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ΗΡΑΙΟΝ (Αρχαίο ιερό) ΑΡΓΟΣ - ΜΥΚΗΝΕΣ
In Argolis, belongs to Proetus.
The same summer also the temple of Hera at Argos was burnt down, through Chrysis, the priestess, placing a lighted torch near the garlands and then falling asleep, so that they all caught fire and were in a blaze before she observed it. Chrysis that very night fled to Phlius for fear of the Argives, who, agreeably to the law in such a case, appointed another priestess named Phaeinis. (Thuc.4.133.2)
Fifteen stades distant from Mycenae is on the left the Heraeum. Beside
the road flows the brook called Water of Freedom. The priestesses use it in purifications
and for such sacrifices as are secret. The sanctuary itself is on a lower part
of Euboea. Euboea is the name they give to the hill here, saying that Asterion
the river had three daughters, Euboea, Prosymna, and Acraea, and that they were
nurses of Hera.
The hill opposite the Heraeum they name after Acraea, the environs
of the sanctuary they name after Euboea, and the land beneath the Heraeum after
Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraeum, and falling into a cleft disappears.
On its banks grows a plant, which also is called asterion. They offer the plant
itself to Hera, and from its leaves weave her garlands.
It is said that the architect of the temple was Eupolemus, an Argive.
The sculptures carved above the pillars refer either to the birth of Zeus and
the battle between the gods and the giants, or to the Trojan war and the capture
of Ilium. Before the entrance stand statues of women who have been priestesses
to Hera and of various heroes, including Orestes. They say that Orestes is the
one with the inscription, that it represents the Emperor Augustus. In the fore-temple
are on the one side ancient statues of the Graces, and on the right a couch of
Hera and a votive offering, the shield which Menelaus once took from Euphorbus
at Troy.
The statue of Hera is seated on a throne; it is huge, made of gold
and ivory, and is a work of Polycleitus. She is wearing a crown with Graces and
Seasons worked upon it, and in one hand she carries a pomegranate and in the other
a sceptre. About the pomegranate I must say nothing, for its story is somewhat
of a holy mystery. The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre they explain
by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed
himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet. This tale and similar
legends about the gods I relate without believing them, but I relate them nevertheless.
By the side of Hera stands what is said to be an image of Hebe fashioned
by Naucydes; it, too, is of ivory and gold. By its side is an old image of Hera
on a pillar. The oldest image is made of wild-pear wood, and was dedicated in
Tiryns by Peirasus, son of Argus, and when the Argives destroyed Tiryns they carried
it away to the Heraeum. I myself saw it, a small, seated image. [
Of the votive offerings the following are noteworthy. There is an
altar upon which is wrought in relief the fabled marriage of Hebe and Heracles.
This is of silver, but the peacock dedicated by the Emperor Hadrian is of gold
and gleaming stones. He dedicated it because they hold the bird to be sacred to
Hera. There lie here a golden crown and a purple robe, offerings of Nero.
Above this temple are the foundations of the earlier temple and such
parts of it as were spared by the flames. It was burnt down because sleep overpowered
Chryseis, the priestess of Hera, when the lamp before the wreaths set fire to
them. Chryseis went to Tegea and supplicated Athena Alea. Although so great a
disaster had befallen them the Argives did not take down the statue of Chryseis;
it is still in position in front of the burnt temple. (2.16.1-7)
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