Mothone

Role: daughter of Œneus · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 35

Life events

• Pedasus changed its name to Mothone.(Book 4 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Mothone)
  • “afterwards changed its name to Mothone from the daughter of Œneus as the inhabitants say”
• Œneus had a daughter named Mothone by a concubine.(Book 4 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Peloponnese)
  • With: Œneus
  • “and had by a concubine a daughter Mothone”
• Illyrian raiders captured much of Mothone's population and carried them away.(Book 4 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Mothone)
  • “Then the Illyrians in the height of their daring captured many men and still more women, and clapped them on board, and sailed away for the Ionian sea, having half stripped the town of its population.”

Book 4 · Chapter 35

• parent: Œneus “Œneus the son of Porthaon after the capture of Ilium retired they say with Diomede to the Peloponnese, and had by a concubine a daughter Mothone.”

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