampheia, being eager to put to use the...

Taygetos

79 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Messenians ...and Polydorus the son of Alcamenes, Alcamenes being no longer alive. The Messenians encamped opposite them, and when the Spartans endeavored to join battle, went...

Messenians

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...Aegeus the son of Oeolycus, son of Theras, son of Autesion. On the side of the Messenians Antander and Euphaes were posted opposite the Lacedemonian right; the other...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...did not pursue the Messenians when they gave way, nor Euphaes' men the Lacedemonians. It seemed better to him and his men to support the defeated wing; they did...

Lacedemonians

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenians ...this declaration, Lyciscus took the girl away and deserted to Sparta. The Messenians were in despair when they saw that Lyciscus had fled; thereupon Aristodemus, a...

Messenians

77 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...after the escape of Lyciscus from Ithome, the victims being auspicious, the Lacedemonians marched against Ithome. The Cretans were no longer with them. The allies of the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...But, as the enemy with their light equipment drew off without difficulty, the Lacedemonians were filled with perplexity and, as a consequence, with anger. Men are apt to...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Ithome ...failed. They imitated that deed of Odysseus at Troy, and sent a hundred men to Ithome to observe what the enemy were planning, but pretending to be deserters. A...

Ithome

81 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Lacedemonians ...Lacedemonians were new, but their tricks old. Failing in their attempt, the Lacedemonians next attempted to break up the Messenian alliance. But when repulsed by the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argos ...by the Arcadians, to whom their ambassadors came first, they put off going to Argos. Aristodemus, hearing of the Lacedemonian intrigues, also sent men to enquire...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...was like to reveal it and bring it to fulfillment. Other things befell the Messenians at that time: while Lyciscus was living abroad in Sparta, death overtook the...

Messenians

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...those who disobeyed. As to the wanton punishments which they inflicted on the Messenians, this is what is said in Tyrtaeus' poems: "Like asses worn by their great...

Messenians

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...expectation (for now the hatred which the Argives and Arcadians felt for the Lacedemonians had blazed up openly), they revolted in the thirty-ninth year after the capture...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Stenyclerus ...over him, singing also a song which is sung to this day: "To the middle of Stenyclerus' plain and to the hilltop Aristomenes followed after the Lacedemonians...

Stenyclerus

77 21.75,37.25,0 shrines of gods ...as had some title to fame, both men and women. One of the porticoes contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes. In it is the house of Poulytion, at...

shrines of gods

80 temple of Athena Sciras ...already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown, and...

temple of Athena Sciras

78 Helice ...Tisamenus was killed, the Ionians were overcome by the Achaeans, fled to Helice, where they were besieged, and afterwards were allowed to depart under a truce...

Helice

75 22.14015,38.22257,0 Ephesus ...and Ephesus, who is thought to have been a son of the river Cayster, and from Ephesus the city received its name. The inhabitants of the land were partly Leleges, a...

Ephesus

80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Myus ...of the gods and their other movables, and on my visit I found nothing in Myus except a white marble temple of Dionysus. A similar fate to that of Myus...

Myus

75 27.42788,37.59716,0 Colophon ...Myus happened to the people of Atarneus, under Mount Pergamus. The people of Colophon suppose that the sanctuary at Clarus, and the oracle, were founded in the...

Colophon

80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Colophon ...the Ionians. The grave of Andraemon is on the left of the road as you go from Colophon, when you have crossed the river Calaon. Teos used to be inhabited by Minyans...

Colophon

80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Teos ...of the road as you go from Colophon, when you have crossed the river Calaon. Teos used to be inhabited by Minyans of Orchomenus, who came to it with Athamas...

Teos

80 26.785014,38.177262,0 Bithynia ...was a portrait of Nicomedes, king of Bithynia. After him the greatest city in Bithynia was renamed Nicomedeia; before him it was called Astacus, and its first founder...

Bithynia

80 31.501635083333333,41.01972391666666,0 Astacus ...the greatest city in Bithynia was renamed Nicomedeia; before him it was called Astacus, and its first founder was Zypoetes, a Thracian by birth to judge from his...

Astacus

81 29.928794,40.714558,0 Pergamus ...ash of the thighs of the victims sacrificed to Zeus, as is also the altar at Pergamus. There is an ashen altar of Samian Hera not a bit grander than what in Attica...

Pergamus

79 27.184167,39.1325,0 Thesprotia ...I think, simply and solely because Heracles brought it into Greece from Thesprotia. And it is my opinion that when Heracles sacrificed to Zeus at Olympia he...

Thesprotia

74 20.25,39.75,0 Maeander ...of plants and trees. Tamarisks grow best and in the greatest numbers by the Maeander; the Boeotian Asopus can produce the tallest reeds; the persea tree flourishes...

Maeander

78 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Sicyonians ...is made out to be the youngest child of Zeus. Near the treasury of the Sicyonians is an altar of Heracles, either one of the Curetes or the son of Alcmena, for...

Sicyonians

73 22.71135,37.98336,0 Pythian ...and before what is called the Front Seats stands an altar of Apollo surnamed Pythian, and after it one of Dionysus. The last altar is said to be not old, and to...

Pythian

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleans ...altar of Artemis stands on the right as you return from the Portico that the Eleans call the Portico of Agnaptus, giving to the building the name of its...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...from each. Whatever ritual it is the duty of either the Sixteen Women or the Elean umpires to perform, they do not perform before they have purified themselves...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonian ...of Themis, as being mother of the Seasons. It is the work of Dorycleidas, a Lacedemonian by birth and a disciple of Dipoenus and Scyllis. The Hesperides, five in...

Lacedemonian

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympian ...On these images too are inscriptions; one says that the Rhodians paid money to Olympian Zeus for the wrongdoing of a wrestler; the other that certain men wrestled for...

Olympian

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cyclades ...him from the games. For his excuse, that he had been kept back among the Cyclades islands by contrary winds, was proved to be an untruth by Heracleides, himself...

Cyclades

75 25.139512376923083,37.0415464153846,0 Locrians ...mountains. When the Greek fleet was scattered on the voyage home from Troy, Locrians from Thronium, a city on the river Boagrius, and Abantes from Euboea, with...

Locrians

79 22.75,38.75,0 Ceos ...the Plataeans alone of the Boeotians, the Argives of Mycenae, the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the Tenians and the...

Ceos

81 24.35666,37.6217,0 Tenians ...the islanders of Ceos and Melos, Ambraciots of the Thesprotian mainland, the Tenians and the Lepreans, who were the only people from Triphylia, but from the Aegean...

Tenians

79 25.167742,37.577564,0 Euripus ...after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of these cities the following are at the present day uninhabited: Mycenae and...

Euripus

80 23.58944,38.46276,0 Olympia ...from Potidaea to Cassandreia after the name of its founder. The image at Olympia dedicated by the Greeks was made by Anaxagoras of Aegina. The name of this...

Olympia

75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Sicily ...which is said to be an offering of the Hyblaeans. There were two cities in Sicily called Hybla, one surnamed Gereatis and the other Greater, it being in fact the...

Sicily

77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Lacedemonians ...facing the rising of the sun, twelve feet high and dedicated, they say, by the Lacedemonians, when they entered on a war with the Messenians after their second revolt. On...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lechaeum ...poem called The Great Eoeae Peirene is said to be a daughter of Oebalus. In Lechaeum are a sanctuary and a bronze image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from...

Lechaeum

78 22.88807,37.93277,0 sanctuary ...nevertheless distinguished by a kind of inspiration. Above the theater is a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed in the Latin tongue Capitolinus, which might be rendered into...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...being of Serapis called "in Canopus." After these are altars to Helius, and a sanctuary of Necessity and Force, into which it is not customary to enter. Above it are...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...to what was then the citadel, and the place that they reached first is the sanctuary of Persuasion. Conformable with this story is the ceremony they perform at the...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...of the enclosure here they name Paedize; in the middle of the enclosure is the sanctuary, and in it is an old wooden figure carved by Laphaes the Phliasian. I will now...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...Hera after it by Adrastus. I found no images remaining in either. Behind the sanctuary of Hera he built an altar to Pan, and one to Helius (Sun) made of white...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...the son of Machaon, the son of Asclepius, came to Sicyonia and built the sanctuary of Asclepius at Titane. The neighbors are chiefly servants of the god, and...

sanctuary

75 sanctuary ...it. Farther on from the Omphalos they have an old sanctuary of Dionysus, a sanctuary of Apollo, and one of Isis. The image of Dionysus is visible to all, and so...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...one or other of these two accounts for the name of the city. Here there is a sanctuary of Athena, and the image is a work of Scyllis and Dipoenus. Some hold them to...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...priestesses use it in purifications and for such sacrifices as are secret. The sanctuary itself is on a lower part of Euboea. Euboea is the name they give to the hill...

sanctuary

81 sanctuary ...and taking in it their mother to the sanctuary of Hera. Opposite them is a sanctuary of Nemean Zeus, and an upright bronze statue of the god made by Lysippus. Going...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...others, who had fled to the grove of Argus, also perished. At first they left sanctuary under an agreement, which was treacherously broken, and the survivors, when...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...overthrown. The temple of Hera Anthea (Flowery) is on the right of the sanctuary of Leto, and before it is a grave of women. They were killed in a battle...

sanctuary

74 sanctuary ...burning torches in honor of the Maid who is daughter of Demeter. Here is a sanctuary of Poseidon, surnamed Prosclystius (Flooder), for they say that Poseidon...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...in asserting that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus. Over against the sanctuary of Eilethyia is a temple of Hecate, and the image is a work of Scopas. This one...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...like the others came from Epidaurus. From the one at Cyrene was founded the sanctuary of Asclepius at Lebene, in Crete. There is this difference between the...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...figure of Artemis one might take to be the goddess hunting. There is also a sanctuary of Aphrodite, while the one at the harbor, on a height that juts out into the...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...for the sanctuary of Zeus, has, I found, nothing else worthy of mention. This sanctuary, they say, was made for Zeus by Aeacus. The story of Auxesia and Damia, how the...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...the holy, and Taenarum swept by the high winds." At any rate, there is a holy sanctuary of Poseidon here, and it is served by a maiden priestess until she reaches an...

sanctuary

80 sanctuary ...flows into it is Leimon (Meadow). The object most worthy of mention is a sanctuary of Demeter on Pron. This sanctuary is said by the Hermionians to have been...

sanctuary

76 sanctuary ...cow to the temple, some loose her from the ropes that she may rush into the sanctuary, others, who hitherto have been holding the doors open, when they see the cow...

sanctuary

78 sanctuary ...is twenty stades distant from here. There is here a sanctuary of Apollo, a sanctuary of Poseidon, and in addition one of Demeter. The images are of white marble...

sanctuary

77 sanctuary ...say that the daughters of Danaus dedicated it, while Danaus himself made the sanctuary of Athena by the Pontinus. The mysteries of the Lernaeans were established...

sanctuary

79 sanctuary ...skirts the sea and leads to a place called Genesium . By the sea is a small sanctuary of Poseidon Genesius. Next to this is another place, called Apobathmi (Steps)...

sanctuary

78 Cenchreae ...called Tyrbe (Throng). On returning to the road that leads to Tegea you see Cenchreae on the right of what is called the Wheel. Why the place received this name they...

Cenchreae

79 22.992532,37.88239,0 Cenchreae ...from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into...

Cenchreae

81 22.992532,37.88239,0 the sea ...too, Zeus: "Zeus of the Underworld, and the august Persephonea." The god in the sea, also, is called Zeus by Aeschylus, the son of Euphorion. So whoever made the...

the sea

78 the sea ...of Aphrodite, while the one at the harbor, on a height that juts out into the sea, they say is Hera's. The Athena on the citadel, a wooden image worth seeing...

the sea

76 the sea ...salt. A bather here finds no cold water at hand, and if he dives into the sea his swim is full of danger. For wild creatures live in it, and it swarms with...

the sea

72 the sea ...On the way to Temenium from Lerna the river Phrixus empties itself into the sea, and in Temenium is built a sanctuary of Poseidon, as well as one of Aphrodite...

the sea

74 a rock ...a fight between a bull and a wolf, and with them a maiden throwing a rock at the bull. The maiden is thought to be Artemis. Danaus dedicated these, and...

a rock

69 stream ...the Asopus. I remember hearing a similar story from the Delians, that the stream which they call Inopus comes to them from the Nile. Further, there is a story...

stream

76 temple ...to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea a...

temple

80 temple ...image of Poseidon, and on the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis. In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone...

temple

77 the gate ...and at Sellasia. Their story I will relate more fully presently. By the gate they have a spring in a cave, the water of which does not rise out of the...

the gate

70 the gate ...lower parts are similar to the square Hermae. Turning away from here towards the gate called Holy you see, not far from the gate, a temple of Athena. Dedicated long...

the gate

80 Craneum ...the Greeks surname the Dog. Before the city is a grove of cypresses called Craneum. Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the...

Craneum

77 22.75,37.75,0 grove of cypresses ...Diogenes of Sinope, whom the Greeks surname the Dog. Before the city is a grove of cypresses called Craneum. Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite...

grove of cypresses

76 tombs ...tepid water, flowing from a rock into the sea. As one goes up to Corinth are tombs, and by the gate is buried Diogenes of Sinope, whom the Greeks surname the Dog...

tombs

80 tomb ...well has been built what is called the Odeum (Music Hall), beside which is the tomb of Medea's children. Their names were Mermerus and Pheres, and they are said to...

tomb

81 tomb ...it is claimed by the Lacedemonians who dwell around Amyclae. Agamemnon has his tomb, and so has Eurymedon the charioteer, while another is shared by Teledamus and...

tomb

81 tomb ...Adrastus, farther on a sanctuary of Amphiaraus, and opposite the sanctuary the tomb of Eriphyle. Next to these is a precinct of Asclepius, and after them a...

tomb

81 tomb ...when he became tyrant, pulled it down. Besides this building there is the tomb of Crotopus and a temple of Cretan Dionysus. For they say that the god, having...

tomb

76 tomb ...in this battle. For those that fell on either side was built here a common tomb, as they were fellow citizens and kinsmen. Going on from here and turning to...

tomb

77 tomb ...built a sanctuary of Poseidon, as well as one of Aphrodite; there is also the tomb of Temenus, which is worshipped by the Dorians in Argos. Fifty stades, I...

tomb

80 Thessaly ...and they, too, assert that the image of the goddess was brought from Pherae in Thessaly. But I cannot agree with them when they say that in Argos are the tombs of...

Thessaly

81 22.2,39.6,0 tomb ...is set a lioness holding a ram in her fore-paws. There is in Thessaly another tomb which claims to be that of Lais, for she went to that country also when she...

tomb

81 she ...Hycara in Sicily. Taken captive while yet a girl by Nicias and the Athenians, she was sold and brought to Corinth, where she surpassed in beauty the courtesans...

she

80 13.180165,38.153624,0 Caesar ...the Romans in the field, and it is said that it was afterwards refounded by Caesar, who was the author of the present constitution of Rome. Carthage, too, they...

Caesar

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 this place ...by the shore at the time of my visit, and there was an altar of Melicertes. At this place, they say, the boy was brought ashore by a dolphin; Sisyphus found him lying...

this place

81 Theseus ...Phaea was bred; overcoming this sow was one of the traditional achievements of Theseus. Farther on the pine still grew by the shore at the time of my visit, and there...

Theseus

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 place where ...the Isthmian games in his honor. At the beginning of the Isthmus is the place where the brigand Sinis used to take hold of pine trees and draw them down. All those...

place where

75 altar of Melicertes ...on the pine still grew by the shore at the time of my visit, and there was an altar of Melicertes. At this place, they say, the boy was brought ashore by a dolphin; Sisyphus...

altar of Melicertes

80 Phaea ...the place called Cromyon from Cromus the son of Poseidon. Here they say that Phaea was bred; overcoming this sow was one of the traditional achievements of...

Phaea

79 23.14146,37.92753,0 Epidaurus ...from Troezen to Athens, killing those whom I have enumerated and, in sacred Epidaurus, Periphetes, thought to be the son of Hephaestus, who used to fight with a...

Epidaurus

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 He ...the sea at Lechaeum. For this is what makes the region to the south mainland. He who tried to make the Peloponnesus an island gave up before digging through the...

He

80 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Corinthian Isthmus ...to be the son of Hephaestus, who used to fight with a bronze club. The Corinthian Isthmus stretches on the one hand to the sea at Cenchreae, and on the other to the sea...

Corinthian Isthmus

74 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 images of Calm ...these too are saviours of ships and of sea-faring men. The other offerings are images of Calm and of Sea, a horse like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and...

images of Calm

81 Attica ...the Amazons in battle. These must have belonged to the army that strove in Attica against Theseus and the Athenians. As you make your way to the Psiphaean Sea...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...Ianiscus, a descendant of Clytius the father-in-law of Lamedon, came from Attica and was made king, and when Ianiscus died he was succeeded by Phaestus, said to...

Attica

76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...he came to Peloponnesus, divided his kingdom among his sons, and returned to Attica; and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after...

Attica

79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Peloponnesus ...he carried off the crops and lifted the cattle. When he went to the Peloponnesus, he was accompanied by his daughter, who all along had kept hidden from her...

