Ancient writers about Macedonia - Pausanias

✍️ Ἀμφι­κτύ­ο­νες οἱ ἐπ᾽ ἐμοῦ τριά­κον­τα ἀριθ­μῷ ἦσαν

ἐκ Νικο­πό­λε­ως μέν καί Μακε­δο­νί­ας τε καί Θεσ­σα­λῶν, ἀπό ἑκά­στων ἀριθ­μῷ ἦσαν ἐκ δέ Βοιω­τῶν,Θεσ­σα­λί­αν γάρ καί οὗ­τοι τά ἀρ­χαιό­τε­ρα ᾤκη­σαν καί Αἰο­λεῖς τη­νι­καῦ­τα ἐκα­λοῦν­το καί ἐκ Φωκέ­ων τε καί Δελ­φῶν, παρά τού­των δύο ἑκά­στων: εἷς δ’ ἐκ Δωρί­δος τῆς ἀρ­χαί­ας.

Παυσανίας,Ελλάδος Περιήγησις,10.8.4

✍️The Amphictyons to-day number thirty.

Nicopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly each send six deputies; the Boeotians, who in more ancient days inhabited Thessaly and were then called Aeolians, the Phocians and the Delphians, each send two; ancient Doris sends one.

Pausanias,Description of Greece,10.8.4

✍️ προσέθεσαν δέ ὕστερον καί συνωρίδα πώλων καί πῶλον κέλητα: ἐπί μέν δὴ τῇ συνωρίδι Βελιστίχην ἐκ Μακεδονίας τῆς ἐπί θαλάσσῃ γυναῖκα, Τληπόλεμον δέ Λύκιον ἀναγορευθῆναι λέγουσιν ἐπί τῷ κέλητι, τοῦτον μέν ἐπί τῆς πρώτης καί τριακοστῆς τε καί ἑκατοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, τῆς δέ Βελιστίχης τήν συνωρίδα Ὀλυμπιάδι πρό ταύτης τρίτῃ. πέμπτῃ δέ ἐπί ταῖς τεσσαράκοντα καί ἑκατόν ἆθλα ἐτέθη παγκρατίου παισί, καί ἐνίκα Φαίδιμος Αἰολεύς ἐκ πόλεως Τρῳάδος.

 

Παυσανίας, Ελλάδος Περιήγησις, 5.8.11

 

✍️Afterwards they added races for chariots and pairs of foals, and for single foals with rider. It is said that the victors proclaimed were: for the chariot and pair, Belistiche, a woman from the seaboard of Macedonia; for the ridden race, Tlepolemus of Lycia.

 

Tlepolemus, they say, won at the hundred and thirty-first Festival, and Belistiche at the third before this. At the hundred and forty-fifth Festival prizes were offered for boys in the pancratium, the victory falling to Phaedimus, an Aeolian from the city Troas.

 

Pausanias, Description of Greece,5.8.11