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However, some say that Hipponous discovered that his
daughter had been debauched by Oeneus, and therefore he sent her away to him when she was
with child. By her Oeneus begat Tydeus. But Pisander says that the mother of Tydeus was
Gorge, for Zeus willed it that Oeneus should fall in love with his own daughter.1
When Tydeus had grown to be a gallant man he was banished for killing, as some say,
Alcathous, brother of Oeneus; but according to the author of the
Alcmaeonidhis victims were the sons of Melas who had plotted against Oeneus, their
names being Pheneus, Euryalus, Hyperlaus, Antiochus, Eumedes, Sternops,
Xanthippus, Sthenelaus; but as Pherecydes will have it, he murdered his own brother
Olenias.2 Being arraigned
by Agrius, he fled to Argos and came to
Adrastus, whose daughter Deipyle he married and begat Diomedes.
Tydeus marched against Thebes with
Adrastus,3 and died of a wound which he received at the hand of
Melanippus.
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1 Gorge was a daughter of Oeneus. See above, Apollod. 1.8.1; Paus. 10.38.5.
2 Compare Eustathius on Hom. Il. xiv.122, p. 971; Scholiast on Hom. Il. xiv.114, 120; The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, iii.38, frag. 799; Statius, Theb. i.401ff., with the commentary of Lactantius Placidus, pp. 47ff. ed. R. Jahnke. The accounts differ as to whom Tydeus killed, but they agree that he fled from Calydon to Adrastus at Argos, and that Adrastus purified him from the murder （Eustathius and Scholiast on Hom. Il. xiv.122, p. 971） and gave him his daughter to wife. Compare Apollodorus, iii.6.1.
3 See below, Apollod. 3.6.3ff.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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