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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-31
The history and unique achievements of the Tegeans are recounted, followed by a detailed description of the architecture and pedimental sculptures of their outstanding temple of Athena Alea.
Τεγεᾶται δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν Τεγεάτου1 τοῦ Λυκάονος τῇ χώρᾳ φασὶν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι μόνῃ τὸ ὄνομα, τοῖς δὲ ἀνθρώποις κατὰ δήμους εἶναι τὰς οἰκήσεις, Γαρεάτας καὶ Φυλακεῖς καὶ Καρυάτας τε καὶ Κορυθεῖς, ἔτι δὲ Πωταχίδας καὶ Οἰάτας Μανθυρεῖς τε καὶ Ἐχευήθεις· ἐπὶ δὲ Ἀφείδαντος βασιλεύοντος καὶ ἔνατός σφισι δῆμος προσεγένετο Ἀφείδαντες· τῆς δὲ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν πόλεως οἰκιστὴς ἐγένετο Ἄλεος.
The Tegeans say that in the time of Tegeates, son of Lycaon, the land alone had its name from him, and that the people had their dwellings in demes, the Gareatae, the Phylaceis, the Caryatae, and the Corytheis, and further the Potachidae, the Oiatae, the Manthyreis, and the Echeuetheis; and during the reign of Apheidas a ninth deme, the Apheidantes, was added to them; and Aleus became the founder of the city of our time.
Τεγεάταις δὲ παρὲξ ἢ2 τὰ Ἀρκάδων κοινά, ἐν οἷς ἔστι μὲν ὁ πρὸς Ἰλίῳ πόλεμος, ἔστι δὲ τὰ Μηδικά τε καὶ ἐν Διπαιεῦσιν ὁ πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀγών, παρὲξ οὖν τῶν καταλελεγμένων ἰδίᾳ Τεγεάταις ἐστὶν αὐτοῖς τοσάδε ἐς δόξαν. τὸν γὰρ ἐν Καλυδῶνι ὗν Ἀγκαῖος ὑπέμεινεν ὁ Λυκούργου τρωθείς, καὶ Ἀταλάντη τοξεύει τὸν ὗν καὶ ἔτυχε πρώτη τοῦ θηρίου· τούτων ἕνεκα αὐτῇ ἡ κεφαλή τε τοῦ ὑὸς καὶ τὸ δέρμα ἀριστεῖα ἐδόθη.
For the Tegeans, apart from the common affairs of the Arcadians—among which are the war at Ilium, the Persian war, and the struggle against the Lacedaemonians at Dipaea—apart, then, from what has been enumerated, there are these things for their own private glory. For Ancaeus, son of Lycurgus, though wounded, withstood the Calydonian boar, and Atalanta shot the boar and was the first to hit the beast; for these reasons the head and the hide of the boar were given to her as a prize of valor.
Ἡρακλειδῶν δὲ ἐς Πελοπόννησον κατιόντων Ἔχεμος ὁ Ἀερόπου Τεγεάτης ἐμονομάχησεν ἰδίᾳ πρὸς Ὕλλον, καὶ ἐκράτησε τοῦ Ὕλλου τῇ μάχῃ. Λακεδαιμονίους τε οἱ Τεγεᾶται πρῶτοι Ἀρκάδων σφίσιν ἐπιστρατεύσαντας ἐνίκησαν καὶ αἰχμαλώτους αἱροῦσιν αὐτῶν τοὺς πολλούς.
When the Heracleidae were returning to the Peloponnese, Echemus, son of Aeropus, a Tegean, fought in single combat against Hyllus and defeated Hyllus in the battle. And the Tegeans were the first of the Arcadians to defeat the Lacedaemonians when they marched against them, and they took most of them captive.
Τεγεάταις δὲ Ἀθηνᾶς τῆς Ἀλέας τὸ ἱερὸν τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἐποίησεν Ἄλεος· χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον κατεσκευάσαντο οἱ Τεγεᾶται τῇ θεῷ ναὸν μέγαν τε καὶ θέας ἄξιον. ἐκεῖνο μὲν δὴ πῦρ ἠφάνισεν ἐπινεμηθὲν ἐξαίφνης, Διοφάντου παρʼ Ἀθηναίοις ἄρχοντος, δευτέρῳ δὲ ἔτει τῆς ἕκτης καὶ ἐνενηκοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν Εὐπόλεμος Ἠλεῖος ἐνίκα στάδιον.
Aleus made the ancient sanctuary of Athena Alea for the Tegeans; and in later times the Tegeans built a temple for the goddess, both large and worthy of seeing. That former temple was indeed destroyed by a fire that suddenly spread, when Diophantus was archon at Athens, in the second year of the ninety-sixth Olympiad, in which Eupolemus of Elis won the stade race.
