Sthenelus
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
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Sthenelumque Proper-name noun: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name noun: masculine accusative singular of Sthenelus
- King of Mycenae, son of Perseus, and father of Eurystheus, Hyg. Fab. 244.—
- II King of the Ligurians, father of Cycnus, who was changed into a swan, and who, from his father, is called proles Stheneleïa, Ov. M. 2, 367; cf. sqq.—
- III One of the Epigoni, charioteer of Diomede at the siege of Troy, and one of those shut up in the wooden horse, Verg. A. 2, 261; Hor. C. 1, 15, 24; 4, 9, 20.—
- IV A Rutulian, slain by Pallas, Verg. A. 10, 388.—Hence.
- A Sthĕnĕlēĭus, a, um, adj., Stheneleian.
- α (Acc. to I.) Eurystheus, Ov. M. 9, 273: hostis, i.e. Eurystheus, id. H. 9, 25.—
- β (Acc. to II.) Proles, i. e. Cycnus, Ov. M. 2, 367.—
- B Sthĕnĕlēis, ĭdis, adj. f., Stheneleian: volucris, i.e. Cycnus, Ov. M. 12, 581.
- 1. Gr. legeraanvoerder in de Trojaanse oorlog;
- 2. koning v. Ligurië, vader v.d. in een zwaan veranderde Cycnus;
- 3. zoon v. Perseus en Andromeda, vader v. Eurystheus; / adj. Sthenelēius, a, um [proles = Cycnus], fem. ook Sthenelēis, idis [volucris zwaan].
(Σθένελος).
1. One of the sons of Aegyptus and husband of Sthenele. (Apollod. 2.1.5.)
2. A son of Melas, who was killed by Tydeus. (Apollod. 1.8.5; comp. Oeneus.)
3. A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and husband of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of Alcinoe, Medusa, and Eurystheus. (Hom. Il. 19.116; Ov. Her, 9.25, Met. 9.273; Apollod. 2.4.5, &c.) He was slain by Hyllus, the son of Heracles. (Hygin. Fab. 244.)
4. A son of Androgeos and grandson of Minos ; he accompanied Heracles from Paros on his expedition against the Amazons, and together with his brother Alcaeus he was appointed by Heracles ruler of Thasos. (Apollod. 2.5.9; comp. Apollon. 2.911, who confounds him with No. 5.)
5. A son of Actor, likewise a companion of Heracles in his expedition against the Amazons; but he died and was buried in Paphlagonia, where he afterwards appeared to the Argonauts. (Apollon. 2.911.)
6. A son of Capaneus and Evadue. belonged to the family of the Anaxagoridae in Argos. and was the father of Cylarabes (Hom Il. 5.109; Paus. 2.18.4, 22.8, 30. in fin.); but, according to others, his son's name was Comeres. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 603, 1093 ; Serv. ad Aen. 11.269.) He was one of the Epigoni, by whom Thebes was taken (Hom. Il. 4.405; Apollod. 3.7.2), and commanded the Argives under Diomedes, in the Trojan war, being the faithful friend and companion of Diomedes. (Hom. Il. 2.564, 4.367, 23.511; Philostr. Her. 4 ; Hygin. Fab. 175.) He was one of the Greeks concealed in the wooden horse (Hygin. Fab. 108), and at the distribution of the booty, he was said to have received an image of a three-eyed Zeus, which was in aftertimes shown at Argos. (Paus. 2.45.5, 8.46.2.) His own statue and tomb also were believed to exist at Argos. (2.20.4, 22. in fin.; comp. Hor. Carm. 1.15. 23, 4.9. 20; Stat. Achill. 1.469.)
7. The father of Cycnus, was metamorphosed into a swan. (Ov. Met. 2.368.) [L.S]
(Σθένελος), a tragic poet, contemporary with Aristophanes. Works Tragedies
Aristophanes attacked him in the Gerytades and the Wasps. (Aristoph. Vesp. 1312, and the Schol.) The scholiast here speaks of him as a tragic actor * That is, in the common editions. In the best manuscripts the word ὑποκρίτης is omitted., which is evidently a mistake, for Harpocration (s. v.) expressly tells us that he was mentioned in the Didascaliae as a tragic poet, and there are several references to him as such. He is mentioned by Aristotle (Poet. 22) with Cleophon, as example of those poets whose words are well chosen, but whose diction is not at all elevated. The insipidity of his style is happily ridiculed by Aristophanes in the question, " How shall I eat the words of Sthenelus, dipping them in vinegar or in dry salt ? " (Geryt. ap. Schol. ad Vesp. l.c. ; Ath. ix. p. 367.) The comic poet Plato also, in his Lacones, attacked him for plagiarism. (Harpocr. and Phot. s. v.) There are no fragments of Sthenelus, except a single verse quoted by Athenaeus (x. p. 428a.), which, being an hexameter, call hardly belong to a tragedy. Perhaps Sthenelus composed elegies. How long he lived is not known : from his not being mentioned in the Frogs, Kayser supposes that he had died before the exhibition of that play in B. C. 406. Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 323; Welcker, die Griech. Tragöd. p. 1033; Kayser, Hist. Crit. Trag. Graec. pp. 323-325; Wagner, Frag. Trag. Graec. in Didot's Bibliotheca, p. 91. [P.S]
(Σθένελος). (1) The son of Perseus and Andromeda, king of Mycenae, and husband of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of Alcinoë, Medusa, and Eurystheus.
(2) The son of Androgeos, and grandson of Minos. He accompanied Heracles from Paros on his expedition against the Amazons, and, together with his brother Alcaeus, he was appointed by Heracles ruler of Thasos.
(3) The son of Actor, likewise a companion of Heracles in his expedition against the Amazons.
(4) The son of Capaneus and Evadné, was one of the Epigoni, by whom Thebes was taken, and commanded the Argives under Diomedes in the Trojan War, being the faithful friend and companion of Diomedes.
(5) The father of Cycnus, who was metamorphosed into a swan. Hence we find the swan called by Ovid Stheneleïa volucris and Stheneleïa proles.
(6) A tragic poet, contemporary with Aristophanes, who attacked him in the Wasps.
- Apollod. E.6.7
- taken as hostage by Herakles from Paros: Apollod. 2.5.9
- king of Argos: Paus. 2.18.5
- son of Capaneus, one of the Epigoni: Apollod. 3.7.2
- suitor of Helen: Apollod. 3.10.7
- an Anaxorid: Paus. 2.30.10
- father of Cylarabis: Paus. 2.22.8
- one of men who captured Thebes: Paus. 2.20.5
- gets three-eyed image of Zeus at division of Trojan spoils: Paus. 2.24.3, Paus. 8.46.2
- his grave: Paus. 2.22.9
- his statues at Argos and Delphi: Paus. 2.20.5, Paus. 10.10.4
- husband of Sthenele: Apollod. 2.1.5
- Apollod. 2.4.4
- marries Nicippe: Apollod. 2.4.5
- father of Eurystheus: Apollod. 2.4.5
- banishes Amphitryon and seizes the throne of Mycenae and Tiryns: Apollod. 2.4.6, Apollod. 2.4.6