Pausanias' Description of Greece

Polyxenus (son of Agasthenes)

Also known as: Polyxenus · Family: Elis · Role: leader · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 3

Book 5 · Chapter 3

  • parent: Agasthenes (Parent-to-child.) “ten under Polyxenus the son of Agasthenes”
  • child: Amphimachus (son of Polyxenus) (Parent-to-child.) “Polyxenus coming back safe from Troy had a son Amphimachus”
  • friends with Amphimachus (son of Cteatus) (The text explicitly refers to Polyxenus's friendship with Amphimachus.) “he gave his son this name I fancy from his friendship to Amphimachus the son of Cteatus who perished at Ilium”

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