Pausanias' Description of Greece

Epidaurian — Minor Figures

3 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Antimenes

son of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 28

  • Book 2 · Chapter 28 · parent: Deiphontes “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
  • Book 2 · Chapter 28 · parent: Hyrnetho “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”

Xanthippus (son of Deiphontes)

son of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 28

  • Book 2 · Chapter 28 · parent: Deiphontes “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
  • Book 2 · Chapter 28 · parent: Hyrnetho “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”

Proclees

father of Melissa and king at Epidaurus · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 28

  • Book 2 · Chapter 28 · child: Melissa “And not far from the city is the sepulchre of Melissa, who was the wife of Periander the son of Cypselus, and the sepulchre of Proclees the father of Melissa.”
  • Book 2 · Chapter 28 · with Periander “And he was king at Epidaurus, as his son in law Periander was at Corinth.”

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