Evagoras
Family: Cyprian · Role: king of the Cyprians · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3
In Book 1, Chapter 3, Evagoras, king of the Cyprians, secured the Phoenician triremes that Artaxerxes had given to Conon. The account says his pedigree went back to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras.
By Book 5, Chapter 25, at the Altis, Evagoras had dedicated a statue of Hercules fighting an Amazon on horseback for her belt. The inscription names it “the votive offering of Evagoras of Zancle”.
Relationship record
Life events
- Evagoras secured the Phoenician triremes that Artaxerxes had given to Conon.(Book 1 · Chapter 3)
- With: Conon Artaxerxes
- “Evagoras, the king of the Cyprians, who got the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
- Evagoras dedicated a statue of Hercules fighting an Amazon for her belt.(Book 5 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Altis)
- With: Hercules
- “Hercules fighting with an Amazon on horseback for her belt. This is the votive offering of Evagoras of Zancle”
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- with Conon (Evagoras secured the triremes for Conon.) “Evagoras, the king of the Cyprians, who got the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
- with Teucer (Teucer is presented as an ancestor in Evagoras's pedigree.) “for his pedigree went up to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras”
- with Cinyras (Cinyras is presented as an ancestor through his daughter.) “for his pedigree went up to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras”
- with Teucer (Evagoras traced his pedigree to Teucer.) “for his pedigree went up to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras”
- with Cinyras (Evagoras traced his pedigree through Cinyras's daughter.) “for his pedigree went up to Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras”
Book 2 · Chapter 29
- with Teucer (Evagoras is identified as a descendant of Teucer.) “the descendants of Teucer were kings of Cyprus down to Evagoras”
Book 5 · Chapter 25
- with Hercules (Evagoras dedicated a statue of Hercules.) “This is the votive offering of Evagoras of Zancle, and the design of Aristocles of Cydonia.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.