Tegeates
Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Lycaon · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3
In Book 8, Chapter 3, Tegeates was a son of Lycaon and, with his brothers, built a city: “and Tegeates built Tegea”. Nyctimus was the eldest son and succeeded to Lycaon’s power, while the other brothers built cities where they chose. Tegeates was married to Mæra.
After Scephrus died, Tegeates and Mæra sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis at Tegea. Later, when a great famine came upon the land, the oracle at Delphi told them to mourn for Scephrus. Tegeates’s sons included Scephrus, Cydon, Archedius and Gortys; the three latter sons migrated to Crete.
Relationship record
Life events
- Tegeates and Mera sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis after Scephrus’s death.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Tegea)
- The Delphic oracle ordered Tegeates and Mera to mourn for Scephrus.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Delphi)
Book 8 · Chapter 3
- parent: Lycaon “and Tegeates built Tegea”
- siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Book 8 · Chapter 45
- parent: Lycaon “Tegeates the son of Lycaon”
Book 8 · Chapter 48
- married with Mæra “Mæra the wife of Tegeates”
- parent: Lycaon “the tombs of Tegeates the son of Lycaon”
Book 8 · Chapter 53
- child: Scephrus “Scephrus, the son of Tegeates, went up to Apollo and had a private conversation with him.”
- child: Cydon “And the remaining sons of Tegeates, Cydon and Archedius and Gortys, migrated they say of their own accord to Crete”
- child: Archedius “And the remaining sons of Tegeates, Cydon and Archedius and Gortys, migrated they say of their own accord to Crete”
- child: Gortys “And the remaining sons of Tegeates, Cydon and Archedius and Gortys, migrated they say of their own accord to Crete”
- with Apollo (Tegeates sacrificed to Apollo.) “And Tegeates and Mera forthwith sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis”
- with Artemis (Tegeates sacrificed to Artemis.) “And Tegeates and Mera forthwith sacrificed to Apollo and Artemis”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.