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Peneleos

Peneleōs

(Πηνέλεως). One of the Argonauts, son of Hippalcmus and Asteropé. He was numbered among the suitors of Helen and was the father of Opheltes. He led the Boeotians in the Trojan War, slaying Ilioneus and Lycon; and was himself wounded by Polydamus and killed by Eurypylus, son of Telephus. See Pausan. ix. 5, 8; Apollod.i.9.16; Il. ii. 494; xix. 487.

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