Orsobia

Family: Epidaurian · Role: daughter of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 28

In Book 2, Chapter 28, Orsobia is named as the daughter of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho, alongside her brothers Antimenes, Xanthippus, and Argeus. After Hyrnetho’s death, Deiphontes and his children bury her at Hyrnethium and establish a chapel in her memory.

Afterwards, Orsobia marries Pamphylus, the son of Ægimius.

Relationship record

Life events

• Deiphontes and his children bury Hyrnetho and establish a chapel honoring her.(Book 2 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Hyrnethium)
  • With: Deiphontes Antimenes Xanthippus (son of Deiphontes) Argeus Hyrnetho
  • “And they built a chapel to her memory and paid her other honours”
• Orsobia marries Pamphylus, the son of Ægimius.(Book 2 · Chapter 28)
  • With: Pamphylus
  • “one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius”

Book 2 · Chapter 28

• parent: Deiphontes “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
• parent: Hyrnetho “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
• married with Pamphylus “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”

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