Tlepolemus
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Clouds
A mythological/tragic figure sarcastically invoked by Strepsiades when mocking the lamenting Amynias.
What evil, pray, has Tlepolemus ever done you?
Stromata
Tlepolemus, son of Heracles, whose participation in the Trojan War is cited by Homer.
For Homer mentions Tlepolemus, who was a son of Heracles, as having marched against Ilium.
Orations
Son of Heracles, legendary founder-hero associated with Rhodes.
What sort of thing, then, is it to give the statue of Heracles, or, say, of Tlepolemus, or of one of the sons of the Sun, to so-and-so — a good man and worthy of honour?
Olympian
Son of Heracles, founder-leader of the Tirynthians who, after killing Licymnius in anger, consulted the Delphic oracle and was directed by Apollo to sail to Rhodes, where he is honored as a hero.
Tlepolemus went and sought the god’s oracle.
There it is that a sweet recompense for his pitiful misfortune is established for Tlepolemus, the first leader of the Tirynthians, as for a god:
I shall want to proclaim my message for them, the widely powerful race of Heracles, and tell correctly from the beginning, from Tlepolemus, the story that concerns all.