Pausanias' Description of Greece

Autonoe

Family: Theban · Role: woman · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 44

In Book 1, Chapter 44, Autonoe is identified as the daughter of Cadmus and as grieving excessively at the death of Actæon. After Actæon’s death and her family’s misfortunes, she migrated from Thebes to Erenea. By Book 10, Chapter 17, Aristæus is identified as her husband.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Autonoe migrated from Thebes to Erenea after Actæon’s death and her family’s misfortunes.(Book 1 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Erenea)
    • “Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus, excessively grieving at the death of Actæon, and the circumstances of it which tradition records, and the general misfortunes of her father’s house, migrated there from Thebes:”

Book 1 · Chapter 44

  • parent: Cadmus “Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus”
  • with Actæon (Autonoe grieved at Actæon's death.) “Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus, excessively grieving at the death of Actæon”

Book 10 · Chapter 17

  • married with Aristæus “the husband of Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus”
  • parent: Cadmus “Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus”

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