Parthenopaios

Parthenopaios ( ancient Greek Παρθενοπαῖος , Latinized Parthenopaeus, Parthenopeus) was an Argive or Arcadian hero of Greek mythology .

He was either the son of Talaos and Lysimache or came from the connection of Atalante with Meleager , son of Ares , or of Ares himself, Melanion or Hippomenes and Talaos. As the son of Atalante, he was the brother of Adrastos of Argos . His life, his adventures and his fate are passed down, partly based on the Cyclic Thebais , from Aeschylus , Euripides and Statius . His mother abandoned him on Mount Parthenios to preserve the appearance of virginity. A shepherd saved him and raised him with Telephos , son of the eyes and Heracles . He helped the Telephos repel the Idas invasion of his kingdom. As a winner in archery, he emerged from the first Nemean games . With the nymph Clymene he had a son named Promachos or Tlesimenes . Parthenopaius was one of the seven against Thebes and, according to Euripides, died while secretly inspecting the city wall of Thebes by the hand of Periclymenus , who tore a huge piece of the Theban parapet from the wall and threw it at his opponent. At Aeschylus he fell through the Theban Actor , the brother of Hyperbios . According to others, it fell at the hand of Amphidikos. Parthenopaius, whom Virgil met Aeneas in the underworld, was considered laconic and only excitable in the intoxication of war.

literature

• Heinrich Lewy : Parthenopaios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Sp. 1651-1653 ( digitized version ).
• Konrad Zimmermann :  Parthenopaios . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VIII, Zurich / Munich 1997, pp. 942-944.

Web links

• Parthenopaios on Navicula Bacchi
• Parthenopaios in the Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pausanias 2:20 , 5.
2. ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 70.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 9, 2.
4. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 6, 3.
5. ^ Pausanias 9:18 , 6.
6. ↑ Aeschylus, Hepta ; Euripides, The Phoenicians ; Statius, Thebais .
7. ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 99.
8. ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 100.
9. ↑ Pausanias 9:19 , 2.
10. ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 71.
11. ↑ Euripides, The Phoenicians 1160.
12. ^ Aeschylus, Hepta 538.
13. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 6, 8; the name of the opponent was according to Pausanias 9, 18, 6 Asphodikos .
14. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6, 480.