Peloponnesus

71 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...this, if the Lacedemonians were not engaged on some business outside the Peloponnesus, they were always trying to annex a piece of Argive territory; or if they were...

Peloponnesus

75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...was in the reign of this Tisamenus that the Heracleidae returned to the Peloponnesus; they were Temenus and Cresphontes, the sons of Aristomachus, together with the...

Peloponnesus

74 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...return of the Heracleidae disturbances took place throughout the whole of the Peloponnesus except Arcadia, so that many of the cities received additional settlers from...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...evacuated Pellene, and returned home under a truce. After his success in the Peloponnesus, Aratus thought it a shame to allow the Macedonians to hold unchallenged...

Peloponnesus

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...Aegialeus was its first and aboriginal inhabitant, that the district of the Peloponnesus still called Aegialus was named after him because he reigned over it, and that...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 this land ...the history be his) that Ephyra, the daughter of Oceanus, dwelt first in this land; that afterwards Marathon, the son of Epopeus, the son of Aloeus, the son of...

this land

75 22.878721,37.906045,0 his kingdom ...coast of Attica; that on the death of Epopeus he came to Peloponnesus, divided his kingdom among his sons, and returned to Attica; and that Asopia was renamed after...

his kingdom

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Marathon ...Ephyra, the daughter of Oceanus, dwelt first in this land; that afterwards Marathon, the son of Epopeus, the son of Aloeus, the son of Helius (Sun), fleeing from...

Marathon

77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Achaeans ...crossed into the Peloponnesus and the Achaeans met Cleomenes at Sellasia. The Achaeans were victorious, the people of Sellasia were sold into slavery, and Lacedemon...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...them at Dyme beyond Patrae, Aratus being still leader of the Achaeans, he won the victory. In fear for the Achaeans and for Sicyon itself, Aratus was...

Achaeans

63 Mummius ...the walls of such cities as were fortified. Corinth was laid waste by Mummius, who at that time commanded the Romans in the field, and it is said that it was...

Mummius

72 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Theseus ...the son of Oxyntes; for Thymoetes was the last Athenian king descended from Theseus. It is not to my purpose that I should set forth here the history of...

Theseus

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...Himera, agree with the Argives in asserting that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus. Over against the sanctuary of Eilethyia is a temple of Hecate, and the image...

Theseus

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...of Gold even then continued to flow as before. To Hippolytus, the son of Theseus, is devoted a very famous precinct, in which is a temple with an old image...

Theseus

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...(Strong). Near the rock is a sanctuary of Aphrodite Nymphia (Bridal), made by Theseus when he took Helen to wife. Outside the wall there is also a sanctuary of...

Theseus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Theseus ...to have been born. Before this place is a temple of Ares, for here also did Theseus conquer the Amazons in battle. These must have belonged to the army that strove...

Theseus

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 the shore ...of the traditional achievements of Theseus. Farther on the pine still grew by the shore at the time of my visit, and there was an altar of Melicertes. At this place...

the shore

80 the shore ...as well charms of Medea. On reaching Sicyon from Titane, as you go down to the shore you see on the left of the road a temple of Hera having now neither image nor...

the shore

78 Isthmus ...of power before Pelops came to Olympia that all the territory south of the Isthmus was called after him Apia. Apis begat Thelxion, Thelxion Aegyrus, the...

Isthmus

77 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 Isthmus ...establishing the Isthmian games in his honor. At the beginning of the Isthmus is the place where the brigand Sinis used to take hold of pine trees and draw...

Isthmus

73 22.9602226,37.9510881,0 the road from Troezen to Athens ...way in which Sinis himself was slain by Theseus. For Theseus rid of evildoers the road from Troezen to Athens, killing those whom I have enumerated and, in sacred Epidaurus, Periphetes...

the road from Troezen to Athens

80 mainland ...elder of his children, to have been killed by a lioness while hunting on the mainland opposite. Of Pheres is recorded nothing. But Cinaethon of Lacedemon, another...

mainland

79 mainland ...called Saronia. The Troezenians possess islands, one of which is near the mainland, and it is possible to wade across the channel. This was formerly called...

mainland

77 mainland ...past these you come to another headland, Colyergia, jutting out from the mainland, and after it to an island, called Tricrana (Three Heads), and a mountain...

mainland

75 Alexander ...each had received. Demosthenes, however, he never mentioned at all, although Alexander held him in bitter hatred, and he himself had a private quarrel with him. So...

Alexander

79 22.5,42.5,0 Pythian priestess ...unsuccessful project. The Cnidians began to dig through their isthmus, but the Pythian priestess stopped them. So difficult it is for man to alter by violence what Heaven has...

Pythian priestess

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 their land ...to alter by violence what Heaven has made. A legend of the Corinthians about their land is not peculiar to them, for I believe that the Athenians were the first to...

their land

80 Athenians ...their prosperity was not permanent but when the island was depopulated by the Athenians, they took up their abode at Thyrea, in Argolis, which the Lacedemonians gave...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...This Orneus begat Peteos, and Peteos begat Menestheus, who, with a body of Athenians, helped Agamemnon to destroy the kingdom of Priam. From him then did Omeae get...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...gymnasium has been built a common grave of those Argives who sailed with the Athenians to enslave Syracuse and Sicily. As you go from here along a road called Hollow...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 the land ...The Corinthians say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helius (Sun) about the land, and that Briareos arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmus...

the land

74 Athenians ...Corinthians about their land is not peculiar to them, for I believe that the Athenians were the first to relate a similar story to glorify Attica. The Corinthians say...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinthians ...quarter fell on it and destroyed it. The Sicyonians, the neighbours of the Corinthians at this part of the border, say about their own land that Aegialeus was its...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...son of Achilles burned it down. Subsequently I heard another account, that the Corinthians built the temple for Olympian Zeus, and that suddenly fire from some quarter...

Corinthians

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...joined in tearing him, living as he was, limb from limb. Afterwards, as the Corinthians say, the Pythian priestess commanded them by an oracle to discover that tree...

Corinthians

78 22.878721,37.906045,0 theater ...are far superior to those anywhere else in their splendor, and the Arcadian theater at Megalopolis is unequalled for size, what architect could seriously rival...

theater

78 theater ...it is built one side of a race-course, which not only itself holds up the theater, but also in turn uses it as a support. There are three temples close...

theater

76 two of Poseidon ...which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze. The offerings...

two of Poseidon

80 race-course ...temple of Artemis, an image of Epione, a sanctuary of Aphrodite and Themis, a race-course consisting, like most Greek race-courses, of a bank of earth, and a fountain...

race-course

80 race-course ...of Athena further inland by the side of the latter are the foundations of a race-course, in which legend says the sons of Tyndareus contended. There is also another...

race-course

78 race-course ...has belonged to Poseidon. Worth seeing here are a theater and a white-marble race-course. Within the sanctuary of the god stand on the one side portrait statues of...

race-course

80 22.99557579045801,37.91384083518715,0 bronze Tritons ...of them rising up straight. On the temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a...

bronze Tritons

76 portrait statues of athletes ...race-course. Within the sanctuary of the god stand on the one side portrait statues of athletes who have won victories at the Isthmian games, on the other side pine trees...

portrait statues of athletes

69 offerings ...of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze. The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by Herodes the Athenian, four horses, gilded...

offerings

78 precincts ...say, by Helius to Aphrodite. As you go up this Acrocorinthus you see two precincts of Isis, one if Isis surnamed Pelagian (Marine) and the other of Egyptian Isis...

precincts

75 Amphitrite ...beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. These too...

Amphitrite

79 Poseidon ...with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. These too are made of...

Poseidon

75 Aphrodite ...of the base on which the car is has been wrought a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the nymphs called Nereids. I know that there are altars...

Aphrodite

78 the enclosure ...Scopas. There is also in another place a sanctuary of Heracles. The whole of the enclosure here they name Paedize; in the middle of the enclosure is the sanctuary, and in...

the enclosure

79 the enclosure ...Heraclea. From here is a way to a sanctuary of Asclepius. On passing into the enclosure you see on the left a building with two rooms. In the outer room lies a figure...

the enclosure

77 the enclosure ...see even in the painting a crystal cup and a woman's face through it. Within the enclosure stood slabs; in my time six remained, but of old there were more. On them are...

the enclosure

79 Palaemon ...on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself. There is also what is called his Holy of Holies, and an underground...

Palaemon

81 a temple of Palaemon ...Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasus. Within the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself. There is also...

a temple of Palaemon

78 Sicilian ...says in his account of Attica that when the Athenians were preparing the Sicilian expedition a vast flock of crows swooped on Delphi, pecked this image all over...

Sicilian

75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Delphians ...had captured. Echecratides of Larisa dedicated the small Apollo, said by the Delphians to have been the very first offering to be set up. Of the non-Greeks in the...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elateia ...of iron, which were made as offerings to Dionysus. The Phocians who live at Elateia, who held their city, with the help of Olympiodorus from Athens, when besieged...

Elateia

79 22.782061,38.645635,0 Tegeans ...following strength. Lacedemonians with Leonidas not more than three hundred; Tegeans five hundred, and five hundred from Mantineia; from Orchomenus in Arcadia a...

Tegeans

79 22.429,37.464,0 Phthiotis ...that the army of the Gauls was already in the neighborhood of Magnesia and Phthiotis, they resolved to detach the cavalry and a thousand light armed troops and to...

Phthiotis

77 22.55625075,38.9967985,0 Aetolians ...no signs of improvement. But Brennus reasoned that if he could compel the Aetolians to return home to Aetolia, he would find the war against Greece prove easier...

Aetolians

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Aetolians ...them by turns, and sating their lust even on the dying and the dead. The Aetolians had been informed by messengers what disasters had befallen them, and at once...

Aetolians

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Aetolia ...at once with all speed removed their forces from Thermopylae and hastened to Aetolia, being exasperated at the sufferings of the Callians, and still more fired with...

Aetolia

79 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Trachis ...were faring as follows. There are two paths across Mount Oeta: the one above Trachis is very steep, and for the most part precipitous; the other, through the...

Trachis

79 22.78885,38.35274,0 Delphi ...the barbarians. The Phocians made a statue of Aleximachus and sent it to Delphi as an offering to Apollo. All the day the barbarians were beset by calamities...

Delphi

75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thessalians ...But after their arrival at the Spercheius, during the rest of the retreat the Thessalians and Malians kept lying in wait for them, and so took their fill of slaughter...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Athenians ...sky, just like guards of a king's court. The footstool of Zeus, called by the Athenians thranion, has golden lions and, in relief, the fight of Theseus against the...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Messenian ...who brings children to the light. The image is a work of Damophon the Messenian. Not far from Eileithyia is a precinct of Asclepius, with images of him and of...

Messenian

72 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenian ...Health. An iambic line on the pedestal says that the artist was Damophon the Messenian. In this sanctuary of Asclepius a man of Sidon entered upon an argument with...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Attica ...on learning of the death of Codrus and of the manner of it, departed from Attica, the oracle from Delphi making them despair of success in the future; but...

Attica

76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athenians ...Areopagus at the altars of the goddesses called August. On this occasion the Athenians allowed the suppliants to go away unharmed, but subsequently the magistrates...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Burians ...so that not even the ancient images were left in the sanctuaries. The only Burians to survive were those who chanced to be absent at the time, either on active...

Burians

78 22.231166,38.142006,0 Pentelic ...one of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and a third of Eileithyia. The images are of Pentelic marble, and were made by Eucleides of Athens. There is drapery for Demeter...

Pentelic

78 23.8827098,38.0814366,0 Aegeira ...stades from the Heracles that stands on the road to Bura. The coast town of Aegeira presents nothing worth recording; from the port to the upper city is twelve...

Aegeira

78 22.3782,38.12855,0 Pythian ...playing without singing; Agelaus of Tegea was crowned. At the twenty-third Pythian Festival they added a race in armour. For this Timaenetus of Phlius won the...

Pythian

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...of Ladon. Some are of opinion that the assembly of the Greeks that meets at Delphi was established by Amphictyon, the son of Deucalion, and that the delegates...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...in his history of Attica, says that originally the councillors came to Delphi from the neighboring states, that the deputies were styled Amphictions...

Delphi

73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phthiotians ...that the Magnesians moreover and the Malians, together with the Aenianians and Phthiotians, should be numbered with the Thessalians, and that all their votes, together...

Phthiotians

81 22.55625075,38.9967985,0 Spartans ...Cleitor. Behind the offerings enumerated are statues of those who, whether Spartans or Spartan allies, assisted Lysander at Aegospotami. They are these:– Aracus of...

Spartans

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...These heroes gave names, in obedience to a Delphic oracle, to tribes at Athens. Codrus however, the son of Melanthus, Theseus, and Neleus, these are not...

Athens

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Oenoe ...the victory which they and their Athenian allies won over the Lacedemonians at Oenoe in Argive territory. From spoils of the same action, it seems to me, the...

Oenoe

81 22.56036,37.608146,0 Tarentum ...bordering on the territory of Tarentum, and are works of Ageladas the Argive. Tarentum is a colony of the Lacedemonians, and its founder was Phalanthus, a Spartan. On...

Tarentum

80 17.228553,40.476034,0 Tarentines ...river, just like the city, is called Taras. Near the votive offering of the Tarentines is a treasury of the Sicyonians, but there is no treasure to be seen either...

Tarentines

79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Sicily ...his history of Sicily. He says also that they built a city on Cape Pachynum in Sicily, but were hard pressed in a war with the Elymi and Phoenicians, and driven out...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Thebans ...receive you kindly, but if not, painful to enter because of the heat. The Thebans have a treasury built from the spoils of war, and so have the Athenians...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Theban ...to commemorate a victory or to display their prosperity I do not know, but the Theban treasury was made from the spoils taken at the battle of Leuctra, and the...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenian ...The Syracusans have a treasury built from the spoils taken in the great Athenian disaster, the Potidaeans in Thrace built one to show their piety to the...

Athenian

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pellene ...which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that from the...

Pellene

78 22.5384,38.0446,0 Acheron ...the first to bring the orgies of Demeter to Thasos from Paros. On the bank of Acheron there is a notable group under the boat of Charon, consisting of a man who had...

Acheron

81 20.4831346,39.2348296,0 Mylasa ...his father than she did. Great honors are paid to Iphimedeia by the Carians in Mylasa. Higher up than the figures I have already enumerated are Perimedes and...

Mylasa

81 27.789697,37.316871,0 Boeotia ...of these women they remained friends. For Chloris came from Orchomenus in Boeotia, and the other was a daughter of Castalius from Parnassus. Other authorities...

Boeotia

76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Nomia ...Instead of a mattress, Callisto has a bearskin, and her feet are lying on Nomia's knees. I have already mentioned that the Arcadians say that Nomia is a nymph...

Nomia

76 21.9847,37.40493,0 Arcadians ...and her feet are lying on Nomia's knees. I have already mentioned that the Arcadians say that Nomia is a nymph native to their country. The poets say that the...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Athenian ...was made of the stone that is most common about Parnassus, until Herodes the Athenian rebuilt it of Pentelic marble. Such in my day the objects remaining in Delphi...

Athenian

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phrygians ...there is an image of her. Themisonium above Laodiceia is also inhabited by Phrygians. When the army of the Gauls was laying waste Ionia and the borders of Ionia...

Phrygians

78 27.75,40.25,0 Tithoreans ...that given to it in the oracles of Bacis. For Bacis called the inhabitants Tithoreans, but the account of them in Herodotus states that during the advance of the...

Tithoreans

78 22.66931,38.58344,0 Lilaea ...of Ledon the punishment to be paid for the crime of his own impiety. Lilaea is a winter day's journey distant from Delphi; we estimated the length of the...

Lilaea

72 22.50592,38.62687,0 Drymaea ...say that their founder was Naubolus, son of Phocus, son of Aeacus. At Drymaea is an ancient sanctuary of Demeter Lawgiver, with a standing image made of...

Drymaea

72 22.54128,38.70507,0 Ithome ...took it from the Locrians and gave it as a home to those who seceded to Ithome at the time of the earthquake at Lacedemon, and how, after the Athenian...

Ithome

74 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Marpessus ...river Aedoneus. Even today there remain on Trojan Ida the ruins of the city Marpessus, with some sixty inhabitants. All the land around Marpessus is reddish and...

Marpessus

79 26.520832,39.87918,0 Ida ...is reddish and terribly parched, so that the light and porous nature of Ida in this place is in my opinion the reason why the river Aedoneus sinks into the...

Ida

74 26.85852,39.69936,0 Andrians ...on which is a cloak. The Delphians say that it is an offering of the Andrians, and a portrait of Andreus, their founder. The images of Apollo, Athena, and...

Andrians

71 24.86222,37.8528,0 Phocian ...a bronze serpent. The bronze part of the offering is still preserved, but the Phocian leaders did not leave the gold as they did the bronze. The Tarentines sent yet...

Phocian

80 22.25,38.25,0 Tarentines ...but the Phocian leaders did not leave the gold as they did the bronze. The Tarentines sent yet another tithe to Delphi from spoils taken from the Peucetii, a...

