Pausanias' Description of Greece

Porthaon

Role: father of Alcathous · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 35

Porthaon is named as the father of Œneus, who, after the capture of Ilium, retired with Diomede to the Peloponnese and had a daughter, Mothone, by a concubine. He is also named as the father of Alcathous.

Relationship record

Book 4 · Chapter 35

  • child: Œneus “Œneus the son of Porthaon after the capture of Ilium retired they say with Diomede to the Peloponnese, and had by a concubine a daughter Mothone.”

Book 6 · Chapter 20

  • child: Alcathous (Porthaon is Alcathous's father.) “Alcathous the son of Porthaon”

Book 6 · Chapter 21

  • child: Alcathous “Alcathous the son of Porthaon”

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