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.

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.

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.

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.

Thus, according to the character Pausanias in Plato's Symposium, Aphrodite is two goddesses, one older while the other younger.

The speech of Pausanias distinguishes two manifestations of Aphrodite, represented by the two stories: Aphrodite Ourania (" heavenly " Aphrodite ), and Aphrodite Pandemos (" Common " Aphrodite ).

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos (" Aphrodite of all the People ") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.

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.

In Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existence, was called Aphrodite Urania the ' eldest of the Fates ' according to Pausanias ( x. 24. 4 ).

Pausanias reports that after the unification of Athens, Theseus set up a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos and Peitho on the south slope of Acropolis at Athens.

Pausanias, the legal expert of the group, begins by taking Phaedrus up on his chosen examples ( 180c ), asserting that the love that deserves attention is not the kind associated with Aphrodite Pandemos ( Aphrodite common to the whole city ) whose object may equally be a woman or a boy, but that of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ), which " springs entirely from the male " and is " free from wantonness "; the object of this kind of love is not a child, but one who has begun to display intelligence and is close to growing a beard ( 181e ).

In this dialog, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolised by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

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

The most impressive buildings located at the north and south ends of the harbor include blocks of rooms near the waterfront ( probably warehouses ); fishtanks ; monumental complexes decorated with sculpted marble ( possibly sanctuaries of Aphrodite and of Isis whose cults the 2nd c. CE writer Pausanias attests at the town ), mosaic pavements, and wall-painting ( either sacred structures, lavish seaside villas, or rich public benefactions ); and a small Christian basilica.

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 ).

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.

Pausanias and Herodotus both recount the legend that the Achaeans were forced from these homelands by the Dorians, during the legendary Dorian invasion of the Peloponnese.

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

* Island Satyrs, which according to Pausanias were a savage race of red-haired, satyr-like creatures from an isolated island chain.

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.

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 latter seems to have been anything but discreet in manifesting her gratitude to Pausanias, according to Justin's report: he says that the same night of her return from exile she placed a crown on the assassin's corpse and erected a tumulus to his memory, ordering annual sacrifices to the memory of Pausanias.

Despite opposition from Lysander, after the battle Pausanias the Agiad King of Sparta, arranged a settlement between the two parties which allowed the reunification of Athens and Piraeus, and the re-establishment of democratic government in Athens.

Lysander arrived before Pausanias and persuaded the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy.

Lysander, arriving before Pausanias, persuades the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy, and then advances to Haliartus with his troops.

* With the help of the Athenian statesman and general, Cimon, Aristides commands an Athenian fleet of 30 ships that the Spartan commander Pausanias leads to free the Greek cities on Cyprus and capture Byzantium from the Persians and their Phoenician allies.

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.

He ousts Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the Bosporus.

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

Pausanias says that the Boeotian city of Thespiae was either named from Thespia daughter of Asopus or from Thespius, a descendant of Erechtheus who came there from Athens.

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.

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.

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 :"

The common interpretation of this has been that Achilles was romantically enamored of Penthesilea ( a view that appears to be supported by Pausanias, who noted that the throne of Zeus at Olympia bore Panaenus ' painted image of the dying Penthesilea being supported by Achilles ).

A relic was being shown in Amathus in Cyprus, in the time of Pausanias ( 2nd century CE ):

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.

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 ).

But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.

The danger of so much power being in the hands of one person had become sufficiently clear that the both King Agis and King Pausanias agreed that Lysander's wings needed to be clipped.

In Pausanias he did not return to Argos, but went instead to Larissa, where athletic games were being held.

But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.

In addition, Theophilus misquotes Plato several times, ranking Zopyrus among the Greeks, and speaking of Pausanias as having only run a risk of starvation instead of being actually starved to death in the temple of Minerva.

Leonnatus, who threw the spear that killed Pausanias, was demoted, possibly under suspicion he was trying to prevent him from being interrogated.

This suggests a connection to an ancient tradition-recorded as early as Xenophon ( died 354 BC ) and appearing in the works of Ovid, Pausanias, and Claudius Aelianus-in which shepherds caught a forest being, here called Silenus or Faunus, in the same fashion and for the same purpose.

Pausanias ( 6. x. 8 ) says " the modern Roman city is not the ancient one, being at a short distance from it.

Acroliths are frequently mentioned by Pausanias ( 100s CE ), the best known example being the Athene Areia (" Warlike Athena ") of the Plataeans.

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.