Chthonophyle

Role: wife of Phlias · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6

In Book 2, Chapter 6, Chthonophyle is identified as a daughter of Sicyon and as having had Polybus by Hermes. Phlias “married her,” and she had a son, Androdamas. In Chapter 12, she is identified as Phlias’s wife and the mother of Andromedas.

Relationship record

Book 2 · Chapter 6

• parent: Sicyon “However Sicyon had a daughter Chthonophyle”
• child: Polybus “Chthonophyle, who is said to have had a son Polybus by Hermes”
• married with Phlias “Phlias the son of Dionysus married her”
• child: Androdamas “and she had a son Androdamas”

Book 2 · Chapter 12

• married with Phlias “And Aræthyrea was the mother of Phlias and not Chthonophyle, for Chthonophyle was his wife and he had Andromedas by her.”
• child: Andromedas “And Aræthyrea was the mother of Phlias and not Chthonophyle, for Chthonophyle was his wife and he had Andromedas by her.”

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