Tenes

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Tenes or Tennes ( Greek  Τέννης ) is in Greek mythology a hero from the island of Tenedos in the Aegean Sea , whose name was derived from him as an eponymous hero . He was either the son of Apollo or of King Cyknos of Kolonai (in the Troas region ) and of Prokleia , daughter or granddaughter of Laomedon . Kyknus ' second wife Philonome , daughter of Tragasus or Kragasus, falsely accused Tenes of raping her. She named the flute player Eumolpos as a witness who confirmed the act. Kyknos believed her and tried to kill Tenes and his sister Hemithea . He put them both in a chest that he left in the sea. The chest reached the coast of the island of Leukophrys, later renamed Tenedos. Both survived. The inhabitants of the island made Tenes king . Cyknos later learned the truth and stoned Eumolpos. He buried Philonomists alive and tried to be reconciled with his children. There are different versions of the question of whether Tenes accepted this apology. According to one version, Tenes rejected the apology and, when Kyknos' ship docked in Tenedos, took an ax and smashed the jetties.

According to another version, Tenes forgave his father and fought with him against the Greeks who tried to land on Tenedos in the course of the Trojan War .

In agreement, he was killed by Achilles . Achill's mother Thetis had previously warned her son that Tenes' death would be avenged by the sun god Apollo, which later happened.

Tenes' sister Hemithea died shortly after her brother. Achilles tried to rape her, she fled and was swallowed by the earth. Tenes was worshiped as divine on Tenedos. Diodorus reports that the inhabitants of the island built a sanctuary for him. It was not allowed to play the flute or mention the name Achilles .

Shortly after the end of the Trojan War, Agamemnon allowed Trojan prisoners of war to build a city north of Mycenae . The city was named Tenea in honor of Tenes. Pausanias provided a description of Tenea.

family tree

 
 
 
Kalyke.
 
 
 
Poseidon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Prokleia
 
Kyknos *
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tenes
 
Hemithea
 
 
 
 
 
  • Apollo is occasionally mentioned as the father of Tenes

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Library of Apollodor Epitome 4, 3, 24-25; Konon , short stories , 28; Tzetzes Scholien zu Lycophrons Alexandra 232–233; Pausanias , Description of Greece 10: 14, 2-3; Stephanos of Byzantium sv Tenedos .
  2. Libraries of Apollodor Epitome 4,3,26.
  3. Tzetzes, Scholien zu Lykophrons Alexandra 232–233.
  4. Diodor, Library of History 5, 83.
  5. Strabo , Geography 8,6,22.
  6. Pausanias, Description of Greece 2,5,4.