Anyte

Role: poetess · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 38

In Book 10, Chapter 38, Anyte carried Æsculapius’s sealed letter to Phalysius at Naupactus. After dreaming one night and finding the letter in her hands, she sailed there and told Phalysius to break the seal and read it; though blind, he did so and regained his sight. He then gave Anyte 2,000 gold staters, the sum named in the letter.

Relationship record

Life events

• Phalysius regained his sight by reading Æsculapius’s sealed letter delivered by Anyte.(Book 10 · Chapter 38 · 📍 Naupactus)
  • With: Phalysius Æsculapius
  • “She dreamed one night and directly she woke found the sealed letter in her hands, and sailed to Naupactus and bade Phalysius remove the seal and read what was written. And though he was clearly unable to read from his blindness, yet, having faith in the god, he broke open the seal, and became cured by looking at the letter”
• Phalysius rewarded Anyte with 2,000 gold staters.(Book 10 · Chapter 38 · 📍 Naupactus)
  • With: Phalysius
  • “and gave Anyte 2,000 gold staters, which was the sum mentioned in the letter.”

Book 10 · Chapter 38

• with Phalysius (Anyte was sent to Phalysius with a sealed letter.) “the god of Epidaurus sent to him the poetess Anyte with a sealed letter.”
• with Phalysius (Phalysius gave Anyte 2,000 gold staters.) “and gave Anyte 2,000 gold staters, which was the sum mentioned in the letter.”
• with Æsculapius (The god of Epidaurus is identified with Æsculapius.) “the god of Epidaurus sent to him the poetess Anyte with a sealed letter”

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