Polyxo (wife of Tlepolemus)

Polyxo ( Greek  Πολυξώ ) is in Greek mythology a relative of the beautiful Helena , who came from Argos , and was first her friend. But after Polyxo's husband, Heracles's son Tlepolemus , had died in the Trojan War , she later had Helena, who had fled to her in Rhodes , hang it from a tree by maidservants disguised as Erinyes , as she blamed her for the war. This was given as the reason for the cult of Helena Dendritis on Rhodes.

At Polyainos , Helena is saved by Menelaus , who instead delivers a slave disguised as Helena.

swell

• Pausanias 9,19,9f
• Polyainos Strategika 1.13

literature

• Otto Höfer : Polyxo 6 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2745-2747 ( digitized version ).
• Lutz Käppel : Polyxo 3rd In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 85.