According to Pausanias, writing in the 2nd century AD, the term ' Achaean ' was originally given to those Greeks inhabiting the Argolis and Laconia.

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

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " 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 height of two cubits.

The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.

According to Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ), the torch relay, called lampadedromia or lampadephoria, was first instituted at Athens in honor of Prometheus.

Pausanias, writing in the late 2nd century, records five different versions of what happened to Medea's children after reporting that he has seen a monument for them while traveling in Corinth.

Pausanias states that in the middle of the 2nd century AD, the remains of an egg-shell, tied up in ribbons, were still suspended from the roof of a temple on the Spartan acropolis.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in the 2nd century AD, he was shown the very bridal chamber where Zeus visited her and begat Dionysus.

A very detailed description of the sculpture and its throne was recorded by the traveler Pausanias, in the 2nd century AD.

In the late 2nd century CE, within the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, Pausanias saw a temple of Palaemon,

When Pausanias visited Argos in the 2nd century CE, he related the succession of Danaus to the throne, judged by the Argives, who " from the earliest times ... have loved freedom and self-government, and they limited to the utmost the authority of their kings :"

In the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias attests to a Magnesian ( Lydian ) cult to " the Mother of the Gods ", whose image was carved into a rock-spur of Mount Sipylus.

He was worshipped in Argos with an eternal fire that was shown to Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, and funeral sacrifices were offered to him at his tomb-sanctuary.

According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD, there were three original Muses: Aoidē (" song " or " voice "), Meletē (" practice " or " occasion "), and Mnēmē (" memory ").

Under Athenian hegemony, however, she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias:

But Pausanias writing in the 2nd century AD reported another early source ( now lost ): " The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to Eileithyia, styles her ' the clever spinner ', clearly identifying her with Fate, and makes her older than Cronus .” Being the youngest born to Gaia, Cronus was a Titan of the first generation and he was identified as the father of Zeus.

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 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

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

A relic was being shown in Amathus in Cyprus, in the time of Pausanias ( 2nd century CE ):

* Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 38. 1 ( 2nd c. AD )

The sculpture was located where Pausanias had seen it in the late 2nd century AD.

By the time the traveller Pausanias visited Dodona in the 2nd century CE, the sacred grove had been reduced to a single oak.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in Boeotia, in the second century AD, he was shown Hector's tomb and was told that the bones had been transported to Thebes according to a Delphic oracle.

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 ).

In the second century BC, the Greek geographer Pausanias relates the story of Lycaon, who was transformed into a wolf because he had ritually murdered a child.

When Pausanias visited the city of Triteia in the second century CE, he was told that the name of the city was derived from an eponymous Triteia, a daughter of Triton, and that it claimed to have been founded by her son ( with Ares ), one among several mythic heroes named Melanippus (" Black Horse ").

The love story of Rhadine made her supposed tomb on the island of Samos a pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers in the time of Pausanias and Erato was linked again with love in Plato's Phaedrus ; nevertheless, even in the third century BCE, when Apollonius wrote, the Muses were not yet as inextricably linked to specific types of poetry as they became.

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

As a youth he worked at a vineyard until, according to the 2nd-century AD geographer Pausanias, the god Dionysus visited him in his sleep and commanded him to turn his attention to the nascent art of tragedy.

Thallo and Carpo appear in rites of Attica noted by Pausanias in the 2nd century AD.

Under the Roman empire it was quite obscured by the restored cities of Corinth and Patrae ; in Pausanias ' age ( 150 AD ) it was almost desolate.

In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias noted the statues both of Hygieia and of Athena Hygieia near the entrance to the Acropolis of Athens.

The main ancient source on Messene is the Guide to Greece of Pausanias, who visited there between 155 and 160 AD.

Later, Pausanias, viewing votive offerings near the Athenian Acropolis in the 2nd century AD, found among them a Sauromic breastplate.

Many ancient critics also rejected Theogony ( e. g. Pausanias 9. 31. 3 ) but that seems rather perverse since Hesiod mentions himself by name in that poem ( line 22 ).

Pausanias mentions a temple of Demeter-Anesidora, Kore Protogone, and Zeus Ktesios.

The population was very small in ancient times, and except for the brief mentions in Herodotus and Pausanias, has left little or no record in the history of those times.

Pausanias mentions that Phliasians and Sicyonians claimed that its source was in fact the Phrygian and Carian river Maeander that purportedly descended underground where it appeared to enter the sea at Miletus and rose again in the Peloponnesos as Asopus.

Pausanias ( 2. 15. 3 ) mentions his daughter Nemea, eponym for the region of the same name ( possibly the mother of Archemorus in Aeschylus ' lost play Nemea ).

Pausanias mentions an ancient role of Eileythia as " the clever spinner ", relating her with destiny too.

Pausanias also mentions at 3. 14. 9 and 3. 20. 2 that puppies were sacrificed to Enyalius in Sparta.

Pausanias mentions a daughter of Cinyras as the consort of Teucer, who is known to have received the kingdom of Cyprus from Belus for having assisted him in the invasion of the island.

Elsewhere, Pausanias mentions that Phocus ' sons Crisus and Panopaeus emigrated to Phocis.

Pausanias mentions Cycnus, king of the Ligyes ( Ligurians ), as a renowned musician who after his death was changed into a swan by Apollo.

Pausanias was shown what was purported to be the last standing column in the late second century CE ; the same author mentions that Pelops erected a monument in honor of all the suitors before himself, and enlists their names, which are as follows.

In his Description of Greece, Pausanias mentions the Arcadians who state that Pelasgus ( along with his followers ) was the first inhabitant of their land.

Pausanias also mentions the Pelasgians as responsible for creating a wooden image of Orpheus in a sanctuary of Demeter at Therae, as well as expelling the Minyans and Lacedaemonians from Lemnos.

Pausanias mentions his tomb in Argos.

Pausanias mentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas.

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

Pausanias in his Description of Greece mentions that the Thebans had erected a gigantic statue of a lion near the village of Chaeronea, surmounting the polyandrion (, common tomb ) of the Thebans killed in battle against Philip.

Pausanias also mentions his apotheosis, represented on the pedestal of the ritual statue of the boy at Amyclae, his place of worship.

Pausanias mentions in Tanagra's location the ancient city of Graea, eponymous of the Graikoi, a Boeotian tribe whose name gave rise to the Latin Graecus " Greek ".

The only ancient source who refers to the presence of this divine triad in Greece is Pausanias X 5, 1-2, who mentions its existence in describing the Φωκικόν in Phocis.

According to Pausanias ( 9. 16. 1 ), Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar, and mentions a Hermes Criophorus for Tanagra ( 9. 22. 1 ), which was later depicted on Roman coins of the city.

On their return they rebuilt the city, which was visited by Pausanias, who mentions its temples dedicated to Demeter, Aphrodite, Eileithyia and Isis.

The sacrificial tripod which Hesiod won at a contest in Chalcis in Euboea was still on view at Helicon in Pausanias ' day: the presence of Homer at the festival Hesiod mentions in Works and Days ( 650-59 ) was a later interpolation.