Histories 3.123.1

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
440
Location of Display
Reference
Histories 3.123.1
Quotation
ταῦτα ἀκούσας Πολυκράτης ἥσθη τε καὶ ἐβούλετο: καί κως ἱμείρετο γὰρ χρημάτων μεγάλως, ἀποπέμπει πρῶτα κατοψόμενον Μαιάνδριον Μαιανδρίου ἄνδρα τῶν ἀστῶν, ὅς οἱ ἦν γραμματιστής: ὃς χρόνῳ οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον τούτων τὸν κόσμον τὸν ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρεῶνος τοῦ Πολυκράτεος ἐόντα ἀξιοθέητον ἀνέθηκε πάντα ἐς τὸ Ἥραιον.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Building: Interior
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Men's apartment in the House of Polycrates, then the Heraion at Samos
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Furniture
Visual Work: Textile
Medium/a Ornamenting
Expensive and luxurious furnishings (beds, tables, statues, drapery, couches)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Meandrios, scribe of Polycrates
Item Identifier
A02150
Determination
Derived directly from text