Article
Richard Allan Tomlinson
Article
John North
Article
Emily Kearns
Tenes or Tennes, eponymous hero (see
Article
Herbert Jennings Rose
Article
Herbert Jennings Rose and Jenny March
Article
Herbert Jennings Rose
Thamyris (Θάμυρις) or Thamyra (Θαμύρας), a Thracian bard, who boasted that he would win a contest even if the *Muses opposed him, whereat they maimed or blinded him and made him forget his skill (Il. 2. 594 ff.). Later authors attribute musical inventions to him.
Article
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Article
Fritz Graf
A festival of *Apollo and held in Athens (7th of Thargelion, late May), some *Ionian cities, and their colonies; it belongs to the pre-colonial calendar (see
Article
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Article
Herbert Jennings Rose
Themisto, name of several heroines, the only one of importance being the daughter of Hypseus (Nonnus, Dion. 9.305 f.), wife of *Athamas. Herodorus (schol. Ap. Rhod. 2.1144), makes her his first wife and mother of several children, including Phrixus and Helle.
Article
Joseph Eddy Fontenrose and Antony Spawforth
Article
Emily Kearns
Article
Richard Allan Tomlinson
Article
Herbert Jennings Rose
Thersander, name of five mythological characters; the one of most importance in terms of *genealogy is son of Polynices and Argela, from whom *Theron of Acragas claimed descent (Pind.Ol. 2. 43 ff.). He was one of the *Epigoni.
Article
Jenny March
Article
Emily Kearns
Article
Karim Arafat
Article
Nils Martin Persson Nilsson, Michael H. Jameson, and Kevin Clinton
Article
Thestius, in mythology, king of Pleuron, father of Lynceus and Idas (*Argonauts and hunters of the Calydonian boar (see
Article
Of the five persons so called (Höfer in Roscher, Lex.), the least obscure is the father of *Calchas (Il. 1. 69). He has no legend, the tale in Hyginus, Fab. 190, being manifestly late romance.