Polymnestor

Family: Thracians · Role: king · First appears: Fable 99

Life events

• Polymnestor murders his fosterchild Polydorus and throws his body into the water.(Fable99)
  • With: Polydorus
  • “When the fortunes of the Phrygians were ruined, the wicked king of the Phrygians took a sword, and plunged it in the throat of his fosterchild; and, as though the crime could be removed with the body, he hurled him lifeless from a rock into the waters below.”

Fable 99

• ward: Polydorus “There, was the rich palace of Polymnestor, to whom thy father, Polydorus, entrusted thee, to be brought up privately, and removed thee afar from the Phrygian arms.”
• with Polydorus (interaction) “the wicked king of the Phrygians took a sword, and plunged it in the throat of his fosterchild”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.