Aras
Family: Phliasians · Role: autochthon · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 12
Aras built the city of Arantia on Arantine hill, from which both the land and city took their old name. He had a son, Aoris, and a daughter, Aræthyrea, whom the Phliasians described as cunning hunters and brave in war.
Aras was said to have been a contemporary of Prometheus and to have lived three generations before Pelasgus. His sepulchre was at Celeæ, where Dysaules was also said to be buried.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aras builds a city called Arantia.(Book 2 · Chapter 12 · 📍 Arantine hill)
- “Here he built his city, and from him both land and city got called of old Arantia.”
Book 2 · Chapter 12
- child: Aoris “And Aras had a son Aoris and a daughter Aræthyrea, who the Phliasians say were cunning hunters and brave in war.”
- child: Aræthyrea “And Aras had a son Aoris and a daughter Aræthyrea, who the Phliasians say were cunning hunters and brave in war.”
- with Dysaules (Aras and Dysaules are said to be buried at the same place.) “And the sepulchre of Aras is in a place called Celeæ, where they say also Dysaules, an Eleusinian, is buried.”
Book 2 · Chapter 14
- with Prometheus (contemporaries) “For they say Aras was a contemporary of Prometheus the son of Iapetus”
- with Pelasgus (Aras lived three generations earlier than Pelasgus) “and lived three generations earlier than Pelasgus the son of Arcas”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.