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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Corinth, chapter 9 (search)
ho plots mischief against his neighbor directs it first to himself. After the hero-shrine of Aratus is an altar to Isthmian Poseidon, and also a Zeus Meilichius （Gracious） and an Artemis named Patroa （Paternal）, both of them very inartistic works. The Meilichius is like a pyramid, the Artemis like a pillar. Here too stand their council-chamber and a portico called Cleisthenean from the name of him who built it. It was built from spoils by Cleisthenes, who helped the Amphictyons in the war at Cirrha.c. 590 B.C. In the market-place under the open sky is a bronze Zeus, a work of Lysippus,Contemporary of Alexander the Great. and by the side of it a gilded Artemis. Hard by is a sanctuary of Apollo Lycius （Wolf-god）, now fallen into ruins and not worth any attention. For wolves once so preyed upon their flocks that there was no longer any profit therefrom, and the god, mentioning a certain place where lay a dry log, gave an oracle that the bark of this log mixed with meat was to be set
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, chapter 1 (search)
It is plain that such part of Phocis as is around Tithorea and Delphi was so named in very ancient days after a Corinthian, Phocus, a son of Ornytion. Not many years afterwards, the name established itself as the received title of what is today called Phocis, when the Aeginetans had disembarked on the land with Phocus the son of Aeacus. Opposite the Peloponnesus, and in the direction of Boeotia, Phocis stretches to the sea, and touches it on one side at Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and on the other at the city of Anticyra. In the direction of the Lamian Gulf there are between Phocis and the sea only the Hypocnemidian Locrians. By these is Phocis bounded in this direction, by Scarpheia on the other side of Elateia, and by Opus and its port Cynus beyond Hyampolis and Abae. The most renowned exploits of the Phocian people were undertaken by the whole nation. They took part in the Trojan war, and fought against the Thessalians before the Persian invasion of Greece, when they accomplished so
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, chapter 8 (search)
Phylacus. This Phylacus is reported by the Delphians to have defended them at the time of the Persian invasion. They say that in the open part of the gymnasium there once grew a wild wood, and that Odysseus, when as the guest of Autolycus he was hunting with the sons of Autolycus, received here from the wild boar the wound above the knee. Turning to the left from the gymnasium and going down not more, I think, than three stades, you come to a river named Pleistus. This Pleistus descends to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and flows into the sea there. Ascending from the gymnasium along the way to the sanctuary you reach, on the right of the way, the water of Castalia, which is sweet to drink and pleasant to bathe in. Some say that the spring was named after a native woman, others after a man called Castalius. But Panyassis, son of Polyarchus, who composed an epic poem on Heracles, says that Castalia was a daughter of Achelous. For about Heracles he says:—Crossing with swift feet snowy P
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, chapter 37 (search)
e is a spring called Saunium. The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, is sixty stades. Descending to the plain you c either by reason of a hero or on any other account. The plain from Cirrha is altogether bare, and the inhabitants will not plant trees, eitheow that the ground is useless for growing trees. It is said that to Cirrha...and they say that from Cirrha the place received its modern name.Cirrha the place received its modern name. Homer, however, in the Iliad,Hom. Il. 2.520 and similarly in the hymn to Apollo,See HH Apoll. 269, 282, 438. calls the city by its ancient name of Crisa. Afterwards the people of Cirrha behaved wickedly towards Apollo; especially in appropriating some of the god's land. So the Amphisea.So Solon induced them to consecrate to the god the territory of Cirrha, in order that the sea might become neighbor to the precinct of Apoey exacted punishment from the Cirrhaeans on behalf of the god, and Cirrha is the port of Delphi. Its notable sights include a temple of Apoll
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, chapter 38 (search)
The territory of the Locrians called Ozolian adjoins Phocis opposite Cirrha. I have heard various stories about the surname of these Locrians, all of which I will tell my readers. Orestheus, son of Deucalion, king of the land, had a bitch that gave birth to a stick instead of a puppy. Orestheus buried the stick, and in the spring, it is said, a vine grew from it, and from the branches （ozoi） of the stick the people got their name. Others believe that Nessus, ferrying on the Evenus, was wounded by Heracles, but not killed on the spot, making his escape to this country; when he died his body rotted unburied, imparting a foul stench to the atmosphere of the place. The third story says that the exhalations from a certain river, and its very water, have a peculiar smell; the fourth, that asphodel grows in great abundance and when in flower...because of the smell. Another story says that the first dwellers here were aboriginals, but as yet not knowing how to weave garments they used to make