Phrontis

Role: pilot · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 25

Phrontis was the son of Onetor and pilot of Menelaus, described as “most able in his art.” In Book 10, Chapter 25, he died at sea while sailing past Sunium in Attica; Menelaus stayed behind to perform his funeral rites.

Relationship record

Life events

• Phrontis died at sea, and Menelaus stayed behind to perform his funeral rites.(Book 10 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Sunium in Attica)
  • With: Menelaus
  • “how he died as he sailed past Sunium in Attica. And Menelaus, who was up to this time sailing with Nestor, was now left behind, that he might discharge all due funeral rites for Phrontis.”

Book 10 · Chapter 25

• parent: Onetor “Homer has represented Nestor among other things telling Telemachus about Phrontis, how he was the son of Onetor, and pilot of Menelaus, and most able in his art, and how he died as he sailed past Sunium in Attica.”
• with Menelaus (Phrontis is Menelaus's pilot.) “Homer has represented Nestor among other things telling Telemachus about Phrontis, how he was the son of Onetor, and pilot of Menelaus, and most able in his art, and how he died as he sailed past Sunium in Attica.”
• employer: Menelaus “how he was the son of Onetor, and pilot of Menelaus”

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