Pausanias, Description of Greece, W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator), 9.20.3

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There is in Tanagra the tomb of Orion, and Mount Cerycius, the reputed birthplace of Hermes, and also a place called Polus. Here they say that Atlas sat and meditated deeply upon hell and heaven, as Homer¹ says of him:—

Daughter of baneful Atlas, who knows the depths

Of every sea, while he himself holds up the tall pillars,

Which keep apart earth and heaven.

Hom. Od. 1.152

Description of Greece. Pausanias. W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1935.

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Description of Greece (English) (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.)

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 9.20.3 focus

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ἔστι δʼ Ὠρίωνος μνῆμα ἐν Τανάγρᾳ καὶ ὄρος Κηρύκιον, ἔνθα Ἑρμῆν τεχθῆναι λέγουσι, Πόλος τε ὀνομαζόμενον χωρίον· ἐνταῦθα Ἄτλαντα καθήμενον πολυπραγμονεῖν τά τε ὑπὸ γῆς φασι καὶ τὰ οὐράνια, πεποιῆσθαι δὲ καὶ Ὁμήρῳ περὶ τούτου,

Ἄτλαντος θυγάτηρ ὀλοόφρονος, ὅστε θαλάσσης

πάσης βένθεα οἶδεν, ἔχει δέ τε κίονας αὐτός

μακράς, αἳ γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχουσιν.

Hom. Od. 1.152

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English (Jones and Ormerod; retranslated Gregory Nagy, CHS, 2018) (OCR draft) Experimental (CHS Pausanias Reader retranslation by Gregory Nagy, based on Jones and Ormerod, with marked Greek terms, notes, quotations, and bibliographic attributions preserved.) — 9.20.3 focus

[3] There is in Tanagra the tomb of Orion, and Mount Kerykion, the reputed birthplace of Hermes, and also a place called Polos. Here they say that Atlas sat and meditated deeply upon the things of the underworld and the things of the sky [ ourania] , as Homer says of him:

Daughter of baneful Atlas, who knows the depths
Of every sea, while he himself holds up the tall pillars,
Which keep apart earth and the sky [ ouranos].

Odyssey 1.152

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Description of Greece

1. Hom. Od. 1.52

Pausanias Description of Greece 9.20.3

W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator)

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