ὁ δὲ ναὸς ὁ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν πολὺ δή τι τῶν ναῶν, ὅσοι Πελοποννησίοις εἰσίν,3 ἐς κατασκευὴν προέχει τὴν ἄλλην καὶ ἐς μέγεθος. ὁ μὲν δὴ πρῶτός ἐστιν αὐτῷ κόσμος τῶν κιόνων Δώριος, ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τούτῳ Κορίνθιος· ἑστήκασι δὲ καὶ ἐντὸς τοῦ ναοῦ κίονες ἐργασίας τῆς Ἰώνων. ἀρχιτέκτονα δὲ ἐπυνθανόμην Σκόπαν αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι τὸν Πάριον, ὃς καὶ ἀγάλματα πολλαχοῦ τῆς ἀρχαίας Ἑλλάδος, τὰ δὲ καὶ περὶ Ἰωνίαν τε καὶ Καρίαν ἐποίησε.
But the temple of our time far surpasses all the temples that the Peloponnesians have, in its other construction and in its size. Its first arrangement of columns is Doric, and the one above it is Corinthian; and columns of Ionian workmanship also stand inside the temple. I learned that its architect was Scopas of Paros, who also made statues in many places of ancient Greece, and some also around Ionia and Caria.
τὰ δὲ ἐν τοῖς ἀετοῖς ἐστιν ἔμπροσθεν ἡ θήρα τοῦ ὑὸς τοῦ Καλυδωνίου· πεποιημένου δὲ κατὰ μέσον μάλιστα τοῦ ὑὸς τῇ μέν ἐστιν Ἀταλάντη καὶ Μελέαγρος καὶ Θησεὺς Τελαμών τε καὶ Πηλεὺς καὶ Πολυδεύκης καὶ Ἰόλαος, ὃς τὰ πλεῖστα Ἡρακλεῖ συνέκαμνε τῶν ἔργων, καὶ Θεστίου παῖδες, ἀδελφοὶ δὲ Ἀλθαίας, Πρόθους καὶ Κομήτης·
The subjects in the pediments are, in the front, the hunt of the Calydonian boar; the boar being made almost in the middle, on one side are Atalanta, Meleager, Theseus, Telamon and Peleus, Polydeuces, and Iolaus, who shared most of the labors with Heracles, and the sons of Thestius, brothers of Althaea, Prothous and Cometes;
κατὰ δὲ τοῦ ὑὸς τὰ ἕτερα Ἀγκαῖον ἔχοντα ἤδη τραύματα καὶ ἀφέντα τὸν πέλεκυν ἀνέχων ἐστὶν4 Ἔποχος, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν Κάστωρ καὶ Ἀμφιάραος Ὀικλέους, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖς Ἱππόθους ὁ Κερκυόνος τοῦ Ἀγαμήδους τοῦ Στυμφήλου·5 τελευταῖος δέ ἐστιν εἰργασμένος Πειρίθους. τὰ δὲ ὄπισθεν πεποιημένα ἐν τοῖς ἀετοῖς Τηλέφου πρὸς Ἀχιλλέα ἐστὶν ἡ ἐν Καΐκου πεδίῳ μάχη.
on the other side of the boar, Epochus is supporting Ancaeus who is already wounded and has dropped his axe, and beside him Castor and Amphiaraus, son of Oicles, and after them Hippothous, son of Cercyon, son of Agamedes, son of Stymphalus; and Pirithous is the last represented. The subjects made in the back pediments are the battle of Telephus against Achilles in the plain of the Caicus.
- 8.45.1ἐπὶ μὲν Τεγεάτου
The preposition ἐπί with the genitive denotes a historical period or reign ("in the time of...", "under the reign of..."). Here, it is contrasted with the later period under Apheidas (ἐπὶ δὲ Ἀφείδαντος βασιλεύοντος).
- 8.45.2παρὲξ ἢ
A compound prepositional expression with the conjunction ἤ meaning "except for" or "aside from." Because of the insertion of the parenthetical clause (ἐν οἷς... ἀγών), the same idea is repeated and resumed with παρὲξ οὖν τῶν καταλελεγμένων ("aside then from what has been enumerated").
- 8.45.5τῶν ναῶν, ὅσοι Πελοποννησίοις εἰσίν
The comparative genitive τῶν ναῶν ("than the temples") is governed by the verb προέχει ("surpasses"), modified by the relative clause introduced by ὅσοι ("as many as"). The dative Πελοποννησίοις is a dative of possession, meaning "all the temples that the Peloponnesians have."
- 8.45.7ἀνέχων ἐστὶν
A periphrastic construction combining the present participle ἀνέχων ("supporting") and the copula ἐστίν ("is"). Instead of the simple present indicative ἀνέχει, this emphasizes the ongoing action or the enduring state in the sculptural composition ("is in the state of supporting").
- 8.45.7τοῦ Ἀγαμήδους τοῦ Στυμφήλου
A series of nested genitives indicating genealogy. Following Ἱππόθους ὁ Κερκυόνος ("Hippothous, son of Cercyon"), it shows that Cercyon was the son of Agamedes (τοῦ Ἀγαμήδους) and Agamedes was the son of Stymphalus (τοῦ Στυμφήλου). This is a typical cumulative genitive structure used to trace ancestry.