Ganyetor

First appears: The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

At Oenoe in Locris, Ganyetor and Amphiphanes, sons of Phegeus, hosted Hesiod, unknowingly fulfilling the oracle. They later killed him, suspecting him of seducing their sister, and cast his body into the sea. According to one account, the brothers fled by boat toward Crete; when they had completed half the voyage, Zeus sank them with a thunderbolt.

Eratosthenes gives a different account, saying that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed Hesiod for the same reason. The account also says the brothers killed Demodes.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hesiod stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor, sons of Phegeus, unknowingly entering the place named in the oracle.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Oenoe)
  • With: Hesiod Amphiphanes Phegeus
  • “and coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle”
• Amphiphanes and Ganyetor killed Hesiod, suspecting him of seducing their sister, and cast his body into the sea.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Oenoe)
  • With: Hesiod Amphiphanes the sister of Amphiphanes and Ganyetor
  • “until the young men, suspecting Hesiod of seducing their sister, killed him and cast his body into the sea which separates Achaea and Locris.”
• Fearing their countrymen’s anger, the killers fled by boat toward Crete.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Amphiphanes
  • “But these, fearing the anger of their countrymen, launched a fishing boat, and put out to sea for Crete”
• Zeus sank the fleeing brothers with a thunderbolt, according to Alcidamas.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Amphiphanes Zeus
  • “they had finished half their voyage when Zeus sank them with a thunderbolt, as Alcidamas states in his ‘Museum’.”
• Eratosthenes reports that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed Hesiod.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Hesiod Ctimenus Antiphus
  • “Eratosthenes, however, says in his ‘Hesiod’ that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed him for the reason already stated”
• Eratosthenes reports that the brothers also killed Demodes.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Demodes Amphiphanes
  • “and who was also killed by the brothers.”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

• parent: Phegeus “coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle;”
• siblings with Amphiphanes “coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle;”
• siblings with the sister of Amphiphanes and Ganyetor “until the young men, suspecting Hesiod of seducing their sister, killed him and cast his body into the sea which separates Achaea and Locris.”
• child: Ctimenus “Eratosthenes, however, says in his ‘Hesiod’ that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed him for the reason already stated,”
• child: Antiphus “Eratosthenes, however, says in his ‘Hesiod’ that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed him for the reason already stated,”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.