Helenus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.12

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Helenus) · The Aeneid (as Helenus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Helenus)

Life events

• Odysseus captured Helenus, who revealed three requirements for taking Ilium.(Apollodorus, Epitome 5 · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Odysseus
  • “Ulysses waylaid and captured him and brought him to the camp; and Helenus was forced to tell how Ilium could be taken”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• parent: Hecuba “Afterwards Hecuba bore sons, Deiphobus, Helenus, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydorus, and Troilus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 5

• rivals with Deiphobus “Helenus and Deiphobus quarrelled as to which of them should marry Helen;”
• with Odysseus (interaction) “Ulysses waylaid and captured him and brought him to the camp;”
• with Hecuba (interaction) “But some say that Helenus got her, and crossed over with her to the Chersonese”
• admired: Helen “Helenus and Deiphobus quarrelled as to which of them should marry Helen;”

Apollodorus, Epitome 6

• married with Deidamia “Neoptolemus gave him his mother Deidamia to wife”
• with Neoptolemus (They traveled together.) “Neoptolemus set out for the country of the Molossians by land with Helenus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• courtship with Penelope “Aristratus, Helenus, Dulicheus”
• admired: Penelope “And from Ithaca itself the suitors were twelve, to wit:— Antinous, Pronous, Liodes, Eurynomus, Amphimachus, Amphialus, Promachus, Amphimedon, Aristratus, Helenus, Dulicheus, and Ctesippus.”

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