Corœbus

Family: Greek · Role: athlete · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 43

At Argos, Corœbus killed Punishment. He went to Delphi and offered to submit to the god’s punishment; the Pythian priestess forbade him to return to Argos and told him to build a temple where a tripod fell. When it fell on Mount Gerania, he built Tripodisci there and dwelt in the village.

Later, Corœbus won the racing event when Iphitus restored the discontinued Olympian games. His tomb was named by the people of Elis as the boundary between Heræa and Elis. Corœbus was the son of Mygdon; he came to wed Cassandra and was killed by Neoptolemus according to the prevalent tradition, though Lescheos attributed his death to Diomede.

Relationship record

Life events

• Corœbus killed Punishment, then accepted divine punishment and built Tripodisci after Apollo's oracle.(Book 1 · Chapter 43 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Punishment Apollo
  • “Corœbus of his own accord went to Delphi, and offered to submit to the punishment of the god for killing Punishment. The Pythian priestess forbade Corœbus to return to Argos, but told him to carry a tripod from the temple, and wherever the tripod should fall, there he was to build a temple to Apollo and himself dwell. And the tripod slipt out of his hand and fell (without his contrivance) on the mountain Gerania, and there he built the village Tripodisci.”
• Iphitus restored the discontinued Olympian games, and Corœbus won the racing victory.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Iphitus
  • “who was victor when Iphitus restored the Olympian games that had been for a long time discontinued”
• Corœbus was killed by Neoptolemus according to the prevalent tradition.(Book 10 · Chapter 27)
  • With: Neoptolemus
  • “Corœbus came to wed Cassandra, and was killed by Neoptolemus according to the prevalent tradition, but by Diomede according to Lescheos.”

Book 1 · Chapter 43

• with Punishment (Corœbus killed the monster called Punishment.) “till Corœbus killed it to ingratiate himself with the Argives.”

Book 1 · Chapter 44

• with Orsippus (Their tombs are adjacent.) “Next Corœbus is buried Orsippus”

Book 8 · Chapter 26

• with Iphitus (Iphitus restored the games in which Corœbus was victor.) “who was victor when Iphitus restored the Olympian games that had been for a long time discontinued”
• with Iphitus (Corœbus was victor when Iphitus restored the Olympian games.) “The boundary between Heræa and Elis is according to the Arcadian account the Erymanthus, but the people of Elis say that the boundary is the tomb of Corœbus, who was victor when Iphitus restored the Olympian games that had been for a long time discontinued, and offered prizes only for racing.”

Book 10 · Chapter 27

• parent: Mygdon “Corœbus the son of Mygdon.”
• courtship with Cassandra “Corœbus came to wed Cassandra,”
• with Neoptolemus (Neoptolemus killed Corœbus according to the prevalent tradition.) “and was killed by Neoptolemus according to the prevalent tradition,”
• with Diomede (Diomede killed Corœbus according to Lescheos.) “but by Diomede according to Lescheos.”

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