Punishment

First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 43

Life events

Apollo sent Punishment against Argos, and the monster abducted children from their mothers.(Book 1 · Chapter 43 · 📍 Argos)
- With: Apollo
- “Apollo sent upon the city Punishment, a monster who took children away from their mothers (they say)”
Corœbus killed Punishment, then accepted divine punishment and built Tripodisci after Apollo's oracle.(Book 1 · Chapter 43 · 📍 Argos)
- With: Corœbus Apollo
- “Corœbus of his own accord went to Delphi, and offered to submit to the punishment of the god for killing Punishment. The Pythian priestess forbade Corœbus to return to Argos, but told him to carry a tripod from the temple, and wherever the tripod should fall, there he was to build a temple to Apollo and himself dwell. And the tripod slipt out of his hand and fell (without his contrivance) on the mountain Gerania, and there he built the village Tripodisci.”

with Corœbus (Corœbus killed the monster called Punishment.) “till Corœbus killed it to ingratiate himself with the Argives.”
with Apollo (Apollo sends Punishment against the city.) “and Apollo sent upon the city Punishment, a monster who took children away from their mothers”

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