Cometes
Family: Achæan · Role: eldest son of Tisamenus · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 17
Cometes was the eldest son of Tisamenus, and had crossed over into Asia Minor before the events described in Book 7, Chapter 6. His brothers were Däimenes, Sparton, Tellis and Leontomenes; alongside them, Damasias, their father’s brother, also ruled over the Achæans.
Book 5, Chapter 17 names Asterion as Cometes’ son. Book 8, Chapter 45 identifies Cometes as a son of Thestius and a brother of Prothous and Althæa.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cometes crossed over into Asia Minor.(Book 7 · Chapter 6 · 📍 Asia Minor)
- “Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor.”
Book 5 · Chapter 17
- child: Asterion (son of Cometes) “Asterion the son of Cometes”
Book 7 · Chapter 6
- parent: Tisamenus “Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor.”
- siblings with Däimenes “And those who had the greatest power among the Achæans were the sons of Tisamenus, Däimenes and Sparton and Tellis and Leontomenes. Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor.”
- siblings with Sparton “And those who had the greatest power among the Achæans were the sons of Tisamenus, Däimenes and Sparton and Tellis and Leontomenes. Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor.”
- siblings with Tellis “And those who had the greatest power among the Achæans were the sons of Tisamenus, Däimenes and Sparton and Tellis and Leontomenes. Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor.”
- siblings with Leontomenes “And those who had the greatest power among the Achæans were the sons of Tisamenus, Däimenes and Sparton and Tellis and Leontomenes. Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor.”
- elder kin: Damasias “And those who had the greatest power among the Achæans were the sons of Tisamenus, Däimenes and Sparton and Tellis and Leontomenes. Cometes, the eldest of Tisamenus’ sons, had previously crossed over into Asia Minor. These ruled over the Achæans as also Damasias (the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes), the brother of Tisamenus.”
Book 8 · Chapter 45
- parent: Thestius “the sons of Thestius, Prothous and Cometes”
- siblings with Althæa “the brothers of Althæa”
- siblings with Prothous “the sons of Thestius, Prothous and Cometes”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.