Deiphontes

Role: husband of Hyrnetho · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.8

Life events

• Temenus's sons arranged his murder, after which the army awarded the kingdom to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes.(Apollodorus, Library 2.8)
  • With: Temenus Agelaus Eurypylus Callias Hyrnetho
  • “Now Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes; hence his sons hired some fellows to murder their father. On the perpetration of the murder the army decided that the kingdom belonged to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.8

• married with Hyrnetho “favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes;”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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