Axion

First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24

In Book 8, Chapter 24, Axion is named as a son of Phegeus. At Phegia, he and Temenus (son of Phegeus) treacherously caused Alcmæon’s death, and they are said to have offered the necklace to Apollo at Delphi.

In Book 10, Chapter 27, Axion is identified instead as a son of Priam. According to Lescheos, he was killed by Eurypylus (son of Euæmon).

Relationship record

Life events

• Temenus and Axion treacherously caused Alcmæon’s death.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Phegia)
  • With: Temenus (son of Phegeus) Alcmæon
  • “where his death was treacherously compassed by Temenus and Axion, the sons of Phegeus”
• Axion, son of Priam, was killed by Eurypylus.(Book 10 · Chapter 27)
  • With: Eurypylus (son of Euæmon)
  • “Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam, and killed by Eurypylus the son of Euæmon.”

Book 8 · Chapter 24

• parent: Phegeus “Temenus and Axion, the sons of Phegeus”
• with Alcmæon (interaction) “where his death was treacherously compassed by Temenus and Axion”
• with Apollo (interaction) “who are said to have offered the necklace to Apollo at Delphi”

Book 10 · Chapter 27

• parent: Priam “Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam,”
• with Eurypylus (son of Euæmon) (Eurypylus killed Axion.) “Axion was the son of Priam, and killed by Eurypylus the son of Euæmon.”

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