Polyxo, mother of
Actorion. She came to invite
Triopas and
Erysichthon to her son's wedding, but Erysichthon's mother had to answer that her own son was not coming, as he had been wounded by a boar during hunt. The truth was that Erysichthon was dealing with the insatiable hunger sent upon him by the angry
Demeter.[7]
Polyxo, a
Lemnian, nurse of
Hypsipyle and a seeress. She advised that the Lemnian women conceive children with the
Argonauts, as all the men on the island had previously been killed.[8]
Polyxo, a native of
Argos, who married
Tlepolemus and fled with him to
Rhodes. Together they had a son, whose name is not known. Despite being already married, Tlepolemus was later among the suitors of
Helen, and thus bound by the oath of
Tyndareus, fought in the
Trojan War and was killed by
Sarpedon, leaving Polyxo to become queen of Rhodes. She received Helen after the latter had been driven out of
Sparta by
Megapenthes and
Nicostratus (
Menelaus, Helen's husband, was already dead by the time). Still, Polyxo blamed Helen for Tlepolemus' death and decided to take revenge on her. So when Helen was bathing, several handmaidens in the guise of the
Erinyes, sent by Polyxo, seized her and hanged her from a tree.[9] In an alternate version, Menelaus and Helen landed at Rhodes on their way back from Egypt, whereupon Polyxo sent a crowd of armed islanders of both genders against them, hoping to avenge her husband's death on Helen. Menelaus hid Helen away under the deck and had a beautiful servant dressed up as the queen, which resulted in her, and not the real Helen, being killed.[10] Yet another source, which uses the name "
Philozoe" rather than "Polyxo", informs that she held funeral games of Tlepolemus; youths competed in them, and the winners were crowned with white poplar leaves.[11]
Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
Online version at theio.com.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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Polyxo, mother of
Actorion. She came to invite
Triopas and
Erysichthon to her son's wedding, but Erysichthon's mother had to answer that her own son was not coming, as he had been wounded by a boar during hunt. The truth was that Erysichthon was dealing with the insatiable hunger sent upon him by the angry
Demeter.[7]
Polyxo, a
Lemnian, nurse of
Hypsipyle and a seeress. She advised that the Lemnian women conceive children with the
Argonauts, as all the men on the island had previously been killed.[8]
Polyxo, a native of
Argos, who married
Tlepolemus and fled with him to
Rhodes. Together they had a son, whose name is not known. Despite being already married, Tlepolemus was later among the suitors of
Helen, and thus bound by the oath of
Tyndareus, fought in the
Trojan War and was killed by
Sarpedon, leaving Polyxo to become queen of Rhodes. She received Helen after the latter had been driven out of
Sparta by
Megapenthes and
Nicostratus (
Menelaus, Helen's husband, was already dead by the time). Still, Polyxo blamed Helen for Tlepolemus' death and decided to take revenge on her. So when Helen was bathing, several handmaidens in the guise of the
Erinyes, sent by Polyxo, seized her and hanged her from a tree.[9] In an alternate version, Menelaus and Helen landed at Rhodes on their way back from Egypt, whereupon Polyxo sent a crowd of armed islanders of both genders against them, hoping to avenge her husband's death on Helen. Menelaus hid Helen away under the deck and had a beautiful servant dressed up as the queen, which resulted in her, and not the real Helen, being killed.[10] Yet another source, which uses the name "
Philozoe" rather than "Polyxo", informs that she held funeral games of Tlepolemus; youths competed in them, and the winners were crowned with white poplar leaves.[11]
Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
Online version at theio.com.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.