| LC control no. | n 2021013353 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tydeus (Greek mythological figure) |
| Variant(s) | Tideo (Greek mythological figure) |
| Associated place | Argos (Greece) Thebes (Greece) |
| Place of birth | Aetolia (Greece) |
| Found in | La notte di Argo : commento a Stazio, Tebaide ... 2020: p. 3, etc. (Tideo) Oxford classical dictionary (online), 2012: (Tydeus: son of Oeneus, legendary warrior of the generation before the Trojan War. Leaving his homeland in Aetolia he came to Argos, where Adrastus gave him his daughter Deipyle in marriage; she bore him Diomedes ... Enrolled as one of the Seven against Thebes, he first, according to Homer's Iliad, took part in an embassy to the city, triumphed over the locals in a series of games, then killed all but one of a fifty-strong band sent to ambush him on his return. In the war itself, he proved himself a fierce fighter; his thirst for slaughter, vividly described at Aesch. Sept. 377 ff., drove him to put the Theban princess Ismene ruthlessly to the sword ... and even in his own death-throes to try to eat out the brains of the wounded Melanippus, an act that cost him the immortality which Athene had arranged) |
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