Guide to Greece by Pausanias

Author:Pausanias
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141964843
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

[7] When the Phigalians heard the oracle that was brought to them, they honoured Demeter more than they ever had before, and they persuaded Onatas son of Mikon of Aigina, whatever they had to pay him, to make them a statue of Demeter. The bronze Pergamene Apollo, one of the most astounding of all works of art for its size and fineness, is by the same Onatas.307 So now he found a copy or a painting of the ancient wooden idol, and found out most, so they say, by a vision of it in his sleep, and made the Phigalians a statue in bronze, just two generations after the Persian expedition against Greece. [8] I can confirm this, because when Xerxes crossed over to Europe Gelon son of Deinomenes was dictator of Syracuse and Sicily, and when he died his brother Hieron succeeded him, and then Hieron died before consecrating the dedications he had vowed to Olympian Zeus for his winning horses, so Hieron’s son Deinomenes offered them in his father’s place.308 [9] These were by Onatas, and there are inscriptions on them at Olympia, the first like this:

Olympian Zeus: Hieron who once

won at your holy games gives you this thanks

for one team-race, two ridden horse-races:

which things Deinomenes of Syracuse

dedicates for his father’s monument.

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