Creusa

Role: Trojan woman · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 28

In Book 1, Creusa is identified as the daughter of Erechtheus, and Apollo is said to have had an amour with her. By Book 10, she is described as the wife of Aeneas and is said to have been rescued from slavery to the Greeks by Aphrodite and the Mother of the Gods: “they say that the Mother of the Gods and Aphrodite rescued her from slavery to the Greeks”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aphrodite rescued Creusa from slavery to the Greeks.(Book 10 · Chapter 26)
  • With: Aphrodite
  • “they say that the Mother of the Gods and Aphrodite rescued her from slavery to the Greeks”

Book 1 · Chapter 28

• parent: Erechtheus “Apollo had an amour with Creusa the daughter of Erechtheus”
• courtship with Apollo “Here they think Apollo had an amour with Creusa the daughter of Erechtheus”

Book 10 · Chapter 26

• with Aphrodite (Aphrodite rescued Creusa from slavery.) “they say that the Mother of the Gods and Aphrodite rescued her from slavery to the Greeks”
• married with Aeneas “and that she was the wife of Æneas”

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