Ortilochus

Role: father of Diocles · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 1

In Book 4, Chapter 1, Diocles is identified as “The son of Ortilochus.” In Chapter 30, Ortilochus is described as the son of Alpheus and Telegone, who according to the Messenian tradition was Alpheus’s wife and Ortilochus’s mother.

Relationship record

Book 4 · Chapter 1

• child: Diocles (Ortilochus is the father of Diocles.) “They went to Pheræ to the house of Diocles, The son of Ortilochus.”

Book 4 · Chapter 30

• parent: Alpheus “Diocles himself was the son of Ortilochus, the son of Alpheus”
• child: Diocles “Diocles himself was the son of Ortilochus”
• parent: Telegone “Telegone, who according to the Messenian tradition was the wife of Alpheus and mother of Ortilochus”

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