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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristophanes, Peace (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Dinarchus, Speeches | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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At some distance from Marathon is Brauron, where, according to the legend, Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, landed with the image of Artemis when she fled from the Tauri; leaving the image there she came to Athens also and afterwards to Argos. There is indeed an old wooden image of Artemis here, but who in my opinion have the one taken from the foreigners I will set forth in another place.
About sixty stades from Marathon as you go along the road by the sea to Oropus stands Rhamnus. The dwelling houses are on the coast, but a little way inland is a sanctuary of Nemesis, the most implacable deity to men of violence. It is thought that the wrath of this goddess fell also upon the foreigners who landed at Marathon. For thinking in their pride that nothing stood in the way of their taking Athens, they were bringing a piece of Parian marble to make a trophy, convinced that their task was already finished.
Of this marble Pheidias made a statue of Nemesis, and on the head of the godd