Mnaseas

Also known as: Libyan · Family: Cyrene · Role: father of Zeno · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 29

In Book 1, Chapter 29, Zeno is identified as “the son of Mnaseas.” In Book 6, Chapter 13, Mnaseas is described as a hoplite from Cyrene, surnamed Libyan by Pythagoras. Chapter 18 records a tradition that Cratisthenes was the son of Mnaseas the runner, also surnamed Libyan.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 29

• child: Zeno “Zeno the son of Mnaseas”

Book 2 · Chapter 8

• child: Zeno “Persæus the head of the garrison, who had been a disciple of Zeno (the son of Mnaseas) in philosophy.”

Book 6 · Chapter 13

• with Pythagoras (Pythagoras made the statue of Mnaseas.) “And next to Bycelus is the hoplite Mnaseas of Cyrene, surnamed Libyan, by Pythagoras of Rhegium.”

Book 6 · Chapter 18

• child: Cratisthenes “There is a tradition also that he was the son of Mnaseas the runner, who was surnamed by the Greeks Libyan.”

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