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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 1, chapter 14 (search)
he Eleans the privilege of cleaning the image of Zeus from the dirt that settles on it, and they sacrifice to the Worker Goddess before they begin to polish the image. There is another altar of Athena near the temple, and by it a square altar of Artemis rising gently to a height. After the altars I have enumerated there is one on which they sacrifice to Alpheius and Artemis together. The cause of this PindarPind. N. 1, I think, intimates in an ode, and I give itPaus. 6.22 in my account of Letrini. Not far from it stands another altar of Alpheius, and by it one of Hephaestus. This altar of Hephaestus some Eleans call the altar of Warlike Zeus. These same Eleans also say that Oenomaus used to sacrifice to Warlike Zeus on this altar whenever he was about to begin a chariot-race with one of the suitors of Hippodameia. After this stands an altar of Heracles surnamed Parastates （Assistant）; there are also altars of the brothers of Heracles—Epimedes, Idas, Paeonaeus, and Iasus; I am awa<
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 2, chapter 22 (search)
hrough the plain, you will travel one hundred and twenty stades to Letrini, and one hundred and eighty from Letrini to Elis. Originally LetriLetrini to Elis. Originally Letrini was a town, and Letreus the son of Pelops was its founder; but in my time were left a few buildings, with an image of Artemis Alpheiaea inLetrini was a town, and Letreus the son of Pelops was its founder; but in my time were left a few buildings, with an image of Artemis Alpheiaea in a temple. Legend has it that the goddess received the surname for the following reason. Alpheius fell in love with Artemis, and then, realizide, he dared to plot violence against her. Artemis was holding at Letrini an all-night revel with the nymphs who were her playmates, and to her out, went away without bringing off his attempt. The people of Letrini called the goddess Alpheian because of the love of Alpheius for her. But the Eleans, who from the first had been friends of Letrini, transferred to that city the worship of Artemis Elaphiaea established amonve woman by whom Artemis was reared. About six stades distant from Letrini is a lake that never dries up, being just about three stades acros