Damasichthon (King of Thebes)
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In Greek mythology
, Damasichthon, King of Thebes, was son to Opheltes
of Thebes
, purported to be son to Peneleus
(regent of Thebes), the son of Hippalcimus, son of Itonus
, son to Boeotus
. As Autesion
, king of Thebes, left the city in obedience to an oracle
, Damasichthon was designated as his successor. Damasichthon was the father of Ptolemaeus
, who took over the government after him.
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
, Damasichthon, King of Thebes, was son to Opheltes
Opheltes
Opheltes is a boy from Greek mythology, the son of the Nemean king Lycurgus and Queen Eurydice."When their son was born, Lykourgos consulted the oracle at Delphi in order to find out how he might insure the health and happiness of his child...
of Thebes
Ancient Thebes (Boeotia)
See Thebes, Greece for the modern city built on the ancient ruins.Ancient Thebes was a Boeotian city-state , situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain...
, purported to be son to Peneleus
Peneleus
In Greek mythology, Peneleus, son of Hippalcimus and Asterope, was an Achaean soldier in the Trojan War.Prior to the beginning of the war, he was said to have sailed with the Argonauts; he also was one of the suitors of Helen, which obliged him to join in the campaign against Troy. He came from...
(regent of Thebes), the son of Hippalcimus, son of Itonus
Itonus
In Greek mythology, Itonus was the son of Amphictyon. He was married to Melanippe, a nymph, and had a son Boeotus and two daughters, Chromia and Iodame.He founded a sanctuary of Athena, where his daughter Iodame served as priestess...
, son to Boeotus
Boeotus
In Greek mythology, Boeotus was the eponym of Boeotia in Greece. Poseidon fathered both Aeolus and Boeotus with Arne . It was then through Boeotus that Arne became the ancestress of the Boeotians. In some traditions Boeotus is the father of Ogyges.A late source tells the story of Boeotus' marriage...
. As Autesion
Autesion
In Greek mythology, Autesion – the son of Tisamenus, the grandson of Thersander and Demonassa and the great-grandson of Polynices and Argea – was a king of Thebes....
, king of Thebes, left the city in obedience to an oracle
Oracle
In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination....
, Damasichthon was designated as his successor. Damasichthon was the father of Ptolemaeus
Ptolemy (mythological)
In Greek mythology, Ptolemy was an ancestral ruler of Thebes, living in the 12th century BCE. His father was Damasichthon; his son, Xanthus. Since the Homeric root to Ptolemy includes no T the name is reconstructed as Polemy....
, who took over the government after him.
Sources
- Wilhelm Heinrich RoscherWilhelm Heinrich RoscherWilhelm Heinrich Roscher was a German classical scholar. He is best known for his Lexicon, the Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie...
(ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 1.1, Leipzig 1886, s. 941 - Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band IV, Halbband 8, Corniscae-Demodoros (1901), s. 2038