Theras
Family: Thebans · Role: son of Autesion and regent · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1
In Book 3, Chapter 1, Theras, son of Autesion and regent, joined Procles and Eurysthenes in establishing a colony at Calliste. He hoped Membliarus’s descendants would give up their kingdom voluntarily; they did, and Theras renamed the island after himself.
In Book 3, Chapter 15, Theras sent a colony to the island later called Thera. He was the father of Œolycus, and Book 4, Chapter 3, describes Polynices as an ancestor in the line of a man of Theban ancestry.
Relationship record
Life events
- Procles, Eurysthenes, and Theras established a colony at Calliste, which Theras renamed after himself.(Book 3 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Calliste)
- With: Procles Eurysthenes Membliarus
- “they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste, Theras hoping that the descendants of Membliarus would abandon the kingdom of their own free will, as in fact they did”
- Theras sent a colony to the island later called Thera.(Book 3 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Thera)
- “erected they say by Theras the son of Autesion, the son of Tisamenus, the son of Thersander, when he sent a colony to the island which is now called Thera after him”
Book 3 · Chapter 1
- parent: Autesion “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- younger kin: Procles “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- younger kin: Eurysthenes “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- ward: Procles “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- ward: Eurysthenes “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste,”
- with Procles (Procles jointly combined with Theras to establish a colony.) “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste”
- with Eurysthenes (Eurysthenes jointly combined with Theras to establish a colony.) “But though they hated one another very cordially, yet they jointly combined with Theras, the son of Autesion, their Argive mother’s brother, and their Regent, in establishing a colony at the island which was then called Calliste”
Book 3 · Chapter 15
- child: Œolycus “Œolycus the son of Theras”
Book 4 · Chapter 3
- parent: Autesion “Theras the son of Autesion”
- with Polynices (Polynices is identified as an ancestor of Theras.) “he was of Theban ancestry and fifth descendant of Polynices the son of Œdipus”
Book 4 · Chapter 7
- child: Œolycus (Theras is Œolycus's father.) “Œolycus, the son of Theras”
- parent: Autesion (Autesion is Theras's father.) “Theras, the son of Autesion”
Book 7 · Chapter 2
- parent: Autesion “the Lacedæmonians and Minyæ who had been expelled by the Pelasgi from Lemnos were led by Theras the Theban, the son of Autesion, to the island henceforward called Theras after him”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.