Pausanias' Description of Greece

Aeneas

Role: mythological figure · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 26

In Book 10, Chapter 26, Aeneas is described as married to Creusa. The same chapter notes that Eurydice is represented as his wife by Lescheos and the author of the Cyprian Poems.

Relationship record

Book 10 · Chapter 26

  • married with Creusa “and that she was the wife of Æneas”
  • married with Eurydice “though Lescheos and the author of the Cyprian Poems represent Eurydice as the wife of Æneas”
  • with Laodice (No direct relation involving Laodice and Aeneas is stated; omitted.) “And near the painting of the horse by Nestor’s side is Neoptolemus killing Elasus, whoever he was; his dying agony is well depicted: and Astynous, who is mentioned by Lescheos, has fallen on to his knee, and Neoptolemus is in the act of smiting him with the sword.”

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