Mys
Role: artist · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 28
In Book 1, Chapter 28, Parrhasius is said to have drawn outlines for Mys’s works, while Mys is said to have carved the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs and the other scenes on Athene’s shield. In Book 9, Chapter 23, Mardonius sent Mys to consult Apollo’s oracle; it answered not in Greek but in the Carian dialect.
Relationship record
Life events
- Mardonius sent Mys to consult Apollo’s oracle, which answered him in the Carian dialect.(Book 9 · Chapter 23 · 📍 the temple of Ptoan Apollo)
Book 1 · Chapter 28
- with Parrhasius (Parrhasius provided drawings for Mys.) “Parrhasius is said to have drawn for Mys the outline of these and of his other works.”
- with Athene (Mys carved representations on Athene's shield.) “the battle of the Lapithæ with the Centaurs, and all the other things represented on her shield, are said to have been carved by Mys”
Book 9 · Chapter 23
- with Mardonius (Mardonius sent Mys as an envoy to consult the oracle.) “And on one occasion a European whose name was Mys was sent by Mardonius to consult the oracle in his own tongue, and the god gave his response not in Greek but in the Carian dialect.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.