Lamia

Role: statue · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 30

At Epidaurus, Lamia and Auxesia made wooden statues according to an oracle after there had been no rain and they received olive trees from Athens. Herodotus is cited as having told the account “accurately and circumstantially.” Later, the Greeks say Herophile was the daughter of Zeus by Lamia, daughter of Poseidon.

Relationship record

Life events

• Auxesia and Lamia made wooden statues according to an oracle.(Book 2 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Epidaurus)
  • With: Auxesia
  • “As to what concerns Auxesia and Lamia, how there was no rain at Epidaurus, and how after receiving olive trees from Athens they made wooden statues according to the bidding of the oracle,”

Book 2 · Chapter 30

• with Herodotus (Herodotus had previously narrated the account concerning Lamia.) “all this has been told accurately and circumstantially by Herodotus.”

Book 10 · Chapter 12

• child: Herophile “the Greeks say she was the daughter of Zeus by Lamia the daughter of Poseidon”
• parent: Poseidon “Lamia the daughter of Poseidon”

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