Grais

Family: Æolis · Role: colonist · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 2

In Book 3, Chapter 2, Grais is identified as the son of Echelas and grandson of Penthilus, who had already occupied Lesbos, the island opposite the mainland. Grais is also named in the lineage as “the son of Echelas, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes”.

Relationship record

Book 3 · Chapter 2

• parent: Echelas “Grais, the son of Echelas, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes, who was sailing with a fleet to make a colony somewhere or other.”
• elder kin: Penthilus “his grandfather Penthilus had already occupied Lesbos, the island opposite this mainland.”
• with Penthilus (Penthilus is Grais's grandfather.) “Grais, the son of Echelas, the son of Penthilus, the son of Orestes”

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