Talaus

Role: father of Parthenopaeus · First appears: The Thebaid

The material names Talaus as the father of Adrastus and Mecisteus. In The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, Mecisteus is also named as the father of Eurypylus, who is described as “sprung of Talaus.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The Argives rewarded Homer with gifts and a statue, and decreed recurring sacrifices to him and a five-yearly sacrifice to Chios.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Homer Diomedes Tydeus Oeneus Sthenelus Capaneus Eurypylus Mecisteus
  • “This praise of their race by the most famous of all poets so exceedingly delighted the leading Argives, that they rewarded him with costly gifts and set up a brazen statue to him, decreeing that sacrifice should be offered to Homer daily, monthly, and yearly; and that another sacrifice should be sent to Chios every five years.”

The Thebaid

• child: Adrastus “But when the seven dead had received their last rites in Thebes, the Son of Talaus lamented and spoke thus among them:”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

• child: Mecisteus “and with these two there went a third leader, Eurypylus, a godlike man, son of the lord Mecisteus, sprung of Talaus; but strong-voiced Diomedes was their chief leader.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.