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 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.

Pausanias also implies that Helenus ' son, Cestrinus, was by Andromache.

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.

He points out that Plutarch, a native of Chaeronea, makes no mention of the monument ; while Pausanias simply refers to it as the graves of Thebans in the Battle of Chaeronea and do not mention the Sacred Band by name.

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.

Pausanias, in his work Description of Greece, refers to Myonia as a town farther inland from Amfissa and above it, thirty stades away.

A more famous momument, a full-faced statue carved in rock mentioned by Pausanias is a statue of Cybele, said by Pausianias to have been carved by Broteas is in fact Hittite.

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.

Pausanias mentioned a statue of Chloris near the sanctuary of Leto in Argos.

According to Pausanias there was a statue of Artemis made by Praxiteles in her temple in Anticyra of Phokis.

Pausanias tells us that Ageladas cast a statue of Cleosthenes ( who gained a victory in the chariot-race in the 66th Olympiad ) with the chariot, horses, and charioteer which was set up at Olympia.

To these authorities must be added a passage of Pausanias, where he speaks of a statue of Zeus made by Ageladas for the Messenians of Naupactus.

Lampus is also the name of a Macedonian horse breeder and Olympic victor, whose statue Pausanias describes in his Description of Greece.

The ancient historian Pausanias gave a description of the statue:

Pausanias noted her iconic statue there.

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.

However, not all kouroi are images of a deity ; many have been discovered in cemeteries where they most likely served as commemorative tombstones of the deceased, also the type was used as a memorial for victors in the games ( like trophies ) ( Pausanias describes the statue of Arrhichion, an Olympic pankratiast, as in the kouros scheme ), and some kouroi have been found in sanctuaries other than that of Apollo.

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.

Pausanias also reports seeing a statue of Endymion in the treasury of Metapontines at Olympia.

His character was an issue, because, according to Pausanias, his statue on the Acropolis of Athens depicts him as drunk.

Further, the statue seen by Pausanias may not have been intended for Telesilla ; it would equally represent Aphrodite, in her character as wife of Ares and a warlike goddess ( the books, however, seem out of place ).

This is a colossal seated image cut in a niche of the rock, of Hittite origin, and perhaps that called by Pausanias the very ancient statue of the Mother of the Gods, carved by Broteas, son of Tantalus, and sung by Homer.

The archaic cult statue, set on the podium that was constructed to enclose the chthonic altar dedicated to Hyakinthos, was surrounded by a virtual encyclopedia of Greek mythology, to judge from Pausanias ' enumeration of the subjects of the reliefs.

Pausanias, in his work Description of Greece, mentions the existence of the tombs of Amfissa and Andraemon, and the temple of Athena on the acropolis of the town, with a standing statue of bronze, which was said to have been brought from Troy by Thoas.

The appearance of the statue is nevertheless known from a number of miniature marble copies discovered in Athens, as well as from a detailed description by Pausanias.

Pausanias also described Pheidias ' statue of Zeus at Olympia.