Pandareus

Role: father of Camiro and Clytie · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 30

Pandareus was a Milesian from Cretan Miletus and an associate of Tantalus in theft and perjury. His daughters, Camiro and Clytie, were still maidens when their parents died through the wrath of the gods; the sisters were then brought up by Aphrodite and received gifts from other goddesses.

Relationship record

Book 10 · Chapter 30

• child: Camiro “Polygnotus has painted next the daughters of Pandareus, as to whom Homer says, in a speech of Penelope, that their parents died through the wrath of the gods when they were still maidens, and that as they were orphans they were brought up by Aphrodite, and received gifts from other goddesses, as from Hera prudence and beauty, from Artemis tallness of stature, from Athene an education fit for women. ... Their names were Camiro and Clytie.”
• child: Clytie “Polygnotus has painted next the daughters of Pandareus, as to whom Homer says, in a speech of Penelope, that their parents died through the wrath of the gods when they were still maidens, and that as they were orphans they were brought up by Aphrodite, and received gifts from other goddesses, as from Hera prudence and beauty, from Artemis tallness of stature, from Athene an education fit for women. ... Their names were Camiro and Clytie.”
• with Tantalus (They were associates in theft and perjury.) “Pandareus was you must know a Milesian from Cretan Miletus, and an associate of Tantalus both in his theft and perjury.”

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