Actor

Role: father · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 1

Actor was the son of Phorbas and Hyrmina, and built and named the town of Hyrmina in Elis after his mother. In Book 5, he and his sons shared in the administration of the kingdom; Augeas allied with his sons while preparing to defend against Hercules. In Book 5, Actor’s sons married two sisters, and Eurytus had Thalpius with Theræphone; Book 6 identifies Cteatus as Actor’s son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Actor built and named the town of Hyrmina after Hyrmina.(Book 5 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Elis)
  • With: Hyrmina
  • “And Actor and his sons also, who were natives of Elis, shared in the administration of the kingdom. The father of Actor was Phorbas the son of Lapithus, and his mother was Hyrmina, the daughter of Epeus, and Actor built and called after her the town of Hyrmina in Elis.”

Book 5 · Chapter 1

• with Augeas (Augeas entered into an alliance with Actor's sons.) “He also made several preparations to defend himself against Hercules, should he come into Elis with an army, and entered into an alliance with Amarynceus and the sons of Actor.”
• parent: Phorbas “The father of Actor was Phorbas the son of Lapithus, and his mother was Hyrmina, the daughter of Epeus, and Actor built and called after her the town of Hyrmina in Elis.”
• parent: Hyrmina “The father of Actor was Phorbas the son of Lapithus, and his mother was Hyrmina, the daughter of Epeus, and Actor built and called after her the town of Hyrmina in Elis.”
• with Augeas (Augeas entered into an alliance with Actor's sons; Actor is named but the sons are not individually named.) “He also made several preparations to defend himself against Hercules, should he come into Elis with an army, and entered into an alliance with Amarynceus and the sons of Actor.”

Book 5 · Chapter 3

• child: Eurytus (Eurytus is identified as one of Actor's sons.) “For the sons of Actor married two sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus, and the one had by Theronice Amphimachus, and the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius.”

Book 6 · Chapter 20

• child: Cteatus (Actor is Cteatus's father.) “Cteatus the son of Actor”

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