Crisus
Family: Æacidæ · Role: son of Phocus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 29
In Book 2, Chapter 29, Crisus is named as a son of Phocus and a brother of Panopeus. The same account identifies Strophius as Crisus’s son by Anaxibia, daughter of Agamemnon, and Pylades as his grandson.
In Book 8, Chapter 48, an effigy of Crisus stands with those of Antiphanes (legislator of Tegea), Tyronidas and Pyrrhias; they are honoured to this day as legislators for Tegea.
Relationship record
Book 2 · Chapter 29
- parent: Phocus (son of Æacus) “according to the poet Asius Phocus’ sons were Panopeus and Crisus”
- siblings with Panopeus “according to the poet Asius Phocus’ sons were Panopeus and Crisus”
- child: Strophius “the grandson of Crisus was Pylades, the son of Strophius, the son of Crisus by Anaxibia the daughter of Agamemnon”
- with Pylades (Crisus was Pylades's grandfather.) “the grandson of Crisus was Pylades”
Book 8 · Chapter 48
- with Antiphanes (legislator of Tegea) (They are fellow legislators for Tegea.) “there are two pillars, on one of which are effigies of Antiphanes and Crisus and Tyronidas and Pyrrhias, who are held in honour to this day as legislators for Tegea”
- with Tyronidas (They are fellow legislators for Tegea.) “there are two pillars, on one of which are effigies of Antiphanes and Crisus and Tyronidas and Pyrrhias, who are held in honour to this day as legislators for Tegea”
- with Pyrrhias (They are fellow legislators for Tegea.) “there are two pillars, on one of which are effigies of Antiphanes and Crisus and Tyronidas and Pyrrhias, who are held in honour to this day as legislators for Tegea”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.