The boar's hide that was preserved in the Temple of Athena Alae at Tegea in Laconia was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, " rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles " by the time Pausanias saw it in the second century CE.

In the seventh or early sixth century, a colossal archaic helmeted effigy was made of bronze, taking the semi-aniconic form of a stout column with arms, holding a spear as well as the more familiar bow: " ancient and made without artistry ," Pausanias thought.

As Pausanias observed, " That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men ".

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

Pausanias quotes a Sidonian as saying that the Phoenicians claim Apollo as the father of Asclepius, as do the Greeks, but unlike them do not make his mother a mortal woman.

Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event at the ancient Greek Olympic festival was the race that comprised one length of the stade at Olympia, where the word " stadium " originated.

( However, Pausanias 6. 18. 6 expresses doubt about his authorship of an epic poem on Alexander.

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.

Apollodorus, Philostratus and Pausanias wrote about the Unknown god as well.

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.

Other writings by Pausanias, Strabo, and Vitruvius also help us to gather more information about the Mausoleum.

" Certainly, when Pausanias toured Greece about a century after Plutarch, he found Pan's shrines, sacred caves and sacred mountains still very much frequented.

The legends about Adrastus and the two wars against Thebes have furnished ample materials for the epic as well as tragic poets of Greece, and some works of art relating to the stories about Adrastus are mentioned in Pausanias.

At about that time Patroclus killed Las, founder of a namesake city near Gytheio, Laconia, according to Pausanias the geographer.

Pausanias, who is generally skeptical about stories of humans descending from gods, makes Oenomaus son of a mortal father, Alxion.

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 ".

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

Alternatively, according to Pausanias they built a treasure chamber ( with secret entrance only they knew about ) for King Hyrieus of Boeotia.

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

The Roman writers Pliny and Pausanias noted the names of about twenty sculptors in Polykleitos ' school, defined by their adherence to his principles of balance and definition.

Noteworthy in the Roman period were Strabo, a writer on geography ; Plutarch, the father of biography, whose Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans is a chief source of information about great figures of antiquity ; Pausanias, a travel writer ; and Lucian, a satirist.

Thucydides here is the only one to implicate the helots: Pausanias speaks rather about Lacedaemonians who had been condemned to death.

The ceiling in the eastern part of the central building was famous in antiquity, having been called by Pausanias ( about 600 years after the building was finished ) "... down to the present day unrivaled.

Other investigators include in 1948 the German archaeologist G. Karo ; in 1950 Professor Robert Demangel, who was from 1933 to 1948 the director of the French School of Archaeology in Athens ; in 1950 Alfred Philippson, German geologist and geographer ; in 1952 Spiros Dontas, Greek writer and member of the Academy of Athens ; in 1954 Aristos Stauropoulos, a Greek writer who published the History of the city of Aegeion ; in 1956 the Greek Professor N. P. Moutsopoulos ; in 1967 Spiros Marinatos, a Greek archaeologist who wrote the Research about Helike and in 1968 Helike-Thira-Thieves ; in 1962 George K. Georgalas, the Greek writer ; and in 1967 Nikos Papahatzis, a Greek archaeologist who published Pausanias ’ Description of Greece.

Paeonius also won the commission to decorate the acroteria of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia ( about 430-420 BC ), Pausanias was probably wrong in claiming that he worked on the sculptures for the pediments of the temple.

Pausanias records that the poem was " written about women "; fewer than a dozen other fragmentary references give indications as to the content, but they tend to suggest that the content was largely genealogical.

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.

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.

However, Pausanias, quoting the Cypria, says that Odysseus and Diomedes drowned Palamedes, while he was fishing, and Dictys says that Odysseus and Diomedes lured Palamedes into a well, which they said contained gold, then stoned him to death.

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.

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.

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.

Another account says her parents were Peiras and Styx ( according to Pausanias, who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father ).

Pausanias says this is the reason for the Homeric epithet Acherōïda for the white poplar, which was also called leukē in Greek.

Pausanias says they were from a beast " more than eleven cubits " tall ; Philostratus says the it was " thirty cubits " tall.

Pausanias says that Athenian law makes a firm distinction between the lover who should be encouraged by the boy and the lover who should be discouraged.

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.

Through his arrogance and arbitrary actions ( Thucydides says " violence "), Pausanias managed to alienate many of the Allied contingents, particularly those that had just been freed from Persian overlordship.

Pausanias says she won a poetry competition against Pindar in honour of which she had a monument erected to her.

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.

However, Pausanias says that Thersander was their leader, that Laodamas fled Thebes with the rest of the Thebans, and that Thersander became king of Thebes.

Pausanias also says that the Lilaeans on certain days threw cakes and other customary items into the spring of the Cephissus and that they would reappear in the spring of Castalia.

Pausanias ( 2. 37. 1 ) says that the mysteries were initiated by Philammon, the twin " other " of Autolycus.

According to Pausanias, Polyxo killed Helen in revenge for her husband's death, though Polyaenus says that Menelaus had dressed up a servant in Helen's clothes and that the Rhodians killed her instead as Menelaus and wife escaped.