Cenchrias
Role: mythic founder · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 2
In Book 2, Chapter 2, Cenchrias is named with Leches as a reputed son of Poseidon and Pirene, though the account notes a different tradition about Pirene’s parentage. In Chapter 3, Artemis kills Cenchrias; mourning him, Pirene becomes a well through her tears.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pirene becomes a well while mourning Cenchrias, whom Artemis killed.(Book 2 · Chapter 3)
Book 2 · Chapter 2
- parent: Poseidon (Poseidon is reputed to be the father of Cenchrias.) “The Corinthian seaports got their names from Leches and Cenchrias, who were reputed to be the sons of Poseidon by Pirene the daughter of Achelous: though in Hesiod’s poem the great Eœæ Pirene is said to be the daughter of Œbalus.”
- parent: Pirene (Pirene is reputed to be the mother of Cenchrias.) “The Corinthian seaports got their names from Leches and Cenchrias, who were reputed to be the sons of Poseidon by Pirene the daughter of Achelous: though in Hesiod’s poem the great Eœæ Pirene is said to be the daughter of Œbalus.”
- siblings with Leches “The Corinthian seaports got their names from Leches and Cenchrias, who were reputed to be the sons of Poseidon by Pirene the daughter of Achelous: though in Hesiod’s poem the great Eœæ Pirene is said to be the daughter of Œbalus.”
Book 2 · Chapter 3
- parent: Pirene “They say that Pirene became a well from a woman through the tears she shed, bewailing the death of her son Cenchrias at the hands of Artemis.”
- with Artemis (Artemis killed Cenchrias.) “bewailing the death of her son Cenchrias at the hands of Artemis”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.