Telephus

Family: Arcadia · Role: host · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8

Life events

The surviving sons of Agrius ambushed and killed Oeneus at Telephus’s hearth.(Apollodorus, Library 1.8 · 📍 Arcadia)
- With: Oeneus Diomedes
- “Howbeit, the sons of Agrius, who had made their escape, lay in wait for the old man at the hearth of Telephus in Arcadia , and killed him.”
Auge secretly gave birth to Telephus, who was exposed but preserved and raised by shepherds.(Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Mount Parthenius)
- With: Auge Aleus
- “And she brought forth her babe secretly and deposited it in the precinct of Athena. But the country being wasted by a pestilence, Aleus entered the precinct and on investigation discovered his daughter's motherhood. So he exposed the babe on Mount Parthenius, and by the providence of the gods it was preserved: for a doe that had just cast her fawn gave it suck, and shepherds took up the babe and called it Telephus.”
Telephus became Teuthras’s adopted son and succeeded him as prince of Mysia.(Apollodorus, Library 3.9 · 📍 Mysia)
- With: Teuthras
- “he repaired to Mysia and became an adopted son of Teuthras, on whose death he succeeded to the princedom”

with Oeneus (interaction) “lay in wait for the old man at the hearth of Telephus in Arcadia”

parent: Teuthras “he repaired to Mysia and became an adopted son of Teuthras, on whose death he succeeded to the princedom.”
guardian: Teuthras (Teuthras adopted Telephus.) “Telephus ... became an adopted son of Teuthras”

with Apollo (gave a prophecy) “Apollo had told him that he would be cured when the one who wounded him should turn physician”
with Achilles (healed) “Achilles healed him by scraping off the rust of his Pelian spear”
child: Heracles “Now Telephus son of Hercules, was king of the Mysians”

child: Eurypylus “Eurypylus, son of Telephus, arrived to fight for the Trojans,”

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