fices offered by the Sicyonians at the tomb of Aratus, as
mentioned by Plutarch in his life of Aratus, the sacrifices
and honours paid to Brasidas by the Amphipolitans (Thu-
cyd. V. 11.) (
Greek characters) the honours shewn at Calauria to the
tomb of Demosthenes (if that be the meaning of the
passage in Pausanias, ii. c. 34.) cannot be considered as
implying any belief in the mythological character of the
object of the ceremony. The latest mythological heroes
perhaps were those who fell at Marathon. [1]Pausanias says,
(Greek characters). From the company
in which we find these heroes, and the legends peculiar
to the place, it is clear that they had acquired a mytho-
logical rank. Sounds of tumult and battle were nightly
heard there by any who had not come for the purpose of
listening; and there was a hero Echetlaeus (or, as the name
is elsewhere written, Echetlus[2]), a mysterious champion at
the battle of Marathon, like the Dioscuri at the battle of
the lake Regillus[3], or St lago at that between the Spa-
niards and Moors ; he also was worshipped at Marathon. In
the seventy-first Olympiad we have a hero formally created
after this wise[4]. One Cleomedes of Astypalaea killed a man
at the Olympic games, boxing with him. The Hellanodicse
refused him the prize, whereupon he went mad, and, going
back to Astypalaea, pulled down a school-house upon the
heads of abouit sixty children. At this the people of Asty-
palaea were going to stone him; but he fled into the temple
of Athene, got into a chest there, and shut down the lid.
The people tried to open it for a long while, and at last
forced it, but there was no Cleomedes. They sent to
Delphi, to have this explained, and received this response,
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This creation, or canonization, of a hero shews that the mythological rank had by that time (if the storv be really
