Etearchos

Family: Cretan · Role: king of Oäxos · First appears: Book 4 · §151–158

Life events

Etearchos’s wife accused Phronime of lewdness and persuaded him that the charge was true.(Book 4 · §151–158 · 📍 Oäxos)
- With: Phronime
- “She having come in afterwards, thought fit to be a stepmother to Phronime in deed as well as in name, giving her evil treatment and devising everything possible to her hurt; and at last she brings against her a charge of lewdness and persuades her husband that the truth is so.”
Etearchos ordered Themison to take Phronime away and cast her into the sea.(Book 4 · §151–158 · 📍 Oäxos)
- With: Phronime Themison
- “he brought and delivered to him his daughter and bade him take her away and cast her into the sea.”

child: Phronime “There is in Crete a city called Oäxos in which one Etearchos became king, who when he had a daughter, whose mother was dead, named Phronime, took to wife another woman notwithstanding.”
with Themison (They became guest-friends.) “for there was in Oäxos one Themison, a merchant of Thera, whom Etearchos took to himself as a guest-friend and caused him to swear that he would surely serve him in whatsoever he should require:”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.