Wealth

Role: boy held by Peace · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 8

In Book 1, Chapter 8, Wealth appears as a boy in Peace’s arms. By Book 9, Chapter 16, he is also shown in the hands of Fortune, as her mother or nurse; at Fortune’s temple, Xenophon and Callistonicus made a statue of her carrying Wealth. That chapter also recalls Cephisodotus’s statue for the Athenians of Peace holding Wealth.

Relationship record

Life events

Xenophon and Callistonicus created the statue of Fortune carrying Wealth.(Book 9 · Chapter 16 · 📍 temple of Fortune)
- With: Xenophon Callistonicus Fortune
- “Xenophon the Athenian made the hands and face of the statue, and Callistonicus a native of Thebes all the other parts”
Cephisodotus made a statue of Peace holding Wealth for the Athenians.(Book 9 · Chapter 16)
- With: Cephisodotus Peace
- “the idea of Cephisodotus who made for the Athenians a statue of Peace holding Wealth”

Book 1 · Chapter 8

with Peace (Peace holds Wealth as a boy.) “Peace with Wealth as a boy in her arms”

Book 9 · Chapter 16

parent: Fortune (Fortune is described as Wealth's mother or nurse.) “The idea is ingenious of putting Wealth in the hands of Fortune as her mother or nurse”
with Fortune (Fortune is represented symbolically as Wealth's mother or nurse.) “The idea is ingenious of putting Wealth in the hands of Fortune as her mother or nurse”

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