Description of Greece

​For those who have gone down from there and turned again to the marketplace, there is the tomb of Cerdo, the wife of Phoroneus, and there is a temple of Asclepius. The sanctuary of Artemis surnamed Persuasion, Hypermnestra dedicated this too after conquering her father in the lawsuit which she underwent on account of Lynceus. And there is there a bronze statue of Aeneas, and a place called Delta; for what reason [it is so called]—for the stories told did not please me—I willingly omit.

​In front of it has been built an altar of Zeus the Patron of Flight, and near is the tomb of Hypermnestra, the mother of Amphiaraus, and the other is that of Hypermnestra, the daughter of Danaus; and along with her Lynceus also is buried. Opposite these is the tomb of Talaus, the son of Bias; the matters concerning Bias and the descendants of Bias have already been told by me.

​And they say that Hegeleos founded the sanctuary of Athena of the Trumpet. This Hegeleos they say was the son of Tyrsenus, and Tyrsenus was the son of Heracles and the Lydian woman, and that Tyrsenus first invented the trumpet, and Hegeleos, the son of Tyrsenus, taught the Dorians with Temenus the sound of the instrument, and because of this they named Athena “of the Trumpet.” In front of the temple of Athena they say is the tomb of Epimenides; for they say that the Lacedaemonians, having waged war against the Cnossians, took Epimenides alive, and having taken him, put him to death because he did not prophesy favorable things to them, but they themselves took up and buried [him] here.

​And the building of white stone near the very center of the marketplace is not a trophy over Pyrrhus the Epirot, as the Argives say, but one might find this also to be the monument of his corpse having been burned here, on which are represented, among other things that Pyrrhus used in battles, also his elephants. This building, indeed, was erected at the site of the pyre; but the bones of Pyrrhus himself lie in the sanctuary of Demeter, near which I showed in my Attic history that his end also befell him. And at the entrance of this sanctuary of Demeter, one can see a bronze shield of Pyrrhus dedicated above the doors.

​Not far from the building in the marketplace of the Argives is a mound of earth; and in it they say lies the head of Medusa the Gorgon. But apart from the myth, these other things are said about her: that she was the daughter of Phorcus, and on the death of her father she ruled over those who dwelt around the Tritonian lake, and went out to the hunt and led the Libyans in battles, and indeed even then, when she was encamped with an army against the force of Perseus—for chosen men from Peloponnesus followed Perseus also—she was treacherously murdered by night, and Perseus, marveling at her beauty even when she was a corpse, thus cut off her head and brought it to show to the Greeks.