Philomelus

Family: Phocians · Role: leader · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 2

Life events

Philomelus persuaded the Phocians to seize the temple at Delphi.(Book 10 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Delphi)
- “Philomelus the son of Philotimus, second in merit to none of the Phocians, whose native place was Ledon one of the Phocian cities, addressed them and showed them how impossible it was to pay the money, and urged upon them to seize the temple at Delphi”
Philomelus died after throwing himself from a steep crag during his flight.(Book 10 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Neon)
- “Philomelus in his flight threw himself down a steep and precipitous crag, and so perished”
Philomelus removed Crœsus’s golden shield offered to Athene Pronoia.(Book 10 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Crœsus Athene Pronoia
- “The golden shield which was offered to Athene Pronoia by Crœsus the Lydian was taken away (the Delphians said) by Philomelus.”
Philomelus’s impiety caused Ledon to be wiped away.(Book 10 · Chapter 33 · 📍 Ledon)
- “So too the impiety of Philomelus caused Ledon to be wiped off the face of the globe.”

parent: Philotimus (Philotimus is the father of Philomelus.) “Philomelus the son of Philotimus, second in merit to none of the Phocians, whose native place was Ledon one of the Phocian cities, addressed them”

with Athene Pronoia (Philomelus took away the shield offered to Athene Pronoia.) “The golden shield which was offered to Athene Pronoia by Crœsus the Lydian was taken away (the Delphians said) by Philomelus.”

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