Phronime
Family: Cretan · Role: daughter of Etearchos · 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: Etearchos
- “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)
- Themison rescued Phronime from the sea and brought her to Thera.(Book 4 · §151–158 · 📍 Thera)
- With: Themison
- “he received the girl and sailed away, and when he got out into the open sea, to free himself from blame as regards the oath which Etearchos had made him swear, he tied her on each side with ropes and let her down into the sea, and then drew her up and came to Thera.”
- Polymnestos received Phronime and kept her as his concubine.(Book 4 · §151–158 · 📍 Thera)
- With: Polymnestos
- “After that, Polymnestos, a man of repute among the Theraians, received Phronime from him and kept her as his concubine”
- Phronime bore Polymnestos a son, later known as Battos.(Book 4 · §151–158 · 📍 Thera)
- With: Polymnestos Battos
- “and in course of time there was born to him from her a son with an impediment in his voice and lisping, to whom, as both Theraians and Kyrenians say, was given the name Battos”
Book 4 · §151–158
- parent: Etearchos “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 (He took Phronime away with him to Thera.) “Themison then was very greatly vexed at the deceit practised in the matter of the oath, and he dissolved his guest-friendship and did as follows, that is to say, he received the girl and sailed away,”
- with Polymnestos (interaction) “After that, Polymnestos, a man of repute among the Theraians, received Phronime from him and kept her as his concubine;”
- child: Battos “and in course of time there was born to him from her a son with an impediment in his voice and lisping, to whom, as both Theraians and Kyrenians say, was given the name Battos,”
- with Polymnestos (concubine relationship) “After that, Polymnestos, a man of repute among the Theraians, received Phronime from him and kept her as his concubine;”
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