Craugis

Family: Arcadians · Role: father of Philopœmen · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 29

When Megalopolis fell, in Book 4, Craugis’s son Philopœmen escaped with others and was kindly received by the Messenians. Craugis later died while Philopœmen was still young; Cleander, an old friend of Craugis’s family, became the boy’s guardian.

Relationship record

Life events

• Craugis dies, and Cleander becomes guardian of the young Philopœmen.(Book 8 · Chapter 49)
  • With: Philopœmen Cleander
  • “but he dying when Philopœmen was quite a boy his guardian was Cleander”

Book 4 · Chapter 29

• child: Philopœmen “but Philopœmen the son of Craugis and those who escaped with him (and they say that rather more than two thirds of the people of Megalopolis got away) were kindly received by the Messenians”

Book 8 · Chapter 27

• child: Philopœmen “Philopœmen the son of Craugis saved about two-thirds of the lads and grown men”

Book 8 · Chapter 49

• child: Philopœmen (Craugis is identified as Philopœmen's father in the preceding sentence.) “but he dying when Philopœmen was quite a boy his guardian was Cleander an exile from Mantinea, who had come to live at Megalopolis after the troubles in his native place, and had been on a footing of old friendship with the family of Craugis.”
• friends with Cleander “had been on a footing of old friendship with the family of Craugis”

Book 8 · Chapter 52

• child: Philopœmen “Philopœmen the son of Craugis”

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