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.

Pausanias says that even though Alcman uses the Doric dialect, which does not usually sound beautiful, it has not at all spoiled the beauty of his songs.

She states on the latter page, " Eurynomus could have been one of the keres or derivative of Etruscan Charun, but Pausanias does not seem to think so.

Pausanias records a Theban tradition that the river Cephissus formerly flowed under the a mountain and entered the sea until Heracles blocked the passage and diverted the water into the Orchomenian plain ; but he does not believe it.

Pausanias makes mention of Sostratus, a youth of Dyme, Achaea, as a lover of Heracles.

Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

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.

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.

The myth of Galanthis is also briefly mentioned by Pausanias: he recounts the Theban version of the story, which referred to the heroine as Historis, called her a daughter of Teiresias, and made no mention of her transformation.

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.

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

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 ( 2nd century AD ) mentions two buildings resembling pyramids, one, 19 kilometres ( 12 mi ) southwest of the still standing structure at Hellenikon, a common tomb for soldiers who died in a legendary struggle for the throne of Argos and another which he was told was the tomb of Argives killed in a battle around 669 / 8 BC.

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.