Naus

Role: founder of the rites · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 15

Life events

• Naus arrived from Delphi and brought the Eleusinian mysteries to Pheneus.(Book 8 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Pheneus)
  • “Naus, who was the great grandson of Eumolpus, came to them in obedience to the oracle at Delphi, and brought these mysteries”

Book 8 · Chapter 15

• elder kin: Eumolpus (Eumolpus is Naus's great-grandfather.) “For they say that Naus, who was the great grandson of Eumolpus, came to them in obedience to the oracle at Delphi, and brought these mysteries.”

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.