Volume 1

Pausanias' Description of Greece / translated into English with notes and index by Arthur Richard Shilleto.

  • Pausânias.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Pausanias' Description of Greece / translated into English with notes and index by Arthur Richard Shilleto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had to blockade Nissea, into which Nisus had fled for refuge. And here they say the daughter of Nisus, who was ena- moured of Minos, cut off her father’s locks. This is the story. Now the rivers of Attica are the Ilissus and the Eridanus that flows into it, having the same name as the Celtic Eridanus. The Ilissus is the river where the}’ say Orithyia was playing when carried off hy the North Wind, who married her, and hecause of his affinity with the Athenians aided them and destroyed many of the Ijar- harians’ ships. And the Athenians think the Ilissus sacred to several gods, and there is an altar also on its hanks to the Muses. The place is also shewn where the Peloponnesians slew Codrus, the son of Melanthus, the king of Athens. After you cross the Ilissus is a place called Agrae, and a temple of Artemis Agrotera, {The Huvtress}, for here they say Artemis first hunted on her arrival from Delos: accordingly her statue has a how. And what is hardly credihle to hear, hut wonderful to see, is a stadium of white marhle ; one can easily conjec- ture its size in the following manner. Ahove the Ilissus is a hili, and this stadium extends from the river to the hili in a crescent-shaped form. It was huilt hy Herodes an Athenian, and most of the Pentelican quarry was used in its construction. CHAPTER XX. OW there is a way from the Prytaneum called The -t ^ Tripods, so called from some large temples of the gods there and some hi*azen tripods in them, which contain many works of art especially worthy of mention. For there is a Satyr on wdiich Praxiteles is said to have prided himself very much: and when Phryne once asked which was the finest of his works, they say that he offered to giye it her like a lover, hut would not say which he thought his finest Work. A servant of Phryne at this moment ran up, and said that most of Praxiteles’ works were destroved hy a sndden fi re that had soized the huilding where they were, hut that they were not all hurnt. Praxiteles at once rushed