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wenige Fixpunkte angewiesen und verfallen daher leicht in den Fehler, 
die Wegrichtungen 1n den Plan zu’ schematisch einzuzeichnen. 
Das Hin und Her auf den viel verschlungenen Wegen der Altis koennen 
wir nicht mehr controllieren’.! In his description of the scattered 
altars (V, 14.4—15.12), Pausanias had not the same problem to 
meet as in that of the victor statues. As there was so little continuity 
in describing the altars, which were strewn all over the Altis, he had 
to introduce many other monuments to make their locations known; 
but in the case of the victor statues there was great continuity, and 
consequently such indications would have been superfluous.?. And, in 
general, owing to the number and variety of monuments crowded 
together in the circumscribed area of the Altis,he was not compelled to 
describe Olympia with such definite detail as Athens. ‘That these 
victor statues, however, are described in topographical order is not 
only attested by the internal evidence of Pausanias’ words,’ but also 
by the finding of many of their bases in the order of his presentation. 
With this introductory warning, let us take up the routes of Pausanias 
in detail. 
THE First EpHopos oF PAUSANIAS. 
Pausanias begins his enumeration in the northeastern part of the 
Altis: év 6€&t@ Tod vaov THs “Hpas*—words which have been the subject of 
much discussion as to whether they are to be understood of the temple 
pro persona, 1.é¢., the southern side,*® or of the viewpoint of one facing It, 
1.e., the space (especially the northern or right hand half) before the east- 
ern front. From the immediate whereabouts of Pausanias we get no 
clue; for at the end of Book V (27.11) he says that he is in the middle of 
the Altis, and yet in the following paragraph (27.12)—evidently added 
as atransition from the account of the altars to that of the victors—he 
mentions the trophy of the people of Mende, in Thrace, which he says 
he nearly mistook for the statue of the pancratiast Anauchidas (131), and 
this, as we shall see, stood near the South wall of the Altis far from the 
centre. Doerpfeld’s contention, therefore, that Pausanias approached 
the Heraion from this point, and that consequently the words & de&~ 
must refer to its eastern front, is untenable, and we are left dependent 
on the meaning of these words as gathered from other passages 
in Pausanias’ work. An examination of several such passages seems to 

1Ueber Pausanias, 1890, p. 393. 
2The lack of continuity in describing the altars led R. Heberdey, Eranos Vindobonensis, 1893, 
pp. 39 f., (Die Olympische Altarperiegese des Pausanias), to conclude wrongly that Pausanias 
took over bodily from an earlier work his enumeration of the altars, only here and there inter- 
posing a remark of his own, as ¢. g., V, 15. 2, where he parenthetically describes the Leonidaion. 
3E. g., the statue of the Akarnanian boxer (10) stood among those of Spartan victors (7-14); 
Eukles (52), a grandson of Diagoras, had his statue away from his family group (59-63); the two 
statues of Timon (17 and 105 d) stood in different parts of the Altis. 4V 1, 1:3; 
5So Furtwaengler, 4. Z., XX XVII, 1879, p. 146; Treu, zbid., p. 207; Flasch, Hirschfeld, and 
Scherer, in the works already cited. 
6So Doerpfeld, J. c., p.88; Michaelis, 4. Z., XXXIV, 1876, p. 164; Hitz.-Bluemn., II, 2, p. 531; ete. 
