In
Greek mythology, Temenus (
Ancient Greek:Τήμενος Tēmenos) was the name attributed to the following personages:
Temenus, a son of
Pelasgus, who reared
Hera at
Stymphalus in
Arcadia. His mother was probably either
Meliboea, an
Oceanid or
Oread, one of the
nymphs. Temenus established three sanctuaries for the goddess Hera. He gave her three surnames: (1) when she was still a maiden, Girl; (2) when married to Zeus he called her Grown-up; (3) when for some cause or other she quarreled with
Zeus and came back to Stymphalus, he named her Widow.[1]
Temenus, son of
Phegeus of
Psophis in
Arcadia and brother of
Axion and
Alphesiboea.[2] At the command of their father, Temenus together with his brother murdered by treachery their brother-in-law
Alcmaeon and the two then dedicated the necklace of
Harmonia to the god
Apollo in
Delphi. It is said that when the expedition of the Greeks to
Troy took place, Temenus and Axion were the kings in the city that was still called Phegia (former name of Psophis). The people of Psophis assert that the reason why they took no part in the expedition was because their princes had incurred the enmity of the leaders of the
Argives, who were in most cases related by blood to Alcmaeon, and had joined him in his campaign against
Thebes.[2] Later on, the widowed sister, Alphesiboea killed her own brothers in revenge of her husband's death.[3] Otherwise, Apollodorus calls the two sons of Phegeus,
Agenor and
Pronous.[4]
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