Orestheus
Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Lycaon · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3
In Book 8, Orestheus, son of Lycaon and brother of Nyctimus, founded Oresthasium alongside Pallas and Phigalus, who founded Pallantium and Phigalia. In Book 10, Orestheus is described as the son of Deucalion and king of the country; after a bitch gave birth to a piece of wood instead of a puppy, he buried it, and the next spring a vine sprang from it.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pallas, Orestheus, and Phigalus founded Pallantium, Oresthasium, and Phigalia.(Book 8 · Chapter 3)
- A buried piece of wood produced a vine.(Book 10 · Chapter 38)
- “and Orestheus having buried this piece of wood in the ground, they say the next spring a vine sprang from it”
Book 8 · Chapter 3
- parent: Lycaon “Pallas and Orestheus and Phigalus built Pallantium”
- siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”
Book 10 · Chapter 38
- parent: Deucalion “When Orestheus the son of Deucalion was king of the country, a bitch gave birth to a piece of wood instead of a puppy”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.