Marathon

Role: mythical king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 1

Marathon was the son of Epopeus. He fled to the maritime parts of Attica from his father’s lawless insolence, then returned to the Peloponnese after Epopeus died. There he divided the kingdom among his sons, Sicyon and Corinthus, before going back to Attica.

Relationship record

Life events

• Marathon fled to Attica, later returned, divided the kingdom, and went back to Attica.(Book 2 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Attica)
  • “afterwards Marathon the son of Epopeus, the son of Aloeus, the son of the Sun, fled from the lawless insolence of his father, and took a colony into the maritime parts of Attica, and when Epopeus was dead returned to the Peloponnese, and after dividing the kingdom among his sons went back into Attica”

Book 2 · Chapter 1

• parent: Epopeus “Marathon the son of Epopeus”
• child: Sicyon (The preceding subject is Marathon.) “from his son Sicyon Asopia got the name of Sicyonia”
• child: Corinthus (The preceding subject is Marathon.) “and Ephyrea got called Corinth from his son Corinthus”

Book 2 · Chapter 3

• child: Corinthus “when in after days Corinthus the son of Marathon died childless”

Book 2 · Chapter 6

• child: Sicyon (The passage explicitly denies this proposed parentage; no negative relation type is available.) “the Sicyonians say that Sicyon was not the son of Marathon the son of Epopeus”

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