Arcadians — Minor Figures
13 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.
Echembrotus
victor · first appears Book 10 · Chapter 7
- Book 10 · Chapter 7 · with Hercules “the brazen tripod offered by him to Hercules at Thebes has the following inscription, “Echembrotus the Arcadian offered this tripod to Hercules”
Daseatas
son of Lycaon · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 3
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · parent: Lycaon “And Trapezeus and Daseatas and Macareus and Helisson and Thocnus built Thocnia”
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Helisson
son of Lycaon · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 3
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · parent: Lycaon “And Trapezeus and Daseatas and Macareus and Helisson and Thocnus built Thocnia”
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Macareus
son of Lycaon · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 3
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · parent: Lycaon “And Trapezeus and Daseatas and Macareus and Helisson and Thocnus built Thocnia”
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Mænalus
son of Lycaon · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 3
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · parent: Lycaon “And Mænalus built Mænalus, in ancient times the most famous town in Arcadia”
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Trapezeus
son of Lycaon · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 3
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · parent: Lycaon “And Trapezeus and Daseatas and Macareus and Helisson and Thocnus built Thocnia”
- Book 8 · Chapter 3 · siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Erato
Dryad Nymph · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 4
- Book 8 · Chapter 37 · married with Arcas “It is said that in ancient times Pan gave oracular responses, and that his interpreter was the Nymph Erato, who married Arcas the son of Callisto.”
- Book 8 · Chapter 37 · with Pan “It is said that in ancient times Pan gave oracular responses, and that his interpreter was the Nymph Erato”
Gortys (son of Stymphelus)
son of Stymphelus · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 4
- Book 8 · Chapter 4 · parent: Stymphelus “for Agamedes and Gortys, the sons of Stymphelus, were great-grandsons of Arcas”
- Book 8 · Chapter 4 · siblings with Agamedes “for Agamedes and Gortys, the sons of Stymphelus”
Merope
wife of Cresphontes · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 3
- Book 4 · Chapter 3 · parent: Cypselus “Merope the daughter of Cypselus”
- Book 4 · Chapter 3 · married with Cresphontes “the wife of Cresphontes was Merope the daughter of Cypselus”
Clitor
son of Azan · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 4
- Book 8 · Chapter 4 · parent: Azan “And Azan had a son Clitor”
- Book 8 · Chapter 4 · with Æpytus (son of Elatus) “And Clitor the son of Azan had no children, so the kingdom of Arcadia devolved upon Æpytus the son of Elatus.”
Agenor (the Arcadian boxer)
boxer · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 21
- Book 5 · Chapter 21 · rivals with Eupolus “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
- Book 5 · Chapter 21 · with Eupolus “For Eupolus the Thessalian bribed his rivals in boxing to let him win the prize, Agenor from Arcadia, and Prytanis from Cyzicus, and Phormio from Halicarnassus, who was the champion in the preceding Olympiad.”
Neæra
daughter of Pereus · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 4
- Book 8 · Chapter 4 · parent: Pereus “And Pereus had no male offspring but only a daughter Neæra”
- Book 8 · Chapter 4 · married with Autolycus “but only a daughter Neæra, who married Autolycus”
Evander
leader and founder of a colony near the river Tiber · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 43
- Book 8 · Chapter 43 · elder kin: Lado “They say that Evander was the best of the Arcadians both in council and war, and that he was the son of Hermes by a Nymph the daughter of Lado”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.