Pausanias' Description of Greece

Agnagora

Family: Messenian · Role: sister of Aristomenes · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 21

At Messene, Agnagora, the sister of Aristomenes, married Euergetidas, a man held in especial honour there; the marriage improved his fortunes. Later, while refusing the leadership of those going to the new colony, Aristomenes married Agnagora to Tharyx of Phigalia.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Euergetidas’s marriage to Agnagora improved his fortunes and connected him to Aristomenes’s family.(Book 4 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Messene)
    • With: Euergetidas
    • “Euergetidas a man held in especial honour at Messene, who had improved his fortunes by his marriage with Agnagora, the sister of Aristomenes.”
  • Aristomenes married Agnagora to Tharyx.(Book 4 · Chapter 24)

Book 4 · Chapter 21

  • married with Euergetidas (Euergetidas married Agnagora.) “Euergetidas a man held in especial honour at Messene, who had improved his fortunes by his marriage with Agnagora”
  • siblings with Aristomenes (Agnagora is Aristomenes's sister.) “his marriage with Agnagora, the sister of Aristomenes”

Book 4 · Chapter 24

  • siblings with Aristomenes “Meantime Aristomenes, when he refused the leadership of those who were going on the new colony, married his sister Agnagora to Tharyx of Phigalia”
  • married with Tharyx “Meantime Aristomenes, when he refused the leadership of those who were going on the new colony, married his sister Agnagora to Tharyx of Phigalia”

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