Cephalus
Family: mythological · Role: mythological figure · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3
In Book 1, Chapter 3, Aurora carried off Cephalus because she was enamoured of him. He was the son of Deioneus and had a son, Phaethon.
In Book 1, Chapter 37, after murdering his wife Procris, Cephalus fled Athens and lived for a time at Thebes, where he went with Amphitryon to the Teleboæ. Book 10, Chapter 29, likewise says Procris was his wife before Clymene and that he murdered her; it names Deion as his father and Iphiclus as his son by Clymene.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aurora carried off Cephalus because she was enamoured of him.(Book 1 · Chapter 3)
- With: Aurora
- “Aurora carrying off Cephalus, who, being most handsome, was, they say, carried off by enamoured Aurora”
- Cephalus fled Athens and lived at Thebes after murdering his wife Procris.(Book 1 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Amphitryon Procris
- “and that he fled from Athens, and lived for some time at Thebes, because he had murdered his wife Procris.”
- Cephalus murdered his wife Procris.(Book 10 · Chapter 29)
- With: Procris
- “All the poets agree that Procris was Cephalus’ wife before Clymene was, and that she was murdered by her husband.”
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- admirer: Aurora “Aurora carrying off Cephalus, who, being most handsome, was, they say, carried off by enamoured Aurora”
- child: Phaethon “and his son was Phaethon”
Book 1 · Chapter 37
- child: Deioneus “Cephalus the son of Deioneus”
- married with Procris “because he had murdered his wife Procris.”
- with Amphitryon (They went together to the Teleboae.) “Cephalus the son of Deioneus went with Amphitryon to the Teleboæ”
- with Chalcinus (Chalcinus is identified as a descendant of Cephalus.) “And in the tenth generation afterwards Chalcinus and Dætus his descendants sailed to Delphi”
- with Dætus (Dætus is identified as a descendant of Cephalus.) “And in the tenth generation afterwards Chalcinus and Dætus his descendants sailed to Delphi”
- younger kin: Chalcinus “And in the tenth generation afterwards Chalcinus and Dætus his descendants sailed to Delphi”
- younger kin: Dætus “And in the tenth generation afterwards Chalcinus and Dætus his descendants sailed to Delphi”
Book 3 · Chapter 9
- with Timocrates (Cephalus received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
Book 3 · Chapter 18
- with Aurora (interaction) “Cephalus carried off by Aurora for his beauty.”
Book 10 · Chapter 29
- married with Clymene “the wife of Cephalus the son of Deion”
- parent: Deion “the wife of Cephalus the son of Deion”
- child: Iphiclus “the wife of Cephalus the son of Deion, and mother by him of Iphiclus”
- married with Procris “All the poets agree that Procris was Cephalus’ wife before Clymene was”
- with Procris (Cephalus murdered Procris) “All the poets agree that Procris was Cephalus’ wife before Clymene was, and that she was murdered by her husband.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.