Theobule

Theobule ( Greek  Θεοβούλη ) is a figure in Greek mythology . According to Hyginus , she is the wife of Lycus and mother of the Boiot army leaders Prothoënor and Arkesilaos . While Prothoënor fell in battle with Polydamas during the Trojan War , Arkesilaos was killed by Hector .

The rest of the tradition knows Areïlykos or Archilykos as the father of the brother couple .

According to Adolf Bastian , Arkesilaos was the son of Theobule and Lykos, while Prothoënor was fathered by Theobule and Areïlykos.

Hyginus mentions a second Theobule who sired Myrtilos together with Mercury ( Hermes ) .

Remarks

1. ^ Hyginus, fabulae 97 .
2. ↑ Scholion to Homer , Iliad 2, 494.
3. ^ Diodorus 4, 67.
4. ^ Adolf Bastian: Contributions to ethnology and studies based on it. Wiegandt and Hempel, 1871, p. 362
5. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 224.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Theobule . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, column 610 ( digitized version ).