Tarentines

78 17.228553,40.476034,0 Delphians ...even earlier date. Near the great altar is a bronze wolf, an offering of the Delphians themselves. They say that a fellow robbed the god of some treasure, and kept...

Delphians

80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argives ...was Prytanis, in whose reign began the enmity of the Lacedemonians against the Argives, although even before this quarrel they made war against the Cynurians. During...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Elis ...of Archidamus the Lacedemonians had several grievances against the people of Elis, being especially exasperated because they were debarred from the Olympic games...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...and to any other of their neighbors that were subject to them. The people of Elis replied that, when they saw the cities free that were neighbors of Sparta, they...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Aegospotami ...at Decelea to annoy the Athenians. When the Athenian navy was destroyed at Aegospotami, Lysander, the son of Aristocritus, and Agis violated the oaths which the...

Aegospotami

77 26.61011,40.35074,0 Lacedemonians ...tried to keep Leotychides from the throne, recalling to the minds of the Lacedemonians what Agis once said about Leotychides. But the Arcadians from Heraea arrived...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Heraea ...Lacedemonians what Agis once said about Leotychides. But the Arcadians from Heraea arrived and bore witness for Leotychides, stating what they had heard the dying...

Heraea

78 21.863791,37.613569,0 Sardes ...Agesilaus nevertheless crossed into Asia and launched an attack against Sardes for Lydia at this period was the most important district of lower Asia, and...

Sardes

74 28.040278,38.488333,0 Lydia ...nevertheless crossed into Asia and launched an attack against Sardes for Lydia at this period was the most important district of lower Asia, and Sardes...

Lydia

75 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Locrians ...Locrians and the Phocians. Egged on by Ismenias and his party at Thebes, the Locrians cut the ripe corn in this land and drove off the booty. The Phocians on their...

Locrians

79 21.75,38.25,0 Lacedemonians ...against the Thebans, and set forth what they had suffered at their hands. The Lacedemonians determined to make war against Thebes, chief among their grievances being the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hyrnethium ...of Hyrnetho and carried it to this place, which in course of time was named Hyrnethium. They built for her a hero-shrine, and bestowed upon her various honors; in...

Hyrnethium

78 Argolis ...was depopulated by the Athenians, they took up their abode at Thyrea, in Argolis, which the Lacedemonians gave them to dwell in. They recovered their island...

Argolis

75 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Halicarnassus ...Aetius, son of Anthas, were dispatched as colonists from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria. Anaphlystus and Sphettus, sons of Troezen, migrated to...

Halicarnassus

80 27.424112,37.037864,0 Boeotia ...and the legend about it does not differ from the one which prevails in Boeotia. For they, too, say that the earth sent up the water when the horse Pegasus...

Boeotia

73 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Crete ...the Epidaurians and Aeginetans, but say that they were maidens who came from Crete. A general insurrection having arisen in the city, these too, they say, were...

Crete

79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Thermasia ...Seawards, on the borders of Hermionis, is a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Thermasia (Warmth). Just about eighty stades away is a headland Scyllaeum, which is...

Thermasia

76 23.326337,37.40939,0 Megara ...of Nisus. For when, owing to her treachery, Minos had taken Nisaea and Megara, he said that now he would not have her to wife, and ordered his Cretans to...

Megara

73 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thermasia ...sacrifice to her before wedding. Sanctuaries have also been built of Demeter Thermasia (Warmth), one at the border towards Troezenia, as I have stated above, while...

Thermasia

79 23.326337,37.40939,0 Argives ...third Horius (of the Borders). The name Pythaeus they have learned from the Argives, for Telesilla tells us that they were the first Greeks to whose country came...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...by Clymenus, son of Phoroneus, and Chthonia, sister of Clymenus. But the Argive account is that when Demeter came to Argolis, while Atheras and Mysius afforded...

Argive

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Temenium ...which is worshipped by the Dorians in Argos. Fifty stades, I conjecture, from Temenium is Nauplia, which at the present day is uninhabited; its founder was Nauplius...

Temenium

81 22.737804,37.581685,0 Anigraea ...Danaus landed with his daughters. From here we pass through what is called Anigraea, along a narrow and difficult road, until we reach a tract on the left which...

Anigraea

77 22.75,37.25,0 Tegeatae ...Parnon, on which the Lacedemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and Tegeatae. On the borders stand stone figures of Hermes, from which the name of the place...

Tegeatae

80 22.429,37.464,0 Leleges ...aboriginal was the first king in this land, after whom his subjects were named Leleges. Lelex had a son Myles, and a younger one Polycaon. Polycaon retired into...

Leleges

81 26.75,39.75,0 Sparta ...to report his father was none other than Zeus. Lacedemon was wedded to Sparta, a daughter of Eurotas. When he came to the throne, he first changed the names...

Sparta

73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...long, it was after all only consistent that the Pythian priestess said to the Spartan Glaucus, the son of Epicydes, who consulted her about breaking his oath, that...

Spartan

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hermione ...of Orestes, there succeeded to the throne Tisamenus, the son of Orestes and of Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus. The mother of Penthilus, the bastard son of Orestes...

Hermione

81 23.243591,37.385218,0 Achaia ...So Tisamenus and his sons went with his army to the land that is now Achaia. To what people Peisistratus retreated I do not know, but the rest of the...

Achaia

71 Argos ...reason why Danaus founded a sanctuary of Apollo Lycius was this. On coming to Argos he claimed the kingdom against Gelanor, the son of Sthenelas. Many plausible...

Argos

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...or if they were busied with a war beyond their borders it was the turn of the Argives to retaliate. When the hatred of both sides was at its height, the Argives...

Argives

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Troy ...shown the tomb of Danaus and a cenotaph of the Argives who met their death at Troy or on the journey home. Here there is also a sanctuary of Zeus the Saviour...

Troy

80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lacedemonians ...at their battle-cry, but stood their ground and fought valiantly. Then the Lacedemonians, realizing that to destroy the women would be an invidious success while defeat...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argive ...front of the grave is a trophy of stone made to commemorate a victory over an Argive Laphaes. When this man was tyrant I write what the Argives themselves say...

Argive

80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...not to him. Now it was Hera who induced Poseidon to send the sea back, but the Argives made a sanctuary to Poseidon Prosclystius at the spot where the tide...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Deiradiotes ...the blood, becomes inspired by the god. Adjoining the temple of Apollo Deiradiotes is a sanctuary of Athena Oxyderces (Sharp-sighted), dedicated by Diomedes...

Deiradiotes

74 24.0412725,37.8241815,0 Euripus ...in Arcadia, just as the Rheiti, near the sea at Eleusis, flow from the Euripus. At the places where the Erasinus gushes forth from the mountain they sacrifice...

Euripus

73 23.58944,38.46276,0 Orneae ...from Argos to Lyrcea is about sixty stades, and the distance from Lyrcea to Orneae is the same. Homer in the Catalogue makes no mention of the city Lyrcea...

Orneae

78 22.557292,37.713973,0 Arachnaeus ...wooden image exactly like the one on the citadel Larisa. Above Lessa is Mount Arachnaeus, which long ago, in the time of Inachus, was named Sapyselaton. On it are...

Arachnaeus

80 22.9705599,37.6413788,0 Epidaurus ...of Epidaurus was Argus, son of Zeus, while the Epidaurians maintain that Epidaurus was the child of Apollo. That the land is especially sacred to Asclepius is...

Epidaurus

75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...to no freeman, but only to slaves who had run away from their masters. The Epidaurians have a theater within the sanctuary, in my opinion very well worth seeing. For...

Epidaurians

78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Thebes ...father was not Nycteus but Asopus, the river that separates the territories of Thebes and Plataea. This woman Epopeus carried off but I do not know whether he asked...

Thebes

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sicyon ...and Archander and Architeles, the sons of Achaeus, he brought in as his ally Sicyon from Attica, and gave him Zeuxippe his daughter to wife. This man became king...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Olympia ...discover no Messenian Lycus who practised the pentathlon or won a victory at Olympia. This tomb is a mound of earth, but the Sicyonians themselves usually bury...

Olympia

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Megarians ...joined by the Epidaurians and Troezenians inhabiting Argolian Acte, and by the Megarians among those beyond the Isthmus, while Ptolemy made an alliance with the...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Salamis ...it a shame to allow the Macedonians to hold unchallenged Peiraeus, Munychia, Salamis, and Sunium; but not expecting to be able to take them by force he bribed...

Salamis

79 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Sicyonian ...and to pray from that place. The image, which is seated, was made by the Sicyonian Canachus, who also fashioned the Apollo at Didyma of the Milesians, and the...

Sicyonian

76 22.71135,37.98336,0 Asopus ...for him the water of the river which the present inhabitants call after him Asopus. The tomb of Aras is in the place called Celeae, where they say is also buried...

Asopus

78 22.75,37.75,0 Araethyrea ...of the Rhodian poet confirm me in my opinion: "Came after these Phlias from Araethyrea to the muster; / Here did he dwell and prosper, because Dionysus his father /...

Araethyrea

78 22.649131,37.846299,0 Phliasians ...So the grave of Aras was made earlier, for according to the account of the Phliasians Dysaules did not arrive in the reign of Aras, but later. For Aras, they say...

Phliasians

77 22.649131,37.846299,0 Lerna ...any water except after rain. In summer their streams are dry except those at Lerna. Phoroneus, the son of Inachus, was the first to gather together the...

Lerna

79 22.71809,37.55107,0 Heraeum ...themselves; Acrisius remained where he was at Argos, and Proetus took over the Heraeum, Midea, Tiryns, and the Argive coast region. Traces of the residence of Proetus...

Heraeum

81 22.774722,37.691944,0 Mycenaeans ...For at the time of the Persian invasion the Argives made no move, but the Mycenaeans sent eighty men to Thermopylae who shared in the achievement of the...

Mycenaeans

76 22.756111,37.730833,0 Nemean ...Aeginetans Eurybates the Argive, who won the prize in the pentathlon at the Nemean games. This was the third expedition which the Athenians dispatched out of...

Nemean

78 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Tanagra ...fighting against the Lacedemonians and Boeotians on the borders of Eleon and Tanagra. There is also a grave of Thessalian horsemen who, by reason of an old...

Tanagra

79 23.587064,38.309371,0 Lacedemonians ...way back made an alliance with the Argives, the immemorial enemies of the Lacedemonians. Afterwards, when a battle was imminent at Tanagra, the Athenians opposing the...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Anagyrus ...this incident. Prospalta has also a sanctuary of the Maid and Demeter, and Anagyrus a sanctuary of the Mother of the gods. At Cephale the chief cult is that of the...

Anagyrus

77 23.804843,37.8300155,0 Athens ...thither. How Amphictyon banished Cranaus, his kinsman by marriage and king of Athens, I have already related. They say that fleeing with his supporters to the...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lamptrae ...already related. They say that fleeing with his supporters to the parish of Lamptrae he died and was buried there, and at the present day there is a monument to...

Lamptrae

78 23.831887,37.848698,0 Myrrhinus ...the Maid First-born and the goddesses styled August. The wooden image at Myrrhinus is of Colaenis. Athmonia worships Artemis Amarysia. On inquiry I discovered...

Myrrhinus

75 23.9678945,37.872812,0 Athenians ...as they were putting off from the land. On the plain is the grave of the Athenians, and upon it are slabs giving the names of the killed according to their...

Athenians

75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...which are rocks shaped in most respects like to goats. At some distance from Marathon is Brauron, where, according to the legend, Iphigenia, the daughter of...

Marathon

80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Rhamnus ...stades from Marathon as you go along the road by the sea to Oropus stands Rhamnus. The dwelling houses are on the coast, but a little way inland is a sanctuary...

Rhamnus

76 24.028009,38.222727,0 Salamis ...the capture of Troy, and for this reason the name of the island is Helene. Salamis lies over against Eleusis, and stretches as far as the territory of Megara. It...

Salamis

78 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Megarians ...Tripods (Tripodiskoi). The grave of Coroebus is in the market-place of the Megarians. The story of Psamathe and of Coroebus himself is carved on it in elegiac...

Megarians

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Cretans ...island of Minoa, where in the war against Nisus anchored the fleet of the Cretans. The hilly part of Megaris borders upon Boeotia, and in it the Megarians have...

Cretans

76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Isthmus ...son from the Molurian Rock. The son, they say, was landed on the Corinthian Isthmus by a dolphin, and honors were offered to Melicertes, then renamed Palaemon...

Isthmus

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Athens ...was slain by Theseus. For Theseus rid of evildoers the road from Troezen to Athens, killing those whom I have enumerated and, in sacred Epidaurus, Periphetes...

Athens

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Laconia ...it with various kinds of stone, especially the one quarried at Croceae in Laconia. On the left of the entrance stands a Poseidon, and after him Artemis hunting...

Laconia

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Dorians ...of Melas, the son of Antasus. Melas from Gonussa above Sicyon joined the Dorians in the expedition against Corinth. When the god expressed disapproval Aletes at...

Dorians

75 22.25,38.75,0 Eleusis ...not attribute to Demeter the discovery of beans. Whoever has been initiated at Eleusis or has read what are called the Orphica knows what I mean. Of the tombs, the...

Eleusis

81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Rheiti ...that of the other Athenians, and the first to dwell on the other side of the Rheiti was Crocon, where at the present day is what is called the palace of Crocon...

Rheiti

80 23.625,38.125,0 Eleusinians ...son of Eumolpus. These were the terms on which they concluded the war: the Eleusinians were to have in dependent control of the mysteries, but in all things else were...

Eleusinians

77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Salamis ...exiles from themselves, whom they call Dorycleans, reached the colonists in Salamis and betrayed the island to the Athenians. After the precinct of Zeus, when you...

Salamis

78 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Megarians ...is called the Rock of Athena Aethyia (Gannet). He receives honors from the Megarians in the city as well. Near the shrine of the hero Pandion is the tomb of...

Megarians

77 15.18273,37.2038,0 Athenians ...the Megarians give of her. When the Amazons, having marched against the Athenians because of Antiope, were over come by Theseus, most of them met their death in...

Athenians

74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megara ...the women, Tereus found himself unable to seize them. He committed suicide in Megara, and the Megarians forthwith raised him a barrow, and every year sacrifice to...

Megara

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Megarians ...could best liken to that of a harp or lyre when a string has been broken. The Megarians have a council chamber which once, they say, was the grave of Timalcus, who...

Megarians

81 15.18273,37.2038,0 Magnesians ...Artemis surnamed Leucophryne, dedicated by the sons of Themistocles; for the Magnesians, whose city the King had given him to rule, hold Artemis Leucophryne in honor...

Magnesians

79 27.52785,37.8507,0 Athenians ...Two maidens dwell not far from the temple of Athena Polias, called by the Athenians Bearers of the Sacred Offerings. For a time they live with the goddess, but...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...a fight, one of whom they call Erechtheus, the other Eumolpus; and yet those Athenians who are acquainted with antiquity must surely know that this victim of...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Troezen ...legends about Theseus is the following. When Heracles visited Pittheus at Troezen, he laid aside his lion's skin to eat his dinner, and there came in to see him...

Troezen

76 Attica ...have met Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus . . . when the Persians had landed in Attica Philippides was sent to carry the tidings to Lacedemon. On his return he said...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athenians ...of Oedipus Mecisteus came to Thebes and took part in the funeral games. The Athenians have other law courts as well, which are not so famous. We have the Parabystum...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phocis ...to get the scepter instead of the gold. I am of opinion that it was brought to Phocis by Agamemnon's daughter Electra. It has no public temple made for it, but its...

Phocis

81 22.25,38.25,0 Delphi ...because it was the bribe she took to betray her husband. It was dedicated at Delphi by the sons of Phegeus (how they got it I have already related in my history of...

Delphi

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phocians ...whom rested all the Phocians' hopes of salvation. When the battle joined, the Phocians had before their eyes what they had resolved to do to their women and children...

Phocians

81 22.25,38.25,0 Argive ...together with images of their local heroes. The figures were the work of the Argive Aristomedon. Afterwards the Phocians discovered a stratagem quite as clever as...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Delphi ...of Phocis, took charge and tried to persuade them to seize the sanctuary at Delphi, pointing out that the amount of the sum to be paid was beyond their resources...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Anticyra ...were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of...

Anticyra

81 22.626059,38.375439,0 Panopeus ...to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old, especially because...

Panopeus

80 22.79418,38.49551,0 Erochus ...burning down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian...

Erochus

74 22.540903,38.623689,0 Phocians ...they say, from the father of Epeius, and they maintain that they are not Phocians, but were originally Phlegyans who fled to Phocis from the land of...

Phocians

75 22.25,38.25,0 Daulis ...say, Aeschylus called the beard of Glaucus of Anthedon hypene daulos. Here in Daulis the women are said to have served up to Tereus his own son, which act was the...

Daulis

81 22.72926,38.50665,0 Phocians ...eggs; in fact no swallow would even make a nest in the roof of a house. The Phocians say that even when Philomela was a bird she had a terror of Tereus, and so kept...

Phocians

78 22.25,38.25,0 Parnassus ...one Spintharus of Corinth. They say that the oldest city was founded here by Parnassus, a son of Cleodora, a nymph. Like the other heroes, as they are called, he had...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Parnassus ...the Parnassian glen. Augury from flying birds was, it is said, a discovery of Parnassus. Now this city, so the story goes on, was flooded by the rains that fell in...

