Pausanias' Description of Greece

Hermon

Family: Megara · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 31

In Book 2, Chapter 31, a design was attributed to Hermon of Trœzen in connection with Apollo. By Book 6, Chapter 19, Hermon and his father, Pyrrhus, and his brother, Lacrates, had made a treasury at Olympia for the people of Epidamnus. In Book 10, Chapter 9, Hermon was described as the pilot of Lysander’s flag-ship, and a statue of him was designed by Theocosmus the Megarian.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Pyrrhus, Lacrates, and Hermon built a treasury for the people of Epidamnus.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Olympia)

Book 2 · Chapter 31

  • with Apollo (interaction) “the design of Hermon of Trœzen”

Book 6 · Chapter 19

  • parent: Pyrrhus (father of Lacrates and Hermon) “And Pyrrhus and his sons Lacrates and Hermon made this treasury for the people of Epidamnus.”
  • siblings with Lacrates “And Pyrrhus and his sons Lacrates and Hermon made this treasury for the people of Epidamnus.”

Book 10 · Chapter 9

  • with Lysander (Hermon was the pilot of Lysander's flagship.) “Hermon the pilot of Lysander’s flag-ship”
  • with Theocosmus the Megarian (interaction) “This statue of Hermon was designed by Theocosmus the Megarian”

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