Saturday, July 01, 2023
Dedication of Shields
Greek Anthology 6.130 (by Leonidas; also preserved by Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus 26.5, and Pausanias 1.13.3; tr. Bernadotte Perrin):
See Denver Graninger, Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 52-54.
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These shields, now suspended here as a gift to Athena Itonis,Brave doesn't occur in the Greek. W.R. Paton translates the last line as "Now, as of old, the sons of Aeacus are warriors."
Pyrrhus the Molossian took from valiant Gauls,
after defeating the entire army of Antigonus; which is no great wonder;
for now, as well as in olden time, the Aeacidae are brave spearmen.
τοὺς θυρεοὺς ὁ Μολοσσὸς Ἰτωνίδι δῶρον Ἀθάνᾳ
Πύρρος ἀπὸ θρασέων ἐκρέμασεν Γαλατᾶν,
πάντα τὸν Ἀντιγόνου καθελὼν στρατόν. οὐ μέγα θαῦμα·
αἰχμηταὶ καὶ νῦν καὶ πάρος Αἰακίδαι.
See Denver Graninger, Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 52-54.
