Antinoe

Family: Arcadians · Role: founder of Mantinea · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 8

Antinoe, daughter of Cepheus, transferred Mantinea to its present site, guided by a serpent in accordance with an oracle. Later, after Medea deceived the daughters of Pelias into helping bring about their father’s death, Antinoe and her sister Asteropea moved to Arcadia to escape condemnation; their tombs were raised there. The painter Mico recorded their names beneath their portraits.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antinoe transfers Mantinea to its present site, guided by a serpent.(Book 8 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Mantinea)
  • “from which it was transferred to its present site by Antinoe, the daughter of Cepheus the son of Aleus, who according to an oracle made a serpent (what kind of serpent they do not record) her guide.”
• Pelias’s daughters moved to Arcadia to escape condemnation for their father’s death.(Book 8 · Chapter 11 · 📍 Arcadia)
  • With: Asteropea
  • “This compelled them to go and live in Arcadia, and when they died their sepulchres were raised here.”

Book 8 · Chapter 8

• parent: Cepheus “Antinoe, the daughter of Cepheus the son of Aleus”

Book 8 · Chapter 9

• parent: Cepheus (Cepheus is Antinoe's father.) “they say Antinoe the daughter of Cepheus lies here.”

Book 8 · Chapter 11

• parent: Pelias (Antinoe is identified among the named daughters of Pelias.) “And if you should turn to the left from the temple of Poseidon, in about five stades you will come to the tombs of the daughters of Pelias. The people of Mantinea say they dwelt here to avoid the vituperations which came upon them for the death of their father. For as soon as Medea came to Iolcos she forthwith plotted against Pelias, really working for Jason’s interest, while ostensibly hostile to him. She told the daughters of Pelias that, if they liked, she could make their father a young man instead of an old man. So she slew a ram and boiled his flesh with herbs in a caldron, and she brought the old ram out of the caldron in the shape of a young man alive. After this she took Pelias to boil and cut him up, but his daughters got hardly enough of him to take to burial. This compelled them to go and live in Arcadia, and when they died their sepulchres were raised here. No poet has given their names so far as I know, but Mico the painter has written under their portraits the names Asteropea and Antinoe.”
• siblings with Asteropea (Both are named as the daughters of Pelias in the surrounding passage.) “No poet has given their names so far as I know, but Mico the painter has written under their portraits the names Asteropea and Antinoe.”
• with Medea (Medea deceived the daughters of Pelias into attempting to restore their father.) “She told the daughters of Pelias that, if they liked, she could make their father a young man instead of an old man. So she slew a ram and boiled his flesh with herbs in a caldron, and she brought the old ram out of the caldron in the shape of a young man alive. After this she took Pelias to boil and cut him up, but his daughters got hardly enough of him to take to burial. This compelled them to go and live in Arcadia, and when they died their sepulchres were raised here. No poet has given their names so far as I know, but Mico the painter has written under their portraits the names Asteropea and Antinoe.”
• with Mico (painter) (Mico painted Antinoe's portrait.) “No poet has given their names so far as I know, but Mico the painter has written under their portraits the names Asteropea and Antinoe.”

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