Parthenius

Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: violator of Molpia and Hippo · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 13

In Book 9, Chapter 13, at Leuctra, Parthenius and Phrurarchidas violated Molpia and Hippo. The two women then hanged themselves, “for this outrage was more than they could bear.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Phrurarchidas and Parthenius violated Molpia and Hippo, who then hanged themselves.(Book 9 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Leuctra)
  • With: Molpia Hippo Phrurarchidas
  • “They were very beautiful and two Lacedæmonians, Phrurarchidas and Parthenius, iniquitously violated them, and they forthwith hung themselves, for this outrage was more than they could bear:”

Book 9 · Chapter 13

• with Molpia (Parthenius violated Molpia and Hippo) “and two Lacedæmonians, Phrurarchidas and Parthenius, iniquitously violated them”
• with Hippo (Parthenius violated Molpia and Hippo) “and two Lacedæmonians, Phrurarchidas and Parthenius, iniquitously violated them”
• with Phrurarchidas (co-perpetrators) “and two Lacedæmonians, Phrurarchidas and Parthenius, iniquitously violated them”
• with Phrurarchidas (They jointly perpetrated the violation.) “They were very beautiful and two Lacedæmonians, Phrurarchidas and Parthenius, iniquitously violated them”

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