Pausanias' Description of Greece

Pereus

Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Elatus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 4

In Book 8, Chapter 4, Pereus is named as one of Elatus’s five sons, alongside Æpytus, Cyllen, Ischys, and Stymphelus. Pereus had no male offspring, only a daughter, Neæra.

Relationship record

Book 8 · Chapter 4

  • parent: Elatus “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
  • siblings with Æpytus (son of Elatus) “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
  • siblings with Cyllen “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
  • siblings with Ischys “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
  • siblings with Stymphelus “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
  • child: Neæra “And Pereus had no male offspring but only a daughter Neæra”

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