Ctimenus

Role: son of Ganyctor · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 31

Ctimenus was a son of Ganyctor and a brother of Antiphus. After the murder of Hesiod, he and Antiphus fled from Naupactus to Molycria, where they were sentenced for impiety toward Poseidon. The account says opinions differed over whether Hesiod had violated their sister.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ctimenus and Antiphus fled to Molycria after Hesiod's murder.(Book 9 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Molycria)
  • With: Antiphus Hesiod
  • “Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod”
• Ctimenus and Antiphus were sentenced for impiety toward Poseidon.(Book 9 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Molycria)
  • With: Antiphus Poseidon
  • “and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon”

Book 9 · Chapter 31

• parent: Ganyctor “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
• siblings with Antiphus “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
• enemies with Hesiod “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
• with Poseidon (Ctimenus was sentenced because of impiety toward Poseidon.) “and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon”
• with Hesiod (The passage associates Ctimenus with the murder of Hesiod but does not explicitly state that he was the murderer.) “Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod”

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