Anticlea

Role: daughter of Diocles; mother of Nicomachus and Gorgasus · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 30

At Pharæ, Book 4, Chapter 30, Anticlea is named as a daughter of Diocles and the mother of Nicomachus and Gorgasus, whom she bore to Machaon. In Book 10, Chapter 29, she is described as the mother of Odysseus, sitting on a stone near Tiresias.

Relationship record

Life events

• Anticlea bore Nicomachus and Gorgasus.(Book 4 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Pharæ)
  • With: Nicomachus Gorgasus
  • “I have also heard at Pharæ that Diocles had a daughter Anticlea as well as his twin sons, and that she bare Nicomachus and Gorgasus”

Book 4 · Chapter 30

• parent: Diocles “Diocles had a daughter Anticlea as well as his twin sons”
• child: Nicomachus “she bare Nicomachus and Gorgasus to Machaon the son of Æsculapius”
• child: Gorgasus “she bare Nicomachus and Gorgasus to Machaon the son of Æsculapius”

Book 10 · Chapter 29

• child: Odysseus “near Tiresias is Anticlea, the mother of Odysseus, sitting on a stone.”

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