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.

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.

In addition, Pausanias relates that at the time of the Persian invasion in 480 BC the Athenians were advised by the oracle to put their faith in their " wooden walls " — taking this advice to mean their navy, they won the famous battle at Salamis.

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.

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 ).

The ancient geographer Pausanias relates that a small island called Chryse, off the Lemnian coast, was swallowed up by the sea.

The story about this treasury in Pausanias bears a great resemblance to that which Herodotus relates of the treasury of the Egyptian king Rhampsinitus.

Pausanias, in his account of Boeotia ( 9. 39 ), relates many details about the cult of Trophonius.

These Minyans were associated with Boeotian Orchomenus, as when Pausanias relates that " Teos used to be inhabited by Minyans of Orchomenus, who came to it with Athamas " and may have represented a ruling dynasty or a tribe later located in Boeotia.

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.

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.

The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or ' Enchantresses ', whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth ( according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire ).

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

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.

This spring, according to Pausanias ( 2. 5. 1 ) was behind the temple to Aphrodite and people said its water was the same as that of the spring Peirene, the water in the city flowing from it underground.

According to Pausanias, Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheius became a river, which flowing from Peloponnesus under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa.

The necklace that Pausanias was shown was of green stones with gold, which made him skeptical of its being the one mentioned by Homer ( Odyssey xi. 327 ), for he noted other occasions in the Odyssey where necklaces made of gold and stones mention the stones.

Pausanias reports, " even to this day they preserve it in its purity better than anywhere else in the Peloponnese.

Oenomaus ' chariot race was one legendary origin of the Olympic Games ; one of its turning-posts was preserved, and round it grew an Elean legend of a burnt " house of Oenomaus ", reported by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE.

Of this herb, found near the Heraion of the Argolid, Pausanias noted " On its banks grows a plant, which also is called asterion.

In 334 BC the city regained its freedom through Alexander the Great who, according to Pliny ( HN 5. 116 ) and Pausanias ( 2. 1. 5 ), planned to cut a canal through the peninsula of Erythrae to connect Teos bay with the gulf of Smyrna.

The various legends concerning its origin are related in the argumenta of the Scholiasts to the Nemea of Pindar, with which may be compared Pausanias, and Apollodorus.

The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidaurus to construct civic monuments too: the huge theatre that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion ( banqueting hall ), baths and a palaestra.

But he was chiefly known as a writer of epics ( mythological and ethnographical ), the most celebrated of which was the Messeniaca in six books, dealing with the Second Messenian War and the exploits of its central figure Aristomenes, and used by Pausanias in his fourth book as a trustworthy authority.

* Byzantium: Originally captured from Persian forces by the Greeks in 478 BC, and subsequently taken from the control of Pausanias by the Athenians in 476, a garrison had been stationed there ever since its revolt from Athenian rule in 440-439 BC.

He wrote also Topography of Troy and its Vicinity ( 1804 ); Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca ( 1807 ); Itinerary of Greece, with a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo ( 1810 ); and Itinerary of the Morea ( 1816 ).

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.

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

) Hence it has been supposed that the ancient Boura stood upon the coast, and after its destruction was rebuilt inland ; but neither Pausanias nor Strabo states that the ancient city was on the coast, and their words render it improbable.

Classical Orchomenos was known for its sanctuary of the Charites, the oldest in the city, according to Pausanias ( 5. 172-80 ); the Byzantine ( 9th century ) monastery church of Panaghia Skripou probably occupies the long-sacred spot.

Bebryces, Mariandynes, Koukones, Thyns and Paphlagons are native people of the area in antique era. Strabo ( XII, 4, 7 ) mentions a Hellenistic town, Bithynium, celebrated for its pastures and cheese, which according to Pausanias ( VIII, 9 ) was founded by Arcadians from Mantinea.

That orator, however, elsewhere alludes to the cities of Magna Graecia as being in his day sunk into almost complete decay ; Strabo says the same thing, and Pausanias tells us that Metapontum in particular was in his time completely in ruins, and nothing remained of it but the theatre and the circuit of its walls.

The ancient writer Pausanias praises the temple as eclipsing all others but the temple of Athena at Tegea by the beauty of its stone and the harmony of its construction.

The temple's remoteness — Pausanias is the only ancient traveller whose remarks on Bassae have survived — has worked to its advantage for its preservation.