Promachos (son of Parthenopaios)

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Promachos ( Greek  Πρόμαχος ) was the son of Parthenopaios in Greek mythology . As one of the epigones , like his father ten years earlier, he took part in the battles for Thebes and was killed in the process. According to Pausanias , his grave was seven stages outside the primarily because of Teumessischen fox known Teumessos , on the same mountain between Thebes and Chalkis located on the road leading from Thebes to Euriposled. Images of Promachos were placed as part of group statues of the Epigones in Argos and Delphi .

Individual evidence

  1. Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 13, 2 and 3, 7, 2, 3; in Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 71 the son of Parthenopaios and the nymph is called Klymene Tlesimenes .
  2. a b Pausanias 10, 10, 4.
  3. Pausanias 9:19 , 2.
  4. ^ Pausanias 2:20 , 5.