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Another early reader of Pausanias?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

A.M. Snodgrass
A.M. Snodgrass
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Clare College, Cambridge
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Abstract

It is argued that Athenagoras, Leg. 17, draws on Pausanias 1.26.4, and may join Aelian, Pollux, Philostratus and Longus in the list of possible readers of the periegete.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 123 , November 2003 , pp. 187 - 190
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2003

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References

1 Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece (Sather Classical Lectures 50, Berkeley 1985) 1Google Scholar, with acknowledgement in n.1 to A. Diller (below, n.11).

2 In Overbeck's, J. collection of the passages on Endoios in Die antiken Schriftquellen zur Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den Griechen (Leipzig 1868) 60Google Scholar, nos. 348-53, Pausanias accounts for well over half the lines. The only other entries are a signature inscription, to be joined by a series of later finds, all admirably discussed by Raubitschek, A.E., Dedications from the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge, MA 1949) 491–5Google Scholar (now IG I3 763, 764, 1214 and 1380); then this same passage from Athenagoras; then a further entry, created by a far from certain emendation of the text of the Elder Pliny (HN 16.214), proposed ‘retroactively’ by Sillig to harmonize with Athenagoras' attribution (no. (1) above) of the Artemis at Ephesos to Endoios.

3 See for example the array of important works directly or indirectly linked to him by Boardman, J., Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period (London 1978) 74, 82-3, 86, 158Google Scholar. We need not here enter into the probable identification of the damaged statue Akropolis 625 (Boardman, fig. 135), with Endoios' Athena. On this, see most recently Marx, Patricia A., ‘Acropolis 625 (Endoios' Athena) and the rediscovery of its findspot’, Hesperia 70 (2001) 221–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See FGrHist 537 F1;536 F3.

5 FGrHist 545 F1(4); III b Kommentar (1955) 465 on §4; for the quotation, III b Noten (1955) 275, n.18.

6 Predictably, this very change was once proposed as an emendation, by P. Ubaldi: see Marcovich, M. (ed.), Athenagoras: Legatio pro Christianis (Berlin 1990) 54Google Scholarad loc. But there can be no doubt as to which is the difficilior lectio.

7 See Schoedel, W.R., Athenagoras (Oxford 1972) xiGoogle Scholar, who suggests the year 177.

8 ‘Inspiration and aspiration: date, genre and readership’, in Alcock, S.E., Cherry, J.F. and Elsner, J. (eds), Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (Oxford 2001) 21–32Google Scholar, at 21.

9 Here Habicht (n.1) 9-10 and Bowie (n.8) 22 (‘within the span 174-177’ for Books 5-8) concur, though for different reasons.

10 Habicht (n.1) 1 n.1.

11 See Diller, A., ‘The authors named Pausanias’, TAPA 86 (1955) 268–79Google Scholar, at 272 n.22; and ‘Pausanias in the Middle Ages’, TAPA 87 (1956) 84–97Google Scholar, at 84 and 88.

12 In RE 19.2.1560 (1938).

13 See Dickie, M.W., ‘Philostratus and Pindar's eighth paean’, BASP 34 (1997) 11–20Google Scholar on the verbal similarities between Philostratus' and Pausanias' descriptions of the temples at Delphi, at 15ff.

14 Bowie (n.8) 29-31, on a similar resemblance between a passage in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and Pausanias' account of the divine deliverance of Delphi from Brennus' Gauls.