Peneleos

Before the war began he was said to have sailed with the Argonauts;Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Peneleos 1.9.16] he also was one of the suitors of Helen, which obliged him to join in the campaign against Troy.Apollodorus, 3.10.8 He came from Boeotia and commanded 12 ships.Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+2.494&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%20:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Peneleos 2.494]; Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/216#97 97] It is also said that Peneleos was chosen to command the Boeotian troops because Tisamenus, son and successor of Thersander, was still too young.

Peneleos killed two Trojans,Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#114 114] IlioneusHomer, Iliad 14.489 and Lycon,Homer, Iliad 16.340 was wounded by PolydamasHomer, Iliad 17.597–600 and was killed by Eurypylus (son of Telephus).Pausanias, 9.5.15Dictys Cretensis, [https://topostext.org/work/152#4.17 4.17] He left a son Opheltes, whose own son (Peneleos' grandson) Damasichthon succeeded Autesion, son of Tisamenus, as the ruler over Thebes.Pausanias, 9.5.16

His descendant, Philotas of Thebes, was said to be the founder of Priene in Ionia.

• Thersanon
• Scamandrius

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