The Iliad

Sthenelus

Also known as: son of Capaneus · Family: Achaean · Role: commander · First appears: BOOK II

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Sthenelus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Sthenelus)

BOOK II

  • parent: Capaneus “Sthenelus son of famed Capaneus.”

BOOK IV

  • parent: Capaneus “Presently he saw the son of Tydeus, noble Diomed, standing by his chariot and horses, with Sthenelus the son of Capaneus beside him;”

BOOK V

  • parent: Capaneus “Sthenelus, son of Capaneus”
  • friends with Deipylus “his chosen comrade Deipylus, whom he valued above all others as the one who was most like-minded with himself”

BOOK VIII

  • servant: Nestor “the doughty squires, Sthenelus and kind-hearted Eurymedon, saw to Nestor’s horses”

BOOK IX

  • friends with Diomed “Sthenelus and myself will still fight on till we reach the goal of Ilius”

BOOK XIX

  • parent: Perseus “Sthenelus son of Perseus”
  • child: Eurystheus “Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus”

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