Pausanias' Description of Greece

Philammon

Role: victor · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 33

After Argiope became pregnant, she moved to Odrysæ because Philammon would not marry her; their son was Thamyris. Later, at Delphi, Philammon became the next victor in the musical contest after Chrysothemis.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Argiope became pregnant and moved to Odrysæ after Philammon refused marriage.(Book 4 · Chapter 33 · 📍 Odrysæ)
    • With: Argiope
    • “when she became pregnant removed to Odrysæ, because Philammon would not marry her.”
  • Philammon became the next victor in the musical contest.(Book 10 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Delphi)
    • With: Apollo
    • “And after Chrysothemis they say Philammon was next victor”

Book 4 · Chapter 33

  • child: Thamyris (Philammon was Thamyris's father.) “Thamyris the son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope”
  • with Argiope (Philammon refused to marry Argiope.) “when she became pregnant removed to Odrysæ, because Philammon would not marry her”
  • with Argiope (Philammon refused to marry Argiope.) “Argiope they say lived at Parnassus for a while, but when she became pregnant removed to Odrysæ, because Philammon would not marry her.”

Book 10 · Chapter 7

  • child: Thamyris “after Chrysothemis they say Philammon was next victor, and next to him his son Thamyris”

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