A Pausanias Commentary in Progress

# Ongoing comments on A Pausanias reader in progress ## Gregory Nagy ### Editors: Angelia Hanhardt and Keith DeStone ### Web producer: Noel Spencer ### Consultant for images: Jill Curry Robbins

1.28.2 The visibility of the spear tip of Athena Promakhos, as noted here by Pausanias, is relevant to Pausanias 1.1.1, as argued at §1.7 of the comments there.

1.28.3 The ‘Pelasgian’ Wall as noted by Pausanias here corresponds to what archaeologists today call the ‘Cyclopean’ Wall, traces of which were visible even in the Classical period and beyond.

1.28.6 Pausanias does not specifically mention the cave of the Eumenides/Erinyes. Still, the reference here to these deities as hupo-gaioi ‘under-earth’ conveys the idea that they dwell in caves. For references elsewhere in Greek texts, I recommend Henrichs 1994:39. See also H24H 17§§1–3.

1.28.7 Pausanias is referring here to Iliad 23.677–679.