Megapenthes

Family: Greek · Role: son of Proetus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.2

Life events

Perseus accidentally killed Acrisius and exchanged Argos for Tiryns with Megapenthes.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4)
- With: Perseus Acrisius
- “He engaged in the pentathlum, but in throwing the quoit he struck Acrisius on the foot and killed him instantly. Perceiving that the oracle was fulfilled, he buried Acrisius outside the city, and being ashamed to return to Argos to claim the inheritance of him who had died by his hand, he went to Megapenthes, son of Proetus, at Tiryns and effected an exchange with him, surrendering Argos into his hands. So Megapenthes reigned over the Argives, and Perseus reigned over Tiryns”

parent: Proetus “Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias, and afterwards begat a son, Megapenthes.”

with Perseus (interaction) “he went to Megapenthes, son of Proetus, at Tiryns and effected an exchange with him”

parent: Menelaus “and by a female slave Pieris, an Aetolian, or, according to Acusilaus, by Tereis, he had a son Megapenthes;”
parent: Pieris “and by a female slave Pieris, an Aetolian, or, according to Acusilaus, by Tereis, he had a son Megapenthes;”
parent: Tereis “and by a female slave Pieris, an Aetolian, or, according to Acusilaus, by Tereis, he had a son Megapenthes;”

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