* Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 1. 3, 3. 19. 4 ( 160 – 176 CE )

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Pausanias does not mention it in his 2nd century AD Description of Greece.

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The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

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* Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by W. H. S. Jones ; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. ( 1918 ).

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* Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book III.

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Parthenius ' tale, based on the Hellenistic historian Phylarchus, was known to Pausanias, who recounted it in his Description of Greece ( 2nd century AD ).

* Pausanias, Description of Greece ix. 41. 2

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* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

Pausanias, in travelling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures ( see xoana ) that impressed him: " All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.

A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself ( Guide to Greece, 9. 31. 7 ).

Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus.

Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.

** The Battle of Plataea in Boeotia ends the Persian invasions of Greece as the Persian general Mardonius is routed by the Greeks under Pausanias, nephew of the former Spartan King, Leonidas I.

" Certainly, when Pausanias toured Greece about a century after Plutarch, he found Pan's shrines, sacred caves and sacred mountains still very much frequented.

On the Greek mainland, at Olympia, an archaic shrine with an inner cella sacred to the serpent-savior of the city ( Sosipolis ) and to Eileithyia was seen by the traveller Pausanias in the 2nd century AD ( Greece vi. 20. 1 – 3 ); in it a virgin-priestess cared for a serpent that was " fed " on honeyed barley-cakes and water — an offering suited to Demeter.

The legends about Adrastus and the two wars against Thebes have furnished ample materials for the epic as well as tragic poets of Greece, and some works of art relating to the stories about Adrastus are mentioned in Pausanias.

However, Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias and Plutarch all give the figure of 9, 000 Athenians and 1, 000 Plateans ; while Justin suggests that there were 10, 000 Athenians and 1, 000 Plataeans.

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

Other details are given by Pausanias ( 10. 5. 9-13 ) and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( 294 ff .).

According to Pausanias the geographer ( 3. 19. 9 – 10 ): " The account of the Rhodians is different.

Most accounts, including Pausanias ( 10. 28 ) and later Dante's Inferno ( 3. 78 ), associate Charon with the swamps of the river Acheron.

Pausanias ( 5. 10. 4, 8. 47. 5, many other places ), a geographer of the second century A. D., supplies the details of where and how the Gorgons were represented in Greek art and architecture.

Battles between Lapiths and Centaurs were depicted in the sculptured friezes on the Parthenon, recalling Athenian Theseus ' treaty of mutual admiration with Pirithous the Lapith, leader of the Magnetes, and on Zeus ' temple at Olympia ( Pausanias, v. 10. 8 ).

128, 181 ; Pausanias 1. 7. 2, 5. 10. 8 ; Strabo ix. 39 ; Horace Carmine i. 18.

Pausanias 10. 4. 9 daulis means thicket )( Hes. daulon fire log )

A temple to Persephone at Sparta was attributed to Abaris by Pausanias ( 9. 10 ).

* Nicostratus of Cilicia, a victor at the ancient Olympic Games ( according to Pausanias ' Description of Greece, 5. 21. 10 )

Pausanias claimed ( 10. 14. 1 ) that the Sibyl was " born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph ".

( Pausanias 10. 12. 3 )

The Ancient Greek aphorism " Know thyself ", Greek:, English phonetics pronunciation: ( also with the ε contracted ), was inscribed in the pronaos ( forecourt ) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek periegetic ( travelogue ) writer Pausanias ( 10. 24. 1 ).