Helenus
Family: Troy · Role: seer and son of Priam · First appears: Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 3
Life events
- Odysseus captured Helenus, whose prophecy required bringing Philoctetes from Lemnos to sack Troy.(Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 3 · 📍 Lemnos isle)
- With: Odysseus Philoctetes
- “There was a princely seer, A son of Priam, Helenus by name, Whom he for whom no word is bad enough, Crafty Odysseus, sallying forth alone One night, had taken, and in bonds displayed 'Fore all the Achaeans, a right noble prey. He, 'mid his other prophecies, foretold No Grecian force should sack Troy's citadel, Till with fair reasons they had brought this man From Lemnos isle, his lonely dwelling-place.”
- Thetis assigns Andromache in marriage to Helenus and sends her to dwell in Molossia.(Euripides, Andromache — Scene 9 · 📍 Molossia’s land)
- With: Andromache
- “but yon captive dame, I mean Andromache, on Helenus bestowed In marriage, in Molossia’s land must dwell”
Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 3
- parent: Priam “There was a princely seer, A son of Priam, Helenus by name,”
- with Odysseus (Odysseus is described as the captor of Helenus.) “Crafty Odysseus, sallying forth alone One night, had taken, and in bonds displayed 'Fore all the Achaeans, a right noble prey.”
- enemies with Odysseus “There was a princely seer, A son of Priam, Helenus by name, Whom he for whom no word is bad enough, Crafty Odysseus, sallying forth alone One night, had taken, and in bonds displayed 'Fore all the Achaeans, a right noble prey.”
Euripides, Andromache — Scene 9
- married with Andromache “Andromache, on Helenus bestowed In marriage, in Molossia’s land must dwell”
- engaged with Andromache (An arranged marriage is prescribed for Andromache and Helenus.) “But yon captive dame, I mean / Andromache, on Helenus bestowed / In marriage, in Molossia’s land must dwell”
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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.