Psamathe

Role: daughter of Crotopus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 43

In Book 1, Chapter 43, when Crotopus was king in Argos, Psamathe had a child by Apollo. Fearing her father would learn of it, she exposed the child.

Relationship record

Life events

• Psamathe exposed her child by Apollo because she feared her father.(Book 1 · Chapter 43 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Apollo
  • “his daughter Psamathe they say had a child by Apollo, and being greatly afraid of her father knowing it exposed the child.”

Book 1 · Chapter 43

• with Apollo (interaction) “his daughter Psamathe they say had a child by Apollo”
• parent: Crotopus (Crotopus is Psamathe's father.) “In the days when Crotopus was king in Argos, his daughter Psamathe they say had a child by Apollo”

Book 2 · Chapter 19

• parent: Crotopus (Crotopus is Psamathe's father.) “and of Psamathe the daughter of Crotopus”

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