Prytanis

Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: ancestor of Nicander · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 36

In Book 2, Chapter 36, Prytanis appears in the lineage of Nicander: Eunomus is named as Prytanis’s son, and Prytanis as Eurypon’s son.

By the 98th Olympiad, in Book 5, Chapter 21, Prytanis of Cyzicus was a boxing rival bribed by Eupolus to let him win. The people of Elis fined all four athletes involved.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eupolus bribed three boxing rivals, and the people of Elis fined all four athletes.(Book 5 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Altis)
  • With: Eupolus Agenor (the Arcadian boxer) Phormio
  • “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad. This was the first foul play they say at the boxing matches, and Eupolus and those who had been bribed by him were fined by the people of Elis.”

Book 2 · Chapter 36

• child: Eunomus “And when the Lacedæmonians under their king Nicander, the son of Charillus, the son of Polydectes, the son of Eunomus, the son of Prytanis, the son of Eurypon, invaded Argolis with an army, the people of Asine joined them, and ravaged with them the territory of the Argives.”
• parent: Eurypon “And when the Lacedæmonians under their king Nicander, the son of Charillus, the son of Polydectes, the son of Eunomus, the son of Prytanis, the son of Eurypon, invaded Argolis with an army, the people of Asine joined them, and ravaged with them the territory of the Argives.”

Book 3 · Chapter 7

• parent: Eurypon “And Eurypon had a son Prytanis”
• child: Eunomus “when Eunomus the son of Prytanis and Polydectes the son of Eunomus were kings”

Book 4 · Chapter 4

• child: Eunomus “the son of Eunomus, the son of Prytanis”
• parent: Eurypon “the son of Prytanis, the son of Eurypon”

Book 5 · Chapter 21

• rivals with Eupolus “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
• with Eupolus (Eupolus bribed Prytanis.) “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”

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