Parnassus

80 22.6222206,38.5348857,0 Cephisus ...a son of Apollo and Thyia. Others say that his mother was Melaena, daughter of Cephisus. Afterwards the dwellers around called the city Pytho, as well as Delphi, just...

Cephisus

81 23.625,38.125,0 Cleonaeans ...to the island. Of these Clazomenians the greater part were not Ionians, but Cleonaeans and Phliasians, who abandoned their cities when the Dorians had returned to...

Cleonaeans

78 22.75372,37.81708,0 Astypalaea ...of Amphiptolemus, a Samian, says in his epic that there were born to Phoenix Astypalaea and Europa, whose mother was Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus; that Astypalaea...

Astypalaea

79 26.35528,36.54413,0 Carians ...drove the Samians out of their island, accusing them of conspiring with the Carians against the Ionians. The Samians fled and some of them made their home in an...

Carians

78 27.423638999999998,37.038339,0 Argos ...by those who sailed in the Argo, and that these brought the image from Argos. But the Samians themselves hold that the goddess was born in the island by the...

Argos

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Abantes ...from Amphiclus, Hector, who also had made himself king, made war on those Abantes and Carians who lived in the island, slew some in battle, and forced others to...

Abantes

76 23.75,38.75,0 Aeolians ...old city, was seized by Ionians who set out from Colophon and displaced the Aeolians; subsequently, however, the Ionians allowed the Smyrnaeans to take their place...

Aeolians

78 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ionians ...say that the father of the goddess in Rhamnus is Ocean. The land of the Ionians has the finest possible climate, and sanctuaries such as are to be found...

Ionians

75 27.508324,37.474596,0 Branchidae ...goddess, and then come two unfinished sanctuaries of Apollo, the one in Branchidae, in Milesian territory, and the one at Clarus in the land of the Colophonians...

Branchidae

74 27.256115,37.384829,0 Erythraeans ...the Erythraeans and the island of Chios. When the raft rested off the cape the Erythraeans made great efforts, and the Chians no less, both being keen to land the image...

Erythraeans

81 26.48103,38.38122,0 Athenians ...a daughter of King Asopus, and not of the river. Before the battle that the Athenians fought at Marathon, the Plataeans had no claim to renown. But they were present...

Athenians

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Rhypes ...the Greek world; Dyme, the nearest to Elis, after it Olenus, Pharae, Triteia, Rhypes, Aegium, Ceryneia, Bura, Helice also and Aegae, Aegeira and Pellene, the last...

Rhypes

80 22.01219,38.2198,0 Lacedemonians ...back to Boeotia. For in the war between the Peloponnesians and Athens, the Lacedemonians reduced Plataea by siege, but it was restored during the peace made by the...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...reduced Plataea by siege, but it was restored during the peace made by the Spartan Antalcidas between the Persians and the Greeks, and the Plataeans returned from...

Spartan

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...crossed with a fleet to Asia. These then at the time held sway among the Achaeans along with Damasias, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes, who on his...

Achaeans

75 Erythrae ...for a little way from the straight road, you reach the ruins of Hysiae and Erythrae. Once they were cities of Boeotia, and even at the present day among the ruins...

Erythrae

77 26.48103,38.38122,0 Athenians ...the advance of Leonidas to Thermopylae, nor in the naval actions fought by the Athenians with Themistocles off Euboea and at Salamis, and they are not included in the...

Athenians

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataea ...of the goddesses. Even today the Asopus is the boundary between Thebes and Plataea. The first to occupy the land of Thebes are said to have been the Ectenes...

Plataea

77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thebans ...kingship, the Argives led their army for the second time against Thebes. The Thebans encamped over against them at Glisas. When they joined in battle, Aegialeus...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argives ...any Theban willing to accompany him, withdrew when night came to Illyria. The Argives captured Thebes and handed it over to Thersander, son of Polyneices. When the...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Achaeans ...under Aratus, who attacked him, and afterwards concluded a peace with the Achaeans and Antigonus. This Antigonus at the time ruled over the Macedonians, being...

Achaeans

76 Thebans ...with Andropompus, who killed him by craft and not in fair fight. Hereafter the Thebans thought it better to entrust the government to several people, rather than to...

Thebans

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sellasia ...of Cleomenes and his treachery the Lacedemonians suffered the reverse at Sellasia, where they were defeated by the Achaeans under Antigonus. In my account of...

Sellasia

75 Plataea ...They met with a second disaster when arrayed against the Athenians at Plataea, at the time when they are considered to have chosen the cause of King Xerxes...

Plataea

72 23.273866,38.221019,0 Attica ...called by the Greeks the Sacred war. I have already said in my history of Attica that the defeat at Chaeroneia was a disaster for all the Greeks; but it was...

Attica

77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Macedonians ...Achaeans joined Flamininus in besieging Corinth. On being delivered from the Macedonians the Corinthians at once joined the Achaean League; they had joined it on a...

Macedonians

80 21.75,41.25,0 Thebes ...Messenians and the Arcadians of Megalopolis. My own view is that in building Thebes Cassander was mainly influenced by hatred of Alexander. He destroyed the whole...

Thebes

80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Achaeans ...by side with the Romans against the Syrians under Antiochus. All that the Achaeans did against the Macedonians or the host of the Syrians they did because of...

Achaeans

77 Potniae ...is a grove of Demeter and the Maid. The images at the river that flows past Potniae. . . they name the goddesses. At an appointed time they perform their...

Potniae

78 23.311229,38.30383,0 Thebes ...Electra, the sister of Cadmus, and another, the Proetidian, from a native of Thebes. He was Proetus, but I found it difficult to discover his date and lineage. The...

Thebes

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thessalian ...aside to Thessaly they seized Homole, the most fertile and best-watered of the Thessalian mountains. When they were recalled to their homes by Thersander, the son of...

Thessalian

81 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...method. I shall treat of this more fully in my account of Arcadia. The Lacedemonians, deeply offended by the ordinances of the Achaeans, fled to Metellus and the...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Pyrrha ...are statues of women made of stone, said to be portraits of Henioche and Pyrrha, daughters of Creon, who reigned as guardian of Laodamas, the son of...

Pyrrha

75 26.286432,39.160539,0 Tiryns ...the ruins of a house where they say Amphitryon came to live when exiled from Tiryns because of the death of Electryon; and the chamber of Alcmena is still plainly...

Tiryns

79 22.80004,37.59918,0 Thebans ...to sacrifice working oxen. The following story also is current among the Thebans. As Cadmus was leaving Delphi by the road to Phocis, a cow, it is said, guided...

Thebans

75 23.255096,38.318092,0 Arcadians ...Lycortas of Megalopolis, than whom no man was more highly esteemed among the Arcadians, and whose friendship with Philopoemen had given him something of his spirit...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Leuctra ...daughters of Scedasus fell upon the Lacedemonians. Scedasus, who lived near Leuctra, had two daughters, Molpia and Hippo. These in the bloom of their youth were...

Leuctra

78 23.18095,38.25422,0 Rome ...against the Achaeans, and permitted the Lacedemonians to send an embassy to Rome. Such permission was a contravention of the agreement between the Romans and...

Rome

78 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Achaeans ...former colleagues in Greece, to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. This commission restored to Sparta those whom the Achaeans had exiled, and...

Achaeans

78 Sparta ...between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. This commission restored to Sparta those whom the Achaeans had exiled, and they remitted the penalties inflicted...

Sparta

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...whom the Achaeans had exiled, and they remitted the penalties inflicted by the Achaeans on those who had fled before their trial and had been condemned in their...

Achaeans

81 Thespians ...city and to seek a refuge in Ceressus. It is a stronghold in the land of the Thespians, in which once in days of old they had established themselves to meet the...

Thespians

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Great City ...they could live together, which even at the present day is called Megalopolis (Great City). The period of his office as Boeotarch had now expired, and death was the...

Great City

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Thessaly ...their votes on the charge. After these things when Alexander held sway in Thessaly, Pelopidas came to him, under the impression that he was well-disposed to him...

Thessaly

77 21.75,39.25,0 Lacedemonians ...But when about two hundred at most fell at Lamia they were enslaved by the Lacedemonians. So the plague of treachery never failed to afflict Greece, and it was an...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thebans ...removal as a disaster, and declared that had he been present never would the Thebans have been guilty of such an outrage. Elected again to be Boeotarch, and again...

Thebans

79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megalopolis ...And holy Messene received at last her children. By the arms of Thebes was Megalopolis encircled with walls, And all Greece won independence and freedom." Such were...

Megalopolis

76 22.126238,37.414256,0 Rome ...before the Amphictyons. But on this occasion it was decided to send up to Rome every one of the Achaean people, however innocent, whom Callicrates chose to...

Rome

77 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Theban ...at the hands of Amphiaraus. Quite close to it are three unwrought stones. The Theban antiquaries assert that the man lying here is Tydeus, and that his burial was...

Theban

81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Danube ...lands, but it is not big enough to carry islands on its waters, as do the Danube and the Eridanus. The founder of Heraea was Heraeeus the son of Lycaon, and...

Danube

76 29.647293,45.16291,0 Heraea ...islands on its waters, as do the Danube and the Eridanus. The founder of Heraea was Heraeeus the son of Lycaon, and the city lies on the right of the Alpheius...

Heraea

76 21.863791,37.613569,0 Erymanthus ...about fifteen stades from Heraea you will cross the Ladon, and from it to the Erymanthus is a journey of roughly twenty stades. The boundary between Heraea and the land...

Erymanthus

80 21.75,37.75,0 Heraea ...When they have done this the flies trouble them no longer. On the road from Heraea to Megalopolis is Melaeneae. It was founded by Melaeneus, the son of Lycaon; in...

Heraea

79 21.863791,37.613569,0 Athenians ...the plan of Menalcidas, and it was decided to help the Oropians against the Athenians. News of this was brought to the Athenians, who, with all the speed each could...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...was dedicated by the Eleans themselves from the plunder of the war with the Arcadians. Beside the Pelopium is a pillar of no great height with a small image of Zeus...

Arcadians

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadians ...should try to prevent the union. There were chosen as founders by the Arcadians, Lycomedes and Hopoleas of Mantineia, Timon and Proxenus of Tegea, Cleolaus and...

Arcadians

72 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pallantium ...Lacedemonians, in spite of the fact that these cities were their homes: Alea, Pallantium, Eutaea, Sumeteium, Asea, Peraethenses, Helisson, Oresthasium, Dipaea, Lycaea...

Pallantium

80 22.336587,37.462155,0 Acacesium ...Blenina, Leuctrum. Of the Parrhasians Lycosura, Thocnia, Trapezus, Prosenses, Acacesium, Acontium, Macaria, Dasea. Of the Cynurians in Arcadia: Gortys, Theisoa by...

Acacesium

80 Gortys ...in our time, some are held by the people of Megalopolis as villages, namely Gortys, Dipoenae, Theisoa near Orchomenus, Methydrium, Teuthis, Calliae, Helisson...

Gortys

78 22.041,37.534,0 Aliphera ...one of them, Pallantium, was destined to meet with a kindlier fate even then. Aliphera has continued to be regarded as a city from the beginning to the present...

Aliphera

80 21.864,37.532,0 Megalopolitans ...Lacedemonians, if eagerness would have done it, would have removed bodily the Megalopolitans and the other Arcadians besides; but as the Arcadians of the day put up a...

Megalopolitans

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Phigalia ...a bronze image of Apollo worth seeing, in height twelve feet, brought from Phigalia as a contribution to the adornment of Megalopolis. The place where the image...

Phigalia

77 21.8391,37.3963,0 Delphi ...not only these offerings at Olympia, but also others dedicated to Apollo at Delphi. The offerings at Olympia are two horses and two charioteers, a charioteer...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Messene ...and utterly weak are the fortunes of men. As you go from Megalopolis to Messene, after advancing about seven stades, there stands on the left of the highway a...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Alpheius ...to whom afterwards daughters also were born. The road from Maniae to the Alpheius is roughly fifteen stades long. At this point the river Gatheatas falls into...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Aegytian ...this the Carnion flows into the Gatheatas. The source of the Carnion is in Aegytian territory beneath the sanctuary of Apollo Cereatas; that of the Gatheatas is at...

Aegytian

77 22.165456,37.246287,0 Messenia ...is an Hermaeum called "by the Mistress"; it too forms a boundary between Messenia and Megalopolis. There are small images of the Mistress and Demeter; likewise...

Messenia

75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Arcadia ...the Hermaeum at Belemina. The Arcadians say that Belemina belonged of old to Arcadia but was severed from it by the Lacedemonians. This account struck me as...

Arcadia

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Charisiae ...the tyrant. About ten stades from here are a few memorials of the city Charisiae, and the journey from Charisiae to Tricoloni is another ten stades. Once...

Charisiae

73 Caphyae ...stades from Nymphasia to the common boundaries of Megalopolis, Orchomenus and Caphyae. Passing through the gate at Megalopolis named the Gate to the Marsh, and...

Caphyae

80 22.262624,37.766264,0 Lycoa ...the plain, Maenalian. Under the fringe of the mountain are traces of a city Lycoa, a sanctuary of Artemis Lycoan, and a bronze image of her. On the southern...

Lycoa

78 22.313916,37.529952,0 Teumessus ...of Erechtheus, the fox was turned into a stone, as was likewise this hound. In Teumessus there is also a sanctuary of Telchinian Athena, which contains no image. As to...

Teumessus

81 23.382283,38.357554,0 Mycalessus ...and the Euboeans. Adjoining are the ruins of the cities Harma (Chariot) and Mycalessus. The former got its name, according to the people of Tanagra, because the...

Mycalessus

79 23.545847,38.415804,0 Messenian ...is also written, Asterion son of Aeschylus. After Chaereas are statues of a Messenian boy Sophius and of Stomius, a man of Elis. Sophius outran his boy competitors...

Messenian

79 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Mycalessian ...with the Athenians. On the way to the coast of Mycalessus is a sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter. They say that each night it is shut up and opened again by Heracles...

Mycalessian

79 23.545847,38.415804,0 Graea ...old age, her neighbors ceased to call her by this name, and gave the name of Graea (old woman), first to the woman herself, and in course of time to the city. The...

Graea

79 23.630098,38.387159,0 Tanagra ...once, drank the wine, flung himself on the shore and slept, and that a man of Tanagra struck him on the neck with an axe and chopped off his head. for this reason...

Tanagra

80 23.587064,38.309371,0 Sicyon ...of friendship to the Thebans. So the attack of the Eleans and Thebans against Sicyon apparently took place after the Lacedemonian disaster at Leuctra. Next stands...

Sicyon

80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Thebes ...Aeschylus with material for a play. In front of the Proetidian gate at Thebes is the gymnasium called the Gymnasium of Iolaus and also a race-course, a bank...

Thebes

74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...a hero-shrine of Iolaus. That Iolaus himself died at Sardis along with the Athenians and Thespians who made the crossing with him is admitted even by the Thebans...

Athenians

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thespiae ...is the tomb of Pindar. When Pindar was a young man he was once on his way to Thespiae in the hot season. At about noon he was seized with fatigue and the drowsiness...

Thespiae

79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Isthmian ...won once at Olympia the pancratium for men, and the pentathlum twice at the Isthmian games and twice at the Nemean. For the Lepreans are not afraid of the Isthmian...

Isthmian

78 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Attica ...destroyed Thebes. Weak and old, they could not even get safely away to Attica, but made their homes here. The town lies on Mount Ptous, and there are here a...

Attica

73 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Ptous ...get safely away to Attica, but made their homes here. The town lies on Mount Ptous, and there are here a temple and image of Dionysus that are worth...

Ptous

79 23.251,38.459,0 Olympia ...five footraces at Pytho, three at the Isthmian games, four at Nemea, one at Olympia in the race for boys besides two in the men's race. Statues of him have been...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olmones ...about twelve stades from it is Olmones, and some seven stades distant from Olmones is Hyettus both right from their foundation to the present day have been...

Olmones

77 23.105792,38.476052,0 Isthmian ...let go until he saw that his opponent had given in. He won at the Nemean and Isthmian games combined twelve victories, three victories at Olympia and two at Pytho...

Isthmian

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Arcadians ...is not reckoned by the Eleans, because the games were held by the Pisans and Arcadians and not by themselves. Beside Sostratus is a statue of Leontiscus, a man...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pytho ...of the clan of the Iamidae, won five victories at Nemea for boxing, two at Pytho, and two at Olympia. The artist who made the statue was Silanion, an Athenian...

Pytho

77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thespiae ...and a small temple of the Muses. In it are small images made of stone. At Thespiae is also a sanctuary of Heracles. The priestess there is a virgin, who acts as...

Thespiae

77 23.154521,38.293384,0 Olympia ...Hellanicus. Chilon, an Achaean of Patrae, won two prizes for men wrestlers at Olympia, one at Delphi, four at the Isthmus and three at the Nemean games. He was...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Nemean ...men wrestlers at Olympia, one at Delphi, four at the Isthmus and three at the Nemean games. He was buried at the public expense by the Achaeans, and his fate it was...

