Phegeus
Role: person · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 17
In Book 6, Chapter 17, Alcmæon had Clytius by Phegeus’s daughter, then moved to Elis after discovering that her brothers had plotted his murder. In Book 8, Chapter 24, after fleeing Argos and arriving at Psophis, Alcmæon married Alphesibœa, daughter of Phegeus. Phegeus was also the father of Temenus and Axion.
Relationship record
Life events
- Alcmæon moved to Elis after discovering a plot against his life.(Book 6 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Elis)
- With: Alcmæon
- “And Alcmæon was father of Clytius by the daughter of Phegeus, and he changed his residence to Elis, objecting to live with his mother’s brothers, because he knew that they had contrived the murder of Alcmæon.”
- Alcmæon married Alphesibœa, daughter of Phegeus, after arriving at Psophis.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Psophis (daughter of Eryx))
- With: Alcmæon Alphesibœa
- “and there married Alphesibœa the daughter of Phegeus”
Book 6 · Chapter 17
- with Clytius (Phegeus is identified as Clytius's maternal grandfather.) “Alcmæon was father of Clytius by the daughter of Phegeus,”
Book 8 · Chapter 24
- child: Alphesibœa “Alphesibœa the daughter of Phegeus”
- child: Temenus (son of Phegeus) “Temenus and Axion, the sons of Phegeus”
- child: Axion “Temenus and Axion, the sons of Phegeus”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.