Polydorus
mythological figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 14 anchored passages
Ghost · the Ghost of Polydorus
in the texts
Hecuba
The youngest son of Priam and Hecuba, sent secretly with gold to the protection of Polymestor in Thrace; murdered by his guest-friend for the gold, his ghost opens the play and his corpse is later discovered.
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Phoenissae
Son of Cadmus and Harmonia, ancestor of Laius.
He married at that time Harmonia, the daughter of Cypris, and begot Polydorus from whom they say Labdacus was born, and Laius from him.
Theogony
A son of Cadmus and Harmonia, born in Thebes.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.
Oedipus Tyrannus
An ancestor named in Oedipus' commitment to avenge Laius.
But now, since I hold the powers which he once held, possessing his bed and the wife who bore his children, and since, had his hope of offspring not been unsuccessful, children born of one mother would have tied us with a common bond—as it was, fate swooped upon his head—I will uphold this cause, as though it were that of my own father, and will leave no stone unturned in my search for the one who …
Hellenica
Jason's brother and successor as Tagus, killed suddenly on the way to Larisa.
While thus engaged he, also, was slain by Alexander, who posed as avenger of Polydorus and destroyer of the tyranny.
Now Polydorus, while the two were on their way to Larisa, was killed at night in his sleep by Polyphron, his brother, as people thought;