Philanthus

Family: Elis · Role: son · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 2

In Book 5, Chapter 2, Philanthus was one of the two sons of Prolaus and Lysippe, alongside his brother Lampus. Before the games came on, Philanthus and Lampus were “strangled or killed in some way by their rivals”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Philanthus and Lampus were strangled or killed by rivals.(Book 5 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Lampus (son of Prolaus)
  • “and before the games came on they were strangled or killed in some way by their rivals”

Book 5 · Chapter 2

• parent: Prolaus “Prolaus, a man of much repute among the people of Elis, and Lysippe his wife had two sons Philanthus and Lampus”
• parent: Lysippe “Prolaus, a man of much repute among the people of Elis, and Lysippe his wife had two sons Philanthus and Lampus”
• siblings with Lampus (son of Prolaus) “Prolaus, a man of much repute among the people of Elis, and Lysippe his wife had two sons Philanthus and Lampus”

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