Periclymenus

Family: Thebes · Role: warrior · First appears: Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6

Life events

• Periclymenus kills Parthenopaeus by hurling a stone at his head.(Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6 · 📍 Neïtan gate)
  • With: Parthenopaeus
  • “But Periclymenus the son of the God of the Ocean stopped him in his raging, hurling at his head a stone, a wagon-load, a pinnacle rent from the battlement; and dashed in pieces his head with its auburn hair, and crushed the suture of the bones, and besmeared with blood his lately blooming cheeks; nor shall he carry back his living form to his mother, glorious in her bow, the daughter of Mænalus.”

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6

• enemies with Parthenopaeus “But Periclymenus the son of the God of the Ocean stopped him in his raging, hurling at his head a stone, a wagon-load, a pinnacle rent from the battlement; and dashed in pieces his head with its auburn hair, and crushed the suture of the bones, and besmeared with blood his lately blooming cheeks; nor shall he carry back his living form to his mother, glorious in her bow, the daughter of Mænalus.”

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