Pelagon
Role: suitor · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 21
In Book 6, Chapter 21, Pelagon was among the suitors killed by Œnomaus before Pelops defeated him. The account names Pelagon among those overtaken by fate in the fatal race.
In Book 9, Chapter 12, a cow from Pelagon’s herds guided Cadmus on his journey from Delphi to Phocis.
Relationship record
Life events
- Œnomaus killed numerous suitors before Pelops defeated him.(Book 6 · Chapter 21)
- With: Œnomaus Alcathous Euryalus Eurymachus Crotalus Acrias Capetus Lycurgus Lasius Chalcodon Tricolonus (namesake descendant) Aristomachus Prias Æolius Cronius Erythras Eioneus
- “Indeed according to the poem called the Great Eœæ the following were killed by Œnomaus, Alcathous the son of Porthaon next to Marmax, and next to Alcathous Euryalus and Eurymachus and Crotalus. Their parents and native lands I could not ascertain. But Acrias, who was killed next, one would infer to have been a Lacedæmonian and the founder of Acriæ. And next to Acrias Œnomaus slew Capetus and Lycurgus and Lasius and Chalcodon and Tricolonus, who the Arcadians say was a descendant as well as namesake of Tricolonus the son of Lycaon. And after Tricolonus fate overtook in this fatal race Aristomachus and Prias and Pelagon and Æolius and Cronius. Some also add to the list I have given Erythras, the son of Leucon and grandson of Athamas, who gave his name to the town in Bœotia called Erythræ, and Eioneus, the son of Magnes and grandson of Æolus.”
Book 6 · Chapter 21
- with Œnomaus (interaction) “And after Tricolonus fate overtook in this fatal race Aristomachus and Prias and Pelagon and Æolius and Cronius.”
- enemies with Œnomaus “And after Tricolonus fate overtook in this fatal race Aristomachus and Prias and Pelagon and Æolius and Cronius.”
Book 9 · Chapter 12
- with Cadmus (Pelagon owned or was associated with the herd from which Cadmus purchased the cow.) “Cadmus when travelling from Delphi to Phocis was guided on his journey by a cow which he had purchased from the herds of Pelagon”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.