Pergamus
Family: Epirote · Role: son of Pyrrhus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 11
In Book 1, Chapter 11, Pergamus is identified as the youngest son of Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) and Andromache. Crossing into Asia Minor, he killed Arius, king of Teuthrania, in single combat and seized sovereignty of the country.
By Book 3, Chapter 20, Prax is described as Pergamus’s great-grandson; the Spartans say Prax built a temple for them.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pergamus killed Arius in single combat and seized sovereignty of Teuthrania.(Book 1 · Chapter 11 · 📍 Asia Minor)
- With: Arius
- “Pergamus, crossing into Asia Minor, killed Arius the king of Teuthrania in single combat for the sovereignty of the country”
Book 1 · Chapter 11
- parent: Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “And he had no son by Hermione, but by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus and the youngest Pergamus.”
- enemies with Arius “Pergamus, crossing into Asia Minor, killed Arius the king of Teuthrania in single combat for the sovereignty of the country”
- parent: Andromache “by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus and the youngest Pergamus”
- with Arius (Pergamus killed Arius in single combat.) “Pergamus, crossing into Asia Minor, killed Arius the king of Teuthrania in single combat for the sovereignty of the country”
Book 3 · Chapter 20
- parent: Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “And the Spartans say this temple was built for them by Prax, who was the great grandson of Pergamus, the son of Neoptolemus.”
- child: Prax “And the Spartans say this temple was built for them by Prax, who was the great grandson of Pergamus, the son of Neoptolemus.”
- with Prax (Pergamus was Prax's great-grandfather.) “And the Spartans say this temple was built for them by Prax, who was the great grandson of Pergamus, the son of Neoptolemus.”
- younger kin: Prax “And the Spartans say this temple was built for them by Prax, who was the great grandson of Pergamus, the son of Neoptolemus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.