Parthenopaeus
(
*Parqenopai=os), one of the seven heroes that undertook the expedition against Thebes.
He is sometimes called a son of Ares or Meilanion and Atalante (
Apollod. 3.9.2,
6.3, &c.;
Paus. 3.12.7;
Eur. Supp. 888;
Serv. ad Aen. 6.480), sometimes of Meleager and Atalante (
Hyg. Fab. 70,
79), and sometimes of Talaus and Lysimache (
Apollod. 1.9.13;
Paus. 2.20.4,
9.18.4; Schol.
ad Oed. Col. 1385). His son, by the nymph Clymene, who marched against Thebes as one of the Epigoni, is called Promachus, Stratolaus, Thesimenes, or Tlesimenes. (
Apollod. 1.9.13,
3.7.2;
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 489;
Hyg. Fab. 71;
Paus. 3.12.7.) Parthenopaeus was killed at Thebes by Asphodicus, Amphidicus or Periclymenus. (
Apollod. 3.6.8;
Paus. 9.18, in fin.; Aeschyl.
Sept. c. Theb.)
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