Androcles (ancestor)

Family: Messenian · Role: ancestor · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 16

In Book 4, Chapter 16, Androcles is named as an ancestor of the Messenian Androcles and Phintas. In the Messenian army, they and the men posted with them “strove to show their valour.”

Relationship record

Book 4 · Chapter 16

• with Phintas (Phintas is identified as a descendant of the earlier Androcles.) “Phintas and Androcles, the descendants of Androcles”
• with Androcles (The named Androcles in the Messenian army is identified as a descendant of an earlier Androcles.) “Phintas and Androcles, the descendants of Androcles”
• younger kin: Phintas “in the Messenian army Phintas and Androcles, the descendants of Androcles, and the men who were posted with them, strove to show their valour.”
• younger kin: Androcles “in the Messenian army Phintas and Androcles, the descendants of Androcles, and the men who were posted with them, strove to show their valour.”

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