Pausanias' Description of Greece

Ascra

Role: mythic woman · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 29

Life events

  • Ascra bore Poseidon’s son Œoclus.(Book 9 · Chapter 29)
    • With: Poseidon Œoclus
    • “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus”

Book 9 · Chapter 29

  • child: Œoclus (Ascra is identified as Œoclus's mother.) “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus, Ascra at the foot of many-fountained Helicon.”

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