Agelaus

Role: son of Temenus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Agelaus)

Agelaus is named as a son of Temenus, alongside Eurypylus and Callias, and as a sibling of Hyrnetho. Temenus favoured Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes over his sons, leading the sons to hire men to murder him; afterward, the army awarded the kingdom to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes. He is also described as a son of Heracles and Omphale, from whom the family of Croesus was descended.

At Ida, Priam ordered his infant son Paris exposed, and Agelaus, serving as the appointed servant, carried out the exposure. After finding Paris safe and seeing him nursed by a bear for five days, Agelaus took him away, raised him as his own son on his farm, and named him Paris. Later, Agelaus was among the suitors who courted Penelope.

Relationship record

Life events

• Temenus's sons arranged his murder, after which the army awarded the kingdom to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes.(Apollodorus, Library 2.8)
  • With: Temenus Eurypylus Callias Hyrnetho Deiphontes
  • “Now Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes; hence his sons hired some fellows to murder their father. On the perpetration of the murder the army decided that the kingdom belonged to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes.”
• Priam ordered the infant Paris exposed, but Agelaus rescued and raised him as his own son.(Apollodorus, Library 3.12 · 📍 Ida)
  • With: Paris Priam
  • “When the babe was born Priam gave it to a servant to take and expose on Ida; now the servant was named Agelaus. Exposed by him, the infant was nursed for five days by a bear; and, when he found it safe, he took it up, carried it away, brought it up as his own son on his farm, and named him Paris.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• parent: Heracles (parent->child) “by Omphale he had Agelaus”
• parent: Omphale (parent->child) “by Omphale he had Agelaus”
• child: Croesus (The text states descent of Croesus's family from Agelaus, not explicitly Croesus's parentage.) “by Omphale he had Agelaus, from whom the family of Croesus was descended”

Apollodorus, Library 2.8

• parent: Temenus (parent->child) “Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes;”
• siblings with Eurypylus “Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes;”
• siblings with Callias “Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes;”
• siblings with Hyrnetho “Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes;”
• with Temenus (interaction) “hence his sons hired some fellows to murder their father.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• employer: Priam “Priam gave it to a servant to take and expose on Ida; now the servant was named Agelaus.”
• ward: Paris “when he found it safe, he took it up, carried it away, brought it up as his own son on his farm, and named him Paris.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• courtship with Penelope “And from Samethere came twenty—three:— Agelaus, Pisander, Elatus”
• admired: Penelope “And from Samethere came twenty—three:— Agelaus, Pisander, Elatus, Ctesippus, Hippodochus, Eurystratus, Archemolus, Ithacus, Pisenor, Hyperenor, Pheroetes, Antisthenes, Cerberus, Perimedes, Cynnus, Thriasus, Eteoneus, Clytius, Prothous, Lycaethus, Eumelus, Itanus, Lyammus.”

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