Pylas

Family: Megara · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 39

Pylas is named as king of Megaris in Book 1, Chapter 39, when he bequeaths the district to Pandion. The account also identifies him as the grandson of Cleson and the great-grandfather of Sciron.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pylas bequeathed Megaris to Pandion.(Book 1 · Chapter 39 · 📍 Megaris)
  • With: Pandion
  • “Next to Eleusis is the district called Megaris: it too belonged originally to the Athenians, having been bequeathed to Pandion by (its) king Pylas.”

Book 1 · Chapter 39

• parent: Cleson “and a grandson Pylas”
• with Pandion (interaction) “it too belonged originally to the Athenians, having been bequeathed to Pandion by (its) king Pylas.”
• child: Sciron “And he had a son Cleson, and a grandson Pylas, and a great-grandson Sciron, who married the daughter of Pandion,”

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