Cercyon
Family: Greek mythology · Role: father of Alope · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5
Cercyon was the father of Alope and the brother of Triptolemus; Poseidon was his father. In Book 1, Chapter 39, Cercyon put Alope to death after she became the mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon.
At his wrestling ground, Theseus defeated Cercyon through skill, wrestling “cunningly throw for throw.” Later, Book 8, Chapter 5 identifies Hippothous as Cercyon’s son and says the kingdom devolved upon him.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cercyon put Alope to death.(Book 1 · Chapter 39)
- With: Alope
- “Alope, who they say was the mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon, and was in consequence put to death by her father Cercyon.”
- Theseus defeated Cercyon in wrestling through skill.(Book 1 · Chapter 39 · 📍 Cercyon’s wrestling ground)
- With: Theseus
- “But Theseus wrestled against him cunningly throw for throw and beat him:”
Book 1 · Chapter 5
- child: Alope “Alope the daughter of Cercyon”
Book 1 · Chapter 14
- siblings with Triptolemus “Cercyon and Triptolemus were brothers”
- parent: Poseidon (Genealogy stated by Chœrilus.) “the father of Cercyon Poseidon”
Book 1 · Chapter 39
- rivals with Theseus “Cercyon is said to have killed all that wrestled with him but Theseus. But Theseus wrestled against him cunningly throw for throw and beat him”
- child: Alope “was in consequence put to death by her father Cercyon”
- with Theseus (interaction) “And Cercyon is said to have killed all that wrestled with him but Theseus. But Theseus wrestled against him cunningly throw for throw and beat him:”
Book 8 · Chapter 5
- child: Hippothous “the kingdom devolved upon Hippothous, the son of Cercyon, the son of Agamedes, the son of Stymphelus.”
- parent: Agamedes “the kingdom devolved upon Hippothous, the son of Cercyon, the son of Agamedes, the son of Stymphelus.”
Book 8 · Chapter 45
- child: Hippothous “Hippothous the son of Cercyon”
- parent: Agamedes “Cercyon, the son of Agamedes”
Book 8 · Chapter 53
- child: Hippothous “and from Hippothous the son of Cercyon.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.