Thebes — Minor Figures

5 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Agenor (son of Theopompus)

boy-wrestler · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 6

• Book 6 · Chapter 6 · with Polycletus “has made the statue of a boy-wrestler, the Theban Agenor”
• Book 6 · Chapter 6 · parent: Theopompus “to whom Theopompus the father of Agenor had been friendly”

Menœceus

father of Creon · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 5

• Book 9 · Chapter 25 · parent: Creon “the tomb of Menœceus the son of Creon”

Menœceus (father of Creon)

father of Creon · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 5

• Book 9 · Chapter 5 · child: Creon “Creon the son of Menœceus”

Ptolemæus

son of Damasichthon · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 5

• Book 9 · Chapter 5 · parent: Damasichthon “His son was Ptolemæus”
• Book 9 · Chapter 5 · child: Xanthus “His son was Ptolemæus, and his Xanthus”

Hyperphas

father of Euryganea · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 5

• Book 9 · Chapter 5 · child: Euryganea “Euryganea the daughter of Hyperphas”

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