Peneleos

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Ancient Greek: Πηνελέως Pēneléōs) or, less commonly, Peneleus (Πηνέλεος Pēnéleos), son of Hippalcimus (Hippalmus) and Asterope,[1][2] was an Achaean soldier in the Trojan War
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Mythology

Before the war began he was said to have sailed with the Argonauts;[3] he also was one of the suitors of Helen, which obliged him to join in the campaign against Troy.[4] He came from Boeotia and commanded 12 ships.[5] It is also said that Peneleos was chosen to command the Boeotian troops because Tisamenus, son and successor of Thersander, was still too young.[6]

Peneleos killed two Trojans,

Thebes.[12]

His descendant, Philotas of Thebes, was said to be the founder of Priene in Ionia.

See also

Notes

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
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  3. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.16
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.8
  5. ^ Homer, Iliad 2.494; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  6. ^ a b Pausanias, 9.5.15
  7. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 114
  8. ^ Homer, Iliad 14.489
  9. ^ Homer, Iliad 16.340
  10. ^ Homer, Iliad 17.597–600
  11. ^ Dictys Cretensis, 4.17
  12. ^ Pausanias, 9.5.16

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