Anaxilas

Family: Rhegium · Role: king · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 23

In Book 4, Chapter 23, Anaxilas was king at Rhegium and fourth in descent from Alcidamidas, who had migrated from Messene to Rhegium. He offered the Messenians land and assistance, and conveyed them to Sicily when they accepted. At Zancle, Gorgus and Manticlus asked him not to compel them to act cruelly toward Greeks; they prevented the slaughter of the suppliants, and the two peoples thereafter dwelt together as one.

By Book 5, Chapter 26, Micythus, formerly Anaxilas’s slave, had become his treasurer. After Anaxilas’s death, Micythus went to Tegea.

Relationship record

Life events

• Anaxilas conveyed the Messenians to Sicily after they accepted his offer of land and assistance.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Sicily)
  • With: Gorgus Manticlus
  • “And as they eagerly accepted his offer, Anaxilas conveyed them over into Sicily.”
• Gorgus and Manticlus prevented the slaughter of Zancle's suppliants, enabling both peoples to dwell together.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Zancle)
  • With: Gorgus Manticlus
  • “And after that they took the people of Zancle from the altars, and having mutually given and received pledges dwelt together as one people.”
• Micythus changed from Anaxilas's slave into his treasurer, then departed for Tegea after Anaxilas died.(Book 5 · Chapter 26)
  • With: Micythus
  • “this Micythus was the slave of Anaxilas the king at Rhegium, and was afterwards his treasurer, and after his death went to Tegea.”

Book 4 · Chapter 23

• with Gorgus (Gorgus opposed Anaxilas's demand to treat the people of Zancle cruelly.) “But Gorgus and Manticlus begged that Anaxilas would not compel them, who had been shamefully treated by their fellow-countrymen, to act with equal cruelty to Greeks.”
• with Manticlus (Manticlus opposed Anaxilas's demand to treat the people of Zancle cruelly.) “But Gorgus and Manticlus begged that Anaxilas would not compel them, who had been shamefully treated by their fellow-countrymen, to act with equal cruelty to Greeks.”
• with Alcidamidas (Anaxilas was fourth in descent from Alcidamidas.) “He was King at Rhegium, and fourth in descent from Alcidamidas, who had migrated from Messene to Rhegium, after the death of King Aristodemus and the capture of Ithome.”
• elder kin: Alcidamidas (Alcidamidas was an ancestor of Anaxilas.) “He was King at Rhegium, and fourth in descent from Alcidamidas, who had migrated from Messene to Rhegium, after the death of King Aristodemus and the capture of Ithome.”

Book 5 · Chapter 26

• servant: Micythus (Anaxilas owned Micythus and employed him as treasurer.) “this Micythus was the slave of Anaxilas the king at Rhegium, and was afterwards his treasurer”

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