Aristæus
Family: Greeks · Role: leader of colonists · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 17
Book 10, Chapter 17 says that some years after the Libyans, Greeks migrated to Sardinia under Aristæus. He was said to be the son of Apollo and Cyrene, and the husband of Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus; he went to Sardinia “in excessive grief at the death of Actæon.” Chapter 30 identifies Actæon as Aristæus’s son.
Relationship record
Life events
- Greeks migrated to Sardinia under Aristæus after Actæon’s death.(Book 10 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Sardinia)
Book 10 · Chapter 17
- parent: Apollo “Aristæus, (who was they say the son of Apollo by Cyrene)”
- parent: Cyrene “Aristæus, (who was they say the son of Apollo by Cyrene)”
- married with Autonoe “the husband of Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus”
- with Actæon (Aristæus grieved at Actæon's death.) “who migrated they say to Sardinia in excessive grief at the death of Actæon”
Book 10 · Chapter 30
- child: Actæon “And next Mæra is Actæon, (the son of Aristæus)”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.