Pausanias

Also known as: Pausanias the General · Family: Macedonian · Role: historical figure · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 9

Book 2 · Chapter 9

with Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) (interaction) “Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, and grandson of Cleonymus, when he succeeded to the kingdom in Sparta, imitated Pausanias in desiring to be an autocrat”

with Harpalus (Pausanias was alleged to have murdered Harpalus.) “some say he was treacherously murdered by the Macedonian Pausanias”

parent: Cleombrotus “And Pausanias the son of Cleombrotus was not king after Leonidas,”
ward: Plistarchus “but was Regent for Plistarchus Leonidas’ son during his minority,”
with Mardonius (interaction) “Moreover he would not suffer the dead body of Mardonius to be outraged,”
with Lampon (Lampon urged Pausanias to allow the body of Mardonius to be outraged.) “Moreover he would not suffer the dead body of Mardonius to be outraged, though the Æginetan Lampon urged it.”

with Simonides (Simonides composed an epigram on Pausanias.) “and still earlier one on Pausanias, composed by Simonides, inscribed on the tripod erected at Delphi”

with Lysander (Pausanias identifies himself as the narrator of the account concerning Lysander) “And what happened subsequently, viz. the expedition of the Lacedæmonians and the death of Lysander, has been told by me in reference to Pausanias”

with Leonidas (Pausanias removed Leonidas's remains.) “The remains of Leonidas were 40 years after his death removed from Thermopylæ by Pausanias”

admirer->admired with Cleonice (Pausanias became enamoured of Cleonice.) “For when he was at the Hellespont in command of the allied fleet, he got enamoured of a Byzantian maiden called Cleonice”
with Cleonice (Pausanias stabbed Cleonice.) “And Pausanias, whose conscience smote him for having betrayed Greece, and who was therefore always in a state of nervous alarm and panic, was beside himself and stabbed the maiden with a scimetar.”
with Epidotes (Epidotes turned aside Zeus's wrath in Pausanias's case.) “because he it was who in the case of Pausanias turned aside the wrath of Zeus the god of Suppliants.”
admired: Cleonice (Pausanias became enamoured of Cleonice.) “For when he was at the Hellespont in command of the allied fleet, he got enamoured of a Byzantian maiden called Cleonice,”
with Zeus (Pausanias attempted to propitiate Zeus.) “This guilt Pausanias could not clear himself from, though he endeavoured in every way to propitiate Zeus the Acquitter,”

with Demeter (interaction) “I went to Phigalia chiefly to see this Demeter, and I sacrificed to the goddess in the way the people of the country do”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.