6.22.1 As one proceeds about a stadium-length from the tomb,there are traces of a sanctuary of Artemis surnamed Kordakā— because the followers of Pelops celebrated [agein] a victory-feast [epi-nīkia] at the place of the goddess and danced [orkhēsasthai] a local [epikhōrios] dance [orkhēsis] called thekordax—local, that is, to those who dwell in the vicinity of Mount Sipylos. Not far from the sanctuary [hieron] is a small building [oikēma] containing a bronze chest [kibōtos], and the the bones of Pelops are kept in this chest [kibōtos]. Of the wall and of the rest of the building, there were no remains, but vines were planted over all the place [khōrion] where Pisa stood.

6.22.2 The founder of the city, they say, was Pisos, the son of Perieres, the son of Aeolus. The people of Pisa brought of themselves disaster on their own heads by their hostility to the people of Elis, and by their keenness to preside over the Olympic Games instead of them. At the eighth Festival^* they brought in Pheidon of Argos, the most overbearing of the Greek tyrants, and held the Games along with him, while at the thirty-fourth Festival^* the people of Pisa, with their king Pantaleon, the son of Omphalion, collected an army from the neighborhood, and held the Olympic Games instead of the Eleians.

6.22.3 These Festivals, as well as the hundred and fourth,^* which was held by the Arcadians, are called “Non-Olympiads” by the Eleians, who do not include them in a list of Olympiads. At the forty-eighth Festival,^* Damophon, the son of Pantaleon, gave the Eleians reasons for suspecting that he was intriguing against them, but when they invaded the land of Pisa with an army, he persuaded them by prayers and oaths to return quietly home again.

6.22.4 When Pyrrhos, the son of Pantaleon, succeeded his brother Damophon as king, the people of Pisa of their own accord made war against Elis and were joined in their revolt from the Eleians by the people of Makistos and Skillos, which are in Triphylia, and by the people of Dyspontium, another vassal community. The list were closely related to the people of Pisa, and it was a tradition of theirs that their founder had been Dysponteus, the son of Oinomaos. It was the fate of Pisa, and of all her allies, to be destroyed by the Eleians.

6.22.5 Of Pylos in the land of Elis the ruins are to be seen on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, the distance between Elis and Pylos being eighty stadium-lengths. This Pylos was founded, as I have already said,^* by a Megarian called Pylon, the son of Kleson. Destroyed by Hēraklēs and refounded by the Eleians, the city was doomed in time to be without inhabitants. Beside it, the river Ladon flows into the Peneios.

6.22.6 The Eleians declare that there is a reference to this Pylos in the passage of Homer:

6.22.7 Distant from Olympia about fifty stadium-lengths is Herakleia, a village of the Eleians, and beside it is a river Cytherus. A spring flows into the river, and there is a sanctuary of nymphs near the spring. Individually, the names of the nymphs are Kalliphaiïa, Synallasis, Pegaia, and Iasis, but their common surname is the Ionides. Those who bathe in the spring are cured of all sorts of aches and pains. They say that the nymphs are named after Ion, the son of Gargettos, who migrated to this place from Athens.

6.22.8 If you wish to go to Elis through the plain, you will travel one hundred and twenty stadium-lengths to Letrini, and one hundred and eighty from Letrini to Elis. Originally, Letrini was a town, and Letreus, the son of Pelops, was its founder; but in my time were left a few buildings, with an image of Artemis Alpheiaea in a temple.

6.22.9 It is said that the goddess received the surname for the following reason. Alpheios fell in love with Artemis, and then, realizing that persuasive entreaties would not win the goddess as his bride, he dared to plot violence against her. Artemis was holding at Letrini an all-night revel with the nymphs who were her playmates, and to it came Alpheios. But Artemis had a suspicion of the plot of Alpheios, and smeared with mud her own face and the faces of the nymphs with her. So Alpheios, when he joined the throng, could not distinguish Artemis from the others, and, not being able to pick her out, went away without bringing off his attempt.

6.22.10 The people of Letrini called the goddess Alpheian because of the love of Alpheios for her. But the Eleians, who from the first had been friends of Letrini, transferred to that city the worship of Artemis Elaphiaea established amongst themselves, and held that they were worshipping Artemis Alpheiaea, and so in time, the Alpheiaean goddess came to be named Elaphiaea.

6.22.11 The Eleians, I think, called Artemis Elaphiaea from the hunting of the deer (elaphos). But they themselves say that Elaphios was the name of a native woman by whom Artemis was reared. About six stadium-lengths distant from Letrini is a lake that never dries up, being just about three stadium-lengths across.