It is of course possible that Eur. indulges in autoschediasm … and freely inventsthe monument, but more likely he conveys a contemporary tradition which, forwhatever reason, Aristodemus could not verify in his day …
As a specimen of Greek trickery this does not strike us as very inspired; only animbecile would have been taken in by it. I suspect that it is an autoschediasm ofPherecydes’, and that the pad was suggested to him by that metope of the templeof Zeus at Olympia …