Hellanicus
Family: Lepreus · Role: father of Amyntas · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 16
Hellanicus is recorded as the father of Amyntas. In Book 2, Chapter 16, he recorded that Medon and Strophius were born from a marriage.
In Book 5, Chapter 5, Hellanicus joined Chilon, Lampis and Cylon in deposing Aristotimus after he had reigned for six months. In Book 6, Chapter 7, at Olympia, Hellanicus and his brother Theantus, sons of Alcænetus, won boys’ boxing prizes in successive Olympiads: Hellanicus in the 89th and Theantus in the next.
Relationship record
Life events
- Chilon, Hellanicus, Lampis, and Cylon deposed Aristotimus.(Book 5 · Chapter 5 · 📍 Elis)
- With: Aristotimus Chilon Lampis Cylon
- “But when he had reigned only six months, Chilon and Hellanicus and Lampis and Cylon rose up against him and deposed him;”
- Alcænetus and his sons won boxing prizes at Olympia.(Book 6 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Olympia)
Book 2 · Chapter 16
- with Medon (son of Pylades) (interaction) “And Hellanicus has recorded that Medon and Strophius were the issue of the marriage.”
- with Strophius (son of Pylades) (interaction) “And Hellanicus has recorded that Medon and Strophius were the issue of the marriage.”
Book 5 · Chapter 5
- with Aristotimus (interaction) “Chilon and Hellanicus and Lampis and Cylon rose up against him and deposed him”
- enemies with Aristotimus “Chilon and Hellanicus and Lampis and Cylon rose up against him and deposed him”
Book 6 · Chapter 4
- child: Amyntas (Hellanicus was Amyntas's father.) “Amyntas the son of Hellanicus”
Book 6 · Chapter 7
- parent: Alcænetus “And Hellanicus and Theantus, the sons of Alcænetus, were proclaimed winners in the boxing match for boys,”
- siblings with Theantus “And Hellanicus and Theantus, the sons of Alcænetus, were proclaimed winners in the boxing match for boys,”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.