Pausanias' Description of Greece

Pyleus

Role: son of Clymenus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 37

Pyleus was a son of Clymenus and a brother of Erginus, Stratius, Arrho, and Azeus. In Book 9, Chapter 37, Erginus and his brothers marched against Thebes and defeated the Thebans, who then agreed to pay yearly tax for Clymenus’s murder.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Erginus and his brothers defeated Thebes, imposing a yearly tax for Clymenus’s murder.(Book 9 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Thebes)
    • With: Erginus Stratius Arrho Azeus
    • “And forthwith he and his brothers collected an army and marched against Thebes, and defeated the Thebans in an engagement, and from that time the Thebans agreed to pay a yearly tax for the murder of Clymenus.”

Book 9 · Chapter 37

  • parent: Clymenus (son of Presbon) “And Erginus was the eldest son of Clymenus, and next came Stratius and Arrho and Pyleus, and the youngest Azeus.”
  • siblings with Erginus “And Erginus was the eldest son of Clymenus, and next came Stratius and Arrho and Pyleus, and the youngest Azeus.”
  • siblings with Stratius “And Erginus was the eldest son of Clymenus, and next came Stratius and Arrho and Pyleus, and the youngest Azeus.”
  • siblings with Arrho “And Erginus was the eldest son of Clymenus, and next came Stratius and Arrho and Pyleus, and the youngest Azeus.”
  • siblings with Azeus “And Erginus was the eldest son of Clymenus, and next came Stratius and Arrho and Pyleus, and the youngest Azeus.”

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