Editing Adrastus (section)

==Family==
[[Homer]]'s ''[[Illiad]]'' mentions Adrastus, but without giving any ancestry.<ref>For a discussion of the early sources for Adrastus' genealogy see Gantz, pp. 506&ndash;507. For genealogical tables containing Adrastus see Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA707 p. 707, Table 14]; and Grimal, p. 525, Table I.</ref> The [[Hesiodic]] ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' (without mentioning Adrastus) has [[Talaus]] as the son of [[Bias (son of Amythaon)|Bias]] and [[Pero (princess)|Pero]],<ref>Hesiod [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.103.xml fr. 35 Most] [= fr. 37 MW].</ref> and from the lyric poets [[Bacchylides]] and [[Pindar]] we first hear that Adrastus was the son of Talaus, who according to [[Apollonius of Rhodes]] was an [[Argonaut]].<ref>[[Bacchylides]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0199.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9 9.19]; [[Pindar]], ''Nemean''
[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.101.xml 9.14], ''Olympian'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-olympian_odes/1997/pb_LCL056.105.xml 6.15]; see also [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' 422. For Talaus as an Argonaut see [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.123.xml 2.110&ndash;111].</ref> No early sources say who Adrastus' mother was, however, late sources give three different names:<ref>Parada, s.v. Adrastus 1.</ref> [[Lysimache]], the daughter of [[Abas (mythology)|Abas]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.13 1.9.13].</ref> [[Lysianassa]], the daughter of [[Polybus of Sicyon|Polybus]],<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.6.6 2.6.6]. Compare with [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.67 5.67], and a scholion to Pindar ''Nemean'' 9.30 (see Gantz, p. 507), where Adrastus' maternal grandfather is said to be Polybus.</ref> or [[Eurynome]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69, 70.</ref> The ''Iliad'' mentions a daughter of Adrastus, [[Aegiale (wife of Diomedes)|Aegiale]],<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.363-5.415 5.410&ndash;415]; compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.8.6 1.8.6].</ref> and the logographer [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]] mentions a son, [[Aegialeus (King of Argos)|Aegialeus]].<ref>Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA414 p. 414]; Gantz, p. 524; Fowler 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA191 p. 191] (Hellanicus fr. 100 = ''[[FGrHist]]'' 4 F 100).</ref>

The mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] gives the following genealogy. Adrastus' father was Talus, who was the son of Bias and Pero. His mother was Lysimache, the daughter of [[Abas (mythology)|Abas]], son of [[Melampus]]. He had four younger brothers, [[Parthenopaeus]], [[Pronax]], [[Mecisteus]], and [[Aristomachus (mythology)|Aristomachus]], and a sister [[Eriphyle]]. Adrastus married [[Amphithea]], the daughter of  his brother Pronax, by whom he had three daughters, [[Argia]], [[Deipyle]], and Aegiale, and two sons, [[Aegialeus (King of Argos)|Aegialeus]] and [[Cyanippus]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.13 1.9.13]. According to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] ''[[Fabulae]]'' 71 his wife was [[Demonassa]], and according to ''[[Fabulae]]'' 242 he had a son named [[Hipponous]]. According to other accounts Adrastus married a daughter of [[Polybus of Sicyon|Polybus]] the king of [[Sicyon]], see Gantz, pp. 507&ndash;508. For his daughters Argia and Deipyle, see also: [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#65 4.65.3]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.109.xml  2.203&ndash;204]. [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.68 5.68], also has Aegialeus as Adrastus' son. According to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.8.6 1.8.6] some said that Aegiale was the daughter of Aegialeus, while according to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.18.4 2.18.4], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.30.10 2.30.10] Cyanippus was the son of Aegialeus, see Parada, s.vv. Aegialeus 1, Cyanippus.</ref>

Adrastus' daughters had several notable husbands and sons. Argia married [[Polynices]], the son of the [[Thebes, Greece|Thebean]] king [[Oedipus]], and Deipyle married [[Tydeus]], the son of the [[Calydon]]ian king [[Oeneus]].<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA316 p. 316]; Gantz, pp. 508&ndash;509. [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:14.103-14.153 14.121], has Tydeus married to an unnamed daughter of Adrastus, while [[Stesichorus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/stesichorus_i-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.137.xml fr. 222A Campbell] [= [[Lille Stesichorus|P. Lille]] 76 + 73] lines [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/stesichorus_i-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.141.xml 270-280], has the seer Tiresias tell Polynices that Adrastus will give him his daughter, also unnamed. [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]], fr. 122a Fowler (Fowler 2008, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA340 p. 340]) [= ''[[FGrHist]]'' 3 F 122 = Apollodorus 1.8.5] and fr. 122b Fowler  (Fowler 2008, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA340 pp. 340&ndash;341]) [= ''[[FGrHist]]'' 3 F 122 = Schol. (A, *B (4.45.3 Dindorf), D codd. CHVLa, Ge I (1.170.23 Nicole) +) ''Il.'' 14.119] name Deipyle as the daughter who married Tydeus. [[Euripides]] (see ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.283.xml fr. 753c], ''Oeneus'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.35.xml fr. 558], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-phoenician_women/2002/pb_LCL011.255.xml 419&ndash;423], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-suppliant_women/1998/pb_LCL009.27.xml 133&ndash;136]) has unnamed daughters married to Polynices and Tydeus. [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sophocles-oedipus_colonus/1994/pb_LCL021.553.xml 1302] has Polynices say that Adrastus was his father-in-law. [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#65 4.65.3]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.109.xml  2.203&ndash;204][[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.1 3.6.1], all have Argia marry Polynices and Deipyle marry Tydeus.</ref> According to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], [[Diomedes]], who fought in the [[Trojan War]], was the son of Deipyle and Tydeus, and [[Thersander (Epigoni)|Thersander]] (one of the Epigoni) was the son of Argia and Polynices.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69, 71; compare with [[Homer]], [[Iliad]] [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.363-5.415 5.410], which has Diomedes as Tydeus' son, and [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:14.103-14.153 14.121], which says that Tydeus married a daughter of Adrastus; [[Pindar]], ''Olympian'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-olympian_odes/1997/pb_LCL056.67.xml 2.43&ndash;45], which has Polynices' son [[Thersander (Epigoni)|Thersander]] descending from Adrastus.</ref> In the ''Iliad'', another of Adrastus' daughters, Aegiale, is the wife of [[Diomedes]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.363-5.415 5.410&ndash;415]; compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.8.6 1.8.6].</ref> [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], also says that [[Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous)|Hippodamia]], the wife of King [[Pirithous]] of the [[Lapiths]], was the daughter of an Adrastus, possibly referring to this Adrastus.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 33. Grimal, s.v. Adrastus, has Hippodamia being Adrastus' daughter, however according [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#70 4.70.3], Hippodamia was the daughter of [[Butes]] (the only father of Hippodamia noted by Parada, s.v. Hippodamia 4), while according to [[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.243.xml 17.247&ndash;248], her father was one "Atrax".</ref>