Clymenus
One name, several people — a Boeotian king, an Argonaut, a title of Hades, and others threaded through Greek myth.
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Phoroneus's son Clymenus, who raised a sanctuary of Demeter alongside his sister Chthonia, is just one of several bearers of that name across Greek myth. Then you have the son of Helios who took the throne of Boeotia, the king of Orchomenus who was mortally wounded in a quarrel before his son Erginus avenged him, and the king of Arcadia who took his own life after sleeping with his daughter. Past those, the name turns up on a Calydonian prince, an Argonaut, a suitor of Penelope, and even as a title of Hades.
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- Greek mythology
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- Multiple mythological figures
- including kings
- princes
- and a title of Hades
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- Greek
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Clymenus, son of Phoroneus by Cerdo, Teledice, or Cinna, founded a sanctuary of Demeter with his sister Chthonia. Another Clymenus, son of Helios and king of Boeotia, is in a variant genealogy the father of Phaëton and the Heliades by the Oceanid Merope. A third Clymenus, son of Cardys and descendant of Heracles of Ida, became king of Olympia but was deposed by Endymion, and founded the temple of Athena Cydonia in Phrixa, Elis. Clymenus, a Calydonian prince son of Oeneus and Althaea, fell in battle between the Curetes and Calydonians alongside his brother Meleager.
Another Clymenus, son of Presbon or Orchomenus, was king of Orchomenus; after being mortally wounded by a stone thrown by Perieres at a festival of Poseidon, he told his son Erginus to avenge him. Clymenus, king of Arcadia, son of Schoeneus or Teleus, committed incest with his daughter which prompted him to commit suicide afterwards. Additional figures include Clymenus the Argonaut, brother of Iphiclus; a son of Aeolus of Lipara; a suitor of Penelope from Dulichium; the father of Eurydice, wife of Nestor; the father of Nyctimene who tried to rape her; and a title of Hades.
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- Wikipedia: Clymenus (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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