page_title: Telephus
section_title: Wives and offspring
hierarchical_section_title: Telephus / Wives and offspring
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Neoptolemos hat Eurypylos erschlagen und verfolgt seinen Wagenlenker; da tritt ihm Apoll mit dem Bogen entgegen um Troja zu verteidigen. Schulter von einer attischen schwartzfigurigen Amphora des Antimenes-Maler, um 510 v. Chr. From Vulci. Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, L 309 (ausgesetzt in die Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Saal 4, in Februar 2007). Beazley, ABV, 268, 28. English: Neoptolemus killed Eurypylus and pursuits his charioteer, prevented by Apollo which engaged his bow to protect Troy. Shoulder of an Attic black-figure amphora by the Antimenes Painter, ca. 510 BC. From Vulci. Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, L 309 (work on display in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, room 4, as of February 2007). Beazley, ABV, 268, 28. Français&#160;: Néoptolème ayant abattu Eurypyle poursuit son aurige, barré par Apollon qui s'avance avec son arc pour protéger Troie. Épaule d'une amphore attique à figures noires du Peintre d'Antiménès, v. 510 av. J.-C. Provenance&#160;: Vulci. Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, L 309 (pièce exposée au Staatliche Antikensammlungen, salle 4, en février 2007). Beazley, ABV, 268, 28.
context_page_description: In Greek mythology, Telephus was the son of Heracles and Auge, who was the daughter of king Aleus of Tegea. He was adopted by Teuthras, the king of Mysia, in Asia Minor, whom he succeeded as king. Telephus was wounded by Achilles when the Achaeans came to his kingdom on their way to sack Troy and bring Helen back to Sparta, and later healed by Achilles. He was the father of Eurypylus, who fought alongside the Trojans against the Greeks in the Trojan War. Telephus' story was popular in ancient Greek and Roman iconography and tragedy. Telephus' name and mythology were possibly derived from the Hittite god Telepinu.
context_section_description: The earliest mention of Telephus, which occurs in Homer's Odyssey (c. eighth century BC), says that Telephus had a son Eurypylus, who died at Troy. Nothing is said there about who Eurypylus' mother was, but all ancient sources that do mention Eurypylus' mother say that she was Astyoche, who was (usually) Priam's sister. Eurypylus led a large force of Mysian to fight on the side of Troy during the final stages of the Trojan War. Eurypylus was a great warrior, and killed many opponents, including Machaon and Nireus, but was finally killed by Achilles' son Neoptolemus. The irony of Achilles' son killing  Telephus' son using the same spear that Achilles had used to both wound and heal Telephus, apparently figured in Sophocles' lost play Eurypylus. According to Servius, Eurypylus had a son, Grynus, who became king in Mysia and was known as the eponym of Gryneion and the founder of Pergamon.
  Three other wives are given for Telephus, with no mention of offspring. According to Hyginus (as mentioned above) Telephus' wife was Priam's daughter Laodice. According to Diodorus Siculus, Telephus married Agriope a daughter of Teuthras. While Philostratus says that Hiera, the leader of a contingent of Mysian women cavalry, killed in battle by Nireus, was the wife of Telephus. The Amazon-like Hiera  had already been portrayed, on horseback, leading the Mysian women into battle, on the second-century BC Telephus frieze of the Pergamon Altar.
  Three other offspring of Telephus are given which link Telephus with Italian myths. In Lycophron's Alexandra, the legendary founders of the Etruscan Dodecapolis, Tarchon and Tyrensus (also spelled Tyrrhenus) are the sons of Telephus. That Tyrrhenus was said to be the son of Telephus is also reported by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Neither Lycophron nor Dionysius mention the name of their mother, although apparently according to some, their mother was Hiera. Plutarch says that, according to one account, Telephus was the father a daughter Roma, from whom the city of Rome took its name.
caption: Neoptolemus killing Eurypylus? Attica black-figure hydria by the Antimenes Painter, 550–500 BC, Martin von Wagner Museum L 309.[72]
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