Tydeus
mythological figure · 6 works · 13 mentions · 21 anchored passages
Aetolian Tydeus · Tydeus of Aetolia · Tydeus son of Ion · Tydeus the son of Oeneus · noble father · son of Oeneus
in the texts
Iliad
Father of Diomedes, whose earlier exploits as an envoy to Thebes, including surviving a Cadmean ambush, are recounted by Agamemnon.
Presently he saw the son of Tydeus, noble Diomedes, standing by his chariot and horses, with Sthenelos the son of Kapaneus beside him;
I do not remember Tydeus, for he was taken from us while I was yet a child, when the army of the Achaeans was cut to pieces before Thebes.
With these words she put heart and soul into them all, while Athena sprang to the side of the son of Tydeus, whom she found near his chariot and horses, cooling the wound that Pandaros had given him.
Phoenissae
Argive commander, son of Oeneus, husband of a sister of Polyneices's wife, who quarreled with Polyneices before their alliance.
Tydeus;
Polyneices:
Tydeus, the son of Oeneus, Aetolian battle-spirit in his breast.
Suppliants
Exile who fought Polynices at Adrastus's gate, fulfilling Apollo's riddle, and was married to one of Adrastus's daughters.
They fought together, Tydeus with Polynices.
Tydeus was exiled for the murder of a kinsman.
Yea, to Tydeus, and to Polynices, who was Theban-born.
Oedipus at Colonus
Aetolian son of Oeneus named among Polyneices' allied warriors.
then comes the son of Oeneus, Aetolian Tydeus;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Chian political figure executed by Pedaritus for pro-Athenian sympathies.
Now the Chians having been beaten in several previous engagements, and not being on very good terms amongst themselves, but regarding each other with suspicion, because Tydeus, son of Ion, and his party had already been executed by Pedaritus on the charge of Atticism, and the rest of the city was by compulsion reduced to an oligarchy;
Hellenica
Athenian general elected alongside Menander and Cephisodotus who dismisses Alcibiades's advice before Aegospotami.
The generals, however, and especially Tydeus and Menander, bade him be gone;
they were also making their preparations for battle, and had chosen three generals in addition to the former number,—Menander, Tydeus, and Cephisodotus.