Dexamenus

Family: Olenus · Role: king · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 3

Dexamenus was king at Olenus and the father of Theronice and Theræphone. In Book 7, Chapter 18, accounts of Hercules’ deeds also dwelt on the hospitality he received at Dexamenus’s court.

In Book 7, Chapter 19, Eurypylus, Dexamenus’s son, was said to have accompanied Hercules to Ilium and received a chest from him.

Relationship record

Book 5 · Chapter 3

• child: Theronice (Theronice is identified as one of Dexamenus's daughters.) “the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus”
• child: Theræphone (Theræphone is identified as one of Dexamenus's daughters.) “the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus”

Book 7 · Chapter 18

• with Hercules (Dexamenus hosted Hercules.) “Those who have written about Hercules and his doings have not dwelt least upon Dexamenus the king of Olenus, and the hospitality Hercules received at his court.”

Book 7 · Chapter 19

• child: Eurypylus (son of Dexamenus) “Eurypylus (the son of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus), who accompanied Hercules to Ilium, received the chest from Hercules.”

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