Tyrsenus

First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 21

In Book 2, Chapter 21, Tyrsenus is described as the son of Hercules and a Lydian woman, and the father of Hegeleus. Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, which Hegeleus taught the Dorians who followed Temenus to use; Hegeleus called Athene “Trumpet.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, and Hegeleus taught the Dorians to use it.(Book 2 · Chapter 21)
  • With: Hegeleus Athene
  • “Tyrsenus was the first who invented the trumpet, and Hegeleus his son taught the Dorians who followed Temenus the use of it, and that was why he called Athene Trumpet.”

Book 2 · Chapter 21

• child: Hegeleus “This Hegeleus they say was the son of Tyrsenus”
• parent: Hercules “Tyrsenus, who was the son of Hercules and a Lydian woman”

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