Byzes

Role: inventor of stone roof tiles · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 10

At Naxos, Byzes invented roofs made from stone tiles; “They say such roofs are the invention of a man of Naxos called Byzes”. In Book 5, Chapter 10, he is described as a contemporary of Alyattes and Astyages, and Euergus is identified as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Byzes invented roofs made from stone tiles.(Book 5 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Naxos)
  • “They say such roofs are the invention of a man of Naxos called Byzes”

Book 5 · Chapter 10

• child: Euergus “Euergus of Naxos made me, the son of Byzes, and descended from Leto, the first who made tiles of stone.”
• with Alyattes (They were contemporaries.) “This Byzes was a contemporary of Alyattes the Lydian and Astyages (the son of Cyaxaras) the king of Persia.”
• with Astyages (They were contemporaries.) “This Byzes was a contemporary of Alyattes the Lydian and Astyages (the son of Cyaxaras) the king of Persia.”

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