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[German version] [1] Eponym of the island of Tenedos (Τέννης/ Ténnēs, also Τένης/ Ténēs). According to Plutarch (Quaest. Graec. 28) the eponym of the island of Tenedos, son of king Cycnus [2]; Apollo is often given as his father. Stepson of Philomene, who after an alleged rape has T. and his sister Hemithea put out at sea in a chest. Under the protection of Poseidon they land on the island of Leucophrys near Troy, where T. becomes king. The island is named after him. Later Cycnus recognises the truth and sai…

[German version] [1] T. mons According to Varro (Ling. 5,41), term for the Capitolium, cf. Tarpeium Saxum. Zimmermann, Sylvia [German version] [2] Epithet of Iuppiter as lord of the Capitolium Epithet of Iuppiter as lord of the Capitolium, where the rock was from which traitors were thrown to their deaths in accordance with a law written by T. [4] (e.g. Ov. Fast. 6,34; Ov. Met. 15,866; Prop. 4,1,7). Zimmermann, Sylvia [German version] [3] T., Sp. Father of Tarpeia Father of Tarpeia, commander of the Capitoline fortress under Romulus [1] during the attack of the Sabine kin…

[German version] (Greek Σπαρτοί/ Spartoí, 'the sown ones'). In mythology the warriors who grow from the dragon's teeth sowed by Cadmus [1] and kill one another, until only five of them remain: Echion [1], Pelor, Chthonius, Hyperenor and Udaeus. Cadmus makes them the first citizens of his newly founded city of Thebes (Cadmeia; Thebae). Zimmermann, Sylvia

[German version] (Τηλέγονος/ Tēlégonos, 'born far away [sc. from Ithaca]'). Not mentioned in Homer; according to Hes. Theog. 1011-1014 one of the three sons of Odysseus and Circe, who sends him, when he is a young man, to search for his father. Main character of a lost Tēlegóneia ascribed to Eugamon of Cyrene. On Ithaca he inadvertently kills his father with a lance, which was made for him by Hephaestus, (schol. Hom. Od. 11,134), the tip of which was from a ray whose poison was considered fatal. According to Sophocles (TrGF 4, 453-461) he ta…

(Τελαμών; Telamṓn). [German version] [1] Son of the king Aeacus and of Endeis in Aegina Son of king Aeacus and of Endeis in Aegina, brother of Peleus, both banished by Aeacus for murdering their half-brother Phocus [1]. Participant in the Calydonian Hunt and in the expedition of the Argonauts (Apollod. 3,158-161). T. marries Glauce, the daughter of the Salaminian king Cechreus, and after the latter's death inherits rule of Salamis (Diod. 4,72). With his second wife, Eriboea or Periboea, he fathers Ajax [1]. To…

Zimmermann, Sylvia [German version] A. The Motif of Ruins in Western Art (CT) The motif of ruins has been widespread in Western art since the Middle Ages. In Christian iconography, it acquired particular importance as a symbol for vanitas and for the - from a Christian perspective - superceded Old Testament. As the former, ruins expressed the vanity of all earthly things, while in the latter, it denoted that epoch of salvation history vanquished by Christ, against which intact architecture could be placed as a symbol of the New Testa…

[German version] (Ταρπεία/ Tarpeía). According to Antigonus [7] (FGrH 816 F 2), daughter of the Roman general T. Tatius, otherwise (esp. Liv. 1,11,5-9; Ov. Met. 14,776; Ov. Fast. 1,261 f.; Val. Max. 9,6,1; Plut. Antiquitates Romanae 17f; Cass. Dio fr. 4,12) daughter of Sp. Tarpeius [3]. T. betrays the Romans in their war with the Sabines (Sabini) by opening a gate of the city to the enemy soldiers and demands what the warriors are wearing on their arms (their gold bracelets) in return. The Sabines …

[German version] (Τυνδάρεως/ Tyndáreōs). Mythical king of Sparta, son of Oebalus [1] and the Naïad Bateia (Hes. fr. 199) or of Perieres [1] and Gorgophone [3] (Stesich. PMGF fr. 227). After his father's death, T. is driven from Sparta by his (half-?)brother Hippocoon (Apollod. 3,124; Str. 10,2,24), and seeks refuge in Messenia (Paus. 3,1,4) or Aetolia with king Thestius, who gives him the hand of his daughter Leda (Hom. Od. 2,298). Heracles [1] subsequently kills Hippocoon and his twelve sons, ther…

[German version] [1] Titan (Θεία/ Theíā, fem. of theîos 'divine', also called Erypháessa, 'the far-shining'). A Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaea, mother by the Titan Hyperion of Helius, Eos and Selene, by Oceanus of the Cercopes (Hes. Theog. 135; 371; Orph. fr. 114; Catull. 66,44). Titans Zimmermann, Sylvia [German version] [2] Ostrogoth king, c. AD 550 (also known as Teia(s), Gr. Τείας /Teíās). Ostrogoth king in AD 552; sent by Totila to northern Italy in 552 to block Narses [4]'s way to Italy; when Narses bypassed him, however, he marched back to Totil…

[German version] According to Apollod. 2,5 the sixth (and hence the last to be carried out in the Peloponnese) of the labours imposed on Heracles [1] by Eurystheus: combatting the birds that make their homes in the forests on Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia, destroy the crops there and fire their brass feathers at the people and animals. Heracles gets rid of them by using a bronze clapper, a gift from Athena made by Hephaestus, to scare the birds into flight in order to shoot them with his arrows. Zimmermann, Sylvia

[German version] (Greek Σίνων/ Sínōn, 'pest'). In Greek myth the son of Aesimus and cousin of Odysseus. According to Verg. Aen. 2,57 f. a Greek hero in the Trojan War. He intentionally allows himself to be taken prisoner by the Trojans while the Greeks pretend to retreat. Interrogated by king Priamus, he presents himself convincingly as a relative of Odysseus' enemy Palamedes [1] fleeing from Odysseus and gets the Trojans to make a breach in their wall in order to pull the Trojan Horse into the city. Zimmermann, Sylvia