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.

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.

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

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.

He noted that the tusks had been taken to Rome as booty from the defeated allies of Mark Anthony by Augustus ; " one of the tusks of the Calydonian boar has been broken ", Pausanias reports, " but the remaining one, having a circumference of about half a fathom, was dedicated in the Emperor's gardens, in a shrine of Dionysos ".

Pausanias, however, reports a different story.

In the 2nd century CE Pausanias reports that the Maeander already had silted over the inlet in which Myus stood and that the population had abandoned it for Miletus.

Other ancient sources include Pliny ( not from personal experience, but he collected other reports ), Pausanias, and Juvenal.

Describing the " early history " of the Eleans, Pausanias reports that:

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

Pausanias reports their presence, but few scholars believe the room was planned to hold them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The date of Milo's death is unknown, but according to Strabo and Pausanias, Milo was walking in a forest when he came upon a tree-trunk split with wedges.

His ability to compose tastefully and poignantly on military themes put him in great demand among Greek states after their defeat of the second Persian invasion, when he is known to have composed epitaphs for Athenians, Spartans and Corinthians, a commemorative song for Leonidas and his men, a dedicatory epigram for Pausanias, and poems on the battles of Artemisium, Salamis, and Plataea.

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.

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.

Protesilaus was the first to land: " the first man who dared to leap ashore when the Greek fleet touched the Troad, Pausanias recalled, quoting " the author of the epic called the Cypria ".

Pausanias seems to confuse her with Eos when saying that she carried Cephalus away.

At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos ; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios.

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.

" Pausanias is describing the period immediately after the first Messenian War, when conditions were probably more severe.

) Perhaps the promises made by Pausanias were too generous to be believed by the helots ; not even Brasidas, when he emancipated his helot volunteers, offered full citizenship.

The judges who awarded the prizes were dressed in black robes, and an instance of their justice, when the Argives presided, is recorded by Pausanias.

However, when it became clear that Athens would dominate the Hellenic League in Sparta's absence, Sparta sent Pausanias back to command the League's military.

Pausanias says: " It was Eurotas who channelled away the marsh-water from the plains by cutting through to the sea, and when the land was drained he called the river which was left running there the Eurotas.

Since decisions were made by majority vote, this could mean that Sparta's policy could change quickly, when the vote of one ephor changed ( e. g. in 403 BC when Pausanias convinced three of the ephors to send an army to Attica ).

Pausanias was reminded that the temple of the Goddess at Ephesus predated the Ionian colony there, when it was rededicated to the Goddess as Artemis.

Together with Pausanias, he later moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights ; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.

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.

This can be seen with Perdiccas III, slain by the Illyrians, Philip II assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis, Alexander the Great, suddenly died of malady, etc.

Pausanias, however, states that Nycteus led the Thebans against Epopeus, but was wounded and carried back to Thebes, where he died after asking Lycus to continue the battle.

Pausanias lists him as one of the Epigoni, who attacked Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died attempting the same thing.

Pausanias ( Greek: Παυσανίας ) ( died c. 470 BC ) was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC.

When Pausanias was on the brink of death they carried him out, and he died shortly thereafter.

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.

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.

Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.

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 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.

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 says that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, but this seems a chronological and stylistic impossibility.

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.

At the wedding Philip was assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

According to Pausanias ( 6. 18. 6 ), Anaximenes was " the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously.

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

The siege was successful, but the behaviour of the Spartan general Pausanias alienated many of the Allies, and resulted in Pausanias's recall.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

The second-century CE traveller Pausanias was informed that the abductor of Cephalus was Hemera, goddess of Day.

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.