Pausanias' Description of Greece

Antiphus

Role: son of Ganyctor · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 31

In Book 9, Chapter 31, Antiphus is identified as a son of Ganyctor and sibling of Ctimenus. After the murder of Hesiod, Antiphus and Ctimenus fled from Naupactus to Molycria. There, they were sentenced for impiety toward Poseidon; accounts differed on whether Hesiod had violated their sister.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Ctimenus and Antiphus fled to Molycria after Hesiod's murder.(Book 9 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Molycria)
    • With: Ctimenus Hesiod
    • “Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod”
  • Ctimenus and Antiphus were sentenced for impiety toward Poseidon.(Book 9 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Molycria)
    • With: Ctimenus Poseidon
    • “and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon”

Book 9 · Chapter 31

  • parent: Ganyctor “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
  • siblings with Ctimenus “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
  • enemies with Hesiod “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
  • with Poseidon (Antiphus was sentenced because of impiety toward Poseidon.) “and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon”
  • with Hesiod (The passage associates Antiphus with the murder of Hesiod but does not explicitly state that he was the murderer.) “Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod”

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