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Diod. 4.37.1ff.;
Strab. 8.6.13; Paus.
4.34.9ff.; Nonnus, in Westermann's Mythographi Graeci, Appendix
Narrationum, xxix.6, p. 371; Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.1212,
1218. From these accounts we gather that the Dryopians were a wild robber tribe,
whose original home was in the fastnesses of Mount Parnassus. Driven from there by the
advance of the Dorians, they dispersed and settled, some in Thessaly, some in Euboea, some
in Peloponnese, and some even in Cyprus. Down to the second century of our era the
descendants of the Dryopians maintained their national or tribal traditions and pride of
birth at Asine, on the coast of Messenia （Paus.
1.32.6）.
And afterwards setting out from there, he fought as an ally of Aegimius, king of the
Dorians.On the war which Herakles, in alliance with
Aegimius, king of the Dorians, waged with the Lapiths, see Diod.
4.37.3ff. For the Lapi
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had perished, the Heraclids came to attack Peloponnese and they captured all the cities.For the first attempted invasion of the Peloponnese by the Heraclids or sons of Herakles, see Diod.
4. conjunction with the Dorians, to the Peloponnese is dated by Thuc. 1.12.3 in the
eightheir return, a plague visited the whole of Peloponnese; and an oracle declared that this happened of Marathon. Now before they came out of Peloponnese, Tlepolemus had killed Licymnius inadvertenacuna which
follows. of Hercules to Peloponnese,
when Tisamenus, son of Orestes, waans in their final invasion and conquest of Peloponnese （Paus.
2.18.7, Paus. 5.3.5ff., Pauenus and Cresphontes, the conquerors of the Peloponnese. Compare the preceding note. were
grng the
Heraclids attempted to enter Peloponnese by the
Isthmus, but were defeated. When they had made themselves masters of Peloponnese, they set up three altars of Paternal Zeus,[5 more...]
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;
Hor. Carm. 3.11.2, Hor. Ars. 394-396. Apollonius represents Zethus staggering under the load
of a mountain, while Amphion strolls along drawing a cliff twice as large after him by
singing to his golden lyre. He seems to have intended to suggest the feebleness of brute
strength by comparison with the power of genius.; and they expelled Laius.As to the banishment and restoration of Laius, see Paus. 9.5.6; Paus. 9.5.9;
Hyginus, Fab. 9. He resided in Peloponnese, being hospitably received by Pelops; and while he taught
Chrysippus, the son of Pelops, to drive a chariot, he conceived a passion for the lad and
carried him off.Compare Athenaeus xiii.79, pp.
602ff., who says that Laius carried off Chrysippus in his chariot to Thebes. Chrysippus is said to have killed himself for
shame. See the Scholiast on Eur. Ph. 1760.
Zethus married Thebe, after whom the city of Thebes is named; and Amphion married Niobe
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andion. This Pandion, reigning
after Cecrops, was expelled by the sons of Metion in a sedition, and going to
Pylas at Megara married his daughter
Pylia.Compare Paus. 1.5.3,
who tells us that the tomb of Pandion was in the land of Megara, on a bluff called the bluff of Diver-bird Athena. And at a
later time he was even appointed king of the city; for Pylas slew his father's brother
Bias and gave the kingdom to Pandion, while he himself repaired to Peloponnese with a body of people and founded the city of
Pylus.Compare Paus. 1.39.4;
Paus. 4.36.1; Paus.
6.22.5, who variously names this Megarian king Pylas, Pylus, and Pylon.
While Pandion was at Megara, he had sons born
to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus. But some say that Aegeus was a son of
Scyrius, but was passed off by Pandion as his own.Compare
Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 494, who may have copied Apollodorus. The
s
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sea, which was hence called the Aegean after
him. The Greek writers say that he cast himself down from the rock of the acropolis.
Pausanius describes the exact point from which he fell, to wit the lofty bastion at the
western end of the acropolis, on which in after ages the elegant little temple of
Wingless Victory stood and still stands. It commands a wonderful view over the ports of
Athens and away across the sea to
Aegina and the coast of Peloponnese, looming clear and blue through the
diaphanous Attic air in the far distance. A better look out the old man could not have
chosen from which to watch, with straining eyes, for the white or scarlet sail of his
returning son.
