Kitap 9
20.1
Within the territory of Tanagra is what is called Delium on Sea. In it are images of Artemis and Leto. The people of Tanagra say that their founder was Poemander, the son of Chaeresilaus, the son of Iasius, the son of Eleuther, who, they say, was the son of Apollo by Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon. It is said that Poemander married Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus. But in a poem of Corinna she is said to be a daughter of Asopus.
20.2
There is a story that, as she reached extreme old age, her neighbors ceased to call her by this name, and gave the name of Graea (old woman), first to the woman herself, and in course of time to the city. The name, they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue:—Thespeia, Graea, and wide Mycalessus.Hom. Il. 2.498Later, however, it recovered its old name.
20.3
There is in Tanagra the tomb of Orion, and Mount Cerycius, the reputed birthplace of Hermes, and also a place called Polus. Here they say that Atlas sat and meditated deeply upon hell and heaven, as HomerHom. Od. 1.52 says of him:—Daughter of baneful Atlas, who knows the depthsOf every sea, while he himself holds up the tall pillars,Which keep apart earth and heaven.Hom. Od. 1.152
