Caanthus

Role: son of Oceanus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 10

Caanthus was the son of Oceanus and brother of Melia, according to the Thebans. In Book 9, Chapter 10, he found Apollo with Melia but could not take her away; he set fire to Apollo’s grove, and Apollo killed him with an arrow.

Relationship record

Life events

• Apollo killed Caanthus with an arrow after Caanthus set fire to Apollo’s grove.(Book 9 · Chapter 10 · 📍 grove of Ismenian Apollo)
  • With: Apollo
  • “But when he found Apollo with Melia he could not take her away, so he dared to set the grove of Ismenian Apollo on fire, and the god transfixed him with an arrow, so the Thebans say, and here is his tomb.”

Book 9 · Chapter 10

• siblings with Melia “the tomb of Caanthus, who was they say the brother of Melia and the son of Oceanus”
• parent: Oceanus “the tomb of Caanthus, who was they say the brother of Melia and the son of Oceanus”
• enemies with Apollo “But when he found Apollo with Melia he could not take her away, so he dared to set the grove of Ismenian Apollo on fire, and the god transfixed him with an arrow”
• with Apollo (Apollo killed Caanthus.) “But when he found Apollo with Melia he could not take her away, so he dared to set the grove of Ismenian Apollo on fire, and the god transfixed him with an arrow, so the Thebans say, and here is his tomb.”

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