Cisseus, a
Thracian king and father of
Theano, the wife of
Antenor, as related in
Homer's Iliad.[4] His wife was
Telecleia, a daughter of King
Ilus of
Troy. No mythographer (Homer included) provides any further details about this Cisseus, although
Strabo suggests that he was associated with the town of
Cissus in western
Thrace (later
Macedonia). Hecabe (
Hecuba), the wife of Priam, is sometimes given as a daughter of Cisseus;[5][6][7] but she is more usually described as a
Phrygian, and daughter of King
Dymas. Cisseus was remembered for giving
Anchises a bowl engraved with figures as a memento and a pledge of their friendship.[8][9]
Cisseus, also the name of a local king, defeated by
Macedonians,
Perdiccas,
Caranus and
Archelaus in various versions of the myth. He received Archelaus and promised to give him his kingdom and his daughter but later, going back on his word, tried to kill him. But Archelaus, who is counted among the
Heraclides, killed Cisseus instead.[11]
Euripides, The Complete Greek Drama edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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