Themisto

Role: mother of Homer · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 23

Book 9 · Chapter 23

• child: Ptous (Themisto is Ptous's mother.) “Ptous was the son of Athamas and Themisto, and from him both Apollo and the Mountain got their name according to the poet Asius.”

Book 10 · Chapter 24

• child: Homer “But the people of Cyprus, for they too claim Homer as their own, and say that Themisto (one of the women of their country) was his mother, cite the following prophetical verses of Euclus touching Homer’s birth;”

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