In Pausanias' Theban king-list, Demonassa is the daughter of the seer Amphiaraus and the wife of Thersander; by him she bore Tisamenus, who succeeded to the Cadmeia after Peneleos fell at Troy.1
Pausanias alone among the seven lenses names her when he closes the Theban succession: after Thersander died in Mysia and Peneleos commanded the Boeotians at Troy in the young heir's stead, Eurypylus son of Telephus killed Peneleos, and Tisamenus was raised to the throne — son of Thersander and of Demonassa, daughter of Amphiaraus.2
The marriage bound the Epigon dynasty at Thebes to the Melampid seer-house of Argos: Amphiaraus had marched with the Seven and been swallowed alive at Thebes; his daughter's union with Thersander, son of Polynices, carried that Argive line into the Cadmeia the Epigoni had reconquered.3
Pausanias attests her queenship at Thebes and names her daughter of Amphiaraus, but no passage in our seven lenses names Argos itself as her polis — the Argos sky edge follows the Amphiarid genealogical roll. The summary-only residence-citation rule finds no isolated Argos-residence sentence; citation stays intentionally unset.4
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