another Linus

Role: mythic figure · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 29

In another Theban tradition, another Linus was the son of Ismenius and the music-master of Hercules. When Hercules was quite a boy, he slew another Linus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hercules slew another Linus, who had been his music-master.(Book 9 · Chapter 29)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Another tradition of the Thebans says that there was another Linus besides this one, called the son of Ismenius, and that Hercules when quite a boy slew him: he was Hercules’ music-master.”

Book 9 · Chapter 29

• parent: Ismenius (Ismenius is identified as the parent of the second Linus.) “Another tradition of the Thebans says that there was another Linus besides this one, called the son of Ismenius,”
• pupil: Hercules “and that Hercules when quite a boy slew him: he was Hercules’ music-master.”
• with Hercules (Hercules slew another Linus.) “and that Hercules when quite a boy slew him: he was Hercules’ music-master.”

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