Pausanias' Description of Greece

Theagenes

Family: Megarian · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 40

Life events

  • Theagenes married his daughter to Cylon, an Athenian.(Book 1 · Chapter 40)
    • With: Cylon
    • “he married his daughter to Cylon an Athenian.”
  • Theagenes erected a large, beautiful conduit.(Book 1 · Chapter 40)
    • “This Theagenes when he was king erected this conduit, well worth seeing for its size and beauty and the number of its pillars.”

Book 1 · Chapter 40

  • with Cylon (Theagenes was Cylon's father-in-law.) “he married his daughter to Cylon an Athenian.”

Book 1 · Chapter 41

  • with Achelous (Theagenes erected an altar to Achelous.) “Theagenes when he was king diverted the water into another direction, and erected here an altar to Achelous”

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