Pausanias' Description of Greece

Xanthippus (son of Deiphontes)

Also known as: Xanthippus · Family: Epidaurian · Role: son of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 28

Life events

  • Deiphontes and his children bury Hyrnetho and establish a chapel honoring her.(Book 2 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Hyrnethium)

Book 2 · Chapter 28

  • parent: Deiphontes “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
  • parent: Hyrnetho “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”

Also listed in Epidaurian — Minor Figures

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