Harpina

Family: mythological · Role: daughter of Asopus · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 22

In Book 5, Chapter 22, Harpina is named among the daughters of Asopus whose statues the Phliasians erected as votive offerings. The statues were arranged with Nemea first, followed by Ægina and then Harpina; Corcyra and Thebe stood next to her. According to the traditions of the Phliasians and the people of Elis, Harpina had an amour with Ares and bore Œnomaus, king of the district of Pisa.

Relationship record

Life events

• Harpina bore Œnomaus to Ares, making him king of the district of Pisa.(Book 5 · Chapter 22 · 📍 Pisa)
  • With: Ares Œnomaus
  • “Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares, and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa.”
• The Phliasians erected votive statues of Zeus, Asopus, and Asopus’ daughters.(Book 5 · Chapter 22)
  • With: Zeus Asopus Nemea Ægina Corcyra Thebe
  • “The Phliasians also erected as votive offerings statues of Zeus and Asopus’ daughters and Asopus himself.”

Book 5 · Chapter 22

• parent: Asopus “The Phliasians also erected as votive offerings statues of Zeus and Asopus’ daughters and Asopus himself. And this is the arrangement of the statues. Nemea comes first of the sisters, and next her is Zeus laying hold of Ægina. And next Ægina is Harpina,”
• siblings with Nemea “Nemea comes first of the sisters, and next her is Zeus laying hold of Ægina. And next Ægina is Harpina,”
• siblings with Ægina “And next Ægina is Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares, and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa.”
• siblings with Corcyra “And next Ægina is Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares, and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa. And next to her are Corcyra and Thebe,”
• siblings with Thebe “And next Ægina is Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares, and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa. And next to her are Corcyra and Thebe,”
• courtship with Ares “And next Ægina is Harpina, who according to the tradition of the Phliasians and the people of Elis had an amour with Ares,”
• child: Œnomaus “and bare to him Œnomaus, the king of the district of Pisa.”

Book 6 · Chapter 21

• child: Œnomaus “Œnomaus built the town and gave it its name after his mother Harpina”

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