Panyasis

Role: poet · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 11

In Book 9, Chapter 11, Panyasis is named among the poets who gave an account of Hercules’ death similar to that of Stesichorus of Himera. In Book 10, Chapter 8, he is identified as the son of Polyarchus and is said to have written a poem about Hercules in which Castalia was the daughter of Achelous.

Relationship record

Book 9 · Chapter 11

• with Hercules (Panyasis wrote a poem about the death of Hercules' sons.) “giving a very similar account about their death to that which Stesichorus of Himera and Panyasis have written in their poems”

Book 10 · Chapter 8

• with Hercules (Panyasis wrote a poem about Hercules.) “But Panyasis, the son of Polyarchus, in the poem he wrote about Hercules says that Castalia was the daughter of Achelous.”
• parent: Polyarchus (Polyarchus is Panyasis's father.) “But Panyasis, the son of Polyarchus, in the poem he wrote about Hercules says that Castalia was the daughter of Achelous.”

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