Pausanias' Description of Greece

Harmonia

Role: mythological figure · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 16

In Book 9, Chapter 16, Harmonia made three wooden statues of Aphrodite from the gunwales of Cadmus’s ships. In Book 9, Chapter 41, at Amathus, a necklace originally given to Harmonia was known as Eriphyle’s after she received it as a gift from her husband.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Harmonia made three wooden statues of Aphrodite from Cadmus’s ships.(Book 9 · Chapter 16)
    • With: Aphrodite Cadmus
    • “they are said to be votive offerings of Harmonia, made out of the wood of the gunwales of the ships of Cadmus”
  • The necklace originally given to Harmonia became known as Eriphyle’s after she received it.(Book 9 · Chapter 41 · 📍 Amathus)
    • With: Eriphyle
    • “here they say is the necklace which was originally given to Harmonia, but is called the necklace of Eriphyle, because she received it as a gift from her husband”

Book 9 · Chapter 16

  • with Aphrodite (Harmonia was said to have dedicated the ancient statues of Aphrodite.) “they are said to be votive offerings of Harmonia, made out of the wood of the gunwales of the ships of Cadmus”

Book 9 · Chapter 41

  • with Eriphyle (The same necklace is associated with both women through successive ownership.) “the necklace which was originally given to Harmonia, but is called the necklace of Eriphyle, because she received it as a gift from her husband”
  • with Eriphyle (The same necklace was originally given to Harmonia and later received by Eriphyle.) “here they say is the necklace which was originally given to Harmonia, but is called the necklace of Eriphyle, because she received it as a gift from her husband,”

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