Nemean

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Lamia ...the Achaeans to fight against the Macedonians under Antipater at the battle of Lamia in Thessaly. Next to Chilon two statues have been set up. One is that of a man...

Lamia

81 22.43516,38.9046,0 Macedonia ...story, how that on Olympus is a city Libethra, where the mountain faces, Macedonia, not far from which city is the tomb of Orpheus. The Libethrians, it is said...

Macedonia

75 21.75,41.25,0 Helicon ...are the traditions of Hesiod himself and his poems. On the summit of Helicon is a small river called the Lamus. In the territory of the Thespians is a place...

Helicon

72 22.82514,38.35217,0 Haliartus ...separate from my account of Orchomenus. At the Persian invasion the people of Haliartus sided with the Greeks, and so a division of the army of Xerxes overran and...

Haliartus

80 23.088416,38.379818,0 Athenian ...by Daedalus of Sicyon; that of the Athenian Callias, a pancratiast, is by the Athenian painter Micon. Nicodamus the Maenalian made the statue of the Maenalian...

Athenian

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...the cities and by the Laconian governors. Again, an oracle had warned the Lacedemonians that only love of money could destroy Sparta, and so they were not used to...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...Thebes, were bringing Teiresias and some other of the spoil to the god at Delphi, when Teiresias, being thirsty, drank by the wayside of the Tilphusa, and...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympic ...mother dressed herself as a man and a trainer, and took her son herself to the Olympic games. This Peisirodus is one of the statues in the Altis, and stands by the...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Itonian ...gather for their general assembly. In the temple are bronze images of Itonian Athena and Zeus; the artist was Agoracritus, pupil and loved one of Pheidias...

Itonian

72 22.050597,39.261599,0 Messenian ...who discovered that he had received bribes from Lacedemon, and that the Messenian disaster at the Great Ditch was caused by the treachery of Aristocrates. This...

Messenian

74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Hyettus ...him, and bestowed on him a portion of his possessions, as was fitting." This Hyettus was the first man known to have exacted punishment from an adulterer. Later on...

Hyettus

80 23.103304,38.55756,0 Plataea ...in their struggle against Lacedemon, and they also took part in the action at Plataea against the Persians. It was compulsion rather than sympathy that made them...

Plataea

80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Pylus ...of the Minyans stand, that even Neleus, son of Cretheus, who was king of Pylus, took a wife from Orchomenus, namely Chloris, daughter of Amphion, son of...

Pylus

75 Mantineans ...you come to a place called Melangeia, from which the drinking water of the Mantineans flows down to their city. Farther off from Melangeia, about seven stades...

Mantineans

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Elis ...do. It is said that, when Heracles was leading an expedition against Pylus in Elis, Athena was one of his allies. Now among those who came to fight on the side of...

Elis

80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Nestane ...the Macedonian supremacy. So much by way of a digression. After the ruins of Nestane is a holy sanctuary of Demeter, and every year the Mantineans hold a festival...

Nestane

80 22.461269,37.616101,0 Nestane ...of Demeter, and every year the Mantineans hold a festival in her honor. By Nestane there lies, on lower ground, about . . . itself too forming part of the...

Nestane

77 22.461269,37.616101,0 Trojans ...the water-serpent a snake. But the dragon that the eagle dropped among the Trojans he does call a snake. So it is likely that Antinoe's guide also was a...

Trojans

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Aegialians ...the inhabitants, but of old was called Aegialus and those who lived in it Aegialians. According to the Sicyonians the name is derived from Aegialeus, who was king...

Aegialians

76 23.909752,37.7924365,0 Mantineans ...is melted by the sun. This method of demolishing the fortifications of the Mantineans was not discovered by Agesipolis. It was a stratagem invented at an earlier...

Mantineans

78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Mantineia ...and joined the Lacedemonian confederacy, and when the battle took place at Mantineia between the Lacedemonians and the Thebans under Epaminondas, the Mantineans...

Mantineia

77 22.393259,37.618138,0 Achaeans ...of his manliness and noble lineage. The Ionians rejected the proposal of the Achaeans and came out to fight them; in the battle Tisamenus was killed, the Ionians...

Achaeans

80 Ionians ...that the Dorians would not keep their hands off them, and received the Ionians to strengthen themselves rather than for any good-will they felt towards the...

Ionians

73 27.508324,37.474596,0 Actium ...remind posterity of their fighting on the side of the Romans at the battle of Actium. They also worship Athena Alea, of whom they have a sanctuary and an...

Actium

80 Phocians ...and with them Abantes from Euboea. Ships for the voyage were given to the Phocians by Philogenes and Damon, Athenians and sons of Euctemon, who themselves led the...

Phocians

76 22.25,38.25,0 Miletus ...the different cities on the coast, and Neileus with his party made for Miletus. The Milesians themselves give the following account of their earliest...

Miletus

73 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...cities on the coast, and Neileus with his party made for Miletus. The Milesians themselves give the following account of their earliest history. For two...

Milesians

73 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Tegea ...most noteworthy objects on each of them. On the left of the highway leading to Tegea there is, beside the walls of Mantineia, a place where horses race, and not far...

Tegea

81 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...in length to that of their enemies. Aratus, acting on an arrangement with the Arcadians, fell back with his command, as though the pressure of the Lacedemonians was...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samians ...with the Ionians and escaped warfare. Androclus also took Samos from the Samians, and for a time the Ephesians held Samos and the adjacent islands. But after...

Samians

75 26.84,37.73,0 Ephesians ...warfare. Androclus also took Samos from the Samians, and for a time the Ephesians held Samos and the adjacent islands. But after that the Samians had returned...

Ephesians

74 27.339722,37.941944,0 Priene ...the descendant of Peneleus, and Aepytus, the son of Neileus. The people of Priene, although they suffered much at the hands of Tabutes the Persian and afterwards...

Priene

77 27.298333,37.66,0 Arcadians ...Leocydes, who with Lydiades was general of the Megalopolitans, is said by the Arcadians to have seen, when dwelling in Lycosura, the sacred deer, enfeebled with age...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cretans ...found a colony, they crossed in ships to Asia, but as they came to Clarus, the Cretans came against them armed and carried them away to Rhacius. But he, learning from...

Cretans

81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Ionians ...of Rhacius and of Manto, drove the Carians from the country altogether. The Ionians swore an oath to the Greeks in Colophon, and lived with them in one city on...

Ionians

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Colophon ...from the country altogether. The Ionians swore an oath to the Greeks in Colophon, and lived with them in one city on equal terms, but the kingship was taken by...

Colophon

75 27.142222,38.115556,0 Iolcus ...were fleeing from the scandal at their father's death. Now when Medea reached Iolcus, she immediately began to plot against Pelias; she was really conspiring with...

Iolcus

81 22.96886,39.366305,0 Smyrnaeans ...against Lysimachus and the Macedonians. The grave of those Colophonians and Smyrnaeans who fell in the battle is on the left of the road as you go to Clarus. The...

Smyrnaeans

78 27.1383,38.41905,0 Lacedemonians ...the Mantineans say, was killed by Machaerion, a man of Mantineia. The Lacedemonians on their part say that a Spartan killed Epaminondas, but they too give...

Lacedemonians

72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...accustomed to obey others. Epaminondas had been told before by an oracle from Delphi to beware of "ocean." So he was afraid to step on board a man-of-war or to sail...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Chios ...cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and Chios opposite Mimas. Asius, the son of Amphiptolemus, a Samian, says in his epic...

Chios

73 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Aeginetan ...its image and the former on account of its age. The image is like neither the Aeginetan, as they are called, nor yet the most ancient Attic images; it is absolutely...

Aeginetan

80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Teos ...Ionia. In the land of Lebedus are baths, which are both wonderful and useful. Teos, too, has baths at Cape Macria, some in the clefts of the rock, filled by the...

Teos

81 26.785014,38.177262,0 Alpheius ...did not make a long coasting voyage, but only sailed from the mouth of the Alpheius to the harbor of Elis. So the Sea of Myrto is obviously not named after...

Alpheius

77 21.451667,37.6125,0 Thermopylae ...Greece the Achaeans it is clear had no part in the advance of Leonidas to Thermopylae, nor in the naval actions fought by the Athenians with Themistocles off Euboea...

Thermopylae

76 22.538294,38.796511,0 Laconian ...with Themistocles off Euboea and at Salamis, and they are not included in the Laconian or in the Attic list of allies. They were absent from the action at Plataea...

Laconian

80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cenchreae ...walled off the Corinthian Isthmus from the sea at Lechaeum to the other sea at Cenchreae. This was the policy of all the Peloponnesians at this time. But when the...

Cenchreae

81 22.992532,37.88239,0 Arcadians ...former prosperity by the reverse at Leuctra combined with the union of the Arcadians at Megalopolis and the settlement of Messenians on their border. Thebes had...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Aegium ...carried out concerted actions. As a place of assembly they resolved to have Aegium, for, after Helice had been swallowed up by the sea, Aegium from of old...

Aegium

79 22.081952,38.252707,0 Thesprotia ...no terrors from wild beasts, for the sharks of the Aous, which flows through Thesprotia, are not river beasts but migrants from the sea. Corone is a city to the right...

Thesprotia

79 20.25,39.75,0 Pamisus ...river beasts but migrants from the sea. Corone is a city to the right of the Pamisus, on the sea-coast under Mount Mathia. On this road is a place on the coast...

Pamisus

80 21.75,37.25,0 Troy ...the storm that here befell the Greeks with Agamemnon on their voyage from Troy. Psyttaleia by Salamis we know from the destruction of the Persians there. In...

Troy

76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Salamis ...here befell the Greeks with Agamemnon on their voyage from Troy. Psyttaleia by Salamis we know from the destruction of the Persians there. In like manner the...

Salamis

81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Messenians ...the territory of Eretria. Nevertheless, I think that the whole version of the Messenians is more probable than these, particularly on account of the bones of Eurytus...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...and Androcles, the sons of Phintas were reigning -- the mutual hatred of the Lacedemonians and Messenians was aroused, and the Lacedemonians began war, obtaining a...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...mind, gave way to his rage, and, regardless of himself, dared to murder every Lacedemonian whom he could capture. The Lacedemonians say that they went to war because...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...more rigorous discipline than before. The Lacedemonians carried out raids into Messenia, but did no harm to the country, regarding it as their own, nor did they cut...

Messenia

81 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Isthmus ...in other respects, for Ithome falls short of none of the mountains within the Isthmus in height and at this point was most difficult to climb. They also resolved to...

Isthmus

80 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Laconia ...time, the Messenians being supported by the Arcadians in their raids into Laconia. The Argives did not think fit to declare their hatred for the Lacedemonians...

Laconia

76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Messenians ...where they were least likely to be visible, the heavy-armed troops of the Messenians and their allies withstood the first assault of the Lacedemonians, and...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Lacedemonians ...All who were of higher courage ran in and struck at close quarters. The Lacedemonians, faced simultaneously with a second and unforeseen danger, were not...

Lacedemonians

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argolid ...it was likely to be difficult, for whether they tried to retire through the Argolid or by Sicyon, in either case it was through enemy country. The Lacedemonians...

Argolid

78 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Sparta ...god gives thee glory in war, but beware lest by guile the hated company of Sparta scale the well-built walls, for mightier is their god of war. And harsh shall...

Sparta

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...were greatly disturbed, thinking, rightly enough, that they were from the Lacedemonians. Nevertheless Aristodemus encouraged them, saying what the occasion demanded...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...to announce the oracle, asking for a man to advise what they must do. The Athenians, who were not anxious either that the Lacedemonians should add to their...

Athenians

76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadia ...Zeus Phyxius (God of Flight), and finally went to the wizards at Phigalia in Arcadia but he paid a fitting penalty to Cleonice and to the god. The Lacedemonians, in...

Arcadia

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Trojans ...Lastly there is Admetus yoking a boar and a lion to his chariot, and the Trojans are bringing libations to Hector. The part of the throne where the god would...

Trojans

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Ister ...of Himera too agree with this account. In the Euxine at the mouths of the Ister is an island sacred to Achilles. It is called White Island, and its...

Ister

76 29.647293,45.16291,0 Lacedemonians ...recantation. In Therapne I remember seeing the fountain Messeis. Some of the Lacedemonians, however, have declared that of old the name Messeis was given, not to the...

Lacedemonians

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Helos ...in his list of the Lacedemonians: "These had their home in Amyclae, and in Helos the town by the seaside." It was founded by Helius, the youngest of the sons of...

Helos

77 22.60754,36.843247,0 Lacedemonian ...afterwards reduced it by siege. Its inhabitants became the first slaves of the Lacedemonian state, and were the first to be called Helots, as in fact Helots they were. The...

Lacedemonian

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...here is the tomb of Ladas, the fastest runner of his day. He was crowned at Olympia for a victory in the long race, and falling ill, I take it, immediately after...

Olympia

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Acriae ...village, Selinus, is a journey of twenty stades. These places are inland from Acriae. By the sea is a city Asopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a...

Acriae

81 22.785366,36.794176,0 Delos ...the offerings, and also carrying women and children away as slaves, he razed Delos itself to the ground. As it was being sacked and pillaged, one of the...

Delos

79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Zarax ...Agesipolis. I have told the story of Cleomenes elsewhere. There is nothing in Zarax except a temple of Apollo, with a statue holding a lyre, at the head of the...

Zarax

80 23.088,36.787,0 Malea ...was one of the gods called Curetes. Others say that Silenus came from Malea and settled here. That Silenus was brought up in Malea is clear from these...

Malea

72 23.19975,36.43603,0 Leuctra ...to have been dedicated there. The Messenians say that this is evidence that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedemonians...

Leuctra

78 22.26501,36.84279,0 Gerenia ...and that part of it which was incorporated by the emperor in Laconia towards Gerenia is formed in our time by the valley called Choerius. They say that this...

Gerenia

79 22.208656,36.927195,0 Lacedemonians ...of Hicetas of Trapezus, who was then king and general of the Arcadians. The Lacedemonians were the first of whom we know to give bribes to an enemy, and the first to...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadian ...crime in the Messenian war in the matter of the treachery of Aristocrates the Arcadian, the decision in battle was reached by valor and the fortune of heaven. Again...

Arcadian

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sicyonians ...positions in the absence of the Eleians from the battle and of the Argives and Sicyonians. To complete his work Aristocrates caused his men to fly through the...

Sicyonians

81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Lacedemonians ...they almost forgot what lay before them; for instead of the advance of the Lacedemonians they watched the Arcadian retirement, some begging them to stand by them...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Messenia ...The river flows through the land of the Arcadians and turning again towards Messenia forms the boundary on the coast between Messenia and Elis. Then they were...

Messenia

78 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Messenians ...Lacedemonians, by resting and fighting by turns, held out the longer, but the Messenians were faced with difficulties on all sides. They fought continuously day and...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Eira ...For now was the time when the majority of the Lacedemonians was away at Eira, and others were scouring Messenia for booty and plunder. "If we can capture...

Eira

74 21.927988,37.398271,0 Arcadia ...to Cyllene, the port of the Eleians. Thence they sent to the Messenians in Arcadia, proposing to unite their forces and seek a new country to dwell in, enjoining...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Eleians ...assembled at Cyllene, they resolved to winter there for that season, the Eleians providing a market and funds. With the spring they began to debate where they...

Eleians

75 21.25,37.75,0 Sicily ...to conquer. When they accepted the proposal, Anaxilas then transported them to Sicily. Zancle was originally occupied by pirates, who, as the land was uninhabited...

Sicily

81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Zanclaeans ...of kinsmen, to do the like to men of Greek race. After this they made the Zanclaeans rise from the altars, and exchanging pledges with them, dwelt together in...

Zanclaeans

76 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Laconian ...Messene. This event took place in the twenty-ninth Olympiad, when Chionis the Laconian was victorious for the second time. Miltiades was archon at Athens. Manticlus...

Laconian

81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...of ephors dragged them from the altar there and put them to death. As the Spartans paid no heed to their being suppliants, the wrath of Poseidon came upon them...

Spartans

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...soon dismissed them from Ithome. The Athenians, realizing the feelings of the Lacedemonians towards them, made friends therefore with the Argives, and gave Naupactus to...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Argives ...feelings of the Lacedemonians towards them, made friends therefore with the Argives, and gave Naupactus to the Messenians besieged in Ithome, when they were...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Messenians ...with a land force. So they changed their plans and at once turned on the Messenians in Oeniadae and prepared to besiege them, for they never supposed that men so...

Messenians

76 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Marathon ...had come from Acarnania. They recalled the achievement of the Athenians at Marathon, how thirty myriad Persians had been destroyed by men not numbering ten...

Marathon

77 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Sicily ...sea, then drove the Messenians from Naupactus; they went to their kinsmen in Sicily and to Rhegium, but the majority came to Libya and to the Euesperitae there...

Sicily

79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Oeta ...years. The Dryopians reached the Peloponnesus from Parnassus, the Dorians from Oeta. The Eleans we know crossed over from Calydon and Aetolia generally. Their...

Oeta

81 22.2564576,38.7922475,0 Axius ...went into the farthest exile possible, and that the region beyond the river Axius was named after him Paeonia. As to the death of Endymion, the people of...

