Cteatus
Role: mythic hero · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 15
Cteatus was the son of Actor. At Olympia, he killed Dameon and the horse he was riding; Dameon had been an associate of Hercules in the expedition against Augeas and Elis.
Later, Cteatus went from Elis with Eurytus to watch the Isthmian games. Hercules shot them there, charging that they had fought against him in the battle with Augeas. Cteatus married Theronice, and their son Amphimachus perished at Ilium.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hercules shot Eurytus and Cteatus during the Isthmian games.(Book 2 · Chapter 15)
- Cteatus killed Dameon and the horse he was riding.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Olympia)
- With: Dameon
- “Dameon the son of Phlius, an associate with Hercules in the expedition against Augeas and the people of Elis, was killed together with the horse on which he rode by Cteatus the son of Actor”
Book 2 · Chapter 15
- enemies with Hercules “At Cleonæ beside this temple is the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus, who had gone from Elis to be spectators of the Isthmian games, and whom Hercules shot with arrows there, charging them with having fought against him in the battle with Augeas.”
- with Eurytus (They share a tomb.) “At Cleonæ beside this temple is the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus, who had gone from Elis to be spectators of the Isthmian games.”
Book 5 · Chapter 3
- child: Amphimachus (son of Cteatus) (The text explicitly identifies Amphimachus as Cteatus's son.) “Amphimachus the son of Cteatus who perished at Ilium”
- married with Theronice (The passage identifies the mother of Amphimachus as Theronice and the father as Cteatus elsewhere in the chapter.) “For the sons of Actor married two sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus, and the one had by Theronice Amphimachus”
Book 6 · Chapter 20
- parent: Actor (Actor is Cteatus's father.) “Cteatus the son of Actor”
- with Dameon (Cteatus killed Dameon.) “was killed together with the horse on which he rode by Cteatus the son of Actor”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.