Nagy, Gregory2019-07-172018-05-04Nagy, Gregory. 2018. "A placeholder for the hero Amphiaraos." Classical Inquiries. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:Classical_Inquiries.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:40940322Amphiaraos, a hero who is most prominently featured in ancient Greek epic narratives about the so-called Seven Against Thebes, has a special place in the writings of Pausanias, as we can readily see from a search for this hero’s name in a retranslation of Pausanias that has been made available online for free in A Pausanias Reader in Progress. Here I focus on a passage where Pausanias first mentions the existence of hero cults established in honor of Amphiaraos. In the context of this passage, we see also the traveler’s first mention of a myth about this hero.en-USJournal Article2019-07-17