But Theseus succeeded to the sovereignty of
Athens, and killed the sons of Pallas, fifty
in number;Pallas was the brother of Aegeus （see
above, Apollod. 3.15.5）; hence his fifty sons
were cousins to Theseus.
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to Pisa in Elis and succeeded to the kingdom of Oenomaus, but not
till he had subjugated what was formerly called Apia and Pelasgiotis, which he called Peloponnesus after himself.As to Apia, the old name of Peloponnese, see above, Apollod. 2.1.1;
Paus. 2.5.7; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. *)api/a. The term Pelasgiotis Peloponnese, see above, Apollod. 2.1.1;
Paus. 2.5.7; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. *)api/a. The term Pelasgiotis seems not to occur
elsewhere as a name for Peloponnese. However,
Euripides uses Pelasgia apparently as equivalent to Argolis （Eur. Or. 960）.
The sons of Pelops were Pittheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and others.According to Pindar, Pelops had six sons by Hippodamia, and three different
lists of their nPeloponnese. However,
Euripides uses Pelasgia apparently as equivalent to Argolis （Eur. Or. 960）.
The sons of Pelops were Pittheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and others.According to Pindar, Pelops had six sons by Hippodamia, and three different
lists of their names are given by the Scholiasts on the passage. All the lists include
the three mentioned by Apollodorus. See Pind. O.
1.89(144), with the Scholia. Three sons, Hippalcimus, Atreus, and Thyestes, are
named by Hyginus （Fab. 84）. Besides his legitimate sons
Pelops is said to have had a bastard son Ch
*)apo/llwn *patrw=|os.
Schol. Aristoph. Birds 1537
Peloponnesus, married Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens, after whose death he was banished; but Creusa's son Ion was recalled to aid Athens in war with Eleusis, won them victory, and died and was buried in Attica. of Xuthus.>
*)ek tw=n *(hraklei/dou peri\ *politeiw=n.
Erechtheus was succeeded as king by Pandion, who divided up his realm among his sons
Schol. Aristoph. Wasps 1223
advice of Damonides of Oea (who was believed to suggest to Pericles most of his measures, owing to which they afterwards ostracized him), since he was getting the worst of it with his private resources, to give the multitude what was their own, and he instituted payment for the jury-courts; the result of which according to some critics was their deterioration, because ordinary persons always took more care than the respectable to cast lots for the duty.
Also it was after this that the organized bribery of juries began, Anytus having first shown the way to it after his command at PylosPylos (Navarino) on the W. coast of Peloponnesus, had been taken by Athens 425 B.C, but was retaken by Sparta 409 B.C. Anytus (see also Aristot. Ath. Pol. 34.3, one of the prosecutors of Socrates) was sent with 30 triremes to its relief, but owing to weather never got round Cape Malea.; for when he was brought to trial by certain persons for having lost Pylos he bribed the court and got off.
ighboring villagers even
now use these laws in the same manner, in the belief that MinosLegendary ruler of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa, and after
death a judge in the lower world. first instituted this code of laws.
And also the island appears to
have been designed by nature and to be well situated to be under Greek rule, as
it lies across the whole of the sea, round which almost all the Greeks are
settled; for Crete is only a short
distance from the Peloponnese in one
direction, and from the part of Asia
around Triopium and from Rhodes in the
other. Owing to this Minos won the empire of the sea,See Thuc. 1.4, 8. The tradition of
the wealth of Minos is supported by the recent excavations at Cnossus. and made some of the
islands subject to him and settled colonies in others, but finally when making
an attack on Sicily he ended his life
there near Camicus.The Cretan organization is on the same lines as that of
‘citadel’） and （2）
‘state,’ a collection of citizens; and if the citizens
divide and settle in two different ‘cities’ with
different governments, they are clearly not the same
‘state’ as before.
But it may similarly be asked,
Suppose a set of men inhabit the same place, in what circumstances are we to
consider their city to be a single city? Its unity clearly does not depend on
the walls, for it would be possible to throw a single wall round the Peloponnesus; and a case in point perhaps is
Babylon, and any other city that
has the circuit of a nation rather than of a city; for it is said that when
Babylon was captured a considerable
part of the city was not aware of it three days later. But the consideration of
this difficulty will be serviceable for another occasion, as the student of
politics must not ignore the question, What is the most advantageous size for a
city, and should its populat
