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Parthenopaeus

[ pahr-thuh-nuh-pee-uhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.


Parthenopaeus

/ ˌpɑːθənəʊˈpiːəs /

noun

  1. Greek myth one of the Seven against Thebes, son of Atalanta
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Example Sentences

But before that Atalanta had borne a son, Parthenopaeus, who was one of the Seven against Thebes.

Here Tydeus meets him; here Parthenopaeus, glorious in arms, and the pallid phantom of Adrastus; here the Dardanians long wept on earth and fallen in the war; sighing he discerns all their long array, Glaucus and Medon and Thersilochus, the three children of Antenor, and Polyphoetes, Ceres' priest, and Idaeus yet charioted, yet grasping his arms.

Tydeus, Parthenopaeus, and Adrastus were three of the seven heroes who fought against Thebes.

This Asphodicus killed Parthenopaeus the son of Talaus in the battle against the Argives, as the Thebans say; though that part of the "Thebais" which tells of the death of Parthenopaeus says that it was Periclymenus who killed him.

Adrastus, followed by Polyneices and Tydeus, his two sons-inlaw, Amphiaraus, his brother-in-law, Capaneus, Hippomedon and Parthenopaeus, marched against the city of Thebes, and on his way is said to have founded the Nemean games.

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