Gorgasus

Role: son of Anticlea and Machaon · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 3

At Pharæ, Anticlea bore Gorgasus and Nicomachus to Machaon. After Diocles died, Gorgasus and Nicomachus succeeded him to the kingdom. In Book 4, Chapter 3, Isthmius is said to have “built a temple to Gorgasus and Nicomachus at Pharæ”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Anticlea bore Nicomachus and Gorgasus.(Book 4 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Pharæ)
  • With: Anticlea Nicomachus
  • “I have also heard at Pharæ that Diocles had a daughter Anticlea as well as his twin sons, and that she bare Nicomachus and Gorgasus”
• Nicomachus and Gorgasus succeeded Diocles to the kingdom.(Book 4 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Pharæ)
  • With: Nicomachus Diocles
  • “they lived at Pharæ, and after the death of Diocles succeeded to the kingdom.”

Book 4 · Chapter 3

• with Isthmius (interaction) “built a temple to Gorgasus and Nicomachus at Pharæ”

Book 4 · Chapter 30

• parent: Machaon “she bare Nicomachus and Gorgasus to Machaon the son of Æsculapius”
• parent: Anticlea “she bare Nicomachus and Gorgasus to Machaon the son of Æsculapius”
• with Diocles (Gorgasus succeeded Diocles to the kingdom.) “they lived at Pharæ, and after the death of Diocles succeeded to the kingdom”

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