Tisamenus (son of Orestes)

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Tisamenos ( Greek  Τισαμενός ) is in Greek mythology the son of Orestes and Hermione and ruler of the Peloponnesians. He was the father of Kometes , Daimenes, Sparton, Tellis and Leontomenes.

After Orestes death he became king of Sparta and Argos together with his half-brother Penthilus or alone . He defended the Peloponnese against the Heraclids under Aristomachus , who tried to recapture their hereditary lands. However, he fell in the battle for Argos and his empire was conquered by the Heraclids. According to another tradition, Tisamenus survived, but had to flee with the Achaeans. So he asked the Ionians in the then inhabited (later called Achaia ) landscape in the northwest of the Peloponnese to allow them to settle in their country. It came to a fight, which they won, but Tisamenus fell and was buried in Helike . Later the bones of Tisamenos were transferred to Sparta on the basis of an oracle.

Remarks

  1. ^ Velleius Paterculus , Historia Romana 1, 1, 4.
  2. ^ Pausanias 2:18 , 6.

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