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Headword:
Rhamnousia
Nemesis
Adler number: rho,33
Translated headword: Nemesis of Rhamnous, Rhamnousian Nemesis
Vetting Status: low
Translation: She[1] was first modelled on the appearance of
Aphrodite; that is why she held a sprig from an appletree. Erechtheus set her up,[2] since she was his mother, but she was named
Nemesis and reigned in the place.[3] But Pheidias[4] made the statue, whose inscription favored his beloved, Agorakritos of
Paros.[5] He also inscribed "Autarkhes" on the finger of
Zeus at
Olympia. This man was a handsome Argive, his beloved.
There is also a proverbial description of the wise and esteemed: Rhamnusian.[6]
Rhamnousia Nemesis: hautê prôton aphidruto en Aphroditês schêmati: dio kai kladon eiche mêleas. hidrusato de autên Erechtheus, mêtera heautou ousan, onomazomenên de Nemesin kai basileusasan en tôi topôi. to de agalma Pheidias epoiêsen: hou tên epigraphên echarisato Agorakritôi tôi Pariôi erômenôi. hos kai Olumpiasi tôi daktulôi tou Dios epegrapsen, Autarchês. kalos d' ên houtos Argeios, erômenos autou. legetai de kai paroimia, Rhamnousios, epi tôn sophôn kai ellogimôn.
Notes:
On
Nemesis see also
alpha 524 and
nu 163.
[1] I.e. her statue.
[2] I.e. established the sanctuary.
[3] The town (and deme) of Rhamnous, in NE Attica, for which see under
rho 32.
[4]
Phi 246.
[5] The actual sculptor of this statue: see the Oxford Dictionary of Art, s.v. Agoracritus ("Greek sculptor from
Paros of the second half of the 5th cent. BC, a pupil of Phidias. His most celebrated work was a colossal marble statue of
Nemesis at
Rhamnus; a fragment of the head is in the British Museum, London"), and OCD(3) p.43. The mistaken attribution to Pheidias himself is at least as old as
Pausanias 1.33.3.
[6] See already
rho 32.
Translated by: Ross Scaife on 22 May 2002@15:56:24.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 23 May 2002@04:12:25.
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