Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.35.10: the race-courses of Atalanta

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.35.10: the race-courses of Atalanta

mid 2nd century CE

Travel writing

Literary source

Beyond this is a plain called the Plain of Polus, and after it Schoenus, so named from a Boeotian, Schoeneus. If this Schoeneus emigrated to Arcadia, the race-courses of Atalanta, which are near Schoenus, probably got their name from his daughter. Adjoining is . . . in my opinion called, and they say that the land here is Arcadia to all.

William H. S. Jones, Pausanias, Description of Greece, vol. 4, Books 8.22-10 (= Loeb Classical Library; 297), London 1935.

ὑπὲρ τούτου δὲ πεδίον τέ ἐστι Πώλου καλούμενον καὶ μετ᾽ αὐτὸ Σχοινοῦς, ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς Βοιωτοῦ Σχοινέως ἔχων τὴν κλῆσιν. εἰ δὲ ὁ Σχοινεὺς ἀπεδήμησεν οὗτος παρὰ τοὺς Ἀρκάδας, εἶεν ἂν καὶ οἱ τῆς Ἀταλάντης δρόμοι σύνεγγυς τῷ Σχοινοῦντι ὄντες οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς τούτου θυγατρὸς τὸ ὄνομα εἰληφότες. ἑξῆς δέ ἐστιν ** ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν καλούμενον, καὶ τοῖς πᾶσιν Ἀρκαδίαν εἶναι τὴν χώραν φασὶν ἐνταῦθα.

Frederick Spiro (ed.), Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio, vol. 2, Leipzig 1903.