Echembrotus

Family: Arcadians · Role: victor · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 7

Life events

• Echembrotus won the contest for singing to the pipes.(Book 10 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “and the Arcadian Echembrotus for his singing to the pipes”
• Echembrotus dedicated a brazen tripod to Hercules at Thebes.(Book 10 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Thebes)
  • With: Hercules
  • “The votive offering of Echembrotus confirms me in what I say, for the brazen tripod offered by him to Hercules at Thebes”
• The contests were changed to crown-only competitions, and singing to the pipes was discontinued.(Book 10 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “And in the second Pythiad they invited them no longer to contend for prizes, but made the contest one for a crown only, and stopped singing to the pipes”

Book 10 · Chapter 7

• with Hercules (interaction) “the brazen tripod offered by him to Hercules at Thebes has the following inscription, “Echembrotus the Arcadian offered this tripod to Hercules”

Also listed in Arcadians — Minor Figures

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