Theoklymenos
mythological figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 23 anchored passages
the king · my lord · the son of Proteus · the tyrant
in the texts
Helen
Son of Proteus, current king of Egypt, who seeks to marry Helen against her will and kills Greek visitors to his land.
a son Theoklymenos, and a noble daughter, her mother’s pride, called Eido in her infancy.
He is the lord of this land, the son of Proteus.
for he kills every visitor from Hellas that he catches.
Odyssey
A seer descended from Melampos, fleeing bloodguilt, who becomes a suppliant aboard Telemakhos's ship and interprets omens.
His son, Theoklymenos, it was who now came up to Telemakhos as he was making drink-offerings and praying in his ship.
"I too," answered Theoklymenos, am an exile, for I have killed a man of my own race.
Then Theoklymenos said, ‘And what, my dear young friend, is to become of me?