Description of Greece

​Now, the narrative demands to declare also the things concerning Attalus, because he too is one of the eponymous heroes for the Athenians. A Macedonian man named Docimus, a general of Antigonus, who later surrendered himself and his money to Lysimachus, had Philetaerus, a Paphlagonian eunuch, as a subordinate. All the things done by Philetaerus regarding his revolt from Lysimachus and how he brought in Seleucus, will be a digression for me in the account concerning Lysimachus; but Attalus, being a son of Attalus and a nephew of Philetaerus, received the rule when his cousin Eumenes handed it over. The greatest of his deeds is this: he forced the Galatians to flee up from the sea into the land which they hold even now.

​After the statues of the eponymous heroes are statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Peace carrying the child Plutus. There stands Lycurgus in bronze, the son of Lycophron, and Callias, who, as the majority of the Athenians say, negotiated the peace with Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes for the Greeks; there is also Demosthenes, whom the Athenians forced to withdraw to Calauria, the island off Troezen, but having received him back later, they exiled him again after the defeat at Lamia.

​And when Demosthenes fled for the second time, he crossed over also then to Calauria, where indeed having drunk poison he died; and Archias did not bring back this man alone among the Greek exiles to Antipater and the Macedonians. This Archias, being from Thurii, undertook an unholy task: as many as had acted against the Macedonians before the disaster in Thessaly befell the Greeks, these Archias brought to Antipater to pay the penalty. For Demosthenes, his excessive goodwill towards the Athenians ended in this; and it seems to me to have been well said that a man who has flung himself unsparingly into public life and has deemed the democracy’s promises trustworthy never comes to a good end.

​Near the statue of Demosthenes is a sanctuary of Ares, where stand two statues of Aphrodite, while that of Ares was made by Alcamenes, and the Athena by a man of Paros, whose name was Locrus. There is also a statue of Enyo, which the sons of Praxiteles made; and around the temple stand Heracles, Theseus, and Apollo binding his hair with a fillet, and statues of Calades, who is said to have written laws for the Athenians, and Pindar, who obtained other rewards from the Athenians and also his statue, because he praised them in a poem.

​Not far away stand Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who killed Hipparchus; the cause which arose and the manner in which they performed the deed have been told by others. Of the statues, some are the work of Critius, while the ancient ones were made by Antenor; and when Xerxes took Athens after the Athenians had abandoned the city, and carried these off also as plunder, Antiochus later sent them back to the Athenians.

​Before the entrance of the theater which they call the Odeum, there are statues of Egyptian kings. They indeed all have the name Ptolemy in common, but each has a different surname; for they call one Philometor, and another Philadelphus, and the son of Lagus ‘Saviour’ (Soter), the Rhodians having bestowed the name. Of the others, Philadelphus is the one of whom I made mention before among the eponymous heroes, and near him is also a statue of his sister Arsinoe.