§2.21.1κατελθοῦσι δὲ ἐντεῦθεν καὶ τραπεῖσιν αὖθις ἐπὶ τὴν ἀγοράν, ἔστι μὲν Κερδοῦς Φορωνέως γυναικὸς μνῆμα, ἔστι δὲ ναὸς Ἀσκληπιοῦ.
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.
τὸ δὲ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερὸν ἐπίκλησιν Πειθοῦς, Ὑπερμήστρα καὶ τοῦτο ἀνέθηκε νικήσασα τῇ δίκῃ τὸν πατέρα ἣν τοῦ Λυγκέως ἕνεκα ἔφυγε.
The sanctuary of Artemis surnamed Persuasion, Hypermnestra dedicated this too after conquering her father in the lawsuit which she underwent on account of Lynceus.
καὶ Αἰνείου ἐνταῦθα χαλκοῦς ἀνδριάς ἐστι καὶ χωρίον καλούμενον Δέλτα· ἐφʼ ὅτῳ δέ—οὐ γάρ μοι τὰ λεγόμενα ἤρεσκεν—, ἑκὼν παρίημι.
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.
§2.21.2πρὸ δὲ αὐτοῦ πεποίηται Διὸς Φυξίου βωμὸς καὶ πλησίον Ὑπερμήστρας μνῆμα Ἀμφιαράου μητρός, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον Ὑπερμήστρας τῆς Λαναοῦ· σὺν δὲ αὐτῇ καὶ Λυγκεὺς τέθαπται.
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.
τούτων δὲ ἀπαντικρὺ Ταλαοῦ τοῦ Βίαντός ἐστι τάφος· τὰ δὲ ἐς Βίαντα καὶ ἀπογόνους τοῦ Βίαντος ἤδη λέλεκταί μοι.
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.
§2.21.3Ἀθηνᾶς δὲ ἱδρύσασθαι Σάλπιγγος ἱερόν φασιν Ἡγέλεων.
And they say that Hegeleos founded the sanctuary of Athena of the Trumpet.
Τυρσηνοῦ δὲ τοῦτον τὸν Ἡγέλεων, τὸν δὲ Ἡρακλέους εἶναι καὶ γυναικὸς λέγουσι τῆς Λυδῆς, Τυρσηνὸν δὲ σάλπιγγα εὑρεῖν πρῶτον, Ἡγέλεων δὲ τὸν Τυρσηνοῦ διδάξαι τοὺς σὺν Τημένῳ Δωριέας τοῦ ὀργάνου τὸν ψόφον καὶ διʼ αὐτὸ Ἀθηνᾶν ἐπονομάσαι Σάλπιγγα. πρὸ δὲ τοῦ ναοῦ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς Ἐπιμενίδου λέγουσιν εἶναι τάφον· Λακεδαιμονίους γὰρ πολεμήσαντας πρὸς Κνωσσίους ἑλεῖν ζῶντα Ἐπιμενίδην, λαβόντας δὲ ἀποκτεῖναι, διότι σφίσιν οὐκ αἴσια ἐμαντεύετο, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀνελόμενοι θάψαι ταύτῃ φασί.
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.
§2.21.4τὸ δὲ οἰκοδόμημα λευκοῦ λίθου κατὰ μέσον μάλιστα τῆς ἀγορᾶς οὐ τρόπαιον ἐπὶ Πύρρῳ τῷ Ἠπειρώτῃ, καθὰ λέγουσιν οἱ Ἀργεῖοι, καυθέντος δὲ ἐνταῦθα τοῦ νεκροῦ μνῆμα καὶ τοῦτο ἂν εὕροι τις, ἐν ᾧ τά τε ἄλλα ὅσοις ὁ Πύρρος ἐχρῆτο ἐς τὰς μάχας καὶ οἱ ἐλέφαντές εἰσιν ἐπειργασμένοι.
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.
τοῦτο μὲν δὴ κατὰ τὴν πυρὰν τὸ οἰκοδόμημα ἐγένετο· αὐτὰ δὲ κεῖται τοῦ Πύρρου τὰ ὀστᾶ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῆς Δήμητρος, παρʼ ᾧ συμβῆναί οἱ καὶ τὴν τελευτὴν ἐδήλωσα ἐν τῇ Ἀτθίδι συγγραφῇ.
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.
τοῦ δὲ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱεροῦ τούτου κατὰ τὴν ἔσοδον ἀσπίδα ἰδεῖν Πύρρου χαλκῆν ἔστιν ὑπὲρ τῶν θυρῶν ἀνακειμένην.
And at the entrance of this sanctuary of Demeter, one can see a bronze shield of Pyrrhus dedicated above the doors.
§2.21.5τοῦ δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ τῶν Ἀργείων οἰκοδομήματος οὐ μακρὰν χῶμα γῆς ἐστιν· ἐν δὲ αὐτῷ κεῖσθαι τὴν Μεδούσης λέγουσι τῆς Γοργόνος κεφαλήν.
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.
ἀπόντος δὲ τοῦ μύθου τάδε ἄλλα ἐς αὐτήν ἐστιν εἰρημένα· Φόρκου μὲν θυγατέρα εἶναι, τελευτήσαντος δέ οἱ τοῦ πατρὸς βασιλεύειν τῶν περὶ τὴν λίμνην τὴν Τριτωνίδα οἰκούντων καὶ ἐπὶ θήραν τε ἐξιέναι καὶ ἐς τὰς μάχας ἡγεῖσθαι τοῖς Λίβυσι καὶ δὴ καὶ τότε ἀντικαθημένην στρατῷ πρὸς τὴν Περσέως δύναμιν—ἕπεσθαι γὰρ καὶ τῷ Περσεῖ λογάδας ἐκ Πελοποννήσου— δολοφονηθῆναι νύκτωρ, καὶ τὸν Περσέα τὸ κάλλος ἔτι καὶ ἐπὶ νεκρῷ θαυμάζοντα οὕτω τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτεμόντα αὐτῆς ἄγειν τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐς ἐπίδειξιν.
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.