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Philomela (mother of Patroclus)

Philomela (mother of Patroclus)

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In Greek mythology, Philomela (Ancient Greek: Φιλομήλα) is identified by Gaius Julius Hyginus as the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.[1][2] The former was one of the Argonauts and the latter a participant of the Trojan War. However, the Bibliotheca listed three other wives of Menoetius and possible mothers of Patroclus:[3]

  1. Periopis,[4] daughter of Pheres, founder of Pherae
  2. Polymele, daughter of Peleus, King of Phthia and an older half-sister to Achilles and
  3. Sthenele,[5][6] daughter of Acastus and Astydameia.

In some accounts, Damocrateia, daughter of Aegina and Zeus was also called the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.[7]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  2. [2]
    Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 33, Prologue 430, pp. 41, Prologue 525. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  3. [3]
    Apollodorus, 3.13.8
  4. [4]
    Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  5. [5]
    Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.46
  6. [6]
    Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.14
  7. [7]
    Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107

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