Polyphontes

Family: Theban · Role: herald of Laius · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.8

Life events

• Aepytus secretly returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered his ancestral kingdom.(Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Merope Aepytus
  • “When he was come to manhood he secretly returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered the kingdom of his fathers.”
• Oedipus killed Laius and Polyphontes during a confrontation on a narrow road.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Phocis)
  • With: Oedipus Laius
  • “Oedipus in a rage killed both Polyphontes and Laius, and arrived in Thebes .”

Apollodorus, Library 2.8

• married with Merope “Polyphontes, one of the true Heraclids, came to the throne and took to wife, against her will, Merope, the wife of the murdered man.”
• with Aepytus (Aepytus killed Polyphontes.) “When he was come to manhood he secretly returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered the kingdom of his fathers.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• servant: Laius (Polyphontes was Laius's herald.) “when Polyphontes, the herald of Laius, ordered him to make way”
• employer: Laius “when Polyphontes, the herald of Laius, ordered him to make way”
• enemies with Oedipus “Oedipus in a rage killed both Polyphontes and Laius”

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