Sthenelus

Role: son of Capaneus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18

Sthenelus was the son of Capaneus. After the capture of Ilium, he received the statue of Household Zeus as divided spoil; when the Greeks divided the spoil, “the statue of Household Zeus was given to Sthenelus the son of Capaneus.” He placed a statue he acquired among the spoil at Larissa. Cylarabes was his son, and the gymnasium at Cylarabes was named after Cylarabus, also identified as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Sthenelus acquired the statue and placed it at Larissa.(Book 2 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Larissa)
  • “And when they divided the spoil Sthenelus the son of Capaneus got it, and placed it here.”
• Sthenelus received the statue of Household Zeus as divided spoil.(Book 8 · Chapter 46 · 📍 Ilium)
  • With: Capaneus
  • “after the capture of Ilium, when the Greeks divided the spoil, the statue of Household Zeus was given to Sthenelus the son of Capaneus”

Book 2 · Chapter 18

• parent: Capaneus “Sthenelus the son of his brother Capaneus”
• child: Cylarabes “Cylarabes the son of Sthenelus”

Book 2 · Chapter 22

• child: Cylarabus “the gymnasium, which is called Cylarabis after Cylarabus, the son of Sthenelus”

Book 2 · Chapter 24

• parent: Capaneus (Capaneus is Sthenelus's father.) “Sthenelus the son of Capaneus got it, and placed it here.”

Book 8 · Chapter 46

• parent: Capaneus “Sthenelus the son of Capaneus”

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