Opheltes

Also known as: Archemorus · Family: Nemea · Role: infant · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

Life events

• Opheltes is abandoned and killed by a serpent.(Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · 📍 Nemea)
  • With: Hypsipyle
  • “But while she showed the spring, the abandoned boy was killed by a serpent.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Lycurgus “he begat Opheltes, afterwards called Archemorus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

• parent: Eurydice “a child of Eurydice and Lycurgus.”
• guardian: Hypsipyle “Hypsipyle showed them the way to a spring, leaving behind an infant boy Opheltes, whom she nursed”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.