Pausanias' Description of Greece

Cithæron

Role: ruler at Platæa · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 3

Life events

  • Cithæron advises Zeus to stage a wooden bride and claim marriage to Platæa.(Book 9 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Platæa)
    • With: Zeus Platæa Asopus
    • “He recommended Zeus to make a wooden statue and dress it up and draw it in a waggon with a yoke of oxen, and give out that he intended to marry Platæa the daughter of Asopus.”

Book 9 · Chapter 3

  • with Zeus (Cithæron advises Zeus.) “He recommended Zeus to make a wooden statue and dress it up and draw it in a waggon with a yoke of oxen, and give out that he intended to marry Platæa the daughter of Asopus.”

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