Pausanias' Description of Greece

Historis

Role: daughter of Tiresias · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 11

Life events

  • Historis deceived Hera’s agents, allowing Alcmena to give birth to a boy.(Book 9 · Chapter 11)
    • With: Alcmena Hera
    • “Historis the daughter of Tiresias played a trick on them, she cried out in their hearing, and they thought Alcmena had just given birth to a child, so they went away deceived, and then they say Alcmena bare a boy.”

Book 9 · Chapter 11

  • parent: Tiresias “Historis the daughter of Tiresias played a trick on them”

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