Axius

78 22.5226845,41.0572437,0 Olympia ...Oenomaus, Pelops took possession of the land of Pisa and its bordering country Olympia, separating it from the land of Epeius. The Eleans said that Pelops was the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Tiryns ...for the crime from the Argives, for at the time Heracles had his home at Tiryns. When the Argives refused them satisfaction, the Eleans as an alternative...

Tiryns

75 22.80004,37.59918,0 Elis ...and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of Pylus were punished by Heracles, but his expedition against Pisa...

Elis

74 21.37493,37.89131,0 Pisa ...Pisa, but to me in the hollows of Pytho." This oracle proved the salvation of Pisa. To Phyleus Heracles gave up the land of Elis and all the rest, more out of...

Pisa

80 21.653041,37.639535,0 Isthmus ...to descend upon the Peloponnesus in ships, and not to attempt to go across the Isthmus with a land army. Such was his advice, and at the same time he led them on the...

Isthmus

81 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Delphi ...by internal strife and plague, and it occurred to Iphitus to ask the god at Delphi for deliverance from these evils. The story goes that the Pythian priestess...

Delphi

78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...by asses. The cause of this is said to have been a curse. The fine flax of Elis is as fine as that of the Hebrews, but it is not so yellow. As you go from...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Arcadians ...This they say Polysperchon the Aetolian used as a fortified post against the Arcadians. As to the ruins of Arene, no Messenian and no Elean could point them out to...

Arcadians

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Scillus ...money for their fleet. Xenophon, accordingly, was banished and having made Scillus his home he built in honor of Ephesian Artemis a temple with a sanctuary and a...

Scillus

77 21.602752,37.609552,0 Helisson ...being fed by several tributaries, including seven very important ones. The Helisson joins the Alpheius passing through Megalopolis; the Brentheates comes out of...

Helisson

77 22.217753,37.612883,0 Ida ...Zeus was born, Rhea entrusted the guardianship of her son to the Dactyls of Ida, who are the same as those called Curetes. They came from Cretan Ida –...

Ida

78 26.85852,39.69936,0 Eleans ...from the city Troas. Certain contests, too, have been dropped at Olympia, the Eleans resolving to discontinue them. The pentathlum for boys was instituted at the...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Altis ...and the Olympic games. The sacred grove of Zeus has been called from of old Altis, a corruption of the word "alsos," which means a grove. Pindar too calls the...

Altis

78 21.630126,37.637849,0 Tanagra ...reason why they did so. It runs thus: "The temple has a golden shield; from Tanagra. The Lacedemonians and their allies dedicated it, a gift taken from the...

Tanagra

78 23.587064,38.309371,0 Athens ...also painted the picture of the battle of Marathon in the painted portico at Athens. On the uppermost parts of the throne Pheidias has made, above the head of the...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...relief, the fight of Theseus against the Amazons, the first brave deed of the Athenians against foreigners. On the pedestal supporting the throne and Zeus with all...

Athenians

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lepreum ...they dispatched a herald commanding the people of Elis to grant home-rule to Lepreum and to any other of their neighbors that were subject to them. The people of...

Lepreum

79 21.724777,37.439599,0 Athens ...the Spartan state, that they put before their allies the proposal to destroy Athens root and branch. Such were the most remarkable military achievements of Agis...

Athens

79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympian ...to Asia, but considering it a bad omen that their temple of Zeus surnamed Olympian had been suddenly burnt down, they reluctantly remained behind. The Athenians...

Olympian

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Boeotians ...Boeotia, winning a victory over Thebes and the allies at Coronea. When the Boeotians were put to flight, certain of them took refuge in the sanctuary of Athena...

Boeotians

77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Isthmian ...long afterwards the Corinthians in exile for pro-Spartan sympathies held the Isthmian games. The Corinthians in the city made no move at the time, through their fear...

Isthmian

79 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Amycleans ...army against Corinth, and, as the festival Hyacinthia was at hand, he gave the Amycleans leave to go back home and perform the traditional rites in honor of Apollo and...

Amycleans

81 24.76084,35.0133,0 Cyprus ...Aegospotami with the exception of ten ships of war. These made their escape to Cyprus; all the rest the Lacedemonians captured along with their crews. Agias was a...

Cyprus

81 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Ithome ...contest was against the Helots who had rebelled and left the Isthmus for Ithome. Not all the Helots revolted, only the Messenian element, which separated...

Ithome

75 21.9249021,37.1857343,0 Lacedemonian ...the Cretan and of Aphareus the son of Perieres. As to Epimenides, I think the Lacedemonian story is more probable than the Argive. Here, where the Fates are, the...

Lacedemonian

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Trojan ...and Leto being his nurses. There is also another account of the name; in Trojan Ida there grew in a grove of Apollo cornel-trees, which the Greeks cut down to...

Trojan

75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Parnon ...is derived. A river called Tanaus, which is the only one descending from Mount Parnon, flows through the Argive territory and empties itself into the Gulf of...

Parnon

81 22.61272,37.27816,0 Lacedemonians ...of Hermes we reach Laconia on the west. According to the tradition of the Lacedemonians themselves, Lelex, an aboriginal was the first king in this land, after whom...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...he named it Eurotas. Having no male issue, he left the kingdom to Lacedemon, whose mother was Taygete, after whom the mountain was named, while according...

Lacedemon

69 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aegys ...had a son Archelaus. In his reign the Lacedemonians took by force of arms Aegys, a city of the Perioeci, and sold the inhabitants into slavery, suspecting them...

Aegys

76 22.165456,37.246287,0 Achaeans ...Geranthrae, cities of the Perioeci, which were still in the possession of the Achaeans. The inhabitants of Pharis and Geranthrae, panic-stricken at the onslaught of...

Achaeans

80 Locri ...the throne, and the Lacedemonians sent colonies to Croton in Italy and to the Locri by the Western headland. The war called the Messenian reached its height in the...

Locri

80 16.23715,38.20782,0 Lacedemonians ...against Messene had been fought to a finish, and Messenia was enslaved to the Lacedemonians, Polydorus, who had a great reputation at Sparta and was very popular with the...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eleusis ...a Persian; while the Megarians never succeeded in propitiating the deities at Eleusis for having encroached upon the sacred land. As to the tampering with the...

Eleusis

80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Athens ...would have prevented him from even seeing Greece at all, and from ever burning Athens, if the man of Trachis had not guided the army with Hydarnes by the path that...

Athens

81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...at Plataea. Pleistoanax had a son Pausanias; he was the Pausanias who invaded Attica, ostensibly to oppose Thrasybulus and the Athenians, but really to establish...

Attica

80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Argives ...to the throne, the first Peloponnesians against whom he waged war were the Argives. When he led his army from the territory of Tegea into that of Argos, the...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thyreatid ...the struggle of the Lacedemonians with the Argives for what is called the Thyreatid district. Theopompus personally took no part in the affair, chiefly because of...

Thyreatid

76 Troy ...was wrecked off Euboea in the storm. Many years later than the capture of Troy, Damarmenus, a fisherman from Eretria, cast a net into the sea and drew up the...

Troy

77 26.23873,39.9577,0 Olympia ...my account of the greatest altar, let me proceed to describe all the altars in Olympia. My narrative will follow in dealing with them the order in which the Eleans...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Altis ...the Eleans call streets what the Athenians call lanes. Well, there is in the Altis, when you are about to pass to the left of the Leonidaeum, an altar of...

Altis

80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleans ...Damophon, it is said, when tyrant of Pisa did much grievous harm to the Eleans. But when he died, since the people of Pisa refused to participate as a people...

Eleans

74 21.25,37.75,0 Aetolians ...accounts of them are given by the guides. Some have said that they are the Aetolians with Oxylus and the ancient Eleans, and that they are meeting in remembrance of...

Aetolians

77 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Altis ...but there stand in it statues of Roman emperors. The Metroum is within the Altis, and so is a round building called the Philippeum. On the roof of the...

Altis

77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Cronius ...along the road from the Metroum, there is on the left at the bottom of Mount Cronius a platform of stone, right by the very mountain, with steps through it. By the...

Cronius

79 Eleans ...rest of the information about these athletes comes from the guides of the Eleans, who say that it was at the hundred and seventy-eighth Festival that Eudelus...

Eleans

76 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...this Philostratus was a Rhodian. This account I found was at variance with the Elean record of Olympic victories. In this record it is stated that Strato of...

Elean

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...that one of the Eleans themselves has fallen so low. But it is said that the Elean Damonicus did so fall at the hundred and ninety second Festival. They say that...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Thronium ...the land of Abantis, set up here These images with heaven's help, tithe from Thronium." The land called Abantis and the town of Thronium in it were a part of the...

Thronium

79 22.725727,38.775841,0 Thronium ...heaven's help, tithe from Thronium." The land called Abantis and the town of Thronium in it were a part of the Thesprotian mainland over against the Ceraunian...

Thronium

79 22.725727,38.775841,0 Euboea ...Troy, Locrians from Thronium, a city on the river Boagrius, and Abantes from Euboea, with eight ships altogether, were driven on the Ceraunian mountains. Settling...

Euboea

79 Nemea ...daughters of Asopus, and Asopus himself. Their images have been ordered thus: Nemea is the first of the sisters, and after her comes Zeus seizing Aegina; by Aegina...

Nemea

80 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Leontini ...with Poseidon, and the same thing is said by Pindar of Thebe and Zeus. Men of Leontini have set up a Zeus, not at public expense but out of their private purse. The...

Leontini

81 15.002988,37.279759,0 Potidaeans ...also the Naxians and Cythnians, Styrians too from Euboea, after them Eleans, Potidaeans, Anactorians, and lastly the Chalcidians on the Euripus. Of these cities the...

Potidaeans

79 23.3278,40.1937,0 Lacedemonians ...is a bronze slab, on which are the terms of the Thirty-years Peace between the Lacedemonians and the Athenians. The Athenians made this peace after they had reduced Euboea...

Lacedemonians

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greece ...who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to stop the incursion of the Gauls into Greece. These Gauls inhabit the most remote portion of Europe, near a great sea that...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...although he desired it and came to Delphi to win it. Among the sayings of the Greeks is one that there were seven wise men. Two of them were the despot of Lesbos...

Greeks

81 22.5,37.5,0 cities ...Syracusans. The Carthaginians had crossed over and were destroying the Greek cities, and had sat down to invest Syracuse, the only one now remaining. When Pyrrhus...

cities

79 cities ...on which he made war against the Romans, how he crossed into Asia, and the cities he took by force of arms or made his friends, I must leave for those to find...

cities

77 cities ...had been blind to the danger and such as had sided with Macedon. Most of their cities Philip captured; with Athens he nominally came to terms, but really imposed the...

cities

81 towns ...but the Gauls, now south of the Gates, cared not at all to capture the other towns, but were very eager to sack Delphi and the treasures of the god. They were...

towns

79 city ...(Thrust aside) and the Triangle; the former is in an obscure part of the city, and in it the most trivial cases are tried; the latter is named from its...

city

75 city ...was the first Athenian to dedicate an altar to that god. The altar within the city called the altar of Anteros (Love Avenged) they say was dedicated by resident...

city

80 coast ...heard this from the envoys he abandoned Tarentum and the Italiots on the coast, and crossing into Sicily forced the Carthaginians to raise the siege of...

coast

75 tomb ...they say, a maid. It is customary for the girls to bring libations to the tomb of Iphiaoe and to offer a lock of their hair before their wedding, just as the...

tomb

76 Egyptians ...evacuated the country before Ptolemy, and having surprised a body of Egyptians, killed a few of them. Then on the arrival of Antigonus Ptolemy did not wait...

Egyptians

71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syrians ...against a benefactor. After the death of Antigonus, Ptolemy again reduced the Syrians and Cyprus, and also restored Pyrrhus to Thesprotia on the mainland. Cyrene...

Syrians

81 37.5,37.5,0 Halicarnassus ...know many wonderful graves, and will mention two of them, the one at Halicarnassus and one in the land of the Hebrews. The one at Halicarnassus was made for...

Halicarnassus

71 27.424112,37.037864,0 Achaeans ...and Pellene, and the greater part of Mount Chelydorea is inhabited by the Achaeans. As you go from Pheneus to the west, the left road leads to the city Cleitor...

Achaeans

76 Thessalians ...Philip and the Romans, but to judge the charges brought against Philip by the Thessalians and certain Epeirots. In actual fact Philip himself and the Macedonian...

Thessalians

80 21.75,39.25,0 Achaeans ...on their arrival at Rome made before the senate many accusations against the Achaeans, not all of which were true. More accusations still against the Achaeans were...

Achaeans

79 Achaeans ...Appius and other commissioners to arbitrate between the Lacedemonians and the Achaeans. The mere sight of Appius and his colleagues was sure to be displeasing to the...

Achaeans

80 Pheneus ...of madness). So it would appear that the Arcadians have in the water near Pheneus, called the Styx, a thing made to be a mischief to man, while the spring among...

Pheneus

76 22.30692,37.91045,0 Lacedemonian ...walls was restored by the Spartans right from the foundations. The restored Lacedemonian exiles carried on various intrigues against the Achaeans, hoping to vex them...

Lacedemonian

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aetolia ...an easy success. Despatches were at once sent by the senate to Athens and Aetolia, with instructions to bring back the Messenians and Achaeans to their...

Aetolia

76 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Achaeans ...and Achaeans to their homes. This caused the greatest vexation to the Achaeans. They bethought themselves of the injustice they had suffered at the hands of...

Achaeans

73 Lycuria ...the boundary between Pheneus and Cleitor. Advancing about fifty stades from Lycuria, you will come to the source of the Ladon. I heard that the water making a lake...

Lycuria

79 22.25,37.75,0 Ionia ...the Samian captains except eleven betrayed the Ionian fleet. After reducing Ionia the Persians enslaved Eretria also, the most famous citizens turning traitors...

Ionia

79 27.508324,37.474596,0 Stymphalian ...by the birds; but if they weave a garment of thick cork, the beaks of the Stymphalian birds are caught in the cork garment, just as the wings of small birds stick in...

Stymphalian

76 22.45931,37.85932,0 Aetolians ...the most abominable wretch in all Greece. There also came to Gallus the Aetolians living at Pleuron, who wished to detach themselves from the Achaean...

Aetolians

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Achaean ...the Aetolians living at Pleuron, who wished to detach themselves from the Achaean confederacy. Gallus allowed them to send on their own an embassy to Rome, and...

Achaean

76 Stymphalian ...so that by the next day the whole of the water was dried up that flooded the Stymphalian plain. Hereafter they put greater zeal into the festival in honor of...

Stymphalian

79 22.45931,37.85932,0 Oropus ...he was carrying out his instructions, the Athenian populace sacked Oropus, a state subject to them. The act was one of necessity rather than of...

Oropus

69 23.846116,38.291099,0 Athenians ...for aid, but these refused to give it out of friendship and respect for the Athenians. Thereupon the Oropians promised Menalcidas, a Lacedemonian who was then...

Athenians

78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartan ...declaration that the Roman senate had committed to them the right to condemn a Spartan to death. So the Achaeans claimed the right to try a Lacedemonian on a capital...

Spartan

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...general when he proclaimed a campaign; for Diaeus, who was in command of the Achaeans, declared that he would march to make war, not on Sparta but on those that were...

Achaeans

79 Sparta ...their country by the Romans. So they departed, underwent a nominal trial at Sparta, and were condemned to death. The Achaeans on their side despatched to Rome...

Sparta

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...with all the haste they could. If Damocritus had made a vigorous effort, the Achaeans could have dashed into the walls of Sparta along with the fugitives from the...

Achaeans

80 Achaeans ...a conference with them at Tegea in Arcadia, being most unwilling to summon the Achaeans to meet them in a general assembly. However, in the hearing of the Romans he...

Achaeans

81 Sparta ...Achaeans, and even introduced garrisons into them, to be Achaean bases against Sparta. The Lacedemonians elected Menalcidas to be their general against Diaeus, and...

Sparta

81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Achaeans ...that he would not confer with them without the general assembly of the Achaeans. When the envoys realized that they were being deceived, they departed for Rome...

Achaeans

73 Euboea ...with an armed force; at the second to compensate the Euboeans for laying waste Euboea; at the third to compensate the people of Amphissa for ravaging their territory...

Euboea

81 Mantineia ...was buried in their land. Perhaps, however, the Maera who came to the land of Mantineia was another, a descendant of Maera, the daughter of Atlas. There still remains...

Mantineia

80 22.393259,37.618138,0 Locris ...the Romans under Metellus had crossed the Spercheius, he fled to Scarpheia in Locris, without daring even to draw up the Achaeans in the pass between Heracleia and...

Locris

80 22.75,38.75,0 Arcadians ...near Chaeroneia. It was then that the vengeance of the Greek gods overtook the Arcadians, who were slain by the Romans on the very spot on which they had deserted from...

Arcadians

81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pheneus ...a spring, and at the end of the ravine is a place called Caryae. The plain of Pheneus lies below Caryae, and they say that once the water rose on it and flooded the...

Pheneus

81 22.30692,37.91045,0 Marathon ...following the example of Miltiades and the Athenians before the battle of Marathon, and enlisted from the cities of the Achaeans and Arcadians those who were of...

