Other Figures — Minor Figures
937 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Anaxippus
dedicator · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 25
- Book 5 · Chapter 25 · with Hercules “The other is the votive offering of the Mendæan Anaxippus, and was brought here by the people of Elis; it used to be at the end of the road leading from Elis to Olympia, called the Sacred Road.”
Anticyreus
hero · first appears Book 10 · Chapter 36
- Book 10 · Chapter 36 · with Hercules “from Anticyreus who was a contemporary of Hercules.”
- Book 10 · Chapter 36 · with Homer “Homer in his Catalogue of the Phocians preferred to give it its old name, for it was then beginning to be called Anticyra, from Anticyreus who was a contemporary of Hercules”
Bœus
son of Hercules · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 22
- Book 3 · Chapter 22 · parent: Hercules “It was built by Bœus, one of the sons of Hercules who is said to have peopled it from the three towns Etis, Aphrodisias, and Sida.”
Cyathus
cupbearer of Œneus · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 13
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · employer: Œneus “However this may be, Hercules struck the lad Cyathus, the cupbearer of Œneus, on the head with one of his fingers, not being pleased with the drink he offered him”
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · with Hercules “However this may be, Hercules struck the lad Cyathus, the cupbearer of Œneus, on the head with one of his fingers, not being pleased with the drink he offered him: and as this lad died immediately from the blow”
Hades
deity · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 18
- Book 8 · Chapter 18 · with Hercules “For could I have foreseen what since has chanced, When he was sent to Hades jailor dread To bring from Erebus dread Hades’ Cerberus, He would not have escaped the streams of Styx.”
- Book 8 · Chapter 32 · with Hermes “conveys the souls of the departed to Hades”
Hecatæus
historian · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 25
- Book 3 · Chapter 25 · with Hercules “But Hecatæus the Milesian has a probable legend, that a dreadful serpent called Cerberus was reared at Tænarum, and that whoever was bitten by it was sure to die, so venomous was its bite, and this serpent was dragged by Hercules to Eurystheus.”
- Book 8 · Chapter 47 · with Auge “though their legend differs from that of Hecatæus about her”
Hippotion
dedicator · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 25
- Book 5 · Chapter 25 · with Hercules “The Hercules shooting at the Nemean lion is the votive offering of the Tarentine Hippotion, and the design of the Mænalian Nicodamus.”