Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast ; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.

Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.

Pausanias also said that Alcmene's tomb is located near the Olympieum at Megara.

Pausanias also tells us that:

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 ).

To date, a complete map of the area has been made, including not only the Ash Altar and temenos, but also two fountains, including the Hagno fountain mentioned by Pausanias, the hippodrome, the stadium, a building that was probably a bathhouse, the xenon ( hotel ), a stoa, several rows of seats, and a group of statue bases.

Pausanias also discusses the temenos of Zeus, a sacred precinct which humans were forbidden to enter.

Many of these writers used Pausanias as their guide to the geography and sights of the region, but were also concerned to correlate modern Greek place-names with ancient evidence.

The Phrygian city Midaeum was presumably named after this Midas, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausanias founded Ancyra.

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.

According to the sixteenth book of Diodorus ' history, Pausanias had been a lover of Philip, but became jealous when Philip turned his attention to a younger man, also called Pausanias.

Other writings by Pausanias, Strabo, and Vitruvius also help us to gather more information about the Mausoleum.

Pausanias ( 5. 22. 1 ) and Diodorus Siculus ( 4. 73. 1 ) also mention a daughter Harpina and state that according to the traditions of the Eleans and Phliasians Ares lay with her in the city of Pisa and she bore him Oenomaus who Pausanias says ( 6. 21. 6 ) founded the city of Harpina named after her, not far from the river Harpinates.

To make up the twelve Diodorus ' list also adds Peirene ( the famous spring in Corinth ), Cleone ( possible eponym of a small city of Cleonae on the road from Corinth to Argos according to Pausanias ), Ornia ( otherwise totally unknown ), and Asopis.

Pausanias ( 5. 22. 1 ) also describes a group sculpture in the sanctuary of Hippodamia at Olympia donated by the Phliasians.

The sanctuary of Apollo Lykeios (" wolf-Apollo ", but also Apollo of the twilight ) was still the most prominent feature of Argos in Pausanias ' time: in the sanctuary the tourist might see the throne of Danaus himself, an eternal flame, called the fire of Phoronius.

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

Acastus, when he heard this, buried his father, and drove Jason and Medea from Iolcus ( and, according to Pausanias, his sisters also ), and instituted funeral games in honor of his father.

Pausanias says this is the reason for the Homeric epithet Acherōïda for the white poplar, which was also called leukē in Greek.

In the version given by the Little Iliad and repeated by Pausanias ( x 25. 4 ), he was killed by Neoptolemus ( also called Pyrrhus ), who threw the infant from the walls.

A description on the history of Tenea was also given by Pausanias.

Locrus was also a Parian statuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias.

According to Herodotus and Pausanias ( vi. 17. 6 ), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the " ineffable " or " unspeakably great "; Melampus and his heirs were thus Amythaides of the " House of Amythaon ".

These intrigues did not however lead to a helot uprising ; Thucydides indeed implies that Pausanias was turned in by the helots ( I, 132, 5-... the evidence even of the helots themselves.

However Pausanias, mentioning the same two episodes, implies they are parallel versions of one and the same event.

His remains were contained in a chest near the sanctuary of Artemis Kordax ( Pausanias 6. 22. 1 ), though in earlier times a gigantic shoulder blade was shown ; during the Trojan War, John Tzetzes said, Pelops ' shoulder-blade was brought to Troy by the Greeks because the Trojan prophet Helenus claimed the Pelopids would be able to win by doing so.

Phaëthon, son of the sun, struck by lightning changed into poplars and exuded tears every year, which is the source of amber ( a myth of Pausanias ).

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

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 ").

* A member of the Agiad royal family, and the son of King Cleombrotus and nephew of King Leonidas, Pausanias becomes regent for Leonidas ' son, Pleistarchus, after Leonidas I is killed at Thermopylae.

Pausanias is replaced as king of Sparta by his son Agesipolis I.

Pausanias states that, according to the poet Eumelos, Aeëtes was the son of Helios ( from northern Peloponnesus ) and brother of Aloeus.

Pausanias ( 1. 12. 4 ) writes that during the reign of Aras, the first earth-born king of Sicyonian land, Asopus, said to be son of Poseidon by Celusa ( this Celusa otherwise unknown but possibly identical to Pero mentioned above?

Pausanias relates that Rhea and Aphrodite rescued Creusa from being enslaved by the Greeks on account of her being the wife of Aeneas ( who was a son of Aphrodite ).

According to Pausanias, he was the youngest son of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleusis and a founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Finally, in Pausanias ' account, Hippocoon was Oebalus ' eldest natural son, his mother being Batea ( or, according to scholiasts on Euripides and Homer, Hippocoon's mother was called Nicostrate ).

Pausanias, who is generally skeptical about stories of humans descending from gods, makes Oenomaus son of a mortal father, Alxion.

An eponymous Thasos, son of Phoenix ( or of Agenor, as Pausanias reported ) was said to have been the leader of the Phoenicians, and to have given his name to the island.

At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos ; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios.

Virgil states that he named the city in honor of his son, Pallas, although Pausanias, Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus say that Evander's birth city was Pallantium, thus he named the new city after the one in Arcadia.

According to Pausanias, some authors related of him, and not of the son of Euaemon, the story of the cursed chest.

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

Pausanias ( 2. 21. 3 ) gives yet another name, mentioning Tyrsenus, son of Heracles by " the Lydian woman ", by whom Pausanias presumably means Omphale.

This was not simply a tribute to Sparta's military prowess: The probability that the coalition wanted Leonidas personally for his capability as a military leader is underlined by the fact that just two years after his death, the coalition preferred Athenian leadership to the leadership of either Leotychidas or Leonidas ' successor ( as regent for his still under-aged son ) Pausanias.

Instead, Pausanias and Stephanus of Byzantium supported in their texts that the founder of the city was Phaestos, son of Hercules or Ropalus.

In 395, Pausanias failed to join forces with Lysander, and for this was condemned to death and replaced as king by his son Agesipolis I.

Eurotas bequeathed the kingdom to her husband, Lacedaemon, the son of Taygete, after whom Mount Taygetus is named, and Zeus, according to Pausanias.

Graves cited for example Pausanias who recorded the ancient worship of Hera Pais ( Girl Hera ), Hera Teleia ( Adult Hera ), and Hera Khera ( Widow Hera, though Khera can also mean separated or divorced ) at a single sanctuary reputedly built by Temenus, son of Pelasgus, in Stymphalos.