Pellen

Role: ancestor of the Pellenian people · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 26

Life events

• Argive tradition attributed Pellene’s name to Pellen.(Book 7 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Pellene)
  • “And next to Ægira is Pellene: the people of Pellene are the last of the Achæans near Sicyon and Argolis. Their town was called according to their own tradition from Pallas who they say was one of the Titans, but according to the tradition of the Argives from the Argive Pellen, who was they say the son of Phorbas and grandson of Triopas.”

Book 7 · Chapter 26

• parent: Phorbas “but according to the tradition of the Argives from the Argive Pellen, who was they say the son of Phorbas and grandson of Triopas.”
• elder kin: Triopas “but according to the tradition of the Argives from the Argive Pellen, who was they say the son of Phorbas and grandson of Triopas.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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