Hegeleus

First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 21

Hegeleus was said to be the son of Tyrsenus, who invented the trumpet. In Book 2, Chapter 21, Hegeleus taught the Dorians who followed Temenus to use it, and was said to have built a temple of Athene under the name Trumpet.

Relationship record

Life events

• Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, and Hegeleus taught the Dorians to use it.(Book 2 · Chapter 21)
  • With: Tyrsenus Athene
  • “Tyrsenus was the first who invented the trumpet, and Hegeleus his son taught the Dorians who followed Temenus the use of it, and that was why he called Athene Trumpet.”

Book 2 · Chapter 21

• parent: Tyrsenus “This Hegeleus they say was the son of Tyrsenus”
• with Athene (Hegeleus is said to have built Athene's temple.) “there is a temple of Athene under the name of Trumpet, which they say Hegeleus built”

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