Editing Tydeus (section)

==In literature and art==

[[File:Tydeus Ismene Louvre E640.jpg|thumb|Tydeus and Ismene, [[Corinth]]ian black-figure [[amphora]], c. [[560s BC|560 BC]], [[Louvre]] (E&nbsp;640)]]

The 7th century poet [[Mimnermus]] attributes the murder of [[Ismene]], the sister of [[Antigone]], to Tydeus. No other Classical writer mentions the story, but the scene is represented on a 6th-century Corinthian [[Black-figure pottery|black-figure]] [[amphora]] now housed in the [[Louvre]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Easterling | first = P. E. | authorlink = P. E. Easterling | last2 = Knox | first2 = B. M. W. | title = Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Early Greek Poetry | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1989 | volume = 1, part 1 | page = 95 | isbn = 0-521-35981-3 }}</ref>

Tydeus also appears in [[Aeschylus]]'s play ''[[Seven Against Thebes]]'', as one of the "Seven", and in the same role in [[Euripides]]' play ''[[The Phoenician Women]]''. He kills the defender [[Melanippus]], but is mortally wounded himself. In other versions of the myth, the detail is added that the goddess [[Athena]] planned to make him immortal but refuses after Tydeus in a hubristic fit devours the brain of the dead Melanippus.

Tydeus is mentioned multiple times in the ''[[Iliad]]''. One of the most notable mentions is in Book IV where [[Agamemnon]] reminds [[Diomedes]] of the deeds of his father Tydeus. Agamemnon recites the events told in the section above.<ref>Homer. ''The Iliad'' (translated by Richmond Lattimore). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951, p. 123.</ref>