Thestius
Role: father of fifty daughters · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 13
In Book 3, Chapter 13, Thestius is named as the son of Agenor, grandson of Pleuron, and father of Leda. Areus is cited for the account of his parentage. In Book 8, Chapter 45, Prothous and Cometes are identified as his sons.
In Book 9, Chapter 27, one account says Hercules had relations with fifty of Thestius’s daughters in one night, sparing one and making her his priestess on condition that she remain a virgin for life. An alternative tradition says Hercules had relations with all the daughters that same night, and they bore him sons.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hercules spared one daughter of Thestius and made her his lifelong virgin priestess.(Book 9 · Chapter 27)
- With: Hercules
- “her he spared and made her his priestess on condition that she remained a virgin all her life.”
- An alternate tradition says Hercules fathered sons with all the daughters of Thestius.(Book 9 · Chapter 27)
- With: Hercules
- “that Hercules in the same night had connection with all the daughters of Thestius, and that they all bare him sons”
Book 3 · Chapter 13
- parent: Pleuron “Thestius, the father of Leda, was the son of Agenor and grandson of Pleuron”
- parent: Agenor (son of Pleuron) “Thestius, the father of Leda, was the son of Agenor and grandson of Pleuron”
- child: Leda “Thestius, the father of Leda”
- with Areus (poet) (interaction) “Areus says in his poems that Thestius, the father of Leda, was the son of Agenor and grandson of Pleuron”
- elder kin: Pleuron “Thestius, the father of Leda, was the son of Agenor and grandson of Pleuron”
Book 8 · Chapter 45
- child: Prothous “the sons of Thestius, Prothous and Cometes”
- child: Cometes “the sons of Thestius, Prothous and Cometes”
Book 9 · Chapter 27
- with Hercules (interaction) “They say that Hercules in one night had connection with all the fifty daughters of Thestius but one”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.