Pausanias, Description of Greece (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Paus.]. | ||
<<Paus. 8.28.4 | Paus. 8.29.4 (Greek) | >>Paus. 8.30.8 |
After crossing the Alpheius you come to what is called Trapezuntian territory and to the ruins of a city
Homer does not mention giants at all in the Iliad
, but in the Odyssey
he relates how the Laestrygones attacked the ships of Odysseus in the likeness not of men but of giants, note and he makes also the king of the Phaeacians say that the Phaeacians are near to the gods like the Cyclopes and the race of giants. note In these places then he indicates that the giants are mortal, and not of divine race, and his words in the following passage are plainer still:—
Who once was king among the haughty giants;
Hom. Od. 7.59-60“Folk” in the poetry of Homer means the common people.
But he destroyed the infatuate folk, and was destroyed himself.
That the giants had serpents for feet is an absurd tale, as many pieces of evidence show, especially the following incident. The Syrian river Orontes does not flow its whole course to the sea on a level, but meets a precipitous ridge with a slope away from it. The Roman emperor note wished ships to sail up the river from the sea to
But when the old bed had dried up, an earthenware coffin more than eleven cubits long was found in it, and the corpse was proportionately large, and human in all parts of its body. This corpse the god in Clarus, when the Syrians came to his oracle there, declared to be Orontes, and that he was of Indian race. If it was by warming the earth of old when it was still wet and saturated with moisture that the sun made the first men, what other land is likely to have raised men either before
Some ten stades distant from the place named Depth is what is called Basilis. The founder of it was Cypselus, who gave his daughter in marriage to Cresphontes, the son of Aristomachus. To-day Basilis is in ruins, among which remains a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter. Going on from here you will cross the Alpheius again and reach Thocnia, which is named after Thocnus, the son of Lycaon, and to-day is altogether uninhabited. Thocnus was said to have built the city on the hill. The river Aminius, flowing by the hill, falls into the Helisson, and not far away the Helisson falls into the Alpheius.
ch. 30
8.30.1
This Helisson, beginning at a village of the same name—for the name of the village also is Helisson—passes through the lands of Dipaea and Iycaea, and then through
The river Helisson divides His surname is Sinoeis, and they say that Pan was so surnamed after a nymph Sinoe, who with others of the nymphs nursed him on her own account. There is before this enclosure a bronze image of Apollo worth seeing, in height twelve feet, brought from The place where the image was originally set up by the Phigalians is named
Pausanias, Description of Greece (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Paus.]. | ||
<<Paus. 8.28.4 | Paus. 8.29.4 (Greek) | >>Paus. 8.30.8 |