Pausanias' Description of Greece

Philotas

Family: Theban · Role: leader of the Thebans · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 2

Life events

  • Philotas and Æpytus founded Priene as a mixed Theban and Ionian colony.(Book 7 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Priene)
    • With: Æpytus (son of Nileus)
    • “Priene was colonized by Thebans and Ionians mixed under Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus, and Æpytus the son of Nileus.”

Book 7 · Chapter 2

  • elder kin: Peneleus “Priene was colonized by Thebans and Ionians mixed under Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus, and Æpytus the son of Nileus.”
  • with Peneleus (Peneleus was an ancestor of Philotas.) “the Thebans under Philotas, who was a descendant of Peneleus”

Also listed in Theban — Minor Figures

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