Ornytion
Role: person · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 4
In Book 2, Chapter 4, Ornytion is named among the sons of Sisyphus, alongside Glaucus, Thersander, and Almus. Phocus is his son, “though nominally the son of Poseidon,” and Thoas is his younger son, who remained at Corinth.
In Book 2, Chapter 29, Phocus is said to have been the first of Ornytion’s family to come to the place mentioned in the account.
Relationship record
Book 2 · Chapter 4
- parent: Sisyphus “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
- siblings with Glaucus (son of Sisyphus) “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
- siblings with Thersander (son of Sisyphus) “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
- siblings with Almus “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
- child: Phocus (son of Ornytion) “And Phocus was the son of Ornytion, though nominally the son of Poseidon.”
- child: Thoas “but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained at Corinth.”
Book 2 · Chapter 29
- with Phocus (son of Ornytion) (Phocus is identified as being of Ornytion's family.) “Phocus of the family of Ornytion first came to it”
Book 9 · Chapter 17
- child: Phocus (son of Ornytion) “Phocus the son of Ornytion the son of Sisyphus”
- parent: Sisyphus “Phocus the son of Ornytion the son of Sisyphus”
Book 10 · Chapter 1
- child: Phocus (son of Ornytion) “the Corinthian Phocus, the son of Ornytion.”
Book 10 · Chapter 4
- child: Phocus (son of Ornytion) “others Phocus (the son of Ornytion and grandson of Sisyphus).”
Book 10 · Chapter 32
- child: Phocus (son of Ornytion) “Phocus the son of Ornytion”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.