Messenian — Minor Figures
6 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Simylus
dedicator · first appears Book 7 · Chapter 22
- Book 7 · Chapter 22 · with Hermes “And the inscription on it says that it was an offering of the Messenian Simylus.”
Pytharatus
commander · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 7
- Book 4 · Chapter 7 · enemies with Polydorus (son of Alcamenes) “And opposite the right wing of the Lacedæmonians were the Messenians under Antander and Euphaes, and on the wing opposite Polydorus under Pytharatus, and in the centre under Cleonnis”
Euergetidas
honoured Messenian · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 21
- Book 4 · Chapter 21 · married with Agnagora “Euergetidas a man held in especial honour at Messene, who had improved his fortunes by his marriage with Agnagora”
Tisis
envoy to Delphi · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 9
- Book 4 · Chapter 9 · parent: Alcis “They selected for this mission Tisis the son of Alcis, who in general merit and in divination was considered inferior to nobody.”
Lyciscus
first appears Book 4 · Chapter 9
- Book 4 · Chapter 9 · with Epebolus “And when the lot fell upon the daughter of Lyciscus, Epebolus the seer said it would not do to sacrifice her; for she was not really the daughter of Lyciscus, but a girl that the wife of Lyciscus being barren had palmed off as hers.”
Ophioneus
seer · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 10
- Book 4 · Chapter 10 · with Epebolus “And the opinions of the seers, Epebolus and Ophioneus, were both similar, that the kingdom of Æpytus and his descendants should not be conferred upon a man polluted with the murder of a daughter.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.