alcithea

Updated: February 24, 2026

The name of Pausanias' mother was Alcithea, as we are informed by Thucydides' scholiast, who only says that it was reported, that when they set about walling up the gates of the chapel in which Pausanias had taken refuge, his mother Alcithea laid the first stone."

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 06