Evenus (king)
Mortal man
A character named in Homer's Iliad. The English introduction is not yet available.
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Mentions in the Iliad
A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
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Эвен, отец Марпессы, — сын Ареса и Демоники по Аполлодору («Мифологическая библиотека» 1.7.7–8). Это внешнее мифографическое дополнение к Илиаде: в Ил. 9.557 назван отец Марпессы, но не его родители. Эвен, сын Селепа из Ил. 2.693, — другой персонаж.
Apollodorus, Library 1.7.7–8 · Apollodorus, Library 1.7.7–8Brother · Sources
Братство или сестринство выведено из общего родителя: Арес. Матери и отцы, не указанные в источнике, не предполагаются. Квалификация братства/сестринства: Полнота родства и линия общего родителя не установлены.
Apollodorus, Library 1.7.7–8 · Apollodorus, Library 1.7.7–8went young men of the Boeotians an hundred and twenty. And they that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus of the Minyae were led by Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Ares, whom, in the palace of Actor, son of Azeus, Astyoche, the honoured maiden, conceived of mighty Ares, when she had entered into her upper chamber;for he lay with her in secret. And with these were ranged thirty hollow ships. And of the Phocians Schedius and Epistrophus were captains, sons of great-souled Iphitus, son of Naubolus; these were they that held Cyparissus and rocky Pytho,
Forth hasted the sentinels in their harness around Nestor's son Thrasymedes, shepherd of the host, and Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Ares, and Meriones and Aphareus and Deïpyrus, and the son of Creon, goodly Lycomedes.
but in flight his feet no longer bare him swiftly from the war. And as he drew back step by step Deïphobus cast at him with his shining spear, for verily he ever cherished a ceaseless hate against him. Howbeit this time again he missed him, and smote with his spear Ascalaphus, son of Enyalius, and through the shoulder the mighty spear held its way;
Il. 2.513–515 · Il. 9.82 · Il. 13.519 · Il. 13.521–522 · Il. 15.110–112
Brother · Sources
Братство или сестринство выведено из общего родителя: Арес. Матери и отцы, не указанные в источнике, не предполагаются. Квалификация братства/сестринства: Полнота родства и линия общего родителя не установлены.
Apollodorus, Library 1.7.7–8 · Apollodorus, Library 1.7.7–8So spake he, and Meriones, the peer of swift Ares, speedily took from the hut a spear of bronze, and followed Idomeneus with high thought of battle. And even as Ares, the bane of mortals, goeth forth to war, and with him followeth Rout, his son, valiant alike and fearless,
Il. 13.299
Daughter · Sources
he then, wroth at heart against his dear mother Althaea, abode beside his wedded wife, the fair Cleopatra, daughter of Marpessa of the fair ankles, child of Evenus, and of Idas that was mightiest of men that were then upon the face of earth; who also took his bow to face the king
Il. 9.557
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