Mera

Family: Tegean royal family · Role: member of Tegeates' household · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 53

Life events

• Tegeates and Mera sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis after Scephrus’s death.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Tegea)
  • With: Tegeates Apollo Artemis
  • “And Tegeates and Mera forthwith sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis”
• The Delphic oracle ordered Tegeates and Mera to mourn for Scephrus.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Tegeates Scephrus
  • “afterwards when a mighty famine came upon the land the oracle at Delphi told them to mourn for Scephrus.”

Book 8 · Chapter 53

• with Apollo (Mera sacrificed to Apollo.) “And Tegeates and Mera forthwith sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis”
• with Artemis (Mera sacrificed to Artemis.) “And Tegeates and Mera forthwith sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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