Althaemenes

Role: son of Catreus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.2

Life events

• Althaemenes left Crete with Apemosyne and established Cretinia in Rhodes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2 · 📍 Rhodes)
  • With: Apemosyne
  • “he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes , and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.”
• Althaemenes killed Apemosyne after dismissing her account of Hermes as a pretext.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Apemosyne
  • “he, deeming the god a mere pretext, kicked her to death.”
• Althaemenes unknowingly killed Catreus with a javelin, then disappeared into a chasm.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2 · 📍 Rhodes)
  • With: Catreus
  • “while they pelted him Althaemenes arrived and killed him with the cast of a javelin, not knowing him to be Catreus. Afterwards when he learned the truth, he prayed and disappeared in a chasm.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.2

• parent: Catreus “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Aerope “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Clymene “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Apemosyne “Now Catreus hid the oracles, but Althaemenes heard of them, and fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes , and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.”
• with Apemosyne (Althaemenes killed Apemosyne.) “She revealed to her brother what had happened, but he, deeming the god a mere pretext, kicked her to death.”
• with Atabyrian Zeus (No direct relation to Atabyrian Zeus is stated in this passage.) “But not long afterwards he became the murderer of his sister. For Hermes loved her, and as she fled from him and he could not catch her, because she excelled him in speed of foot, he spread fresh hides on the path, on which, returning from the spring, she slipped and so was deflowered. She revealed to her brother what had happened, but he, deeming the god a mere pretext, kicked her to death.”
• with Catreus (Althaemenes killed Catreus unknowingly.) “He told them the truth, but they could not hear him for the barking of the dogs, and while they pelted him Althaemenes arrived and killed him with the cast of a javelin, not knowing him to be Catreus.”

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