Parthenopaeus
Also known as: Parthenopæus / Parthonopaeus · Family: Argos · Role: leader · First appears: Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonos — Scene 7
Life events
- Polynices leads seven allied commanders and their battalions against Thebè.(Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonos — Scene 7 · 📍 Thebè)
- With: Polynices Amphiaraos Tydeus Etéoclus Hippomedon Capaneus
- “With whose aid levying all that mighty host Of seven battalions, I have deeply sworn Either to die, or drive from Theban ground Those who such wrongs have wrought.”
- Periclymenus kills Parthenopaeus by hurling a stone at his head.(Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6 · 📍 Neïtan gate)
- With: Periclymenus
- “But Periclymenus the son of the God of the Ocean stopped him in his raging, hurling at his head a stone, a wagon-load, a pinnacle rent from the battlement; and dashed in pieces his head with its auburn hair, and crushed the suture of the bones, and besmeared with blood his lately blooming cheeks; nor shall he carry back his living form to his mother, glorious in her bow, the daughter of Mænalus.”
Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonos — Scene 7
- parent: Atalanta “Parthonopaeus, from the Arcadian glen Comes bravely down, swift Atalanta's child,”
- friends with Polynices “And for my firm allies, who at this hour, Seven leaders of seven bands embattled there, Encompass Thebè's plain. Amphiaráus, Foremost in augury, foremost in war, First wields his warlike spear. Next, Oeneus' son, Aetolian Tydeus; then Etéoclus Of Argive lineage; fourth, Hippomedon, Sent by his father Tálaüs, and the fifth Is Capancus, who brags he will destroy Thebè with desolating fire. The sixth, Parthonopaeus,”
Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6
- definitional with Atalanta
- enemies with Periclymenus “But Periclymenus the son of the God of the Ocean stopped him in his raging, hurling at his head a stone, a wagon-load, a pinnacle rent from the battlement; and dashed in pieces his head with its auburn hair, and crushed the suture of the bones, and besmeared with blood his lately blooming cheeks; nor shall he carry back his living form to his mother, glorious in her bow, the daughter of Mænalus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.