Editing Telephus (section)

===Summary===
Telephus' mother was [[Auge]], the daughter of [[Aleus]], the king of [[Tegea]], a city in [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]], in the [[Peloponnese]] of mainland Greece. His father was [[Heracles]], who had seduced or raped Auge, a priestess of Athena. When Aleus found out, he tried to dispose of mother and child, but eventually both ended up in [[Asia Minor]] at the court of [[Teuthras]], king of [[Mysia]], where Telephus was adopted as the childless king's heir.

There were three versions of how Telephus, the son of an Arcadian princess, came to be the heir of a Mysian king.<ref>Gantz, p. 431. For general discussions see Hard, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA543 543]&ndash;[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA544 544]; Gantz, 428&ndash;431.</ref> In the oldest extant account, Auge goes to Mysia, is raised as a daughter by Teuthras, and Telephus is born there.<ref>Hesiod (Pseudo), ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' fr. 165 (Merkelbach–West numbering) from the ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' XI 1359 fr. 1 (Most, pp. 184&ndash;187; Stewart, p. 110; Grenfell and Hunt, [https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspapyr11gren#page/52/mode/1up pp. 52&ndash;55]); [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 99, 100.</ref> In some accounts Telephus arrives in Mysia as an infant with his mother, where Teuthras marries Auge, and adopts Telephus.<ref>[[Alcidamas]], ''Odysseus'' 16 (Garagin and Woodruff,  [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fb6JIMA1jLUC&pg=PA286 p. 286]); [[Euripides]], ''Auge''  (Collard and Cropp 2008a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.261.xml p. 261], Webster, pp. 238&mdash;240); [[Strabo]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+12.8.2 12.8.2], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+12.8.4 12.8.4], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+13.1.69 13.1.69]; [[Movses Khorenatsi|Moses of Chorene]], ''Progymnasmata'' 3.3 (= [[Euripides]], ''Auge'' test. iib, Collard and Cropp 2008a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.267.xml pp. 266, 267]).</ref> In others, while Auge (in various ways) is delivered to the Mysian court where she again becomes wife to the king, Telephus is instead left behind in Arcadia, having been abandoned on [[Mount Parthenion]], either by Aleus,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.4 2.7.4], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.9.1 3.9.1]. Compare with [[Movses Khorenatsi|Moses of Chorene]], ''Progymnasmata'' 3.3 (= Euripides, ''Auge'' test. iib, Collard and Cropp 2008a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.267.xml pp. 266, 267]) which says that Aleus "ordered Telephus to be cast out in a deserted place".</ref> or by Auge when she gave birth while being taken to the sea by [[Nauplius (mythology)|Nauplius]] to be drowned.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#33 4.33.9, 11]. Compare with [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 99 which has Auge abandoning Telephus on Parthenion while fleeing to Mysia. Telephus was probably also abandoned on Mount Parthenion  (by either Aleus or Auge) in  [[Euripides]]'s lost play ''Telephus'' (see Gantz, p. 429), since in ''Telephus'' fr. 696, Collard and Cropp 2008b, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.195.xml pp. 194, 195], Telephus says he was born on Mount Parthenion but later "came to the plain of Mysia, where I found my mother and made a home."</ref> However Telephus is suckled by a deer<ref>Almost certainly in Sophocles, ''Aleadae'' (see Gantz, p. 429; Huys, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UG8DzIqIHREC&pg=PA293 p. 293]; Sophocles, ''Aleadae'' fr. 89 (Lloyd-Jones, [https://books.google.com/books?id=voiup-mz2CkC&pg=PA40 pp. 40, 41]), and probably also in [[Euripides]], ''Auge'' (see Huys, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UG8DzIqIHREC&pg=PA293 p. 293]; Collard and Cropp 2008a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.261.xml p. 261]; Webster, p. 239). See also [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#33 4.33.11]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Ibis (Ovid)|Ibis]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-ibis/1929/pb_LCL232.253.xml 255&ndash;256]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 99, 252; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.4 2.7.4], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.9.1 3.9.1]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.48.7 8.48.7], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.54.6 8.54.6]; [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], [https://archive.org/stream/falloftroy00quin#page/264/mode/2up 6.139&ndash;142]; [[Movses Khorenatsi|Moses of Chorene]], ''Progymnasmata'' 3.3  (Collard and Cropp 2008a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.267.xml pp. 266, 267]). In the [[Telephus frieze]] from the [[Pergamon Altar]], Telephus is shown being suckled by a lioness (Heres, p. 85).</ref> found and raised by King [[Corythus]],<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#33 4.33.11].</ref> or his herdsmen.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.9.1 3.9.1]; compare with [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 99, where shepherds found Telephus along with [[Parthenopeus]] (who had been exposed by his mother [[Atalanta]]) and raised both boys.</ref> Seeking knowledge of his mother, Telephus consulted the Delphic oracle which directed him to Mysia,<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#33 4.33.11]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.9.1 3.9.1]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 100.</ref> where he was reunited with Auge and adopted by Teuthras.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Telephus'' fr. 696 (Collard and Cropp 2008b, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.195.xml pp. 194, 195]; Page, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/select_papyri_poetry_tragedy_5th_4th_centuries_bc/1941/pb_LCL360.131.xml pp. 130, 131]; Webster, p. 238); [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#33 4.33.12]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.9.1 3.9.1]. See also ''[[Palatine Anthology]]'', 3.2 (Paton, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_anthology_3/2014/pb_LCL067.151.xml pp. 150&ndash;153]).</ref>