Theræphone

Role: daughter of Dexamenus · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 3

Theræphone was one of the daughters of Dexamenus, king at Olenus. In Book 5, Chapter 3, she is named as the mother of Thalpius by Eurytus, who married her; Amphimachus, son of Theronice, is identified as Thalpius’s sibling.

Relationship record

Book 5 · Chapter 3

• parent: Dexamenus (Theræphone is identified as one of Dexamenus's daughters.) “the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus”
• siblings with Theronice (The two women are the two sisters previously identified as daughters of Dexamenus.) “the one had by Theronice Amphimachus, and the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius”
• child: Thalpius (Theræphone is stated to be Thalpius's mother.) “the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius”
• married with Eurytus (The passage identifies Eurytus and Theræphone as the parents of Thalpius and places the two marriages together.) “For the sons of Actor married two sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus, and the one had by Theronice Amphimachus, and the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius.”

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