Year: 1905
Type: article
Abstract: Proceeding along the terrace of the treasuries, Pausanias devotes the nineteenth chapter of his second book on Elis to passing in review the whole row of them, naming each according to the Hellenic community by which it was built and dedicated. First he notes the Sicyonians' treasury, then the ‘Carthaginians'’ (Syracusans'). At this point begins a confusion in his text which culminates in the startling declaration that the third and fourth treasuries are a dedication of the Epidamnians, a notable fact which he immediately denies by speaking of one and only one Epidamnians' treasury. After this he remarks that the Sybarites also built a treasury next to that of the Byzantines. This is disconcerting as he mentions the Byzantines' treasury nowhere else either before or afterwards. Next to the Sybarites' treasury, he then says, was that of the Libyans of Cyrene, in which he saw statues of Roman emperors.
Source: The Journal of Hellenic Studies
DOI: 10.2307/624243
Author: Louis Dyer
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2069046889