Tennes

Role: son of Cycnus · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 14

Tennes was the son of Cycnus and Proclea, and the brother of Hemithea. In Book 10, Chapter 14, Phylonome, after failing to win his love, falsely accused him of illicit advances; Cycnus believed her and sent Tennes and Hemithea to sea in a chest.

They survived and reached Leucophrys, later called Tenedos. When Cycnus learned the truth and sailed after Tennes to ask forgiveness, Tennes refused to hear him and cut the mooring ropes with his axe. Afterwards, Achilles killed Tennes while he was defending Tenedos.

Relationship record

Life events

• Phylonome falsely accused Tennes of illicit advances, and Cycnus believed her.(Book 10 · Chapter 14)
  • With: Phylonome Cycnus
  • “Phylonome, the daughter of Cragasus, who failing to win the love of Tennes told her husband that Tennes wanted to have illicit dealings with her against her will, and Cycnus believed this lie”
• Cycnus imprisoned Tennes and Hemithea in a chest and sent them to sea.(Book 10 · Chapter 14)
  • With: Cycnus Hemithea
  • “and put Tennes and his sister into a chest, and sent them to sea in it.”
• Tennes and Hemithea survived the voyage and reached Leucophrys, later called Tenedos.(Book 10 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Leucophrys)
  • With: Hemithea
  • “And they got safe to the island Leucophrys, since called Tenedos from Tennes.”
• Cycnus learned Phylonome's deception and sailed to seek Tennes's forgiveness.(Book 10 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Leucophrys)
  • With: Cycnus
  • “when he learned the truth sailed after his son to implore his forgiveness, and to admit his unwitting error.”
• Tennes cut Cycnus's mooring ropes, refusing to hear him.(Book 10 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Leucophrys)
  • With: Cycnus
  • “Tennes in his rage cut the ropes with his axe.”
• Achilles killed Tennes while Tennes defended Tenedos.(Book 10 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Tenedos)
  • With: Achilles
  • “Tennes was afterwards slain the Greeks say by Achilles as he was defending Tenedos”

Book 10 · Chapter 14

• parent: Cycnus “This Cycnus had a daughter Hemithea and a son Tennes by Proclea, daughter of Clytius”
• parent: Proclea “This Cycnus had a daughter Hemithea and a son Tennes by Proclea, daughter of Clytius”
• siblings with Hemithea “This Cycnus had a daughter Hemithea and a son Tennes by Proclea, daughter of Clytius”
• with Phylonome (Phylonome falsely accused Tennes.) “who failing to win the love of Tennes told her husband that Tennes wanted to have illicit dealings with her against her will”
• with Cycnus (interaction) “Cycnus, who was not destined to be ignorant of his wife’s deception all his life, when he learned the truth sailed after his son to implore his forgiveness, and to admit his unwitting error.”
• with Cycnus (interaction) “Tennes in his rage cut the ropes with his axe”
• with Achilles (interaction) “Tennes was afterwards slain the Greeks say by Achilles as he was defending Tenedos”
• admirer: Phylonome “who failing to win the love of Tennes told her husband that Tennes wanted to have illicit dealings with her against her will”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.