Hemithea
Role: daughter of Cycnus · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 14
In Book 10, Chapter 14, Hemithea is named as the daughter of Cycnus and Proclea, and the sister of Tennes. After Cycnus put her and Tennes in a chest and sent them to sea, they survived the voyage and reached Leucophrys, later called Tenedos after Tennes.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cycnus imprisoned Tennes and Hemithea in a chest and sent them to sea.(Book 10 · Chapter 14)
- Tennes and Hemithea survived the voyage and reached Leucophrys, later called Tenedos.(Book 10 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Leucophrys)
- With: Tennes
- “And they got safe to the island Leucophrys, since called Tenedos from Tennes.”
Book 10 · Chapter 14
- parent: Cycnus “This Cycnus had a daughter Hemithea and a son Tennes by Proclea, daughter of Clytius”
- parent: Proclea “This Cycnus had a daughter Hemithea and a son Tennes by Proclea, daughter of Clytius”
- siblings with Tennes “This Cycnus had a daughter Hemithea and a son Tennes by Proclea, daughter of Clytius”
- with Cycnus (interaction) “Cycnus believed this lie, and put Tennes and his sister into a chest, and sent them to sea in it”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.