Trochilus

Family: Argive · Role: initiating priest · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 14

Trochilus, an initiating priest, fled Argos because of Agenor’s hatred and came to Attica. There he married a woman from Eleusis and had two children, Eubules and Triptolemus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Trochilus fled Argos, married in Eleusis, and had Eubules and Triptolemus.(Book 1 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Agenor (enemy of Trochilus) Eubules Triptolemus
  • “Trochilus the initiating priest fled they say from Argos in consequence of the hatred of Agenor, and came to Attica, and there married a wife from Eleusis, and had children by her, Eubules and Triptolemus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 14

• enemies with Agenor (enemy of Trochilus) (Agenor's hatred caused Trochilus to flee.) “Trochilus the initiating priest fled they say from Argos in consequence of the hatred of Agenor”
• child: Eubules (Trochilus is the named parent; the mother is unnamed.) “there married a wife from Eleusis, and had children by her, Eubules and Triptolemus”
• child: Triptolemus (Trochilus is the named parent; the mother is unnamed.) “there married a wife from Eleusis, and had children by her, Eubules and Triptolemus”

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