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Peloponnesus (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Enough of my discussion of this question. Heracles afterwards took Elis and sacked it, with an army he had raised of Argives, Thebans and Arcadians. The Eleans were aided by the men of Pisa and of Pylus in Elis. The men of Pylus were punished by Heracles, but his expedition against Pisa was stopped by an oracle from Delphi to this effectMy father cares for Pisa, but to me in the hollows of Pytho.Hermann's emendation would mean: “but unto me be assigned Pytho.”This oracle proved the salvation of Pisa. To Phyleus Heracles gave up the land of Elis and all the rest, more out of respect for Phyleus than because he wanted to do so: he allowed him to keep the prisoners, and Augeas to escape punishment.
The women of Elis, it is said, seeing that their land had been deprived of its vigorous manhood, prayed to Athena that they might conceive at their first union with their husbands. Their prayer was answered, and they set up a sanctuary of Athena surnamed Mother. Both wives and husbands were so
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Olenus (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Pisa (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Elis (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Naupactus (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Pytho (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3
Aetolia (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 3