Marathon

76 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Oenoe ...than is the sanctuary of Apollo, and Chalcodon, not far from the spring called Oenoe. Nobody could admit that there fell in this battle the Chalcodon who was the...

Oenoe

81 Troy ...Cyprus if nobody had expelled him from his native city after his return from Troy? And who else would have driven him out except Telamon? So it is plain that...

Troy

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Lernaean ...more ancient days the Argives used to bring from this goddess fire for their Lernaean ceremonies. Going east from Pheneus you come to a mountain peak called...

Lernaean

79 22.71809,37.55107,0 Macedonia ...he was possessed of a strong desire to settle by himself the affairs of both Macedonia and Achaia. His efforts, however, were thwarted by the senselessness of...

Macedonia

79 21.75,41.25,0 Nonacris ...the left road leads to the city Cleitor, while on the right is the road to Nonacris and the water of the Styx. Of old Nonacris was a town of the Arcadians that was...

Nonacris

77 22.241203,38.014421,0 Styx ...says: "Witness now to this be Earth, and broad Heaven above, And the water of Styx down-flowing." These verses suggest that the poet had seen the water of the...

Styx

80 22.25,38.25,0 Achaeans ...to yield, Diaeus fled straight for Megalopolis, his conduct towards the Achaeans showing a marked contrast to that of Callistratus, the son of Empedus, towards...

Achaeans

74 Aroanian ...and purifications brought them down to a place called Lusi. Most of the Aroanian mountain belongs to Pheneus, but Lusi is on the borders of Cleitor. They say...

Aroanian

74 22.19903,37.98841,0 Corinth ...within the walls. But on the third day after the battle he proceeded to storm Corinth and to set it on fire. The majority of those found in it were put to the sword...

Corinth

80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Eleans ...who live on the river Orontes, and give the account of the Arcadians and Eleans. Oenomaus, prince of Pisa, had a son Leucippus. Leucippus fell in love with...

Eleans

75 21.25,37.75,0 Rome ...the inhabitants, even before assistant commissioners were despatched from Rome, and when these did arrive, he proceeded to put down democracies and to...

Rome

76 12.4843457,41.89262,0 Dorian ...of the heroes, as they are called, was deserted by its good fortune at the Dorian revolution. The people of Attica, reviving after the Peloponnesian war and the...

Dorian

77 22.25,38.75,0 Macedonia ...themselves again only to be struck down a few years later by the ascendancy of Macedonia. From Macedonia the wrath of Alexander swooped like a thunderbolt on Thebes of...

Macedonia

81 21.75,41.25,0 Achaean ...when painfully, like a shoot from a mutilated and mostly withered trunk, the Achaean power sprang up, it was cut short, while still growing, by the cowardice of its...

Achaean

79 Stymphalian ...even in modern times. In Stymphalus there is also an old sanctuary of Stymphalian Artemis, the image being of wood, for the most part gilded. Near the roof of...

Stymphalian

73 22.45931,37.85932,0 Arcadian ...city is clearly derived from Cepheus, the son of Aleus, but its form in the Arcadian dialect, Caphyae, is the one that has survived. The inhabitants say that...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadian ...Scotane. Now the road to Psophis passes by way of Soron, which, like other Arcadian groves, breeds the following beasts wild boars, bears, and tortoises of vast...

Arcadian

78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Dyme ...told that the natives also sacrifice to Sostratus as to a hero. The people of Dyme have a temple of Athena with an extremely ancient image; they have as well a...

Dyme

81 21.551425,38.144625,0 Aetolian ...islands have not been made mainland as yet by the Achelous is due to the Aetolian people, who have been driven from their homes and all their land has been laid...

Aetolian

75 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Psophis ...Thirdly, there is ancient writing on a slab:– "The boundary between Psophis and Thelpusa." In the Thelpusian territory is a river called Arsen (Male)...

Psophis

70 21.892903,37.871725,0 Patrae ...plots of the Titans, I will not contradict, but will leave it to the people of Patrae to explain the name Mesatis as they choose. When afterwards the Achaeans had...

Patrae

81 21.738518,38.243265,0 Argives ...with them agrees Antimachus also, who wrote a poem about the expedition of the Argives against Thebes. His verse runs thus: "There, they say, is the seat of Demeter...

Argives

81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Patrae ...to their love of agriculture, up and down the country, dwelling in, besides Patrae, the following towns: Mesatis, Antheia, Bolina, Argyra and Arba. But Augustus...

Patrae

78 21.738518,38.243265,0 Antheia ...down the country, dwelling in, besides Patrae, the following towns: Mesatis, Antheia, Bolina, Argyra and Arba. But Augustus, for some reason, perhaps because he...

Antheia

79 Calydon ...Augustus' orders to Nicopolis, but to Patrae he gave, with other spoils from Calydon, the image of Laphria, which even in my time was still worshipped on the...

Calydon

79 21.533106,38.372423,0 Argolid ...Pellene, which is the last city of Achaia in the direction of Sicyon and the Argolid. The city got its name, according to the account of the Pellenians, from...

Argolid

79 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Isthmus ...son of Dryon, who won prizes in the pancratium, one at Olympia, three at the Isthmus and two at Nemea. The Pellenians made two statues of him, dedicating one at...

Isthmus

79 22.992664,37.9158514,0 Argos ...the misfortunes of his children and because he shuddered at the mere name of Argos, and even more through dread of Danaus. There is also at Patrae a sanctuary of...

Argos

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Achaean ...Pellene borders on that of Sicyon is a Pellenian river Sythas, the last of the Achaean rivers, which flows into the Sicyonian sea.

Achaean

81 Alpheius ...the Eleans. The land of Elis, on the side of Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheius, borders on Messenia; on the side of Achaia it borders on the land of...

Alpheius

76 21.451667,37.6125,0 Triteia ...of Athena, and the modern image is of stone. The ancient image, as the folk of Triteia say, was carried to Rome. The people here are accustomed to sacrifice both to...

Triteia

81 22.315807,38.41224,0 Rhodes ...herald as of Thurii, for they had been pursued by their political enemies from Rhodes to Thurii in Italy. Dorieus subsequently returned to Rhodes. Of all men he most...

Rhodes

81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Rhodes ...enemies from Rhodes to Thurii in Italy. Dorieus subsequently returned to Rhodes. Of all men he most obviously showed his friendship with Sparta, for he...

Rhodes

75 28.15629,36.41451,0 Sipylus ...he remains a beast for ever. Similarly too it is said that Niobe on Mount Sipylus sheds tears in the season of summer. I have also heard that the griffins have...

Sipylus

77 27.45394,38.5668,0 Thyraeum ..."rich in sheep." Hypsus and . . . 3 founded Melaeneae and Hypsus, and also Thyraeum and Haemoniae. The Arcadians are of opinion that both the Thyrea in Argolis and...

Thyraeum

77 22.127148,37.513321,0 Elateia ...when hard pressed in war by the Phlegyans, and became the founder of the city Elateia. It is said that Azan had a son Cleitor, Apheidas a son Aleus, and that Elatus...

Elateia

80 22.782061,38.645635,0 Cyprus ...she offered it to her Athena, Sending it to her broad fatherland from divine Cyprus. When Agapenor did not return home from Troy, the kingdom devolved upon...

Cyprus

79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Elean ...to have become the best trainer of his day. After Iccus stands Pantarces the Elean, beloved of Pheidias, who beat the boys at wrestling. Next to Pantarces is the...

Elean

80 21.25,37.75,0 Tegea ...the land of Tegea with an army. They were defeated in battle by the people of Tegea, who, men and women alike, flew to arms; the whole army, including Charillus...

Tegea

80 22.429,37.464,0 Orchomenus ...There is a sanctuary of Artemis, surnamed Hymnia, standing on the borders of Orchomenus, near the territory of Mantineia. Artemis Hymnia has been worshipped by all the...

Orchomenus

79 22.31536,37.724716,0 Lacedemon ...was stoned by the Arcadians, who discovered that he had received bribes from Lacedemon, and that the Messenian disaster at the Great Ditch was caused by the treachery...

Lacedemon

79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicily ...of Pyrrhus. When the Romans went to war with Carthage for the possession of Sicily, the Carthaginians held more than half the island, and Hiero sided with them at...

Sicily

78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Argives ...out of the sea by what is called Genethlium in Argolis. In olden times the Argives cast horses adorned with bridles down into Dine as an offering to Poseidon. Not...

Argives

77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Elis ...of Aratus was dedicated by the Corinthians, that of Areus by the people of Elis. I have already given some account of both Aratus and Areus, and Aratus was...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Thebans ...reference to the rest of the Arcadian people. So through their fear of the Thebans they openly changed sides and joined the Lacedemonian confederacy, and when the...

Thebans

77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Mantineans ...Ten generations afterwards, when Hadrian became Emperor, he took away from the Mantineans the name imported from Macedonia, and gave back to their city its old name of...

Mantineans

81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Athenian ...next to Grylus was Cephisodorus of Marathon, who at the time commanded the Athenian horse. The third place for valor they give to Podares. There are roads leading...

Athenian

77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedemonians ...As they gave way they gradually made their formation crescent-shaped. The Lacedemonians under Agis, thinking that victory was theirs, pressed in close order yet harder...

Lacedemonians

76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Megalopolitans ...ancestor, ninth in descent, of' Leocydes, who with Lydiades was general of the Megalopolitans, is said by the Arcadians to have seen, when dwelling in Lycosura, the sacred...

Megalopolitans

81 22.126238,37.414256,0 Oresthasium ...saw no return for them; but if they took with them one hundred picked men from Oresthasium, these would die in the battle, but through them the Phigalians would be...

Oresthasium

81 22.206506,37.345994,0 Phigalians ...fought and met their end gloriously; expelling the Spartans they enabled the Phigalians to recover their native land. Phigalia lies on high land that is for the most...

Phigalians

79 21.8391,37.3963,0 Phigalians ...At the place where the Neda approaches nearest to Phigalia the boys of the Phigalians cut off their hair in honor of the river. Near the sea the Neda is navigable...

Phigalians

77 21.8391,37.3963,0 Rhodes ...But when he was twenty years old he met his death before he returned home to Rhodes. The feat of the Rhodian wrestler at Olympia was in my opinion surpassed by...

Rhodes

79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Altis ...with him. It is further stated that Milo carried his own statue into the Altis. His feats with the pomegranate and the quoit are also remembered by tradition...

Altis

76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Arcadians ...father was Hermes. Sent out to establish a colony at the head of a company of Arcadians from Pallantium, he founded a city on the banks of the river Tiber. That part...

Arcadians

80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Plataea ...soothsayer in the Greek army that fought against Mardonius and the Persians at Plataea. By the side of this Hieronymus is a statue of a boy wrestler, also of Andros...

Plataea

81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Triphylia ...Isthmus. The statue of the boy runner Xenon, son of Calliteles from Lepreus in Triphylia, was made by Pyrilampes the Messenan; who made the statue of Cleinomachus of...

Triphylia

81 21.75,37.75,0 Athenaeum ...is a temple of Athena with a stone image in it. About twenty stades away from Athenaeum are ruins of Asea, and the hill that once was the citadel has traces of...

Athenaeum

81 22.258894,37.277285,0 Megalopolis ...after his return from Troy. What is called the Dyke is the boundary between Megalopolis on the one hand and Tegea and Pallantium on the other. The plain of Pallantium...

Megalopolis

79 22.126238,37.414256,0 Lacedemonians ...include the Trojan war, the Persian wars and the battle at Dipaea with the Lacedemonians, the Tegeans have, besides the deeds already mentioned, the following claims of...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonians ...him in the fight. The Tegeans again were the first Arcadians to overcome Lacedemonians; when invaded they defeated their enemies and took most of them prisoners. The...

Lacedemonians

75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Aetolians ...became leader of the garrison at Naupactus because of his friendship with the Aetolians. Not far from the statue of Timon stands Hellas, and by Hellas stands Elis...

Aetolians

80 21.759714990476194,38.51586100952381,0 Arcadians ...boxing-match, Leonidas from Naxos in the Aegean, a statue dedicated by the Arcadians of Psophis, a statue of Asamon, victor in the men's boxing-match, and a statue...

Arcadians

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Achaeans ...the finest cavalry in Greece. In the battle at the river Larisus between the Achaeans with their allies and the Eleans with the Aetolians, who were helping the...

Achaeans

79 Eleans ...in foot-races of various kinds at the Nemean games. Asamon and Nicander were Eleans the statue of the latter was made by Daippus, that of Asamon by the Messenian...

Eleans

79 21.25,37.75,0 Lacedemonian ...of Elis won victories in the boys' boxing-match, Seleadas the Lacedemonian in the men's wrestling-match. Here too is dedicated a small chariot of the...

Lacedemonian

64 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemonian ...Philopoemen, however, with the phalanx of infantry put to flight the Lacedemonian men-at-arms, met Machanidas returning from the pursuit and killed him. The...

Lacedemonian

71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedemon ...The inscription declares that the distance from Olympia to another slab at Lacedemon is six hundred and sixty furlongs. Theodorus gained a victory in the...

Lacedemon

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Altis ...are the most remarkable sights that meet a man who goes over the Altis according to the instructions I have given. But if you will go to the right...

Altis

67 21.630126,37.637849,0 Messene ...citadel; but when on the morrow Philopoemen arrived with an army, he evacuated Messene under a truce. When Philopoemen's term of office as general expired, and...

Messene

81 21.920439,37.175491,0 Lacedemonians ...this reason, and because of his courage shown against both the despots, the Lacedemonians offered him the house of Nabis, worth more than a hundred talents. But he...

Lacedemonians

78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...son of Mnaseas the runner, surnamed the Libyan by the Greeks. His offerings at Olympia are the work of Pythagoras of Rhegium. Here too I remember discovering the...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedemonian ...and said that he was hastening on the doom of Greece. Manius wished the Lacedemonian exiles to return, but Philopoemen opposed his plan, and only when Manius had...

Lacedemonian

74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...and Artemis, but afterwards a severe famine fell on the land, and an oracle of Delphi ordered a mourning for Scephrus. At the feast of the Lord of Streets rites are...

Delphi

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tegeans ...was snowing, these were chilled, and thus distressed by their armour, but the Tegeans, without their enemies knowing it, lighted a fire. So untroubled by the cold...

Tegeans

80 22.429,37.464,0 Locrians ...its head plated with gold. The inscription says that it was dedicated by the Locrians who live near the Western Cape, and that the artist was Patrocles of Crotona...

Locrians

79 16.23715,38.20782,0 Sybarites ...was made for the Epidamnians by Pyrrhus and his sons Lacrates and Hermon. The Sybarites too built a treasury adjoining that of the Byzantines. Those who have studied...

Sybarites

81 16.771002,39.590607,0 Thyrea ...Alpheius, and unites its water with Arethusa. The straight road from Tegea to Thyrea and to the villages its territory contains can show a notable sight in the tomb...

Thyrea

81 Achaeans ...and occupied the land called of old Aegialus, but now called Achaea from these Achaeans. The Arcadians, on the other hand, have from the beginning to to the present...

Achaeans

81 Achaia ...sent to the country. The Romans call him the Governor, not of Greece, but of Achaia, because the cause of the subjection of Greece was the Achaeans, at that time...

Achaia

79 Elis ...after my researches into Achaean history. The boundary between Achaia and Elis is the river Larisus, and by the river is a temple of Larisaean Athena; about...

Elis

76 21.37493,37.89131,0 Sangarius ...up from it an almond-tree with its fruit ripe, and a daughter of the river Sangarius, they say, took of the fruit and laid it in her bosom, when it at once...

Sangarius

77 30.592850650000003,40.99129035,0 Olympic ...Wherefore Oebotas pronounced a curse that no Achaean in future should win an Olympic victory. There must have been some god who was careful that the curse of...

Olympic

79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olenus ...Heracles and his labours have found a favorite subject in Dexamenus, king of Olenus, and the entertainment Heracles received at his court. That Olenus was from the...

Olenus

79 21.640599,38.153707,0 Argives ...from the Argives, for at the time Heracles had his home at Tiryns. When the Argives refused them satisfaction, the Eleans as an alternative pressed the Corinthians...

Argives

78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionians ...I must first describe what the condition of affairs was at his arrival. The Ionians who lived in Aroe, Antheia and Mesatis had in common a precinct and a temple of...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Ionians ...a precinct and a temple of Artemis surnamed Triclaria, and in her honor the Ionians used to celebrate every year a festival and an all-night vigil. The priesthood...

Ionians

78 27.508324,37.474596,0 Cyaneae ...alive or dead. This water partakes to this extent of truth, but close to Cyaneae by Lycia, where there is an oracle of Apollo Thyrxeus, the water shows to him...

Cyaneae

76 29.125,41.125,0 Elis ...died at Troy. Amphimachus begat Eleius, and it was while Eleius was king in Elis that the assembly of the Dorian army under the sons of Aristomachus took place...

Elis

79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Areopagus ...the Athenians received from Zeus of Dodona the following verses: "Consider the Areopagus, and the smoking altars Of the Eumenides, where the Lacedemonians are to be thy...

Areopagus

81 Argives ...territory, and shortly afterwards they rose up with the Mantineans and Argives against the Lacedemonians, inducing Athens too to join the alliance. When Agis...

