Sthenelos
mythological figure · 1 work · 7 mentions · 10 anchored passages
son of Kapaneus · son of Perseus
in the texts
Iliad
Companion and charioteer of Diomedes who answers Agamemnon's rebuke on Diomedes's behalf, boasting that their generation surpassed their fathers.
but the son of Kapaneus took up his words and said, "Son of Atreus, tell no lies, for you can speak truth if you will.
we took seven-gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Zeus, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly;
but his arrow had not killed Diomedes, who withdrew and made for the chariot and horses of Sthenelos, the son of Kapaneus.