Mantineus

Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Lycaon · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3

Mantineus was a son of Lycaon, and his brother Nyctimus succeeded to their father’s power while the brothers built cities. In Book 8, Chapter 8, Mantineus built the town of Mantinea on its original site.

Relationship record

Life events

• Mantineus builds the town of Mantinea on its original site.(Book 8 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Mantinea)
  • “Mantineus, the son of Lycaon, seems to have built the town of Mantinea, (which name the Arcadians still use), on another site”

Book 8 · Chapter 3

• parent: Lycaon “and Mantineus built Mantinea”
• siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”

Book 8 · Chapter 8

• parent: Lycaon “Mantineus, the son of Lycaon, seems to have built the town of Mantinea”

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