Plemnæus
Family: Sicyonian mythology · Role: son of Peratus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 5
Life events
- Plemnæus’s children die immediately after birth and uttering their first cries.(Book 2 · Chapter 5)
- “All his children died that his wife bare to him directly they were born and had uttered the first cry”
- Demeter takes compassion on Plemnæus and raises his child Orthopolis.(Book 2 · Chapter 5 · 📍 Ægialea)
- With: Demeter Orthopolis
- “till Demeter took compassion on him, and coming to Ægialea as a stranger to Plemnæus reared his child Orthopolis.”
- Plemnæus built a temple to Demeter in gratitude for his son’s rearing.(Book 2 · Chapter 11)
- With: Demeter
- “they say Plemnæus built it in gratitude to the goddess for rearing his son.”
Book 2 · Chapter 5
- parent: Peratus (parent->child) “And the history of Plemnæus the son of Peratus seems to me most marvellous.”
Book 2 · Chapter 11
- with Demeter (Plemnæus built a temple to Demeter.) “And as you descend to the plain is a temple of Demeter, and they say Plemnæus built it in gratitude to the goddess for rearing his son.”
Also listed in Sicyonian Mythology — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.