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Pausanias failed to fight for the bodies of the dead, and because he retrieved the bodies under truce ( a sign of defeat ), he was disgraced and banished from Sparta.
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Pausanias and failed
Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.
Pausanias ' desire for revenge seems to have turned towards the man who had failed to avenge his damaged honour ; so he planned to kill Philip, and some time after the alleged rape, while Attalus was already in Asia fighting the Persians, put his plan in action.
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.
Pausanias and for
The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.
These historians point towards the unstable oligarchies established by Lysander in the former Athenian Empire and the failures of Spartan leaders ( such as Pausanias and Kleombrotos ) for the eventually suppression of Spartan power.
The abduction of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias and in extant works.
Pausanias noticed on the monument to the battle the names of former slaves who were freed in exchange for military services.
Authors are in disagreement as to when exactly the games were first instituted: Aristotle is said to have ranked the Lykaion games fourth in order of institution after the Eleusinia, the Panathenaia, and the Argive games, while Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition ’ s priority to the Panathenaia.
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.
Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.
She was purified from this action by Priam, and in exchange she fought for him and killed many, including Machaon ( according to Pausanias, Machaon was killed by Eurypylus ), and according to another version, Achilles himself, who was resurrected at the request of Thetis.
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.
* 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.
The kneecaps of Ajax were exactly the size of a discus for the boy's pentathlon, wrote Pausanias.
The reasons for Pausanias ' assassination of Philip are difficult to fully expound, since there was already controversy among ancient historians.
When Pausanias complained to Philip the king felt unable to chastise Attalus, as he was about to send him to Asia with Parmenion, to establish a bridgehead for his planned invasion.
The Spartans arranged for two armies, one under Lysander and the other under Pausanias of Sparta, to rendezvous at and attack the city of Haliartus, Boeotia.
* The Spartans arrange for two armies, one under the Spartan general Lysander and the other under the Spartan King Pausanias, to rendezvous at and attack the Boeotian city of Haliartus.
Pausanias traveled to Sparta to visit the sanctuary, dedicated to Hilaeira and Phoebe, in order to see the relic for himself.
* At a grand celebration of his daughter Cleopatra's marriage to Alexander I of Epirus ( brother of Olympias ), Philip II is assassinated at Aegae by Pausanias of Orestis, a young Macedonian noble with a bitter grievance against the young queen's uncle Attalus and against Philip for denying him justice.
Pausanias adds that the Romans considered the Mausoleum one of the great wonders of the world and it was for that reason that they called all their magnificent tombs mausolea, after it.
Pausanias and bodies
Pausanias, arriving a day later, takes back the bodies of the Spartan dead under a truce, and returns to Sparta.
Pausanias, arriving a day later, took back the bodies of the Spartan dead under a truce, and returned to Sparta.
Pausanias and dead
In addition to Pausanias and Strabo, Justin also clearly says that Philip forced the Thebans to pay for the privilege of burying ( not cremating ) their dead.
Pausanias and because
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.
The only contemporary account in our possession is that of Aristotle who states rather tersely that Philip was killed because Pausanias had been offended by the followers of Attalus, the king's father-in-law.
At Elis, white poplar was the only wood used in sacrifices to Zeus, according to Pausanias, because Herakles imported the tree and used it to burn the thigh bones of sacrificial victims at Olympia.
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.
Many Spartan allies joined the Athenian side because of Pausanias ’ arrogance and high-handedness.
The Spartans recalled him once again, and Pausanias fled to Kolonai in the Troad before returning to Sparta because he didn ’ t wish to be suspected of Persian sympathies.
The sanctuary's necessary spring was named Adrasteia: Pausanias wondered whether it had the name because an " Adrastus " had " discovered " it, but Adrasteia, the " inescapable one ", was a nurse of the infant Zeus in Crete.
His character was an issue, because, according to Pausanias, his statue on the Acropolis of Athens depicts him as drunk.
Around AD 174 the traveler Pausanias visited a coastal site still called Helike, located 7 km southeast of Aigion, and reported that the walls of the ancient city were still visible under water, " but not so plainly now as they were once, because they are corroded by the salt water ".
For the early part of his reign, Pleistarchus ’ cousin Pausanias acted as regent because Pleistarchus was not of age.
That is why Pausanias says that the Amfissians were ashamed of calling themselves Ozolians, thus they claimed Aetolian descent, a fact that was a misconception of Pausanias, because some people of Amfissa in his times were indeed descendants of Aetolian refugees.
Pausanias and under
** The Battle of Plataea in Boeotia ends the Persian invasions of Greece as the Persian general Mardonius is routed by the Greeks under Pausanias, nephew of the former Spartan King, Leonidas I.
There may have been a historical Tantalus – possibly the ruler of an Anatolian city named " Tantalís ", " the city of Tantalus ", or of a city named " Sipylus " Pausanias reports that there was a port under his name and a sepulchre of him " by no means obscure ", in the same region.
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.
Pausanias, without saying a word about Agoracritus, says that the Rhamnusian Nemesis was the work of Phidias, and was made out of the block of Parian marble which the Persians under Datis and Artaphernes brought with them for the purpose of setting up a trophy.
Pausanias claims that Elis and Boeotia are inarticulate regions that have nothing to say against homosexual customs ( 182a-b ); Ionia and other regions think it is disgraceful ( 182b-c ), but they live under despots and think no more of philosophy and sport than they do of love.
The Allied army, under the command of the regent Pausanias, stayed on high ground above Plataea to protect themselves against such tactics.
In 478 BC, still operating under the terms of the Hellenic alliance, the Allies sent out a fleet composed of 20 Peloponnesian and 30 Athenian ships supported by an unspecified number of allies, under the overall command of Pausanias.
Leonnatus, who threw the spear that killed Pausanias, was demoted, possibly under suspicion he was trying to prevent him from being interrogated.
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.
The Spartan plan called for two armies, one under Lysander and the other under Pausanias, to rendezvous at and attack the Boeotian city of Haliartus.
Pausanias attributes to Onomacritus certain poems forged under the name of Musaeus ( 1. 22. 7 ).
The ancient Greek geographer Pausanias says that Phocaea was founded by Phocians under Athenian leadership, on land given to them by the Aeolian Cymaeans, and that they were admitted into the Ionian League after accepting as kings the line of Codrus.
The cult centers on Helicon established in the Valley of the Muses, a fertile valley near Thespiai and Ascra, under the influence of the Hesiodic texts, in Hellenistic times if not before, were visited by Pausanias in the second century CE.
Each myth is presented in the voice of a narrator writing under the Antonines, such as Plutarch or Pausanias, with citations of the classical sources.
Upon the death of Pausanias, Agesipolis and his brother, Cleombrotus I, were both placed under the guardianship of Aristodemus, their nearest relative.
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