Phintas
Family: Messenian · Role: king · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 4
Phintas was the son of Sybotas and king of the Messenians. During his reign, the Messenians first sent sacrifices and a men’s choir to Apollo at Delos, and the first disagreement arose between the Lacedæmonians and Messenians.
His sons Antiochus and Androcles became kings of the Messenians. Later, Phintas and Androcles, described as descendants of Androcles, strove to show their valour with the men posted alongside them in the Messenian army.
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Life events
- Messenians first sent sacrifices and a men’s choir to Apollo at Delos.(Book 4 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Delos)
- The first disagreement arose between the Lacedæmonians and Messenians.(Book 4 · Chapter 4)
- “It was during the reign of this Phintas that a disagreement for the first time came about between the Lacedæmonians and the Messenians.”
Book 4 · Chapter 4
- parent: Sybotas “Phintas, the son of Sybotas”
- child: Antiochus (son of Phintas) “Antiochus and Androcles the sons of Phintas were kings of the Messenians”
- child: Androcles “Antiochus and Androcles the sons of Phintas were kings of the Messenians”
Book 4 · Chapter 16
- with Androcles (ancestor) (Phintas is identified as a descendant of the earlier Androcles.) “Phintas and Androcles, the descendants of Androcles”
- elder kin: Androcles (ancestor) “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.