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In
Greek mythology , Philomela (
Ancient Greek : Φιλομήλα ) is identified by
Gaius Julius Hyginus as the wife of
Menoetius and mother of
Patroclus .
[1]
[2] The former was one of the
Argonauts and the latter a participant of the
Trojan War . However, the
Bibliotheca listed three other wives of Menoetius and possible mothers of Patroclus:
[3]
Periopis ,
[4] daughter of
Pheres , founder of
Pherae
Polymele , daughter of
Peleus , King of
Phthia and an older half-sister to
Achilles and
Sthenele ,
[5]
[6] daughter of
Acastus and
Astydameia .
In some accounts,
Damocrateia , daughter of
Aegina and
Zeus was also called the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.
[7]
Notes
^
Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498;
Scholia on Homer,
Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134;
Hyginus , Fabulae 97
^
Tzetzes , John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad . Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 33, Prologue 430, pp. 41, Prologue 525.
ISBN
978-0-674-96785-4 .
^
Apollodorus , 3.13.8
^
Hyginus , Fabulae 97
^ Scholia on
Apollonius Rhodius ,
Argonautica 1.46
^ Scholia on
Homer ,
Iliad 16.14
^ Pythaenetos, quoting the
scholiast on
Pindar , Olympian Odes 9.107
References
Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
ISBN
0-674-99135-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Gaius Julius Hyginus , Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Tzetzes, John , Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
ISBN
978-0-674-96785-4