Pausanias visits Teuthis
Describes a walled city with an Acropolis and Athena’s statue with a bandaged thigh.
Why it matters
Pausanias preserves a rare written window into the ancient city and its sacred landscape.
In the 2nd c. CE, the traveler Pausanias recorded Teuthis (at/near modern Dimitsana) as an inhabited, walled city with an Acropolis. He notes a statue of Athena with a red bandage on her thigh, tied to the local myth of King Teuthis and the Trojan War.