Argives

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mycenaeans ...as it was like the wall of Tiryns by the Cyclopes, as they are called, yet the Mycenaeans were forced to leave their city through lack of provisions. Some of them...

Mycenaeans

81 22.756111,37.730833,0 Achaean ...From this Crathis the river too by Crotona in Italy has been named. By the Achaean Crathis once stood Aegae, a city of the Achaeans. In course of time, it is...

Achaean

78 Lepreus ...as have won Olympic victories have been announced by the herald as Eleans from Lepreus, and Aristophanes in a comedy calls Lepreus a town of the Eleans. Leaving the...

Lepreus

81 21.724777,37.439599,0 Anigrus ...fish-life at all. After the rivers unite, the fish that come down into the Anigrus with the water are uneatable, though before, if they are caught in the Acidas...

Anigrus

77 Acidas ...Anigrus with the water are uneatable, though before, if they are caught in the Acidas, they are eatable. I heard from an Ephesian that the Acidas was called...

Acidas

81 Arene ...the Anigrus; and, although it might be questioned whether Samicum was called Arene, yet the Arcadians are agreed that of old the Anigrus was called the Minyeius...

Arene

79 21.59852,37.53384,0 Elis ...utterly destroyed it. The Lacedemonians afterwards separated Scillus from Elis and gave it to Xenophon, the son of Grylus, when he had been exiled from...

Elis

77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Gortyna ...Megalopolis; the Brentheates comes out of the territory of that city; past Gortyna, where is a sanctuary of Asclepius, flows the Gortynius; from Melaeneae...

Gortyna

77 24.9469437222,35.0627201667,0 Megalopolis ...of Asclepius, flows the Gortynius; from Melaeneae, between the territories of Megalopolis and Heraea, comes the Buphagus; from the land of the Clitorians the Ladon; from...

Megalopolis

80 22.126238,37.414256,0 Peiraeus ...Molpadia also there is a monument among the Athenians. As you go up from the Peiraeus you see the ruins of the walls which Conon restored after the naval battle off...

Peiraeus

80 23.644609,37.937222,0 Peirithous and Theseus ...a monument to Antiope the Amazon. This Antiope, Pindar says, was carried of by Peirithous and Theseus, but Hegias of Troezen gives the following account of her. Heracles was...

Peirithous and Theseus

81 Tholos ...digression. Near to the Council Chamber of the Five Hundred is what is called Tholos (Round House); here the presidents sacrifice, and there are a few small statues...

Tholos

81 Mount Agdistis ...Silenus. Well then, the Pergameni took Ancyra and Pessinus which lies under Mount Agdistis, where they say that Attis lies buried. They have spoils from the Gauls, and a...

Mount Agdistis

78 30.71494,39.198474,0 Egypt ...with warships from the river. Antigonus now abandoned all hope of reducing Egypt in the circumstances, and dispatched Demetrius against the Rhodians with a...

Egypt

77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 tomb ...she died he made her a tomb which is the most noteworthy of all the old Greek tombs. There is a sanctuary in which are set statues of Demeter, her daughter...

tomb

80 Argolis ...as a reason that freebooters from the Cynurian territory were harrying Argolis, the Argives being their kinsmen, and that the Cynurians themselves openly made...

Argolis

73 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Argive ...to be subjects of the Lacedemonians, neither did any trouble befall from the Argive people. But in the reign of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates – for destiny was by...

Argive

79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Nicomedian ...in the sanctuary of Athena at Phaselis, and by the sword of Memnon in the Nicomedian temple of Asclepius. The point and butt-spike of the spear and the whole of the...

Nicomedian

76 29.923486,40.76445,0 Aegina ...Orgas, which was sacred to the deities in Eleusis. He advanced as far as Aegina, and proceeded to arrest such influential Aeginetans as had shown Persian...

Aegina

75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Delphians ...of Argus; the Athenians say that it was because he had devastated Orgas; the Delphians put it down to the bribes he gave the Pythian prophetess, persuading her to...

Delphians

79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Hellespont ...he led the Lacedemonians to Plataea, and afterwards with their fleet to the Hellespont. I cannot praise too highly the way in which Pausanias treated the Coan lady...

Hellespont

78 26.4,40.2,0 Arcadia ...was too late for the fight, having been collecting forces from Tegea and Arcadia generally; when he finally reached Boeotia, although he heard of the defeat of...

Arcadia

75 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Argives ...showed in the case of Pausanias and of Leotychides before him, and the Argives in the case of Chrysis; they never wanted even to ask for these refugees, who...

Argives

73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Alpheius ...of the image of Zeus they have dedicated images of Pelops and of the river Alpheius respectively. The greater part of the city of Cnidus is built on the Carian...

Alpheius

77 21.451667,37.6125,0 Ephesians ...of this quarter who dedicated to Zeus the offerings at Olympia, just as if Ephesians living in what is called Coresus were to say that they had dedicated an...

Ephesians

77 27.339722,37.941944,0 Achaean ...but is said to be another offering of Mummius made from the plunder of the Achaean war. But the Zeus in the Council Chamber is of all the images of Zeus the one...

Achaean

77 Zancle ...sculptors, and though his date is uncertain, he was clearly born before Zancle took its present name of Messene. The Thasians, who are Phoenicians by...

Zancle

74 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Thasos ...and he holds a club in his right hand and a bow in his left. They told me in Thasos that they used to worship the same Heracles as the Tyrians, but that...

Thasos

79 24.717535,40.78201,0 Argive ...of Micythus: Amphitrite, Poseidon and Hestia; the artist was Glaucus the Argive. Along the left side of the great temple Micythus dedicated other offerings...

Argive

75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Boeotia ...built on the Euxine sea, a colony of Megara, though the people of Tanagra in Boeotia joined in the settlement. Opposite the offerings I have enumerated are others...

Boeotia

79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Arcadian ...first part of which is not metrical. It runs thus: "Phormis dedicated me, an Arcadian of Maenalus, now of Syracuse. This is the horse in which is, say the Eleans...

Arcadian

79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Mendeans ...the roof of the Heraeum was being repaired in my time. The offering of the Mendeans in Thrace came very near to beguiling me into the belief that it was a...

Mendeans

78 23.419,39.964,0 Olympic ...of racehorses and those of men, whether athletes or ordinary folk. Not all the Olympic victors have had their statues erected; some, in fact, who have distinguished...

Olympic

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Pytho ...ribbon. Polycles, as the inscription on him says, also won the chariot-race at Pytho, the Isthmus and Nemea. The statue of a pancratiast was made by Lysippus. The...

Pytho

81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedemonians ...offence he was scourged by the umpires, and on account of this Lichas the Lacedemonians invaded Elis in the reign of King Agis, when a battle took place within the...

Lacedemonians

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Milesian ...gifts, proclaimed himself a Milesian and wrote upon his statue that he was of Milesian descent and the first Ionian to dedicate his statue at Olympia. The artist who...

Milesian

80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Eleans ...of Timon and of his son were made by Daedalus of Sicyon, who also made for the Eleans the trophy in the Altis commemorating the victory over the Spartans. The...

Eleans

81 21.25,37.75,0 Elean ...Nemean games. The inscription on his statue adds that, when commander of the Elean cavalry, he set up trophies and killed in single combat the general of the...

Elean

79 21.25,37.75,0 Ambraciot ...verdict in favour of Eupolemus and one declared the winner to be Leon the Ambraciot. Leon, they say, got the Olympic Council to fine each of the umpires who had...

Ambraciot

76 20.95316,39.04107,0 Nemea ...of Antiochus, competed successfully in the pentathlum both at Olympia and at Nemea, but clearly kept away, just like other Eleans, from the Isthmian games. It is...

Nemea

79 22.7108171,37.808904,0 Samians ...Lysander, hast thou won, and art famed for valour." So plainly "the Samians and the rest of the Ionians," as the Ionians themselves phrase it, painted both...

Samians

71 26.84,37.73,0 Ephesian ...the world in paying court to strength. Next to the statue of Lysander is an Ephesian boxer who beat the other boys, his competitors – his name was Athenaeus, – and...

Ephesian

79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Messene ...Sostratus is a statue of Leontiscus, a man wrestler, a native of Sicily from Messene on the Strait. He was crowned, they say, by the Amphictyons and twice by the...

Messene

79 21.920439,37.175491,0 Rhegium ...one. They say that he studied under Clearchus, who was likewise a native of Rhegium, and a pupil of Eucheirus. Eucheirus, it is said, was a Corinthian, and...

Rhegium

78 15.649244,38.111146,0 Delphi ...an Achaean of Patrae, won two prizes for men wrestlers at Olympia, one at Delphi, four at the Isthmus and three at the Nemean games. He was buried at the public...

Delphi

76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympus ...his supplies. These lions often roam right into the land around Mount Olympus, one side of which is turned towards Macedonia, and the other towards Thessaly...

Olympus

73 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Peneius ...is turned towards Macedonia, and the other towards Thessaly and the river Peneius. Here on Mount Olympus Polydamas slew a lion, a huge and powerful beast...

Peneius

76 21.75,39.75,0 Olympia ...his exploits enumerated, some are represented on the pedestal of the statue at Olympia, and others are set forth in the inscription. But after all, the prophecy of...

Olympia

81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Athenian ...a wrestler from Phigalia, was made by Daedalus of Sicyon; that of the Athenian Callias, a pancratiast, is by the Athenian painter Micon. Nicodamus the...

Athenian

72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Maenalian ...Callias, a pancratiast, is by the Athenian painter Micon. Nicodamus the Maenalian made the statue of the Maenalian pancratiast Androsthenes, the son of Lochaeus...

Maenalian

74 22.265891,37.549491,0 Locris ...and produces the marvel of the grasshoppers. For the grasshoppers within Locris as far as the Caecinus sing just like others, but across the Caecinus in the...

Locris

75 22.75,38.75,0 Temesa ...and a spring, Lyca. Besides, there were a hero-shrine and the city of Temesa, and in the midst was the ghost that Euthymus cast out. Horribly black in...

Temesa

72 16.1315,39.03644,0 Plataeans ...were restored to Boeotia by Philip the son of Amyntas, as were also the Plataeans. When Alexander had destroyed the city of the Thebans themselves, Cassander the...

Plataeans

74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Trojans ...the invention of Homer, the coming of the two Greek spies by night among the Trojans, instead of one and later a man coming to Troy, who pretends to be a deserter...

Trojans

79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sicyon ...Philip, son of Demetrius, captured Messene. I have already, in my account of Sicyon, narrated most of the crimes of Perseus against Philip himself and against...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Messene ...by the Arcadians in the time of Aristomenes and again at the founding of Messene now repaid the like. Such, it would seem, are the vicissitudes of human...

Messene

75 21.920439,37.175491,0 Arcadia ...Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here. On the road from Thuria towards Arcadia are the springs of the Pamisus, at which little children find cures. A road...

Arcadia

77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenians ...who was worshipped by them above all the gods, had the title Laphria, and the Messenians who received Naupactus from the Athenians, being at that time close neighbors...

Messenians

80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Haliartus ...inland from Thespiae you come to Haliartus. The question who became founder of Haliartus and Coroneia I cannot separate from my account of Orchomenus. At the Persian...

Haliartus

81 23.088416,38.379818,0 Lacedemonians ...even the Persians who landed at Marathon received from the Athenians, and the Lacedemonians themselves who fell at Thermopylae received from King Xerxes. Lysander brought...

Lacedemonians

80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...and so they were not used to acquiring wealth, yet Lysander aroused in the Spartans a strong desire for riches. I for my part follow the Persians, and judge by the...

Spartans

77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Haliartus ...I could not discover either to whom these temples were built. In the land of Haliartus there is a river Lophis. It is said that the land was originally arid and...

Haliartus

80 23.088416,38.379818,0 Orchomenus ...to the Roman character, but quite consistent with his treatment of Thebes and Orchomenus. But in Alalcomenae he added yet another to his crimes by stealing the image of...

Orchomenus

80 22.31536,37.724716,0 Thebans ...Thebes. Victorious in the battle, they then came to an agreement that the Thebans should pay tribute each year for the murder of Clymenus. But when Heracles had...

Thebans

76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Antigonus ...sent by Ptolemy, son of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, to help the Athenians, when Antigonus, son of Demetrius, was ravaging their country, which he had invaded with an...

Antigonus

77 21.75,41.25,0 sea ...near the sea stand a Zeus and a Demos, the work of Leochares. And by the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedemonian...

sea

75 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Cnidians ...crushed the Lacedemonian warships off Cnidus in the Carian peninsula. For the Cnidians hold Aphrodite in very great honor, and they have sanctuaries of the goddess...

Cnidians

80 27.37404,36.686188,0 Coliad promontory ...antiquities know that it belongs to Androgeos. Twenty stades away is the Coliad promontory; on to it, when the Persian fleet was destroyed, the wrecks were carried down...

Coliad promontory

76 23.625,37.875,0 Phalerus ...Unknown, and of heroes, and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus; for this Phalerus is said by the Athenians to have sailed with Jason to Colchis. There is also an...

Phalerus

80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ionia ...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...

Ionia

81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Corinth ...and into the land of the Aetolians, their enemies, he ravaged their territory. Corinth was held by Antigonus, and there was a Macedonian garrison in the city, but he...

Corinth

81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Peloponnesus ...succeeded to the throne. In his reign the Messenians were expelled from the Peloponnesus, being vanquished for the second time by the Spartans. Anaxidamus begat...

Peloponnesus

78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...Asia and to be in command of the land forces, sent round to all parts of the Peloponnesus, except Argos, and to the Greeks north of the Isthmus, asking for allies. Now...

Peloponnesus

79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...the disasters of the Messenians, and the length of their exile from the Peloponnesus, even after their return wrapped in darkness much of their ancient history, and...

Peloponnesus

74 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesus ...the bondage in which they had been to the Lacedemonians in Sparta. All the Peloponnesus, except the Isthmus of Corinth, is surrounded by sea, but the best shell-fish...

Peloponnesus

77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Greece ...the Greeks; so Leonidas was overwhelmed and the foreigners passed along into Greece. Pausanias the son of Cleombrotus never became king. For while guardian of...

Greece

79 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...Timocrates, a Rhodian, to Greece with money, instructing him to stir up in Greece a war against the Lacedemonians. Those who shared in this money are said to...

Greece

77 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...was this Talthybius whose wrath at the murder of the heralds, who were sent to Greece by king Dareius to demand earth and water, left its mark upon the whole state...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Italy ...is said to have been dedicated by the colonists who left for Tarentum in Italy. As to the place they call the Hellenium, it has been stated that those of the...

Italy

76 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...For when war had arisen between the people of Crotona and the Locri in Italy, the Locri, in virtue of the relationship between them and the Opuntians...

Italy

73 12.5,42.5,0 Nicomedian temple of Asclepius ...in the sanctuary of Athena at Phaselis, and by the sword of Memnon in the Nicomedian temple of Asclepius. The point and butt-spike of the spear and the whole of the sword are made of...

Nicomedian temple of Asclepius

76 Sicyon ...ceased to be ruled by kings, I have already shown in my account of Aratus of Sicyon. My narrative also included the manner of his death in Egypt. So of the family...

Sicyon

79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Greeks ...the Athenians from the sons of Peisistratus and won a good report among the Greeks both for himself personally and for the Lacedemonians; while the second...

Greeks

78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...forces, sent round to all parts of the Peloponnesus, except Argos, and to the Greeks north of the Isthmus, asking for allies. Now the Corinthians were most eager...

Greeks

80 22.5,37.5,0 sanctuary of the Lady of the Lake ...son succeeded to the throne, in whose reign the Messenians murdered, in the sanctuary of the Lady of the Lake, Teleclus the king of the other house. Nicander also invaded Argolis with an...

sanctuary of the Lady of the Lake

78 Peloponnesians ...Athena Alea. Now this sanctuary had been respected from early days by all the Peloponnesians, and afforded peculiar safety to its suppliants, as the Lacedemonians showed in...

Peloponnesians

80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Asia ...out a plan by which to force the Lacedemonians to recall their army from Asia. He sent Timocrates, a Rhodian, to Greece with money, instructing him to stir...

Asia

75 31.033254534661616,39.64014749138555,0 of Zeus of the Market-place ...dances in honor of Apollo. Not far from them is a sanctuary of Earth and of Zeus of the Market-place, another of Athena of the Market-place and of Poseidon surnamed Securer, and...

of Zeus of the Market-place

75 of Hera ...Market-place and of Poseidon surnamed Securer, and likewise one of Apollo and of Hera. There is also dedicated a colossal statue of the Spartan People. The...

of Hera

80 Greece ...army of Xerxes, burning down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest...

Greece

75 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...the sufferings of Oedipus should be left throughout the length and breadth of Greece. At his birth they pieced his ankles with goads and exposed him on Mount...

Greece

80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...of Persian wicker shields. I have made some mention of the Gallic invasion of Greece in my description of the Athenian Council Chamber. But I have resolved to give...

Greece

81 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...talks with individual Gallic officers, strongly urged a campaign against Greece, enlarging on the weakness of Greece at the time, on the wealth of the Greek...

Greece

75 22.5,37.5,0