Opheltes

Family: Thebes · Role: child · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 15

Opheltes was the child of Lycurgus. At Nemea, after his nurse placed him on the grass, he was devoured by a dragon; a mound of earth marked Lycurgus’s grave.

In a later genealogy, Peneleos is named as Opheltes’ father, and Damasichthon as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Opheltes was devoured by a dragon after being placed on the grass.(Book 2 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Nemea)
  • “where they say that Opheltes, placed on the grass there by his nurse, was devoured by a dragon.”

Book 2 · Chapter 15

• parent: Lycurgus “And there is a piled up mound of earth as a monument to Lycurgus the father of Opheltes.”

Book 9 · Chapter 5

• parent: Peneleos (Peneleos is Opheltes's father.) “Damasichthon, the son of Opheltes the son of Peneleos”
• child: Damasichthon (Parent-to-child direction.) “Damasichthon, the son of Opheltes the son of Peneleos”

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