| According to the 2nd-century ad traveller Pausanias, the process involved hammering sheets of metal into the shape of a figure and riveting them together over a solid core. |
| Most modern scholars emend the text of Pausanias and reidentify Herodotus's Pheidon as the grandson of the great man. |
| As for Pausanias, on his arrival at home he was tried on the capital charge. |
| Pausanias 49 mentions such acroteria on the stoa Basileios on the agora of Athens. |
| At Smyrna, where the population was very mixed, Pausanias mentions two nemeses. |
| After he was once got out of the reach and danger of his father in law king Danaus, he gaue knowledge thereof to Pausanias. |
