Autesion

Family: Theban · Role: father of Theras · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1

In Book 3, Chapter 1, Autesion is named as the father of Theras, who jointly established a colony at the island then called Calliste. In Book 4, Chapter 3, Autesion’s daughter is identified as Argia, whom Aristodemus had married.

Relationship record

Book 3 · Chapter 1

• child: Theras “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”

Book 4 · Chapter 3

• child: Theras “Theras the son of Autesion”
• child: Argia “Aristodemus had married the daughter of Autesion, whose name was Argia”

Book 4 · Chapter 7

• child: Theras (Autesion is Theras's father.) “Theras, the son of Autesion”

Book 7 · Chapter 2

• child: Theras “the Lacedæmonians and Minyæ who had been expelled by the Pelasgi from Lemnos were led by Theras the Theban, the son of Autesion, to the island henceforward called Theras after him”

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