A Pausanias Reader in Progress

An ongoing retranslation of the Greek text of Pausanias, with ongoing annotations, primarily by Gregory Nagy from 2014 to 2022, and continued since 2022 by Nagy together with an intergenerational team. Based on an original translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 with H. A. Ormerod), containing some of the footnotes added by Jones. Editors: Keith DeStone, Elizabeth Gipson, Charles Pletcher Editor Emerita: Angelia Hanhardt Web Producer: Noel Spencer Consultant for images: Jill Curry Robbins To cite this work, use the following persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.prim-src:A_Pausanias_Reader_in_Progress.2018-.

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10.27.1 There are also corpses: the naked man, Pelis by name, lies thrown on his back, and under Pelis lie Eioneus and Admetos, still clad in their corselets. Of these Lescheos says that Eioneus was killed by Neoptolemos, and Admetos by Philoctetes. Above these are others: under the washing-basin is Leokritos, the son of Poulydamas, killed by Odysseus; beyond Eioneus and Admetos is Koroibos, the son of Mygdon. Of Mygdon, there is a notable tomb [mnēmē] on the borders of the Phrygians of Stektorion, and after him, poets are accustomed to call Phrygians by the name of Mygdones. Koroibos came to marry Cassandra and was killed, according to the more popular account by Neoptolemos, but according to the poet Lescheos, by Diomedes.

10.27.2 Higher up than Koroibos are Priam, Axion, and Agenor. Lescheos says that Priam was not killed at the sacrificial-hearth of the Courtyard-god [Herkeios = Zeus], but that he was dragged away from the altar [bōmos] and fell an easy prey to Neoptolemos at the gate of his own palace. As to Hecuba, Stesichorus says [poieîn] in the Sack of Troy that she was brought by Apollo to Lycia. Lescheos says that Axion was a son of Priam, killed by Eurypylos, the son of Euaimon. According to the same poet, Agenor was slain by Neoptolemos. So it would appear that Ekheklos the son of Agenor was slaughtered by Achilles, and Agenor himself by Neoptolemos.

10.27.3 The body of Laomedon is being carried off by Sinon, a comrade of Odysseus, and Ankhialos. There is also in the painting another corpse, that of Eresos. The tale of Eresos and Laomedon, so far as we know, no poet has sung. There is the house of Antenor, with a leopard’s skin hanging over the entrance, as a sign to the Greeks to keep their hands off the home of Antenor. There are painted Theano and her sons, Glaukos sitting on a corselet fitted with the two pieces, and Eurymakhos upon a rock.

10.27.4 By the latter stands Antenor, and next to him Krino, a daughter of Antenor. Krino is carrying a baby. The look [skhēma] upon their faces is that of those on whom a calamity has fallen. Servants are loading an donkey with a chest and other furniture. There is also sitting on the donkey a small child. At this part of the painting [graphē], there is also an elegiac couplet of Simonides: