Nemea
Family: mythological · Role: daughter of Asopus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 15
In Book 2, Chapter 15, Nemea is identified as the daughter of Asopus, and the place is said to have taken its name from her. In Book 5, Chapter 22, she is named first among Asopus’s sisters: Ægina, Harpina, Corcyra and Thebe follow her.
In the same chapter, the Phliasians erect votive statues of Zeus, Asopus and his daughters.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Phliasians erected votive statues of Zeus, Asopus, and Asopus’ daughters.(Book 5 · Chapter 22)
Book 2 · Chapter 15
- parent: Asopus “And they say the name Nemea was given to the place by Nemea the daughter of Asopus.”
Book 5 · Chapter 22
- parent: Asopus “The Phliasians also erected as votive offerings statues of Zeus and Asopus’ daughters and Asopus himself. And this is the arrangement of the statues. Nemea comes first of the sisters,”
- siblings with Ægina “Nemea comes first of the sisters, and next her is Zeus laying hold of Ægina.”
- siblings with Harpina “Nemea comes first of the sisters, and next her is Zeus laying hold of Ægina. And next Ægina is Harpina,”
- siblings with Corcyra “Nemea comes first of the sisters, and next her is Zeus laying hold of Ægina. And next Ægina is Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares, and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa. And next to her are Corcyra and Thebe,”
- siblings with Thebe “Nemea comes first of the sisters, and next her is Zeus laying hold of Ægina. And next Ægina is Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares, and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa. And next to her are Corcyra and Thebe,”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.