Pirasus

Family: Argive · Role: son of Argus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 16

Life events

• The oldest statue of Hera was made by Pirasus and later conveyed from Tiryns to her temple.(Book 2 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Tiryns)
  • With: Argus
  • “the oldest statue of Hera was made of wild pear tree, and was placed at Tiryns by Pirasus the son of Argus, and the Argives when they took Tiryns conveyed it to the temple of Hera”

Book 2 · Chapter 16

• parent: Argos “And to Argos were born Pirasus and Phorbas”

Book 2 · Chapter 17

• parent: Argus “Pirasus the son of Argus”

Also listed in Argive — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.