Ogygus

Role: progenitor · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 38

In Book 1, Chapter 38, Ogygus is named in one account as the father of Eleusis, while other accounts give Eleusis different parents. By Book 9, Chapter 19, Aulis is associated with a daughter of Ogygus; in Chapter 33, Alalcomenia is named as one of Ogygus’s daughters.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 38

• child: Eleusis (An alternative tradition makes Ogygus the father of Eleusis.) “And the hero Eleusis, from whom the city gets its name, was according to some the son of Hermes and Daira the daughter of Oceanus, others make him the son of Ogygus.”

Book 9 · Chapter 19

• child: Aulis (Aulis is identified as Ogygus's daughter.) “you come to Aulis, so called they say from the daughter of Ogygus”

Book 9 · Chapter 33

• child: Alalcomenia “others say from Alalcomenia one of the daughters of Ogygus.”

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