Polymnestor

Polymnestor or Polymestor was king of Thrace during the Trojan War. He had seen himself giving the task to keep the son of Priam, Polydore as well as a great number of treasures, but he made put at dead the child to keep the treasures and threw his skin on the shore. When Hécube mother of the child saw the skin, it invited it to Troy under pretext of reveal the hiding-place of a treasure to him, then put it at dead him and its two sons, to avenge death for his/her son.

It is the subject of the Hécube of Euripide.

The butterfly Papilio polymnestor bears its name.

Sources

  • (CIX).

  • (XIII, 418; 533-75).

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