Penthylos

Family: Paphos · Role: commander · First appears: Book 7 · §187–196

Life events

• The Hellenes captured Penthylos after he sailed toward them with his surviving ship.(Book 7 · §187–196 · 📍 Artemision)
  • With: Demonoös
  • “the Paphian commander Penthylos son of Demonoös, who brought twelve ships from Paphos, but had lost eleven of them in the storm which had come on by Sepias, and now was captured sailing in towards Artemision with the one which had escaped.”
• The Hellenes sent Penthylos and the other captured commanders away in bonds after questioning them.(Book 7 · §187–196 · 📍 the Isthmus of the Corinthians)
  • With: Demonoös
  • “These men the Hellenes sent away in bonds to the Isthmus of the Corinthians, after having inquired of them that which they desired to learn of the army of Xerxes.”

Book 7 · §187–196

• with Demonoös (Penthylos is the son of Demonoös.) “the Paphian commander Penthylos son of Demonoös, who brought twelve ships from Paphos”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.