Telegonus, a king of
Egypt who was sometimes said to have married the
nymphIo.[1]
Telegonus, a
Thracian son of
Proteus[2] by
Torone (
Chrysonoe) of
Phlegra,[3] daughter of King
Cleitus of
Sithones.[4] He was the brother of
Polygonus (
Tmolus[5]). Because of Telegonus' and his brother's great violence towards strangers, Proteus prayed to their grandsire Poseidon to carry him back to
Egypt. They met their demise when they challenged
Heracles to wrestle at the behest of
Hera but lost their life in the battle.[6]
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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