Anticyreus

Role: hero · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 36

Life events

• The town began being called Anticyra after Anticyreus, a contemporary of Hercules.(Book 10 · Chapter 36 · 📍 Anticyra)
  • With: Hercules
  • “for it was then beginning to be called Anticyra, from Anticyreus who was a contemporary of Hercules.”

Book 10 · Chapter 36

• with Hercules (They were contemporaries.) “from Anticyreus who was a contemporary of Hercules.”
• with Homer (Homer used the older name associated with Anticyreus.) “Homer in his Catalogue of the Phocians preferred to give it its old name, for it was then beginning to be called Anticyra, from Anticyreus who was a contemporary of Hercules”

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