Patreus
Family: Achaia · Role: founder of Patræ · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 2
During his reign in Achaia, Patreus, son of Preugenes, founded Patræ, the city named after him. Later, he and Preugenes were allowed by the Achæans to build a city in their territory, with equal authority.
When the Achæans later drove the Ionians out, Patreus barred settlement at Anthea and Mesatis, enlarged Aroe to include the town, and renamed it Patræ. He was a grandson of Agenor; at Patræ, golden effigies of Patreus, Preugenes and Atherion commemorated them as companions and contemporaries.
Relationship record
Life events
- Patreus founded the city of Patræ.(Book 3 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Achaia)
- “Patreus the son of Preugenes founded the city in Achaia called to this day Patræ after him”
- Preugenes and Patreus were allowed to build the city of Patræ.(Book 7 · Chapter 6 · 📍 Patræ)
- With: Preugenes
- “Equal authority to them had Preugenes and his son Patreus from Lacedæmon; who were allowed by the Achæans to build a city in their territory, which was called Patræ after Patreus.”
- Patreus barred settlement at Anthea and Mesatis, enlarged Aroe, and renamed it Patræ.(Book 7 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Aroe)
- “but made the circuit of the walls near Aroe wider so as to include all that town, and called it Patræ after his own name.”
Book 3 · Chapter 2
- parent: Preugenes “Patreus the son of Preugenes founded the city in Achaia called to this day Patræ after him”
Book 7 · Chapter 6
- parent: Preugenes “Equal authority to them had Preugenes and his son Patreus from Lacedæmon; who were allowed by the Achæans to build a city in their territory, which was called Patræ after Patreus.”
Book 7 · Chapter 18
- parent: Preugenes (Preugenes is Patreus's father.) “Patreus the son of Preugenes and grandson of Agenor forbade the Achæans to settle at Anthea and Mesatis”
- elder kin: Agenor (son of Areus) (Agenor is Patreus's grandfather.) “Patreus the son of Preugenes and grandson of Agenor forbade the Achæans to settle at Anthea and Mesatis”
Book 7 · Chapter 20
- friends with Preugenes (They are described as companions and contemporaries.) “the device on the gate consists of golden effigies of Patreus and Preugenes and Atherion, all three companions and contemporaries.”
- friends with Atherion (They are described as companions and contemporaries.) “the device on the gate consists of golden effigies of Patreus and Preugenes and Atherion, all three companions and contemporaries.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.