Cyathus

Role: cupbearer of Œneus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 13

Life events

• Hercules struck Cyathus, who died immediately from the blow.(Book 2 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Phlius)
  • With: Hercules
  • “However this may be, Hercules struck the lad Cyathus, the cupbearer of Œneus, on the head with one of his fingers, not being pleased with the drink he offered him: and as this lad died immediately from the blow”
• The Phliasians erected a chapel to commemorate Cyathus’s death.(Book 2 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Phlius)
  • “the Phliasians erected a chapel to his memory.”

Book 2 · Chapter 13

• employer: Œneus “However this may be, Hercules struck the lad Cyathus, the cupbearer of Œneus, on the head with one of his fingers, not being pleased with the drink he offered him”
• with Hercules (Hercules struck and killed Cyathus.) “However this may be, Hercules struck the lad Cyathus, the cupbearer of Œneus, on the head with one of his fingers, not being pleased with the drink he offered him: and as this lad died immediately from the blow”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.