Colontas
Role: father of Chthonia · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 35
Life events
- Colontas refused Demeter hospitality despite Chthonia’s opposition.(Book 2 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Argolis)
- Colontas was punished when his house was burned with him inside.(Book 2 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Argolis)
- “And Colontas they say for this conduct was burnt house and all”
Book 2 · Chapter 35
- child: Chthonia “And in this he acted very much against the wish of his daughter Chthonia.”
- with Demeter (interaction) “Atheras and Mysius offered the goddess hospitality, but Colontas would neither receive her into his house, nor pay her any other attention”
Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.