Damarmenus

Family: Eretria · Role: fisherman · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 13

Life events

Damarmenus fished up Pelops’ shoulder-blade and hid it in the sand.(Book 5 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Eretria)
- With: Pelops
- “And many years after the capture of Ilium Damarmenus, a fisherman of Eretria, cast his net into the sea and fished up this bone, and marvelling at the size of it hid it in the sand.”
The Pythian Priestess identified the bone and ordered Damarmenus to give it to Elis.(Book 5 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Pelops
- “And the Pythian Priestess told them to preserve the bones of Pelops, and told Damarmenus to give what he had found to the people of Elis.”
Elis received the bone, rewarded Damarmenus, and made him and his descendants its custodians.(Book 5 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Elis)
- With: Pelops
- “And when he had done so the people of Elis gave him several presents, and made Damarmenus and his descendants custodians of this bone.”

with Pelops (Damarmenus recovered Pelops's shoulder-blade.) “And on the return home of the Greeks, the ship that had the shoulder-blade of Pelops was wrecked near Eubœa. And many years after the capture of Ilium Damarmenus, a fisherman of Eretria, cast his net into the sea and fished up this bone, and marvelling at the size of it hid it in the sand.”
with Pelops (Damarmenus was instructed to surrender the bone of Pelops.) “And the Pythian Priestess told them to preserve the bones of Pelops, and told Damarmenus to give what he had found to the people of Elis.”

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