Editing Tenes

{{short description|Greek mythological hero}}
{{About|the mythic prince|the Algerian town|Ténès|the subgenus of squirrel|Tenes (subgenus)}}

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Tenes''' or '''Tennes''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Τέννης) was the [[eponym]]ous hero of the island of [[Ancient Tenedos|Tenedos]].

== Family ==
Tenes was the son either of [[Apollo]] or of King [[Cycnus]] of [[Colonae]] by [[Proclia]], daughter or granddaughter of [[Laomedon]].

== Mythology ==
Cycnus's second wife [[Philonome (mythology)|Philonome]], daughter of [[Tragasus]] or Cragasus, [[False accusation of rape|falsely accused]] Tenes of [[rape]], bringing in a flutist named Eumolpus as witness. Cycnus believed the accusations and tried to kill Tenes and his sister [[Hemithea (mythology)|Hemithea]] by placing them both in a chest, which was set into the ocean. However, the chest landed at the island of Leucophrye, which was later renamed Tenedos, and the two survived. The natives of the island pronounced Tenes their king. Cycnus later learned the truth, killed Eumolpus, buried Philonome alive and tried to reconcile with his children, but Tenes rejected his overture: when Cycnus's ship landed at Tenedos, Tenes took an axe and cut the moorings.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], Epitome [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.24&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=e:chapter=3&highlight=Tenes 3.24]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.25&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=e:chapter=3&highlight=Tenes 25]; [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' [https://topostext.org/work/489#28 28]</ref><ref>[[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 232-233; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.14.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=10:chapter=14&highlight=Tennes 10.14.2]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.14.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=10:chapter=14&highlight=Tennes 3]; [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Tenedos''.</ref>

Tenes fought with Achilles when Achilles had tried to assault his sister. Though his sister escaped, Tenes died when Achilles plunged a sword into his heart. Even though [[Thetis]] had previously warned her son against doing so, for Tenes's death would be avenged by Apollo, Achilles was heedless and sealed his death by Apollo's hands.<ref>Apollodorus, Epitome [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.26&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=e:chapter=3&highlight=Tenes 3. 26]</ref> Shortly after the end of the Trojan War, [[Agamemnon]] permitted the Trojan prisoners of war to build a city north of [[Mycenae]]. The city was called [[Tenea]] after Tenes.<ref>[[Strabo]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+8.6.22&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198:book=8:chapter=6&highlight=Tenea 8.6.22]</ref> A description on the history of Tenea was also given by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]].<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.5.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=2:chapter=5&highlight=Tenea 2.5.4]</ref>

[[Diodorus Siculus]] relates that the Tenedians founded a sanctuary of Tenes to commemorate his virtues. No flute player was allowed to enter the sacred precinct, and the name of Achilles was not to be uttered in it. Sacrifices were offered to Tenes until recent times.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#83.1 5.83]</ref>

Greeks used the proverb "Tenedian human" ({{langx|grc|Τενέδιος ἄνθρωπος}}) in reference to those with frightening appearance, because when Tenes laid down laws in Tenedos he stipulated that a man with an axe should stand behind the judge and strike the man being convicted after he had spoken in vain.<ref>[[Suda|Suida]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/240#tau.310 Τενέδιος ἄνθρωπος]''</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59&ndash;8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Pseudo-Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Strabo]], ''The Geography of Strabo.'' Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Strabo, ''Geographica'' edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Suda|Suida]], ''Suda Encyclopedia'' translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. [https://topostext.org/work/240 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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