Azan
Family: Arcadians · Role: father · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 8
Azan is named as a son of Arcas and a brother of Aphidas and Elatus. When the brothers grew up, Arcas divided Arcadia among his three legitimate sons. Azan also had a son, Clitor, and a son named Philip, described as “Philip the son of Azan from Pellene”; Autolaus is identified as his brother.
When Azan died, funeral games were established for the first time, including horseraces. He is also named alongside Triphylus as being “by the Arcadian Samolas”.
Relationship record
Life events
- Arcas divided the country among his three legitimate sons.(Book 8 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Arcadia)
- Azan died, and funeral games were established for the first time.(Book 8 · Chapter 4)
- “And when Azan died funeral games were first established, I don’t know whether any other but certainly horseraces.”
Book 6 · Chapter 8
- child: Philip (son of Azan) (Azan was Philip's father.) “Philip the son of Azan from Pellene,”
Book 8 · Chapter 4
- parent: Arcas “and they say Arcas had by her Azan and Aphidas and Elatus”
- siblings with Autolaus “and they say Arcas had by her Azan and Aphidas and Elatus: he had had a bastard son Autolaus still earlier.”
- child: Clitor “And Azan had a son Clitor”
Book 10 · Chapter 9
- parent: Arcas “the sons of Arcas, Elatus and Aphidas and Azan”
- with Samolas (interaction) “Triphylus and Azan were by the Arcadian Samolas”
- siblings with Elatus “the sons of Arcas, Elatus and Aphidas and Azan”
- siblings with Aphidas “the sons of Arcas, Elatus and Aphidas and Azan”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.