Theiodamas

Family: Dryopians · Role: father of Hylas · First appears: Book I 9

Life events

• Heracles kills Theiodamas after Theiodamas resists surrendering an ox.(Book I 9)
  • With: Heracles
  • “goodly Theiodamas, whom the hero pitilessly slew among the Dryopians because he withstood him about an ox for the plough.”

Book I 9

• child: Hylas “For in such ways did Heracles nurture him from his first childhood when he had carried him off from the house of his father, goodly Theiodamas”
• enemies with Heracles “For in such ways did Heracles nurture him from his first childhood when he had carried him off from the house of his father, goodly Theiodamas, whom the hero pitilessly slew among the Dryopians because he withstood him about an ox for the plough.”

Book I 10

• child: Hylas (Theiodamas is identified as Hylas’s father.) “Therefore to this day the people of Cius enquire for Hylas the son of Theiodamas”

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