Sthenelos (son of Capaneus)

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Sthenelos ( Greek  Σθένελος ), son of Capaneus , was king of Argos in Greek mythology . He was the father of the comet and the kylarabe . He was a great-grandson of Anaxagoras and is therefore one of the Anaxagorids.

Sthenelos was one of the epigones who conquered Thebes . His participation in the procession against Thebes is only mentioned by later authors, but pictorial representations showing him as an epigone go back to the 5th and 4th centuries. Century BC BC back. In contrast, Homer already reports in various passages in the Iliad about his participation in the Trojan War . As a suitor to Helen , he had sworn an oath to defend her and her future husband against everyone. Thus, after the abduction of Helena by Paris , he was obliged to take part in the Trojan War. Under the command of his friend Diomedes , Sthenelos led the Argives into battle on 25 ships . He acted as a charioteer because he could no longer fight on foot because he fell off a wall. During the war, he defended himself and Diomedes against Agamanon's accusations that they were not as capable as their fathers. He drew an arrow from the shoulders of the wounded Diomedes. According to Quintus of Smyrna , he killed the Kabeiros and the Abas and won second place in the funeral games for Achilles in the horse race with his horse, which was descended from Areion . He was also one of the forty heroes who hid in the Trojan Horse . As spoils of war he received the wooden cult image of the three-eyed Zeus Herkeios, which, according to Pausanias, was shown long afterwards in the Temple of Athena in Argos. The tomb of Sthenelos was shown to Pausanias in the Gymnasion Kylarabis in Argos.

After his death, his son Kylarabes took over the government.

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  • Libraries of Apollodorus , 3, 82; 3, 129; 9, 9.
  • Homer, Iliad, 2, 564; 4, 367; 5, 107-112; 12, 241ff .; 23, 510.
  • Pausanias, travels in Greece , 2, 18, 5; 2, 20, 5; 2, 22, 8-9; 2, 24, 3; 2, 24, 5; 2, 30, 10; 8, 46, 2, 10, 10, 4.
  • Hyginus , fabulae 97.
  • Quintus of Smyrna Posthomerica 1, 267; 4, 616ff .; 11, 81; 12, 337f.

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predecessor Office successor
Iphis
(Anaxagoride)		 King of Argos
13th century BC Chr.
(Fictional chronology) 		Kylarabes
(Anaxagoride)