Description of Greece

​They support it in front, and likewise also behind: two Graces and two Horae. On the left stands Echidna and Typhos, and on the right Tritons. To go through the details of the reliefs individually with precision was bound to cause annoyance to readers; but to explain them in summary, since most of them are not unknown: Poseidon and Zeus are carrying Taygete, daughter of Atlas, and her sister Alcyone. There is also represented Atlas, and the single combat of Heracles against Cycnus, and the battle of the Centaurs at Pholus’ place.

​I do not know for what reason Bathycles has depicted the Taurus called Minos’ bound and led alive by Theseus; and there is a dance of the Phaeacians on the throne, and Demodocus singing; and the deed of Perseus against Medusa is represented. If one passes over the battle of Heracles against Thourios of the giants and that of Tyndareus against Eurytus, there is the rape of the daughters of Leucippus; and as for Dionysus and Heracles, Hermes is carrying the former, while he is still a child, to heaven, and Athena is leading Heracles to dwell henceforth with the gods.

​Peleus also delivers Achilles to be brought up by Chiron, who is also said to have taught him; and Cephalus is carried off by Hemera on account of his beauty, and the gods are bringing gifts to the wedding of Harmonia. And the single combat of Achilles against Memnon is represented, and Heracles punishing the Thracian Diomedes and Nessus at the river Evenus. And Hermes leads the goddesses to Alexander to be judged, and Adrastus and Tydeus stop Amphiaraus and Lycurgus son of Pronax from fighting.

​And Hera looks at Io, daughter of Inachus, who is already a cow, and Athena is fleeing from Hephaestus, who is pursuing her. And upon these, of the labors of Heracles, the one against the hydra is made, and how he brought up the dog of Hades. And as for Anaxias and Mnasinous, each of these is sitting on a horse, but as for Megapenthes, the son of Menelaus, and Nicostratus, a single horse is carrying them. Bellerophon also slays the beast in Lycia, and Heracles drives the cattle of Geryon.

​At the upper limits of the throne, on horses, on either side, are the sons of Tyndareus; and there are sphinxes under the horses, and wild beasts running upwards: on one side a leopard, and on the side of Polydeuces a lioness. And at the very top, a dance is represented on the throne: the Magnesians who helped Bathycles make the throne.

​And to one going under the throne, to examine the parts inside from the Tritons, there is the hunt of the Calydonian boar, and Heracles killing the sons of Actor, and Calais and Zetes driving away the Harpies from Phineus; and Pirithous and Theseus have carried off Helen, and Heracles is choking the lion, and Apollo and Artemis are shooting Tityus with arrows;

​and the battle of Heracles against the Centaur Oreius is represented, and that of Theseus against the Taurus of Minos. Represented also is the wrestling of Heracles against Achelous, and the story told about Hera, how she was bound by Hephaestus, and the games which Acastus held in honor of his father, and the adventures of Menelaus and the Egyptian Proteus in the Odyssey. Last are Admetus yoking a boar and a lion to his chariot, and the Trojans offering libations to Hector.