Antheas

Family: Patræ · Role: son of Eumelus · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 18

Life events

• Antheas tried to sow corn using Triptolemus’s dragons and died falling from the chariot.(Book 7 · Chapter 18)
  • With: Triptolemus
  • “And when Triptolemus had gone to sleep they say Antheas, the son of Eumelus, yoked the dragons to the chariot of Triptolemus, and tried himself to sow corn: but he died by falling out of the chariot.”
• Eumelus and Triptolemus built Anthea and named it after Antheas.(Book 7 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Anthea)
  • With: Eumelus Triptolemus
  • “And Triptolemus and Eumelus built in common the town Anthea, which they called after him.”

Book 7 · Chapter 18

• parent: Eumelus (Eumelus is Antheas's father.) “And when Triptolemus had gone to sleep they say Antheas, the son of Eumelus, yoked the dragons to the chariot of Triptolemus, and tried himself to sow corn: but he died by falling out of the chariot.”
• with Triptolemus (Antheas used Triptolemus's chariot and attempted to sow corn.) “they say Antheas, the son of Eumelus, yoked the dragons to the chariot of Triptolemus, and tried himself to sow corn”

Also listed in Patræ — Minor Figures

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