Polydorus

In Greek mythology, Polydorus (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrəs/; Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, i.e. "many-gift[ed]") or Polydoros referred to several different people.

• Polydorus, son of Phineus and Cleopatra, and brother of Polydector (Polydectus).[1] These two sons by his first wife were blinded by Phineus because of the instigation of their stepmother, Idaea who accused them of corrupting her virtue.
• Prince Polydorus, son of the King Cadmus and goddess Harmonia, fathered Labdacus by his wife Nycteis.[2]
• Polydorus, an Argive, son of Hippomedon was called. Pausanias lists him as one of the Epigoni, who attacked Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died attempting the same thing.[3][4]
• Prince Polydorus, a Trojan, was the King Priam's youngest son.[5]
• Polydorus, a man from Zacynthos who was one of the suitors of Penelope, wife of Odysseus.[6]
• Polydorus, a Ceteian warrior killed by Odysseus using his sword (Ceteius is called a stream in Asia Minor).[7]
• Polydorus (son of Astyanax)[8]

In history, Polydorus was:

• Polydorus of Sparta (reigned from c. 741 to c. 665 BC)

In art, Polydorus was:

• One of the three Rhodian sculptors who created the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons and signed the Sperlonga sculptures

Notes

1. Scholia on Ovid. Ibis, 273
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 3.5.2
3. Pausanias. Description of Greece, 2.20.5
4. Hyginus. Fabulae, 71
5. Homer, and Stanley Lombardo. Iliad. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 1997:399.
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Ep.7.29
7. Quintus Smyrnaeus. Posthomerica, 11.79
8. Google Books - Lineage of the Saints

References

• William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology vs .Polydorus-1, Polydorus-2 & Polydorus-3. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. 1849.
• Apollodorus. The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

• Hyginus. Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus, translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34.
• Pausanias. Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy. Translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.