Tlepolemus

• a son of Hercules, leader of the Rhodians before Troy, Hyg. Fab. 81, 97; Ov. M. 12, 537.

(Τληπόλεμος.)

1. A son of Heracles by Astyoche, the daughter of Phylas (Hom. Il. 2.658; Apollod. 2.7. §§ 6, 8; Philostr. Her. 2.14), or by Astydameia, the daughter of Amyntor, king of the Dolopians in Thessaly. (Pind. O. 7.41.) Tlepolemus was king of Argos, but after slaying his uncle Licymnius, he was obliged to take to flight, and in conformity with the command of an oracle, settled in Rhodes, where he built the towns of Lindos, Ialysos and Cameiros, and from whence he joined the Greeks in the Trojan war with nine ships. (Hom. Il. 2.653, &c.; Apollod. 2.8.2.) At Troy he was slain by Sarpedon. (Il. 5.627, &c.; Diod. 4.58, 5.59.) His wife Philozoe instituted funeral games in commemoration of his death. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 911.)

2. A Trojan, a son of Damastor, who was slain by Patroclus. (Hom. Il. 16.416.) [L.S]

(Τληπόλεμος), historical.

1. An Athenian general, who brought a reinforcement to Pericles in the Samian war, B. C. 440. (Thuc. 1.117.)

2. The son of Pythophanes, one of the ἑταῖροι or body-guard of Alexander the Great, was joined in the government of the Parthyaei and Hyrcanii with Amminapes, a Parthyaean, whom Alexander had appointed satrap of those provinces. At a later period Tlepolemus was appointed by Alexander satrap of Caramania, which he retained on the death of Alexander in B. C. 323, and also at the fresh division of the provinces at Triparadisus in B. C. 321. (Arrian, Arr. Anab. 3.22, 6.27; Diod. 18.3, 39.)

and HIERO, who are called by Cicero the canes venatici of Verres, were brothers, natives of Cibyra, whence they fled, under the suspicion of having pillaged the temple of Apollo, and betook themselves to Verres, who was then in Asia. From that time they became his dependants, and during his government of Sicily they performed for him the service of hunting out the works of art which appeared to be worth appropriating. They were both artists, Tlepolemus being a painter, and Hiero a modeller in wax. Some particulars of their mode of proceeding are given by Cicero (in Verr. 3.28, 4.13).

Respecting another artist of this name, see Tlenpolemos. [P.S]

(Τληπόλεμος). A son of Heracles by Astyoché, daughter of Phylas, or by Astydamia, daughter of Amyntor. He was king of Argos, but, after slaying his uncle Licymnius, he was obliged to take to flight, and, in conformity with the command of an oracle, he settled in Rhodes, where he built the towns of Lindos, Ialysus, and Camirus. He joined the Greeks in the Trojan War with nine ships, but was slain by Sarpedon (Il. ii. 658; v. 627).