Pausanias' Description of Greece

Cleso

First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 42

In Book 1, Chapter 42, at Megaris, Cleso and Tauropolis found Ino’s body and buried it. Cleso is identified as Tauropolis’s mother and Lelex’s granddaughter.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Cleso and Tauropolis found Ino’s body and buried it.(Book 1 · Chapter 42 · 📍 Megaris)
    • With: Ino Tauropolis
    • “Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”

Book 1 · Chapter 42

  • with Ino (Cleso found and buried Ino's dead body.) “The Megarians are the only Greeks that say that the dead body of Ino was cast on the shore of Megaris, and that Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
  • child: Tauropolis “The Megarians are the only Greeks that say that the dead body of Ino was cast on the shore of Megaris, and that Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
  • with Lelex (Lelex is described as their grandfather.) “The Megarians are the only Greeks that say that the dead body of Ino was cast on the shore of Megaris, and that Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
  • elder kin: Lelex (Lelex is their grandfather.) “Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
  • with Ino (Cleso found and buried Ino's dead body.) “Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”

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