Pausanias' Description of Greece

Penthilus

Family: Æolis · Role: bastard son of Orestes · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18

Book 2 · Chapter 18

  • parent: Orestes “Penthilus, Orestes’ bastard son by Erigone the daughter of Ægisthus”
  • parent: Erigone “Penthilus, Orestes’ bastard son by Erigone the daughter of Ægisthus”
  • with Cinæthon (interaction) “Penthilus, Orestes’ bastard son by Erigone the daughter of Ægisthus, is mentioned by Cinæthon in his Verses”

Book 3 · Chapter 2

  • child: Echelas “Grais, the son of Echelas, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes, who was sailing with a fleet to make a colony somewhere or other.”
  • parent: Orestes “Grais, the son of Echelas, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes, who was sailing with a fleet to make a colony somewhere or other.”
  • younger kin: Grais “his grandfather Penthilus had already occupied Lesbos, the island opposite this mainland.”
  • with Grais (Penthilus is Grais's grandfather.) “Grais, the son of Echelas, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes”

Book 5 · Chapter 4

  • child: Damasius “Agorius the son of Damasius, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes”
  • parent: Orestes “Agorius the son of Damasius, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes”

Book 7 · Chapter 6

  • child: Damasias “Damasias (the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes), the brother of Tisamenus.”
  • parent: Orestes “Damasias (the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes), the brother of Tisamenus.”

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